First school

Manju Kapur’s fourth novel The Immigrant (2008) is a story of two immigrants, Nina and Ananda. Manju Kapur chose Canada as the background for her novel The Immigrant and discusses the Indian diaspora in Canada. The novel explores the issues of cultural conflict, alienation, dislocation of Indian culture, diaspora and quest for identity. It reflects the loneliness and the search of self being experienced by the immigrants. The beginning of the novel poses the identity issues of the immigrants by…

a concept, Development has been exported to third world countries uncontested. Many theories have been advanced to support the achievement of development goals such as the modernisation, structuralist, and Participatory approaches. Although these school of thoughts originated from different points in history and have polarised ideas on how development can be achieved, they all inherently accept that development is the solution to the challenges affecting third world countries. This question…

“it is time to refuse to give aid in the form of food to needy countries that do not accept responsibility for limiting their population growth (Hardin 204)’’, is definitely unethical an contradicting as well to what he has studied while he was in school. One thing that very much makes his reader question his stance of aid is his ethics and humanitarian perspective. He explains in many occasions throughout the text that programs such as “food for peace program” (Hardin 205), will only do harm…

It is not surprising that the movements of the Sixties were global. The “long 1960s,” the period that stretched from 1954 to 1975, followed the second World War of the century; even the name connotes the new scale of the world. People could be interconnected, especially as new technologies could communicate liberal philosophies across the globe. White students living in American cities could read “Third World” liberation theories and find applicability in their own self-styled liberation…

bilingual, such as better future career opportunities, positive effects on self-image, and the development of skills of enabling effective communication within different language-speaking communities, parents appear to be highly supportive of bilingual school programs (Lao, 2014). As a result,…

Originality is a concept which has changed and evolved over hundreds of years. Indeed, the definition of originality, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as the “ability to think or express oneself in an independent and individual manner” , has not always been so rigid. In the Elizabethan era the concept of originality was not concerned with whose idea was whose. In fact, originality was all about how the idea was portrayed, for instance, whether it was performed on stage or by other…

world today, still consists of such a wide range of historical literature that was written decades ago? Historical literature is so important that in most curriculums around the world, students will have to study these texts at some times in their school life. It allows us as people of the future to assess, and understand the social issues that have occurred in the past, and to avoid tragedies from happening again. Shakespeare is one of the most well-known playwrights who has written most of the…

There is an increasing population of children in the United States whose primary language is other than English (Tabors, 1998). ELLs enter school with various levels of education and experiences with the English language (Bennett-Amistead, et al, 2005). Many ELLs are exposed to English when they enter preschool (Coppola, 2005). In order to make informed decisions about instructions, activities…

My main goal is to shape young people into disciples filled with Bible knowledge and to help send them out in the world to witness to the unsaved. I plan to do this by combining the discipleship model and the ministry model talked about by Richard R. Dunn in his book, “Reaching A Generation For Christ”. He states that the philosophy of the discipleship model as, “The discipleship model trains students to be God’s people in an ungodly world, equipped with Bible study and prayer skills developed…

Throughout Canadian history, there always seems to have been a rough patch and mistreatment when it comes to the Aboriginal people. One specific example would be the implementation and operation of Indian Hospitals, a part of Canadian Health Care history some would rather forget and one that many still feel the pain of. In her novel Healing Histories: Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals, Laurie Meijer Drees collects and documents multiple experiences from within these hospitals. By studying…