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    There can be no doubt that Annie Tindley is an outstanding academic, her work concerning the historiography of the rural areas and populace of Scotland has been celebrated by Scottish history academics. Her article, ‘Actual pinching and suffering’: Estate Responses to Poverty in Sutherland 1845-86’ is no exception to this outstanding career. In this piece of academic literature, Dr. Tindley has written an effective piece that strikes against the academic status quo when viewing the life of

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    The Scottish National Party announced their backing of the decriminalising of cannabis for medical use in Scotland last year, the members of the party sought to gain the authority over cannabis from the UK government and that it be delegated to the Scottish parliament. Cannabis was initially banned in 1928, medical prescriptions however were still permitted until the introduction

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    1970 Scotland has held two referendums which have each time given them a little more independence and/or power. On September 18th 2014 they had a third hoping this time to break away from Great Britain and become its own country. Anyone who is a Scottish citizen living in Scotland 16 and older could vote to make Scotland a free country. Originally Scotland had a very weak economy around 20 years ago but it has slowly strengthened every year since then. This has made people who are anti-independence

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    The Sunning God By: Caleb Chavez It was a somewhat normal day as it started the constant birds chirping, the smell of pie that the Neighbors cooked, and the taste of morning breakfast. My younger brother Bon and I were off the school that morning. We don’t go to a normal school due to the war. We went to a knight school where they taught us how to use weapons. But what we didn’t know is that day would be the worst day of our lives. While we were gone our mother had been cleaning up the house

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    The renowned and impact of Scottish whiskey is it always an asset today for the Scottish economy relative to new producer countries? Introduction After several visits to distilleries and wine tastings, I started asked me about the differences with whiskey from other countries, which made the difference and the renowned Scottish whiskey and of course if it were today always true and how to fix it if it is not the case. Indeed Scotch Whisky is regarded, rightly, as the product "ambassador" of

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    When I first saw The Great Shrub, I knew that the clan would be my new home. My past clans were all just swearing and requesting with everyone inactive, but The Great Shrub isn't. Let's get back to the story of when I first joined. It was a cold and stormy night, when I first step foot into the haunted castle. I'm just joking, basically it was just me leaving an old inactive clan and joining a new active one. Alex is the one who invited me into the clan. Alex... wow, how do you explain such leadership

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    Scottish Independence Today, changes in the political map of the world are not a big deal. It changes very often. And one of the possible changes becomes the attempt of Scotland to be independent. A national referendum was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014, which shook the country to its core (Government UK). Voters had to answer only one question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?” The majority of Scottish people voted NO. Only 44.7% of the Scottish voters voted for Scotland becoming

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    History of Scotland First of all I want to look into the history of Scotland, after all a history is what defines a country, it’s what citizens can be proud of, what they can preach about to other nations. The first written records of Scottish history originated when

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    Election day in Canada comes around again, but, like many others, Mr. Low decides to stay home. He thinks that there is no point in voting, since the results in his riding are always the same and the candidate he votes for never wins. One may think that he is just being a sore loser, but he has a very valid point. In Mr. Low’s riding, there are three main parties; Liberal, NDP, and Conservative. Mr. Low favours the Liberal candidate, but he knows he has no chance of winning as the outcome is usually

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    The first part of this paper explores the concepts of social justice and inclusion within the Scottish Education System. Both of which are complex theories and ultimately influence each other. What is Social Justice? What is inclusion? How are they related? What does it mean to have an inclusive environment for students? How do we achieve this in schools? Does society play a part in how inclusion is introduced and maintained? These are just some of the questions that I endeavor to explore. Consistently

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