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… and thick coats, streets were piled up with snow like grey walls. Coming from Taiwan where we have six months of summer, I wondered how … had changed me then. Volunteering as a language tutor for an Indian newcomer family at the downtown public library, I clearly remembered how … that we were once a whole family. One night, my husband and my Skype communication came to a sudden stop and we could only text each other. …
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… foreign language in Japan and for six months, I lived in Tokyo and studied Japanese. In high school, I studied Latin, French, German and Spanish. Even though I had high marks, I … I loved learning language. I heard the language all around me and was completely involved in Japanese life, so I learned quickly to get along …
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… for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as … Flora, Trinidad and Tobago. Santa Flora was a town owned by an oil company and Tony’s father worked as an x-ray technician at the oil company’s medical centre. After graduation, Tony also began working for …
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… Every refugee's experience is alike, and yet unique. When the Russians invaded Budapest in October 1956, thousands of … At the time of our escape, my family was: Father: Janos Szigetvari 26; Mother: Ilona Barath-Szigetvari 25; Brother: Elemer 5; and myself, … I still have my family's original Immigration Papers issued that day. On each document our family name was spelled wrong. And, my middle …
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… thing is you’re open-minded, okay. Uh you have to look at Canada do welcome you, okay. You have to come, again, not thinking what you had, what you going to have: always … give advice to them is that, don’t be choosy about your job. Take what come along because you never think—know what it take you to next step. …
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… on the ship Saturnia and on December 06, 1958 they were married. The day Mom left Italy (Sanguarzo/Cividale/Udine) her father (Our …
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… In 1955 Quinto Odorizzi boarded the ship Queen Frederica in Naples Italy. After sailing for 8 days he … to Edmonton Alberta. When he arrived he tried to find a job. At one point he became quite discouraged as someone asked him how he expected …
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… Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Establishing historical significance” is the first skill of historical literacy put forward by the … past, we need to ask if the event is linked to other changes. Can we point to other historical events or people and relate them to this … Historical Thinking (2) : Establish Historical Significance …
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(plus amendments: 1887, 1892, 1900, 1903) Following the recommendations published in the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration in 1885, the federal government passed a bill to restrict Chinese immigration to Canada. The Chinese Immigration Act imposed a duty of $50 on every Chinese person seeking …
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… village about 120 km from Rome. His parents are Luigi and Adelina. There were 10 children in his family. Filippo says that life was not … to phone them and say that he was sick. When he went to work the next day he was fired. Filippo says that was sort of a blessing. He went to …