He was a part of the “Great Coalition”. He helped to organize Confederation. He was the leader of Canada West before Confederation. Loyalists- A group of Americans that remained loyal throughout the American Revolution. After the American Revolution they had to either go back to Britain or go to Canada.
Shomoi K. Francis March 3, 2011 Ms. Wright Chemistry 1 Patricia Bath Patricia Bath was born on November 4, 1942, and the daughter of Rupert and Gladys Bath. Her father an immigrant from Trinidad was a newspaper columnist, a merchant seaman and the first black man to work for the New York City Subway as a motorman. She was raised in Harlem; Bath was motivated academically by her parents. Inspired by Albert Schweitzer, she applied for and won a National Science Foundation Scholarship while attending Charles Evans Hughes High School; this led her to a research project at Yeshiva University and Harlem Hospital Center on cancer that irritated her interest in medicine. I n 1960, still a teenager, Bath won the "Merit Award" of Mademoiselle Magazine for her contribution to the project.
Lourdes Buie Professor Whalen English 67 M TH 1:20 – 4:00 03 July 2013 Summary of “At Ellis Island” Irving Howe, an author, wrote a book in 1976 called World of Our Fathers. In World of Our Fathers, a section called “At Ellis Island “traces the story of Eastern Europe’s immigrants to America. This excerpt offers a rich portrayal of the European immigrants experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their culture while becoming Americans. It has an understanding as to why these people made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new European Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century. The section of the book we were given starts off with the immigrant’s arrival into New York sometime in the 1900’s.
It was then in 1944 she moved across the ocean to American, settling in the Detroit metropolitan area with her family. She stayed in the Detroit area until the mid-80s, where she moved to Lakewood Colorado with her two sons and daughter. In the late 80s she married a man by the name of Donald Harris, and was
Occupation #2 - Journalism [1774-76] I issued Common Sense in 1776, which was about a strong defense of American Independence. Occupation #3 - Soldier [1776-83] I traveled alongside the Continental Army, but wasn’t successful. Next, I formed a pamphlet called The American Crisis,
Paul Yuzyk, a Progressive Conservative Senator of Ukrainian descent, referred to Canada as "a multicultural nation" in his influential maiden speech in 1964, creating much national debate, and is remembered for his strong advocacy of the implementation of a multiculturalism policy. [36] On October 8, 1971, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau announced in the House of Commons that, after much deliberation, the policies of bilingualism and multiculturalism would be implemented in Canada. [37] When the Canadian constitution was patriated by Prime Minister Trudeau in 1982, one of its constituent documents was the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and section 27 of the Charter stipulates that the rights laid out in the document are to be interpreted in a manner consistent with the spirit of multiculturalism. [38] The Canadian Multiculturalism Act was introduced during the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney, and received Royal Assent on July 21, 1988. [39] On a practical level, a result of the multiculturalism Act was federal funds began to be distributed to ethnic groups to help them preserve their cultures, leading to such projects as the construction of community centres.
While most Canadian teenagers unlocked the internet, watched Friends and learned to drive, Leo spent eight years in refugee camps in Ivory Coast and Ghana. In 2006, he resettled in Canada as a Government Sponsored Refugee with a vision to help youth in Canada and Liberia become champions in their communities. In 2007, as a student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Leo founded CURE (Care
David Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American society(Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2004) ISBN 0195173996 Reviewed by Eleanor Capper, Second Year PhD Student, University of Liverpool, Department of History. This book is the 25th anniversary edition of Kennedy’s 1980 original book, exploring the domestic American experience of World War I. This new edition, with a new afterward written by Kennedy, aims to re-examine the issues raised in Over Here in light of recent developments in American foreign policy. Kennedy’s assessment of the concerns and divisions in American society in 1917 are still as prevalent now as they were during that turbulent time in American history, as modern America faces strikingly
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Virginia K. Kersey Mrs. Sharp ENC 1101 [ 23 January 2012 ] Essay 1: Race Relations in America It has been more than four and a half decades since Dr. Martin Luther King delivered the spectacular “I have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington, D.C. America can say we have not fully lived up to Dr. King’s vision of a land where each person would be judged by the content of character, rather than the color of skin. (Gilmer, Charles) Although, things are very different today than they were forty-five years ago, Race Relations in America still have a way to go to satisfy the Dream of Dr. King. Presidency, one of the greatest achievements accomplished by an African American since Dr. King’s Speech in the 1960s, is just one of the many changes our society has experienced. The American workforce has incorporated African Americans into their establishments, whereas in previous years this did