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    Anyone who flees their home country due to war or persecution is referred as a refugee. In Inside Out and Back Again‚ we are introduced to the narrator‚ Ha. Ha is a refugee who fled her country‚ Vietnam‚ because of political warfare. In the novel‚ she explains her experiences being in the middle of the war feeling confused and sad at most times‚ not knowing what’s going on. This causes her brother needing to explain everything to her. Ha‚ and her family‚ after fleeing from the North Vietnamese Communists

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    Advantages of working mother/housewife  • More disposable income  • Freedom to make independent financial choices with own money  • Meet more people  • Equal relationship  • Have a life outside of home  Disadvantages of working mother  • Discrimination in the workplace when colleagues find you have a child  • Risk being critisized for not being home to care for child  • Less time for yourself  • Problems with finding good child care  • Juggling work with sick kids  • Spending almost

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    “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe‚ the identity of Okonkwo is revealed‚ proving he is a tragic hero by fatal flaw. When Okonkwo came face to face with who he really was he could understand that he was not who he truly wanted to be. Over time he tried to achieve the unachievable‚ but could not succeed. Okonkwo is the main character in the novel Things Fall Apart‚ the novel takes place in the town of Umuofia‚ Umuofia was a town that “was feared by all its neighbors”(Achebe 10). This town supported

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    A Surrogate Mother is defined as "an adult woman who enters into an agreement to bear a child conceived through assisted conception for intended parents." The couple is usually referred to as intended parents who enter into an agreement providing that they will be the parents of a child born to a surrogate through assisted conception‚ using an egg or sperm of at least one parent. 1 RIGHT - Surrogate motherhood is a right entitled to those who are ready and able to take on the responsibility

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    Hardship’s of Single Mothers About 16% of children are raised by a single mother due to divorce‚ neglect and separation from their former spouse. In the novel “Room” is comparable to many difficulties that women within society experience while raising a child by themselves. The character portrayed by Ma acts as the biological mother for Jack. Ma has experienced extreme physical‚ emotional‚ physiological and spiritual abuse. Much of the suffering that is portrayed by Ma can be analyzed through

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    The poem “Mothers” by Nikki Giovanni is about two states of mind. An adult dealing with the ups and downs of everyday life and a concerned child. This is shown by the use of opposite words. “Dark-light” and “pleasantries and unpleasantries.” Being a child‚ Nikki was trying to make sense of what was happening around her. She sees her mother sitting in a chair in a dark room upset her. Nikki is apparently a frightened child. The wetting of the bed confirms her fear. She wrote about and absent father

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    Mothers and Fathers Mothers and fathers have multiple jobs‚ but their most significant job is to raise and nurture their children. Together or separately‚ parents are there to help their children become good people. While mothers tend to have a comforting touch and help their children feel secure‚ fathers believe in challenging their children. Both styles build confidence‚ but in unique ways. Although there are many differences in the parenting styles of mothers and fathers‚ they still share

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    light. The Second Coming‚ and Things Fall Apart‚ have striking similarities in their themes‚ and the ideas present in both of the pieces‚ making them seem as if they are written by the same person‚ or are somehow connected. In Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe chose the title of his book to illustrate the tragedy of losing a culture to the destruction of evil. William Yeats’ poem The Second Coming reveals a great deal about the evils of war‚ and the corruption of the human mind. Although the poems true

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    Single Mothers Many women take for granted the freedoms that they have today. Some have forgotten what their own mothers and grandmothers went through. Women have started to receive many of the same rights that men do in the work place and at home. At home many women find it more socially acceptable to be single with a child. No longer does society look down on this. This relatively new sense of feminism has helped cause the growing trend of single mothers. With divorce on the rise‚ the dilemma

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    Introduction Mayukwayukwa refugee settlement is located in the Kaoma District of Zambia’s Western Province and houses 11‚000 refugees. The camp has major issue on the management of waste since there is no department for it. Furthermore‚ the camp has no designed place to dispose the waste which leads the inhabitants to dump solid waste into the nearby bushes (Bodonyi 2014). The project is intended to help the management of waste by sorting out types of waste and reducing the pollution causes by it

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