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    Ethnographic Analysis

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    There are lots of immigrants in the Bay Area, and they are trying to settle down in the new environment with diverse society. According the 2005-2007 American Community survey, nearly one third of residents in the Bay Area region are immigrants, 54% of immigrants in Bay Area are citizens; immigrants and their children make up 42% of population in the Bay Area, of all children in region 49% have at least one immigrant parent. This status tells us that Bay Area has lots of immigrant and the second…

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    Guantanamo Bay Prison, a controversial topic, where the worst of the worst reside, most uncharged, and are interrogated day in and day out all in an effort to protect the citizens of the United States. The film, The Road to Guantanamo, tells the story of three friends before and during their time in Guantanamo through their own accounts, archival footage, and dramatized re-enactments. Through the use of the witness interviews and the dramatized re-enactments of the real events described, The…

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    Guantánamo Bay detention camp Legal assignment Guantanamo bay detention centre a. Identify and describe a contemporary human rights issue The Guantanamo Bay detention camp (also known as GITMO), is a US detention facility located on the coast of Guantanamo Bay in south-eastern Cuba, on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. It was built in 2002 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and subsequent military operations in Afghanistan. The detention centre was used to house Muslim militants and…

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    creation of Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo Bay is a detention camp located in Cuba that hold suspected terrorists and is used to extract critical information. There have been proposed plans to close or replace Guantanamo Bay due to moral and cost-wise reasons. However, it should remain open because the detainees are too dangerous to move to another prison, crucial information is extracted, and the U.S. Constitution and the Geneva Convention are not violated. The detainees in Guantanamo Bay are not…

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    Kingsford officially became recognised as a suburb on 25 June 1936. Prior to becoming its own suburb, it was mostly undeveloped land and was known as South Kensington. The suburb is mainly residential with a population of 14,100. It has a large commercial area where the markets, restaurants, hotels, and bars are found. Kingsford is surrounded by other eastern suburbs, making it close to Sydney, beaches, and other recreational areas. Housing The housing situation in Kingsford consists of…

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    2016. Web. 23 July 2016. This source explains that many people considered the thirteen colonies to be 3 very distinct regions, firstly because of the landscape. There was the North (New England), the Middle Colonies, the Southern Colonies, and the Chesapeake Colonies, which many historians consider to be part of the Southern Colonies. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island made up New England. These colonies were small and poorer farming towns. Geographically, the area had…

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    Anjun Nitrogen Script

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    off and becomes part of the Chesapeake Bay. Then it feeds algae, which blocks sunlight from plants and animals then during decomposition, creates dead zones that steal the oxygen from the plants and animals. It kills the animals and plants which disturbs the ecosystem. If more dead zones keep appearing the entire Bay will be destroyed and the ecosystem will be extremely unbalanced. Ava: Nitrogen pollution mostly known as fertilizer, gets dumped into the chesapeake bay which contaminates the…

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    C. in America. Directing our attention to Washington D.C., we can see how humans have disrupted the ecosystem and are now in jeopardy of not being able to restore it to it’s previous greatness. The Chesapeake Bay was once one of the liveliest…

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    debris, manure, pesticides, oil, and automotive fluids. If the runoff is poorly treated or untreated, it negatively affects the water quality and the aquatic life in the local streams, then the rivers in which they feed, and then ultimately the Chesapeake Bay (Polluted Runoff). When it rains and the rain lands in a metropolitan or rural area, where there is asphalt or no way of drainage at all, the water flows into the storm drains with all the…

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    Even though English settlers traveled across the Atlantic to the Chesapeake Bay area, the West Indies, and the area that became New England all around the same time, they formed very different kinds of society. This makes it obvious that the determining factor in the way colonial societies grow is dependent on more than just the lifestyle its settlers had in their homeland. In addition to the reasons for settlement in each area, one might also explore the obstacle settlers faced in…

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