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    Cunliffe was convicted after supposedly witnessing the murder of Garry Newlove and not preventing it. However Jordan Cunliffe, 15 at the time, was awaiting a cornea transplant because of his rare eye condition. It was said he only had 10% of his vision and considered legally blind. Garry Newlove was murdered by a single kick to his neck, which was fatal due to him having a surgical implant there. The lead-up to this murder was…

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    My grandma forced my mother to drop out as a junior in high school since she had become pregnant with me and would need to focus on being a parent. However, she did go back to get her diploma. My Uncle Garry has been the only person to go to college, and also the only to graduate. That’s college though; the number of people to graduate high school from my family is four, if you count my mom going back. Now, for my father’s side of the family, the first…

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    Louis Riel was an important leadership figure of the nineteenth century. At this time in history, the fundaments of Canada were being set in motion. Riel, born of a religious nature, attended a priest school in St. Boniface until his father’s death in 1864. He then returned to Red River, his childhood home to support his family, and widowed mother. Two years later, in 1866, Hudson's Bay Company was under pressure to sell Rupert’s land to the government of Canada. This vast area included the red…

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    Rules are Meant for Breaking; A Comparison between Anthony Weston and Garry Wills Garry Wills’ Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America explores the infamous words that Abraham Lincoln spoke, or rather, did not speak in his Gettysburg Address. The chapter, “Revolution in Thought”, examines how Lincoln helped promote harmony and countered the common idea that the states were united only through the contract agreements signed in the Constitution. Anthony Weston, the author of A…

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    Red River Rebellion

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    In terms of the Red River Rebellion, “Canada, a People’s History” clearly casts the Canadians and its settlers as the antagonists. Instead, the film paints a biased view favouring the Métis, which is undoubtedly evidenced throughout the video. To begin, when Canada attempts to unify the East and the West, extending its arms out to the prairies, “Canada, a People’s History” depicts these events as Canada, bloodthirsty for more land, seeking to take over the prairies without the consent of its…

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    Louis Riel: Canadian Hero

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    and took over fort Garry near to what is now called “Winnipeg.” John A. Macdonald chose to negotiate with the resistance and called Bishop Alexandre Taché to talk to the Metis and with Donald Smith who with HBC, then agreeing that the Metis Lists of Rights would be their negotiation with the Canadian government. Although they had made this negotiation, a group called the “Canadian Party,” led by John Schultz were against the Métis and were planning to attack them on Fort Garry. Riel later…

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    able to leap out before the crash. Upon seeing this spectacle, a few members of the American research base run out to help. The dog approaches BENNINGS, who is then shot in the knee by the crazed Norwegian man. The dog is also hit in the hind leg. GARRY shoots a gun from inside the camp hitting the Norwegian in the head, killing him. The men take injured Bennings and the dog into the infirmary. They put a bandage on the dog, stitch…

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    these times of being called siblings, we would laugh hysterically about the question, as we were only friends. We would make jokes how maybe one of us had been given up for adoption and were a truly a long lost sibling. According to Wade, Tavris, Garry, Saucier and Elias (2016) the similarity effect influences whom we will…

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    Play Therapy Intervention This paper will examine the history, concepts, principles, and values of play therapy. It will also cover what problems therapy is successful at addressing, and which client groups it is most effective with. The cultural competence of this invention will be assessed, and lastly, the strengths and limitations of play therapy will be discussed. Overview of Play Therapy The origin of play therapy can be traced back to Sigmund Freud and his daughter, Anna Freud, but it…

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    The world we live in is a physical plane of existence where you can touch everything and have emotions, but slowly our world is evolving into a digital world of Wi-Fi and robotics. So tell me why computers and technology should not be equally or more intelligent than us as human beings. The thing about this is that they already are and will continue to be. Computers and technology are becoming smarter than humans and this allows us to do more easily for a cheaper amount Let us talk about Watson…

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