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For me, my value in Buddhism, family and education help me make ethical decisions in my life, shaping me for who I am today. In 1989, I was born into a rice farming family living in a river bank village in an Asian country named Burma. Like most people in Burma, our family was also the follower of Buddhism. Therefore, I was born into a Buddhist family and taught the way of Buddhism before I can develop personal moral codes. At young age, I learned very simple teachings of Buddha from…

Stevenson said “yes” to public school.She works in public school as librarian for more than 10 years which makes her agreement much more convincing. She thinks public school is a diverse and democratic institution which will not leave any child alone. “While that may be the way of the wolves on Wall Street, we public school teachers will not abandon the lambs in our charge.”(Stvenson, 6) She draw an analogy to describe some children in private school are doing so well on their academic, however,…

over, Spain had surrendered the remainder of its overseas colonial empire to the United States. Even though Puerto Ricans were not considered citizens of the United States till 1917 with the Jones Act some say that “Puerto Ricans have been ‘born in the U.S.A’ since 1898.” (Nieto, 515) Once the United States had control over Puerto Rico, they had to decide the relationship with them and in 1952 they establish the status as a commonwealth. Puerto Rico gained its own Constitution and although they…

Titus Livius and The Early History of Rome Roman history is subjective to those who study it and write about the rise and the fall of the Roman Empire. One ancient historian named Titus Livius, who was born in either 59 B.C. or 64 B.C. , had written a series of books titled History of Rome. Not much is known about Titus Livius in his younger years except that he had lived in the city of Padua, which had suffered greatly in Rome’s Civil War. His books are split into several different…

Jayla Hodges 4 Jayla R. Hodges Professor Bork ENG-101-075 9/24/2017 Synthesize evidence from Fuentes's chapter and McIntosh's article to make an argument explaining how "race still matters" – or does not matter – in the U.S.A. today. Move beyond the issues and examples that Fuentes discusses to extend and/or challenge Fuentes's thinking. Race still matters in the United States, however, it should not be an ongoing issue that continues to separate us from being equal. Social class, education…

The United States of America has had a complex history. Throughout its history it has done many things that its people are proud of and many things that its people are not so proud of. The U.S.A as a country cannot forget about the things the U.S. have done badly in the past but, rather, the U.S. must talk and learn the issues and problems so that Americans can learn from their mistakes and not repeat them. I believe that there are three very important lessons that our country can learn from…

Jumpa Lahiri is the child of Indian immigrants who she was born in England and grew up in the USA. While she is living in the United States, she suffers of conflict of cultural in during her life. Hence, her fictions afoul with conflict of cultural and lost identity among the characters of her stories. The purpose of the paper is to study multicultural problem and searching of identity in Namesake novel and Lowland novel, and collection of short stories in Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.…

recognize dual citizenship. Which means, acquiring new citizenship of another country will lead to automatic loss of home country’s citizenship status of the aforementioned countries. Whereas developed countries that allowed dual nationality such as U.S.A, U.K., Canada, Switzerland and Australia. (Citizenship Laws of the World) There are several ways of becoming citizens of more than one country. One way to obtain citizenship in a foreign country is through investment of large sums of money.…

the sufferings of the common people and portrayed the same in her fictions. Journalism was an education for her and she used to consider writing as the payment of this education. Childhood & Early life Martha Gellhorn, the Jewish origin girl was born on 8th of November,…

What makes us who we are? That question has been asked a lot lately, and now it is time for it to be answered. Many things develop who a person is, it could be the person’s name because they’ve been called that their whole life. It could also be their life experiences because a person could have experienced something that changes their perspective on life which determines who they are, or even the people they are around like family for example, family influences other family members, this can…