The Hong Kong Chinese Community
.... and
Canada is very different from what they saw of politics in Hong Kong and China."
Dr. Joseph Wong, whose community activism has earned him the Order of
Canada, thinks that despite changes in Chinese attitudes, fear is still an
obstacle towards political evolution. People are not afraid to demand for equal
rights but the so-called mainstream politics and elected office is still
baffling to the Chinese. The Chinese community's history in Canada also plays a
major role in its reluctance to venture into politics. Following the completion
of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the federal government imposed a heavy head tax .....
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Chivalry
.... 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 playing
of musical instruments in their leisure time. As a page, a boy was taught how
to carve and serve food as a waiter, and other services around the castle. It
was his duty to help the master of the castle in anyway needed. These tasks
were not hard labor, but simply prepared him for what was yet to come.
(Microsoft Bookshelf)
By the time a page was 14, he was expected to qualify as a competent
squire. Now with the more laborious course, his real training began. He m .....
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Christmas, Retailers, And The Santa Claus Conspiracy
.... doesn't want to eat his veggies. As I understand
it he's supposed to be a fat man wearing red underwear who is capable of sliding
down your chimney unharmed in order to quietly slip into your house while you're
sleeping. If he really existed I'd be sitting up with a loaded shotgun every
Christmas Eve, not dreaming of gifts while this lunatic could be slicing the
throats of everyone in my house! And to add to the horror he is said to use
"elves" to manufacture "toys" in a little "workshop" in the North Pole. This
entire elf story sounds like a softening cover-up fed to us as propaganda. The
truth of the matter is there's a Ma .....
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Civilize The Wilderness
.... The fact is, that many people
believe that the wilderness is like an unborn country. A country that has
nothing and is striving to become more advanced. We see this as an opportunity
to better it and make it seem like we are actually helping. But, are we really
helping? In my opinion, no. I feel that we are destroying something natural
and something of beauty.
In many ways we are making the wilderness worse by civilizing it. We
put unnatural objects into the wilderness, and it destroys the wilderness'
natural beauty. Thoreau's ideal is to pretty much leave the wilderness as it is.
If you need to inhabit it, don't use any .....
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Communication Skills
.... and ideas. This is how different
things can effect one's communication skill, speaking.
A second communication skill is body language, a very personal way of
expressing yourself without words. One's body language can carry a whole
conversation without even saying a word. Sign language is an excellent example
of this, one can spend there whole life communicating only with there body.
Still one can be able to understand exactly how a person is trying to express
themselves. Speaking and body language goes hand to hand, without gestures when
talking one cannot truly explain certain things to someone. Also there is no
visual .....
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Concerns Facing The United States In The 1990s: Crime, Education, And Employment
.... voluntary national and state standards for education and authorize
grants to develop model programs to improve learning.
Employment is an issue that every American must deal with. In society
today, women are forcing their way into the business world. Although females'
incomes are generally less than males, both incomes are needed for general
household expenses. One problem which sometimes arises is the matter of
children. Although the woman generally stays home with the children when the
are born and young, the men in the family have to take this responsibility also.
This led to the Family and Medical Leave Act which .....
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Segregation And The Civil Rights Movement
.... included the denial of voting rights, known as disfranchisement.
Between 1890 and 1910 all Southern states passed laws imposing requirements for
voting that were used to prevent blacks from voting, in spite of the 15th
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which had been designed to
protect black voting rights. These requirements included: the ability to read
and write, which disqualified the many blacks who had not had access to
education; property ownership, something few blacks were able to acquire; and
paying a poll tax, which was too great a burden on most Southern blacks, who
were very poor. As a final insult, .....
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Our Prison System Sucks
.... however. I'm not saying that each person should be beaten daily, or
made to stay in a cell by themselves with no one to talk to for an eternity.
The person should be punished according to the crime. "An eye for an eye."
This brings me to the subject of capital punishment. I'm sure some of you are
disgusted by the word, but I am not. I am disgusted with the fact that it is
not here in Canada. I believe that for major crimes, such as that of Paul
Bernardo certainly deserve the death penalty. If someone can go out and kill
dozens of children, or adults. They surely have the guts to go though with the
end of their lives. The am .....
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Curfews, And Other Limits
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when you understand the child, then you can give the appropriate punishment.
Another important factor in discipline is to make sure that the teen
understands why what they have done is wrong, and show them scripture to explain
it. If a child does not know why what they have done is bad, they will likely
do it again.
A parent needs to make sure that their rules do not contradict each
other. It is easy to restrict one bad influence, and not another. Many
parents feel that they need to whom their teen hangs out with because of their
friends' language, and general behavior. This is often the wise thing to do,
but if you re .....
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The Influence Of Black Slave Culture On Early America
.... method, such
as the Underground Railroad. Another type of music distinct to African slaves
was gospel. These songs originated in plantation fields as work songs, and were
later sung in churches of Black congregations. They were intended to enliven a
crowd, and employed bright music and joyful lyrics. Gospel music contributed to
the development of musical genres historically considered "white", such as rock'
n'roll and country and western.
Religion
Before Blacks came to America, they had their own highly developed
religious beliefs. Most cultures believed in one almighty God, and the ideas of
good and evil. They also pract .....
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The Injustice Of Slavery
.... of died out when a man named Martin
Luther King, Jr. expressed some of his thoughts about discrimination. His famous
speech was entitled "I Have a Dream". Back before his speech, African Americans
were not treated as people. They had to stand at the back of the bus, they had
to live in a certain area of town, they could not use the white restrooms or
white drinking fountains, they could not even eat in the same restaurants as
white people. Thanks to many people like Martin Luther King Jr. this is non-
existent today.
To conclude my report, I would like to say how bad I think slavery
actually was. To just take these people from th .....
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Definition Of Integrity
.... is asked to pardon the accused, he refuses saying that
he can't because twelve have already hung for the same crime, and he refuses
to let asnyone off. Even though he knows what is right and that they are
innocent he won't because it would ruin the integrity of the court, and his own
recitude.
Indictment: The McMartin Trial, also has many characters who posses a
great sense of integrity. For instance the McMartin family sticks together even
when they are being accused of the horrible crime of child molestation. They
also will not confess to the crime because they know they are innocent and that
it wouldn't be right to .....
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