British Columbia Youth Parliament

I argue that Nelson Mandela changed South Africa with his work with the African National Congress, towards peaceful democracy, at a time when the opposite direction was towards violence and bloodshed. Nelson Mandela changed South African Laws in favor of race relations, so that every South African citizen would have rights and equal opportunity. Mandela is honored with the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize along with Frederik Willem Dr. Klerk for their joint effort in the peaceful termination of the…

What is the significance of the Earth being moved? In Bruno Latour’s “Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene,” the French multidisciplinary philosopher associates the importance of the Anthropocene epoch to humans by accentuating the fact that humans are quasi-subjects and have lost their autonomy. We distribute agency while also being acted on by other subjects; he claims that notion as the all-encompassing, distinctive quality that humanity exhibits. However, Latour does not directly consider…

In addition to these multiple purposes, Parliament also used some other sentencing principles. Some people have committed two or more crimes, section 718.2(c) codifies that the totality principle by instructing judges that where consecutive sentences are imposed, “the combined sentence should not…

government. The different sides set off many bloody battles in Parisian streets. The violence eventually scared away the French people from the radicals. Because of this, a moderate constitution was written in 1848. It was then decided that they needed a parliament and the people wanted a strong president. They would then elect a…

National Geographic’s article on Farming and Agriculture states that, “40 percent of the Earth 's land is now given over to agriculture” (Owen, 1). This means the amount of land susceptible to the detrimental effects of climate change is incredibly vast. The Farming and Agriculture article also notes that, “maps suggest that an area roughly the size of South America is used for crop production, while even more land; 7.9 to 8.9 billion acres (3.2 to 3.6 billion) is being used to raise livestock”…