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    Party Zyanon Paznyak (he was mainly a representative of intelligentsia), and Lukashenko was the third candidate. Lukashenko turned out to be the middle ground between the old communist candidate Kebich and a supporter of reforms, a representative of a new wave Paznyak. I have to say that Paznyak had a well-developed program of changes in the country, but Lukashenko turned out to be a better demagogue. It is also important to mention that the people saw in Lukashenko a simple guy from the…

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    democracies. Decades worth of government responses to committee recommendations are largely untouched, even by the Library of Parliament; empirical frameworks developed to judge committee influence and effectiveness in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand have not been exported to the uniquely Canadian federal experience. These gaps in literature impact the study of cabinet-parliamentary…

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    Describe the background of this person: Mary Mackillop was born on the 15th of January 1842, in Fitzroy Melbourne, the eldest of eight children. She was well educated by her father, who unfortunately lacked finial awareness so would often travel without a home. She was born into a catholic family. Her mother was called Flora and her father Alexander, both who had migrated from Scotland to Australia. Describe the context in which this person was living: The Mackillop children experienced an…

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    rest of the areas were a set of islands called the New Territories that Britain had gained from the Second Convention of Peking in 1898. The issue at hand was that Britain did not permanently hold the New Territories; they were under a 99 year lease and would be returned to China in 1997 (Chan and Young n.p). These surrounding territories were so unified that they were practically a part of Hong Kong; it would be impractical to only return the New Territories to China and not Hong Kong. In 1997,…

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    Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand in 1948), would later become the ECHELON system, managed by the National Security Agency (NSA). This ECHELON system placed “intercept stations…

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    activities which include thinking, learning, understanding and remembering. Straus (2001) claims that if parents use physical punishment instead of inductive discipline, the child 's cognitive skills might suffer. The Ministry of Social Development in New Zealand says that there…

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    . Imagine: You have a friend who is a homosexual and they are scared to death to come out to their parents. You as the friend have a moral duty to help them in any way that you can. They come out to their parents and they are accepted, but the only problem is that they are not allowed to marry the one that they love. You are so why can they not? You love another human being and so do they. So, why is this not legal? Gay marriage is an issue that has been a controversial issue in the past recent…

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    Women have fought to be considered equal for an extended period of time in history. To this day, women are still fighting for their rights. The women’s rights movement started primarily in the 1920’s in the United States. One of the goals of the movement was to let women vote: women’s suffrage. This influenced the era of the 1920’s by showing that women had a voice and could stand up for equality. It impacted today’s society by starting a revolution of events that help to create equality between…

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    French Empires

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    infamous terra nullius doctrine. This stated that it was a human right to take territory not being “properly utilised” by its inhabitants. It was the ideological justification behind the colonisation of North America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand by the British; the indigenous populations of these territories did not participate in what the British believed to be society or civilisation, and they did not understand their use of the land, so they exploited it and the populations for…

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    Cult Of Womanhood

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    today. In 1893, New Zealand was the world’s first country to grant women the right to vote. Only after World War I did other countries grant women’s suffrage. In 1918 in Britain, women over the age of thirty won the right to vote. In 1920, the United States granted women, both white and black, over the age of twenty-one the right to vote. Along with that, women also gained the rights and responsibilities of citizenship that men had through the 19th Amendment in the U.S constitution. In…

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