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    The “Happiest Refugee” is the official autobiography of the Australian comedian Anh Do. The book is based around his life story starting in Vietnam and then becoming a fascinating story about his triumphs and darkest hours. Anh and his family went through many challenges as depicted in his text and these included the struggles Ahn faced at St Aloysius School‚ thereby depicting his social context. Ahn Do’s journey over to Australia was also conveyed through the use of descriptive and emotive language

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    Chechen Refugee Camps and Education 620/ PSYCH April 14‚ 2014 Dr. Neysa Hatcher Chechen Refugee Camps and Education The creation of schools is one of the leading ways to produce hope and stability in refugee camps. Many would love to go to school because‚ currently they have no other option‚ but to teach themselves. Refugees can recall having great memories of their past school experiences‚ which they use as motivation to continue to learn. On account of my involvement with a refugee relief

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    There is a crisis in Syria‚ Syrian refugee are coming to American. Should Syrian refugee or shouldn’t they make safe haven in American? Syrian refugee shouldn’t be permitted safe haven in U.S.A because for two reason‚ terrorist and diseases‚ terrorist might kill the president and may cause pandemic. Do you want to know how can be dangerous? Let talk about Syrian refugee can be dangerous and violent‚ because they can be terrorist. According to www.CBsnews.com “there was eight attacker‚ seven whom

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    Working with Refugee Students in Secondary Schools A Counselor’s Companion 1 Minnesota Department of Education English Language Learner Programs 2010 Working with Refugee Students in Secondary Schools A Counselor’s Companion Today’s challenge is to find ways to nourish the spirit of the “world’s children” in our lives and teach them skills for dealing with the ever-increasing demands of a stressful and complicated world‚ and life itself. Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings:

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    cannot fathom. Each refugee experience is unique. Although many refugees are relocated to a new‚ safe country‚ the struggles they face do not end when they are resettled. New challenges emerge as they try to adapt to their new culture. Over half of refugees are children (McBrien 329). Thus‚ refugee children are forced to overcome many barriers. Cultural differences‚ language acquisition‚ and discrimination are major obstacles refugee children deal with (McBrien 330). Refugee children especially struggle

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    GLOSSARY OF TECHNIQUES USED TO CREATE MEANING Active voice/passive voice Writing that uses the forms of verbs which create a direct relationship between the subject and the object. Active voice is lively and more direct. Eg. ‘We had fun’ is written in the active voice; ‘Fun was had’ is written in the passive voice. Alliteration The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. It is used to produce sound that adds to the atmosphere or mood of the words‚ or perhaps

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    In Langston Hughes’s poem titled “The Weary Blues”‚ the speaker describes an evening spent listening to a blues musician in Lenox Avenue‚ Harlem. With the help of certain poetic and acoustic techniques‚ the poem manages to evoke the same lamenting and woeful tone and mood of blues music. This essay will be a critical appreciation of this poem in which I will discuss it in the context of the Harlem Renaissance as well as examine how the Blues music functions as a means of articulating personal and

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    Compare and contrast Auden’s and Faulks’ use of detail establish a feeling of alienation in ‘Refugee Blues’ and ‘The Last Night’ Both Sebastian Faulks and W. H. Auden write about the tales of Jewish refugees living in the time of holocaust during WW2 in their two pieces‚ ‘The Last Night’ and ‘Refugee Blues’. By using literary techniques such as imagery and tone both writers‚ Auden and Gray create a sense of alienation for the characters portrayed in their writing. Both Auden and Gray create a

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    ALLITERATION is the repetition of consonant sounds in a series of words. If the consonants are the same but the sounds are different they do not alliterate. eg. "...the grease that kisses the onions with a hiss." from WILLIAM STREET by Kenneth Slessor ALLUSION is the reference to well-known figures and/or other texts eg. "And thrice I heard the Cock crow thinking I knew it’s meaning well." from COCK CROW by Rosemary Dobson The reference here is to the denial of Jesus after his arrest by

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    like a criminal if you aren’t one. When your day-to-day life is restricted in every humiliating way imaginable. And with all of this‚ you are not given a single reason why and you are not told when the ordeal will end.” Writes Yogachandran‚ an adult refugee‚ Amnesty international. 17 million children are refugees‚ they have questions that the parents should be able to answer‚ but are unable to achieve the information for themselves. What else is happening that we should know about this? There are currently

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