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Toronto's Tourism, 2008.
This paper explores the positive and negative visitor perceptions of Toronto.
823 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 29.95
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The paper discusses how the city of Toronto is cosmopolitan, relatively safe, has an under-rated theatre and arts community, offers an attractive waterfront vista and is remarkably affordable for tourists eager to buy souvenirs. The paper then discusses the lingering fears about SARS, the city's unknown arts community and the frigid winter weather. The paper also relates that the general sense that Toronto is "nice" but not dynamic in the same way that New York, London, Paris or Rome are, is keeping Canada's largest urban center from being the tourist magnet it could be.
From the Paper
"Toronto's tourist industry is at a cross-roads. Since 2000, the total number of US tourists has declined by 15 percent. Among same-day travelers from America, the numbers have, quite literally, fallen through the floor. At the same time, the number of overnight travelers has also dropped, through much more modestly. Happily, emerging tourist markets from overseas and domestic tourism has propped up the tourist sector in the absence of US visitors: in 2006, visitor spending was up 7 percent from the previous year, and it seems overseas travelers are the major reason why this was so (Tourism Toronto, 2006). Without question, the trend is ineluctably moving towards a non-American tourist market in which Canada's largest city will have to find a way to accommodate, more and more, people who are non-white and interested in the cosmopolitan aspects of the metropolis - like Toronto's thriving Chinese or Indian (or Caribbean) communities."
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Native Land Claims - British Columbia, 2008.
A critical review of Paul Tennant's article "Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Title in BC Politics".
1,080 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper argues that Paul Tennant's article, "Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Title in British Columbia Politics," makes a significant contribution to our understanding of contemporary governance in Canada's westernmost province. After presenting various highlights of the article, this author describes Tennant's article as an excellent summary of an important issue.
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"To start with, Tennant's article takes us back to the eighteenth century and to the original Royal Proclamation. While students of history (at their own peril) sometimes overlook this important document and what it says about white-aboriginal relations, the truth of the matter is that, while ultimate title to native land may have been perceived to lie with the Crown, the Proclamation nonetheless recognized tribal autonomy and "political separateness" from the ever-growing colonial societies (Nichols, 129-130). Thus, when native groups finally began to mobilize in the 1960s, one of the things that surely fueled their anger was the sense that even white governments of many generations earlier had implicitly realized that native peoples had certain prerogatives that could not be blithely ignored - no matter how hard subsequent governments would try to efface those rights. Furthermore, native anger at the government was also driven, in part, by the realization among many natives in the last-third of the twentieth century that the concept of reciprocity - the idea that natives would give up their title to land in exchange for various benefits like land reserves - had for too long been overlooked in British Columbia in favor of the principle of terra nullius, or the idea that, since a section of land had escaped any significant human occupation, natives had no original title to it (Tennant, 46; for more on the use of terra nullius in British Columbia, please see McKee, 14). If you want to understand the lingering tensions that still complicate the land claims negotiation process even today, you need to appreciate this concept - and Tennant's article can certainly help you with that."
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Native Woman as a Work Force in Canada, 2008.
A examination of the role played by native women in Canada prior to and after the World War l.
1,592 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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The paper is divided into two sections, which deals primarily with the work role of native women in Canada in the pre industrial period, and secondly with work done at home, to work done in the labor force, relating to payment and pensions. The paper relates that initially all women were involved in commercial activities however certain positions were reserved for men. The paper explains the division of labor among men and women and gives the reasoning behind this division and how the situation changed after the war. The factors dealing with remuneration for women is explained in detail with reasons and comparisons.
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"During the early industrialization period, women always "earned less than 60 percent of what men earned, even when...they worked longer hours" (Wilson 60). The prevalent attitude was that older men should be responsible for skilled work. Certain jobs became the domain of men so that women could be excluded; when women performed certain work, it lost status. Eventually, female sweated labor, as a result of poor working conditions and workplace abuses, endangered male incomes (McIntosh 143). At the same time, only men's work was eased by mechanization. Factory work allowed women more free time but eventually defined life for single women (Unit 2 26). However, while men as breadwinners worked in factories, married women were confined to the home (Unit 2 28) but still earned money by such activities as baking and crafts. As industrialization proceeded, women were viewed as consumers rather than producers (Unit 2 29). Along with factory work, the main employment available to women was domestic work."
