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From Governance of CultureWords of Caution From: Accounting for Culture |
Culture, cultural value, and heritage are all weasel words and connote multidimensional, shifting, and elusive realities. The deconstruction of these concepts and of these realities with the … | Gilles Paquet | 14 | 2005 | $1.68 Add |
From Lady CadetsFrom: To Serve Canada |
The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada reported in 1970 that the government should give women the same support for a university education as it gave men through the Regular Officer … | Richard Preston | 9 | 1991 | $1.17 Add |
From Miracles as Evidence for GodFrom: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique |
Far from regarding miracles as evidentially significant, professional philosophera and theologians in the last two centuries have tended to view miracles as obstacles to belief. | Robert Larmer | 11 | 1999 | $1.32 Add |
From Nigerian Women in Prison: Hostages in Law |
The Daniel case problematizes the common-sense equation between crime and punishment, and demonstrates that what is considered “criminal” is situational and culturally specific. In … | Biko Agozino | 22 | 2008 | $2.20 Add |
From Pour une convention multilaterale sur la culture |
Si les cultures du monde sont diverses, et elles le sont, si cette diversité constitue une valeur radicale, alors il faut en tirer les conséquences et lancer le grand chantier de … | Jean-Louis Roy | 6 | 2003 | $0.48 Add |
From Restricted Codes and Transcoding |
Teaching units 18 to 26: Standardized language, Recipes and instructions, Institutional reports – the United Nations, Weather reports, Meteorological expressions used metaphorically, Job … | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 36 | 1996 | $4.32 Add |
From Stolen Sisters’: Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women as Represented in Canadian Films |
In spite of cautious improvements, the situation of many Aboriginal women face is still appalling, and the report reveals cases of sexually assaulted, missing, and/or brutally murdered Aboriginal … | Kerstin Knopf | 36 | 2008 | $3.60 Add |
From "The Torrent" 1947From: The Quebec Anthology |
The short story "Au bord du torrent" was published in October 1947 in Amerique française, and appeared in book form in 1950, when Le Torrent won the Belgian Royal Academy’s … | Anne Hébert | 36 | 1997 | $2.16 Add |
From Cohesion and Coherence |
Discusses cohesion in a text, provided by a network of lexical, grammatical, and other relationships that provide links in the surface structure of the text, as well as coherence in a text, which … | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 16 | 1996 | $1.92 Add |
From Electronic Commerce Policy and the European CommissionFrom: Cyberidentities |
During the last year significant progress has been achieved in mapping out the issues in global electronic commerce, and even in reaching a certain degree of consensus on principles between major … | Paul Timmers | 5 | 1999 | $0.70 Add |
From Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Moral Contracts |
Australian and Canadian citizenships are emergent idiosyncratic realities. These complex institutions are the result of the on-going interaction between values and environment. The sort of social … | Gilles Paquet | 31 | 2004 | $3.10 Add |
From Identity and Otherness in Canadian Foreign Policy |
In this essay, discourse on otherness is an analytical resource, expressed on three levels in Canadian foreign policy. | Maria Teresa Gutierrez-Haces | 20 | 2003 | $1.60 Add |
From Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health Disabilities in African Prisons |
It has been argued that the mentally ill are victims of two failed public policies: the failure of public officials to ensure an effective mental health system, and an overly ambitious criminal … | Uju Agomoh | 23 | 2008 | $2.30 Add |
From The Contextual Turn in Learning to Translate |
Dictionaries and corpora remain essentially different tools. Dictionaries chase a moving target (as Sue Atkins has said), corpora get closer to this moving target, but even they are always … | Krista Varantola | 12 | 2006 | $1.68 Add |
From The Design ConnectionFrom: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique |
The intention of this paper is to argue that an analysis of the concept of design will provide grounds to refute any connection between this idea and arguments for the existence of God. | Elizabeth Trott | 11 | 1999 | $1.32 Add |
From NEW! The Libreville Conference and Federalism in Canadian Foreign RelationsFrom: 1968 in Canada |
In February 1968, Quebec’s Minister of Education, Jean-Guy Cardinal, attended the meeting of francophone ministers of education in Libreville, Gabon. After almost a decade of disagreements … | Robin S. Gendron and David Edward Tabachnick | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |