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    SAMPLE WARNING LETTER Name and address of employee to whom warning is being given Date: Subject: Warning letter Dear Ms/Mr __________ We have given repeated verbal warnings to you regarding coming late to office every other day. The management has noticed that no heed has been paid to those warnings. So we are writing this warning letter to you. You are requested to strictly start following the office timings with immediate effect failing which we will be compelled to start deducting

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    Americans on average tend to have lower education than their white counterparts and lower income levels. They use the media much more than Whites and due to this‚ they watch different shows. * Hispanics include any person who is Cuban‚ Mexican‚ Puerto Rican‚ South or Central American‚ and any other Spanish culture. In this subculture‚ acculturation is influenced by generational factors whether they are 1st (born outside of United States)‚ 2nd (born to immigrant parents) or 3rd (born in the U.S

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    I’ve more than three favorite’s songs‚ however this assignment is asking for only three. I grew up in Puerto Rico and Spanish is our primary language. The music I heard was Latin music from Salsa‚ Bolero‚ and Merengue it would keep everyone on a Saturday morning in the happy mood. With the radio on it was time to do our chores. Also when I was a teenager and loving any kind of music I started to listen to The Beatles‚ Elvis Presley‚ Tom Jones‚ and the Osmond. My mother uses to say “music comes

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    American? Well I have some Cherokee in me‚ but Native Americans are not taken seriously‚ so would I? Are you Spanish‚ Hispanic or Latino? Well I speak Spanish and have a Puerto Rican father‚ so can I be all three‚ or is one more pure? Honestly‚ it’s all so damn confusing. Can’t there just be a combination category for Nigerian‚ Puerto Rican‚ and Cherokee American?

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    Marco Navarro Dr. Benjamin Looker Urban Crisis ASTD 322 February 23‚ 2009 Cultural Diversity within the Neighborhood Sitting in a dark theatre‚ an audience begins to rustle in their seats with excitement‚ anxiously awaiting the start of the show. The lights dim and the anticipation are diminished as the lights come up‚ the set of a street side unveils‚ and the beat begins. In one instant‚ the audience is transported from a simple theatre to the lively street-side of the neighborhood of Washington

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    Self-Segregation

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    In our society today there is still a lot of segregation going on between African Americans and Caucasians and also other races as well. Self segregation divides our society in such a negative way that it’s not pure in humanity. I notice a lot of Puerto Ricans always stick together and African Americans never bother to stick together at all‚ and that’s why African Americans get a very bad rep. Most major US cities are split between all black areas generally poor inner city areas and

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    located in the bilingual book of poems called Cool Salsa edited by Lori M. Carlson on pages 73-74. My interpretation of the historical implications in the writing is when he notes the great grandfather’s time and place of existence‚ Coffee Hills in Puerto Rico 1900’s. The writing also includes a section describing how a young villain student‚ Douglas‚ who attended elementary school with the grandson‚ would frighten young black children playing on the sidewalk with an unloaded gun in their communities

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    Country Background In 1492‚ while on a journey to the “New World‚” Christopher Columbus discovered an island that he would call Hispaniola. At the time of discovery‚ The Taino Indians occupied the island. After years of Spanish reign the Taino Indians eventually died off‚ due to years of slavery and diseases brought to the island by the Spaniards. In 1496 the capital city Santo Domingo was founded. The nation toggled between Spanish rule and a Haiti invasion eventually recognizing Independence on

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    Early in our nation’s history‚ white settlement of the Americas began a long-standing tradition of misunderstanding and hostility between Native American tribes and United States society. Intercultural communication barriers lent themselves to assumptions and intolerance‚ which led to warfare‚ bloodshed‚ and the eventual destruction of an entire culture’s traditional ways of life. Today‚ stereotypical representations of the "cowboys and Indians" of the 1800s continue to perpetuate hurtful misconceptions

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    The Painting of Language Throughout House Made of Dawn Momaday forces the reader to see a clear distinction between how white people and Native Americans use language. Momaday calls it the written word‚ the white people’s word‚ and the spoken word‚ the Native American word. The white people’s spoken word is so rigidly focused on the fundamental meaning of each word that is lacks the imagery of the Native American word. It is like listening to a contact being read aloud. Momaday clearly shows how

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