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    This week Acculturation for Justice, Access and Peace Outreach. We receive two new clients, so I was able to sit in on the intake interview. As stated in a previous paper, and an intake interview helps the case manager know goals that the clients are setting for themselves. The intake interview also helps us know how much English the clients may or may not know. Sadly, these clients not only have very little English, but neither of them have had any schooling. If this was a game show, this would

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    worse in there than at home, they came here to escape not be captured. The afghan people are categorized as 'the asylum seekers.' Asylum meaning refuge and safety, and Seekers meaning trying to find or obtain. These definitions are very easy to understand. It means that these Afghan people are trying to obtain refuge and safety for themselves and their families. As I said before, who determines what kind of people are worth being in a country like Australia, is it

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    Primary Homelessness Primary homelessness is when people are living without conventional accommodation and are living on the streets without a permanent and secure shelter. These people are people who have nowhere to go therefore they go and seek refuge in places such as improvised dwellings, abandoned or condemned buildings, cars, under bridges, in cardboard boxes, dumpsters, tents, sleeping bags or in public places like parks, vacant lots, shopping centres or public transport. Therefore these people

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    What Is Juvenile Justice?

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    Juvenile justice has been incorporated into the American society for over a century, but over time, this system has undergone through numerous shifts and changes before becoming what it is today. It is no doubt, then, that as the United States continues to grow, elect new officials, and change its views on major issues, the juvenile justice system will also see itself grow into something new and different to match societal desires of that time. When colonists first arrived in the New World, juvenile

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    Chihuan Desert Grasslands

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    Small Mammal Exclosure Study Vegetation Data from the Chihuahuan Desert Grassland and Shrubland at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico from Fall 2006 Nicole Dmitruk BIOL 297 April 17, 2014 Abstract: Animal consumers have important roles in ecosystems. These roles include determining plant species composition and structure, regulating rates of plant production and nutrient, and altering soil structure and chemistry. This study was conducted to determine whether the

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    Laevis In Research

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    1. X. Laevis in Research The African Clawed Frog (X. laevis) is among the most widely used animal models to study anatomy, physiology and vertebrate development. From the 1940s to 1970s, X. laevis was used in pregnancy testing. The current standardized test for toxicity measurement of environmental pollutants; the FETAX Assay,1 was developed using X. laevis. Recently, X. laevis has begun to be in used research investigating central nervous system (CNS) regeneration. X. laevis has also been used

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    ‘Push factors’ The immigration of Vietnamese people to Australia has been occurring for over 40 years in this period of time the reason for migration has changed with the times, but predominantly began with the conflict between North and South Vietnam. With the end of WW2 in 1945, many counties and regions had been greatly affected, including the Pacific, Asia and Europe. The rise of communism, beginning in Russia, and slowly spreading to China was soon adopted by the Northern portion of Vietnam

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    Volcanoes In Costa Rica

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    There are three reasons why Costa Rica is the most beautiful ever found. This tiny green 51.100 km2 piece of land is the house of imposing volcanoes, amazing beaches, and a refuge for birds. Across the country, Costa Rica has five active volcanoes, it has more than one hundred fifty beaches, and more than nine hundred species of birds. The twenty five percent of Costa Rica are protected areas, this allows visitors to have a better experience in contact with nature. The following paragraphs are a

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    Through looking on different cultures it seems that childhood is definitely a social construction. But a better way of trying to find out if it is or not is through looking back in time. Until the end of the Middle Ages, children in the West were often seen as miniature versions of adult. Their clothes and their bodily proportions were the same as those of adults. The main reason why they were classed as ‘miniature adults’ was because they were expected to participate in all aspects of social life

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    In the eyes of humanity for all generations, death has been perceived as a very grim topic. In Markus Zusaks’ The Book Thief, Death is regarded in a way that contrasts the normal beliefs of humanity. Throughout the book, he is very compassionate and seems to empathize with various sensitive situations. While narrating the novel, Death expresses in several ways that make him seem more compassionate than expected, such as his overwhelming emotions toward malignant events, his allusions to the fact

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