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The first Chinese immigrants to Australia arrived in 1848 as shepherds, land clearers and general farm hands (Irwin, 2001, p.8).

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Brazil’s Amazon jungle is alive with millions of plant and animal species. But the jungle is shrinking. Loggers cut down trees for wood and paper (Better Lesson, 2011).

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The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America’s break with the past. (From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25).

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