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    Martin Luther King Jr., a well-known symbol in the African-American Civil Rights movement once said,“life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’” This quote relates to his efforts to make America a better place for not only him and his family but for everyone around him. His actions against authority are a symbol to everyone suffering from racism because he is willing to sacrifice himself for a greater good. Unlike Martin Luther King Jr. some people resist…

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    Raquel Cepeda

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    In the story “Bird of Paradise: How I became Latina” by Raquel Cepeda, begins with a title that drives the readers mind into a flowing photo of nature. From just reading part of the title, it can be interpreted that the author depicts herself as a free animal. A flying animal, that comes from a place described as a paradise or an ideal place as some will call it; which as Cepeda explains, “paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.” In the first paragraph,…

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    limited. Furthermore, Quang Tri province is the province which has the lowest GDP per capita in Vietnam, only about $80 US Dollars (Korea Eximbank, 2012). The medical helps for rehabilitation are also limited as lacking of trainers and financial resources (Walsh & Walsh, 2003). According to Walsh & Walsh (2003), the percentages of success for patient to reintegrate the society partly rely on the support of rehabilitation centres, which are very rare in these provinces. According to World Bank…

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    mobilization, the decentralization of federal government and province - building as a mechanism as potential contributors to the change in provincial participation in immigration and integration policies.…

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    In “The Trobriander’s of Papua New Guinea” by Annette B. Weinter was about the historically against the framework of the seminal anthropological studies of Malinowski who study the Trobriander’s sixty years before Annette B. Weiner. The author realized that Malinowski annoyed or never considered significance in the matrilineal society of women own wealth since he didn’t investigate women productive by only focus on the male wealth. Therefore, the author study both Trobriand women and men from…

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    Imagery is a technique frequently used by authors in order to promote the theme(s) that they are attempting to convey to the reader through their work. It is the use of figurative language to represent objects, and communicate ideas to the reader so that they may mentally visualize them, and understand themes in the work of literature. Generally speaking in literature, the reader may only recognize or relate to a few of the themes that the author is portraying through contrasting imagery, but to…

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    which is known as Bartik instrument \citep{bartik1991boon}. From 1993 to 2011, Canadian provinces have experienced large and persistent differences in unemployment and employment rates. To estimate the cross provincial differences we follow \cite{lkhagvasuren2007local} \footnote{\begin{equation}\label{cvcrossprovincial} CV_{cross provincial} = \sqrt{\sum_p (u_p/u_c -1)^2} \end{equation} where $p$ is for Province, from 1 to 10, $u_c$ denote national unemployment rate and $u_p$ denote provincial…

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    Net Migration In Canada

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    To identify who is moving out of provinces based on demographic, industrial, occupational and employment characteristics for each province, we estimate the net migration rate \footnote{net migration rate is the difference between in-migration and out-migration, divided by total population}. In our analysis, we divide the Canadian regions into three parts: Eastern or Atlantic region (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), Central region (Quebec and…

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    Canada has the right to assert arctic sovereignty for the surrounding areas and has the right to claim the Arctic, however not only does Canada benefit it the most it's what makes sense through enforced jurastristion Canada understands the needs for the Arctic as well as having a stable government. The northwest passage, however, interferes with who actually has access to the Arctic making it almost a war. Most commonly power is divided and shared amongst the territories surrounding as long as…

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    In the Time of the Butterflies In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is the story of the Mirabal family during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. The story is told through the perspectives of the 4 sisters, Patria, Dede, Minerva and Maria Teresa as the family is slowly torn apart by the Military Intelligence Service. Minerva was the first of the sisters to become involved in the underground movement against the government. She made friends at Inmaculada whose family had been…

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