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What are the biggest challenges immigrants face when going to America and to what extent can they be overcome? The issues focused on in the essay are the biggest challenges that immigrants face in their day-to-day lives in a new place. An immigrant is someone who moves to another country permanently. Some issues they struggle with most are the cultural differences, the language barrier and trying to make a living. Those points and more are explored through the sources used to write this essay.…

The texts “I Escaped A Violent Gang” and “Making Sarah Cry” have similar themes of courage. Each text shows the theme differently throughout the text. In “I escaped A Violent Gang” the author had to go through different events needing courage. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah shows courage while standing up to her bullies. While both of these texts share a common theme, the mood of the texts is completely different. The memoir “I Escaped A Violent Gang” has a mood of sadness and is a bit scary…

The poem ‘Leda and the Swan’ by William Butler Yeats retells a renown story from Greek mythology. According to the myth, Leda, a queen of Sparta, was raped or seduced by Zeus in the guise of a swan. Leda then gave birth to three eggs, one of which did not hatch. The other two gave life to Helen (of Troy) and Pollux, who are assumed to be children of Zeus, and Castor and Clytemnestra, children of Leda’s husband Tyndareus. In the poem, Yeats alludes to the Trojan war and depicts unusually violent…

In Praise of Margins “In Praise of Margin” by Ian Frazier, Frazier reflects on his childhood to manifest the importance of margins, which involve any type of activity having no certain purpose to. In his case, it is the woods. He concludes that these activities are very important to our ordinary lives, providing some sort of comfort. He continues to argue that marginal activities should continue to be done; he provides an amount of examples of the wonders these marginal activities provide to…

Primogeniture, a system that provided a form of transfer from the deceased to their children in chronological birth order, had revealed itself present during the Elizabethan Era, and also has shown present in Shakespeare's’ works, such as the comedy As You Like It. Primogeniture had played a hefty role in the Elizabethan Era, shaping society to what it is known as today. Numerous factors tell of the importance of primogeniture, and during the Elizabethan Era, it not only influenced many writers,…

2. This article explains how polygamy was what originated polyamory, why people choose it, and how the relationship works. Also, it talks about how if polyamory would become legal, monogamous people would be tempted to practice this lifestyle. In addition, this article talks about the welfare of children, since their parents chose the lifestyle, not them. 3. One of the key points about is, “Modern-day polyamory is justified by the same basic thinking. One advocate claims that polyamory governs…

" History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 22 Sept. 2016. The article, “AUSCHWITZ” shared many horrific acts the Nazis made that occurred during the Holocaust in World War ll. This article stated that Jewish people were perceived as the enemies and that more than one million of them died at Auschwitz. Hitler, who was the chancellor of Germany at that time, believed that there needed to be a “final solution”. The article shared that the final solution was to exterminate every Jew,…

Fieldwork Articles The following five articles I obtain through my own research on the subject of summer bridge programs. I have yet to have solidify a fieldwork site given my bad luck of having fieldwork sites unable to have me work for the summer session. As I wait for a fieldwork site to work, I began to research summer bridge programs and the impact they have on student success. Three of the following articles were assigned to me by a past supervisor with hopes that they would assist my…

Article Critique Wood, R. & Ashfield, J. (2008). The use of the interactive whiteboard for creative teaching and learning in literacy and mathematics: a case study. Br J Educ Technol, 39(1), 84- 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00703.x Introduction This paper aims at critiquing an article written by Ruth Wood and Jean Ashfield on the use of interactive whiteboards in a bid to enhance creative teaching and learning in literacy and mathematics. This piece will evaluate the strengths…

In the article that “Vocation or Exploration? Pondering the Purpose of College” it highlights the struggle between choosing a major that one desires or a major that will help them earn more money. And it also questions if going to a college or university is ensuring us students that we’ll have a job after graduation or not. Going to a university or college is suppose to help us earn a degree in a field that we love. Many have asked themselves if they should pursue a different career that would…