Do you speak American? American English is not spoken the same by residents from different parts of the United States. Based on America’s history and cultural background‚ English used in America differs from region to region‚ among ethnic and social groups‚ even by age and gender. In this documentary film‚ Robert MacNeil‚ a journalist‚ travelled across the United States to discover how and why people from different regions speak different kinds of American English. From north to south‚ east
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Wars are a way to resolve conflict‚ and America has had lots of wars in the past American wars have often been very controversial‚ the Mexican-American war especially. It started in 1821 when Mexico declared itself free from Spain‚ and let American move into Texas to help increase the population. Mexico suffered with that decision because of the major differences between Mexico and America (Mexico being Catholic and against slavery and America being Protestant and for slavery). It took little time
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American Popular Culture on the Global Community American popular culture and its effects on the global community is a hiding plain site idea. The United States has grown into an “I want it now” belief system. The United States has somewhat perfected this idea‚ from our fast food to our fast everything. But should everyone live in such a luxurious attitude‚ is the United States popular culture and ideal that the rest of the world should live by? Is this just another phase in our modern society’s
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Native Americans were the first people to have arrived in America‚ and to have built an establishment in America. Many people have a stereotype on how they lived and still live currently‚ and many Native Americans don’t consent to that at all. The way many people believe that the Native Americans lived a nomadic type of lifestyle‚ such as hunting large animals for food‚ using animal parts to create clothing‚ and many other actions. This article that the author has wrote is very convincing on how
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The American Dream: Fact or Fiction We all have our own image of the American dream‚ some being as generic as the next; A dependable car‚ a suburban home with a large front yard‚ children playing outside‚ and the man of the house traveling to work to support the family. Consequently‚ due to all of the hype of the “American Dream” it no longer stands for what it once did. In a New York Times article‚ columnist and “opinionator” Allison Arieff described her opinion on the matter. In her article
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In the excerpt from An American Childhood by Annie Dillard‚ the reader receives an intimate passage written from a daughter’s point of view of her eccentric mother. Through a unique string of constructive anecdotes and a warm‚ lighthearted tone‚ Dillard develops her readers understanding of the qualities she sees in her mother and her positive outlook on those qualities. Though a single quality is not explicit‚ the passage provides implicit evidence of her mother’s wit‚ commendable sense of humor
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American Eagle Outfitters April Fool’s joke did not have people laughing. It ignited hate-tweets‚ and boycotting of the company. If you are a young adult‚ I’m sure your newsfeed was circulated with advertisements that used the tagline “The real you is sexy.” This series of advertisements featured four men of shapes and sizes lounging in their underwear and describing what body positivity means to them. The ads were quirky and it was refreshing to see men comfortable in their bodies who do not look
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In the 1925 novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ American author F. Scott Fitzgerald tells a story of the effects that societal class has on love. This story creates the basis for Fitzgerald’s views on the American dream‚ which varies personally for each character of the novel. Although the American dream is different for each character‚ Fitzgerald proves that they each have an American dream or goal set in mind. All the dreams have a coherent goal of happiness experienced through love. Although every character
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Struggles of Asian American Many different minorities go through some kind of struggles when living in a country that is so diverse‚ such as America. Whether that struggles is good or bad we learn from those experience and try to make our life the best we can. People judge others no matter what race or color that person is. The article “Growing up Asian American” written by C.N. Le and published on January 22‚ 2006 talks about how difficult it can be for Asian American to grow up in America.
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the battles and tensions of World War II. Many Americans were very concerned about the internal issues happening rather than the rising dangers and crumbling democracies around them as the war unfolded. However‚ as the conditions continued to worsen and even the strongest of countries began to fall‚ attention finally turned towards the issue of foreign affairs The American foreign policy changed throughout the early to mid twentieth century as Americans acknowledged the rising threat of fascism in
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