The long and hard road to the American Dream. Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary is a 2005 Canadian documentary movie‚ made with the contribution by the Canada Council for the Arts and written and directed by Arturo Perez Torres. The filmmaker follows several migrants like Nayo and Milton‚ from Chinandega‚ Nicaragua‚ all along the crossing through Honduras‚ El Salvador‚ Guatemala‚ Mexico and United States in their attempt to reach Canada. Along the way‚ he meets other migrants while they are
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The Iroquois Constitution It is about the Five Nations that formed the Iroquois Confederation and what they should and should not do. (Constitution and laws) The Five Nations included the Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Cayuga‚ and Seneca tribes. Comparing the Great Law of Peace and The Constitution of The United States of America The United States Constitution was influenced by the concepts and the principles enclosed in The Great Law of Peace. Some of the same ideas that were in the Iroquois’
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It is widely known that the United States was founded by descendants of Europeans that were seeking religious refuge and freedom. However‚ to the lay-historian‚ the labels “Puritan” and “Pilgrim” are often used interchangeably in reference to the English colonists of the New World. This is an honest mistake; there is much ambiguity even in historical texts regarding the differences between Puritans and Pilgrims. The most erroneous assumption seems to be that the Pilgrims of Plymouth colony were Puritan
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Evaluation for “the Flight from Conversation” Time flows; things change. The development of technology enables people to both access the world and people more rapidly. We immediately know the news that happen all over the world because of the Internet; we make friends with people thousands miles away through social networks; and we can have artificial intelligence or applications like SimSimi to accompany us when we are lonely. With time‚ these connections can start to replace real face-to-face
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He was known to most as the leader of the Pilgrims but also for his most famous literary work‚ Of Plymouth Plantation. This work described the voyage of the Pilgrims to Cape Cod‚ their search for a place to call “home”‚ and the difficulties they encountered once they settled. The voyage had the appearance to be adequately dangerous at some points but the Pilgrims were able to arrive to their destination safely. Upon their
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Should Thanksgiving be celebrated? The most common argument went something like this: OK‚ it’s true that the Thanksgiving Day mythology is rooted in a fraudulent story -- about the European invaders coming in peace to the "New World‚" eager to cooperate with indigenous people -- which conveniently ignores the reality of European barbarism in the conquest of the continent. But we can reject the culture’s self-congratulatory attempts to rewrite history‚ I have been told‚ and come together on Thanksgiving
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A group of Massachusetts residents formed the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound—a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving the landscape off Cape Cod. Members and locals alike claimed that the project would ruin the pristine landscape and was environmentally unsound. Most importantly‚ these groups opposed the plan because it placed the public’s ocean in the hands of private developers (Ebbert
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When you think of a ballerina someone like me is probably not the first that comes to mind. I got off to a late start considering most of the dancers had been doing it since they were three years old‚ and I also had many struggles with my family on pursuing my ballet dream. Despite all this hardship‚ I managed to come out on top. I was offered a spot on my dream ballet company American Ballet Theatre (ABT)‚ got to be bettered by their expertise on my ballet journey ‚ and was given many amazing opportunities
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healthy for future generations. Fishing Facts The oceans have been fished for thousands of years and are an integral part of human society. Fish have been important to the world economy for all of these years‚ starting with the Viking trade of cod and then continuing with fisheries like those found in Lofoten‚ Europe‚ Italy‚ Portugal‚ Spain and India. Fisheries of today provide about 16% of the total world’s protein with higher percentages occurring in developing nations. Fisheries are still
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Book ’The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea’ SUMMARY: Author Sebastian Junger Country United States Language English Subject Andrea Gail‚ 1991 Perfect Storm‚ shipwrecks Genre Creative nonfiction Publisher W. W. Norton & Company Publication date May 17‚ 1997 Media type dvd and cd Pages xii‚ 227 ISBN ISBN 0-393-04016-X OCLC Number 35397863 Dewey Decimal 974.4/5 LC Classification QC945 .J66 1997 The Perfect Storm is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian
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