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    Introduction Canada ranks among the leading energy producers in the world, through oil production. These oil deposits rank oil sands of Canada as the largest oil deposits in the world after the Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. The only challenge with the oil sand deposits is that oil deposits are seen as unconventional. In effect, tar sands are recognized as one of the dirtiest energy sources in the world (Bailey & Droitsch, 2015). This fact is founded on the production factor; in producing one barrel

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    (1967, Penn) Badlands (1973, Malick) were classic films in the outlaw and getaway genre that both reflected and shaped the popular culture of the era when they were made. This was the era of the counterculture and New Left, after all, or student rebellions, riots and protests against the Establishment, police and all authority figures. Both films were based on real life characters, with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow being actual Depression-era bank robbers, while Holly and Kit resembled Charles Starkweather

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    While almost all novels contain some sort of political allusion or connotation, few novels are as directly political as George Orwell's 1984. From beginning to end, the novel is an epic and shocking piece, a strong precautionary tale against the ills of extreme totalitarianism. In it, Orwell paints a dismal future, one where individualism ceases and citizens are held in rigid class structures by the government with the threat of physical harm and, more importantly, through powerful mental conditioning

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    Slavery Is Bad

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    go through on a daily bases. Not many people in the world wish to be raped several times a day, whipped when seen as unproductive or willing to fight to death for the mere entertainment of others. Slaves are illegal in most countries like America, Canada, England, Ireland, and Spain. Anything seen as illegal is also seen as unethical. Social area of slavery differs from cultures, but no matter where the slaves are the in oppression. During the Arab Slave trade it didn’t matter what race, religion

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    they hit one major bump in the road. All of these rich wealthy elites that were able to afford the journey over did not know one thing about manual labor. They enslaved Native Americans, and used the indentured servant system, a method of bringing lower class immigrants to the colonies and requiring them to work as servants for a certain amount of time, but eventually mercantilism exploded in the colonies and the settlers had to turn to different ways. Slavery began to grow in the colonies in the

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    Christopher Columbus in 1492, the powerful Old World scrambled to colonize it. The three major nations involved in this were Spain, France, and England. Spain took more to the south in the Central American and Mexico areas while France went north in the Canada region. The English came to America and settled in both the New England and Chesapeake area. Although the people in these regions originated from the same area, the regions as a whole evolved into different societies because of the settlers’ purpose

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    Criminology Group Research Paper Winter 2017 Shawn Lamb – Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women By: Noah Elston, Nathan Clifford, Luke Hodgson, Deryck Williamson Shawn Lamb has confessed to the manslaughter of two aboriginal women, Lorna Blacksmith, and Carolyn Sinclair. In both cases he killed the women while under the influence of cocaine and claims to have killed them both because they stole the drugs and hid from him. The two theories are Andrews and Bonta's Personal, Interpersonal, Community-Reinforcement

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    Marijuana, also known as cannabis, has been deemed an unacceptable and illegal substance in Canada, as well as in many other nations. It is a drug which can alter an individual’s sense of perception and distort one’s senses, and may become addictive if used repeatedly. Although marijuana is looked down upon in society when used for recreational purposes, it serves several beneficial purposes in the medical field. The legalization of marijuana is a prominent growing issue in several Canadian provinces

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    This is highly significant because it displays a victory for the US against the Soviets that could have resulted in violence but did not. Also, the crisis caused more nations in the world to arise as poles. Nations like China, France, and Canada all opposed the crisis and spoke out against it. Originally, the focus of the Cold War was just the US and USSR, however the outspokenness of these nations against the crisis resulted in their rise of influences. 7. Analyze Kennedy's "report card"

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    sovereign countries in the world and only 15 have drinking ages higher than the age of 18, that is only 7.8% of the world. There must be a good explanation for this phenomenon. Some of the most notable countries that have a lower drinking age than 21 are: Germany, France and Canada. There are a few countries that even allow you to buy alcohol at any age, such as: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Comoros and Guinea-Bissau. WHO has reported that Germany’s life expectancy for males is around 76 years old; the life

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