Labor Day became an official US holiday in 1894 as a way to mark and celebrate the achievements of American workers. Like many holidays‚ today it seems we cherish it because it gives us a three-day weekend and an excuse to eat greasy foods without regret and share in a cold beverage or two with our friends and family. The eating and drinking portion has been a staple of this holiday since it’s inception‚ so at least we are doing something right. In this post I want to reflect a bit on why it is
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Rita Iringan as Violet - Along with her biological sister Jasmine‚ she is the fourth person and third daughter Eden adopted. Sam Bumatay as Daisy - The fifth and last person Eden adopted and is also the youngest among her seven siblings. Supporting cast[edit] Rayver Cruz as Cholo - A classmate of Rose who kept annoying her. Mark Herras as Jake - A classmate of Lily who kept stalking her. Bearwin Meily as Habagat - The husband of Marang. AJ Perez † as Daniel - Cholo’s best friend. Bela Padilla
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Japanese Interment Camps Discrimination of a single race in a country known as the “melting pot‚” is hard to justify. However‚ in the midst of war‚ with high tension and a severe case of paranoia‚ President Roosevelt made an executive decision. Moving‚ or forcing‚ Japanese-American citizens to interment camps is seen as a cruel‚ racist act of pure hatred and retaliation‚ when in reality it was a cautious decision made by a defensive country. There are definite reasons why interment camps are
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Cast Away Report In the movie Castaway‚ directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film focuses on the character Chuck Noland. Hard working‚ strict‚ a perfectionist and workaholic. He values organization‚ timing & the committed staff very highly and always wants to have better improvements for the consumers for example the orders arriving earlier than the approximate or given timeframe and supporting his team through encouragement & praise. However‚ usually he has trouble balancing his values with
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T.M. Luhrmann wrote “Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry” as an anthropological study focusing on the psychiatric world of the United States. In it‚ she argues that the psychiatric field has split into “two minds” – biological and psychodynamic. Luhrmann compares two models of mental disorders‚ describing diagnosis and psychopharmacology psychiatry against a psychodynamic psychotherapy specialization. Matthew Ratcliffe’s article “Understanding Existential Changes in Psychiatric
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In the documentary “Two American families” you see the struggle that the two families go through to grasp the American Dream. Their struggles teach us about the difficulty in achieving the American Dream. The documentary Two American Families relates to concept of the American dream‚ and how the two families the Stanley’s and Neumann’s are working for a right to a basic freedom. The Stanley’s and Neumann’s families are just two families hardworking families from the Midwest‚ who are currently going
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1. The major differences between Japanese and American educational systems according to Mori are what each educational system values. Mori states that in Japan‚ they value the precision and "…correct form is everything- there is no possibility that you can make a few minor mistakes and still ’get’ the spirit or the essence of the truth…" (136-135). Here‚ the details and not the whole picture are emphasized which contrasts with American education. In the American educational systems‚ Mori explains
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diversity can help any country advance‚ because work diversity includes many aspects‚ such as age‚ gender‚ nationality etc. For the age diversity‚ the country’s workers can not only the young person‚ and also can’t only old person‚ because old worker have more work experience‚ they can help young people grow up fast‚ but old worker always have fixed mind-sets‚ so the young people can bring the spirit of innovation‚ they complement each other and learn from each other‚ they can improve together. For the gender
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The japanese American International Camp is a concentration camp. 62% of the internees were United States citizens. During WW2‚ between 110‚000 and 120‚000 japanese people were taken into a concentration camp. Thousands of people were tortured there and were fed very little. Months later after japanese bombed pearl harbor‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed some papers saying all Japanese-Americans to go to the west coast for evacuation. All japanese-Americans were sent to a camp. In 1945‚ They
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The Journey of Two American Girls Laura Logan ENG125: Introduction to Literature (AFG1301A) Instructor: Carla McGill February 4‚ 2013 How can an African American and a Hispanic girls be treated different when they are the same type of person? I chose the theme of race and ethnicity when I selected the poems “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl” by Patricia Smith and “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levin Morales. I am a Hispanic person
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