Essays on Immigration

America’s peaceful borders have been necessitated by two remarkable trends that have occurred over the past thirty years. These include sweeping democratization and the spread of integration agreements. The military and the governments of the day have played their different roles successfully. The military have been on the lookout for any peace disturbance potentiality from outside the country while the democratically elected governments have ensued prevalence in all hemispheres of the country. As a result, countries have managed their borders peacefully without the need for military interventions (Johns Hopkins University Press 1). Through investment and trade preferences, the ...

Introduction

Human trafficking and illegal immigration has been a central issue in most debates in the United States. Unscrupulous agricultural industries have been accused of taking part in illegal immigration and human trafficking to provide cheap labour for the industries. The state of California is the most affected by this vice due its extensive farmlands. Even though these industries make high profits margins, the plight of workers is the same old story of poverty and destitution (Lee, 2013). The illegality of this practice led me into seeking answers to pertinent questions from George Gascon, the District Attorney of San Francisco. ...

History of dengue

Dengue is described by the World Health Organization (n.d.) as a fast emerging pandemic viral disease with worldwide prevalence. The viral disease was initially traced to the epidemics in Java and in Egypt in 1779. Some literatures trace back the virus and its vectorsto the Chin Dynasty. It was hypothesized that the disease occured in the Western hemisphere in the midddle of the 17th century and believed to originate from tropical America. However, some researchers would point out that the accounts of dengue outbreaks were traced back during the 18th and 19th century in Southeast Asia.The dengue outbreaks in ...

Florida National University (FNU) is a higher education system, where the purpose is to “contribute to the education of a population of diverse, presently predominately Hispanic, cultures,” (Mission Statement). The purpose of the university is to make it easy for Hispanic immigrants to have access to higher education and prepare them for employment in the United States. It offers classes on mainly on the business and medical fields. There is a large program in the university that teaches English as a second language to further help international students get situated in the United States. Because of this, the university ...

Immigration is a contentious topic in the United States today. Even now, the Presidential Debates are full of discussion of immigration and the suggestion of immigration reform; in the last months of his presidency, President Obama seems intent on discussing and passing new immigration reform legislation as well. Immigration is a difficult topic in the United States because the country has literally been built on the backs of immigrants; however, there is also a long history of xenophobic thought and nationalistic sentiment in the United States as a whole. The history of immigration is even more contentious in places ...

Immigration Law

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Hello Mr. Rameriz; We would like to schedule a meeting with you on July 21, 2008 at 10:00am at the offices of Immigration Advocates. This is also a gentle reminder that the initial consultation fee is a flat rate of $1,000. As a further remind, Ms. Meriweather can only accept cash, a bank cashier’s check, or money order and will need payment at the beginning of the meeting. Please see below for a list of the necessary documents that you will need to send to the office prior to your interview. Keep in mind ...

Introduction

Throughout is history, the American society has exhibited an unrivalled sense of national identity. Being an American citizen has over the centuries since its independence was seen as the most significant facet of an individual living within US borders. As such, US citizens who are residents in other countries also take much pride in the numerous benefits accruing to them, by reason of their American citizenship. As Bradburn provides, the boundaries defining real aspects of what entails an American citizen have since been blurry and undefinable since independence (1094). The main cause for such an outcome was the fact ...

Statement of Purpose and Academic Motivation

Intercultural management practices and competence has been poorly explored by the academic community from the perspective of multicultural Finnish professional life (Weber, Festing & Dowling, 2013). In spite of the fact that various cultural issues in the employment context have been studied from the purely managerial perspective, the majority of these studies relate to either migration of the highly skilled professionals (Thomas & Peterson, 2014), reflected common international trends (Van der Vijer, Hemert & Poortinga, 2008) or evaluated financial performance of the institutions, which significantly attracted employees with different cultural backgrounds (Smith, 2004). This research, however, pursues a number of unique objectives, ...

ARTICLE DISCUSSION

Essay The basic principles of Economics might seem very primitive for someone. Even though, they usually easily describe the basic principles of life. The well known demand - supply balance works in every field of our life starting from buying stuff at the grocery store to searching for a person to spend your life with.

