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    Sophie Cruz, 6 year old Activist for Immigrant Rights. Sophie Cruz a young activist from America born in 2010. Her parents, Raul and Zoyla Cruz, are undocumented immigrants from the state of Oaxaca,Mexico, she was born is america, she also has a 3 year old sister that was also born in america, but her parents are undocumented immigrants and might face deportation. “I have the right to protection. I have the right to live with my parents,” Sophie declared, “I have the right to live without fear. I have the right to be happy.” Sofia was the one that convinced her family to stand up, not her parents convincing her. A six-year-old girl, whose parents are undocumented immigrants, gave a speech in Washington at the Women’s March. Speaking…

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    She said it was “love at first sight”, but after having her wedding dress fitted and the wedding date set, she called the off the engagement. She decided the marriage would not work due to the demands of his career that would require him to be gone most of the time. Audrey did, however, marry twice. In 1954, she married actor Mel Ferrer. In 1960, they had a son named Luca. Their marriage lasted 14 years. During the later years of their marriage, Ferrer was rumored to have had a girlfriend, while…

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    She traveled to many starving towns in Africa, helping UNICEF aid people in need. Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Audrey’s first son and author of Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit, recalls Audrey coming home absolutely infuriated with society. She wanted everyone to feel the same need to help that she did. Audrey Hepburn often spoke at events of her volunteering with UNICEF. In one her speeches, she stated “Your one percent is an example of one hundred percent but all together a beautiful example to us of…

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    How would life be when people finally open their eyes and stop living in denial and accepting the truth. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, there are three prisoners that have been imprisoned in a cave for their whole life. They’ve only seen the same wall this whole time and their only source of light would is a fire which is behind them which creates shadows. At one point a prisoner is able to free himself from the chains, when he goes out he realizes that everything he’s been seeing on the walls…

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    1. Did Rizal supported the 1896 Philippine Revolution of bonifacio? Why or why not? - I don’t think he did. If I were to tell based on what I understand in his point of view, he don’t want Filipinos to revolt yet, because he knew that this will not succeed. But on the other hand, I think that he supported it on his own ways. He wanted Filipinos to be free, one of the reason why he build the group “La liga Filipina, it’s because he wanted too, to revolt but I think he is still waiting for the…

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    a Looking into the Preface or the introductory section of the book, what was/were the author's objective/s in writing the book and did he achieve that/those objective/s? The objective of William Henry Scott in writing the book was to answer the question: What did the Spaniards actually say about the Filipino People when they first met them? This question led him to provide answers and details about the recurring systems on the Philippine culture before the colonial period that will surely give…

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    I was born and lived in San Jose, California up to the age of thirteen years old. Right before high school my parents decided to relocate to Modesto, California. While living in Modesto, my mother was diagnosed with diabetes. I remember how it was difficult to watch my mother go through the symptoms of diabetes. She was losing weight, she was always tired and her vision started to deteriorate. It made me feel so helpless. I recall going with my mother to her doctor appointments, and seeing…

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    Source 1: Imagine being awakened early in the morning by the ground shaking so hard that you're thrown out of bed and across the room--if you're even lucky enough to be alive. On April 18, 1906, at 5:12 a.m., an earthquake hit San Francisco, destroying much of the city. San Francisco was a growing city with many closely spaced wooden homes and unsupported brick buildings. The moment the earthquake started, buildings collapsed, water mains broke, and a huge fire broke out that spread rapidly…

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    for Howell is to coordinate with Brad Smith, the San Francisco division manager, to determine staffing requirements at the San Francisco division. Through collaboration, Smith and Howell can determine which departments at the San Francisco facility are short on staff and which departments are overstaffed. Once manning levels at the San Francisco facility are determined, Howell can determine which employees at the San Jose facility need to be retained. A collaborative approach is the best and…

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    2.a. . More than any other state, California's coastal zone management program has gotten involved in aesthetics. Summarize this effort The Management success in California coastal is credited and attributable to the teamwork and dedication of the locals, state, nongovernmental organizations, federal agencies, and private interests who made studies, regulation, policy making, development, monitoring of coastal resources, planning, restoration, management, and acquisition. While the efforts and…

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