What draws them away from their home countries to train in a place that is foreign to them? The answer can be found in general expertise, the desire to train with the best in a particular sport, and even an attempt to escape persecution. ... This legacy of tremendous success in aquatic sports draws foreign athletes to the U.S. to seek the edge that training in the U.S. can provide. ... Sports aside, going to the U.S. to train allowed these athletes to escape this oppressive atmosphere at home and focus on their sport in the U.S. ... Still others travel in part to escape hostile cir...

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"I was lashed so hard and long that I lost consciousness"(pg.7) Richard was treated brutally and tyrannically at home in order to prevent his being treated the same way or worse outside of home and especially in the white society. ... "I have the choice of being beaten at home or away from home" (p20) It appears that Richard was more afraid of the punishment he would receive from his family, rather then the punishment he would receive from the white people. ... At home hecould fight back or argue his side of the story and even if it led nowhere, he had a small satisfaction ...

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Canadians can take pride in the fact that they are hosting a world event that happens only every four years. ... It would have Canadians everywhere proud to call Canada home," declared Mel Lastman, Mayor of Toronto (www.to-2008.com).The Mayor gave the people assurance that the event will be something of which to be proud . ... How the athletes view participating in their home country makes a compelling argument for hosting the Games. Athletes' views of their home city is extremely important. ... For an athlete to participate in his or her home country would be a great confidence booster...

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At home, at work, and even with friends. The list can go on. ... I'm referring to when I'm home with my parents. ... I try my hardest to keep it as professional as I can. ... Tan mentions "the forms of English I did not use at home with my mother....

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However, Lora is always away from home for work. ... At the end, Susie falls in love with her mother's fiance and has to leave home for peace. ... She treats Susie as her own daughter and she helps Lora to take care of her home. ... She can get confidence by doing this because she can attract the attentions from men by her sexy and beautiful body. She feels she can do the same thing as that the write girls can. ...

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In addition, an immigrant most of the time of a day speaks in their mother tongue at home other than English. ... Nevertheless, all the children who go to school, they learn English in school, but cannot practice English at home. ... In a short, lack of English knowledge and non-English environment at home is causing them a non-bright academic achievement. ... Due to lack of English he chooses to find a job in a grocery store or a gas station, where he can start his career with poor English. ...

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Many of these families rent their homes because they bring in a low amount of income per year. ... However, relaxing in the home is more popular. ... When financing homes in the UK, the process is done much like financing a home in the United States. ... They believe that they can worship on their own their own time in their own home (Culture Grams 2002). ... When they reach the age sixteen they can choose to take a test called the General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE) to get out of school or they can choose to go on for another two years. ...

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I was born into a Spanish speaking home, with both parents being immigrants. ... Immigrants come to America in search of a happy, better, and easier life then was offered to them back home. ... There is a power out there that can make a difference, and I want to be part of that power. ...

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The southern soldiers would return home to find that they no longer had one. ... This would change quickly as the war ended and Sutpen returned home. ... A more important shift can be noted in the remarkable change in the relationship between Sutpen and Wash. ... The story opens with a confederate soldier, Weddel, trying to get home. ... This topic touches on the idea that you can free a man physically but it is much harder to free him mentally. ...

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Such correlation can also be seen when Walter rejected Mr. ... This led to African Americans being prohibited to rent or lease homes. ... At the time it was very hard for many and all African Americans to find decent homes in Chicago. ... Through history and though these words people can see how hard African Americans had to fight to find a decent place to live. ...

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This statement, if you do not know any Black English, can still be understood. ... As a teacher, Professor Jordan should have kept the lectures to a strictly factual engagement with the students and left her own feeling at home. ... And if you are white and find it hard to understand where June Jordan is coming from, ask yourself: If you were writing a letter to a funeral home because they lost the body of your deceased brother, would you write it lets say.Shakespearian English? ...

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When Atticus Finch, one of the main characters in the novel, gives his children rifles for Christmas, Scout recounts that he warns them: "Never point at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd just shoot tin cans in the back yard. ... One day, there are only Mayella and Tom at home so she hugs and kisses that black man---Tom Robinson. ... One day, Jem and Scout were on the way home and Bob Ewell tried to hurt them because Atticus helped Tom Robinson, but Boo saves them. ...

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They were afraid that presence of the black person in the neighborhood would drive the prices of homes down and that more black people may move in to neighborhood. ... He realized that there is no way that he can hide it nor can he run away from it. ...

