American English

People traveling from England to the New World were about to embark on a month-long journey to a place that they had only heard things about but hadn’t actually been to. During this long journey, they willingly faced the likelihood of death, disease, and the unknown. These settlers were hoping to find new opportunities in the North America for themselves and for their country. Virginia was established in 1607 by Englishmen who were looking to make a profit from gold and silver. Life in Virginia…

set their sights on the New World. Many journeyed across the Atlantic to populate a variety of areas, ranging from the West Indies to Virginia and Massachusetts’s Bay. Although both the Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by the white English, by 1700 both evolved into distinct societies due to economic,…

to the New World in the first place, and where on the coast they were. This affected the colonies from then on out in many ways, such as economically, geographically, and in the everyday lives of the colonists. From the beginning, almost all the English colonies were commercial ventures, and were tied in crucial ways to other economies. They developed…

of persuasion. The excerpt from "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee takes pace in a courtroom where a white lawyer, Atticus, is defending an innocent African-American man who was charged of rape. Atticus makes a speech to the jury and audience about how race has been an issue for our country for generations, and how if African-American men are only created equal in one place, let it be the courtroom. In "I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. he discusses the current and past issues…

to explore English language and how people use it and what reasons affected the language. We all know that the formal spoken language in the United States is English language, but after watching this documentary our idea has changed. Thorough MacNeil’s journey, it is appeared that the situation is different and not all American people speak the same version of English or the same dialect or accent. There are many dialects spoken over the united states such as African American English and Chicano…

Douglass, a former slave who was a leader in the abolitionist cause, to bring African Americans social equality and justice. Wordsworth and Dunbar call to these important figures of the past for guidance in their current situations of trouble, but Wordsworth longs for England to return to its state of Milton’s era whereas Dunbar wants to move forward with Douglass and create a better lifestyle for African Americans. In “London, 1802”, Wordsworth is nostalgic for the…

educate African American students, Oakland California 's Unified School District Board unanimously passed a resolution declaring African American English (AAE) a language in its own right. The board (1996) issued a statement which delineated the resolution and how to move forward stating that “Be it further resolved that the Superintendent in conjunction with her staff shall immediately devise and implement the best possible academic program for imparting instruction to African American…

The most popular immigrants that came to America are the English, and Mexicans. Immigration has its ups and downs as each immigrant adapts. The English immigrants are the ones who started immigration to the United States also known as “The new world”. The English race came from the celtic tribes (Hanft, Shelden), which is diverse…

include finding jobs. Learning English would help them find the jobs will need to be in their new life. What immigrants do not realize is that many jobs in America require one to speak English. It is true that “immigrants who do not speak English are generally “pushed down the occupational ladder” (Kossoudji 1). English speaking immigrants would be hired for the better jobs because of the fact they speak the American language, English. Immigrants who learn English would not just better their…

The PBS website, “Do You Speak American” is broken off into four sections with interesting topics. The first section is titled “Words That Shouldn’t Be.” The title is not only meant to intrigue the reader, but it also gives us an idea of what we will find when we click on this section. This section’s primary focus is the invention of new words and the way language is a social phenomenon. In the subsection titled, “ Sez Who” Walt Wolfram says that language changes, “not by the media; it’s the…