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Bacchi, Cleverdon and Suffrage, 2008.
This paper provides a review of C.L. Bacchi's work "Liberation Deferred?" and C. Cleverdon's "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada" and looks at their approaches to the issue of suffrage.
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 106.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Bacchi and Cleverdon take entirely different approaches to the suffrage movement in Canada yet generally reach the same conclusions. More specifically, the paper relates that while Bacchi focuses on the English-Canadian suffragists in Toronto between 1877-1918, Cleverdon's work is far more inclusive since she analyzes suffrage groups all over Canada and especially in Quebec where the suffragists achieved victory in 1940. The writer determines the arguments of each author as well as the type of evidence used to support those arguments. The two books are compared and the strengths and weaknesses of each one are discussed. Finally, recommendations are made, the main one being that these works should be used together for a localized and a national view of woman suffrage.
Outline:
Introduction
Bacchi's (1983) Study
Cleverdon's (1974) Analysis
Conclusion
From the Paper
"Bacchi belabors the point that the aims and strategies of the woman suffragist movement were developed in conjunction with many other reform groups. In the same way, secular reformers' perspective on the child was based upon a traditional concept of women's sphere, but it did succeed in certain cases in liberating women from various social constraints. Bacchi seems intent on extracting what was devised solely by the woman suffrage movement. She does admit that a major difference between temperance suffragists and secular suffragists was that the latter asked for state intervention to implement reforms such as Mothers' Pensions, compulsory schooling, and factory legislation. The secular reform movement offered the women suffragists power and recognition. The great strength of the first-wave movement, according to Bacchi consisted of its diversity. Both men and women were involved with various interests and were influence by the American women's movement. "
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The Legacies of Confederation, 2008.
This paper analyses modern Canadian issues taking a stance based off of J.M. Bumsted's writing in "In The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History."
2,516 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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The author of this paper argues that the vision of Canada, regarding Confederation, through government policies and initiatives, regional concerns and cultural development, took shape against the backdrop of a vast and sparsely inhabited nation, and set the tone, in many ways, for things to come, even into the 21st century. The paper then notes that the concerns that troubled Macdonald's government continue to pose problems today and the unique challenges of Canada's geography remain. This paper tackles these issues, and attempts to ascertain whether there really is such a thing as the Canadian approach to culture, government and the economy and how it is faring today.
From the Paper
"It is important to note that this type of government initiative in support of Canadian industry was brought about by a perceived increase in nationalism, and serves to advance Barlow's suggestion that the 'historic balance in Canada between public and private enterprise...goes to the heart of our identity, our culture, and our very existence.' Indeed, Barlow traces this balance particularly to both the vastness and sparse population of Canada, as well as the proximity of the US and the danger of being 'absorbed into the United States.' It is because of these uniquely Canadian features that it was important that Canadian governments continually 'develop[ed] a mix of public and private enterprise to provide services in areas business alone would not have been able to enter or maintain profitably' and adds that this created a 'distinct economy' which also 'foster[ed] a different way of life in Canada.' It would seem, then, that social and economic policies which are protective of Canadian interests and culture are indeed a historical and distinctive feature--brought about by the specificities of our geography and population."
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Elementary Education and Religious Diversity, 2008.
A reflective paper on religious diversity and elementary education in Canada.
2,341 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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The paper discusses how studies of different religions in elementary education encourages an introduction to world religions or the religions apt to be encountered by young people. The paper focuses on the many benefits that a religious diversity education has for a child. The paper looks at Quebec's education programme as an example.
Outline:
Introduction
The Example of Quebec's Education Programme (2000)
Benefits of Religious Diversity Education
Encouraging Respect
Concluding Discussion
From the Paper
"Rather than providing students with a rigid 'rule' in favour of respecting others faiths, or of not discussing religion, at all, taking an always very secular approach as though religion and religious differences did not exist, elementary school students can be helped to discuss religions ably. They can learn to ask questions respectfully and generally understand human beings as products of religious traditions that may be slightly different. There is also the promise of students learning to seek universals in terms of spiritual values and decision-making. Since the 1970s, in the Province of Ontario, a variety of enforced secularism may not have served elementary students well, as in an assumption discussed by Hogarth & Crothers (2001) to do with Christianity or the Judeo-Christian heritage as being 'the Canadian' backdrop that need not be explained, no observances required in state schools for Christian observances assumed to be already in place. (pp. 3-4) This variety of sloppy assumption in the future may be overcome by the contribution to be made via religious diversity studies as an elementary school enterprise."
