I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky

I read the books my father brought homefrom the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes. I read the newspaper. I read the bulletinsposted on the walls of the school, the clinic, the tribal offices, the post office. I read junk mail. I read auto-repair manuals. I read magazines. I read anythingthat had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying tosave my life.

I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant.

I cannot read the words, but I assume it tells me that "Superman is breaking down the door." Aloud, I pretendto read the words and say, "Superman is breaking down the door." Words, dialogue, also float out of Superman's mouth. Because he is breaking down the door,I assume he says, "I am breaking down the door." Once again, I pretend to read the words and say aloud, "I am breaking down the door" In this way, I learnedto read

The words themselves were mostly foreign, but I still remember the exact moment when Ifirst understood, with a sudden clarity, the purpose of a paragraph. I didn't have the vocabulary to say "paragraph," but I realized that a paragraph was a fencethat held words.

Finally, for every country we calculated the percentage of chart positions occupied by "local" artists (from the home country) versus "foreign" artists (from other countries). By comparing these numbers, we could rank countries by their support for local music. We could also see what kinds of music people prefer from outside their own borders.

zero percent

—not a single local artist in their Top 200—

In fortress markets like India or Italy, local artists thrive with 80%+ dominance. But in smaller markets without linguistic barriers or critical mass, these same global hits completely saturate playlists. Costa Rica's zero percent shows the extreme—not a single local artist in their Top 200. The algorithms don't universally crush local scenes; they amplify whatever pattern already exists, creating winner-take-all dynamics where strong get stronger and weak disappear entirely.

Similarly, legendary artists like The Beatles or Bob Dylan might have lasting cultural impact but don't appear here because they lack consistent streaming presence across all seven global regions today.

Bad Bunny, despite earning the highest total streams globally, doesn't make the top 20 for worldwide consistency.

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But several countries prove this isn't destiny. Notable exceptions: The United States maintains 79% local chart dominance despite 1.5 billion English speakers worldwide (market power). Mexico achieves 58% local share with 560 million Spanish speakers (regional dominance). These exceptions show that market size, cultural identity, and local music infrastructure can override linguistic competition.

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K-pop's calculated global expansion shows in the data. Korean artists command 36% of Taiwan's streaming charts, 29% of Hong Kong's, and appear in the top 5 for 20 countries globally. K-pop has become the second most successful non-English music export after Latin reggaeton.

Despite just 3.2 million residents, this Caribbean island punches astronomically above its weight. Puerto Rican artists claim 38% of El Salvador's charts, 38% of Venezuela's, 35% of Honduras', 33% of Costa Rica's, and even 30% of Spain's—dominating both sides of the Atlantic through reggaeton's unstoppable rise.

The US maintains 79% domestic dominance while conquering the world—a rare double victory.

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A handful of countries dominate global playlists far beyond their borders. The United States leads this exclusive club, with American artists commanding 20-50% of streaming charts in dozens of countries. But the U.S. isn't alone—South Korea exports K-pop worldwide, Puerto Rico dominates Latin America with reggaeton, and the UK still punches above its weight in English-speaking markets. These nations don't just produce music; they shape global taste.

The data reveals a fascinating global music ecosystem where nations play distinctly different roles. Some countries export their artists worldwide, others import almost everything they listen to, while a select few maintain strong domestic music scenes. This detailed breakdown shows exactly who listens to whom:

Shocking cultural reversals expose national myths: The UK streams more American (55%) than British (29%) music. Pakistan streams more Indian (55%) than Pakistani (26%) despite tensions. Portugal imports more from Brazil (31%) than plays Portuguese (20%).

American music appears in the top 5 of 70 out of 73 countries—achieving unprecedented cultural reach while maintaining 79% domestic chart dominance, the ultimate double victory.

Puerto Rican artists achieve extraordinary reach across Latin America despite the island's small population of 3.2 million—Puerto Rican artists capture 38% of El Salvador, 35% of Honduras, 30% of Spain, while even conquering reggaeton's supposed birthplace, Panama.

The same 20 artists dominate charts across most global markets—from Billie Eilish to Bruno Mars, creating a uniform "global playlist" that sounds remarkably similar whether you're in Seoul, São Paulo, or Stockholm.

The fewer people who speak your language globally, the more you listen to local music. Countries with linguistically "isolated" languages like Finnish, Vietnamese, or Italian see 70-85% local artist dominance on their charts. Meanwhile, English-speaking nations struggle: Irish artists account for only 9% in their home country, in New Zealand it is only 1%, and in Costa Rica there are absolutely no local artists in the top 200.

Costa Rica stands alone as the only country with absolutely zero local artists in its Top 200—not a single Costa Rican artist appears on their own charts, completely erased by Puerto Rican (33%) and Colombian (28%) imports.

the belief that intelligence is fixed dampenedstudents’ motivation to learn, made them afraid of effort,and made them want to quit after a setback.

