Essays Tagged: "Halifax"
Neil Young in Halifax
was on the phone and she wanted to know if I wanted a ticket to the Neil Young concert coming up in Halifax. I said I did and I kind of forgot about it. It was Halloween night ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Dangerous driving and the effects on Youth.
ere killed in a dangerous driving accident. The driver was Ralph Parker, a twenty year old man from Halifax who lost control of his sports car as he attempted to make a turn on the corner where the gi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
The Poet of Nature, William Wordsworth. Includes parts of some of his poems
as sent to boarding school in Hawkeshead, and his sister, Dorothy, was sent to live with cousins in Halifax. It was in the rural surroundings of Hawkeshead that William learned his appreciation for na ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"John Mackasey" This is a short paper on John Mackasey, an Irish Catholic and other irish immigrants living in Canada during the late 1800s.
John Mackasey (1840-1919), an Irish Catholic, lived in Halifax during a difficult time. Irish Catholics were placed in the lowest-paid, least-skilled, and ... s, Mackasey's concerns for his fellow Irish Catholics, and despise towards the "great merchants" of Halifax, inspired him to become the leader of the unskilled dock labourers of Halifax in their great ... e union defeated and sadly John Mackasey was forgotten. He fought hard for the longshore workers of Halifax, trying to make their work lives more enjoyable. It was long remembered as the 19th century ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > The Great Depression
William Wordsworth, the Wandering Poet.
ar his mother Ann died and the family was split up. Wordsworth's sister Dorothy was sent to live at Halifax with her mother's cousin, and the boys of the family were sent to school at Hawkshead where ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Response Journal for "The Charmer" by Budge Wilson
realize that her devilishly handsome brother is nothing more than a charmer. It is set in a 1950's Halifax home where Zachary, the narrator's brother, repeatedly abuses his privileges and takes advan ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
This Essay describes the Halifax Explosion that occurred in Canada in 1917.
Halifax explosion was the world's largest man made explosion. It occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1 ... orld's largest man made explosion. It occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917, a bright sunny day in Halifax. World War I was going on its peak in Europe. The port of Halifax was filled with different ... By this time she was really close to the Dartmouth coast. The Imo, however, did not dangle towards Halifax, as the Mont Blanc had expected but instead she signalled that she was maintaining her path. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History
History of Hockey
sor began to be seen as a place of importance to the British Empire and also of great importance to Halifax. These changes in development led to the improvements to the means of transportation between ... nd Nova Scotia was once again improved with as the provinces first public railway was built between Halifax and Windsor."It was the first link of the Dominion Atlantic Railway that would eventually cr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
1000word essay on MERGER ACCOUNTING.inc...Accounting issues, difficulties and an example merger.
ne company remains dominant and no new entity is formed. For example, when the Bank of Scotland and Halifax came together HSBO, a new entity, was formed. It was therefore evident that a merger had tak ... ons in the UK. Acquisition Accounting and Merger Accounting. As in the case of the Bank of Scotland/Halifax merger, the new management team had to decide between the two types of accounting as they in ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting
Amor De Cosmos: The Spark of Confederation for British Columbia
on August 20th, 1825. He attended school there until the age of 15, after which his family moved to Halifax where he joined the Dalhousie College debating club1. In 1852, De Cosmos left Halifax to joi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Are Problems Associated with "under development"; only relevant to poor countries? Discuss, drawing on module material, wide reading and if applicable, your own experience.
ak eighty plus years ago can be seen in England across Lancashire and Yorkshire where towns such as Halifax have been left to fall into a state of decline leading to an engulfing depression over the t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Business Case Studie Travel Agency Studie Companies Stats And info about it
Canadians for over 30 years. The company, with it's headquarters in Toronto and regional offices in Halifax and Vancouver, provides holiday and air only travel from all the major gateways across Canad ... destinations in the United States.Today Conquest Vacations, with offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax, carries close to a million passengers from gateways across Canada offering both air only fl ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Layout of Business Documents
ation). The three organisations, which I have chosen for this assignment, are three banks, Natwest, Halifax and West Bromwich building society. For each one of these I am going to compare them underli ... ation styles, what are the relative good and bad points when compared with each other.)Name Halifax West Bromwich NatwestType of business Bank Building Society ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Case study for Dementia
. He was not wearing his hearing aid at the time. An ambulance took him to the Victoria Hospital in Halifax where he was seen in the Emergency Department by the attending emergency care physician. Mr. ... pair technician who ran his own business for 32 years out of a converted garage behind his house in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has been married for over 47 years to Mrs. May Springfield, who is 68 years ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Halifax Explosion
ng Belgian relief supplies, and the French freighter SS Mont Blanc, carrying munitions, collided in Halifax Harbor. The ships' captains had made very wrong assumptions of where they were supposed to g ... westward. By the time they realized that they had made the same move it was too late. The people of Halifax were tremendously affected by the power of the explosion, 1600 people died instantly and ove ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
A Moment in Time: The Halifax Explosion
917 at around eight in the morning, the Belgian ship Imo and French ship Mont Blanc collided in the Halifax harbour causing a mass explosion that continues to shake the lives of the citizens of Halifa ... ur causing a mass explosion that continues to shake the lives of the citizens of Halifax today. The Halifax Explosion made Canadians more aware of the destruction of war, proved to be a founding facto ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Africville Report: An overview of segregation in Canada.
mmigrated to Africville, polishing it's new "differentiated mariner characteristics" to the rest of Halifax and the surrounding areas. All this just advocated the negative reputation it already had fr ... unity of Africville had ceased to exist circa 1964, according to the Rose Report, which is what the Halifax Human Rights Advisory Comittee went by. A main factor in the relocation was Robert Grant. Gr ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The 2032 Awakening
g cars zoomed across the landscape. To top it off, giant letters hanging in the sky spelt the word 'Halifax'.I grinned. "Look's like we aren't in Kansas anymore, huh Chris?" Very soon a doctor came in ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Will Smith
me from work on Tuesday and got a call from Jesse Fortune to see if I wanted to go see a concert in Halifax the next day. I did, so I phoned the box-office and took a shower. By this time it 2:30 p.m. ... ater myself, Justin, Jesse, Mike, Jesse's Dad's girlfriend, and Jesse's aunt set off in a truck for Halifax.We arrived in Halifax around 11:30 a.m. where the four of us ate and waited in line for tick ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Independent Television Production Assignment: Telefilm
ernationally.Telefilm Canada has four Canadian offices. They are in Toronto,Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax.3) Who Telefilm serves and what they offer their clientele:Telefilm Canada provides independ ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies