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The problem with the U.S. bail system - Camilo Ramirez. Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words – video obituary.

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Kansallisuussanat. Paljoussanat. Apuverbit. Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century by Rank - American Rhetoric. If It Were My Home. The hidden life of Rosa Parks - Riché D. Richardson. What Do Kids Think of Protesting? Banksy UK Christmas mural makes powerful statement about homelessness - Insider. 'MPs should learn from young people' Public Shaming: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) How to get young people to vote. Jaboukie Young-White on Why Young People Don’t Vote. Turkish Artist Captures The Heartbreaking Contrast Between The Two Worlds We Live In. Itled. Prospective immigrants were lined up through a maze of metal fences in the Great Hall at Ellis Island.

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During busy periods, as many as 5,000 people each day would be checked. Each, in turn, had to undergo both physical inspection and extensive questioning before they were released. For the majority of people, the procedure took between three and five hours. TeacherTube - A Virtual Voyage to Ellis Island.

October 11, 2017 Act 3. Harvard graduate's unique speech goes viral. I am a migrant. Hs. Washington.

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Food aid in Finland: Learning from a Nordic Welfare State. Mary Anne MacLeod, Research Officer at the Poverty Alliance and PhD student at Glasgow University.

Food aid in Finland: Learning from a Nordic Welfare State

In Scotland we often look to Scandinavian countries to learn how we might do things better. World-leading education systems; the highest levels of gender equality; among the happiest places to live in the world – in many ways our Nordic neighbours serve as important role models on how to organise ourselves. Finland’s provision of universal school meals, from pre-school to 18, is a source of great national pride and also considered to be a factor in what makes their education system so successful. Presidential Election Process. Presidential Election Vocabulary. Overview We cannot take it for granted that our students understand what they hear relating to an upcoming election, especially our ELL students.

Presidential Election Vocabulary

Vocabulary is acquired though both exposure and explicit instruction. Vocabulary instruction involves review, repetition, and word-learning strategies. It also involves getting students actively engaged in using and thinking about basic election word meanings. By using formative assessments (teacher observation, classroom discussion, analysis of student work, etc), teachers can see if they need to make any instructional adjustments such as re-teaching, giving students more opportunities to practice, or holding more classroom discussions. Objective Formative assessment is achieved by observing students as they respond to questions, ask questions, and interact with other students during activities. Lesson Plans for this Unit Culminating Activity Students will campaign for one of the presidential candidates.

Supporting Books. EA4 the US presidential election. 'I've lived with death threats for 10 years' Roberto Saviano - BBC News. Man's complaint about dead worm in his cucumber escalated hilariously. LONDON — The world of Facebook-based customer complaints can sometimes be a strange, wonderful place.

Man's complaint about dead worm in his cucumber escalated hilariously

Wes Metcalfe's recent post on British supermarket Tesco's wall is a perfect example of this — it started with a dead worm in a cucumber, and somehow ended with Tesco adapting a famous Oasis song to act as tribute for the worm's funeral. But let's back up a step. The whole thing started on Saturday, with the following post. When this man complained using Eminem lyrics Asos let him down awfully. Hannah Fry: The mathematics of love. Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person. WTF is Brexit? - Foil Arms and Hog. This shocking video shows the huge difference in how strangers treat a rich or poor child. A video by UNICEF has revealed people's bias against children in poverty when they were presented with the same girl, in different clothes, left unaccompanied on the street.

This shocking video shows the huge difference in how strangers treat a rich or poor child

The experiment was carried out in Tbilisi, Georgia. Child actor Anano stood unaccompanied on a main road. A tale of two brothers. Lesbos, Greece Ali, 17 years old: I’m on my own except for my brother.

A tale of two brothers

I worry about him a lot. If I didn’t care so much about him, I wouldn’t have brought him with me. Our parents raised him and took care of him but now I’m the one who has to look after him. In the region where we are from there is the conflict in Syria, there is ISIS, there are many conflicts. Two weeks later Ali and Ahmed reached Germany. Ali: Germany is very beautiful … safe … organised … What does it mean to be a refugee? - Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story. StreetArtGlobe. Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice.

UN Women - Find your inner womens right activist. Unity Dow Unity Dow was the first female High Court judge in Botswana.

UN Women - Find your inner womens right activist

She was a plaintiff in a historic case that allowed children of Botswanan women and foreign men to be considered Botswanan. Unity was also one of three judges who decided on the internationally known Kgalandi court decision, concerning the rights of the San people of Botswana to return to their ancestral lands. Hajj360. The Syrian Refugee Crisis Explained Perfectly With a Simple Animation & Video.

In September 2015, the body of a three-year-old Syrian boy was found floating on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Syrian Refugee Crisis Explained Perfectly With a Simple Animation & Video

Photographs of the boy were quick to get circulated world over, and the world responded with a massive outcry over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis. This was the first time the Syrian crisis was globally recognised as a burning issue, and one that needs to be addressed with utmost urgency. This video, by In a Nutshell , speaks about how the Syrian crisis is an international issue, and how it all started with countrywide unrest and the civil war in Syria. Reported Speech. Exercises on Reported Speech If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use the speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect) speech.

Reported Speech

Therefore, you need to learn how to transform direct speech into reported speech. The structure is a little different depending on whether you want to transform a statement, question or request. Statements When transforming statements, check whether you have to change: Infinitive and Gerund. Exercises and Tests on Infinitive and Gerund There are certain words in English that are usually followed by an infinitive or gerund. If you are not sure whether to use the infinitive or gerund, check out our lists or look the words up in a dictionary. Hamilton Naki: Apartheid's shadow. While You Were Sleeping: Reported Speech. This a very funny scene. Your students will enjoy it a lot. Tell me if you like it or give suggestions by leaving a comment, please. Before you watch the segment:Talk to a partner about the following situations. Monotheism: Islam, Judaism & Christianity. In this lesson, we define monotheism and identify three significant monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

We also discuss the ideology of each of these three religions. Explore our library of over 10,000 lessons Click "next lesson" whenever you finish a lesson and quiz. Got It You now have full access to our lessons and courses. UK election 2015: A guide for non-Brits. This animated map shows how humans migrated across the globe. The inside story: how to avoid gang culture.