The issue of electoral reform has become more important than ever in Canada in recent years as the general public has come to realize that our current first-past-the-post‚ winner-take-all system‚ formally known as single-member plurality (SMP) has produced majority governments of questionable legitimacy. Of the major democracies in the world‚ Canada‚ the United States‚ and the United Kingdom are the only countries that still have SMP systems in place. Interestingly enough‚ there has been enormous
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While writing the persuasive essay‚ I enjoyed the process as it was great to focus on a topic that I preferred. The topic I chose to write made it easier for me to write because child beauty pageants interest me and I felt that there should be more awareness towards this topic. As I was writing the essay‚ I liked how the persuasive essay allowed me to persuade the reader into my chosen view of point and to act upon child beauty pageants. Overall‚ it was easy to write the essay due to the chosen topic
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THE WRITING PROCESS – PERSUASIVE ESSAY Prompt: Do you think cell phones should be allowed in school? Compose an essay to persuade the school community of your opinion. STEP 1: ANALYZE THE PROMPT Role: myself as a student Planning: Audience: students‚ teachers‚ parents Format: 5-paragraph persuasive essay Topic: cell phones in school STEP 2: PLAN THE PAPER Topic: Three reasons why cell phones should be allowed in school: Reasons: 1- students stay connected with family and friends ________________________
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leader is a big part of the way it runs in general. Many governments have different systems in which they elect their leader. In North America‚ electing a leader is a big responsibility for the citizens of that country. Particularly in Canada‚ our electoral system has been the same for many years and relies on the citizens to make a decision. Canada uses a system called first-past the-post or single member plurality . This system consists of a simple objective; to receive a majority of the votes . This
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College drug testing Do you think that colleges should drug test their students? Well I am going to tell you why colleges should do drug testing‚ or why they should not do drug test on their students. You will hear about the laws and rights of these students being tested. Is it unconstitutional to drug test a student randomly? Why should colleges use drug test? Colleges should do drug test to first of all make sure no students/athletes are doing drugs‚ second they want to make the game play fair
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ELECTORAL SECURITY IN THE PHILIPPINES (Automated Election System Assessment) A paper to be presented to Professor Fe Atanacio-Blas Department of International Studies Institute of Arts and Sciences Far Eastern University
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I’d like to think of myself as a man of many passions. I love to exercise‚ helping others and so much more. However‚ I think my love of learning tramples the others. My education is something that I’ve always cared deeply about and I still feel that way. I have always been considered a hard worker who is dedicated to striving for my full potential‚ but I still managed to surprise myself and others. Last year‚ I really surprised myself. Why? I had fallen ill in late November to early
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Lev Turkevych \ Period 6 Mrs.Blumenthal 11/9/12 The move Amistad and the story “Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano” have many similarities. The three similarities between the story and Amistad are the ways that the slaves were treated‚ the conditions of the ships‚ and the reactions of the slaves. In both the movie and the book slaves had to overcome horrific conditions to be freed‚ In the movie the main character Cinque was captured sold and thrown onto the
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five years or if the Parliament was dissolved by the Queen with of course the Prime Minister’s advise‚ there will be an election using the "First-past-the-post" electoral system. Here the candidates can win seats in the Parliament by plurality of votes that the candidate received in his or her district. But then this form of electoral system attracted number of critics regarding the biases it constituted in the government. According to critics‚ only the large political parties (Conservative and
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the question of credibility of our electoral process and elections. In other words‚ our elections have been challenged as not been free and fair. This has posed serious legitimacy question for our leaders .This paper has briefly assessed elections in Nigeria with particular emphasis on the recent ones(i.e 2003 and 2007) and has identified: massive rigging‚ violence‚ manipulation of election materials and records‚ lack of transparency on the part of electoral officials‚ delay of voting time‚ deliberate
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