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Barbara Mujica is an American author, short story writer, and critic. Found on Gale Databases is her scholarly review and summary about Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies. Mujica’s negative connotation begins right off the bat when she states, “If you weren't an avid admirer of the Mirabal sisters to begin with, Julia Alvarez's new novel In the Time of the Butterflies probably won't change your mind” (Mujica). This statement is over generalized as it may change some minds. To…

Donald Fyson. In the section "British Columbia", the authors are explaining when and how the British Columbia was officially announced as a province of Canada. They are also addressing the problems that the native people, political parties, The government and even the people of other provinces faced problems before the declaration of British Columbia as a province of Canada. Before declaration, the economic conditions of British Columbia fluctuated, sometimes well, sometimes bad. In the…

Literary elements are the salt of literature. When used correctly, they bring out the flavor of a story, but when misused, they ruin the original creation. In This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff, and In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, literary elements are used to create delicious stories. This Boy’s Life: A Memoir chronicles the author’s childhood and adolescence in Seattle during the 1950s, which includes a broken home, lying, stealing, and cheating. In the Time of…

Brunswick does a terrible job at protecting our forests Less than 3% are currently protected. That is way below the bare minimum we need if we want to conserve our wildlife and wilderness values for the future. New Brunswick is second to last of all provinces in Canada in the amount of land we’ve protected. It’s nowhere near enough! To back this up in the last few years the deer population has been way down due to deforestation in 30 years the deer population has decreased 70% and this has been…

Social change often happens as a result of individuals or the society taking steps against someone or something they don’t accept. Social change is always happening around the world in many countries as they fight for their rights. An example of social change can be a group of people joining forces to remove themselves from a dictator’s rule. In In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, the Mirabal sisters join together to change the society and to liberate themselves from the tyrant,…

redistributing labor to promote regional growth \citep{krieg1997occupational}. Each year a small fraction of the labor force moves between different provinces in Canada. Numerous studies focus on provincial mobility in Canada. However most of the studies are based on census data and estimation of provincial net migration rate to determine overall gain and loss of a province \citep{bernard2008interprovincial, chen2009inter, osberg1991unemployment} without identifying the characteristics of…

Policy Stream: As mentioned previously, each province is in charge of fracking regulation policies and enforcements. One may wonder if these regulatory systems will ever be addressed by the federal government. Mostly likely not, at least not any time soon. There are existing regulation policies for fracking, however, each industry is in charge of addressing them in the way it's beneficial for them and the province, without having any federal enforcement behind their shoulders.…

In the novel "In the time of the Butterfly" by Julia Alvarez theirs four Mirabal sisters that live in Dominican Republic. The Mirabal sisters are all referred to as "butterflies". In the time of the butterflies talks about how the four courageous sisters came together to save their country. The sisters start of by not knowing nothing political to fixing it all. There's time when they struggle and put themselves at risk but they always worked together to go against Trujillo. They all show freedom…

The Mirabal Sisters are seen as huge icons in the novel in real life. They showed that regular people can end a difficult empowerment to save a nation. It had all started with one sister, and her name is Minerva Mirabal. Minerva was the kind of girl who wanted to do good for others, in the novel and the history books. She encouraged people to join the underground to end the regime that transpired in the Dominican Republic. In the novel, she finds out that Trujillo is an atrocious man from her…

Even after the 9 year long war was terminated, the French and Indian War continued to negatively affect the relations between the British and its American colonies. The war began in 1754 and was caused by the French and British imperial claims to territory in North America. Native Americans, the original occupants of the area, became involved in the war hoping to defend their territory. Each tribe had to choose an enemy to support, because the Natives did not have a strong enough army to defend…