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    People in North American countries are privileged enough to be able to express their religions in public places such as a coffee shop. Some of them are ignorant enough to think that a coffee shop not putting Christmas decorations on a cup is war on Christianity. Starbucks, who usually changes the appearance of their cups to celebrate the holidays to have Christmas decorations and symbols on them, has recently changed the look to being a sleek berry red cup with the well-known green Starbucks symbol

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    A cultural analysis of Canada 1 What is culture? In this essay of my cultural analysis of Canada I will show you the different aspects of what defines a culture though their history, area, the people and many more. While researching on this subject I came across a couple different meanings. The first defines culture as “the beliefs, customs, art, etc., of a particular society, group, place or time”; Merriam-Webster

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    Canada Introduction: Canada was a land of vast distances and rich natural resources, and became a hegemonic authority in 1867, while maintaining relations with the British Crown. Economically and technically, the nation has developed parallel to the United States, its neighbor to the south across the longest international border in the world. Canada faces the political challenges of meeting public demands for quality improvement in health care, education, social services and economic competitiveness

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    you”. Education is a valuable thing to have and Canada has come a long way with it’s different methods of education. In the early 1900’s, not many people attended school long enough to finish their elementary education. At the time, girls did not “need” school since they were later to be housewives and not need the education and boys from poor families would only expect to work laborious jobs that required little education. People all over Canada needed better education. When the idea of residential

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    Holidays, Ceremonies and Goodies! New Years Day — Music, dancing, food, fireworks, and street parties make up the start of the new year taking place on the first day on January. Sun Festival — On February 25, celebration of the Mayan New Year takes place by hosting a fire ceremony to promote solar power. International Arts Festival — An exhibition of first class art performance dance and theatre. Held during the first week of March. 
 Fruits Festival — Celebration and appreciation of the myriad

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    help Educators and school promoters who believed public schooling was needed to instill appropriate modes of thinking and behavior in children. As far as they were concerned, the purpose of public schooling was not primarily the acquisition of academic knowledge. The early school systems, among other things, were designed to solve different societal problems, both perceived and real, ranging from crime to poverty and from indolence to vagrancy. Public schooling also meant inculcating

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    have a quarrel with employers. Uncaring managers can dismiss them much more easily than if a union existed to protect them. Traditional logic suggests that they need unions. Their rejection of this notion must result from observation of unions in public and perhaps the experience of friends, picked up in conversation. Perhaps they believe that the benefits simply don 't justify the aggravation or the cost. Perhaps they shudder at the prospect of having their working lives permanently locked within

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    year-round schools in student’s achievement. Year-round schools ended in 2011, in Salt Lake City, Utah because data showed that local traditional calendar schools had better test scores. Should students have school all year round? In United States and Canada, traditional school calendar for most schools has remained in position. (Chen, Grace). Most students, parents, and businesses are accustomed to the traditional calendar school year. The benefits of traditional school year allow free and quality

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    the twenty first century. Canadians focus more on the short term in a quest for immediate gratification. This paper will highlight the use of colonial and immigration differences to further personal or public agenda’s, or rather neglect them completely. It will assess So You Think You Can Dance, Canada, second, the gentrification in Riversdale, Saskatoon and finally the contemporary Haida

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