...During the 1930s, Canada was impacted in a way unlike any other. This was known as The Great Depression; the economic downfall in Canada’s time. Dramatic rises in unemployment, debt, poverty, starvation, disease and death shook the nation. In response, government and business created barriers such as welfare and retirement pensions to help protect against similar consequences should any downturn occur again. Despite the benefits that developed after the Depression, many factors and events outweighed its positivity. The Great Depression resulted in negative consequences for Canada as it revealed discrimination in society, many had their rights and freedoms taken away and countless people experienced both physical and mental hardships during...
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...definition Of deflation & When deflation, And it is hard to Tell when deflation Actually poses a Problem-or when It is shown in price Expecations- uses Japan as example. Author Talks about The definition Of deflation & When deflation, And it is hard to Tell when deflation Actually poses a Problem-or when It is shown in price Expecations- uses Japan as example. Deflation is a persistent fall in some generally followed aggregate indicator of price movements, such as the consumer price index or the GDP deflator. Generally, a one-time fall in the price level does not constitute a deflation. Instead, one has to see continuously falling prices for well over a year before concluding that the economy suffers from deflation. How long the fall has to continue before the public and policy makers conclude that the phenomenon is reflected in expectations of future price developments is open to question. For example, in Japan, which has the distinction of experiencing the longest post World War II period of deflation, it took several years for deflationary expectations to emerge. One reason for Why deflation Can be bad for The macroeconomy, Although not necessarily linked. One reason for Why deflation Can be bad for The macroeconomy, Although not necessarily linked. Most observers tend to focus on changes in consumer or producer prices since, as far as monetary policy is concerned, central banks are responsible for ensuring some form of price stability (usually...
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... g) Then and Now Review Lesson 19-21 h) Then and Now Round Table Assignment 22-23 Appendix A: Round Table Discussion Handout 24 Rubric for Round Table Discussion and other Assessment ideas 25-28 Topic Organizer 29-31 Speech Planner 32 Design Process Statement Our group initially decided to work together because each of us was specifically interested in developing lessons for Grade 10 Canadian History – Academic. Some of us wanted to develop our understanding of the curriculum itself, while others wanted to focus on working with students of this age. After reviewing the curriculum of the course, we discussed how the course should be organized. For some aspects of the curriculum, we felt a traditional chronological organization would be beneficial. For other portions, it seemed as if thematic units would serve our students better. In the end, we decided to work with a hybrid of the two models, which contained both chronological units and thematic units. Our group...
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...Internal Assessment Japanese-Canadian Internment Camps To What Extent did the Pearl Harbor Attacks affect Political Discrimination Against People of Japanese Descent in Canada? Mihir Thakkar Candidate Number: 000881-0043 May 2014 Word Count: 1,703 A. Plan of Investigation This investigation will measure to extent to which the Pearl Harbor attacks affected the political discrimination against people of Japanese descent in Canada, including the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II. This investigation will be carried out through analysis of various documents about the Japanese-Canadian internment. A variety of sources will be used, from books by victims of the internment to scholarly sources about the war between Canada and Japan. Two of the documents will then be thoroughly assessed, which will provide evidence to properly and reasonably answer the question. This date range of this study is from 1887 until the official government redress, which took place in the 1970s. The question will be answered through factual evidence of the internment, as well as narrative evidence describing other forms of political discrimination. B. Summary of Evidence Racism before Pearl Harbor • • Manzo Nagano, the first immigrant from Japan moved to Canada in 1877.1 In the 1920s, the Canadian Government limited the number of fishing licenses allowed for Japanese citizens.2 • In the Great Depression, the government of British Columbia denied logging licenses and the Japanese...
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...1. Case study - Women on the Right Track at CP Rail Women comprise nearly half of Canada's workforce, but over the last two decades, they have made no progress in obtaining senior management roles. This lack of success may deter younger women from entering certain professions and from learning from role models. Furthermore, research shows that a lack of diversity can affect retention, productivity, and innovation. Companies with more female senior managers have a higher return on equity than those with lower rates of female senior managers. With this research in mind, CP Rail undertook three initiatives to increase the number of women managers: * Each department must have diversity goals. * Mentoring programs for females have been established. * Senior women discuss their careers in forums. * Women on Track offers networking opportunities. To date, the program has been successful, with the number of women in senior management doubling over 5 years. Questions 1. Compare CP Rail’s initiatives to advance women with the recommended six-step program for the implementation of employment equity. 2. Review the list in Highlights in HRM 3.1 (retention strategies). What more could CP Rail undertake? Here is Highlight H.R.M 3.1 ( retention strategies ) see bellow. 2. Case study “Fairmont Hotels and Resorts” Corporate social responsibility through environmental sensitivity, among others, has recently surfaced as a pressing...
