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29 Apr 2009
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Environmental toxicology on metallic mercury spill: A case in the versatile estrie and the steps to a successful decontamination

Thesis - 13 pages - Ecology & environment

In October 1996, the directions of public health in the Eastern Townships (Estrie-DSP) and a multipurpose area that have requested the collaboration of the Center for Toxicology of Quebec (CTQ) to the management of mercury spill metal in a class-chemistry laboratory. During our first...

29 Apr 2009
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Economic history of Hong Kong during the 20th century

Thesis - 8 pages - Economy general

In this essay I will explore the economic history of Hong Kong during the 20th century. Hong Kong, during this period, I will argue, went from an entrepot trading outpost, which nevertheless attracted large British trading companies, to a major independent regional trading center. I will start by...

29 Apr 2009
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Report on solutions to water-scarcity, irrigation and water-erosion problems in Western India

Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Ecology & environment

Projects in the Maharashtra State of India, especially among rural dwellers in the Ghats Mountains area, to improve water use and availability were actively pursued by Canadian and Indian researchers in the 1990s. This project was carried out with local people, paying particular attention to the...

29 Apr 2009
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Citizenship status, racism, gender and violence: Aboriginal women in Canada, international sex trade - finding the links and associations

Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In the forward to Andrea Smith's (2005) book Conquest. Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, Winona LaDuke, writing about Native Women's experience in Minnesota, writes that Native women in the state, which borders Manitoba, have a ten-times higher chance of dying a violent death than a...

29 Apr 2009
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Comparing the response to cholera in Zimbabwe with SARS response in Toronto - Public health systems in crisis

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

This is an article about two diseases: cholera and SARS. Pandemics today potentially can spread from one part of the globe to another. The spread of SARS from Hong Kong where it was first identified and isolated, to Toronto (which was particularly hard hit), in part has to do with the new...

29 Apr 2009
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Comparing Italian American immigrant families to black American families: A sociological analysis of the family in America

Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education

This paper will offer a comparison between African American families and Italian American immigrant families, by exploring family cohesion and identity. What are the ways that the black American family is written about in sociological literature, and how does this differ from the perspective or...

28 Apr 2009
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History of forecasting the weather

Thesis - 8 pages - Ecology & environment

Weather refers to the state of air on earth at a given place and time, and climate is the pattern of weather that forms and one expects at a particular place at a given time. The weather or climate of a place usually identifies as warm or cold, wet or dry, cloudy or clear, or windy.The weather of...

27 Apr 2009
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A study on ways to forecast weather

Thesis - 11 pages - Ecology & environment

Weather refers to the state of atmosphere at a given place and time with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity and air pressure. Climate is the pattern of weather that forms and one expects at a particular place at a given time. The weather or climate of a place...

27 Apr 2009
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Resist drug abuse

Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Resist Drug: it is learned that often, young people and adolescents are introduced to drugs by friends or people they admire. In adolescence, the influence of peers is very strong. Thus, for "being in the loop" to be "cool", they commit acts that they would not have committed otherwise. Adults...

27 Apr 2009
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Narratives of nation and division - Post colonial theory and the partition of India

Thesis - 9 pages - International relations

This paper will explore the partition of India into India and Pakistan at the end of the era of British colonialism as a narrative story of the imaginary. (Bhabha, 1992). In order to discuss the rift between the two nations, which can be understood as exacerbated communal and ethnic tensions...

27 Apr 2009
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Shape of the Caribbean following emancipation

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In the Caribbean Diaspora, following the Emancipation from slavery (which took place at different historical moments, depending on the European nation controlling a particular colony) there were attempts to reconfigure the socio-economic, political and cultural landscape of domination that had...

27 Apr 2009
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The European Union and democratic progress in post communist states:The cases of Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia

Thesis - 7 pages - Political science

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, strong winds of change have been sweeping across the European continent. With the growth of the European Union into the region's dominant political force, the last remnants of communism and totalitarian rule are rusting...

27 Apr 2009
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Great expectations: Tom DeLay's redistricting fight and what it means in the Texas 17th

Thesis - 14 pages - Political science

Party politics is about power. It's about who has more and by how wide a margin. In an increasingly polarized political culture, a noticeable swing in power to either party could have far-reaching and sweeping legislative consequences. Modern campaigns are costly struggles—fights for a...

27 Apr 2009
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Success in developmental states of Taiwan and Korea after Japanese colonization

Thesis - 6 pages - International relations

As Taiwan and Korea, both being former colonies of Japan, began to develop over time, their growth exemplified the characteristics of what we term “developmental states”. These two particular states have exhibited rapid, sustained, export-led growth over a long period of time, with...

