Moving to America Catherine Hook Eth125 July 11‚ 2010 Tina Luzzi It seems like just yesterday Mom was telling me to pack my bags. We were living in a small farming town just outside Catarina‚ Mexico. Times were really tough and Dad had lost his job. My family knew of people moving to the United States for work‚ but my family never considered it. Our entire family resides in Mexico; the thought of moving was unbearable. When we crossed the United States border into Texas‚
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Contract With America In the historic 1994 midterm elections‚ Republicans won a majority in Congress for the first time in forty years‚ partly on the appeal of a platform called the Contract with America. Put forward by House Republicans‚ this sweeping ten-point plan promised to reshape government. Its main theme was the decentralization of federal authority‚ deregulation‚ tax cuts‚ reform of social programs‚ increased power for states‚ a balanced federal budget were its chief ambitions. With
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Emmanuel Amponsah Dr. A. Graf EL -1000-002 As I was on break at work in the back of the nurse station‚ I read head lined in an article of Newsday “AMERICAN STUDENTS LAPPED BY THE REST OF THE WORLD” followed with another line standing out almost more so than the head line “Americans Are LAZY”. In it was a picture referring to a class room of Korean children who were made to study on average 16hrs a day. The writer of stated how foreign countries valued education so much more than us as a
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How do you interpret the line “Europe lives in me‚ but I have no home there” (1. 17)? I interpreted that this line meant that the speaker had been exposed to european culture and adapted some of the european customs into their own personal culture. Through out the poem the speaker describe her heritage and the cultures she identifies as‚ and I believe that “Europe lives in me‚ but I have no home there” simply means she is creating memories and experiences that takes place in europe but she has
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Making it in America In the article Making it in America Adam Davidson takes time to interview different employees at Standard Motor Products to determine how it is treating them and how factories are changing in time. Adam is receiving a tour of the plant by manager Tony Scalzitti where he sees many factory workers in blue lab coats‚ hair nets‚ and protective eyewear. This is where Adam first runs into Madelyn Parlier. Madelyn Parlier was a 22-year-old woman working in
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In this paper‚ I argue that Americans back in the 60s and 70s had such xenophobic thoughts that created a divide between foreigners and Americans. Back when the Clinton administration ran the White House‚ many laws and acts were passed such as the Violent Crime Control and Prevention Act (1994). This law was a $30 million crime bill which created new capital crimes and also a three-strikes rule‚ which meant three time offenders of the same crime would be sent to prison for life. This bill also pushed
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Discuss. Contention: That soldiers’ justify their actions and regain a sense of themself when seeking to dissolve their guilt in war. Why do soldiers attempt to morally comprehend the conduct they are forced to participate in? In Edelman’s text Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam the readers are instantaneously thrown into letters depicting how soldiers struggle with their humanity after the abhorrent acts of war they are conscripted to partake in. Seeing this‚ the readers are forced to see the emotional
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language takes a lot of effort. While English thrives in the States‚ the States is gaining new speakers of other languages every year. The people against bilingual education insisted that bilingualism is a threat to national unity. In my opinion‚ first‚ I do not think that bilingualism is a threat to national unity. Bilingualism means an equal ability to communicate in two languages. Bilingual is a very useful skill. Therefore‚ we should celebrate it rather than seeing it as a nationalistic issue. We
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Ageism in America The term "ageism" was coined in 1969 by Robert Butler‚ the first director of the National Institute on Aging. He used the word to describe the process of systematic stereotyping of people because they are old. Ageism is a term that is similar to other isms ’ in society‚ such as racism and sexism. "Ageism allows other generations to see older people as different from themselves; thus they subtly cease to identify with their elders as human beings" (Butler‚ 1975). All people
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1970’s In America Activity 1 1. Inflation A rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. Stock market loses 40% in an 18-month time period. Rise in unemployment. 1970’s stock market is a disaster. Inflation rate in the U.S. reached its 20th century highest. 2. Watergate Occurred June 17th‚ 1972. Nixon had nothing to do with the actual burglary. Situation led him to resign in August of 1974. Bob Woodard and Carl Bernstein played a major role in uncovering
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