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    Marie Curie Research Paper

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    Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Poland, she was the youngest of the five other children in her family. Her father was a math and physics teacher, and her mother was a principal. Marie’s parents highest priority was their children's education, all of their children went to school. Her father made up games to help his children learn geography. He read poems to them and taught them the five languages he knew. Then her mother became ill with a disease called tuberculosis. On to of that her…

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    Habitus In Stardust

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    The film, Stardust, prove to have a great connection associated with Pierre Bourdieu’s practice theory, the concept of Habitus. In a sense, the concept of habitus is used to account for the ways in which individuals’ expectations or preferences come to reflect the conditions they were formed. (Rye, 2008, 125-6). An example of the element of habitus is embodied with Tristian Thorn, the protagonist, through his inability to interact/connect with the female counterpart due to his upbringing of not…

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    Jane Chretien was born in Shawinigan,Quebec on January 11,1934. Chretien was eighteen child of nineteen children of the Chretien family. The Christians supported the liberal party very strongly. Jean had interest in politics in his early life which was influenced by his parents. He went to university at St.Joseph's Seminary and earned a BA in 1995. At Laval University he got his law degree from where he was also president of a club called young liberals. He soon got married to…

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    For my civics paper on one good Canadian citizen, I chose Viola Desmond. She is quite a remarkable individual, she continues to inspire thousands across Canada. She is a civil rights activist and businesswoman. Also, the first Canadian women to appear on a banknote when she graced the front of the $10-dollar bill in 2018. Desmond, who launched Nova Scotia’s civil rights movement in the 1940s after refusing to leave a whites-only section in a movie theatre, was chosen from more than 460 eligible…

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    many aspects of radioactivity. Shortly after the discovery of radioactivity, Marie began experimenting with the different demeanors that the radioactivity offered which led her studies to the discovery of radium and polonium. Marie and her husband Pierre discovered two new elements on the periodic table, and in turn benefitted…

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    Philosophy 1B03 Essay #1 The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in effect since April 17, 1982 guarantees the rights of individuals by a set of laws and their limits entrenched in the Canadian Constitution. The biggest priority of the Charter is to protect Canadians from the state and minorities from parliamentary majority. Legal rights to life, liberty and security are rooted in the Canadian Charter. This includes laws guaranteeing freedom of speech, press, religious practice,…

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    early in life but she lost faith when her sister died of disease. Later she also lost her mother due to tuberculosis. She was married to Pierre Curie who was also influential in the science world…

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    Peacekeeping Definition

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    Canada has staged itself as being a peacekeeping country since the early 1940s. Peacekeeping, meaning an active conservation of a bond between nations, "the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area" (Dictionary.com, 2015). By definition, a united nations act of force. To breakdown those four words one has realise the true meaning of such; a truce is violently acted upon, but when one steps in, it is no longer keeping the peace.…

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    How does one’s language shape identity or represent culture? Predictable with its perspective of language as all inclusive, theoretical frameworks, the more standard ‘phonetics connected’ way to deal with the investigation of language use seems singular language as steady, sound, inside uniform creatures in whose heads the frameworks live. As a result of their all-inclusive nature, the frameworks themselves are viewed as independent, free substances, extractable from individual personalities.…

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    Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born on the 18th of October 1919 in Montreal, Québec, and was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada. Before Trudeau became a politician he worked as an assistant professor until he was elected as a new Liberal to the House of Commons (Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 22 Nov 2014). Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada from 20th of April 1968 to 4th of June 1979, and again from March 3 1980 to June 29 1984. Even after his death in 28th of September 2000 he is still known as…

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