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Their homes in fact weren't in the same neighborhood, they didn't even share the same church. ... " (Lee p.118) The different races are divided and the black people were forced to make their community and homes down in the slums and down by the dump. ... "...Atticus Finch won't win, he can't win, but he's the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that. ... Leaving Calpurnia to do any chores of her own till she had finished all of the Finch families, keeping her time at home short and with the employment she had, her poor. ...

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It can also be defined as the act or policy of treating someone differently, setting them apart or denying them rights because they are different from the majority. ... They both exists in different capabilities such as school, work, and in the home. ... However there is little that can be done to change the frame of mind symbolic of society as a whole. ... If an athlete from a minority group can excel in a sport he/she is recognized for his/her skill as much as his/her skin color. ... Golfer, Fuzzy Zoeller made a stereotypical wise crack about Tiger Woods saying that Tiger should go home a...

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This is clearly seen when Murray (Elliot Gould) and Derek's family are having lunch and he (Murray) talks to Derek about removing racism and accepting equality he react violently, to such an extent that he starts fighting and pushing his own sister, yelling at everyone at home and which ends up Doris( Derek's Mum) to remove him from the house. As we can see that discrimination can lead to ones personal family problems. One of the primary policies of learning theory is that if prejudice is learned, it can be unlearned. This is according to contact hypothesis, inter group contact can r...

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On his way home from the company he feels "... that the sidewalk was unreal, that I was unreal, that the people were unreal, yet expecting somebody to demand to know what right I had to be on the streets. ... Richard goes over in his mind the different choices he can make to deal with the feelings he has. ... When he comes back home his mother merely gives him more money and sends him back out into the street and the children beat him up again. He comes home again thinking that he will be safe inside the house with his mother. ... Their are many people that can relate to this subject...

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A Worn Path "A Worn Path" is a short story that was written by Eudora Weltey. This story was about a little old black lady named Phoenix Jackson who lived way back in the piney woods with her grandson. And every time he ran out of his medication, she would walk a long journey to the nearest town...

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This was introduced to make sure there was no inequality and flaws in the system so that all pupils can have equal opportunities. ... Also Eric Midwinter said, No matter how much you do inside the school, it makes virtually no impact at all without the informed support of the home. This means that in order for the schooling system to work effectively, the norms and values of education has to be repeated at home. ... They also thought that children would not learn anything if there was no support from the people at home. ... This can also be represented by putting pupils into lower sets which...

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Also, black women are sometimes seen as mainly supports for their black man, which can signify that black women are merely an object for the use of another person. ... It is odd that a black man can make an entire album talking about sex and society approves of it, but let a black female make one song on it and she is a "ho." ... In music, televison, the work force and even in the home, you see changes, but they are few. ...

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My grandparents assume that if we don't use Spanish at home, we are forgetting about our culture. ... My mother often speaks with hidden messages that only I can understand. ... I find it amusing, because we are having the conversation in English, the common language, the language that we speak at home, and he still does not understand. ... I can relate to that because I have a five-year relationship with a terrific person. ...

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In this paper I will do my best to bring out all the facts I can to make clear of, was the American Revolution treason or patriotism? ... The colonists sent the ships with the tea back home with the tea in hand, stating that they didn't want their tea. ... Due to this event the Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts, which closed the port of Boston until all the tea that was dumped had be repaid for, it restructured the Massachusetts government, allowed British soldiers who were accused of crimes to be sent back to Britain and be tried there where more times than not they were found ...

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I speak to you so that you can understand me, so that the conversation flows. ... Neither can they correct themselves. ... I know that I can correct myself and that I can speak properly. ... It is a way of approaching life and situations at home differently from situations at school, work, or elsewhere. ... It becomes a symbol of home and simple life. ...

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Through public art, we can imagine what an area was like in the past and contrast this to what it currently is. ... Public art can also be more contemporary. ... The clocks can also be interpreted to symbolize efficiency and importance of time, since in business time is money. ... Greenwich is also an important site in maritime history since it is the home of the Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian Line.7 Both pieces of art reflect Greenwich's maritime roots. ... Both pieces tie together the historical and global threads of traversing oceans and continents.10 While all the previo...

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After the couple was dressed, fed and they were being put back into a canoe to go back home with the people from Old Town "qelc". ... They are fed and clothed according to a foreign custom and they can only be readmitted to the society by shedding their clothing that marks their status. ...

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