Constitution of New Zealand

In the spring of 1855, Dow had gone ahead and authorized the city to buy $1,600 worth of medicinal and mechanical alcohol for distribution to pharmacists and doctors. He was technically in violation of the law, since a committee wasn't appointed. News spread that Dow was storing alcohol in the city vaults which upset Portland's Irish population. That day, a small crowd began to gather outside City Hall; the men with the warrant showed it and demanded they could search the premise but they were…

plans to end violence in recognition of achieving the third Millennium Development Goal. A large emphasis for the New Zealand National Committee is the focus on the Pacific Islands in particular the Solomon Islands and Samoa. A large portion of campaigning by the UN Women is against violence towards women, with projects such as their Walk for Women fundraiser. UN Women, Walk for Women is a new initiative where you set the date, the place and the pace in hope to fundraise for the Islands within…

Lakalaka is a dance form from the island Tonga, a small island between Australia and New Zealand. Lakalaka literally means, “to stride back and forth” and is one of the only Tongan dances to be considered truly indigenous (Shumway, 29). Lakalaka is a dance form that combines dance, poetry, and music to celebrate the “goodness of the Tongan way of life” (Shumway TWO, 468). I chose to research this dance because I know nothing about it and it seems to not be prevalent in many other countries…

the monarch had agreed to be so restricted. It ostensibly gave individuals rights and protection against the oppression of a monarch or the state, a principle that has survived 800 years and is still part of the Constitutions of most democracies in the modern…

According to Schneider and Wildman (2011), before the 21st century, gender-based classification in education experienced a culture shift in how the Courts, as well as the states, should react to single-sex education. The authors reference three eras, (1) Before gender-neutral treatment in America, (2) When education (by design) discriminated against women’s ability to succeed outside the home. (3) When research began after the 21st century. Between 1870-1910, Those in opposition, protectionists…

:: 7 Works Cited Length: 2218 words (6.3 double-spaced pages) Rating: Red (FREE) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Whenever some terrible act of violence occurs, such as a horrible school-shooting, people start asking questions and pointing fingers. They want to put the blame on someone or something. The blame is most often put on an inanimate object that does only what the person using it wants it to do. Guns do not cause crime and more gun control laws…

Revolution. It is a small word with different variations across languages that strikes fear into the minds of all leaders, from fascist dictators to democratically elected presidents alike. For such a powerful word, however, “revolution” has a bit of a paradoxical set of themes in its definitions. For those of us here on this pale blue dot, we imagine a wave of impoverished peasants taking arms and flooding the streets, tearing down fortresses as if they were a child’s sand castle built too…

have little option but to respond as we would want”. This therefore, introduced a type of insurance policy, which was if we help America, they would help us. By introducing this insurance policy this lead to Australia signing the ANZUS (Australian New Zealand United States) treaty for political and diplomatic reasons. This treaty was made so that if any one of these three countries were to fall to communism the other two would come to their aid. During the time of 1962 to 1973 over 60,000…

If we are going back in history, even before the United States of America was a country; we are all aware that we were colonies at the beginning. The New America was formed of thirteen colonies to be exact. Back then, acquiring or owning a weapon was a necessity in order to survive an everyday hostile environment because self-defense was a right and a duty as citizens of this country. Only twelve out of the thirteen colonies required a gun ownership except Pennsylvania required gun ownership.…

current rulings and principles of this form of scientific research are being challenged by different countries worldwide. In one such case, a U.K. clinical trial was done to limit the use of animals in their study of the TeGenero leukemia drug. “Of the new European tests, for example, five detect pyrogenic contaminants in drugs—bacteria that infiltrate injectable or intravenous drugs during manufacturing and cause lethal immune reactions. The tests rely on cultured human white blood cells and…