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    FLQ review and comparaison We are in the early 60`s and the province of Quebec is seeing a lot of change. The economic‚ demographic and social status of the province is tangible. The province is entering in what we call The Quiet Revolution. The French are decreased compared to the rest of the Anglophone population. A desire of protecting the French culture in the province is becoming more and more important. It was then the perfect opportunity for the FLQ‚ an independent revolutionary group

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    hundred and fifty times larger than that of the Sun‚ would not‚ in consequence of its attraction‚ allow any of its rays to arrive at us; it is therefore possible that the largest luminous bodies in the universe may‚ through this cause‚ be invisible." -- Pierre Laplace‚ The System of the World‚ Book 5‚ Chapter VI (1798). Evolution of Stars 1. Clouds of Hydrogen begin condensing into more dense clusters due to gravitation. 2. Eventually the density gets high enough that the Hydrogen begins fusing

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    Explore how DBC Pierre displays his ideas to shock the audience in Vernon God Little. Vernon God Little‚ written by DBC Pierre‚ is a satirical novel based around a massacre at a high school in Texas in which some of the students got possession of a gun and murdered some of their teachers and fellow students. The novel is about a boy called Vernon who is best friends with the main killer‚ Jesus. Vernon is framed as an accessory to murder and the story line follows the down fall of his life. There

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    We all know that the majority of geniuses are pretty crazy‚ but did you know that Christopher Columbus & Marie Curie were some of the craziest out of the bunch? They both have their similarities and their differences. Christopher and Marie Curie had their differences like about their work ‚ what they did ‚ and etc. THey both died in different years. Christopher died in 1506 and Marie died 428 years later . Christopher died of Reiter’s syndrome‚ and Marie died of aplastic anemia from constant exposure

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    Discuss the concept of cultural capital Pierre Bourdieu developed the concept of cultural capital in order to attempt to explain the differences in educational outcomes in France during the 1960’s. Cultural capital is theorised as the forms of knowledge‚ skill‚ education; any advantages a person has which‚ give them a higher status in society‚ including high expectations (Nick Stevenson‚ 1995.pp.46-48). This differentiates economic and social status from the class agenda which‚ is rigidly

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    As Canadians having people like Pierre Elliot Trudeau‚ gives us a basis of what true Canadianism is. Pierre Elliot Trudeau believed that all people are equal and when he was in power during his time he raised the immigration for Canada which allowed and protected a lot more immigrants from different which included more

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    The political scene in Canada of the 1970s was a rather tense one. In Quebec‚ citizens felt they were not considered in federal decision-making. They had a culture influenced by the French while the majority of Canada had an English influence. This angered a group of Quebecois so it was decided they would try to be heard by the federal government in Ottawa. This did not work by peaceful means. The Front de Liberation du Quebec ‚ here on after known as the FLQ‚ followed what most terrorist organizations

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    Bourdieu and Boal: Expanding upon Habitus‚ Practice and Field and Promoting Change INTRODUCTION French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu desired to link micro and macro theories and levels of analysis. Bourdieu sought to bridge the gap between the individual and structure‚ the subjective with the objective. Interested in the action or existence of opposing social forces between structure and how an individual constructs social reality. Bourdieu’s research reflects his desire to connect the micro

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    Pierre Roux was born in the province of Charente‚ France in 1853. Roux was a French physician and bacteriologist with various areas of study. His major studies included investigating cholera‚ chicken cholera‚ rabies‚ tuberculosis‚ and diphtheria. Roux was not alone in studying diphtheria. He met fellow bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin at the Pasteur institute of Paris. Yersin was born in Lavaux near Aubonne‚ Switzerland in 1863. Yersin studied much more that diphtheria in his time. He discovered Yersinia

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    About halfway through reading Pierre Bourdieu’s The Logic of Practice‚ I realized I had an important question regarding this assignment: What does any of this have to do with religion? Not once was religion or any explicit religious theme specifically discussed‚ besides for a brief discussion regarding myths and rites‚ although he never elucidates what type of rite or myth like economic‚ religious‚ political‚ etc. In fact‚ this booked seemed more appropriate for a discussion regarding economic

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