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...POPULATION Niagara College NURS 1270 Amanda Sorrell The Elderly Population How old do you want to live? This is a good question considering that according to research done by Christiansen et. al. (2009), there has been a gain of about 30 years of life expectancy on average, in developed countries globally over the span of the 20th century and Canada is no exception. This increase in life expectancy is primarily due to improvements in health care; an understanding of how disease is transmitted and can be prevented, and a better understanding of the body and how to keep it healthy (Christiansen, et. al., 2009). However, it would seem this extra lease on life comes with some extra concerns as seen in the current overall health of the elderly population which is the vulnerable group I have chosen for this assignment. This is also the group I am working with during my clinical placement this term, which is another reason I have chosen it for this paper. The members within the elderly population, in part due to extended years of life, are a group that is at risk for diminished well-being and compromised health due to changes in the aging process both physically and mentally. Nutrition, mobility and personal safety also become issues in health maintenance as we age, as is the issue of poverty that affect our elderly who are living well past the age of retirement in Canada. When our elderly population are not able to maintain a standard of health that keeps them independent...
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...This Time is Different Introduction I was required to complete a review on one of the listed books. First what jumped to my eyes the heading of the book. I thought this book ‘This Time is Different’ will be interesting to read. I thought it will be about different times and different countries financial history (about bank crisis, currency crashes and so on) and how these countries survived in different times. Furthermore, before I bought this book, I read the brief of the book it sounded interesting, than I wanted to read and to know more about it. Author’s credentials Carmen M. Reinhart is the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Previously she was professor of economics at the University of Maryland. She has held a positions in IMF. Kenneth S. Rogoff is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at Harvard University. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT. He is a commentator for NPR, the Wall Street Journal. And the Financial Times. Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff made a big contribution to financial history, collected data which covered sixty-six countries and different time periods and wrote about financial crisis, inflation,international debt currency crashes and debasements. They are first researches in the history about the financial crisis over many years. The author’s were trying to explain in the book, that ‘This Time is Different’ syndrome is wrong that financial...
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...The Spark Study Mindy Bacon. Clark Community College The Spark Study Americans have increasingly become sedentary, non-active people. This results in obesity, an alarming rise in type two diabetes, attention deficit problems, heart disease, and chronic depression in both adults and now is an epidemic in children. This book explains why physical activity especially aerobic activity is crucial to the way our brains learn, affect mood, depression, stress and attention. In Chapter one of “Spark, The Revolutionary New Science Of Exercise And The Brain”, shows how exercise improves brain functioning. A revolutionary case study was performed in a school district outside of Chicago. Naperville Central High School in Illinois transformed nineteen thousand students into very healthy and fit students with only 3 percent overweight versus 30 percent overweight nationally (Ratey & Hagerman, 2008). The students are also among the smartest in the nation. In 1999 Naperville’s eighth graders took an international standards test: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Asian countries have out performed United States of American students in math and science for many years. As stated in the New York Times, most Asian countries score well, almost half of the students score in the top, while only 7 percent of U. S. students do (Ratey & Hagerman, 2008). The children from Naperville, Illinois took the TIMSS and astonished the world. They scored...
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...the show all defy the general concepts of ageing as well as ageing stereotypes. The female characters all are very healthy, fashionable, energetic, social, employed and have active love lives. This portrayal is a great contrast from the depiction of the grumpy, unhealthy, introverted and frail perceptions modern media and society associates with the elderly. This makes me wonder,...
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...at U-Haul Sales & Reservations and Implications on Job Satisfaction & Performance MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior 12/14/2013 Introduction The organization chosen to be the topic of discussion is U-Haul international, located in Phoenix, Arizona. U-Haul is the largest DIY commercial moving truck rental company in the U.S.A and Canada. They rent and lease moving trucks, trailers, vans, pickup trucks, and storage facilities. U-Haul International is the headquarters for all the workings of U-Haul worldwide. The two 12 story towers reside in downtown Phoenix, AZ, where everything is handled from the executive level down to, marketing, sales and reservations, truck locations, the graphics department, accounting, and many other departments as well. When someone is looking to rent a U-Haul they call 1-800-Go-UHaul and reach the Sales and Reservations department. This department is the focus of my project paper. The Sales & Reservations department can employ up to 200 reservation representatives that quote moving cost and rent trucks and trailers to customers across USA and Canada. U-Haul International alone is worth $1.5 billion dollars. The Sales and Reservations department pays a minimum wage base salary and commission based on the number of moving equipment rented over the specified quota for your work hours. Some reps have made up to $3000 in commission alone in a month. Calls are monitored for accuracy, and your bonus/commission check can...
