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Stocks, 2008.
A review of the stock market's stocks to watch in 2008.
799 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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The paper states that investors are wary about investing in the stock market and relates that a diverse stock profile and range of economic investments is essential, no matter how well or how poorly the market is doing. The paper states that the prescription in creating a personal finance plan is affected by an investor's risk tolerance, age, and general financial and personal profile. The paper highlights four stocks for the man-in-the-street type investor, pursuing a wise, diversified, and long-term strategy, to watch.
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Stocks to Watch in 2008
Tata Motors (NYSE: TTM)
Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC)
Compton Petroleum (NYSE: CMZ)
SYSCO (NYSE: SYY)
Conclusion
From the Paper
"Yes, the name is funny. But this Indian company recently unveiled what may be the most exiting and important innovation in motor vehicles since hybrids. Tata has created a small, fuel-efficient $2,500 car that is the first car ever conceived that is likely to be affordable for the vast majority of the residents of the developing world. The populations of China and India are expanding exponentially, and have more disposable income, and wider distances to travel on their commutes. They wish to become car owners and car drivers, and Tata will satisfy this need without breaking their bank accounts."
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The Current Nursing Shortage in Canada, 2008.
An analysis of the issues that contribute to the current nursing shortage in Canada.
814 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses the current nursing shortage in Canada. It looks at the issues that contribute to the nursing shortage, such as low pay, poor working conditions and a serious lack of resources. The paper focuses on the issues of recruitment and retention and why these have become problems for the nursing profession. Lastly, it suggests some solutions to improve the current crisis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Issue
Historical Perspective
Current Status
Solutions
Conclusion
From the Paper
"The prognosis for the nursing shortage is that it will become much worse while Canada's population is beginning to age. The two issues that need to be addressed are retention and recruitment through multiple changes. Meanwhile, there are positive developments such as the RNAO initiative which will ensure work for every current nursing graduate because of $89 million in funding for 4,000 graduates and similar funding in future years (RNAO, 2007). Such changes indicate that nurses can effectively address the nursing shortage by being assertive and advocating for their profession."
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Asians in Vancouver, 2008.
This paper examines the demographics of the young Asian community in Vancouver.
1,670 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 54.95
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The paper provides statistics that illustrate how Asian immigrant families have outgrown the poverty and social isolation of the early 20th century and are now doing well financially. The paper then presents more figures that show the growth of the Asian community in Vancouver. The paper also discusses the subsequent growth of deviant subcultures, such as the subculture of young men that use the disposable income of their parents to drive recklessly and cause harm to others.
From the Paper
"Urbanism is well known to have sometimes negative consequences for people. This can be ironic, especially for families that immigrate to Canada to give their children the benefits of growing up in a modern Canadian city. Other families, such as some Asian families, send their children to live and study in Canada, while the parents work hard at home and send money to their children. Unfortunately, the outcome is not always as pleasant as the families expect."
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Toronto's Tourism, 2008.
This paper explores the positive and negative visitor perceptions of Toronto.
823 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 29.95
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The paper discusses how the city of Toronto is cosmopolitan, relatively safe, has an under-rated theatre and arts community, offers an attractive waterfront vista and is remarkably affordable for tourists eager to buy souvenirs. The paper then discusses the lingering fears about SARS, the city's unknown arts community and the frigid winter weather. The paper also relates that the general sense that Toronto is "nice" but not dynamic in the same way that New York, London, Paris or Rome are, is keeping Canada's largest urban center from being the tourist magnet it could be.
From the Paper
"Toronto's tourist industry is at a cross-roads. Since 2000, the total number of US tourists has declined by 15 percent. Among same-day travelers from America, the numbers have, quite literally, fallen through the floor. At the same time, the number of overnight travelers has also dropped, through much more modestly. Happily, emerging tourist markets from overseas and domestic tourism has propped up the tourist sector in the absence of US visitors: in 2006, visitor spending was up 7 percent from the previous year, and it seems overseas travelers are the major reason why this was so (Tourism Toronto, 2006). Without question, the trend is ineluctably moving towards a non-American tourist market in which Canada's largest city will have to find a way to accommodate, more and more, people who are non-white and interested in the cosmopolitan aspects of the metropolis - like Toronto's thriving Chinese or Indian (or Caribbean) communities."
