Ethnic groups Canada is a nation of immigrants, and it is the English and French, who are the dominant ethnic groups in Canada, of a population of 69%. The most common ethnic groups that comprise the remaining 31% in Canada are: Chinese: which comprise 26,9% South Asian: 21% African: 17,9% Arab/West Asian: 7,7 Filipino: 7,3% Latin: 5,5% South East Asian: 5,4% Other two smaller ethnic groups, which is Japan and Korea. Japan comprises 2,1% and Korea comprises 2,0% Language There
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Question 1 The main parties involved in this issue are Wong Siu Long (“SL”) and Wong Siu Foong (“SF”), who are siblings. Both of them are involved in the running of their family business, Weng Fatt Jewellers Pte Ltd (“WFJ”), which manufactures and sells contemporary fine jewellery. In WFJ, SL handled the core business while SF was in charge of designing and ensuring the quality of the jewellery. In 2000, SF effectively retired from the business, but SF still had a significant influence on the
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Marisa Barbera Mrs. Rosenwasser AP English 3/13/12 A Critique of the Use of Language For many, language represents a unifying force between people. For instance, a man and a woman are sitting on a bus in Barcelona; complete and total strangers just sitting. The man is a college graduate from Argentina, the women a local school teacher. They have absolutely nothing in common except for the fact that they both speak Spanish. The man and woman ultimately strike up a conversation about the
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was very historically in accurate, which lead to many people misinterpreting the real life of Pocahontas. Now As the scriptwriter of my new movie it is my turn to set the story straight. I would start of the story giving background of both the English settler in Jamestown and why they were coming to the New World. And I would also start to give background information about the Tsenacommacah. Pocahontas was a very special women of her time, and was very also curious much more than any one else in
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My experiences with English Nowadays English is a very important language, it is recognized as a universal language. It gives you opportunities to travel around the world, to know about other cultures or getting started a scholarship to study abroad. This is some of the advantages of learning English. You use it all the time, when you come out of the borders. I could summarize my experience I 3 stages: Vacations (childhood), my school time and now the time in the gymnasium, and in the future, there
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54 komentar CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background Nowadays, many English courses places are available anywhere in regions. The ones who want to enhance their English speaking ability are provided by so many facilities in which they can learn from. The big number of members in the public courses is one the proof that teenagers or even children are having a big desire to be able to speak English. However, though so many English courses are provided it doesn’t means that people will directly have
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the United Kingdom totarget its customers in the sports market.In the segmentation process Sport England worked closely with Experian BusinessStrategies consulting group. Sport England along with the help of the Experian Groupanalysed data of the English people aged 18 and older. They collected and collatedinformation about specific sports involvement; desire to do sports and the obstaclesthey faced in doing sports. The analysis further included the collection of data onmedia consumption and communication
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"Advantages & Disadvantages of Mastering the English Language and Politics" Mastering the English laguage and politics can cause a possitive and negative efffect on a person by pointing out the flaws of society and government issues. Mastering the english language enlightens one on how to survive in this society and what this government is based on. Language can cause conflict to ones emotions an thoughts about this society and government,and its history. Fredrick Douglass, Malcolm X, and Jonathan
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Indian dialect INTRODUCTION English has been with India since the early 1600's, when the East India Company started trading and English missionaries first began their efforts. A large number of Christian schools imparting an English education were set up by the early 1800's. The process of producing English-knowing bilinguals in India began with the Minute of 1835, which officially endorsed T.B. Macaulay's goal of forming "a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we
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