Law Society of Upper Canada

recently had a baby, so around lunch time we all sat down to eat, and naturally my aunt started feeding her new son. I couldn’t help but stare because she had this innocent person hidden under a blanket. At the time the temperature had risen into the upper nineties, so I could barely wrap my mind around the thought of having to eat and breathe under a stifling blanket. I just couldn’t make sense of the situation. My aunt noticed my staring and explained that she didn’t want to make anyone at the…

The Great Awakening, Puritan migration, and the Halfway Covenant were all crucial events that influenced the religions of American society. The Great Awakening began in the 1730’s and lasted until 1743. It was a religious revival that swept through the colonies. Before the awakening, ministers were considered upper class and were loyal to the crown. The new faiths that emerged after the Great Awakening were much more democratic. Their overall message was one of equality…

It was not until 1916 that women had the right to vote in certain provinces and a couple of years later in 1929 when they were considered “persons” in Canada. Women around the world have been fighting for equality for years. One of the leaders in that fight during the 18th century was Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft, an English writer, was well known for being one of the biggest advocates for women’s rights. Her novel titled Vindication of the rights of woman illustrates her ideas that…

memoir that Bharati Mukherjee and her Canadian husband Clark Blaise collaborated on, giving their day to day account of Calcutta during 1973. Bharati as she visits Calcutta after a gap of fourteen years, having spent a considerable length of time in Canada with her husband Clark Blaise, socialises with her childhood friends, especially women who attended the same school with her, with a hope to revive her relationship with the land of her birth and upbringing. Blaise, though an outsider, in the…

stopping them from trading to any other European country except England as a tactic form of economic warfare (During the time tensions started to rise and there were other who wanted to push for war, aka Warhawks like Henry Clay). Another reason is Canada since the U.S.A was still in the action of the Jeffersonian model and wanted expansion of their power and was continuing to move westward across…

In the 1960s, the emotions of citizens were quite ambivalent, ranging from joyous celebration to savagery. Feeling deprived of their civil rights, many Americans began protesting for the equal treatment of black citizens, the impediment of the war in vietnam, and the equality for women. Alongside the protests emerged the sexual revolution which included . To describe this decade emerged new types of music such as folk, different types of rock music, r&b music, and country music. The feminine…

Lefty’s American Dream of Progress fails. His ideals clash with the realities of an imperfect world where inequalities are rife and cannot be overcome. He finds out that the ideals enshrined in the American Dream do not apply to all. His different businesses, due to which he “worked seven days a week,” come with a price. In order to provide for his family, “he had to be exiled from them” (Eugenides 136). Close to the end of his life Lefty is penniless and speechless due to multiple strokes.…

to make their own choices on whether or not they want to continue with treatment plans. 1. What is the difference between a. and a. Intro - Attention Getter – Matthew and Harold Donnelly story (Andre, Velasquez) - Thesis - Preview: Definitions, the law, controversy 2. Definitions (Body section 1) - Terminally ill. What it is/means is…

Political leadership guided the North and South landscape, but the military leadership guided the battlefield. The Civil War was a modern war compared to the Napoleonic wars and for the South; Lee is seen by some scholars as a leader out of touch with modern warfare while other generals such as those from the Union were waging a modern style of warfare. In the article, An Old-Fashioned Soldier in a Modern War?: Robert E. Lee as Confederate General, Gary Gallagher takes a historiographical…

became the true powerhouse in war and politics. Thomas Jefferson once said, “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Although our society is in shambles at the moment, we will prevail because we are Americans. We fight in what we believe in and at the end of the day, we will get what we worked so hard for. We need leaders like in the nineteenth century, who will step up for our…