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Once the Taliban came to rule, all social aspects of life drastically changed for the women in Afghanistan. Women had the freedom to dress and present themselves according to their liking. Women dressed themselves wearing high heels, skirts that showed their bare legs, and freely styles hair and makeup. They could leave their house to go where they wanted, like any person should be able to do. Horia Mosadiq, and Afghan women, was a young girl at the time of Russia’s invasion in Afghanistan.…

“The sole equality on earth, is death.” - Philip James Bailey The struggle towards equality has always been a form of conflict within society. Several factors may interfere with this becoming of equality, examples being the dispute between races, gender roles, and wealthiness - in this case being Pashtuns and Hazaras. To demonstrate this inconvenience, we can visualize two boys from The Kite Runner; Amir and Hassan (referring to them at their younger age). Visualizing these boys throughout the…

Oppressed, Inferior, and Unequal We all know that women’s rights are a big struggle in Afghanistan. It was worse when Afghanistan was under the Taliban rule. These women were treated unfairly, beaten for the slightest wrong move, raped, and thrown out like trash. Some women are putting up a fight and really trying to get their freedom. Unfortunately, the Afghanistan society and the way things were being ran before the Taliban fell are keeping these women from achieving the goal they want, and…

In British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador’s their governments and organizations have promoted their provinces for tourism, investment, trade, and in-migration. They both differ in each of these categories, making the two of them unique. British Columbia is greatly affected by sporting events, its vibrant economy, its expansion of global trade and the event of more Canadians moving to British Columbia. Whereas Newfoundland is based on its scenery and nature components, the development of…

recognition in Australia, as well as in the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. The scan will first identify high-level policies towards foreign credential recognition, and then specifically policies for the profession of engineering. The findings will inform strategic directions for the province of Ontario, Canada. The paper has selected Australia, and the provinces of British Columbia (B.C.) and Alberta due its similarities to Canada and the province of Ontario. Both Australia…

As stated in the article, provinces such as Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick that have fought for years to maintain their strict abortions laws making it difficult for pregnant women to have access to abortion. The anti-abortion sentiments that prevail in western provinces prevent women from freely choosing abortion and restrict women financially, perpetuates inequality and limits their societal roles. As Renzetti mentions in her article, abortion is a procedure that is medically…

Geography In 1871 British Columbia became the sixth province of Canada with the 3rd largest land mass.British Columbia is the westernmost province In Canada and borders the Pacific Ocean but it is dominated by the Coast mountains and the Rocky mountains. British Columbia is part of the Western Cordillera. The Western Cordillera a strand of mountains formed that stretch across the shore of the pacific ocean, some of the mountains rising up to 3000 meters in height and is approximately 800km…

Policy Stream: As mentioned previously, each province is in charge of fracking regulation policies and enforcements. One may wonder if these regulatory systems will ever be addressed by the federal government. Mostly likely not, at least not any time soon. There are existing regulation policies for fracking, however, each industry is in charge of addressing them in the way it's beneficial for them and the province, without having any federal enforcement behind their shoulders.…

redistributing labor to promote regional growth \citep{krieg1997occupational}. Each year a small fraction of the labor force moves between different provinces in Canada. Numerous studies focus on provincial mobility in Canada. However most of the studies are based on census data and estimation of provincial net migration rate to determine overall gain and loss of a province \citep{bernard2008interprovincial, chen2009inter, osberg1991unemployment} without identifying the characteristics of…

To identify who is moving out of provinces based on demographic, industrial, occupational and employment characteristics for each province, we estimate the net migration rate \footnote{net migration rate is the difference between in-migration and out-migration, divided by total population}. In our analysis, we divide the Canadian regions into three parts: Eastern or Atlantic region (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), Central region (Quebec and…