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In this essay I would like to discuss the article written by Bob Davis called “The Thorny Economics of Illegal Immigration” from the Wall Street Journal. This article is about the issues that appeared as a result of an immigration policy that was invented ...

In a culture that in based on self-reliance, privatization, and a market-based mindset it is difficult for the current generation to view community engagement and public participation as a solution to today’s social challenges. The current leadership model, which is characterized by an authoritative leader and inactive followers, cannot be relied on to effectively solve global and local problems in the society. As the political leadership changes from individualism and privatization, the teaching and learning model in higher education should also move in the same direction. Currently, students are acquiring knowledge with the aim of being prepared for ...

Introduction

Juanita Perez is an 84-year old Filipino woman who lives in Los Angeles, California, and who has recently lost her husband of 60 years. She came to the agency, seeking help on how she can deal with the grief and loss, as she has been having a difficult time coping with it. In the sixty years that they were married, they have never been apart. Juanita is a practicing Catholic whose primary language is Filipino and manages to speak a little English. She and her husband came to the United Striates as a result of the petition for immigration ...

Richard C. Morais’ 2010 novel The Hundred-Foot Journey chronicles the tensions and relationships between the owners and purveyors of an Indian restaurant and a classic French restaurant that reside one hundred feet from one another in the fictional city of Lumiere in France. While the surface-level story revolves around the reconciliation of two groups of restaurant owners and chefs, there are greater themes of cultural pluralism, acceptance and the unifying power of food to be found within the novel. Bridging the gap between the typically entrenched worlds of upper-class French food culture and the lower-class Southeast Asian food culture ...

Liberty has a different meaning to different people. Some people may not even know liberty even exists because of the society they live in which is very oppressive towards certain ideas. Liberty to some people is the freedom from controlling government, the ability to decide one’s destiny, to be able to speak or write their thoughts, to not be confined based on one’s appearance, and to be free from foreign rule. While there is no real official rule about what liberty truly is, I had the opportunity to interview people from various backgrounds about what liberty is ...

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The research concentrated on developing a case plan for a neglected child. The introduction helps in determining pointers of child abuse or neglect in the community, as well as, the effects of child abuse or neglect on the child. Finally, the research was also interested in determining interventions for child abuse and neglect, how they could be applied in different ways and their effects on the children. A case plan involved members of a family in the Broward County in Florida. The family was selected after pre-qualification determining that the family was ...

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Sweden is the largest country in the Northern Europe and is situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It has the lowest income inequality rate in the world. It shares boarders with Germany, Denmark, Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia. The country is predominantly agricultural, and it is notable for its wide forest resource when compared to other European nations. As Schack-Nielsen points out, “around 4% of Sweden’s workforce relies on primary sector” and around 6% of total land is used for agricultural purposes (Schack-Nielsen 34). Sweden has 21 counties and 25 provinces, and these divisions serve ...

Article Title: Will nation follow California on healthcare for immigrants here illegally?

The Nation has been set to task for the provision of healthcare to all immigrants who reside in the USA illegally after California decided to provide health care for all irrespective of one's status. The topic supports fundamental human rights of health care to all regardless of immigration status as an essential human right. California, a blue State, has embraced Obamacare but does not support locking out immigrants from the benefits associated with the Obamacare plan.

Relevance to Health Policy.

Health policy on Obamacare has several guidelines regarding the eligibility of persons to qualify for the Marketplace, who include U.S citizens, U.S nationals ...

“Two kinds” is a short story authored by Amy Tan. Tan creates the romantic concept of cultural origins and touches on lost ethnic essence to reconfigure and radically undercut notion of ethnic essence. The story is about a mother and daughter who abandon their culture to embrace the American Dream in the hope that anyone in America can succeed. At the root of the story is protagonist’s interpersonal dissonance brought about by the phenomenon of mass immigration. Tan manages to bring out clearly deception of complexities in mother-daughter relationships but focusing on disruptive distance between mothers originating from ...

