The Persons Case: A Milestone for Women’s Rights in Canada On October 18th‚ 1929‚ Emily Murphy‚ Nellie McClung‚ Louise McKinney‚ Henrietta Edwards‚ and Irene Parlby‚ known as the Famous Five‚ celebrated the ruling of the Privy Council in Britain declaring women as legal persons. Prior to this decision‚ Emily Murphy fought for the rights of all women for twelve years‚ never allowing her losses to bring her down. Emily became the first woman police magistrate in the entire British Empire and
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My distinguish Members of parliament‚ we are standing at the juncture of a cross road that will deem the economic and social destiny of our countries future. If we take the wrong turn it will have catastrophic effects on the social fabric of the society and we may not be forgiven by the future generations. I know that we have to make some difficult decisions and it may cause a rift between different classes and it may not sit well with certain sections of society however by shying away from the
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Ann E. Dunwoody First Female Four-Star General  This November of firsts is not limited to the presidential election. Our military has its own historic event to report. General Ann E. Dunwoody (right) ascended last week from humble beginnings 33 years ago at Fort Sill‚ Okla.‚ to the never-before achieved elite level of four-star general. At an emotional promotion ceremony‚ Dunwoody added a fourth star and‚ looking back on her years in uniform‚ said it was a credit to the Army that she was given a
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To Whom It May Concern: My name is Jennifer. I am student at Brunswick High. I know you are thinking of having students wear uniforms next year. I think this is a terrible idea. Many students don’t like to wear uniforms every day‚ and there might be some students that have allergies with the material of the uniform. When students have to wear the school uniform‚ they can’t express themselves through their clothes. We students need to wear normal clothes so we can express ourselves. If we have
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Annotated Bibliography Scholes‚ Robert. “Hope in Memory in My Ántonia.” Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: My Ántonia‚ Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase Publishing‚ 1987. 31-35. (#18 a selection from an anthropology) In this article by Robert Scholes‚ it talks about the hope and memory in My Antonia. He says the characters find themselves by looking back at the past. He said “we are reminded of this past constantly: by the Bohemian customs and culinary practices of the Shimerdas;
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FAMOUS PEOPLE People can become famous for discovering something‚ acting‚ singing‚ dancing and many other things. Some of them become well-known during their life‚ the others after their death. There are many famous people all over the world and one of them is Arthur Nobel who I would like to talk about today. ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL – a Swedish chemist‚ one of the most famous discoverers of the 19th century‚ was born in 1833 in the capital city of Sweden – Stockholm. His father‚ Immanuel Nobel
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Do you want to be famous? Being a celebrity/famous person comes with its’ advantages and disadvantages which can make living life very difficult at times. Let’s look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of being a celebrity/famous person. Some of the advantages of being a famous person are as follows: Famous people have everything they can possibly want such as fast cars‚ big houses‚ money‚ women etc. They can go wherever they want on holidays or any other day of the week and do not
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Foundation Degree Professional Studies in Early Key Persons in the Nursery Peter Elfer; Elinor Goldschmied and Dorothy Selleck David Fulton Publishers‚ 2003 Name of Visual Creator (as appropriate): M Allan CHAPTER What is the key person approach? is a way of working in nurseries in which whole focus and organisation is aimed at enabling and supporting close attachments between individual children and individual nursery staff. The key person is an involvement‚ an individual and reciprocal
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associated with newspapers‚ books‚ dates‚ instructions‚ self-written work‚ expressions‚ information on a computer or websites‚ essays‚ poems‚ and just about everything that is readable. Reading requires determination and passion. Reading can take a person from the present to the past or future‚ to Italy or to Rome‚ to the library or kitchen (or even the loo!).Without this simple act‚ our day would be wasted. Reading provides the reader with such experience which makes them crave for more. It has
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cannot be persons In this essay I will argue that animals cannot be considered as persons using the three main definitions of biological‚ psychological and legal or ethical. An animal is a multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia‚ which differs from plants as well as humans in certain characteristics. Movement‚ metabolism‚ response to stimuli‚ restricted growth and fixed bodily structure are all different between plants‚ animals and humans. There are many definitions of a person‚ one of which
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