Same Places‚ Same People‚ Different Names There was a big problem for me and I am certain that it is shared among millions of people from different parts of the world living in the United States or other English speaking countries. I am referring to the problem that why some foreign names are different in the English language from their origins while some others are almost the same as they are in their origins. For example‚ names such as Ali‚ Buddha‚ Miriam‚ Tokyo‚ Washington‚ and Quito are the
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expectations. I have my own dreams in life‚ but some of my dreams were deferred for the satisfaction of my family. My dad wants me to be fluent in English‚ and maybe learn another language later on in life; he also wants me to expand as a spiritual person by learning and studying other cultures which will make me the superior person they always wanted to see and to be proud of. When I was fifteen-years-old my dad sent me to India‚ a place that I have never been to. He wanted me to go there as an exchange
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that I wouldn’t go to bed until we came to an agreement. O: All right‚ all right. I’m here. «Babe»‚ I’ll be back soon. S: Oh‚ your car won’t disappear unlike us. If you want to stay at home with your dear bucket (груда металлолома)‚ I can easily arrange it for you‚ and we with Susan will travel the world alone. O: Oh‚ women-women‚ what a wet blanket they are! (Murmuring) L: Daddy‚ we’ve heard every word you’ve said. S: Well‚ we have to define 2 main points: the first one is where to go and the second
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and similarities among the world’s peoples. According to Professor Kluckhohn‚ it’s because of culture. People who live in the same culture share many things in common and different cultures shape different characteristics of people. I share the same point of view with him‚ based on my own experience and observation. In my opinion‚ different values in different cultures make people different. In many cases‚ TV drama reflects most of the values which the country believes in. Collectivism is one of
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WHY DO FILIPINOS GO ABROAD? With an area of only about 300‚000 km2 and a population of more than 98 million to date‚ the Philippines could be likened to a huge can of sardines which could only allot around 3 square meters of individual space per person. That is‚ if all of us are actually inhabiting the country. However‚ ask a young Filipino what he or she plans to do in the future are and chances are‚ one of them is to go abroad. You can look in the most remote of barrios in the Philippines
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For my Follow on Service Project I am creating a study abroad mentorship program called the HPU Go Abroad Initiative that focuses on incoming and current low income and minority/ underrepresented students at Hawaii Pacific University. Hawaii Pacific University mission is to celebrate and promote diversity as it considered one of the culturally diverse universities in the nation and the world. To take it to another level‚ supporting and uplifting underrepresented students especially Native Hawaiian/American
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“Different people have different perceptions of belonging” speech Bridgette Ferrier Good morning year 12 and thankyou for coming. Today I am here to discuss with you how “different people have different perceptions of belonging” through the analysis of Peter Skrzynecki’s poems ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ and ‘St Patrick’s College’. As well as my own related texts‚ My place Episode 2. So what is belonging? Well perceptions and ideas of belonging or not belonging vary. These perceptions are shaped within
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We Could Have Told a Different Story After reading many accounts from slaves and comparing them to the stories of the rich white folk of the same era‚ we can see that the true fanatics were indeed the Southerners who supported slavery. Many of the arguments put forth by credible slaveholders proved to be full of logical fallacies and completely void of any truth based on the reports from slaves. The first and perhaps most ridiculous argument presented by Southerners was that slaves were happy
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Essay on the theme: «Travelling» Traveling is one of the majority hobbies of people. Why a lot of people so like to travel? Everything is simple when the person travels‚ he learns world around. There are a lot of types of tourism such as ecotourism‚ mass tourism‚ package tour and independent travel. The majority of people like to travel and in order to make a trip abroad we go to travel agency. In travel agency we are met by the tourist agent‚ who helps us plan holidays and make travel
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Studying Abroad or Studying At Home ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Studying abroad has become very fashionable for many residents. Many students seek the opportunities to study overseas to create a bright future and achieve childhood dreams. People who prefer to leave their home and study abroad seemed to be searching
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