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Machar, Carlos Rueda, and Mirose Pierville, all had one thing in
common. They had to adjust to the American society and way of living,
is originally from Spain. His experience attending school there was one
attended classes for ten different subjects and they were split between
two days A day and B day. He said that his stayed in a cohort with
the same students for all four years of high school. They split up into
two different tracks, one for languages and the other for sciences. He
chose the language path and studied things like Latin and Greek.
computers, no lab rooms for science classes, and there were only a few
parents had little education but they always encouraged their children
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Republic to help out with medical resources. He learned his passion for
spent most of his life living in New York City. From what he recalls from
not free for them to attend. For college most students would travel out
one of the lost boys after his was displaced from Sudan trying to
make his way to America. He arrived in the States in 2001 and sought
displaced as a small child taking away from his education. But the
uniform. After eighth grade they have what is similar to high school,
but he described them as forms one through four. All subjects were
taught, math, science, history, and more. They used the metric
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two countries is that in Sudan they had less resources therefore people
cared about their education more and are more serious about it.
originally from Bolivia. In Bolivia there is little funding for schools and
lots of homework but only a few hours of school mainly from about 8
college.
of the schools are private and you have to pay for them. Because of
the cost that people have to pay for their education it is extremely
to send all of their children to school, they would send one to represent
the family. During the school day she said students experienced harsh
uniform not being exact to the teachers likings. She also described
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pages in a book word for work. English was not taught in her school
only Haitis two main languages creole and French. She describes her
experience in Haiti. She hopes that one day she can return to Haiti and
open up an orphanage for children who lost their families due to the
systems around the world and perhaps how we could change for the
better. The main thing that sticks out to me is the attitudes that
continue their education. For example, Ben Machar left the Sudan and
has pursued his Ph.D in political science and Williams Rodriguez has a
degree in French and Dental Hygine, and Miguel Figuera has two
realized how easy we have it and perhaps thats why education isnt as
that we as Americans take that for granted because not every country
has that opportunity, they have to learn and experience things for
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education.