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Canadian Immigration, 2008.
A look at the the economic and class basis of immigration policy and its legal regulation in Canada today.
3,570 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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This paper explains that Canadian immigration policy is defined by a range of public and private actors, but is implemented and regulated by state institutions. The paper then argues, with reference to a comparative analysis of three recent articles on immigration and diversity from the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the Ottawa Citizen, conflicting ideologies and representations of the objects of regulations in these publications reveal the economic and class basis of immigration policy and its legal regulation in Canada today.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Media Actors and Representations
Critical Background: Immigration and the Concept of Diversity
Contemporary Representations of Immigration
From the Paper
"Some critics have argued that the history of the discourse on Canadian diversity has shifted over the course of the twentieth century - from the early years as described above to the present day - over which time the focus shifted from the "problem of immigration" and preventing more diversity from arriving, to the "naturalization problem" of coping with the existing diversity within Canadian borders. However, a critical analysis of the media representations of immigration and diversity within a short span of time - in three different publications in two Canadian metropolises - suggest that this argument may be flawed. From this perspective, the regulatory aspect of the "problem of immigration" remains a core element in the representation of this issue in Canadian media today."
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Work Opportunities for Women during WW ll in Canada, 2008.
A review of the work opportunities for women in Canada prior to and after World War ll.
2,445 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 74.95
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The paper relates that at the start of World War ll women were denied entry to positions in the workforce that were previously thought of as reserved only for men. Thus, the earning capacity of women was considerably lower than that of men and they were unable to accede to positions of economic or political power as well. The paper continues by highlighting that, as a result of the male task force being involved in fighting a war, vacancies in the work situation became available to Canadian women and thus it became apparent that women proved to be as efficient as men in a previous male-dominated areas. Encouraged by capitalism and the ruling powers and the press, Canadian women were now holding major positions which the government attempted unsuccessfully to reverse after the war. The paper concludes that WWI helped women realize their capabilities and achieve equality with their male counterparts.
From the Paper
"In this analysis, it is important to bear in mind that women in Canada have always worked, in one way or another. Feminist scholars such as Bradbury have eloquently dismissed the myth that dual-income families are a new phenomenon, a product of the women's movement in the last few decades. In her analysis of working class families in the period from the 1860s to the 1890s - the time of the industrial revolution in Canada - Bradbury shows that even in that time, married Canadian women were actively involved in a broad range of income-generating activities, such as taking in boarders. At the same time, they were also expected to handle all domestic labour. Bradbury reproduces a cartoon showing a woman on her knees, doing the washing, while her husband eats dinner. The caption reads: "You complain, my poor husband, or your ten hours of labour. Yet I have been working for fourteen hours, and I have not yet finished my day." Bradbury also makes the point that women's labour was essential, and that if most families had relied on the husband's earnings alone, "poverty, even starvation, would have been chronic." Moreover, men would not have had the strength to labour at the factories for ten hours, and women would not have been well enough nourished to produce viable babies. In short, the "working class could not have reproduced itself."
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Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 2008.
This paper explores the impact of the Quiet Revolution on Quebec's relations with the rest of Canada.
2,385 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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The paper argues that the impact of the Quiet Revolution on Quebec's relations with the rest of Canada was profound and so worthy of the term "revolution." The paper explains that not only did Quebec shake off the bonds of clerico-conservatism, but it also embraced neo-liberalism and at the same time discovered a new identity and a new nationalism. The paper shows, therefore, how the Quiet Revolution laid the foundations for the separate identity of Quebec.
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"In contemporary Canadian politics, the threat of Quebec's separation from the rest of Canada is ever-present. Moreover, most Canadians know enough history to be aware that Quebec's historical roots lie in military defeat of the French by the British. In the 18th century, Quebec was called Canada, and was part of the colonial empire of New France (Neatby, 2004). However, Britain conquered France in the Seven Years War, and then transferred the colony to British possession in terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris. The vast majority of Quebecers were French Roman Catholics, and their loyalty to the British Crown was seriously in question (Moogk, 2000). This is the part of the history of Quebec that most Canadians are familiar with, and thus most of us do not find it strange that there is an ever-present threat of Quebec separating from the rest of Canada."
