... American dollars a year. The average inflation rate is 5.1%. Of the population of the Dominican Republic 13.8% of the people are unemployed, yet only 25% of the population is below the poverty line. The Dominican Republic has many industries for their people to work for, and they consist of: sugar processing, ferronickel and gold mining, textiles, cement, and tobacco processing plants. The Dominican ... Republic is a unique yet poverty stricken country. It has many resources they use to get through every day life. The Dominicans are very happy people who live life to the fullest. They h...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . It is not a place to which she feels she belongs. Lahore is where her aunts stay in secluded rooms away from male gaze. It is a place where there is great poverty: "beggars, sweeper-girls" (the gender seems to be significant). She is there, gazing at the beautiful gardens, but through "fretwork," so her view is obscured. She is "of no fixed ... is a kind of death, because the life one has left behind is over; the place one has left is like the cratered grave. Notice that the verses all have different line lengths and different numbers of lines in each stanza, perhaps mirroring the chao...

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• Grade Level: High School