NEW FRANCE The Seigneurial System New France was a French colony in present-day Quebec and north-eastern Ontario. The colony lasted from 1534‚ its discovery‚ when Jacques Cartier was sent to find a route to the Orient and precious gems and metals‚ to its formal surrender in 1759. An important part in the history of New France was the fur trade‚ as it brought many new things to the Natives living in Canada and helped New France develop. Europeans traded their supplies with the First Nations
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Next on the evening news! Of the 126‚000 guns in this city‚ 125‚999 were not fired. In spite of the large number of people in the city‚ there have been no muggings or rapings reported. And lastly of the thousands of cars driving past other cars‚ none of the made contact. This might not exactly be what you hear when you tune into the news on a typical day. However‚ you might hear something similar to this “Next on the evening news: Seven killed in head-on collision‚ a local man is found shot to death
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The Quakers of London came and inherited land between Maryland and New York. When William Penn came to this land‚ the King named the property after his father‚ Admiral Sir Penn. In the making of this new colony‚ there were many steps they had to achieve before they were successful. How did this new colony start out? But‚ how did this colony use other ideas to help start out? What were the advancements that they were able to make that contributed to the industrialization we have today? Then‚ who
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New institutionalism Definition Nearly three decades ago‚ the first neo-institutional arguments were formulated by John Meyer and colleagues such as Brian Rowan in 1977 and Richard Scott in 1983‚ and by Lynne Zucker in 1977. This new orientation proposed that formal organizational structure reflected not only technical demands and resource dependencies‚ but was also shaped by institutional forces‚ including rational myths‚ knowledge legitimated through the educational system and by the
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Hard News Vs. Soft News News stories are basically divided into two types: hard news and soft news. Hard new generally refers to up-to-the-minute news and events that are reported immediately‚ while soft news is background information or human-interest stories. Politics‚ war‚ economics and crime used to be considered hard news‚ while arts‚ entertainment and lifestyles were considered soft news. Hard news This is the term journalists use to refer to “news of the day.” Hard news is a chronicle
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watching TV or reading newspapers were the only ways of gathering news. Nowadays as thanks to the Internet there is one more option‚ the question whether it is best to rely on television news‚ or to follow online news emerged. When set beside‚ those two ways of gathering news seem to be enormously different. The biggest difference between online news and television news is the access to information. While watching news on TV‚ we are dependent on broadcast schedule of any TV station. By
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of Dragon! Chinese New Year ushering in new hope for those who celebrating it‚ as we are turning a new leaf in our lives during New Year‚ in a sense‚ we are reborn. Thus‚ Chinese New Year is to celebrate the passing of the old and the coming of the new! Before the festival‚ the families start cleaning up their houses‚ washing and wiping every corner of the house‚ repainting the walls‚ throwing or even recycling the rubbish that had stored in the house for a year! On Chinese New Year Eve‚ everyone
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(1785)‚ but remnants of the idea continued to persist in the European popular mind. Modern readers are often surprised to learn of Columbus’s never-ending insistence‚ even in the face of contrary evidence‚ that he had reached the coast of Asia‚ not a new continent. That mistaken certainty was in large part caused by his faith in faulty calculations showing the earth’s circumference to be about 18‚000 rather
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Story 1: AGENCIES CONFIRM TRANSFER OF PDAF TO FAKE NGOs The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee continues to investigate the pork barrel scam‚ a system of kickbacks for lawmakers and public officials. Subsidiary agencies of the Agriculture Department are in the hot seat‚ revealing some of the scam’s complex layers. Ayee Macaraig reports. The pork barrel scam unravels. This time‚ subsidiary agencies of the Agriculture Department come under fire. Former heads of the National Agribusiness Corporation
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how our county is run today. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson debated a political situation that still effects government and industry in our nation to this day. In Theodore Roosevelt’s opinion‚ trusts are inevitable. As said in his 1910 "New Nationalism" speech‚ "There can be no effective control of corporation while their political activity remains. To put an end it will be neither a short nor an easy task‚ but it can be done". Woodrow Wilson had a somewhat different view on how trusts
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