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Native Land Claims - British Columbia, 2008.
A critical review of Paul Tennant's article "Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Title in BC Politics".
1,080 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper argues that Paul Tennant's article, "Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Title in British Columbia Politics," makes a significant contribution to our understanding of contemporary governance in Canada's westernmost province. After presenting various highlights of the article, this author describes Tennant's article as an excellent summary of an important issue.
From the Paper
"To start with, Tennant's article takes us back to the eighteenth century and to the original Royal Proclamation. While students of history (at their own peril) sometimes overlook this important document and what it says about white-aboriginal relations, the truth of the matter is that, while ultimate title to native land may have been perceived to lie with the Crown, the Proclamation nonetheless recognized tribal autonomy and "political separateness" from the ever-growing colonial societies (Nichols, 129-130). Thus, when native groups finally began to mobilize in the 1960s, one of the things that surely fueled their anger was the sense that even white governments of many generations earlier had implicitly realized that native peoples had certain prerogatives that could not be blithely ignored - no matter how hard subsequent governments would try to efface those rights. Furthermore, native anger at the government was also driven, in part, by the realization among many natives in the last-third of the twentieth century that the concept of reciprocity - the idea that natives would give up their title to land in exchange for various benefits like land reserves - had for too long been overlooked in British Columbia in favor of the principle of terra nullius, or the idea that, since a section of land had escaped any significant human occupation, natives had no original title to it (Tennant, 46; for more on the use of terra nullius in British Columbia, please see McKee, 14). If you want to understand the lingering tensions that still complicate the land claims negotiation process even today, you need to appreciate this concept - and Tennant's article can certainly help you with that."
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Native Woman as a Work Force in Canada, 2008.
A examination of the role played by native women in Canada prior to and after the World War l.
1,592 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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The paper is divided into two sections, which deals primarily with the work role of native women in Canada in the pre industrial period, and secondly with work done at home, to work done in the labor force, relating to payment and pensions. The paper relates that initially all women were involved in commercial activities however certain positions were reserved for men. The paper explains the division of labor among men and women and gives the reasoning behind this division and how the situation changed after the war. The factors dealing with remuneration for women is explained in detail with reasons and comparisons.
From the Paper
"During the early industrialization period, women always "earned less than 60 percent of what men earned, even when...they worked longer hours" (Wilson 60). The prevalent attitude was that older men should be responsible for skilled work. Certain jobs became the domain of men so that women could be excluded; when women performed certain work, it lost status. Eventually, female sweated labor, as a result of poor working conditions and workplace abuses, endangered male incomes (McIntosh 143). At the same time, only men's work was eased by mechanization. Factory work allowed women more free time but eventually defined life for single women (Unit 2 26). However, while men as breadwinners worked in factories, married women were confined to the home (Unit 2 28) but still earned money by such activities as baking and crafts. As industrialization proceeded, women were viewed as consumers rather than producers (Unit 2 29). Along with factory work, the main employment available to women was domestic work."
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Bacchi, Cleverdon and Suffrage, 2008.
This paper provides a review of C.L. Bacchi's work "Liberation Deferred?" and C. Cleverdon's "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada" and looks at their approaches to the issue of suffrage.
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 106.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Bacchi and Cleverdon take entirely different approaches to the suffrage movement in Canada yet generally reach the same conclusions. More specifically, the paper relates that while Bacchi focuses on the English-Canadian suffragists in Toronto between 1877-1918, Cleverdon's work is far more inclusive since she analyzes suffrage groups all over Canada and especially in Quebec where the suffragists achieved victory in 1940. The writer determines the arguments of each author as well as the type of evidence used to support those arguments. The two books are compared and the strengths and weaknesses of each one are discussed. Finally, recommendations are made, the main one being that these works should be used together for a localized and a national view of woman suffrage.
Outline:
Introduction
Bacchi's (1983) Study
Cleverdon's (1974) Analysis
Conclusion
From the Paper
"Bacchi belabors the point that the aims and strategies of the woman suffragist movement were developed in conjunction with many other reform groups. In the same way, secular reformers' perspective on the child was based upon a traditional concept of women's sphere, but it did succeed in certain cases in liberating women from various social constraints. Bacchi seems intent on extracting what was devised solely by the woman suffrage movement. She does admit that a major difference between temperance suffragists and secular suffragists was that the latter asked for state intervention to implement reforms such as Mothers' Pensions, compulsory schooling, and factory legislation. The secular reform movement offered the women suffragists power and recognition. The great strength of the first-wave movement, according to Bacchi consisted of its diversity. Both men and women were involved with various interests and were influence by the American women's movement. "
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The Legacies of Confederation, 2008.
