From Beatings to Tweets‚ Racism on the Rise in Greece The population of Greece is 11 million. Of this 11 million‚ 1 million are immigrants‚ many of which are illegal. There has been a recent uprising of violent attacks of racism due to the increasing number of immigrants in Greece. A party known as the “Golden Dawn” has been behind many of these attacks. They were also said to be behind a tweet prejudicially referring to the African immigrants of Greece. Forwarding this tweet‚ triple
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This was a very interesting post!! I am high school math teacher in an urban district and I think the students need a detox at the beginning of the year. I think the most frightening thing is how many students just “hate” school. I think educators in my school district have been lead to believe that we start teaching subject skills on day 1. We don’t always have the chance to get to know our students on day one except for their names and maybe their birthdates. I really appreciate the links to the
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June 16th‚ 2013 During the summer of 2011 a few friends and I decided to go visit another mutual friend that resides in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. This would be my first trip to Pennsylvania and we all wanted to make the most of it. We decided that we would do some site seeing and just enjoy the change of environment. On June 29th‚ 2011 we decided that we would start our day by going to breakfast and visiting Fairmont Park. While we were there‚ we went to visit Memorial Hall. My initial
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In The Wise Old Woman by Yoshiko Uchida there is a cruel young lord that made a rule that when you turn 71 you are to be sent to the mountains to die. The farmers mother just turned 71. The farmer refuses to leave her up there and brings here back down. Then Lord Higa comes to the village. He gives three riddles for the people to solve and the only one that can is the farmers mother. She solves the riddles saving the village. Throughout the story the boy and the mother make sacrifices for one another
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Social Security Act (1935) With a dramatic increase in life expectancy and decreases in mortality rates‚ many old People live their later lives with chronic illnesses and disabilities. As a result‚ long-term care is becoming an important part of service to the elderly population. The US General Accounting Office (1994) reports that more than 12 million Americans need long-term care and 55% of them are people aged 65 or older (Binstock‚ Cluff‚ & Mering‚ 1996). Accordingly‚ the government
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Reaction Mechanisms The mechanism of a chemical reaction is the sequence of events that take place as reactant molecules are converted into products. Introduction The study of kinetics includes very complex and sophisticated reactions that cannot be analyzed without a proposed mechanism‚ a series of steps that a reaction takes before reaching the final products. Reaction mechanisms are step-by-step descriptions of what occurs on a molecular level in chemical reactions. Each step of the reaction
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White like me is a documentary tracking Tim Wise detailing the history of racism in America and how it still affects us in the present. Tim Wise attended a school where the teachers and students were mostly black‚ and he said he had learned to respect the “black authority figures” from a young age. During college Tim realized he was privileged as a white person: by having the choice to speak out against racism from a distance and not doing anything about locally. The white privilege included having
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Introduction 4 Festival and Event Management 5 The Growth Strategy 8 Consolidation or Stability Strategy 8 Retrenchment Strategy 9 Combination Strategy 9 Objectives 10 Post – Event Evaluation 13 Vision Statement 15 Mission Statement 16 Market & Situational Analysis: 18 Market Analysis 18 Situational Analysis 19 Festival/Event Program: 21 Festival and Event Finance 21 Budgets: 22 Financial Control: 25 Ticket Policy: 27 Festival/Event Grant Schemes: 28 Sponsorship:
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well enjoy his youth while it lasts. He has his whole life ahead of him and he still has lots to learn and experience. 2. What qualities of a mature person does the author possess? -The author seems to possess the qualities of being a mature‚ wise and responsible individual. These are evident in the decisions that he made based on morality and not on emotions. He learned from the experiences of his friends and made a realization that a mature person must not act on impulse and every decision
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Socrates was in fact wise about God in his life and death as a philosopher in the classical Athens time period. To fully show he was wise about God‚ one must investigate what wisdom and who God is‚ and use textual evidence‚ or dialogues of Socrates‚ to prove his wisdom of God. In order to show that Socrates was in fact wise about God‚ one must first define what wisdom itself is. An English word with the stem word‚ weid‚ wid meaning “to see” (Mohr‚ p. 4). It can be defined as a type of knowledge
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