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    migrant workers

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    Migrant workers apparently come from poor countries and have been living in tough financial situation‚ thus they choose to work as maids outside their countries hoping they would find a solution for their crisis. However‚ this situation is getting more serious and controversial than before‚ the rate of domestic workers committing suicide is increasing. what households seek in Lebanon is not to help but slaves to serve them‚ and these maids go through hard work and mistreatment. We hear a lot of

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    What do you think about running barefoot? Runners should not wear shoes because barefoot runners take a smaller collision force to their feet‚ reduces injuries‚ and most importantly how running barefoot is safe. Running barefoot reduces the amount of injuries you get when running. By running barefoot your feet will take a smaller collision force when landing. The article says that the way you step when running barefoot causes less impact to your feet. In other words‚ running in shoes causes a greater

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    Barefoot running is beneficial because it reduces joint forces.1‚ 2 This reduction is a function of several changes that occur when running barefoot. A study of 11 healthy runners (6 men and 5 women) was conducted where subjects ran at their preferred stride length.3 Stride length and kinetic measurements were taken for the frontal‚ sagittal‚ and transverse planes. The study concluded that an overall reduction in preferred stride length occurred when subjects ran barefoot.3 The reduced stride length

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    Barefoot Vs. Running Shoe To everyone in America probably the most used exercise in personal fitness is simply running. It is easy‚ simple‚ and extremely beneficial to do. With the increase of people who run professionally‚ recreationally‚ and for fitness a new issue as arose. That issue is the debate between running while wearing specially made running shoes or taking the “natural” approach and running barefoot or with minimalist running shoes. I recently read an article discussing‚ with evidence

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    Migrant Hostel Analysis

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    belonging. These judgements are epitomised in Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle’s‚ a collection of poems that consists of 10 Mary Street and Migrant Hostel‚ which detail the migrant experience and the barriers which

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    Migrant Hostel Poem

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    The effects and overall impression of a journey will depend on the characteristics of the particular trip undertaken. Migrant Hostel and Immigrants at Central station by Peter Skrzynecki are poems‚ which display the migrants experience illustrating the pathos of migrant families as they come to terms with a new and very foreign country. The poet successfully shows this through literary techniques and visual imagery emphasising the idea that moving countries process are not always perfect and offering

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    Be Good Little Migrants

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    The poem ‘Be good‚ Little migrants’ by Uyen Loewald is a darkly ironic perspective on what is expected of migrants in Australia. It explores the ways in which minority groups are exploited and patronised by society. The author uses simple and repetitive structure and accessible language to reinforce the poems meaning. This poem relates to justice as there is nothing fair about the way Australia behaved towards the Asian migrants when they first migrated to Australia. They were forced to work so

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    Migrants by Bruce Dawe

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    Essay-Why Should Dawe’s poem ‘Migrants’ be included for the text for Journeys. The poem ‘Migrants by ‘Bruce Dawe ’should be included for the core text for journeying as it portrays journeying through the perceptions and experiences of a migrant group. This poem depicts feelings of ignorance and disrespectfulness encountered by the migrant group as they are treated with a lack of concern by people living in Australia. The poem migrants explore a physical journey of a migrant group settling in a new place

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    move away from the bustling city to the quieter rural environment. Positive impacts (Reasons for urbanisation) Wage and employment differentials Economic advancements are better in the city for migrants due to higher wages and increased number of working days. For example‚ In Dehli‚ rural migrants’ income increase by 150% compared to those in villages. Job opportunities in the city can also be found in the form of employment in informal sectors such as hawkers selling food by the sidewalks

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    cultural customs can make it difficult for migrants to feel as though they belong within a certain group. Unfortunately this is a position in which many migrants to Australia find themselves‚ struggling to feel included and comfortable with their changing identities. However while these differences may make it harder to belong to one group‚ they can also strengthen the bonds within another. The most immediate and obvious indicator of difference within migrants is that of physical appearance. Automatically

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