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Mary Ann Shadd, 2008.
A look at the life and work of Mary Ann Shadd and her important place in North American history.
1,651 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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The following paper looks at Mary Ann Shadd and assess her important place in North American (not merely Canadian or American) history. To wit, the ensuing several pages look at Shadd's prominent role as the first Black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper when she brought into existence the 'Provincial Freeman' in Windsor, Ontario, during the 1850s. Moreover, the paper looks at how Shadd vehemently rejected the strictures imposed upon her by virtue of being female and black and how she self-consciously carved out for herself a very public position on a wide array of issues. To determine what precisely it was that made Mary Ann Shadd so different from so many other women, the paper begins first by looking at her upbringing in a home wherein both her parents played integral roles in the early nineteenth-century Underground Railroad. Additionally, this paper explores her education and inquires into the role Quakerism played in shaping her vigorous intellect and her determination to use "common sense" - via the written word - to awaken revulsion against slavery and racial inequality. Finally, some time is devoted to looking at her many accomplishments as a publisher and as an educator.
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"Shadd's work as an editor and publisher is only one small part of her contribution to history - both Canadian and American. In addition to her involvement in the newspaper industry, Shadd was also a teacher who, while not even in her 30s yet, organized a school for black children in Wilmington, Delaware - the same slave-holding state her family had fled from not so many years earlier. She also somehow found time to teach in New York City, West Chester, and Norristown, Pennsylvania. More significantly, Shadd opposed school segregation and, upon arriving in Windsor, Ontario, somehow scraped together the money from bemused parents to found a private school (with her at the head of course) that, ostensibly, rejected educational segregation. "
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Immigration on the Prairies, 2008.
An analysis of the population diffusion in Canada and the prairie township system.
1,132 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses the population diffusion that Canada saw with its third wave of immigration. It deals with the changes in migration policy and land tenure that allowed this diffusion during Canada's third wave of immigration and specifically focuses on immigration on the prairies. The paper then discusses the prairie township system and how they worked in Canada.
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"With respect to the results of this process for the settlement landscape of the prairies, the most striking consequence was that townships were often organized into small micro-cultures, in order to encourage and facilitate immigration and homesteading. As I discussed in my previous paper, the government was inclined to promote immigration by a variety of cultural groups, such as "Mennonite settlers from Ukraine" (Lehr, 279) and therefore allowed them to gather together in townships, or clusters of townships, such as the "Mennonite West Reserve" (Lehr, 280), created in 1875, which consisted of twenty-two townships. Sifton took this process further, by encouraging immigration and land cultivation "under the colony or hamlet system" (Hall, 65), a move which he believed would encourage single men to consider homesteading. From this perspective, the township system may have encouraged the development of towns and communities, and may well have served as the impetus to immigration it was intended to be, however it also had drawbacks."
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Foreign-trained Professionals and Cultural Adaptation, 2008.
This paper explores the cultural transition experience in Canada of the foreign-trained professional and how it compares with that of the ordinary immigrant.
2,267 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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The paper argues that the foreign-trained professional in Canada tends to be at an advantage. The paper explains that the trained professional is far better equipped to cope with the stressors related to cultural transition because of access to substantial resources such as knowledge, skills, and social support. The paper does point out, however, that a barrier confronting foreign-trained professionals is when skills and knowledge acquired in the country of origin are not respected.
Outline:
Introduction
Adjustment of Foreign-Trained Professionals
Professionals and Healthy Adaptation
Resources Available to the Foreign-Trained Professional
Conclusion
From the Paper
"Immigration has become an escalating trend in Canada so that the proportion of the population that is foreign-born is currently higher than ever observed over the past 70 years (Census Canada, 2001). Successful adaptation for the immigrant depends, above all, on the employment needs in Canada and on the immigrant's qualifications. Foreign-trained professionals not only are a valuable resource to this country but they also bring their own resources for adjustment to Canadian life. Those resources, since they are based in the academic environment, are not available to other immigrants (Jones, 2002)."
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