Intelligence praise, comparedto effort (or “process”) praise, put children into a fixedmindset. Instead of giving them confidence, it madethem fragile

It is through effort that peoplebuild their abilities and realize their potential.

We need to correct the harmful idea that people simplyhave gifts that transport them to success, and to teachour students that no matter how smart or talented some-one is

hese elements made localintegration and repatriation more practical options for the US policy towards Afghanrefugees. In addition, it was in the interest of Pakistan to offer temporary refuge forrefugees who doubled as insurgents battling the Afghan Government as their mutualenemy.

The US did not accept a broader responsibilityfor the millions displaced in Iran or Pakistan, instead funding humanitarian aid andrepatriation.

“With repatriation now a real possibility for manyAfghans and Iraqis, we expect to process [for resettlement] only extremely vulner-able refugees from those countries who cannot return to their homes.”

The US refugee policy in the region was to offer aid, rather than resettlement –some USD 26 million for food and local relief efforts in 1980, administered mostlythrough the Government of Pakistan and UNHCR.

I hypothesise that if the US is a closeally with a neighbour of Iraq or Afghanistan, it may prioritise the neighbouring coun-tries’ interests by resettling more refugees from the neighbouring territories.

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his programme was, in part, a recognitionthat the US had a moral responsibility to support the Vietnamese refugees who werein danger because of US military actions

but rather the US relationships with the neighbouringcountries.

considered which Vietnamese to include inthe evacuation.

“escapees” or “defectors” and were used for their symbolic and propaganda value to“serve to embarrass enemy nations and discredit their political systems”

1) to undermine enemies by welcoming defectors, 2) to mitigate damagecreated by foreign policy failures, and 3) the politics of neighbours.

DHS officers traveling to Afghanistan and the surrounding region to process applica-tions. These two factors

security does not ex-plain why the US prioritised Iraqis and not Afghans

n this way, the differences in US refugee policy toward Iraqis and Afghans cannotbe explained by international law.

that countries interpret and apply international refugee law in different ways, leadingto large variations in asylum recognition rates

analysed as a foreign policy,taking into account strategic interests, geopolitical alliances, and regional dynamics.

Fundamentally, it is not American relationships with refugee-producing countries, but rather their neighbours – the refugee-receiving countries – thatdetermines how the US prioritizes refugee resettlement.

This article finds that US refugee policy isoften used as a foreign policy tool to pursue strategic interests within the politics of neigh-bours.

Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.” (Analects XV.24)

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“I am theonly daughter in a family of six sons. Thatexplains everything.”

His thorough investigation of an epidemic in the Soho district of London led to his conclusion that contaminated water from the Broad Street pump was the source of the disease

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I realized that I had been so immersed in the media coverage of Mexicans that they had become one thing in my mind, the abject immigrant.

She assumed that I did not know how to use a stove.

She asked if she could listen to what she called my "tribal music," and was consequently very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey.

"Finish your food! Don't you know? People like Fide's family have nothing."

Slave law claimed that children inherited the status of their mother, a law which enabled enslavers to control the reproductive functions of their enslaved women laborers.

Social workers in Australia (Mays & Marston,2016) and South Africa (Sewpaul, 2005) arrived atsimilar conclusions. Mays and Marston (2016) ar-gued that the rise of neoliberalism “has created apunitive approach to governing poverty” (p. 3)

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d “pure and simple trade unionism,” a program that aimed for practical gains such as higher wages, fewer hours, and safer conditions. The AFL advocated a less aggressive approach that tried to avoid strikes.

American farmers also lashed out against the inequalities of the Gilded Age and denounced political corruption for enabling economic theft.

. After the Exclusion Act, several western mining communities where whites blamed Chinese workers for a lack of jobs took the law into their own hands. Massacres of Chinese people in Rock Springs and Hell’s Canyon, Wyoming, in 1885 and 1887 resulted in twenty-eight and thirty-four deaths, respectively.

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Until her death on January 26, 1928, Zitkála-Šá continued to work for improvements in education, health care, and legal recognition of Native Americans as well as the preservation of Native American culture. She died in Washington, DC. She is buried at Arlington National Cemetery with her husband. Sharing a headstone, she is memorialized as: “His Wife / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin / Zitkala-Ša of the Sioux Indians / 1876-1936.”[5]

While being sharply critical of assimilation, she was firm in her conviction that Indigenous people in America should be American citizens, and that as citizens, they should have the vote: “In the land that was once his own – America… there was never a time more opportune than now for American to enfranchise the Red man!”[3] As original occupants of the land, she argued, Native Americans needed to be represented in the current system of government.

Sun Dance was the first American Indian opera written. It is a symbol of how Zitkála-Šá lived in and bridged both her traditional Native American world and the world of white America that she was raised in.