This paper analyses modern Canadian issues taking a stance based off of J.M. Bumsted's writing in "In The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History."
2,516 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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The author of this paper argues that the vision of Canada, regarding Confederation, through government policies and initiatives, regional concerns and cultural development, took shape against the backdrop of a vast and sparsely inhabited nation, and set the tone, in many ways, for things to come, even into the 21st century. The paper then notes that the concerns that troubled Macdonald's government continue to pose problems today and the unique challenges of Canada's geography remain. This paper tackles these issues, and attempts to ascertain whether there really is such a thing as the Canadian approach to culture, government and the economy and how it is faring today.
From the Paper
"It is important to note that this type of government initiative in support of Canadian industry was brought about by a perceived increase in nationalism, and serves to advance Barlow's suggestion that the 'historic balance in Canada between public and private enterprise...goes to the heart of our identity, our culture, and our very existence.' Indeed, Barlow traces this balance particularly to both the vastness and sparse population of Canada, as well as the proximity of the US and the danger of being 'absorbed into the United States.' It is because of these uniquely Canadian features that it was important that Canadian governments continually 'develop[ed] a mix of public and private enterprise to provide services in areas business alone would not have been able to enter or maintain profitably' and adds that this created a 'distinct economy' which also 'foster[ed] a different way of life in Canada.' It would seem, then, that social and economic policies which are protective of Canadian interests and culture are indeed a historical and distinctive feature--brought about by the specificities of our geography and population."
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Elementary Education and Religious Diversity, 2008.
A reflective paper on religious diversity and elementary education in Canada.
2,341 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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The paper discusses how studies of different religions in elementary education encourages an introduction to world religions or the religions apt to be encountered by young people. The paper focuses on the many benefits that a religious diversity education has for a child. The paper looks at Quebec's education programme as an example.
Outline:
Introduction
The Example of Quebec's Education Programme (2000)
Benefits of Religious Diversity Education
Encouraging Respect
Concluding Discussion
From the Paper
"Rather than providing students with a rigid 'rule' in favour of respecting others faiths, or of not discussing religion, at all, taking an always very secular approach as though religion and religious differences did not exist, elementary school students can be helped to discuss religions ably. They can learn to ask questions respectfully and generally understand human beings as products of religious traditions that may be slightly different. There is also the promise of students learning to seek universals in terms of spiritual values and decision-making. Since the 1970s, in the Province of Ontario, a variety of enforced secularism may not have served elementary students well, as in an assumption discussed by Hogarth & Crothers (2001) to do with Christianity or the Judeo-Christian heritage as being 'the Canadian' backdrop that need not be explained, no observances required in state schools for Christian observances assumed to be already in place. (pp. 3-4) This variety of sloppy assumption in the future may be overcome by the contribution to be made via religious diversity studies as an elementary school enterprise."
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Canadian Immigration, 2008.
A look at the the economic and class basis of immigration policy and its legal regulation in Canada today.
3,570 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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This paper explains that Canadian immigration policy is defined by a range of public and private actors, but is implemented and regulated by state institutions. The paper then argues, with reference to a comparative analysis of three recent articles on immigration and diversity from the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the Ottawa Citizen, conflicting ideologies and representations of the objects of regulations in these publications reveal the economic and class basis of immigration policy and its legal regulation in Canada today.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Media Actors and Representations
Critical Background: Immigration and the Concept of Diversity
Contemporary Representations of Immigration
From the Paper
"Some critics have argued that the history of the discourse on Canadian diversity has shifted over the course of the twentieth century - from the early years as described above to the present day - over which time the focus shifted from the "problem of immigration" and preventing more diversity from arriving, to the "naturalization problem" of coping with the existing diversity within Canadian borders. However, a critical analysis of the media representations of immigration and diversity within a short span of time - in three different publications in two Canadian metropolises - suggest that this argument may be flawed. From this perspective, the regulatory aspect of the "problem of immigration" remains a core element in the representation of this issue in Canadian media today."
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