AGEING IN AMERICA

In the year 2013 (the latest year for which data is available), there were 44.7 million aged individuals in the United States (above the age of 65 years). The aged population consisted of 14.1% of the total population of US. In other words, approximately one in every seven citizens of America was aged (Administration for Community Living, 2016). For the purpose of the study about different racial groups in the US undergoing ageing, we will specifically discuss the Asian Americans and African Americans. (The Older Asian Population in America, 2016) As compared to the other ethnic groups of the ...

Sergio E. Avilés’ Einen Koffer is only six minutes long, but it is an effective film with a strong message. The film depicts a Mexican man, hoping to cross the border between Mexico and the United States in the hopes of rejoining his family. He is walking along the large wall that separates the two countries, with a recording of President Ronald Reagan’s 1987 “Tear Down this Wall” speech playing in the background. Comparing the two scenarios of the immigrant’s situation and Reagan’s speech is largely what makes this short film so powerful. The man ...

Immigration policy

The United state has over the years witnessed the growing number of the nurses that enter the country. This has been coupled with many problems such as displacement of the local nursing labor. The government views the recruitment of the foreign nurses as a means of increasing the dependency rate of the United States. It is agreed that the hiring of the short-term foreign nurses can be of great help, but when done in a repetitive manner, it can have some adverse effects on the profession in the United States such as high dependency level (Ivanov & Blue, 2008). It ...

2016 Presidential Candidates

Introduction

The 2016 elections campaign has seen many hopefuls from the republican and the democratic parties as well as a few independent candidates campaigning for nominations by their various parties. The various campaigns have been conducted country wide in the specific states and also over media channels through various interviews. This time round the polls seem to be going against the general public’s expectations and it is therefore not easy to make a clear prediction as to which side will emerge as victors.

The list of candidates for the republican seat is led by business mogul ...

China would experience demographic drag for the next decades. As a result, the productivity of the country may derail due to the shortage of workforce. However, the USA’s population would be almost three times larger than the China’s current working population by 2050 (22). At the same time, India’s population growth would remain resilient up to 2030, and stabilize for some time. The USA does not depend on fertility rate alone for the labor force. It is among the nations with the highest number of legal and illegal immigrants that provide labor. The USA has a ...

Population pyramids are a useful tool for analyzing the population’s age and gender structure. The countries with the rapid population growth have more young people than elderly people. On the contrary, the countries with the slow population growth tend to have a large number of elderly people (Rowntree 23). Sometimes the population pyramids have a very unusual pattern which can be explained only by means of the analysis of the country’s past history and socio-economic development. For instance, in Figure 1 one can see the population pyramid for Qatar in Southwest Asia. There are much more males ...

The first article that was chosen for this assignment is called “China Passes Mexico as the Top Source of New U.S Immigrants” (Shah). Nowadays immigration is one of the most important topics around the world, especially in Europe and in the U.S, since immigration affects economy, politics, social welfare, globalisation, and so many other things. The article focuses that nowadays there are way more Chinese and Indian immigrants who are coming to the United States, rather than Mexican. According to Neil Shah who is the author of the article, in 2013 “China was the country of origin for 147.000 ...

Article 1 (Summary)

After 2000 census Americans can select up to a combination of six different category of races when officially registering. It was not possible before since America was known to be a black and white society. Mixed marriages between different races indicate that racial divides remain relent as only 10% of blacks, and 6% of whites marry a different race person. Immigrants and their children make 22% of entire USA population. The race is more of a cultural concept rather than biological. More Latinos and Asians marry white Americans if we compare it with other races of immigrants in the ...

The globalization along with growing inequality between and within countries has brought new trends that today cause mixed reaction from the society. The global migration is considered one of the most crucial issues of the 21th century. There are more than 232 million of international migrants in the world. If they could occupy a separate territory for living it would be a new population in the world, strong enough due to its multicultural background (The United Nations, 3). However, Immigrants more often face discrimination, exploitation, ill-treatment, wounding and even enslaving. They are afraid to complain and fight for their ...

