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- 2771: Conscription in Canada
- ... be no real victor in this war. The product of conscription is a country threatened, to this day, with division. The beginning of the Great War was welcomed with enthusiasm in Canada. It would be short and glorious, and full of adventure. Sure there might be a few casualties, but the war was only going to last a few short months, at least that what people thought. All around Canada men rushed to sign up for regiments. But the horrors of trench warfare soon changed this. In April 1917 Canadians fought at Vimy Ridge . In ...
- 2772: Women and the Canadian Welfare State: The Decline of Social Welfare and Its Effects on Women
- ... drastically cut in order to combat economic, rather than social problems. The reason for this inequality rests on the fact that the systems to which women are admitted into are themselves distorted and twisted. In short, they are man-shaped (International Idea: Beyond Numbers, 1998). They have been structured for and by males, based on male experience, male perceptions and male priorities, and male belief that the natural order of society ... the "deserving" poor are generally maintained and kept at a stable level, while benefits for those labelled "less deserving" have been cut. This can be exemplified by British Columbia's cuts to benefits for the short-termed disabled of $96 per month. In terms of special needs funding, this has been cut drastically as well. Additional funding used to be available for special needs or for basic needs in emergency situations ...
- 2773: Should Children Be Allowed To Testify In Court?
- ... leading questions to report the presented false information as correct. This statement was validated by Kaufman and Richter's 1990 study. In this study a number of young children (4 - 7 year olds) saw a short film featuring a circus performance. A few weeks after watching the film, the children were split into two groups. They were then asked (individually) a number of questions relating to the film. The first group ... as part of the original event.” The infants used in the experiments were taught to kick to cause a crib mobile to move. They were then exposed to information on a novel mobile for a short amount of time. The information received by the babies after the novel event impaired their recognition of the original mobile when it immediately followed their training. Infants treated postevent data as part of the original ...
- 2774: Term Limits For Legislators
- ... of civic commitment, we foster civic abandonment; and instead of political empowerment, we are left with political confinement." (17) A citizen-legislator is someone who has a career in the private sector, spends a relatively short time in the public eye and then returns home to live among his constituents again. Since the senior members of Congress are most likely to be influenced by special interests, and are removed from the people they represent, it can be argued that the citizen-legislator will behave in the opposite manner. The short-term member will likely pass fewer laws, and the laws he does support will be more reflective of his constituents' desires (18). Critics argue that term limits would cause legislators to ignore their constituents during ...
- 2775: U.S Foreign Policy Toward Jewish Refugees During 1933-1939
- ... all news coming out of Occupied Europe. Early reports from aerial reconnaissance, returning soldiers, escaping citizens, prisoners of war, neutrals, as well as reports from Polish, Dutch, French and Czech intelligent services, all reported 'unofficial stories' - the State Department viewed them as rumors - about Nazi plans of extermination12. In May 1942, a report was transmitted to London from the Jewish Socialist Party in Poland warning that the Germans had "embarked on ... means, threats, incentives and the use of physical force. The question is why were these decisions made? Scholars and politicians have attributed U.S. policy to discrepancies between early reports, the incredibility of the horror stories, the desire not to antagonize the Germans into escalating the level of terror to one the allies couldn't match and the U.S. goal to end the war achieving "rescue through victory."26 This ...
- 2776: Liberalism and Freedom
- ... the pursuit of happiness" he was speaking of the inherent rights of man and went further to declare that any government that chooses to dispel these rights is subject to overthrow by the governed. In short Jefferson was saying that the right of the government to rule is derived from the people's ability to utilize and approve of their level of independence. Modern America embraces and reveres the ideals above ... allow the people an opportunity to explore and learn in order to improve their character without government restriction. This exploration, liberals maintain, would lead to a higher level of human nature. When liberal methods fell short of attaining these results, defenders of liberalism were compelled to accept the function of government as a mechanism to assist the development of liberal ideals. Human nature had to be nourished by way of a ...
- 2777: The Federalist Papers and Federalism
- ... questions of political theory and the ideas raised by Hamilton, Madison and Jay. Joseph Sobran, a syndicated columnist, summed up federalism with one profound sentence. "The federal government was supposed to be kept on a short leash, lest it claim powers never given to it" (1). Works Cited "Federalism." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1994: 712. Schmidt, Steffen, Mack C. Shelly II, Barbara A. Bardes. American Government and Politics Today. New York: west publishing ... com/buisness/xx733.html. 317-319. Madison, James. "Federalist Paper 10." Feder16.zip. Http://instructors.datatech.com/buisness/xx733.html. 36-39. Sobran, Joseph. "Founding fathers thought the federal government should be kept on a short leash." Http://emanon.net/~vroberts/sobran.html.
- 2778: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... though the Russians blockaded the western sectors of Berlin in 1948 and at the same time created NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organizations) in 1949. Truman lived a long and fruitful life but which was cut short on December 26, 1972 when he died. Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower was the thirty-fifth president of the United States. Among his many accomplishments was his prestige he gained as commanding general in ... Because of this quick action JFK avoided a possible nuclear war. After this incident he slowed down the arms race which led the Test Ban Treaty of 1963. JFK's plans for peace were cut short on November 22, 1963 when he was shot to death in his motorcade as it wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest person elected to the presidency and also the youngest to die. Lyndon ...
- 2779: "Stop Seeking Certainty.." Minow's Response To Bork
- ... equitable decision. I think that she is arguing for the legitimization of judicial decision based on case by case, situational merit, as opposed to legitimizing a judicial decision based on precedential or historical merit. In short, she is saying that each case is different, that an entirely different dynamic exists in every case, so much so that precedent is largely useless and should be abandoned in favor of decision making based ... first step toward overcoming the pitfall of supposed impartiality, is to recognize that we each have our own predilections, and to try to adopt perspective-taking in an effort to combat unilateral decision making. In short, she asserts that judges should "stop seeking certainty", and recognize the existence and multiplicity of "colliding realities" (Minow, pp. 172). In doing so the purposes of justice will be better served. However, one may argue ...
- 2780: The Downfall of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe
- ... of political integration and the issue of so-called "backward justice" (Preuss 48). The Federal Republic of Germany's Basic Law has been the longest-lived constitution in Germany's history. Intended to be a short-lived, temporary document, the Basic Law gained legitimacy as West Germany continued to march towards becoming a major economic power and effective democratic society. There seemed to be, at first, a tension between the Basic ... how the German experience will turn out. As Preuss writes, "The transition from an authoritarian political regime and its concomitant command economy to a liberal democracy and a capitalist economy is as unprecedented as the short-term integration of two extremely different societies - one liberal-capitalist, one authoritarian-socialist - into one nation state" (57). In other words, the unification of Germany is one of the most complicated and unprecedented historical events ...
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