27 Apr 2009
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Globalization, food production and links to obesity

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

This paper will investigate the links between globalization, food production and consumption, and a marked increase in obesity rates in North America in recent decades. (Shaw, 2004; Young, 2004) Phillips (2006) examines the international production, distribution systems and consumption patterns...

26 Apr 2009
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Mary Magdalene: Legend to history

Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In the early centuries of Christian history the circles that led to the development of the official Church focused on her role at the crucifixion and the tomb. She was praised by many of the early group, called the Church Fathers, such as Tertullian of Carthage (ca. 160-225), Origen of Alexandria...

24 Apr 2009
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A call for change : Socio-economic and political causes of the French revolution

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The French Revolution was a decade of political and social upheaval in France between the years of 1789 and 1799, which affected not only the French society and government, but had considerable repercussions for the rest of Europe as well. The primary changes that occurred as a result of the...

23 Apr 2009
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The Cathars and Mary Magdalene

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The Cathars were an alternative Christian or semi-Christian group who were condemned as heretics by the Roman Church. They lived and practiced their religion in the Languedoc, an area of what is now southern France, from the tenth through fourteenth centuries. Because the Cathar scriptures were...

22 Apr 2009
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Doomsday cults

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Of over ten thousand new religious movements across the globe, less than twenty are considered destructive cults. The contemporary definition of cult refers to a relatively small group of people whose religious beliefs and practices depart from the conventional standards of society. Most cults...

22 Apr 2009
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A rhetorical criticism of Hillary Clinton's Beijing speech: Women's rights are human rights

Thesis - 5 pages - Political science

Senator Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination for President was historic not only because she was the first woman to ever become a serious contender for the nomination, but also because she was the first, First Lady in history to ever run for President. Senator Clinton's campaign...

22 Apr 2009
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A discussion and analysis of community health in Manchester

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The aim of this essay is to show an understanding of community health. For the purpose of this essay the community, which will be discussed, will be Priory ward in Sale, which is part of Trafford in Manchester. The role and function of agencies and professionals in the delivery of health and...

22 Apr 2009
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The public health environment in England: Focus on specific policies

Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The nature of major causes of work-related ill health makes occupational health fit more closely than ever before into the public health agenda. The government has been quick to recognize the role of occupational health nurses in reaching the public health targets set in recent public health...

21 Apr 2009
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Mary Magdalene: The woman who needs no introduction

Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The writers of the New Testament gospels introduce most of the characters in the stories to their audiences. For example, the reader of Mark is told that James is the son of Zebedee, his brother's name is John, and Zebedee and his sons are fishermen (Mark 1:19-20). The Gospel of Luke reports that...

21 Apr 2009
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The status of Women in first-century Jewish culture

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Traditionally Christian scholars have argued that women held a low status in first-century Judaism and their situations improved in Christianity. This argument ignores the fact that Christianity was a sect of Judaism, not a separate religion, through much of the first century. Jesus was Jewish,...

21 Apr 2009
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Employee rights from behind the veil of ignorance

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In this paper I intend to create an analogy between the workplace and society in general, so that principles used in determining political and social systems of ethics in the social sphere might be applied to the work place. I will specifically focus in on John Rawls's theory of justice as...

21 Apr 2009
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The systematic failings of the prison system

Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The prison system has held a legitimate place within society for so long now that it is difficult for us to imagine that there was a time when it did not exist. However, just because there has been a complex system of correction and social control put in place for centuries does not mean that...

20 Apr 2009
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In search of a new metaphysics: A summary and critical analysis of the ideas of E. F. Schumacher

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The human species faces an unprecedented number of problems now that we have entered the 21st century. Global warming, overpopulation, food and water shortages, pollution, economic crises, resource depletion, and various other issues make up the agenda which concerns politicians and the public...

19 Apr 2009
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Role of an engineer in solving global issues

Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment

This report emphasizes the role of an engineer in solving three major global issues, which are excessive demand for global energy production, limited natural resources of the planet and exponentially growing environmental pollution. An engineer's role in solving the global issues addressed is to...

19 Apr 2009
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A study on the common cloud types and their influence on the weather

Thesis - 14 pages - Ecology & environment

The heat from the sun's energy results in the water at the surface of the earth, mainly in oceans warming and converting into gaseous water vapor. The presence of such water vapor makes air moist or humid. The air near the ground rises when it becomes warm due to the sun's rays, and when...

19 Apr 2009
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Evaluating western religion via Rosenzweig's template

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Franz Rosenzweig began his career in philosophy by discussing the origins of German Idealism and the philosophies of G. W. F. Hegel, who is “generally regarded as the culminating point in the development of post-Kantian idealism in Germany” and “unquestionably one of the most...