High performance in education is widely known as the key to success. In addition‚ students must meet their high expectations. This especially affects the Vietnamese American youth community. Gangs‚ racism‚ poverty‚ and depression; others often overlook these four factors when it comes to identifying Vietnamese American youth. Vietnamese American youths are typically described as “model-minorities‚” or are often held to an extremely high standard when it comes to education‚ though it is highly unknown
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THE AWAKENING The opening scene in the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ where the caged parrots kept on repeating a statement‚ actually gives a picture to the reader about the title and the story. This scene‚ when analyzed carefully‚ illustrates how the main character of the play‚ Edna tries to overcome the awakening from the worldly and traditional bondages that she is surrounded with. In this story‚ Edna Pontellier‚ a young married woman experiences an awakening of sexuality within her‚ when
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As you all vividly remember‚ the Jersey Shore took a pounding during Hurricane Sandy. The winds‚ flooding‚ and whipping sand plummet the shoreline and communities forever changing the landscape. Some of you may not have gotten to appreciate this first hand. Maybe you do not have a house at the shore. Our two houses survived on the whole‚ but grasping the destruction and devastation‚ hit me in a way I never thought it could. I sensed in my heart that I was getting a glimpse into what transition
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The Sultana explosion “All of a sudden‚ the boilers erupted in a mammoth explosion‚ nearly splitting the Sultana in half” (Billings 1). The Sultana was going upriver on the Mississippi River when the boilers and the steamer stopped working (Billings 1). When all of a sudden a gigantic explosion on the boat killed 1‚700 people which is more than the Titanic (Billings 1). The boat was going up river and the boilers and steamer stopped working which caused the explosion (Billings 1). “The strain of
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Dams and levees weren’t enough to protect the 1‚836 people who died in Hurricane Katrina‚ and yet officials relied yet again on these devices against Hurricane Harvey 12 years later. Years have passed‚ and still so-called “experts” believe that because the circumstances may have been slightly different than before‚ they had the upper hand against nature. Various natural disasters have proven again and again that no human has power over the environment‚ and again and again these lapses in judgement
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History is one of the world’s greatest mysteries as even though humanity has access to tons of information collected over hundreds of years‚ there is not an absolute certainty that what humans know is fact. As a result‚ there are many misinterpretations regarding events in human history. For example‚ Christopher Columbus is believed to be the relationship between Native Americans and settling Americans has always been rocky. Citizens of the U.S.A have stripped these people of their rights and cast
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The 2010-11 Queensland Floods had significant impact on Queensland with their massive economic cost and loss of life. The floods occurred following prolonged periods of heavy rainfall between December 2010 and January 2011. They resulted in much of the state being inundated with water and had a massive impact on many people. These impacts included the deaths of 30 people‚ 78% of the state being declared a disaster zone‚ and over $5 billion in reconstruction costs—the most expensive natural disaster
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Haiti Earthquake “People poured out into the streets‚ crying‚ carrying bodies…” (Addley 1) Haiti is one of the poorest countries and home to more than 2 million people. Haiti was not prepared especially since Port-au-Prince‚ their capital‚ has very poorly built construction on its buildings and houses. “Haiti is a poor country with lax building standards and high population density‚ which makes buildings more likely to crumble.” (Thompson 1) Due to the earthquake and all the damage that happened
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Hurricane Irma was a natural disaster that mainly affected the Caribbean and Florida. Irma had struck the Florida Keys as a category 4 hurricane on September 10th‚ and was reduced to category 3 when it struck mainland Florida later that same day (Manzo‚ 2017). Prior to making landfall‚ the path that Irma would take was unclear. This uncertainty lead Governor Rick Scott to issue an evacuation order for 6.5 million residents (The New York Times‚ 2017). In the days preceding hurricane Irma‚ roads
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Is there anything more typical of New York City than the Statue of Liberty? Like so many things in life‚ the monument looks bigger than it is from far away‚ an estimable gatekeeper to the city that never sleeps. People of France gave the Statue of Liberty to the People of United States as a gift and sign of friendship between the two nations. This is what we know about the statue of liberty but did the people of France really give that gift to the people of the U.S.A? That’s what we will try to figure
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