Afterwards, Zitkála-Šá spent some time back at home on the reservation taking care of her mother and collecting stories for her book, Old Indian Legends. She also took work at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) office at Standing Rock Indian Reservation as a clerk. She married Captain Raymond Talefase Bonnin in 1902. They were assigned to the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Utah, where they lived and worked for the next fourteen years. While there, they had a son, Raymond Ohiya Bonnin.

In 1901, she wrote a piece for Harper’s that described the profound loss of identity felt by a student at the Carlisle Indian School. She was fired from Carlisle.

presented her people as generous and loving instead of the common racist stereotypes that portrayed Native Americans as ignorant savages.

Zitkála-Šá back to the Yankton Reservation to gather more students. She was shocked to find her family home in disrepair. Many people on the reservation lived in deep poverty, and white settlers were occupying land given to the Yankton Dakota people by the federal government.

Again, she chose not to return to the reservation. Instead, she moved to Boston, where she studied violin at the New England Conservatory of Music.[1]

At fifteen years old, she returned to the Institute to further her education. Her study of piano and violin led the Institute to hire her as a music teacher. She graduated in 1895. When she received her diploma, Zitkála-Šá gave a speech advocating for women’s rights.

She returned to live with her mother on the Yankton Reservation in 1887, but left only three years later. She felt that she did not fit in after her experiences at the Institute.

Eliminating their primarymeans of support would help quell the Indian menace and open theNorthwest to American expansion. In a broader sense, the elimination ofBritish power from North America would enhance U.S. security

Persuaded by May that no settlement was likely, andwith the approaching election putting a premium on action of somekind, Madison submitted a war message to Congress.

he threat of Indian warfare on the frontier, which Americans alsoconveniently blamed on Britain, added to an already long list of griev-ances

nlike Adams a decade earlier, the president did not fan the martialspirit. He closed American ports to Royal Navy ships and demanded notmerely reparation but British abandonment of impressmen

The residue of Anglo-phobia left from the Revolution deepened as the crisis intensified. Out-raged by British insults to their honor, Americans insisted on demandsLondon could not possibly meet, placing the two nations on a collisioncourse

y this time, the resumption of war withEngland was imminent. Desperate for money and angry at Spain, he ig-nored the Treaty of San Ildefonso and sold the United States all ofLouisiana instead of simply New Orleans for funds to underwrite waragainst England.

A chance to do so to an extent he could not possibly have imaginedcame with the Louisiana crisis of 1802–3 and the acquisition of a vast newterritory.

efferson’s expansionism represents the fullest expression of his national-ism and republicanism

Eager toprove to North Africans—and Europeans—that the United States wouldmeet force with force, he dispatched four ships to the Mediterranean to“protect our commerce and chastise their insolence” by “sinking, burning,or destroying their ships and Vessels.

He was certain that appeasement encouraged more outra-geous demands.

Genuine political and economic freedom required a populationof independent landowners engaged in productive enterprises

A republican population de-manded, in turn, access to foreign markets to ensure continued outlets forAmerica’s agricultural surpluses and the availability of sufficient land toprovide an economic basis for freedom for a rapidly expanding people

is inaugural commit-ment to “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none” echoed in less qualified terms

hey secured release from theFrench alliance, making possible a truly independent foreign policy

The removal ofBritish troops from U.S. soil, along with Spanish recognition of the south-ern boundary and granting of access to the Mississippi, eased the foreignthreat to frontier communities, curbed secessionist impulses among west-erners, and facilitated incorporation of the West into the Union

Insisting on its rights to trade with both major belligerents, the UnitedStates suffered heavy losses in shipping but achieved major gains in for-eign trade. Exports increased from $20 million in 1792 to more than $94million in 1801, imports from $23 million in 1790 to $110 million in 1801,and the reexport trade jumped from $1 million in 1792 to nearly $50 mil-lion in 1800. This prosperity was based on unusual conditions, to be sure,but it provided a foundation for future economic growth

Despite their partisanship and occasional excess, the Federalists skill-fully guided the United States through a perilous era. Displaying oppor-tunism and pragmatism in time of crisis, they exploited the European warto America’s advantage while scrupulously avoiding the full-scale involve-ment that would have been disastrous at this stage of the nation’s growth

of that conflict until 1815 perpetuated the threat to the United States, butseverance of ties with France rendered its situation much less compli-cated. The nation would not be a party to another “entangling alliance”until the mid-twentieth century

nfluenced byexperience dating to the colonial period, he stressed the importance of anindependent course free of emotional attachments and wherever possiblebinding political commitments to other nations

His ref-erences to alliances set forth a view common among Americans that theirnation, founded on exceptional principles and favored by geography,could best achieve its destiny by preserving its freedom of action.

