American English

Graham gives facts backed up by statistics that African Americans are more likely to be disciplined in schools than whites or Hispanics. The second article on the other hand gives some facts to support the main point however not as much as the first article. Even though David Graham’s article has more facts, both article have some similar facts that were used to support the main point. Both articles use the fact that many African Americans in schools tend to be suspended and or expelled because…

on the people and the functionality of America. When reading the letters on the views the English had on America, a big topic is the saying that America is the “land of the free” and how in some ways it is and other ways it's not. Slavery was a huge practice that went against the “land of the free”. While some of the Americans were trying to make this new equality felt, the familiarity grew hugely. Many English had mixed views on America. In the 1800’s a lot of change was happening in America…

American schools employ teachers who are taught to instruct American students starting at a very young age by way of implementing a specific communication style, organizational style, and intellectual style. According, to the standards of European traditions, each of the components of styles builds upon one another to produce a person that knows how to function in America. For example consider an African student in the fourth grade that has a writing prompt, after reading about being proud to be…

The American Revolution was a war fueled by many events and acts occurring between the years of 1763 and 1775. Within these years English colonists were aggravated from the tax and trade laws that were put into place. The series of major conflicts between England and English colonies consist of the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts and everything in between. The English colonists were upset with the way they were being treated along with all of the taxes that came along with acts…

When talking about the American Revolution, float on the surface of those events that took place late eighteenth century, and carried against Britain, the empire that the sun never sets, and that was colonize a wide part of the new world, and led after unanimously for the independence of what has become known in the United States for the British Crown. It goes without saying, that it is important consequences for the geographical disclosures movement which culminated in exploring Christopher…

language really means in his article, “If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” Throughout this article, Baldwin applies a brilliant and accredited critique on society by presenting language as the bulk of peoples’ “temporal identity”. He argues that language, in itself, is an identification of the speaker in his respective environment, which is why Black English should be considered an actual tongue; he acknowledges that African Americans have managed to create a native voice…

the ability to produce knowledge—but there are times that African American students fail to gain this privilege because of the teachers’ perception of AAE (Delpit, 2002). In the educational system, teachers tend to correct more miscues that are dialectical in nature in reading casts when students are African Americans. The teachers also expect lower intelligence, academic achievement, and reading skills from their African American students as well. Students who showed lower rates and frequencies…

What does it mean to be an American? This question comes to our mind when we have to determine who is an American and who is not. This question relates to the story of Panchito, a Mexican boy who moved to US. spending several years finding the meaning of American. One of the impactful scene of the story is he tried to memorize The Declaration of Independence to speak in front of classroom. Unfortunately, when he went to class, an immigration official went to catch him because he moved to US…

In the article, Cultural Differences in Child Rearing: A Comparison of Immigrant Chinese and Caucasian American Mothers, authors, Michelle L. Kelley and Hui-Mei Tseng takes thirty-eight Caucasian American mothers and thirty-eight Chinese mothers and compares the parenting skills of their 3 to 8 year old children using a Parenting Dimensions Inventory (PDI) and a Parenting Goals Questionnaire (PGQ). Results found on the PDI that Caucasian mothers scored better on sensitivity, nurturance, rule…

an identity best characterized as “a melting pot.” However, it is typical of Americans to marginalize those who have not yet assimilated to American ways and customs. In the case of Amy Tan, her mother was affected by her inability to speak English as coherently as others. Her “broken English,” as Tan calls it, caused her to be treated unfairly in society. In “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan discusses this phenomenon in American culture, and uses stories from her own life to develop a unique stance on…