document is an evaluation of the unemployment and drug dealing situation in East Harlem New York. It is based on five years of ethnographic data that was collected by the anthropologist‚ Dr. Philippe Bourgois of the University of Pennsylvania. As the social worker assigned to this evaluation‚ I have collaborated with Dr. Bourgois to give an anthropological explanation behind the high rates of unemployment and drug dealing in East Harlem. This report is based on the experiences of a man who worked within
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This movie tells us the story of a Pakistani migrant who experiments troubles finding a compromise between his integration and keeping his roots. Indeed‚ we understand his will to impose his family a strict Pakistani culture at the very beginning of the movie‚ when he pushes his eldest son in an arranged marriage. His family is obviously reluctant to his conservative vision‚ which leads the whole family to stand up against the father when he tries to organize arranged marriages for two of his other
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Jessica Freedom American Intercontinental University Unit 1 Individual Project BUSN300 – Lower Division Capstone January 9‚ 2011 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to create an outline with three levels for a paper that is titled “Global Warming: Fact or Fiction” and support the points listed. Outline I. What is global warming? A. What causes global warming? 1. Global warming: fact or fiction. 2. Global warming effects on the human race. Global warming is when the earth
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THE CASE STUDY OF EAST ORCHIDS AREAS OF CONSIDERATION: The East Orchids is an orchid farm in the campus grounds of the University of the Philippines in Diliman‚ Quezon City. It was formally opened on May 31‚ 1989‚ by Mr. and Mrs. Max Prieto. East Orchids sold both cut flowers and plants. As a typical with orhidariums‚ the farm has a 3‚000 sq. m. Canopy enclosure of green netting that covering a huge inventory of orchids. HISTORY The Prieto’s family was one of the prominent families in Davao
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The Middle East‚ Byzantium‚ and East Asia There were many similarities and differences between Byzantium and the Middle East and East Asia. Both regions were based on religions that were founded by prophets‚ but Byzantium and the Middle East had religions that were monotheistic‚ and East Asia did not. They also differed in the fact that the Middle East and Byzantium focused on academic development‚ and East Asia focused on military development‚ but were similar because both developed new ways to
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of two distinct blocks of territory. East Pakistan was not only separated geographically from West Pakistan by one thousand miles‚ but the departing land was India - a hostile neighbour‚ who from the day one did not recognise Pakistan’s existence. Hindu leaders gave statements at the time of Pakistan’s creation that it was a temporary division and very soon Pakistan will come into Indian fold again. For them‚ to execute their nefarious designs‚ keeping both sides divided and hostile‚ was the cornerstone
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Middle East Part 1 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Many issues still remain today between the two groups. These include mutual recognition‚ borders‚ security‚ water rights‚ control of Jerusalem‚ Israeli settlements‚ Palestinian freedom of movement and legalities concerning refugees. The violence resulting from the conflict has brought international actions‚ as well as security and human rights concerns‚ within‚ between both sides‚ and internationally
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Rough draft United States believes that at the age of 18 you are considered an adult and are responsible for your own actions. At the age of 18 you can move out of your parents homes‚ I and every other girl in this room can go have an abortion‚ at the age of 18 you can sign up for the military and legally kill people and even put your own life at risk to protect our country‚ we can vote on who we want the next president of our country to be‚ you can go to a car dealer ship and purchase a car
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East and West Rabindranath Tagore I It is not always a profound interest in man that carries travellers nowadays to distant lands. More often it is the facility for rapid movement. For lack of time and for the sake of convenience we generalise and crush our human facts into the packages within the steel trunks that hold our travellers’ reports. Our knowledge of our own countrymen and our feelings about them have slowly and unconsciously grown out of innumerable facts which are full of contradictions
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values”‚ (paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association‚ Boston‚ US‚ 11 Nov 2010). Byman‚ Daniel L.‚ “A Frosty Response to the Arab Spring”‚ in The Arab Awakening: America and the Transformation of the Middle East (Washington: Brookings Institution‚ 2011). Cantay‚ Hasan Basri‚ “Islamic culture in Turkish areas”‚ in Kenneth W. Morgan‚ ed.‚ Islam-The Straight Path: Islam interpreted by Muslims (New York: Ronald Press Company‚ 1958). Eickelman‚ Dale and Jon Anderson
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