ally no restrictions and also gained access to the much-coveted West In-dian trade,

ut they served the national interest as well.Desperately in need of U.S. foodstuffs, France purchased large quantitiesof grain and permitted American ships to transport supplies from its WestIndian colonies to its home ports, a right generally denied under mercan-tilist doctrine. Hundreds of American ships swarmed into the Caribbeanand across the Atlantic to “fatten on the follies” of the Old World

fter long andsometimes bitter debates and frequently over Jefferson’s objections, thecabinet had hammered out a neutrality policy that construed Americanobligations under the French alliance as narrowly as possible

They also recognized that war would significantlyincrease demands for their products and might open ports previouslyclosed. As a neutral the United States could trade with all nations,

that to become too closely attached to either powercould result in a loss of freedom of action, even independence.

One class session is designated as "asynchronous" to provide students with time to complete their service requirements and another class session will be designated as a teamwork day for the service-learning presentation.

Attend one Accounting Club Event or Interview a Colleague from work.

Each team will lead a case discussion through a presentation.

prepare for case discussions in this class.

Teams are expected to identify the issue and stakeholders and to conduct analysis to support a recommendation.

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Midwife, matchmaker,our grandmother, our grandfather,Xpiyacoc, Xmucane,let there be planting, let there be the dawningof our invocation, our sustenance, our recognitionby the human work, the human design,the human figure, the human form.So be it, fulfill your names:Hunahpu Possum, Hunahpu Coyote,Bearer twice over, Begetter twice over,Great Peccary, Great Coati,lapidary, jeweler,sawyer, carpenter,plate shaper, bow] shaper,incense maker, master craftsman,Grandmother of Day, Grandmother of Light.

face was just twisted. It couldn’t look around. It talked at first, but_ senselessly. It was quickly dissolving in the water.“It won't last,” the mason and sculptor said then. “It seems to bedwindling away, so let it just dwindle. It can’t walk and it can’t multiply,so let it be merely a thought,” they said.So then they dismantled, again they brought down their work anddesign. Again they talked:“What is there for us to make that would turn out well, that wouldsucceed in keeping our days and praying to us?” they said. Then theyplanned again:“We'll just tell Xpiyacoc, Xmucane, Hunahpu Possum, Hunahpu Coy-ote, to try a counting of days, a counting of lots,” the mason and sculptorsaid to themselves. Then they invoked Xpiyacoc, Xmucane.

Indeed—theyhadbetterhaveguardians,”theothersreplied. Assoonastheythoughtitandsaidit,deer andbirdscameforth.Andthenthey gaveouthomestothedeerandbirds:“You,thedeer:sleepalongtherivers,inthecanyons.Behereinthemeadows,inthethickets,inthe forests,multiplyyourselves.Youwillstandand walkonallfours,”theyweretold.

THE HEART OF SKY, NAMED HURRICANE:

And then the earth arose because of them, it was simply their wordthat brought it forth. For the forming of the earth they said “Earth.”

But therewill be no high days and no bright praise for our work, our design, untilthe rise of the human work, the human design,” they said.

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Tell us have not you had visible appearances more than what is common in nature?

Colloids share many properties with solutions.

particles of a colloid are typically smaller than those of a suspension

For a solution with a nonvolatile solute dissolved in a volatile solvent the vapor pressure is due to the solvent

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Earth orbiting satellites, control and monitoring stations across the Earth, and GPS receivers owned by individuals.

Latitude and longitude comprises a grid system of lines encircling the globe and is used to determine the locations of points on the earth. Lines of latitude, also called parallels, run east - west. Latitude lines always run parallel to each other, and hence, they are always an equal distance apart. Latitude lines never converge or cross.

A model is simply a representation of a real thing. You have seen and used models in the past, like a globe which is a model of the earth. Geographers construct models to analyze geographic processes because the real object of study may be too large to examine, the processes which created it operate over too long of a time frame, or experimentation might actually harm or destroy it.

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Large scale maps, such as 1:24000 scale maps show a smaller area in great detail. Small scale maps have the least detail but show large areas.

An isoline is a line that connects points of equal value. For instance, the brown contour lines on United States topographic map connect points of equal elevation.

The information collected to create a map is called spatial data. Any object or characteristic that has a location can be considered spatial data. Maps can depict two kinds of data. Qualitative map data is in the form of a quality and expresses the presence or absence of the subject on a map, like the kind of vegetation present occupying a region. Quantitative map data is expressed as a numerical value, like elevation in meters, or temperature is degrees celsius.

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Stories change lives; they shape how we think and how we see the world.

The capacities to think crit-ically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems have always been markers of college-educated people; all of these depend on skills of reflection. The results of a 2021 national survey of employers by the Association of American Colleges and Universities found that critical thinking and “encouraging students to think for themselves

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