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Question 1

Abject Poverty

Answer 1

extreme poverty in which an idividual lives on less than 1$ per day.

Question 2

Aboriginal Collective thought

Answer 2

a way of thinking that values the group more than the individual, and views all things as interconnected. In many aboriginal communities this sense of the collective affects land holding, decsion making, child rearing, and education.

Question 3

Aboriginal Healing foundation

Answer 3

a foundation created as a result of the royal Commission on aboriginal peoples, whose mandate is to encourage and support aboriginal peoples as they create healing processes to address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse that many suffered in the residential school system.

Question 4

Aboriginal rights

Answer 4

the rights of first nations, metis, and inuit people in canada, including there land and treating rights, and rights pertaining to their history, culture, and language.

Question 5

Aboriginal self-government

Answer 5

first nations, metis, and inuit groups making their own decisions regarding their economy, education, culture, use of natural resources, and other areas of cocern for their well being.

Question 6

Adam Smith

Answer 6

an influential scottish polictal economist who challenged the key ideas behind the mercantilist system.

Question 7

Adherence to collective norms

Answer 7

faithful observance of the norms or standereds imposed on members of a group as a condition of membership in the group. these norms can relate to conduct, values, or apperance.

Question 8

altruism

Answer 8

unselfishness and a focus on the needs of others.

Question 9

Anti-terrorism Act

Answer 9

a law passed by canadas parliment to allow the government to use powers to act against terroist attacks.

Question 10

anti-war movement

Answer 10

an organized campaign against war.

Question 11

assimilation

Answer 11

the process whereby ethnic or cultural groups adopt the culture of a dominant group and are absorbed into its society.

Question 12

authoritarian polictical systems

Answer 12

polictical systems in which all descisions related to governing the state are made by a small group of people or by one person.

Question 13

beliefs

Answer 13

the ideas and understandings that a person holds to be true, often influrenced by such things as ones culture, language, religion, gender, and worldveiw.

Question 14

bolsheviks

Answer 14

members of a wing of the russian social-democratic workers party, led by vladimer lenin, which took control in the russian revolution.

Question 15

bourgeoisie

Answer 15

a french word that refers to the social class that envolved in europe during the middle ages with the devolopement of cities and the growth in trade.

Question 16

brinkmanship

Answer 16

international behaviour or foreign policy that takes a country to the brink of war; pushing ones demands to the point of threatning with military action.

Question 17

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Answer 17

a document entrenched in the constitutional act, 1982 that lists and desribes the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed to Canadians.

Question 18

capitalism

Answer 18

an economic system based on free markets, fair competition, wise consumers, and profit- motivated producers, in which a minimum of government involvement is favoured.

Question 19

capitalist economy