campaign group Abortion Rights announced their first-ever student conference. It was‚ they explained‚ in response to ’many student unions reporting increased anti-choice activity on campuses’. Societies such as Oxford Students for Life‚ which I’ve been part of for the last couple of years‚ don’t tend to think of themselves as ’anti-choice’‚ but it’s true there are more of us around. The number of young people who are opposed to abortion‚ or at least worried about it‚ is growing --this despite the usual
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Tips for Holding a Screening and House Party If you liked The Story of Stuff and the message it conveys‚ we invite you to share it with your community by showing the film at a house party (or at a classroom‚ church group‚ neighborhood association or other event). A house party is a party at your house or a friend’s house that you can use as an opportunity for education and activism. The more of us who see The Story of Stuff‚ the better chance we have of transforming our culture of consumption
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Part time MBA – My first Impression It was the Thursday morning in October when I took S-Bahn to Ostendstraße. As soon as I stepped out of the train station‚ I noticed the feeling of rain in the air. The sky was also dusky signaling the bad weather of the day. However‚ instead of complaining about the weather‚ my mind was fully engaged with the excitement for the day to look forward to. The day was the MBA kickoff day! The flashback appeared in my mind during the five minutes’ walk from the train
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a book about the struggles that Arnold Spirit Jr. had to endure while living on the Spokane Indian Reservation. With the support of his family‚ he decided to attend Rearden High School in order to change the path of his life for the better. Along the way‚ he discovers and loses himself in the process of bettering himself. Sherman Alexie used his own tribal identity to inspire the events that Arnold Spirit Jr. was experiencing in
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The Absolutely True Character Traits of a Part-Time Indian “I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. It was like being Indian was my job‚ but it was only a part-time job. And it didn’t pay well” (118). This quote comes from the book‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The character from this novel‚ Junior‚ is who was previously quoted. He betrays his tribe by leaving the reservation to get a better education in nearby small white town. Junior
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An Action Research Study of Promoting Students’ Confidence in Speaking English Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education (Ed.D) School of Education Faculty of Arts‚ Education and Human Development Victoria University By Montha Songsiri B.A. (Suansunundha Teachers’ College) M.A. (King Mongkut’s University of Technology‚ Thonburi) March 2007 Declaration of Authorship I‚ Montha Songsiri‚ formally declare that the Doctorate of
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Alexie Sherman “I have to prove that I am stronger than everybody else. I have to prove that I will never give up. I will never quit playing hard.” pg (132). Junior is an intelligent Native American teenager that wishes for nothing more than a hopeful future. Though the story is written with a humorous tone the message of the novel is tragic. The tragedy that Alexie through the voice of Arnold presents in his story is that Native American have
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study The National Achievement Test (NAT) is an examination given annually to assess the competency of both public and private school students. The students’ knowledge and skills are tested in the subjects of Mathematics‚ English‚ Science‚ Filipino‚ and HEKASI for grade school and Mathematics‚ English‚ Science‚ Filipino‚ and Araling Panlipunan for high school. The test is administered by the Department of Education’s National Education Testing and
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Charissa Sim Yik Jia Qi Ong Shu Fang acct103-G4 Analysis of Popular Holdings Limited Financial Accounting Term Project (for OBHR 001 – Leadership and Teambuilding) Executive Summary Popular Holdings is a main board listed company in Singapore. It was incorporated in Singapore on 5 October 1996 as a private company under Popular Holdings Limited and the principal activity is that of an investment holding. Popular Holdings has many subsidiary companies and most of them are engaged in diverse
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alcohol use by adolescents. One of the largest ongoing studies of alcohol use among Native American adolescents has involved annual school-based surveys carried out since 1975 (Beauvais). Data from this research has consistently shown that Native American adolescents have a higher lifetime rate of alcohol use than non-Native adolescents do. In 1993‚ 71% of Native American adolescents in grades 7–12 reported trying alcohol. In the same study‚ “55% of Native American adolescents reportedly had been
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