Oh, Canada – What a Paper!
It is important to understand that anyone can buy a domain name (the name of the website, such as www.xxxxxx.com). In this case, xxxxxx.com is the domain name. Because you are researching Canada, you are going to focus most of your energy to domain names and content relevant to areas in Canada.
Canada has plenty of information available; even random searching produces interesting results. Sure, it’s easy enough to type Canada into the search engine; you’ll retrieve an enormous amount of results, including many official sites, such as Introduction to the Government of Canada; Government of Canada; Canada.com, The Atlas of Canada, and over 2 billion total sites. Obviously, you’ll want to concentrate on far less-perhaps 20 sites. However, there is nothing to keep you from further researching areas that interest you. There is also a great deal of information in English, as opposed to French.
When looking to research the entire country, Canada as a keyword can be very helpful. StatCan.com has a site that is easily navigated in English and French that holds information most useful to those writing marketing analysis or industry updates. CIC Canada is the official site of Citizenship and Immigration. Not only does the site contain information and download-able forms to apply for citizenship, there are additional links for Skilled Workers and Business Immigrants, and Assistance for Victims of Human Trafficking. The fact that a country has a policy on Human Trafficking is a “heads up” that there is additional information on this area of interest.
A search of Canada human trafficking results in articles entitled, “Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery,” “Trafficking in Persons- Interdepartmental,” and Community, Contract and Aboriginal Policing – Aboriginal OrganizedâÂ?¦” These are three of over 5 million articles on the subject (albeit many are irrelevant).
The Government of Canada site is incredibly useful, including the breakdown of Provinces and Territories1. Someone who has limited knowledge of the country may not know how or where to look for this information. Searching for Canadian Provinces results in articles entitled, “Facts About Canada’s Provinces and Territories,” “Canadian Provinces Web Directory,” and “Test Your Geography Knowledge-Canada.” There is also a link for outline maps of different provinces which can be downloaded by teachers or others who have a desire to color or trace them.2 There are 20 million articles returned using Canadian Provinces as keywords.
Use keywords Canadian Causes to retrieve relevant articles about pertinent social and political causes within the country. One result is entitled, “Noteworthy Causes”; it offers links to causes as diverse as the International AIDS Quilt Project to Internet Spam. Unfortunately, there are only four links under the label, “Canadian Causes.” To further add to a disappointing selection, the one main link within the above-mentioned parameter is no longer functioning. This minor delay of four or five minutes can mean a lot when you are trying to best use your time for productive searching. One thing that can help in your research is to click on summaries that appear to be something you are looking for. Once opened, glance quickly-scroll the length of the page, click on a link or two.
It’s actually faster to investigate the physical web site than to read or explore the summary and try to determine its relevance. If you can’t embrace the relevance of the site in a few seconds, you probably don’t need it. This does not attempt to discourage a search, and if in your reading you find something that interests you, by all means, slow down, and investigate further. Sometimes it takes several readings (or at least a slower look) to retain the information. However, once you determine that the content is not helpful to your project, it’s time to move on.
Continuing on the path of Canadian Causes, articles appear that are entitled, “Canada and the War of 1812,” “Great Canadian Scientists,” and (surprisingly enough), “Paris Hilton causes commotion at LA video game expoâÂ?¦” Obviously, the first two articles may be of interest; the third is not. Unfortunately, upon further review, the site entitled, “Great Canadian Scientists,” is found to be a relatively non-effective site for searching; however, to its credit, there are links down the right hand side of the page for sites having more potential.
Some people consider the etiquette and behavior of a country to be considered “customs,” but with International searches, customs will bring up the federal agencies that regulate the entrance and exit of citizens and visitors to an International location. So, Canada Customs will result in retrieval of, among other sites, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
Keywords Canadian Etiquette return results including “Canada-Canadian Business Etiquette, Manners, Cross CulturalâÂ?¦” That’s what you are searching for. There are 3 million sites on this subject, including “The Global Etiquette Guide: Canada” on the Monster.com web site3. The article reads, in part,
“One of the most common misconceptions about our neighbors to the north: There is absolutely no difference between Canadians and Americans.
“US-Americans need to understand that Canada is a sovereign country in its own right, and not just another English-speaking market for US goods. And while Canadians know an awful lot about their powerful neighbor to the south, Americans are often fairly ignorant about their steady ally to the north.”
After reading this article, you may want to expand on the differences between Canada and the United States. One of these will no doubt center on the languages spoken throughout Canada; like the United States, there is more than one. However, there are entire provinces speaking different languages. Keywords languages spoken in Canada will provide 17 million articles. At “Profile of languages in Canada: Canada,” there is a link to “Aboriginal languages: Cree the largest language group.4“
Wikipedia5 offers an array of information searching for keyword Canada. Included in the rather extensive article is far more information than one would put into a normal research paper. The suggestion is to read the article at length, follow the links, and piece together a well formed document using, not copying, the information, therein.
Because Wikipedia is written by several authors, it is pretty much copyright free, but one must be sure to read the rules and limitations about properly citing the text in other works. The article actually lists a demographic of religions and ethnicity, as well as other details and facts that may never be needed or used. That said, scrolling to the bottom of the page will find a number of External Links that may prove quite helpful in forming the paper. Upon investigation, you’ll find that some take you right back to the government site that was inspected at the very start of your project.
Searching with keywords Canadian drug policy and/or Canadian Drug Laws will not only extract results about Drugs, Criminal Justice, and Social Policy, but will bring up a wealth of information on medications that are less expensive than those across the border in the United States. That being said, Canada is the first country to actually sell marijuana to a selected number of people who find it beneficial for health reasons.5
Keywords Canadian Religious Community produces results that are mostly Christian; however, specifying the religion (i.e. Canadian Jews) will yield useful results. Even Canadian Muslims results in 4 million articles.
With the advent of the Logo television station in the United States, members of the GLBT community have watched and learned about the acceptance of same-sex marriages in Canada. Keywords Gay Canada will provide over 68 million results ranging from GayCanada.com to 365 Gay Newspaper, the Gay Canada Guide, etc. Keywords Canada Same Sex Marriage brings up millions of articles about the pros and cons, as well as the laws of marriage and divorce. Interestingly, same-sex couples who are not citizens can be married in Canada; however, in order for a divorce to be legal, at least one of the partners must live in Canada for 6 months.
Keywords Canada Little-Known Facts retrieve “Some Little Known Facts About Canada,” as well as little-known facts about all sorts of things.
The purpose of this paper is twofold: research should be fun and informative, as should a well-written paper. Learn to use the Internet to the broadest extent without plagiarism. Be sure to cite all sources, and check all facts. Find out when the source document was written and, if necessary, search for updated material. If none is available, be sure to tag such information, (i.e. as of 2000.)
