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    Australian Immigration and Its Effects      Australia is an island continent which is geographically isolated from the rest of the world. This has resulted in the evolution of many unique plants and animals and the development of a very fragile ecosystem. This ecosystem has been influenced by human immigration for many thousands of years.      The original immigrants were the Aborigines who are thought to have migrated to Australia from Asia between 50 and 100 thousand years ago. These

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    Bismark Boateng 210387975 My Interview with Theresa Pascal I interviewed Theresa Pascal of Brampton on a chilly Monday night sitting on her and glossed dining table after dinner. Theresa originates from Grenada a country in the Caribbean nicknamed “the island of spices” due to its exports of exotic spices. She is a 74 year old young senior divorcee living in a penthouse suite in one of the high rise apartments in Brampton. She has one child and five grandchildren who she considers to be her pride and joy

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    And in the end he finally comes to a realization that in order to be rescued, he had to get off the island because he knew no one was going to find him on the island. When a debris from the plane crash floated onto shore, this gave Chuck the idea to make a boat, the debris turned out to be the sail for his boat. This finally led to Chuck getting rescued once he went out to the ocean

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    - Residential school students did not receive the same education as the general population in the public school system.(unknown) - Residential schools were extremely underfunded. - Girls were taught to do laundry, sew, cook, and clean. - Boys were taught carpentry, tinsmithing, and farming. - Many children attended their classes sometimes and worked for the school the rest of the time they had free. - With little to no time spent in class, most students reached grade

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    chapter 1 he uses six different sources. One of these sources is a personal story of him and Montana. He also uses stories from Stan Falkow, Rick Laible, Chip Pigmen, Tim Huls, and John Cook all in chapter one. In chapter five of the book Diamonds shows multiple pictures of old societies such as rwanda, eastern islands, Anasazi, Maya, Greenland, New Guiena, Dominican Republic, China, and Australia. These pictures are an excellent source because it shows a sense of climate in the pictures and you can

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    THE AFFECTS OF RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS: A LIST By: Sanchia Nawar - Residential schools were religious schools ran by the government and churches which were made to assimilate Aboriginal children into European culture. - Residential schools messed up people’s lives and their communities, causing long-term problems among Aboriginal people. - In total, an estimated 150,000 children attended residential schools. - From the 1890s until the 1950s, the government tried to constantly make residential schools

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    if misused or good if used correctly for the right things. This can mainly be shown by Jack and Ralph. Ralph shows inner power and outer power. He has a fall of power in some cases First, he gets power by getting the conch and calling all of the survivors to him.

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    the lands to which they themselves had laid claim as their own thousands of years beforehand. The Ainu The Ainu are originally historically residents of Hokkaido, Japan’s nothernmost large island, their origins mostly unknown but theorists believe that a people called the Yayoi made their way to the island nation through means unknown and integrated themselves with an indigenous population called colloquially the Jomon-jin or “Rope Pattern People” so called for the distinctive appearance of various

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    Battle Royale Analysis

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    Fukasaku grew up in a country plagued by the horrors of World War II: His class was drafted into the war effort, and they found themselves working in a munitions factory. [...] The classmates were caught in a barrage of artillery fire. [...] The survivors of the attack used the corpses of their friends as cover and, after the violence has passed, Fukasaku and his surviving friends were given the task of disposing of the body parts

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    chapters in some of them the author describes the superficial aspects of Pi Patel which is again a transition of the narrator and make readers feel his omnipresence depicting the authorial presence “He’s an excellent cook. “His overheated house is always smelling of something delicious”(Chapter6) and “His house is a temple. In the entrance hall hangs a framed picture of Ganesha, he of the elephant

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