The efforts of five women known as the Famous Five has had a lasting effect on the rights of women in Canada to this day. These women‚ all from Alberta‚ were Emily Murphy‚ Nellie McClung‚ Louise McKinney‚ Irene Parlby and Henrietta Muir Edwards. Emily Murphy pressured the Alberta government into passing the “Dower Act’ which protected a wife’s right to one-third (⅓) share of her husband’s property. Nellie McClung was very active with organizations and was involved in politics from 1914 to 1926
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The future of Religion and Politics in the developing world. Soc 300 Today‚ in many Countries that are being rapidly developed its people are being left searching for their cultural identity. Most people pride themselves on their religious beliefs but are finding it hard due to the rapid growth of contemporary religion. A lot of churches are more open to accepting anyone as long as they are willing to believe. Some church leaders are even accepting to divorce and remarriage regardless of the
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Marie Curie was a famous Polish chemist. Marie and her husband Pierre Curie were early researchers in radioactivity. She received her first Nobel Prize in 1903 for physics‚ together with Pierre and Henri Bequerell‚ for research in the area of radioactivity. In 1911‚ she was given a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in discovering radium and polonium. Discovery of Radium and Polonium Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of radium and polonium. She
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Brave new world is our future and is supposed to be representing our world. At first it was difficult to get the connection but with more understanding I’m beginning to understand what the meanings are being everything. Some of the topics Huxley describes seems very odd because it makes no sense to us‚ but then there are other examples he uses. The way Huxley tries to show us certain things he sees about our world is different and mind boggling. One part of the book that confuses me is when Fanny
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15/15 - IT Infrastructure Chapter 1 Review Questions 1.1 ( 2 marks) What three kinds of organisational difficulties can communications technology help companies overcome? Firstly‚ companies that are geographically dispersed are made more manageable with good networks. Secondly‚ they help trim down middle management for top-heavy companies and lastly‚ they help break down the barriers between divisions within a company. Chapter 2 Problems 2.16 (3 marks) A digital video camera provides an
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January 22‚ 2012 15 China “Pretty girls in fine dresses and stylish bonnets filled the open carriage that came up the hill from China Street and turned down the main dirt thoroughfare‚ Washington Street.” This is how local author‚ Gordon Cotton‚ begins his story about the famous brothel‚ 15 China. If one would try to locate 1500 China Street today‚ they would find a three way stop; the last number on
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like Brave New World which are designed specifically as probes into the aspects of society that the writer desires to explore. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World during the late 20s and early 30s; in the middle of the Great Depression and at the eve of the Second World War. World War One was still fresh in everyone’s memories and so was the Bolshevik revolution of Russia‚ which threatened to spread throughout Europe and the world. On the other side of the Atlantic the "New World" was undergoing
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psychology’s relatively brief history‚ there have been many famous psychologists who have left their mark both on psychology and on the world at large. While some of these individuals do not necessarily fit today’s definition of a ’psychologist’‚ a term which indicates a doctoral-level degree in psychology‚ their influence on psychology is without question. Learn more about psychologists by browsing through this list of some of the most famous thinkers in psychology history. Alfred Adler Public Domain
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1968: The War at Home and Abroad In “1968: The End and the Beginning in the United States and Western Europe‚” Terry H. Anderson analyses historical events and the importance of 1968 in the United States and Western Europe. Anderson examines the war in Vietnam and how it changed the way many Americans viewed our involvement. The constant media coverage lead to great distrust in our government; majorly affecting the political election of that year. The culture of the 60’s was changing and the first
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