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Nationalism in Canada, 2006.
This paper maintains that the diversity of Canada does not stand in the way of a national identity.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 0 sources, £ 36.95
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The paper discusses how Canada is a country that may be seen either as rich in diversity, or as challenged by diversity. Whatever one's take, the paper contends that the truth is that the country is as diverse as it is large. In this essay, it is argued that although this results in intense challenges to Canada's existence as a single, unified nation, it nevertheless remains true that Canada is a viable nation-building project. The paper maintains that despite diversity and despite various claims to distinctness, Canada maintains its integrity as a single, unified nation, with a discernible national identity that is unlike any other.
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National Security in Canada, 2007.
This paper examines the threat the new national security regime poses to Canadians.
1,321 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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The paper reviews the Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Agency of Canada (PSEPC) and the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) in order to assess if these organizations are infringing upon the privacy of Canadians and whether this infringement is justifiable. The paper discusses the Canadian Constitution and how the new security regime has the potential to undermine certain sections of it, posing risks to privacy rights.
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"There can be little doubt that national security has become a major preoccupation of the Canadian government in light of the events of 9/11. According to the Canadian government - and to similar materials contained in our course notes - the national security plan emerging from that traumatic event is explicitly committed to protecting Canadians at home and where they reside abroad; the plan also mandates that the federal government do whatever it can to ensure Canada does not become a base for terrorist threats directed against allies - most notably the United States (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, "Securing an Open Society: Canada's National Security Policy," para.1-5)."
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Canada's First Nations and the Mass Media, 2007.
This paper analyzes the representation of Canada's Aboriginals in Canadian newspapers.
1,267 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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The paper focuses on the time when Elijah Harper's single vote in Manitoba blocked the constitutional reform package known as Meech Lake. The paper explains how Harper's action elevated the concerns and interests of Canada's First Nations to prominence on the Canadian political scene. The paper then examines Thomas Walkom's article "A Tragic Death Puts Meech into Perspective" that highlights the Canadian mass media's view of the First Nations of Canada. The paper shows how the mass media's perspective is a complex one which, at one and the same time, mingles respect and sympathy for peoples of the First Nations with a view that these peoples are inevitably "wards" of the Canadian state.
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"Mass media analysis is invariably complex in that media messages are often conveyed on more than one level in a mass media text. Consider, for example, Thomas Walkom's moving article "A Tragic Death Puts Meech into Perspective" from the Toronto Star. This article is profoundly disturbing in its depiction of the tragic death of a young Aboriginal woman - Noreen Munro - on the streets of Toronto where she lived homeless, while the constitutional debate known as Meech Lake continued. While this article is moving in describing the tragic end of this young woman's life, it is unusual in how Walkom suggests that this death suggests how pointless are the constitutional talks then underway in Ottawa. He concludes that such conferences should be limited to one in a century (Walkom)."
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Canada?s First Nations and Religion, 2004.
Discusses the spiritual conversion of Canada's native population by Christian missionaries and governing bodies.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper looks at the idea that the conversion of Canada?s First Nations to Christianity and the disenfranchisement of native spiritual religious practices were and continue to be an essential part of nation building in Canada. The paper is presented in a three-point argument: Missionaries provided valuable information on the native populations to the colonizing government; missionaries undermined native religious and political structures and banned native practices and values that were in conflict with Western ideals, and finally, today, much of the disregard for native customs and religions continue as the government fails to enact legislation to protect Aboriginal religion.
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"Furthermore, the missionaries were the first Europeans to study and learn the languages of the native populations. For example, Recollect Father Chrestien LeClercq, who was stationed in Quebec in 1675, learned the spoken and symbolic language of the Micmacs, allowing for an accelerated process of missionary conversion (Krieger). This knowledge of language and familiarity with the native ways made the missionaries a valuable source of information during the later military conflicts with native populations."
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Losing Integrity: The Crisis Within Canada?s National Parks, 2001.
The essay is an examination of the problems facing National Parks in Canada.
2,270 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 16 sources, APA, £ 48.95
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This essay deals with four areas which are causing Canadian National Parks to disappear--extreme government cut-backs, identity crisis, improper management and ecosystem destruction. It also suggests ways in which the government can change its polices to save these parks.
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"Canadians look at the infamous National Park?s landscape and see a vast and beautiful range of Canada at it?s best. Unfortunately, what one sees is often deceiving. The truth is that the state of Canada?s National Parks is alarming. Entire species are disappearing, vegetation is being destroyed by development and urbanization, and the pristine lakes and rivers are being contaminated by pollution. The Canadian Government has not been fulfilling its managerial role in protecting the essential resources that are comprised in Canada?s National Parks. The problems that have generated in the Park?s system have often dismissed due to their seemingly insignificant characteristics. Unfortunately, all of the insignificant problems joined together to create a devastating picture of dyfunctionality of the National Parks. There are four pivotal points that have caused the Park?s disastrous spiral aimed at oblivion. Extreme cuts to the Parks Canada?s budget has forced them to compromise their principles on how the parks should be run, and resorted to doing what they could. Parks Canada has found itself in an extreme identity crisis, as financial pressures are pitting conflicting philosophies against one another. The Canadian Government is the root which many, if not all of the posing threats the National Parks has emerged from. Their improper management and mentality has potentially shattered any chance of Canada?s ecosystem to flourish. Until the Canadian Government stops seeing the nation?s national Parks yet another way to generate a clever income for their institution, the parks will continue to lose their ecological integrity until they fade from man?s sight completely."
