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    because we were tired of living in poverty we came here to succeed and not to take no one’s job. There are plenty of jobs out here but no one is willing to do them except whom‚ undocumented immigrants. Many people procrastinate‚ but yet when have you seen someone else work in the fields‚ be a janitor‚ or housekeeper. The fresh fruits and vegetables that most have in their table were picked by whom? Illegal immigrants. They are jobs nobody else wants to take because it has to do a lot with social class

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    Gold Mounted Guns was a story where the title was used as a trap or lure for criminals. One criminal named Will thought that the sheriff was the number one villain in town. That was only because of his signature gold mounted guns. It also showed in the end when he states out‚ “I’m the sheriff that killed him yesterday... how he was the number one sheriff in town not the villain. Everyone thought this because of his guns. The part of the story in the end shows that he’s as gold as his guns. He used

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    There were many problems‚ events‚ and situations that led to the Civil War. One of the major reasons for the outbreak of the war was sectionalism. Once the United States was split‚ many of the country’s fundamental issues were disputed‚ with slavery being at the top of the list. Some of the other major issues in dispute were representation‚ tariffs‚ and states’ rights. Sectionalism is defined as‚ the sharp socio-economic differences that divided the Northern and the Southern states in the U.S.

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    Alvina Lai Honours American History OL V1 Ms. Alison Jones March 31st‚ 2015 Slavery in the United States The United States has had a horrible and shameful history of slavery‚ and although many movements had been made to abolish the worst of it‚ so many deaths and torture had been caused in the time that it took for blacks to get the same rights as whites. Even now‚ we can see the horror that it wrought on the country. Black people are still being killed in their own homes‚ they are still being

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    Economic Issues Essay Shannon Ray Macroeconomics 11am-12:10pm Poverty. This seven letter word can bring up so many different feelings for so many different people around the world. The one thing that ties all those different people together is the lack of money to support their families and themselves. Most people on the poverty line and below can attribute it to their lack of education. In this essay I am going to be talking about the impact education has

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    repopulation and immigration. Through the different waves of immigration‚ America experienced a lot of change that would transform the country. During the second half of the 1800s‚ Asian immigration into the United States of America had a positive economic influence on the country while also affecting the social aspects of the country in negative ways. The major waves Asian immigration into the United States of America has been going on for almost two centuries. Many Chinese‚ Japanese‚ Korean

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    The United States populates over 325 million people. Of these 325 million‚ 13.5 percent of them are under the poverty threshold‚ which is about 42.3 million people. These people are lacking of basic requirements for living such as money‚ clothes‚ a home‚ food‚ and even education. Without their basic requirements for living it makes it harder for them to get out of their current situation. Even though the government have tried to step in and solve this problem‚ the government programs that are set

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    Chinese immigrants in western countries: integration challenges Annika Brink (101024) – July 5‚ 2012 Introduction Anno 2012 Europe consists of 47 independent countries that are divided by shared borders. At present day they note a feeling of nationalism to some‚ but‚ at an increasingly growing rate‚ also bring a sense of freedom to others. In today’s world of globalization borders are by no means a confinement‚ neither in leisure or business travel‚ nor in permanent living space. As a result

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    Juvenile compensated dating and ways to tackle it It has recently arouse to the public’s attention that the issue of juvenile Enjo kōsai‚ in English means juvenile compensated dating‚ has been worsening in Hong Kong. According to the survey reports conducted by The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong (FPAHK) in 2011 and the Hong Kong Association of Sexuality Educators‚ Researchers and Therapists (HKASERT) in 2009‚ 23% of school girls accepted compensated dating behavior with almost 24% among

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    ‘housing problem’ but a much more complex mixture of social and economic factors‚ together with ‘individual’ factors which need to be addressed and analysed in order to try and resolve the growing problem of increasing numbers of homeless people. One could question whether society acknowledges the depth and breadth of the problem within our developed country. Statistics collated by the organisation ‘Shelter’ have reported that “ in 2003 137‚220 were accepted as homeless…” Shelter.2005 [online].

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