Homeless: What Has Been Done To Decrease The Problem? One of the largest growing concerns in Toronto is the constantly increasing number of citizens who are finding themselves living on the streets. With the decrease in the number of available jobs‚ the population of homeless people has literally boomed. My questions are not as simple to answer as they may appear. Why is a large portion of our community forced to live on the streets? What has be done to decrease the problem? These are the questions
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sail too far west it was thought that he would fall off the face of the earth. This all changed when Christopher Columbus reached was to be soon called the “New World”. This discovery would serve as a huge stepping-stone for trade around the world as well as colonization in the Americas. Following the discovery‚ European nations set out to colonize this “New World” in order to produce goods and find riches for their mother countries. This was known as the beginning of mercantilism in the Atlantic. Mercantilism
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Introduction: The Civil War was inevitable because slavery created a deep and unresolvable division between the North and South. The Southern economy depended on slavery for its plantations‚ while the North’s economy was driven by free labor in the 19th century. These differences led to disagreements over whether slavery should expand into new territories and states. Compromises had been made to delay conflict‚ but they only served temporarily as it ended up worsening the divide. The Missouri Compromise
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As the United states acquired new land‚ there was not a precedent set regarding how the issue of slavery would be handled in these vast new territories. The map explains how much land was acquired and the spread of slavery throughout the years of 1790 to 1860. The Missouri compromise admitting Missouri into the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state‚ but also stating slavery would be prohibited anywhere north of the southern boundary of Missouri in the future. The Missouri compromise had
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1. In what major ways did Confucian philosophy manifest itself in Chinese society during the Ming and/or Qing dynasties? It is clear from examining the philosophical thought and social trends during both the Qing and Ming dynasties that Confucian thought and ideology had a profound effect on Chinese society and moral values during that period. Confucian philosophy is an ethical and philosophical thinking system thought to have been developed from the teachings of Kong Fuzi‚ known as Confucius who
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The Civil war was inevitable if the conflict between the south and the north‚ slavery and politics were resolved. After independence‚ the differences and complexity of America sharpened increasing slavery. The complexities in terms of the migration of the whites and black slaves and shift from small scale farming to large scale farming made civil war inevitable. There were many differences between the north and south. The north preferred city life while the south was keen to plantation life. The
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In 1861 the bloodiest and one of the most important revolutions in American History began‚ The Civil War. Socially this war had been brewing since the beginning of slavery. This controversial subject had been the object of debate mainly because it required a balance between free and slave states. Slavery was also a big issue between the Democrats in the 1860 election because they could not agree on the issue of popular sovereignty. This eventually led to their splitting which opened up the doors
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The American Civil War was fought over few reasons‚ but slavery is thought to be the major reason for the war and even today‚ slavery is "front and center" as the reason for the war. Ultimately‚ the American Civil War was the result of economic‚ social‚ and political differences between the Northern States and the Southern States. As we all know‚ the South’s economy was driven by cotton grow‚ which needed a great work force‚ in this case slaves. Some of the Northern states had abolished slavery‚
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To what extent was religion a major issue for the combatants of the Thirty Years War? A series of wars in central Europe beginning in 1618 that stemmed from conflict between Protestants and Catholics and political struggles between the Holy Roman Empire and other powers. It ended with the Peace of Westphalia (1648). Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/thirty-years-war#ixzz38kVKtFWu Thirty Years War (1618-48). The Thirty Years War had its roots in the dynastic and imperial ambitions of
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In 1945-1949‚ the Guomindang (GMD) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fought for the ultimate control over China in the Second Civil War. In the beginning‚ the GMD had a great advantage over the CCP as the GMD had a larger arsenal and the Americans gave them large amounts of money. However‚ the CCP eventually won the Civil War‚ due to 4 main factors: (1) many GMD troops surrendered to the CCP‚ bringing American Weapons with them; (2) the CCP continued land reform whilst the GMD returned land to the
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