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- 1161: Immigration Into Canada
- ... offering a four year immersion programme to its students. That in itself is not highly unusual in our bilingual nation, what is unusual is that the language of choice for the immersion programme is not French, it is Mandarin. The programme was voted in by parents who believed the Mandarin language to be more important to their children's futures in Vancouver than French. This situation shows quite effectively the transition which is taking place in Canada's third largest city. Vancouver is a city which is consistently looking more and more to the Pacific Rim nations, especially Hong ... putting such differences to the side rather than in-graining them through official hyphenization. If we are all Canadians together, why do we continue to qualify our geographic identifiers with words such as White, Black, French, Asian, German, Muslim, or Allophone? Bibliography Primary Albrecht, Johanna. Telephone Interview. 22 March 1996. Chong, Abner. Telephone Interview. 23 March 1996. Employment and Immigration Canada. Immigration Statistics 1991. Ottawa: Ministry of Supply and Services, ...
- 1162: The Need for an Anglo American Lifestyle
- ... own culture, while reaping the benefits of the American lifestyle. America is perceived as the great melting pot; the land of endless opportunity. Fixed as they were on this image, many immigrants fled a disruptive revolution to find a place in America (139). Be it a revolution in their home land or being detained behind barbwired fences, the immigrants I'm speaking of are all in search of a better life for tomorrow in America. The Cubans assimilated into the American culture ... were born in America; they had no other models, no other way of life, no choice but to assimilate (102). Whereas, the Cubans, made a choice to leave their home land due to a political revolution started by Castro. The Cubans chose to stay segregated. Not to become part of the American culture, yet become a culture of it's own within America. They desired to hang on to the ...
- 1163: Notes: Americanization or Candaisnism?
- ... boards were shut down causing lots of workers to hunt for jobs. -The labour were not paid well and the veterans wanted their $2000 bonus. -Employers had low profits and wanted higher authority. -The Russian revolution encouraged unionist ideas. -In Calgary, march 1919, the unions talked about a workers revolution in Canada just like that in Russia. -They wanted to create One Big Union for all workers. -General strike began in Winippeg with more than 30000 workers and swept through all Canada. -They wanted the right to bargain with employers. -Parliment made it a crime to talk about a revolution. -June 21, 1919, the police killed the leaders of the strike in Winnipeg. This was called, "Bloody Saturday." -In 1924, unionship slipped down very muuch. -In 1925, the returning veterans made up the Canadian ...
- 1164: For the White Man, Of the White Man, and By the White Man
- For the White Man, Of the White Man, and By the White Man The American Revolution was a glorious war fought to free the American colonies from the British rule. Although we won that war, there were still many people who were not free from our rule. One people in general ... black children going to school. Affirmative action ensured fair employment practices. The civil rights movement was undeniably the pivotal point in this countries history for social equality. What our forefathers fought for in the American Revolution was freedom form British rule. The Civil War was fought mainly for the freedom of slaveowner^-s rule. At some point in between those two periods America forgot what it was like to be ruled ... also ensure that we are ever striving to improve our way of life. It is up to our generation to teach future generations that the basic ideals that our forefathers fought for in the American Revolution only the stepping stone to the ideals that we live by today. Word Count: 1037
- 1165: Facism
- ... of counter-revolutionary politics that first arose in the early part of the twentieth-century in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism is a philosophy or a system of government the advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of aggressive nationalism ... to and superior to the intellect or reason. George Sorel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Georg Hegal are main philosophers who's beliefs and ideologies greatly influenced the shaping of Fascist theory. Sorel (1847-1922) was a French social philosopher who had a major influence on Mussolini. Sorel believed that societies naturally became decadent and disorganized. This decay could only be slowed by the leadership of idealists who were willing to use violence ...
- 1166: Existentialism
- Existentialism Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the second World War in France, and just after it. French playrights have often used the stage to express their views, and these views came to surface even during a Nazi occupation. Bernard Shaw got his play "Saint Joan" past the German censors because it appeared to be very Anti-British. French audiences however immediately understood the real meaning of the play, and replaced the British with the Germans. Those sorts of "hidden meanings" were common throughout the period so that plays would be able to pass ... in 1940 but managed to escape, and become one of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other popular playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman for the French Underground when he wrote his famous essay, "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" or "The Myth of Sisyphus". Sisyphus was the man condemned by the gods to roll a rock to the top of a mountain, ...
