Nova Scotia

The Baby Boom is a demographic phenomenon that occurred after the Second World War from 1946 to 1965. In fact, about eight million Canadian people were born in this period, causing economic, social, cultural, and political changes in each stage of their growing process. (Statistics Canada, 2013) Currently, Baby Boomers have started to approach the last stages of their lifespan, reaching formal retirement from work and therefore an increase in leisure time. (Cavanagh and Wendy, 2012) As a…

Naturopathy is a general umbrella term for a variety of different medical practices. These practices include herbal medicine, clinical nutrition, homeopathic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, and exercise therapy. (“Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors”, 2015, Natural Therapies). Herbal medicine is the treatment of illness using plants and is one of the many treatments used by naturopathic doctors. Herbal medicine focuses on the prevention of illness…

Africville is a prominent black community on the southern shore of Bedford Basin, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It had four hundred residents, most escaped from slavery in America and saw Halifax as a better place to live than in slavery. The African Canadians knew that the white people had a better life than them since white people could have any job they want, they earned good pay, they were hired for jobs easily, lived with better health care, and their kids would have the best education,…

multiple arrests, 30 injuries, and one death. On June 25, 1919 at 11AM, the Central Strike Committee officially ended the strike. The General Strike caused a raise in unity, and generated sympathy strikes from Victoria, British Columbia to Amherst, Nova Scotia, as well as a lot of controversy among labor unions across…

In the 1800’s many people of colour did not enjoy the rights and freedoms that people enjoy today. In this time, Slavery was active which many people of colours lose their freedom. More than 11,863,000 Africans were shipped across the Atlantic, most slaves died in the Middle Passage due to horrible conditions on the ship transporting them. As a result between with a death of 9.6 and 10.8 million Africans arrived in the Americas alive. With the odds against Aminata Diallo, she faces many losses…

These days’ tiny houses have been looked at these small spaced places that people live due to financial limitations (also described as small prisons). Whereas Tiny houses originally were introduced as these luxurious places that people would live in because they could spend their money on pleasures and live a "luxurious" lifestyle; rather than a small place with limited space. In addition to that, people who live in a micro-houses have a “larger life outside with a lighter conscience” (Wilkinson…

The war destroyed regions of New York, Nova Scotia, and Quebec. Refugees were sent, fleeing from the destruction, into the county of Essex and Salem village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, present day Danvers, Massachusetts. These shifted people put a strain on Salem’s resources. Controversy was…

Mental illnesses have been around during Egyptian and Mesopotamian ages. And throughout the years many things have changed. Many right movements for the mentally ill have been made, along with many different Act’s have been ruled, and a large hand full of associations have been made to support psychiatric patients. Many people have changed their opinions on the mentally ill because they’ve finally opened their eyes to what people have to suffer through. People have been trying to treat mental…

Rebellion: The Case of Justin Bourque Crime can be critically assessed from many different sociological and criminological theories. The reasons why people commit crimes are their own, and can be a result of copious amounts of factors that get compounded, driving offenders to commit certain acts. These factors can be numerous, and range from internal factors such as mental diagnoses, to outside environmental factors, affecting the individual, such as peer associations and unstable family…

Donna’s Determinants Income and Social Status- Donna’s family is considered to be a low income family. According to Living in Canada, the average annual wage of a painter is 10,416 (Living in Canada, 2014, para. 1), whereas her mother does not make an income, and stays at home with Donna and her three other siblings. Considering that Donna’s father is the main supporter of the family, his yearly income is not enough to provide essential needs for his wife and 4 children. This is shown through…