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Migrant Labour
Number of Words: 2225 / Number of Pages: 9
... and child. It must first be understood why the migrant labor force was created, who benefited from it and how it worked. To understand this we must go back to the beginning of colonialism in Africa.
With the arrival of the Dutch settlers to the Cape, little did the African people of Cape known that their lives would be changed forever. With the colonization of South Africa by the first Dutch settlers, also came the need for a cheap labor force for the large-scale white owned agricultural production and later labor within white urban areas. The Dutch believed that their darker skin counterparts ...
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The War Against Athletes
Number of Words: 1080 / Number of Pages: 4
... likely to do drugs than another person solely on their extra-curricular activities.
Athletes are subjected to conditions most students are not. They go through more training and spend more time working than do most other students. Athletes, along with their parent or guardians, spend time and money to participate in athletic events. Each one of them works hard to achieve their personal goals, something that schools try to incorporate into their curriculum all over the country. Athletes are an example to the rest of the student body, through their level of effort and their desire to improve. The ...
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Condom Dispenser In Highschool
Number of Words: 582 / Number of Pages: 3
... school bathrooms, this gives that percentage of teens nice, easy, and anonymous access to condoms. Thus possibly resulting in an increase of sexually active students. Why not leave condoms at the local drug stores, and make it as hard as possible to comfortably buy protection. The embarrassment alone, might keep a few teenagers from having sex.
Not only would putting condom dispensers in high school allow anonymous purchasing of protection, but it might also promote sex to the crowd of people that should not even know what sex is. Imagine walking into the bathroom one morning and there against t ...
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Improving The Literacy Of Amer
Number of Words: 1574 / Number of Pages: 6
... by the event that “even a best-selling book in this country might reach 5% of the population” (Castell 38). Perhaps a better way to influence the literacy in America is to examine the classrooms where primary education geared toward literacy takes place. This refers to elementary and middle school classrooms. An examination of what processes in a classroom context help develop literacy in individuals is an important aspect of the literacy of the children in America. Three aspects of a classroom that affect literacy are: the power of the teacher, community
with peers, and access to tools of li ...
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Snoring Annoying Or Dangereous
Number of Words: 465 / Number of Pages: 2
... to convince them, and in some cases it's not. It almost appears that snorer's have a genetic trait to deny their snoring. A comparison of their sleeping habit to a forest being clear-cut is always taken too personally. Your heroic suppression of your desire to smother the snorer's sleeping form is never taken with the deserved appreciation. The frustration is enough to grab your pillow and smother the snorer for their stubbornness.
Thirdly, and lastly, it is very difficult to find help when the snorer finally admits that they have a problem. Where does one find a cure for this aliment that annoys y ...
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Discipline In The Classroom: Past And Present
Number of Words: 1513 / Number of Pages: 6
... by the principal
to protect students from excessive physical beatings. These guidelines varied
from school to school, but often included length, width and thickness of the
paddle or any other weapon used, the amount of times the student may be struck
by the weapon, and other minor details about other types of physical punishment.
The list of weapons that were acceptable for teachers to use include long:
rubber hoses, leather straps and belts, sticks, rods, straight pins, hard
plastic baseball bats, and arrows. If at the time a teacher did not have
his/her weapon, they would often resort to punchi ...
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China 2
Number of Words: 4668 / Number of Pages: 17
... feudal system; land was concentrated in the hands of a relatively small group of landowners whose income depended on rents from their peasant tenants. Agricultural taxes levied by the imperial government and crop yields subject to drought and floods kept agriculture relatively underdeveloped and organized in small units with the use of primitive methods for basic subsistence.
The conclusion of the Opium War of 1840 formally initiated a period of Western penetration of China from the coastal treaty ports. Railroads and highways were constructed, and some industrial development began. Such activity ...
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Canadas Shame
Number of Words: 712 / Number of Pages: 3
... since the cod have disappeared, the seal population has remained stable in its numbers. Seals have become a scapegoat, rather than over fishing by humans.
Sealers are playing on the depletion of the cod stock to slaughter a greater number of seals in a cruel and heartless fashion. The two methods most commonly used by the landsmen (hunters who venture short distances from shore on foot, snowmobile, or small boat), are clubbing and shooting. The big commercially owned boats on the other hand have an entirely different method of killing. Seal pups are gathered up individually and incased in n ...
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The Easter Egg Process
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... custom today.
In modern custom before decorating eggs you need to hard-boil them and let them cool before the decorating task is endeavored. Dying eggs with food coloring is the most popular choice. To make food coloring dye combine one tablespoon of food coloring with two tablespoons of white vinegar in a mug or jar large enough to hold one egg. Fill with cold water and stir. Drop the egg in the dye. From past experience the longer left in dye the deeper the color will be. Experiment with different combinations of colors like red mixed with blue makes purple, or yellow with a drop of red makes orang ...
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Mardi Gras
Number of Words: 770 / Number of Pages: 3
... costumes, as well as everyone’s body and face covered with glitter. I heard the sweet sounds of the steelband playing and people everywhere dancing in the street. The smell of sweat was in the air as everyone bunched up together to see the floats in all their brilliant glory. I can also recall the taste of sweet syrup as I licked it off the snowcone I was eating.
in New Orleans, however, was a whole new experience for me. On Fat Tuesday I woke up early so I could go to Canal and St Charles Street to watch the parades. The smell of trash filled the air. Thousands of people everywhere. Bro ...
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