The United States has a secret competitive advantage over most other nation. The advantage, however, is not one that normally comes to mind in the public or is a focus of attention of the media or politicians. The advantage is that the U.S. attracts the largest number of immigrants in the world, and it has been doing so since its founding. Indeed, since the late 1700s, over 55 million people have immigrated to the U.S. and made it their home (ACLU). To be sure, except for the Native Americans, every other U.S. citizen is either an immigrant or a ...

In 19th century, the world population reached 1,000 million people; in the middle eve, there were around 450 million people and in antiquity, records show that around 5 million people inhabited the Earth (Haub, 2011). Nowadays, there are over 7 billion inhabitants who share the same natural resources that our ancestors did hundreds or thousands years before us (Worldometer “Current World Population”). Imagine that the same renewable raw materials that we are using today in common with other 7 billion people, were used for accommodating the needs of 1000 million people just 200 years ago. Mathematically speaking, from ...

Why are low lying islands affected by climate change?

How will islands be affected? What will happen to the populations of inundated islands? Burkett, M. “In Search of Refuge: Pacific Islands, Climate-Induced Migration, and the Legal Frontier.” Asia - Pacific Issues 98 (2011): 1-8. Within the next fifty years people in the low lying Pacific Islands will be forced to leave their homes because of increased frequency and intensity of storms and floods, sea-level rise, and desertification. Many will not only lose their homes, but also their nation. If plans are not put in place to address this, it could cause a humanitarian disaster and political chaos? ...

With the emergence of multiculturalism as well as healthcare diversity, cultural competence is a crucial element in healthcare. Essentially, cultural competence enables the care providers to effectively understand the needs of a specific cultural group and provide care that is congruent to these needs (Purnell, 2012). As such, “Purnell Model for Cultural Competence” is an important tool that helps the care providers to assess and understand the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes and values of a specific cultural group and provide care that aligns to their beliefs, behaviors, attitudes and values. In addition, the model helps the care provides a framework ...

Variables in a Research Study and Data Collection

A researcher has to identify variables in the study. There are two variables in a research study; the dependent variable and the independent variable. The dependent variable is what the researcher is interested (Yin, 2013). The aim is to measure the changes that take place with the dependent variable. On the other hand, the independent variable affects the dependent variable. The researcher will manipulate this independent variable with an expectation of change on the dependent variable. Data collection comes in as the process of gathering and then measuring information on the variables identified (Yin, 2013). This is done in ...

Many business topics cover the subjects of knowledge sharing, leadership management and organizational effectiveness, which would impact the entrepreneurial industry. Research covering this subject is looking to identify the most effective methods of managing businesses and organizations, and finding the correlation between solid organizational behaviors, good leadership and success in business. The initial problem that was discussed in this article is the lack of research produced on leadership, knowledge management and organizational skills in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to this article, “there has been no previous direct empirical evidence” in Dubai and the researchers wanted “to fill this ...

Two Ways of Belonging in America is an essay written by Bharati Mukherjee and it is about the experience which she and her sister; Mira, had in the United States. They were both different than the rest of their family, but their lives in America were completely different from each other as well. While Mira chose to marry an Indian and remain her cultural identity, Bharati married an American-Canadian and embraced the American culture. All of this led to various difficult situation during the period of over three decades. The story of two sisters of Indian heritage in America ...

I. Introduction Because of the intent of its purpose, this Advertising Strategy Brief will focus upon the salubrious qualities of the Muslim community, in terms of their sympathetic feelings towards Paris after the terror attacks of the city in November of 2015. The forthcoming details of this brief hopes to create an effective planning model and campaign, to mitigate the bad influence which is growing against Muslim society. Changing the perception of this group, under the task authorized by the Government, calls for a marketing strategy to address the negative media directed at Muslims perceived by the general public.

Background / Overview

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As a nation of immigrants, Canada has many cultures. The majority of the households in the country can trace their ancestral roots to Asia, Europe, and other continents. Some families have siblings who entered the country less than two decades ago; others have been around for many generations. The multiculturalism is the primary reason for the massive development in the nation due to diverse ideas and values provided by every culture. They take pride in advertising the different ethnicities in the country on billboard signs, television commercials, and even in schools through learning. One can also notice by listening ...

