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successfully saved many poor souls from further suffering. In only six months, MOSAIC has provided help for over one thousand and eight hundred refugee with approximately one third being Syrian. Moreover, in the year of 2016, the government of British Columbia has authorized MOSAIC to be the leading team of the Syrian Refugee Response Team for Metro Vancouver. It has hosted workshops and helping services on health, education, employment, and settlement, as well as language training to help the…

With certain people, Hamlet is resolved to get revenge for his father’s death. With other people, this thought is the last thought in his mind. If he had any of the resolve he had showed earlier, his act of revenge would have already been completed. Instead of playing the part of the vengeful son, or dropping the issue entirely, he spends the entire act “slacking off';. He avoids the decision he has to make and pretends to be mad. This is shown when he says to Rosencrantz and…

Canadian National Railway Company, also named CN, is a modern combined company that merges many middle and small railroad companies, which is the biggest railway company in Canada and the fifth biggest railway company in the North America. Established in 1919 by the Canadian government, the CN company is the first railroad line that links the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It was a state-owned business since its establishment for up to 76 years, and it carried out…

The Obstacles of Becoming Elite The elite within society are a small group of people who have access to many benefits that those ranked lower than them don’t have access to. This gives those at the top privilege, but this privilege is maintained by the institutions within society. Karen Ho introduces the idea of “smartness”, and how this label defines who is elite within society. She presents it as something that is created in order to maintain this eliteness. Joseph Stiglitz talks about how…

In a small town of 1,000 people called Peanut in the state of Iowa, there is a girl the age of 19. Her name is Beth Rose; she is very intelligent, kind, and curious about the world. Beth wants to go to college and live her dream to become a mathematician but there is some obstacles she has to accomplish first. It is currently the year of 1962, the era where women have no rights in the world. Women cannot vote, have minimal rights, they are not allowed in many Ivy League colleges, are not allowed…

mainly farmed,but some men of the Doukhobors were carpenters and joiners, shoemakers, blacksmiths, harness makers,etc. ; and women cooked and farmed and as well wove, embroidered, and made clothing for their families. To pay the mortgages in British Columbia, most of the men went out of the villages they lived communally in to build skills on highway construction and maintenance, also went to work in the forest industry. When the CCUB had failed, many of the workers had stayed in the forest…

codes laid out these codes do not always work for all centres or all situation. An example of this is the idea that “early childhood educators use developmentally appropriate practices when working with children” (Early childhood educators of British Columbia, 2008, p. 6). There have been times in my own practice where I have seen children thrive with practices that were a bit over their developmental age skill. In these times the child had fun and learned more practical knowledge and learned…

A fairly new community in Canada, established January 1 2001, the city of Greater .Grand Sudbury located in Northern Ontario is a regional municipality that includes a diverse variety of small towns and cities; Sudbury, Capreol, Nickel Centre, Onaping Falls, Rayside-Balfour, Valley East and Walden, as well as several unincorporated townships Fraleck, Parkin, Aylmer, Mackelcan, Rathbun, Scadding, Dryden, Cleland and Dill. The region’s history goes back to the late 18th century and a small railway…

The sudden discovery of a natural hot spring along the shoulder of the Sulphur Mountain, by three railway workers, lead to the creation of Canada’s oldest National Park, Banff National Park. Banff National Park is located in the province of Alberta and was established in the Rocky Mountains in 1855.. Upon the discovery, the Canadian Pacific Railway recognized the vast tourism potential and saw a future for the development of tourism in Banff. Therefore, Canada established a federal reserve…

The Algonquins of Pikwakanagan If one is to follow to Ottawa River from midtown Ottawa through the Ottawa Valley and into Renfrew county, one would discover the great history of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation. Nestled in the small community of Golden Lake, located approximately two and a half hours west from Ottawa. This small community has a population of roughly 450 people with 90% classifying themselves as aboriginal(city data). There is archaeological evidence indicating…