Summary of the Article This article entails an Asian family living in a mountainous top of Laos in the mid 1970's. ... Personal Opinion Very little information is available from the author, nevertheless this article seems to have a personal reflect or similar incident that bonds the author of the article with the author of the book. ... Overall Summary In conclusion this article briefly describes the struggles and sacrifices refugees as well as immigrants make to pursue a better lifestyle. ...

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Bone, a punk living in upstate New York, had finally found a safe place to settle in after running away from his abusive stepfather and oblivious mother. He was living in an abandoned, immobile school bus with I-Man, an illegal immigrant from Jamaica, and Froggie, a little girl he"d rescued from the drug addict her mother had sold her to. Life with I-Man was good; he"d turned the school bus into a green house and they lived off of a vegetarian Jamaican diet and also acted as a mentor to them, teaching them the ways of the Rastifarian daily. The time came, though, when Bone and I-Man realized t...

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Everyday Life In Colonial America The eighteenth century was a very interesting time in our nation's history because our nation was born through the hard work and the dedication of those who lived during those times. When one refers to the eighteenth century, however, he must realize that there were many major cultural, religious, and moral differences between colonial Americans of different regions of the newly discovered land we now call the United States of America. Our nation was once made up of many different kinds of people, from puritans to slaves, whose religious and cultural ...

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