There is a lot to admire from the migrant community residing in Collier County. For a fact, the society is primarily comprised of farm workers that spend most of their days attempting to make their lives better. It is essential to note that the community is mainly comprised of citizens with a low financial profile. In fact, this is the primary reason for their migration from their native nations. Generally, the entire community is comprised of citizens of a Hispanic descent that have a formidable belief in religion (Coalition of Immokalee Workers, 2016). This assertion can be established through ...

It is ironical that migrant laborers, who comprise a whopping 85 percent of UAE workforce, face severe issues regarding discrimination, human rights violation, human trafficking, and racism. Newspaper and report headlines stating "conditions for Abu Dhabi's migrant workers shame the West", and UAE: A Move to Protect Migrant workers" duly expose the harsh conditions faced by migrants from surrounding nations. There is a great deal of literature on the conditions these helpless workers face on the foreign soil; however, there is a dearth of studies linking the impacts of these circumstances to the psychological health of migrant laborers. This ...

Response: Protecting the United States Boarders

Law enforcement agencies are faced with different problems in their bid to secure the borders of United States. One of the challenges is the possibility of attacks from terror groups who attempts to get into the country through various border points. Another major problem is the fact that the country shares a border with countries such as Mexico and Cuba that have people who are willing to risk crossing the border to seek a better life (Caponi & Plesca, 2014). Smuggling of narcotics and other illegal substances from Mexico and other countries pose a risk to the operations of law ...

In her essay “Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl’s Habits” Suki Kim discusses the way one’s life may totally change in just one moment. Thus, from a wealthy girl who had a millionaire father and didn't have any problems in life, Kim turned into a girl who had to suffer from poverty. In general, it is possible to say that the main purpose of the article is to explain the audience that everything may change at once and that people should be prepared to accept such changes and to be able to adjust to them. First of ...

Although Canada is recognized for its embracing policy and as the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism, the creation of Multiculturalism Act was not inevitable. The Multiculturalism Act became an official policy of Canada during a highly significant period in the history of Canada due to the presence of Canada’s ethnic diversity, the search for economic development, and the political leadership of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The country has been cited for its successful integration of different cultures and ability to manage the cultural diversity using a federal law (Gagnon, Raska, Van Dyk, & Schwinghamer, 2015). In this ...

Introduction

It was in 1993 when dozens of girls in Chihuahua, Mexico were murdered and dumped around the city to be left out as if they were garbage (Wright, 2011, p.707). The number of murders grew over the years, as police officers proved unable to control and find the perpetrators, until the protesters had become the activists. The town became a place of femicide, and currently, it has become a place of Narcopolitics. In this area, the connection between drugs and the dynamics of power appeared to be relentless. This took place even during the opium trade when Western imperialism ...

Problem Statement

A country’s economic trend greatly attributes to its workforce in various sectors, including tourism. Various governments should therefore offer a series of contributions in order to facilitate for the planning and development of their workforce. Consequently, respective governments should be responsible for policy formation and supervision of their implementation, and additionally facilitate for the overall planning of workforce issues. Therefore, an outlook and a critical analysis of the responsibility of government policy in workforce development and planning are relevant. In addition, the role of government officials and tourism managers in the overall planning of workforce issues in the ...

Introduction

Immigration is a brainchild of globalization and has been a subject of critique by a group of Americans who may take a xenophobic or protectionist cast. These critics argue that immigration undermines the US economy due to the access gained by immigrants to jobs and other important resources. Others also argue that employment of immigrants encourages cheap labor and undermines the US industries. On the other hand, the subject of immigration is hugely supported by the IMF body that argues that overall, immigration and integration will extend its benefits to everyone both the American community and the rest of ...

Overview

Recognition of the existence of a problem is the first step to its resolution. As early as 2007, Passaris (2007) had identified a demographic deficit as one of the imminent economic problems in Brunswick. In her article, Passaris (2007) not only confirms its presence but also presents the contributing factors to the demographic deficit in this provide. The demographic deficit identified by Passaris (2007) refers to the imbalances in the population of the province as a result of factors ranging from age to sex (Tosun, 2013). While this is a general description of demographic deficit and its contributory factors, ...