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Canada's National Discourse, 2006.
A closer look at the Canadian discourse and ethnic, religious and racial minorities.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, £ 42.95
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This paper discusses Canada as a nation that is characterized by its remarkable religious, ethnic and racial diversity. This paper explores how the national discourse of inclusion and tolerance has shaped Canadian politics with respect to immigration, multiculturalism, Aboriginal Canadians and the French Language.
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Canada's National Identity, 2007.
This paper examines Philip Resnick's work "The European Roots of Canadian Identity".
2,736 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 56.95
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The paper discusses Philip Resnick's essay on the European influences, both historical and contemporary, that have helped shape Canada's political and social culture. The paper explains how he argues that instead of using the United States as the model of comparison when discussing Canadian national identity, Canadians should look to their European counterparts with whom they share many similarities. The paper labels Resnick as a major voice in the debate on Canadian unity and nationhood.
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"What makes a text worthy of such thorough analysis, requiring the full literary energies, of over one hundred and fifty students? The answer becomes quite clear from the onset of reading Philip Resnick's essay on the Eurpean influences, both historical and contemporary, that have helped shape Canada's political and social culture. The European Roots of Canadian Identity is a thought provoking and in fact quite convincing essay on the question that will probably haunt our national psyche indefinitely (perhaps a defining national feature in itself): the question of Canadian identity. Resnick, a staunch Canadian nationalist, is this country's main proponent of Euro-Canadianism."
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Canada's Role as United Nations Peacekeeper, 2003.
Discusses the country's participation in more missions than any other country.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 14 sources, £ 54.95
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Discusses Canada's historical role as U.N. peacekeeper in a post-World War II world order and Canada's decision to be the prime mover in the U.N. peacekeeping efforts as part of the nation's foreign policy.
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"This paper explores the following question: "Has Canada's Role as United Nations peacekeepers been a source of national pride or shame?" As Canada is ..."
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Quebec Nationalism vs. Canadian Nationalism, 2006.
A discussion on why nationalism is stronger in Quebec than it is in the rest of Canada.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, £ 61.95
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It is very clear that nationalism is stronger in Quebec than it is in the rest of Canada. While Quebec remains a province of federal Canada, the question of seceding from Canada and becoming an independent country is never far from the agenda of most politicians in Quebec, and generates immense patriotic fervor throughout Quebec. This factor makes Quebec entirely different from other Canadian provinces. For example, we never hear talk of British Columbia seceding from Canada and becoming the Republic of British Columbia. In order to understand this peculiar situation, this paper investigates Canada's past and, specifically, the history of Quebec with Canada.
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First Nations Educational Systems, 2002.
A look at the history of First Nations education in Canada.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 36.95
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This six-page undergraduate paper examines traditional and modern First Nations education in Canada. The author discusses the negative legacy of the traditional system, which suffered from racism, and presents the reforms that are being considered for improving modern education in Canada.
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First Nations Education in Saskatchewan, 2001.
Examines the advantages and disadvantages of First Nations education in Canada.
1,010 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, £ 24.95
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This paper discusses the issue whether First Nations should have total control over their education in Saskatchewan and Canada. The author examines the advantages and disadvantages of having First Nations teach, guide, and overlook all of the aspects in each First Nations student's school career.
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"First Nation?s education is based on traditional values, which put together the principles of wholeness, order, balance, and respect for the spiritual and natural world. They are taught to love and live in Mother Nature and what she brings to everyone?s lifestyle. First Nation?s students have the right to develop programs and services of the highest quality. They should have the same opportunities as each and every other student in Saskatchewan and Canada towards their future in this world. First Nation?s communities, parents, Elders, and teachers expect high quality education and academic skills from their students."
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Educational Systems in Canada, 2002.
A comparative analysis of traditional and modern First Nations education in Canada.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 9 sources, £ 73.95
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This paper examines traditional and modern First Nations education in Canada. The author compares the flaws and beneficial aspects of both systems, discusses the negative legacy of the traditional system, which suffered from racism, and presents the reforms that are being considered for improving modern education in Canada. The paper concludes that a more modern educational system is evolving which is more responsive to the special circumstances of First Nations children, and expresses hope that every Canadian will support these new efforts.
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Case Study of the Canadian Department of National Defense, 2001.
Detailed case study of the department of national defense in Canada.
3,419 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 9 sources, £ 66.95
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This paper presents a case study of Canada's Department of National Defense and reviews the strategic direction and structural organization of the department as well as its history and development. Many tables, diagrams and graphs are included with the paper.
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"...Thus, the overall mission and responsibilities of the Department of National Defense ultimately acts to uphold democracy, individual rights and freedoms, peace and order, good government, and a sustainable and stable economy..."
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Did The National Policy Stimulate the Rate of Prairie Settlement?, 2002.
Argues that the National Policy of Canada in the late 1890's was more destructive than beneficial to the Canadian economy.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 24.95
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Other than the staples thesis, the National Policy has probably engendered more debate among economic historians than any other issue in Canadian economic history. Though many credible positions can be taken on the issue, this paper will argue that the National Policy did induce settlement in the Prairies after 1896, but it likely did more harm than good into the longer term. While it is undeniable that it had some corollary if not positive impact, for the most part the National Policy was wasteful and unnecessary. It was a misdiagnosed prescription of the wrong medication at the wrong time.
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