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    Description of Business Yo-Good is one of four franchise options offered by ‘Fresh & Healthy Brands, LLC”, a corporation based in Burnaby, British Columbia (Serving Up Healthy Choices in New Franchise Opportunities, 2011). The company’s mission is to “offer a delicious and healthy combination of non-fat frozen yogurt with a dazzling variety of fresh toppings” (Yo-Good: Frozen Yogurt with an Important Difference, 2011) in an all-natural way without the use of artificial sweeteners. Our goal is to

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    During the 1955-56 Cape Breton Junior Hockey League (CBJHL) season, fans who can remember remark that the Glace Bay Junior Miners went from the “outhouse to the penthouse.” In the process, the team was fittingly dubbed the “Cinderella” Miners.   The three-team CBJHL consisted of the Junior Miners, the Sydney Eastmount Millionaires and the Northside Franklins. Xavier Junior College of Sydney had started the campaign but later folded. For the longest time, the Glace Bay club couldn’t win a game. Consequently

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    name given to a type of vegetation. It is a shrubby, hard-leaved, evergreen type of vegetation. Fynbos is characterized by the presence of reed-like plants. Fynbos makes up sixty seven percent of the fynbos biome. It is the vegetation that gives the Cape region most of it’s unique floristic characteristics. The Fynbos Biome is exquisite, but fragile. From rugged mountain slope and rolling sandy dunes to marshy plains, the fynbos biome is incredibly distinct. Fynbos biome is unique because it has adapted

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    Would you sacrifice your life and happiness for someone else to give them a life of perfection? Alistair Macleod; raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, known as the protagonist and author of The Boat began to realize that his happiness isn't the only thing that matters. He told his father that he will stay by his side as long as he lived. Then he was suddenly gone. Alistair had no idea whether his father left because the sea wasn’t the right life for Alistair, or for himself. In The Boat Macleod conveys

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    Portugal, Dias discovered the Cape of Good Hope near the southern tip of Africa. He originally named it the Cape of Storms due to all the violent storms in the area, but king John then renamed it to the Cape of Good Hope. After Dias’s massive discovery, he returned to Portugal in December, 1488. Due to Dias’s brilliant discovery, he was later on employed to go on another voyage. A month later, Bartolomeu Dias unfortunately passed away due to a ship wreck at sea near the Cape of Good Hope during a storm

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    'The Return ', and 'The Lost Salt Gift of Blood ', MacLeod explores the connection between identity and belonging with nature. MacLeod, through the powerful landscape of Cape Breton, the weather, the winter seas, fishing, and the coal mines, provides a background to the human events and the drama to the stories. However, Cape Breton is more than just a landscape and becomes a strong character in its own right, providing a strong link to the life stories and emotions of the characters who are descendants

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    With over 7,000 kilometres of pristine coastline and beaches, Australia's Queensland takes pride in being called the Sunshine State. Its stylish capital, Brisbane, is only one of the ten largest Australian cities known to Aussies and knows how to cater to its many visitors with its wide range of regional attractions. Let's begin our Queensland tour with the Glass House Mountains National Park, just one hour driving time north of Brisbane, or 70 kilometres away from the capital. An inspirational

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    Introduction I have chosen to do this project on Steers because while I was researching franchises in South Africa Steers particularly stood out to me. I was drawn to wanting to find out their background story as well as I wanted to learn more about their CSR commitments because I had never heard about them before. I wanted to gain a further understanding of why they chose to support such CSR initiatives and I can confidently state that my knowledge has defiantly grown after researching all that

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    Acadian Women Summary

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    the discussion of Acadian Women and their families having to uproot everything they own and moving to a new French colony in Isle Royale after the defeat of Port Royal .These families would move from Mainland Nova Scotia to the City of Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island. Once in their new home, the Acadians realize that they are in a new society that is unknown to them. The article continues with a breakdown of the process these Acadian women are going to go through to become

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