In 2009, a large-scale surveillance program, run by The Consulting Association, was exposed. The company collated information of thousands of workers and sold it to 44 construction companies. Many of the workers were blacklisted for their unionization or for raising health and safety issues in the industry. The case of the construction industry in the UK highlights the challenges union workers and trade unions may face. The story highlights the negative perception of TUs( Trade Unions) in employers' minds and the pernicious roles these unions may play in fostering the interests of employees, especially in the industries that house ...

What is multiculturalism?

Multiculturalism is a notion applicable to a society represented by people from diverse ethnic groups and cultures. Nowadays, it is the reality that everyone is used to. However, the issue of multiculturalism is quite controversial as multiculturalism differs on each side of the Atlantic Ocean – the United States of America and Europe. What is multiculturalism? Fist of all, multiculturalism can have a demographic dimension, meaning pluralism in a form of coexisting minorities groups, like in case with Switzerland where several linguistic communities coexist successfully, or because of migrating people with different cultural, ethnical, religious and educational background (Bloemraad, 2011, ...

Community Resources in Corrections

While organized crime can refer to any hierarchically structured and excusive association of people governed by specific rules, who carry on criminal activities for financial gain and who show a willingness to use violent or other illegal act in order to perpetuate their existence; in the United States, organized crime is most commonly linked to the Italian-American mafia (Abadinsky, 2010). To be sure, although there are a number of organized criminal networks operation in or against the U.S. that include a range of ethnicities and national origins, such as the Russian mafia, the Mexican drug cartels, and Chinese triads; ...

Young Minority Delinquency as Explained through the Lenses of Strain and Social Learning Theory: Insights from “Crips and Bloods: Made in America”, “Grand Torino” and “A Better Life” Young Minority Delinquency as Explained through the Lenses of Strain and Social Learning Theory: Insights from “Crips and Bloods: Made in America”, “Grand Torino” and “A Better Life”

Introduction

Young minority males from poor families are more likely to turn to delinquency than any other group in the United States of America. In an attempt to explain this tendency by means of well-established criminal law theories, this paper will look at three ...

Q1 The Australian Housing Market Report, prepared for National Australia Bank Ltd. by RP Data in November 2014, delineates the core changes that occur in the Australian housing market. Nowadays, many economists argue whether or not there is a housing bubble on the Australian housing market, because some features of it let them assume that these market conditions are quite similar to those that existed prior to the collapse of housing markets in other counties (Mercer, 2014). Such market failures, or so-called price corrections, can bear great risks for state stability and welfare due to the strong social impact ...

Campbell (2005) seems to focus largely on immigrant populations and how their cultural norms for child-rearing translate (or fail to do so) in middle America. It offers guidance for professionals to ensure an understanding, if not of the cultural differences themselves, that differences exist. According to Campbell, in order to be able to identify abuse and neglect and offer support to families in acclimating to child-rearing in their new homes, providers must be prepared to learn about the previous cultural norms of those families and help translate those to their new homes. This is a form of strength-based support: ...

Part 1 Introduction

The paper provides reflection on four chapters from the book “Business and Society: Stakeholder, Ethics, Public Policy.” In the discussion, the terminologies provided at the end of the chapters will be defined through this book and an external source. The application of the terminologies is also addressed in the paper. In addition to it, the case studies in the chapters are discussed in this reflective paper, by providing brief about the case, the issue, and the decision of the case. One of the questions from the case study is also answered. Moreover, online survey will be conducted to find ...

Criminal Infrastructure and Key Resources

Homeland Security: Criminal Infrastructure and Key Resources The national program has policies to unify infrastructure through enhanced protection under the National CIKR (Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources). The main purpose of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) is to protect the United States against any possible attempts by terrorists trying to cause damage to National CIKR. Three legislative orders were created, which were the Patriot Act of 2001, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Implementtion Act of 2007. The goal was to make the United States a safer, more secure and more resilient country ( ...