- 1167: Chivalry
- Chivalry Chivalry, the order of knighthood, and especially, the code of knightly behavior, comes from many origins. In Middle English, the word "chevalrie" meant "mounted horseman". In Old french, the word "chevalrie" meant knightliness or "chevalier" meaning knight. (Microft, Encarta) Almost all origins of the word meant horseman. Warfare was not an option in the medieval period and the knight was the most crutial ... a child of noble birth would be placed in the castle of a lord or govenor. This is where the training for knighthood began. As a page, the boy would be tutored in Latin and French, but he devoted most of his time to physical exersice, and duties. A page was educated in wrestling, tilting with spears, and military exercises that were done on horseback. He was also taught dancing and ... him. The knight gave the squire a tap on the back of the neck with his hand. Another knight, or King would confirm these actions in the ceremony. This tap, called the "accolade" from the French word "col", meaning neck, was followed by the words, "I dub you knight." (Gies) When Christianity became more closely linked with knighthood, religious ceremonies became part of the knighting process. Before a squire was ...
- 1168: An Agricultural Movement
- ... enemies and parasites to control pests is sufficient to support their use. (16). Even so, pesticides have been used for centuries. In James Whorton’s book, Before Silent Spring, he describes agriculture before the Industrial Revolution. He writes that farmers in the 1800's used arsenic and sulphur to stop insects and molds from harming their crops. Even then it was known that arsenic caused skin lesions, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and ... afford this “cheap beer”, were displaying these symptoms, along with neurological problems and in severe cases, death. An estimated seventy people died and six thousand became seriously ill from pesticide poisoning. (83). As the Industrial Revolution continued, more and more chemicals were available to farmers, pesticides such as Malathion, DDT, dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB. Their use went almost unregulated until, in 1962, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published ... of Host Range Expansion by Parasites of Insects.” BioScience June 1996: 430-435. Paoletti, Maurizio G. And David Pimentel. “Genetic Engineering in Agriculture and the Environment.” BioScience October 1996: 665-673. Rudnitsky, Howard. “Another Agricultural Revolution.” Forbes 20 May 1996: 159-162. Whorton, James. Before Silent Spring. Princeton: Princeton Unversity Press, 1974. Williams, Terry Tempest. “The Spirit of Rachel Carson.” Audubon. July / August 1992: 104-107. Wright, Fred, Jr. “Sex ...
- 1169: The Physics Of Scuba Diving: Swimming with the Fish
- ... surface. This device, named Triton, did not actually work but served to suggest that compressed air could be used in diving, an idea initially conceived of by Halley in 1716. (Ketels, 9) In 1865, two French inventors, Rouquayrol and Denayrouse, developed a suit that they described as "self-contained." In fact, their suit was not self contained but consisted of a helmet-using surface-supported system that had an air reservoir ... inventors had made their device public (Ketels, 10). Semi-Self-Contained Diving Suit The demand valve played a critical part in the later development of one form of scuba apparatus. In the 1920's, a French naval officer, Captain Yves Le Prieur, began work on a self-contained air diving apparatus that resulted in 1926 in the award of a patent, shared with his countryman Fernez. This device was a steel ... Prieur's apparatus was the lack of a demand valve, which necessitated a continuous flow (and thus waste) of gas. In 1943, almost 20 years after Fernez and Le Prieur patented their apparatus, two other French inventors, Emile Gagnan and Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, demonstrated their "Aqua Lung." This apparatus used a demand intake valve drawing from two or three cylinders, each containing over 2500 psig. Thus it was that ...
- 1170: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... of specific scenarios and a set of detailed procedures. Over thirty possible problems and objections are examined in detail. Finally, a development strategy is outlined and the possible advantages are summarized. THE PROBLEM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION Four centuries ago, some Europeans complained that the existing academic institutions were biased against them. Insiders, it was said, were "inflated by letters" and shunned anyone who dared "speculate on anything out of the common ... whole new social institutions, for both academia in particular and society in general. Within a century or so, the intellectual descendants of these outsiders became the new insiders in a process now called the "Scientific Revolution". They introduced a new respect for observations along with new social institutions, such as the Royal Society of London, inspired by those utopian ideals. Since then science has made impressive progress. Most controversial issues of ... other co-existing consensus mechanism. It is well-grounded in our best theories of decision and incentives. And it is ancient. We need only revive and embellish a suggestion made back during the utopian scientific revolution. Chemical physicians, excluded by the standard physicians from teaching in the British schools, repeatedly offered challenges like the following (circa 1651): Oh ye Schooles. ... Let us take out of the hospitals, out of the ...
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