Strong Tie Ltd. a family-owned manufacturing tool producer has managed to maintain stable sales numbers throughout recent years even while the Housing market as a whole was on a negative trend. While this should translate into higher profit margins‚ the exact opposite trend has occurred. The solution to Strong Tie’s financial problems is an increase in prices of goods and salary cuts. Beginning in 2006 where Strong Tie has Sales of 16.2 million‚ the company maintained healthy sales between the
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etching‚ stain glass and embroidery. Her work‚ like the materials she uses‚ is of a vast range of colour. Many of her art works are of large landscapes playing with the use of colour and shadow. Kate earned her BA in Art Education at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has also received a BA in
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The Theme of Death in Poems Death is a common theme in many poems. It is viewed so differently to everyone. In the poems‚ "Because I could not stop for Death‚" "First Death in Nova Scotia‚" and "War is kind" death is presented by each narrator as something different. To one it is a kind gentle stranger while to another it is a cold cruel being. A kind gentleman stranger personifies death in‚ "Because I could not stop for Death." The narrator of the poem is a busy person‚ with little time
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the names and descriptions of thousands of fugitive slaves who are desperate to sail from New York City before George Washington and his American patriots take control of the city. At the end of the war‚ Aminata sails with thousands of blacks to Nova Scotia. In Shelburne‚ she discovers that freedom in the British colonies is illusory and in some respects just as dangerous as the slavery she fled in the American South. In 1792‚ Aminata joins the first "back to Africa” movement in the history of the
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as the tension between Britain and French was clearly tangible. The territory of Acadia has gone through multiple changes of claims. In 1613 British people had destroyed Port Royal and claimed Nova Scotia for the first time from 1621 to 1632 and the second time from 1654 to 1670. In 1710 Nova Scotia was finally captured and with the Treaty of Utrecht three years later it was given to Britain. French
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The Loyalists were the people who didn’t want to be divided from the Britain. The Loyalists were loyal to the Britain although they weren’t being treated as a human‚ by the Patriots. If you were a Loyalist you would be hanged or immediately sent to jail. And families that were patriots and loyalist would be separated. The patriots stayed in the thirteen colonies and the loyalists came to what is known as Canada now. Loyalists ancestors descend from places like England‚ Scotland‚ and Ireland. The
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Étienne Cartier‚ to gain independence from the British and preserve Canada‚ including the French language and culture. The country Canada consisted of four provinces; Canada East (Francophones)‚ Canada West (Anglophones)‚ Nova Scotia and New Brunswick‚ with the addition of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick the population of the Anglophones increased‚ the Francophones became a minority Land was purchased off the Métis people and treaties negotiated with the people of the First Nations‚ after which they were
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SETTING: Bayo‚ Mali (1745): A beautiful place rich with a sense of community. It is here that Aminata learns her skills as a midwife that greatly aid her and build her reputation when she is sold into slavery. The heartbreak for readers comes when this peaceful village is destroyed by slavery. Aminata must watch as her parents Mamadu Diallo‚ and Sira Diallo are killed at the age of 11‚ giving just a small taste of the horrific life of the slaves that follow. South Carolina(1757): Aminata is sold
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Stokesbury was born in Derby‚ Connecticut‚ and served in the united states Navy from 1953 to 1957. He has a B.A. from acadia University in Nova Scotia‚ Where he is now a professor of history and chairman of the history department. He studies for his M.A. at the university Western Ontario‚ and at Duke University for his PH.D. Professor Stokesbury lives in Wolfville‚ Nova Scotia‚ with his wife and three children. In this book Stokesbury covers information about the North Korean invasion of june 1950‚ the Busan
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Canada was held in August‚ 1867. Women didn’t have the right to vote in it. Even if women met the same requirements around citizenship‚ property‚ age and race as men‚ women did not have the right to vote. Why? Because the laws of the provinces of Nova Scotia‚ New Brunswick‚ Quebec and Ontario‚ amended earlier in the 19th century‚ specifically excluded women from voting. Just because we were female ... Yeah‚ right! It was five decades before relatively privileged‚ mainly white women‚ and almost a century
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