speakers, and second language learners. A survey from the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition recently estimated that over 5 million English learners were enrolled in US public schools from Preschool to 12th grade. This influx of English Learner enrollment grew the need for ELL instruction exponentially and our…
Since the terrorist attack of 9/11, the United States has gone through numerous changes within its government and the American society. After the attacks, citizens began to question the state of national security and their safety in the United States. On October 26, 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act enabling law enforcement to use surveillance and conduct searches without an official warrant to help crack down on terrorism on the United States soil (CITATION). The Department of Homeland…
Chimpanzees are closely related to humans, in fact, chimpanzees and humans share 94% of their DNA. In addition, adult males can reach up to 6 feet tall and weight approximately 150 pounds. In this paper you are going to read and analyze how chimpanzees share multiple similarities with the human being, beginning with their family and reproductive relationships to the way they obtain food. Chimpanzees have one of the most organized and complex social societies within the animal kingdom.…
Tor has been praised for providing privacy and anonymity to vulnerable Internet users such as political activists fearing surveillance and arrest, ordinary web users seeking to bypass censorship. (Gurnow, 2013). The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has called Tor "the king of high-secure, low-latency Internet anonymity". (Ball, Schneier, Greenwald, 2013). In March 2011, The Tor Project received the Free Software Foundation's 2010 Award for Projects of Social Benefit.…
Immigration is in the United States very roots. From the very beginning, colonial times, people moved over the Atlantic to come to the States. Since then, hundreds of millions of immigrants have showed up on our shores seeking a greater life. Many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity, like many immigrants today. The Immigration and Nationality Act did away with quotas based on nationality, passed in 1965 by Congress, the act changed the bias toward European immigration…
When Edward Snowden blew the whistle on how the national security agency recorded phone records many congressmen declared Snowden a traitor who has damaged the United States security. What Snowden did has many repercussions for the american people, but many people still focus too much on him. Many claim he is now a traitor because he revealed very important intelligence systems that could put America in danger. But other’s claim that he has done a very good thing revealing what the NSA has done…
Preserving and strengthening the position of the United States when it makes treaties or sends ambassadors abroad is practicing foreign policy. The United States is an independent and sovereign country that requires the protection of that sovereignty as the priority duty of its foreign policy. The Constitution created the institutions to serve “the separate and equal station to which the Law of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles them” (Declaration of Independence of the U.S) as the central…
Richard McKearney Ms. De Luca-Hawk/Ms. Aubee Literature/Period A Robin Williams, Lewy Body Dementia, Depression, and Suicide On August 11, 2014, American actor and comedian, Robin Williams took his own life, he was 63 years old. Leaving the world devastated, saddened, confused and eagerly awaited the autopsy results. The question on everybody's mind was, why would this extremely gifted comedian and actor who won an oscar take his own life when he had so much to live for? In the weeks following…
for up to 30 years in prison by the federal prosecutors in Virginia. He is on the run from the American authorities, and the White house spokesman, Jay Carney said, “he is not a human rights activist. He is not a dissident” (Herzenhorn, 2013). The National Secret Administration also claims that their programs are constitutional and that their aim is to protect the public from terrorist attacks (Macaskill & Dance, 2013). Meaning that Edward Snowden should be seen as a criminal, a spy, that has…
United States. Then their information is transferred to the Resettlement Support Center (RSC), where documentation is collected, uploaded to the Worldwide Refugee Admission Processing System (WRAPS), and then cross referenced. The next steps include national security agencies checking for security threats, interviews and biometric data collection. Followed by a cultural orientation, medical check, and assignment to a domestic resettlement location. Where representatives from one of the domestic…