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- 41: Australia
- ... all children must attend school, but at age fifteen, a child may leave school and start work. In high school a student will be immersed in studies of many different subjects. Aboriginal children have a bilingual education. Vacations consist of the following: five days at Easter, two weeks each in May and in September, and six weeks from Christmas to February. Religion Seventy-five percent of the people are Christian, one ...
- 42: Pierre Trudeau
- ... readings I was also able to discover the fundamental principles that Trudeau would advocate in order to establish a strong and productive influence in Canadian politics. Born in 1921, Trudeau entered the world in a bilingual/bicultural home located in the heart of Montreal, Quebec. His acceptance into the University of Montreal would mark the beginning of his adventures into the Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become ...
- 43: Pierre Trudeau
- ... readings I was also able to discover the fundamental principles that Trudeau would advocate in order to establish a strong and productive influence in Canadian politics. Born in 1921, Trudeau entered the world in a bilingual/bicultural home located in the heart of Montreal, Quebec. His acceptance into the University of Montreal would mark the beginning of his adventures into the Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become ...
- 44: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Breakdown
- ... hypothesis youll need a few examples. My father came to America to go to college in 1966. He had grown up in Malaysia with their culture and language. My father grew up as a bilingual speaker, knowing the Chinese language from his parents upbringing and the schooling in Malaysia taught him some English, yet his English was not quite perfect. When my Dad came to America he had trouble ...
- 45: A Case Study In Diversity India And Romania
- ... satire publication, to Interactive maps of major cities. I also really like the inclusion of the Romanian language in most of it s areas; some items are in English, some in Romanian, and many are bilingual. I feel that the SAWNET site does not to justice to the varied culture of India (or any of the other cultures it represents, such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). Nor does ...
- 46: It Is Time To Reaffirm Our Act
- ... ideal of a color blind society into the current environment of quotas, goals, timetables, set-asides, diversity training, and the like?. Affirmative Action Programs, --Like other Federal Government Programs, for instance, Welfare, Social Security and Bilingual Education.-- were started as under-funded pilot-programs, or small reform-initiatives. As decades went by, many U.S. Presidents and Congresses had their opportunity to enhance those programs with larger funds and non-sense ...
- 47: Immigration Into Canada
- ... both sides we can alleviate the social tensions. Introduction There is a school in Vancouver which is offering a four year immersion programme to its students. That in itself is not highly unusual in our bilingual nation, what is unusual is that the language of choice for the immersion programme is not French, it is Mandarin. The programme was voted in by parents who believed the Mandarin language to be more ...
- 48: The History of Greek Music
- ... of motifs, sequential patterns, and imitation. Out of this developed the motet, originally in Latin on a sacred text. Unlike the organum, the text was sung in the upper voices as well as the tenor. Bilingual motets (French-Latin, English-Latin) arose, and secular texts or combinations of sacred and secular texts were used. Tenors were sometimes chosen from French popular songs instead of from plainchant. Instruments played lower parts, making ...
- 49: Standardization of the English Language
- ... contributed greatly to the rise of English and fall of French. By the fourteenth century, English was again known by most people, although French was not forgotten, and the people who spoke French were generally bilingual. The Statute of Pleading made it law that English and not French would be used in the courts. However, it needs to be emphasized that at the end of this statement, it says that after ...
- 50: Binge Drinking 2
- ... in the household was selected using the Kish method, which lists all adult household members and then uses one of 12 possible selection schemes to randomly select among those eligible (Marํn, 1992, 1104). Interviewers were bilingual males and females. Experienced interviewers recruited respondents by telling them this was a national health survey and that the topic was AIDS. Interviewers received specific training on how to ask the highly personal questions used ...
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