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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Oscar Cortez ? Oscar Cortez   46  originally from El Salvador  is a plumber who has built an American life in the 17 years he has had temporary protected status. The U.S. government will terminate the program for an estimated 200 000 Salvadorans in this country  people with knowledge of the plan said Monday. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
 Oscar Cortez  feels like  he  has an ordinary American life.  He  carries a Costco card.  He  roots for the Boston Red Sox. And five days a week   he  rises before dawn  pulls on four shirts and two pairs of pants  and ventures into the frigid air to work as a plumber  a good job that pays for his Maryland townhouse and his daughtersâ college fund.
The U.S. government opened the door to this life in 2001 when it granted  Cortez  and about 200 000 other migrants from El Salvador Temporary Protected Status (TPS)  a provisional reprieve from deportation that has allowed them to work legally in the United States for 17 years.
At 15th and L streets NW in Washington   Cortez  saw the news on  his  mobile phone while taking a break from laying copper pipe at the construction site of the new Fannie Mae headquarters.
Many Salvadorans say they will try to stay in the United States illegally â a fate they find more bearable than facing the rampant gang violence in their homeland.  Cortez  said  he  visited  his  parents in 2016 for the first time since  he  left and was shocked to see that the house had six locks on every door to ward off burglars. People  he  knew had left or died. Strangers stared at  him  on the street.
âI felt like a foreigner in my own land â  he  said. âEveryone is looking at  you  like youâre from outer space.â
Both men said they are hoarding their savings in case they lose their jobs along with their protected status.  Cortez  has put off replacing  his  old Mitsubishi Montero  with 150 000 miles and a sputtering engine.
Like many TPS recipients  they say they will try to obtain legal residency.  His  wife is a legal resident  and  Cortez  hopes she will someday be able to sponsor  him . Contreras said he is trying to get a green card through his wife  a U.S. citizen. But there are no guarantees.
 Cortez  nodded. âWeâll lose our jobs â he said. âWeâll lose it all.â

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Saad al-Hariri ? BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanonâs Shiâite Hezbollah group on Sunday accused Saudi Arabia of forcing  Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri  to quit  and called for calm in an effort to contain the political crisis unleashed by  his  resignation.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun meets with  Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri  at the presidential palace in Baabda  Lebanon  September 28  2017. Dalati Nohra/Handout via REUTERS
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah  the leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah  said there should be no political escalation in response to  Hariri âs declaration on Saturday  which was made from Saudi Arabia and came as surprise even to his aides.
 Hariri   in a televised speech  said there was a plot to kill him  and accused Hezbollah and its Iranian backers of sowing strife in the Arab world.
Nasrallah said âlegitimate questionsâ were being asked over whether  Hariri  had been detained in Saudi Arabia  where news emerged on Sunday that royals  ministers and investors had been arrested in an anti-corruption purge.
Speaking in a televised address  Nasrallah said: âThe resignation was a Saudi decision dictated to  Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri  and was forced on  him .â
Nasrallah said Lebanonâs political leaders expected  Hariri  to return to Lebanon on Thursday âif  he  is allowedâ to travel.
Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia  a political ally of  Hariri   is locked in a bitter tussle for power across the Middle East with Shiâite Iran and its allies  including Hezbollah.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun will not accept  Hariri âs resignation until  he  returns to Lebanon to explain his reasons  palace sources said on Sunday  delaying for now the politically difficult consultations over his successor.
Nasrallah said he would not comment on accusations leveled against Hezbollah by  Hariri   describing his resignation announcement as a Saudi statement.
 Hariri âs resignation toppled a coalition government that included Hezbollah  thrusting Lebanon back into the frontline of the Saudi-Iranian regional rivalry and risking an open-ended political crisis.
Nasrallah said he had thought things were going well and had not wanted  Hariri  to quit.
 Hariri  allies in Lebanon have denied suggestions he had been detained and a photograph was published on his Twitter account showing him with Saudi Arabiaâs newly appointed ambassador to Lebanon  Walid al-Yaaqoub.
News of high-level arrests in Saudi Arabia fueled social media speculation in Lebanon that Hariri  a Saudi national  was a target. Nasrallah said âthere was legitimate concernâ  asking if  Hariri  had anything to do âwith this internal struggle between the princesâ.
Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq al-Awsat cited unnamed sources close to  Hariri  as speculating that  he  would probably remain outside Lebanon because of the security threat against  him .
In Lebanonâs sectarian system the president must be a Maronite Catholic  the prime minister a Sunni and the speaker of parliament a Shiâite.  Hariri  is Lebanonâs most influential Sunni politician.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ntozake Shange ? The billboard on 42nd Street near Times Square  was half a block long. Scrawled in rainbow colors was the title of an innovative new play  “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.” And adorning that 1977 billboard was a portrait of a young black woman in a do-rag: the playwright Ntozake Shange .
 Shange’s  rise to international fame and  her  sudden disappearance — followed by decades of physical and mental health challenges — are part of one of the most dramatic lives in Broadway history. Now   Shange  reflects on these events and more in a new collection of poetry called “Wild Beauty.”
In 1975   Shange  had arrived in New York from California with  her  dancer friend Paula Moss and a satchel of poems.  She  and Moss began reading and dancing to  Shange ’s poems in New York cafes. The next thing  Shange  knew   she  was being whisked off by theatrical producer Woodie King Jr.  who told  her  what  she ’d really written was a play. After a few weeks of working with King and others   Shange  winnowed  her  poems down to the voices of seven women  who remain nameless but can be identified by the colors of their dresses.
Author Ntozake Shange (Adger Cowans)
Miraculously  she typed out her first new poem in years  an overview of her whole life. Titled “these blessings ” it appears in her new collection  “Wild Beauty ” which contains more than 60 new and previously published poems  all of which are also translated into Spanish by Alejandro Álvarez Nieves. The bilingual edition was  Shange ’s idea  reflecting her lifelong concern with the African diaspora throughout the Americas.
There is no question that  Shange  is a black writer. Not only does she write in a style that mimics the sound and syntax of black speech  but much of her material is drawn from the daily realities of black life. No poet since Langston Hughes has insisted so forcefully on black people’s right to simply be:

SOLUTION:
Positive