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    My research paper will examine the impact Canadian temperance movements had on the enactment of prohibition in Canada. By looking at multiple temperance organizations in different provinces the paper will argue that Canadian prohibition was able to be codified due to‚ in part‚ the efforts made by those in the temperance movement. The paper will begin by examining the relationship between early temperance movements and the enactment of the Canada Temperance Act or Dunkin Act of 1864. It will then

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    The Arts and Craft movement was a social and artistic movement‚ which began in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth spreading to continental Europe and the USA. Its adherents-artists‚ architects‚ designers and Craftsmen sought to reassert the importance of and craftsmanship in all arts in the face of increasing industrialization‚ which they felt was sacrificing quality in the pursuit of quantity. Its supporters and practioners were united not so much

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    the researcher will give a better understanding and explain how he applied and combine the Surrealism movement and the Dada movement into his artwork to form a new movement. The researcher will explain the inspiration from the case studies and journal in the following pages. 2.0 Definition of Art Movement 2.1 Surrealism Art Movement Sanchez(n.d.) states that the leader of the Dada Art movement‚ Tristan Tzara‚ he plans to attack the society through scandal at the end of the First World War. He

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    Civil Rights Movement

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    The Civil Rights Movement in America And when we allow freedom to ring‚ when we let it ring from every village and hamlet‚ from every state and city‚ we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children-black men and white men‚ Jews and Gentiles‚ Catholics and Protestants-will be able to join hands and to sngn in the words of the old Negro spiritual‚ “Free at last‚ free at last; thank God almighty‚ we are free at last.

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    Surrealism - Art Movement

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    that their paintings might stir up feelings in the back of people minds. Surrealism is founded by Andre Breton in 1924 and was f it was a primarily European movement that attracted many members of the chaotic Dada movement and they moved to the surrealism group. It was similar in some elements to the mystical 19th-century Symbolist movement. Surrealism philosophy was deeply influenced by the psychoanalytic work of Simon Freud and Karl Jung. By using Freudian methods of free association‚ the surrealist

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    Although the Progressive movement is usually seen as a great achievement in the history of American development‚ some feel that the Progressives failed to comply with the standards of equality and justice they had set out to create. The Progressive movement was instigated as a reaction to the political and corporate abuses created by the Industrial Revolution‚. Religious groups‚ members of the press‚ and radical political groups had all been hungering for reform‚ with solutions ranging from subtle

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    Prisoners began movements in prison in order to fight for the acknowledgment and deconstruction of the slave labor they produce. Those incarcerated in the United States do labor at no cost‚ or receive little compensation in conditions less than inhuman simply due to the fact that they are or will be convicted of crimes. Therefore‚ as Kinetik Justice said in Solidarity From Solitary: The National Prison Strike‚ “These strikes are our method for challenging mass incarceration. The prison system is

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    Local Food Movement

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    The Local Food Movement and Local Food Initiatives In recent decades‚ with great growth along the way‚ more people have gravitated towards purchasing local foods. As a grassroots movement‚ the local food movement has been an influence that has become an everyday thing in North America. Although most of what the human population consumes is produced on rural land‚ the local food movement has entered urban areas of North America with many individuals participating in urban farming. This paper will

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    Types of Mass Movements

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    Mass Movement: Mass movement is dependent on the development of instability on a hill slope when equilibrium has been disturbed. Safety Factor is a measured by ratio of resistance which the slope offers against movement (sheer STRENGHT) to the force which is trying to enact that movement (sheer STRESS) Factors affecting Sheer STRESS 1) Angle /Steepness of Slope: Inclination of slope will affect the magnitude of gravitational force enacting on the regolith. a. the larger the angle

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    and more Americans were moving out west. There was much controversy about what the right action plan for slavery was. This resulted in three different Anti-Slavery movements including Gradualism‚ Colonization‚ and Abolition. Gradualism is defined as a policy of gradual reform rather than sudden revolution. The Gradualism Movement was the first attempt by parts of the U.S (mostly northern states) to abolish slavery. The act was passed by the Pennsylvania legislator in March 1780. This plan for

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