Law Society of Upper Canada

My family upbringing and social location had an immense impact on my chances in life and how I got to where I am today. In terms of economic opportunities, I was fortunate, as my parents immigrated to Canada from China to give me a better life. After immigrating to Canada, my parents worked hard to secure a steady income and home before deciding to have me. Having grown up in a typical Asian household, I was encouraged to do well in school, participate in a number of extra-curricular activities,…

When an organization adheres to the set of principles, values and standards set by themselves and the laws that govern them, they are seen as ethical. In society today, many organizations are working hard to maintain their status industry but fail to comply with their corporate responsibility and values. According to the course textbook, many of these issues relate to overly aggressive financial or business objectives. When C- level executives engage in unethical or questionable business…

Intellectual property rights help to regulate creative labour. They can include, patents for inventions, and trademarks to help protect market share. They can also refer to copyright; ‘literary works (such as novels, poems and plays), films, music, artistic works (e.g. drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures) and architectural design’. Intellectual property rights grant owners exclusive rights. These rights enable them to carry out specific acts, while at the same time, excluding…

recently had a baby, so around lunch time we all sat down to eat, and naturally my aunt started feeding her new son. I couldn’t help but stare because she had this innocent person hidden under a blanket. At the time the temperature had risen into the upper nineties, so I could barely wrap my mind around the thought of having to eat and breathe under a stifling blanket. I just couldn’t make sense of the situation. My aunt noticed my staring and explained that she didn’t want to make anyone at the…

The Great Awakening, Puritan migration, and the Halfway Covenant were all crucial events that influenced the religions of American society. The Great Awakening began in the 1730’s and lasted until 1743. It was a religious revival that swept through the colonies. Before the awakening, ministers were considered upper class and were loyal to the crown. The new faiths that emerged after the Great Awakening were much more democratic. Their overall message was one of equality…

It was not until 1916 that women had the right to vote in certain provinces and a couple of years later in 1929 when they were considered “persons” in Canada. Women around the world have been fighting for equality for years. One of the leaders in that fight during the 18th century was Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft, an English writer, was well known for being one of the biggest advocates for women’s rights. Her novel titled Vindication of the rights of woman illustrates her ideas that…

memoir that Bharati Mukherjee and her Canadian husband Clark Blaise collaborated on, giving their day to day account of Calcutta during 1973. Bharati as she visits Calcutta after a gap of fourteen years, having spent a considerable length of time in Canada with her husband Clark Blaise, socialises with her childhood friends, especially women who attended the same school with her, with a hope to revive her relationship with the land of her birth and upbringing. Blaise, though an outsider, in the…

stopping them from trading to any other European country except England as a tactic form of economic warfare (During the time tensions started to rise and there were other who wanted to push for war, aka Warhawks like Henry Clay). Another reason is Canada since the U.S.A was still in the action of the Jeffersonian model and wanted expansion of their power and was continuing to move westward across…

In the 1960s, the emotions of citizens were quite ambivalent, ranging from joyous celebration to savagery. Feeling deprived of their civil rights, many Americans began protesting for the equal treatment of black citizens, the impediment of the war in vietnam, and the equality for women. Alongside the protests emerged the sexual revolution which included . To describe this decade emerged new types of music such as folk, different types of rock music, r&b music, and country music. The feminine…

Lefty’s American Dream of Progress fails. His ideals clash with the realities of an imperfect world where inequalities are rife and cannot be overcome. He finds out that the ideals enshrined in the American Dream do not apply to all. His different businesses, due to which he “worked seven days a week,” come with a price. In order to provide for his family, “he had to be exiled from them” (Eugenides 136). Close to the end of his life Lefty is penniless and speechless due to multiple strokes.…