... masters of the soundboard. That means more than fiddling with the treble and bass on your home stereo: these professionals alter the sound (tone and clarity) of each instrument. These music industry professionals can add effects such as echoes and delays. They can make acoustic instruments sound even more natural, or heavy metal even more metallic. They can even add special ... and supplies are $2062.00. How this program prepares students for this career Co-op opportunities with sound recording studios, record companies, independent production houses and other 'sound related' industries...

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... the country over. He appealed to all walks of life, brought together the different language of the country, and found a way to combine the East and West with a common Canadian bond. In the book Mondo Canuck, Geoff Pevere and Greig Dymond describe Trudeau as "the greatest pop star this country has ever produced."" (O'Malley, Pevere, Dymond) Soon after winning the party ... an election, and soundly beat the opposition in 1968. Trudeau made himself accessible to the people of Canada. He quickly became friends with the Canadian media man, Marshall McLuhan. Their bond would last two decades....

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... as if they will now belong to something. As time goes on, a form of love or kinship develops between the gang members and the child. It is then that the bond between the kid and the gang is completed as the gang has effectively taken the place of the family. This has all been identified by Lonnie Jackson, an author for ... undoubtedly have these gangs acting as fenders for their peers and families. On top of that, there is more action behind the walls of our schools than meets the eye. James S. Catterall, an author for the American journal of education, found that "as many as half of th...

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... increase the expenditure of the population; consequently, it will offer more jobs and improve the economic situation at the same time. In showing the immigration and refugee law of Canada, James Turner says, "You may be able to immigrate to Canada as an Entrepreneur if you can demonstrate that you have the ability to establish, purchase or make substantial investment in ... , they can improve the economic situation of Canada. The government of Canada should allow more immigrants to come to Canada since immigrants can bring Canada so much benefit. One article notes, "The provinces will su...

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... means. Medicare as a system of universal health care must be regarded as a public service and not merely as an insurance programme under which only a limited number of services are available. 7 Notes On Unions, Canadian Labour Congress, Quebec, 1992, P.5 P.5 Pensions - Unions have been consistently negotiated improvements in pension plans. By statistics, only 41.4% of employed Canadians (50.1% of men and 33.7% of ... enhance the economy of Canada. Two key factors are: i) a high degree of economic integration 2) an advanced degree of political integration."13 Economic and political integ...

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... getting more time to themselves because they don't have to work as hard as they used to. This time allows parents to teach their children at home and strengthen that bond between parents and their children. Many family are "getting back to their roots- and allowing more time for family. Consequently, home schooling has become more socially acceptable to teach children ... school. Still, family comes first for many homeschoolers. For many, home schooling gives family life an unexpected richness. Historian McClay, who watched his teenage son Mark develop a love for classical music and acc...

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... crown allowed many individuals to risk their lives to come over. Thus the first two colonies were formed in Jamestown in 1607, and Plymouth in 1620. "In 1606 King James I chartered a joint-stock enterprise called the Virginia Company, with two divisions, the First Colony of London and the Second Colony of Plymouth".1 These colonies were both set up on ... values brought on by the "First Great Awakening." Religion was undertaking a huge reformation and this reformation created a firestorm of change throughout the monarchy. "Charles I, who succeeded his father James, in 1625, proved even ...

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... says Laze (Gracia). At raves there are different rooms. One room is the main room where the dancing goes on and all the music is spun and where most of the people are. Some of the music that is played there is House, Techno (most common), breakbeat, Trance, Tribal, and Progressive. The visual effects and a lot at ... sit down and talk to all the other ravers there and meet different girls and stuff. Finally there is a room where you can go for a slower tempo of music where your adrenaline slows down and you start to relax and calm you down. Now a days people are making the raves illegal...

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... utilizing radio to its benefit unfolded, as American programming was set to entertain rather than educate its listeners. The Canadian society argued that radio programming consisted of too much dance music and jazz. They requested more serious, socially elevating and nation-building content (Bélanger 162). As a result, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was instituted in 1936, as a means of controlling the ... the broadcast system by implementing specific Canadian content requirements, also known as CanCon. The private English-language radio stations are required to play at least th...

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... a field day with the tragedy, blaming TV, movies, and video games. Ironically, at the same time, the media was showing more violence in news coverage than the films, movies and music that were airing at the time. Taber, Alberta was Harris and Klebold's first copycat. The tragedy struck in Canada a week after Columbine. One victim died and the other suffered life ... in entertainment creates a parallel that crosses the boundaries into real life. Media violence often fails to show the consequences of violence. This is especially true of cartoons, toy commercials, and music videos. The end...

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... underground subculture that the typical reader of the mainstream Cosmo or Glamour magazine. BUST tries to reach a crowd that is somewhat more into independent music, movies, film and politics than the average reader of typical women's magazines are. BUST is targeted at women who most likely live in ... sexual feelings" (p. 42). She offers a hand on approach to helping people find sexual gratification. Another article focused on the lives of several women in music, film and comedy considered to be sexual pioneers. These women, including Peaches, Phyllis Diller, Mo'Nique and Margaret Cho, ...

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... of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to trace guns. These are tighter federal restrictions imposed on gun purchases by the so-called Brady law of 1994, named after James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was wounded in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. New gun control laws passed by numerous states in America, like those ... is that prolonged prosperity has finally provided more jobs in poor minority neighborhoods, "so people now see other people working and they get the message that work pays, crime doesn't." James Allan Fox, a criminal ju...

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... , the FLQ was gaining support in Quebec. Then, on October 5, 1970, the FLQ took their terrorism a step further, in the start of the October crisis they kidnapped "British Trade Commisioner James Cross from his home in Montreal" (Gwyn, p.108) and they started making demands. These demands included the release of the FLQ members who were in jail for previous FLQ bombings ... sown the seeds of its own destruction."(Gwyn,p.109)Because of this event, the FLQ lost public sympathy, leaving enraged ex-supporters. The October Crisis ended with the release of James Cross from the FLQ's hands. He w...

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... invention by scientist and special agent Sir William Stephenson, known as "Intrepid" throughout his undercover missions in WWII. This device was put to use throughout the war to send letters, notes, and drawings to and from military personnel. Already, after looking at only these select few out of the many inventions prior to WWII it is easy to see how Canada ... ...

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... be hanged. This angered the French Canadians and Macdonald lost the support from majority of the Quebeckers. As much as the English speaking Protestants loved Canada, they also had a strong bond with the Great Britain and thought as a self-governing British colony; it was Canada's duty to support the British in any military situation. When the Dutch declared war against Britain ... ...

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... be questioned by officers with the presence of a lawyer. Then depending on the case some may be sent to prison until they are sentenced in court and others may pay a bond to be on probation until their trial. Some may only pay a fine and then be released. Nevertheless, after committing a crime and being arrested, you can be sent to court for ... ...

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... to Japan." (Granastein and Johnson 111) Further on in the paragraph Granastein and Johnson conclude that: Nakano's book demonstrates that the same response existed in British Columbia, and even Sanahara notes that the Japanese vice-consul encouraged some Japanese Canadians to seek interment as a gesture of support for Japan. Those of Japanese origin, of course formed a greater proportion of the Hawaiian ... ...

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... extensions on the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 with the American officials. He secured reduced import duties on manufactured goods, and received authorization for the Province of Canada to issue bank notes as legal tender; a feat of which banks were restricted. In mid 1866, Galt was faced with a political adversity. The arrangements at the Quebec conference stated the educational rights of the ... ...

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... parent and child are greatly altered in Western society by the media and our societal values. We see families as units that are indestructible, constantly supportive, and held together by a bond that cannot change or be broken. This perfect image is not widely supported in reality. Breakdowns between families, particularly between parents and children, are a common occurrence in today's hostile world ... ...

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... for all juvenile delinquency but it is a major contributor. Morals are taught best within the confines of a stable home with both parents present. Retired Edmonton Police Service Superintendent Chris Braiden notes that in the thirty-year period in which violent youth crime rose by 300% in the U.S., the number of single parent families rose by 300% and the divorce rate doubled ... ...

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... a mutual ignorance between the two groups. Even though the company said that the workers were not to have relations with the Indian women many however did. The men who did bond with the Indian women began to learn more about how to survive in the forest and were in some way assimilated into the Indian culture. Since there were no clergy ... ...

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... , to take a match stick and fill the cut with the match stick powder then he would set fire to it with another match so that my skin and blood would bond together, I would cry for my mother then he would beat me again." (CWA, n.d.)Stories like this one from Shankar allow you to see how child labour is physically impacting and ... ...

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... . Throughout 1968 and 1969 FLQ had several bombing attempts around various places in Montreal. . Then on October 5th 1970 the extremist group took it one step further abducting British diplomat, James Richard Cross. Quickly after the kidnapping, threats from FLQ surfaced, they demanded for 23 prison inmates that committed crimes in name of the FLQ to be released or they would ... ...

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... ". Thus, even the growth of communication erodes traditional values and moral restraints because a single video can now be distributed in a matter of minutes to anyone in the world. Furthermore, James Piazza mentions how globalization has undermined the political left in the countries of the developed world when he states "the social democratic and socialist parties in the West have ... ...

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... "Canada has expertise on how to face a winter in the mountains with the right kind of equipment " (Skurink). Trudeau is not the only person opposing the air strike to ISIS. James Laxer, a professor of political science at York University agrees with Trudeau. Laxer states in his article that "Canada is not an empire, not a superpower. It is not our interest to ... ...

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