Amanda Luna Mr. Joseph Haske ENGL 1301 July 21‚ 2014 Mexicans and Puerto Ricans Many Americans think Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are the same since they both belong to the ethnic group‚ Latino‚ and have a connection with Spanish language; there are many differences like the accents‚ vocabulary‚ culture‚ history‚ and the struggles they both had. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are similar and different in immigration because Mexicans immigrated to the southwestern areas such as Texas and California
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Women’s Fight for Social Equality If I were to teach a class that dealt with the twentieth century in America‚ I would choose to make my focus the women’s struggle for social equality. Comprising fifty-percent of the population‚ women are by far the largest "minority" in the United States. Through them I could relate the most important social‚ political and economic trends of the century. Their achievements‚ as well as their missteps‚ tell us a story of America that we most often hear of in snatches
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The Effects of Acculturation Acculturation‚ a natural part of coming to America that affects many Latino immigrants. The culture that immigrants come to America with and the culture their children grow up with are very different. The effects of acculturation are very harmful to Latinos immigrants and their children. It affects their mental health‚ physical health‚ and their family relationships. Latinos tend to keep the damaging parts of their culture which leads to health complications. “ The strongest
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Mixie Samantha Hernandez Walton Brett Phelps ENG 112: Freshman Composition II May 2‚ 2014 The Struggle With Homosexuality There have been many issues regarding equal rights throughout the centuries. America has had battles for woman’s rights‚ African American rights‚ and equal rights for Latinos and Asians. Throughout time these issues were solved‚ but the movement going on now is the fight for the equal rights for the same sex unions. This fight started since the early 1970’s and is still
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African American Civil right and Equality Tara Faircloth HIS 204 Mr. Galano October 28‚ 2011 The topic I have chosen to write about is how African Americans worked to end segregation‚ discrimination‚ and isolation to obtain equality and civil rights. Ever since the African Americans were slaves they have had to come a long way to get where they are today. Some have even held positions in political offices‚ managed corporations‚ and gained all the rights that everyone else has. But‚ it’s never
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Fighting For Equality Anita D Taylor HIS204: American History Since 1865 Steven Harn April 30‚2012 History has told the story of the past since the beginning of time‚ whether it’s about how humans came into existence‚ to the history of the men who became presidents. No matter what was told it is apart of what we call history‚ in so many words it’s the study of the past. Part of history is the struggle of African Americans to become apart of a world that saw them as being less than equal to
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What does the term marriage mean? A marriage is a relationship between two people that love each other. Many couples are desired to get married not only for the recognition of relationship from the society‚ but also the ultimate expression of love towards each other. Gay marriage however‚ is one of the most controversial issues in the modern world. For the past thousand years‚ marriage has been recognized as the social union between a man and a woman. In most cultures across the globe‚ homosexuality
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Racism and Its Effects on Latino Students Patricia Mendia Argosy University English 101- Composition Lauren Higgins 07-04-13 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the detrimental effects institutional racism in education has on Latino academic achievement. Consideration is given to the role of educators in perpetuating racist attitudes; the ineffective acculturation measures and the adverse effects resulting from the diminished academic expectations. Latino children exit K-12 systems
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AAccording to James W. Davidson and Mark H. Lytle in After the Fact of Chapter 15‚ the authors’ showed us that teamwork is so powerful to lead people strives for racial equality. In the beginning‚ the four African American college students to fight against racial segregation‚ which they asked to be served at a whites-only lunch counter at the Woolworth’s store in Greensboro‚ North Carolina. Even though the service was refused but the students sat quietly and waited to be served. This action ignited
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MISUNDERSTOOD STRUGGLE Do we really have a great understanding of our past‚ to understand our future? As stated in Lerone Bennett’s “Black History/Black Power”‚ “History is not something added to life; it is not something you read about in textbooks and view from afar as a spectator”‚ the main truth about history is the specific knowledge from relationships of our people. Black people and black history have always had a middle blockade when it comes to the past and the future. Of course the
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