Program

Abstract The following pages will discuss the reasons for the great migration of the black population to the northern United States, discussing the reasons, risks involved, long-term social and cultural impacts, and the impact on different aspects of American life. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the majority of the African-American population in the United States continued to reside in the South through the early 1900s. The difficulty and the expense of travel left most of the population with little choice but to remain in the region that had just years before sought to keep them enslaved. ...

The problem of immigration is now a very urgent for many countries. Acceleration of the process of globalization leads to a sharp intensification of migration flows. According to data of Office for National Statistics , the number of European immigrants in 2015 reached 180 000 people, it increased by 42 000 persons; the number of non-European migrants in Europe has exceeded 201,000 people, which is 36 000 more than in 2014. In Europe, there are already 32, 6% of all international migrants. The first place in the number of migrants in the European countries is Germany (10.8 million migrants), ...

Several historians have studied the development of cities over the Balkans during the Ottoman period. The explorations shed light on how the urban planning in the Balkans looked like and whether those cities could be labeled either Ottoman or a Balkan. However, the Balkan urbanism in the Ottoman era does need a much more profound approach. With the decline of the Cold War period, there was a revival of ethnic, national and linguistic identities in many parts of the world. The result was a new channel of expression within a group and community that led to a conflict of ...

An orphaned child, according to Islamic law and as Islamic scholars agree, is a child below age 18 who parents, particularly the father, has died (“The Child’s Mother Died Will the Child be Called Orphan?” n. p.). The Arabic term for the word “orphan” is yatim, which means “singular” or “alone” (Al-Funaysan n. p.). Under the Kafala system, there are categories of orphans that can be adopted. Two of the more important categories include (a) the foundlings, children whose parentages are usually unknown, and (b) the children of imprisoned parents, especially when they were sentenced to stay a ...

Essay

Beijing Geography One of the most populous cities in the world Beijing is famous for its long and rich history. It used to have different names. The name Beijing stands for the ‘northern capital’ as it is located in the northern part of North China Plain. Once a provincial city, Beijing used to be a northern entryway into China. It is surrounded by mountains from the north, west and northwest. Beijing is mostly located on the plains. Chaobai, Yongding, Juma rivers flow through the city. To the north it includes the territory of the former residence of the former ...

‘Non-native’ Varieties and World English

‘Non-native’ Varieties and World Englishes Introduction The varieties of world Englishes connects to multitudes of non-native English speakers globally and the individual and collective goals in learning English as a second language. Understanding key themes in contemporary applied linguistics and the role of language in real-world problems faced by individual and groups provides a range of potential solutions available in different contexts of practice (Spelman Miller and Thompson, 2005; Kaplan, 2002; Frawley, 2003: Arts and McMahon, 2006; Davies, 2007). The use of English as an international language (EIL) and its implications for teaching have attracted much scholarly attention yet, ...

Summary of The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) was approved by Congress in May 2008 (Feldman, 2012). This act aims to protect individuals from being discriminated against by employers and insurance companies based on genetic information. According to GINA, genetic information “includes family medical history” (Feldman, 2012 pp. 744). Unlike other antidiscrimination legislation which only addressed past discrimination, GINA prevents future genetic discrimination from occurring (Feldman, 2012). The legislation was enacted to encourage citizens to participate in research on genetics; however, the widespread fear of potential genetic information disclosure and discrimination discouraged many people from participating. The act focuses on two ...

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Why was this Topic Chosen? 4 Target Group 5 Identified Needs 5 Aims and Objectives 6 The Event of the Day 7 Research Findings 7 Comments 8 Recommendations 8 Conclusion 8

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Appendix 1 11 Appendix 2 15 Appendix 3 16 Introduction An infectious illness is a kind of disease that is usually caused by a particular bacteria or virus, and is commonly transmitted from one individual to another. This can take place either indirectly, such as exposure to infected materials; or directly, such as having contact with infected people. Occurrences of these illnesses frequently put immense demands on health ...