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    Dr. Wilson March 4‚2014 Throughout American history illegal immigration has been an extreme focal point in many important discussions. The states with the highest population of illegal immigrants consist of Mexico‚ California‚ Texas‚ and Arizona. These criminal illegal immigrants have caused high crime rates and violence especially in Arizona. “The crimes committed in America by illegal aliens are horrendous‚ but because the American people allow this administration to remain

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    story 1. We are all equal‚ excluding our cultural differences. 2. Be proud to be different. 3. Accept people for who they are. 4. Get involved in your community. 5. Appreciate what is offered to you. 6. Certain opportunities only come once in a life time. Essay My visual interpretation of the story “Pulling Together” is based on what people have to do in order to enjoy what Canada has to offer. The focal point on my visual component

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    In Sandra Cisneros’ book‚ “The House on Mango Street‚” Cisneros writes that‚ “the boys and girls live in different worlds” (Cisneros 8). There are only so many ways one could translate this sentence‚ and one of the meanings that can be deduced is that boys and girls are treated differently. This idea holds true today‚ but the gap between what people think boys can do and what people think girls can do has become smaller over the past years. But still‚ there are some prejudices left‚ things like

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    Only The Heart is a novel written by Brian Caswell and David Chiem that tells a story familiar to many Australians. A Vietnamese family is threatened‚ pulled apart by the war in that country. Some of its members disappear; hard-earned wealth is lost. The novel leads the reader to a new understanding of refugees with the demonstrated views of pain‚ determination‚ survival and freedom‚ which are brought to life throughout the novel. The fall of Saigon in 1975 provides the momentum for Mai and her daughters

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    time. Once these people began to learn to read and write their minds opened up to the world around them revealing how cruel it really was. Some of the people that opened up their eyes to real world were: Frederick Douglass‚ Malcolm X‚ And Sandra Cisneros‚ of which‚ wrote about all of their painful experiences of before they learned to be literate and also after in their own autobiographies. Frederick Douglass‚ a former slave‚ lived during the time where slavery was allowed but yet figured out to

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    the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ the passage represents the struggle for people on Mango st. to achieve their American dream by isolating their hopes from reality and illustrating their hardship. Nenny and Esperanza are in a shop when Nenny notices a music box‚ which‚ after the owner starts it up‚ sounds wonderful and Nenny wishes to purchase it. Nenny asks how much it costs‚ to which the man says‚ “this ain’t for sale” (Cisneros). The man implies to Nenny that it is not something

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    Eulogy For Daughter

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    I have two granddaughter‚ Isadora‚ has seven old and Yaida‚ a six years old. Yaida‚ knows that I like because I the servant since I was born. Every moment that we were going a store‚ share certain program of television of a documentary on animals‚ or go anywhere‚ and my granddaughter sees something related animai print‚ she‚ full of joy says to me: "Abuela"‚ look‚ look‚ what you like; is an animal‚ a ring‚ wallet‚ or anything else related to the print of a lion‚ tiger or cheetha. My granddaughter

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    English Only

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    Why English-only policy would not work? What would happen to America if immigrants could not speak their native-languages anymore? The use of languages other than English stimulated a movement known as “English Only Movement” in the U.S‚ which has been a subject of great controversy. On one hand‚ the pro English only agree it would encourage immigrants who do not speak English to learn it; therefore‚ it would turn them Americans bringing the U.S together as a whole. On the other

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    Only a Girl

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    Only a girl” In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” she tells a story about a young girl’s resistance to womanhood in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm outside of Jubilee‚ Ontario‚ Canada. During this time‚ women were viewed as second class citizens‚ but the narrator was not going to accept this position without a fight. Munro’s invention of an unnamed character symbolized the narrator’s lack of identity‚ compared to her younger

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    In the section “Red Clowns” from the book The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros illustrates how being chosen is not as innocent as society makes it seem when the character Esperanza gets raped. While Esperanza and her friend Sally are at a carnival‚ Sally is chosen by a big boy and leaves with him (99). Sally is chosen because she was pretty and her being chosen was a positive event for her as she left voluntarily. She gets to be the fairy tale princess and gets a happy ending for the night

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