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...easiest…. Gratitude is a mystery, not because of the pleasure it affords us but because of the obstacles we must overcome to feel it. It is the most pleasant of virtues and the most virtuous of pleasures. -Comte-Sponville (2002), p. 132 At a recent convention a colleague asked me, “Why is gratitude so great?” His question came about while discussing the many virtues that seem to result from gratitude (Watkins, 2004; Watkins, Van Gelder & Frias, 2009; Wood, Froh & Geraghty, 2010). In this chapter I will seek to answer this important question. In pursuing this goal I will first attempt to define gratitude and I will present several ways of assessing this emotion and virtue. I will then review the research that speaks to the issue of whether gratitude is all that “great.” Third, I will explore the “how” of gratitude; I will suggest several mechanisms that might help explain how gratitude appears to enhance well-being. I will then submit practical suggestions for how clinicians, coaches, and individuals might use the gratitude literature to enhance well-being, and finally, I will present an analogical theory that I believe helps explain, “Why gratitude is so great.” To anticipate, I shall argue that gratitude acts as an amplifier of the good in one’s life (Watkins, 2008)....
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...worker-to-worker. This often includes the perpetrator either employed or previously employed by the organization. Type four which is often not recognized by employers is personal relationship violence (PRV). This type raises the issue of domestic violence in the workplace. The perpetrator has a personal relationship with an employee or a client and is trying to intimidate/hurt the victim through the use of physical force, verbal harassment or manipulation (financial or emotional) in order to maintain control over the victim. Statistics have shown that in 2005, 34% of Canadian nurses providing direct care in hospitals or long-term care facilities reported physical assault by a patient in the previous year; 47% reported verbal/emotional abuse (Stats Canada, 2010). Evidently, government intervention is necessary in order to minimize the number of violent cases, especially in the healthcare industry. This...
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...centuries before England settled in America. There were four changes happening in Western Europe that have greatly influenced America. Those changes were economic, political, religious, and intellectual (Fite 15). So why were these changes so important? They were the reasons that England decided to explore and expand in the western part of the world. The decision to expand trade and commerce was the most important advancement in the history of economics (Fite 15). From the time that the Virginia colonies were settled in 1609 up until 1890, farming was the most important aspect of the United States economy (Fite 30). Although manufactured products were worth more than products produced on a farm for the first time in 1889, farming was how the majority of Americans made a living (Fite 30). Despite the fact that agriculture dominated in these early years and the industrialization of the colonies was well under developed, “there was a high degree of specialization in the colonial economy” (Fite 63). For example, there were tobacco crops in the southern colonies which were crops that produced money, and in the northern colonies there was international trade with other continents (Fite 63). All of this called for a well-organized and planned distribution system (Fite 63). America had a significant increase in its economy during the beginning of the 18thcentury (Fite 102). After the Revolutionary War was over, so was the control that the British had over the colonies’ economy. When...
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...Sociology & Family Theorizing and Researching 1. Structural Theories a) Materialism & Conflict theory Marx & Engles -changes in family lives reflect material change (ex, the mode of production, industrialization) macro-micro focus -power differences characterize society at all levels (ex, capitalism creates: exploitation of men in the workforce; oppression of women b) Political Economy -assumes the power of the one class over another (social control), capitalist relations of production -a more concentrated focus on how economic and political processes shape society and history and therefore family, families c) Structural Functionalism Parsons & Bales -the social institution of the family - family is seen as a function, and different parts of society helps it move along -the nuclear family performs functions -they saw the families as a main faction, economic support, these functions that happen in nuclear families include economic support -equilibrium, all parts help it work as a whole -hierarchical generations and role specialization within families produces harmony -the different roles that men and women take on, allows the family be a harmony -parsons and bales, gendered perspective on families, families having instrumental roles such as achieving income, feed the family, cloth the family, this would be men 2. Symbolic Interactionism Mead & Cooley - individuals create their own family realities through micro level interactions -from...
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...Introduction The Appalachian Mobile Belt is a mountain range that currently extends more than 3,000 kilometers, from Newfoundland, Canada all the way to Alabama in the United States of America. In the past, before the continents separated, the Appalachians also extended into what we know as Europe. The belt primarily consisted of five main orogenies: the Taconian, the Acadian, the Caledonian, the Hercynian, and the Alleghenian orogenies. In this paper, our focus will be the Acadian orogeny. Out of the five orogenies that made the Appalachians, the Acadian was the longest and most intense orogeny (Wicander R., Monroe J., 2015). The Acadian was also the third orogeny to affect Laurentia and Baltica. This orogeny affected the Appalachian belt...
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