an evaluation of the unemployment and drug dealing situation in East Harlem New York. It is based on five years of ethnographic data that was collected by the anthropologist‚ Dr. Philippe Bourgois of the University of Pennsylvania. As the social worker assigned to this evaluation‚ I have collaborated with Dr. Bourgois to give an anthropological explanation behind the high rates of unemployment and drug dealing in East Harlem. This report is based on the experiences of a man who worked within the
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East and West Rabindranath Tagore I It is not always a profound interest in man that carries travellers nowadays to distant lands. More often it is the facility for rapid movement. For lack of time and for the sake of convenience we generalise and crush our human facts into the packages within the steel trunks that hold our travellers’ reports. Our knowledge of our own countrymen and our feelings about them have slowly and unconsciously grown out of innumerable facts which are full of contradictions
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of the metal Iron 4. Nile- gives people fresh water and is a major source for Egypt. The yearly activity is that it floods the river valley and moist fertile land is left behind. The resource the Nile has is the floodplain full of fertile land 5. Cataract- an unnavigable stretch of rapids and waterfalls 6. Delta- at one of the ends of rivers where the river spreads into many different streams 7. Silt- fine sand or clay that is easily carried by water 8. Papyrus- another type of
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The tiny south pacific nation of East Timor has had a long and tumultuous history. While it has been touted as the first independent country of the 21st century‚ the government originally declared its independence in November of 1975. East Timor had spent over 300 years under Portuguese rule and the colonial influences did much to shape Timorese culture and society. As a result East Timor developed very differently from its neighbours and had little in common with the former Dutch colony that
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The Middle East is part of three major continents‚ Africa‚ Asia‚ and Europe with trade routes overland and sea. Cultural Diffusion is the spread of ideas‚ invention‚ and achievements by traders‚ conquerors‚ and migrating people. Strategic locations like the Middle Eastern nations sit on vast reserves of oil. It has importance to the world’s military and economy. Some countries link seas to the ocean by canals so ships with tanks filled with oil can transport the goods. Physical Features have affected
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Literary Analysis of East of Eden The Author and His/ Her Times: The author of East of Eden is John Steinbeck. Steinbeck was born in Salinas California‚ one of the settings in East of Eden. His mother‚ a former school teacher‚ and helped him build his passion for reading and the written word. He speaks of her and her family in his book. They play a vital role in the progression of the book. Many of Steinbeck’s novels could be classified as social novels. His novels usually deal with economic problems
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over land. The Israel Arab war could have been avoided‚ but there are two main things holding them back. The Balfour Declaration‚ the Zionist movement and The United Nations Partition Plan all three of these things helped bring war. Let’s take this back to the Zionist movement. The Zionist movement was basically a group of secular European Jews trying to make a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. You might not see a problem with that a few Jews trying to make a homeland for their people to come
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from this ideology that historians have over the years realized how genocides occur within different countries. From 1975 until roughly 1979‚ the ideology is defined within the genocide that took place within the Portuguese colony of East Timor (p. 279). It was until this time that the country of East Timor had been loosely administered by the Portuguese. Because of this notion that‚ “…for more than four centuries Portugal had been the dominant‚ almost exclusive‚ external influence in East Timor”
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THE CASE STUDY OF EAST ORCHIDS AREAS OF CONSIDERATION: The East Orchids is an orchid farm in the campus grounds of the University of the Philippines in Diliman‚ Quezon City. It was formally opened on May 31‚ 1989‚ by Mr. and Mrs. Max Prieto. East Orchids sold both cut flowers and plants. As a typical with orhidariums‚ the farm has a 3‚000 sq. m. Canopy enclosure of green netting that covering a huge inventory of orchids. HISTORY The Prieto’s family was one of the prominent families in Davao
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James Bryce once said‚ “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you carry away from it.” Any good piece of literature should both challenge and enrich you‚ and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is no exception. More than a mundane reiteration of a biblical tale‚ East of Eden explores the enduring issue of man’s battle with sin. Steinbeck wove the story of Cain and Abel into the fabric of the Salinas Valley‚ giving it fresh perspective and proving the battle between good and evil remains relevant
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