Essay #2 – Benefits of Being Bilingual: Every person knows one language‚ which is the language that you learn during your childhood. In “My Spanish Standoff‚” Kuntz writes‚ “my daughter is frustrated by the fact that I’m bilingual and have purposely declined to teach her to speak Spanish‚ my native tongue.” The information given as well as the information in “English Only‚ but Where” and “English-Only Classrooms‚” has been brought to my attention that being bilingual has advantages. Language is
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Slavery has been a particular popular concept among humanity for centuries now. Those that have been a part of higher education might be familiar with this. Through the ages‚ a majority of countries have faced slavery in one form or another. The common idea of servitude is identified as rich land owners using slaves to maintain their homes and farms. Is this‚ however‚ the only definition of slavery? Is slavery only about a human owning another? Are Americans not‚ in a way‚ slaves to the society?
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created signs expressing their feeling towards the inauguration of Trump. They were ready to take action‚ and fight for what they believed in. People of all ages‚ ethnicities‚ and genders‚ prepared for what was to be known as the “Women’s March in America”. These marchers gathered in cities across the country‚ and it is estimated that there were nearly 5 million in the streets in protest of the
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economic opportunities for displaced workers and allowed underserved communities flourish. But cities can’t solve the infrastructure‚ or unemployment‚ crisis on their own. Last year‚ Congress committed to fund just 8 percent of the $3.6 trillion America needs to bring its infrastructure up to a B grade‚ according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. This is unacceptable. Labor Day should serve as another reminder that infrastructure must be a priority in 2017. America’s infrastructure
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I come from a long line of entrepreneurs‚ scientists‚ and professors. My family believes that education should be the top priority in one’s life. I studied at one of the top ranked private schools and completed my undergraduate degree from one of the eminent universities in India. At the age of 22‚ I moved to California to help my fiance with his franchise sandwich store so he could cope with his fathers’ illness. In India young students seldom work to make an allowance and it is not seen as a
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FERPA is extremely important in public education. During my observation hours at Byng High School I witnessed this privacy law first hand. A teacher from another class came into the teachers class I was observing to discuss away to help a student that was struggling. The teacher didn’t use the child’s name‚ and in no way allowed the teacher or anyone to know the child’s identity. Another
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Education has always been central to aboriginal economic and social development. A good education determines aboriginal people ’s health‚ literacy‚ employment‚ social status and productivity. In light of overwhelming evidence indicating that obtaining a formal education and being engaged in school are strongly correlated with social and economic well being (Radwanski‚ 1987)‚ educational attainment among aboriginal students has become a pressing issue in Saskatchewan and overall in Canada. After
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To my question asking what the bilingual students’ strengths are‚ Melissa answered that she appreciates the diversity that her “ELLs(English language learners)” bring into the classroom including different experiences in their home countries and different background knowledge as the strengths that the students have. She said that the ELL’s mainstream English-speaking peers are very curious on their ELL peers and love to hear about their countries and why they are here. On the other hand‚ what Melissa
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opportunity to interview Ms. Maria‚ a third-grade bilingual teacher with a little over ten years of experience‚ and the mother of my classmate. Ms. Maria just like her students has English as her second language but began her journey at the age of seventeen. This experience allows her to be more compassionate and understanding with her students’ situations as she went through the same thing but at a later age. I personally have never been enrolled in a bilingual class so this interview was insightful to
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probably become corrupt from this authority. Lack of education in society will let the educated to rule over the uneducated. Through a lack of education‚ the animals became unable to see the power Napoleon was gaining over them. The pigs "have taught themselves to read and write" (15)‚ so everyone agrees and believe everything they say because they are the educated ones. The pigs also limit the other animals opportunity to gain education. They teach themselves to read and write from a book but
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