Long before the game of hockey was running rampant across the hills and prairies of Canada there was another sport being introduced as the new national sport : Cricket. ... Despite this push for cricket to be the new hot sport in Canada, a man with a very romantic view on nationalism by the name of George Beers, believed that we should reject something that was created in a land foreign to Canada and that we should instead adopt the game of Baggataway (Robidoux, 215). ... The combination of speed, violence, skill and toughness made for the perfect game to accompany Canadian weather and charact...

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The conclusion therefore is that Machiavelli's virtu is not of moral character, but of what is best or the utilitarian needs of the State. ... The Citizen As a testament to its adaptability and flexibility, Hanna Pitkin believes that virtu applies differently to different individuals. ...

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Stalin edited briefly the new party newspaper, Pravda (Truth) and at Lenin's erge wrote his first major work, Marxism and the Nationality Question. ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities within the new Bolshevik government. ... On November 15, Stalin revealed the Decree on Nationality, which stated that the new Bolshevik government would treat all ethnic minorities within the Soviet sphere equally, and would respect the right of all minority n...

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The New York Times gave it to cultural critic Janet Maslin, who mildly criticized its "insult slinging- and "sarcastic overkill- but was too awed by its thirty-six pages of footnotes to determine whether any of them were accurate. ...

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