call it home. How does the speaker describe herself? Throughout "Child of the Americas" the speaker describes herself as many different nationalities. She uses the metaphors “I am not African‚ Africa is in me…Spanish is in my flesh…I am not European‚ Europe lives in me…” to show us that because she identifies herself as american she can also be seen as all these different nationalities because America is a country in which many different cultures have settled down and started to fuse together
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Coming to America Imagine this‚ living in a very small town; with only one store where you can make and receive phone calls‚ there are no public phones‚ no residential phone lines‚ no electricity and no running water. The roads are not paved until you get to the main road where people travel the most. The next town is about thirty minutes away‚ and there is only one bus that comes to this small town once a week‚ so people can go shopping and do other things. In this small town there are hardly any
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Race in America At the turn of the last century‚ WEB Dubois wrote‚ “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line‚ --the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa‚ in America and the islands of the sea. Every study has come to the same conclusion that biologically‚ there are no ’races’‚ yet the social construction of race as a category is alive and well today. The classification system‚ which radicalized different groups - typifying
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United States of America has failed its citizens by allowing them to choose their leaders when they don’t know who the best decision would be. In addition‚ it allows anyone who meets very loose requirements to run for the leadership of the entire country‚ and some of the people who do run do not belong in the positions that they are trying to get voted into. The citizens are usually ignorant in making decisions on this matter and other ideas such as laws. Therefore‚ we will build a new nation on Meigan
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Terianna Yeldell English Professor Stevenson 11/29/12 America the Hypocrite In the article “The Hypocrisy of America‚” on July 4‚ 1852‚ in the Corinthian Hall in Rochester‚ New York‚ Fredrick Douglas explores the Fourth of July holiday and how it is hypocritical to slavery. His audience is the Americans celebrating this holiday. While the Americans celebrate‚ he grieves. He grieves because he believes to make a man a slave in an enlightened free place is a cruel insult. Douglas also goes
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Homeless in America Homeless in America When we are little we never see ourselves being homeless‚ we only have dreams of having a good life that has family‚ love‚ lots of money‚ nice cars‚ and big houses; we never think maybe we might end up homeless with nothing but the clothes on your back. Being American and in “the land of opportunity” we see and hear of endless possibilities‚ but everyone does not get to enjoy the possibilities because the possibilities are not really endless. Homelessness
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Deaf in America: Voices From A Culture By Carol Padden & Tom L. Humphries Copyright 1988 This book was mainly focused on looking at Deaf culture of today and comparing it to the culture of the past‚ and what kinds of struggles deaf people had to endure to get where they are today. The two authors of this book are deaf; one was deaf her whole life and the other became deaf as a child. In my opinion‚ that was a major contributing factor to why it was so interesting. The reader gets a chance to
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Poverty in America A Social Problem 3/22/2013 Rebecca McNamara Abstract Poverty has been around as long as there has been an America. Programs have been set in place to help offset the issue‚ such as Food Stamps and housing. The government’s implementation of some of these programs is to ensure that the poor have a place to sleep and adequate meals to eat. There are issues with these programs that contribute to the furthering of poverty‚ but for the most part are more helpful than harmful
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tradition. Carlos views the incident and his actions as an omen that he will never be happy again‚ so even though they have left the Philippines‚ they still have their cultural traditions in America. Another recurring theme throughout the book is the struggle for survival‚ first in the Philippines and then in America. In the Philippines‚ the harsh social and living conditions result in the rural peasants being kept at the subsistence level. The whole family must work in order to survive. Subsistence
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Obesity in America: Will It Destroy Us? In todays’ society‚ especially in America‚ obesity has become an epidemic of all sorts. In every state in the U.S.‚ at least 20% of the population is obese. More and more people are dying due to heart related problems‚ and more people are becoming ok with being “big boned”. This is a huge problem for all of America and is becoming increasingly worse. There are multiple health related risks that go along with obesity; including heart disease‚ heart attack
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