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    The Arctic Refuge Jimmy Carter in his essay has comprehensively explained how arctic wild life has it's profound significance.It is not only the country's heritage but it also is important to people around the globe . Many species of wild life have occupied their habitats in these regions . This has created a natural wilderness . Jimmy Carter has explained this wilderness by his own vivid experience . He has portrayed the vast forms of species which over the time have accumulated there . For…

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    I came to Australia on 16th June 2017 on a Refugee Humanitarian Visa. I was born in a refugee camp and lived my whole life as a refugee in Eastern Nepal. I was born in 1992 the same year when my parents left our country Bhutan. I didn't see what the Bhutan government did to our community but I saw and felt how hard life could be for a refugee for 25 years. The scarcity of proper food, health care, clothes and identity left most part of my life full of struggle. I had the tag of refugee which was…

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    It happened when I was taking a photo of the purple sky and two stretching lakes across the Bonney Pass in the Teton Mountains. I suddenly knew that this wonderful place had transformed me into a better person and a more confident woman. It took some courage to get to that place. Many months before, I had some fear and reluctance when submitting a lengthy application for a counsellor job at the Teton Valley Ranch Camp in Dubois, Wyoming. My stomach had that sinking feeling that I would be…

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    ” By pointing out the elegance and allure of the ANWR, he presents the refuge as more than simply mountains and trees. He portrays it as an area with depth, soul, and life, touching the hearts of the audience. His adept application of language reinforces his argument by providing the readers with more of a reason to be on the side of preservation. Carter acknowledges the exquisite nature of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and to sway the audience even…

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    to accept a trait in one another. This is similar to one of the well-known classics, Romeo and Juliet. Both couples face disapproval from both or one side by more than one family member of the other. Also, the story somehow reminds me of the book “Refuge” by Karen Lynch when Frances struggles to accept the fact that Bernard has converted when she sends a letter to her close friend, Claire, stating, “He converted a few years ago, here I frown: could be a sign of delusions of grandeur, when a…

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    A summer home, my favorite playground, and the smell of the jasmine flowers in a busy city. Each of these represents a meaningful and powerful symbol of my childhood that I lost as a result of the Syrian Revolution. While I have spent many of my teen years struggling with what the conflict has taken from me, it was not until I volunteered at a Syrian refugee school in Turkey that I truly began to understand the suffering, destruction of life, and loss of opportunity that the conflict has caused.…

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    President Carter sets forth a very compelling case for preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is quite an important issue as noted by this former President and gives interesting personal details to further his arguments. He uses his vast experience in dealing with complex issues such as the environment to make his point that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should remain untouched. Considering the evidence first mentioned in this passage, the President uses his personal…

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    their countries, they must hold their government accountable for the latter's inability to satisfy the former's need. Whilst under solitary confinement for her role in the Burmese 8888 uprising, Aung San Suu Kyi wrote her speech “from Towards a True Refuge” where she explains the causes of insecurity in many countries around the world. Years later, in 2011 the Jasmine revolution began in Tunisia as the people held demonstrations against their corrupt government.…

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    former US president Jimmy Carter, Foreword to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Season of Life and Land a Photographic Journey by Subhankar Banerjee. Jimmy Carter and Subhankar Banerjee wrote the book or essay about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Jimmy Carter only wrote the foreword of the Essay though. Subhankar Banerjee wrote the rest of the Essay himself. This is about how the oil plant would destroy the Wildlife Refuge. The plant would be taking away the homes of Native people and…

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    I am an Immigrant, And I am a Refugee My family choose to move But my family was forced to move Moving was hard for both of us The struggles, The pain, That we had and we never discussed I am an Immigrant, And I am a Refugee I was happy, and was living in nice neighbourhood had many friends, and everything was going good I still remember the amazing days that I spent there, And then the time came where things wasn’t fair I people I knew were getting murdered I had so many questions…

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