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helps people intermingle with others. English is the primary language in the United States of America. Amy Tan the author of “Mother Tongue” talks about how dominant the English language is. In her writings Tan explains that in the early phases of her life, English was a challenging language for her and her mother to understand. As an Asian-American, Tan was stereotyped to become an engineer. Additionally people assume that Asian’s in general cannot excel in English, but they can in…

Expanding on educational state guidelines, the Common Core Curriculum gives clear and predictable learning objectives to prepare students for school, their profession, and life. The measures obviously exhibit what students are relied upon to learn at every grade level from kindergarten to 12th grade, so that each guardian and educator can comprehend and reinforce their learning. The guidelines concentrate on central ideas and techniques beginning in the early stages of education, which gives…

Evaluating Hispanic Education In comparison to the United States, Spanish-speaking countries have many differences in education as well as many similarities. If a student were to transfer to a university in the US, the differences have a possibility of hindering with the student’s education. However, similarities in society and culture can also help students learn and communicate more fluently and in a more precise way. Curriculum in Spain and Latin America is very similar to curriculum in the…

When the immigrabts came ti the u.s., it was to change there lives and leave the past behind, some had good reasons to leave and some just wanted to escape from there govermnent. Coming here not knowing any english at all is bad enough but whats worse is racism and not being accepted in a place by other people. It makes you feel very uncomfortable and its not right. Some people come here and become so successful that know one can say a word to them, because they believed in them selves and cane…

A story of heroes and monsters. Beowulf, written sometime between the 8th and 10th century AD, is the oldest surviving piece of literature written in Old English and one of the very few works written by a person of the Anglo-Saxon culture. The epic poem has stayed an important piece of work through generations and generations. The epic poem Beowulf has managed to stay an important manuscript due to its message that has remained constant in society and because of its significant representation of…

Making English The “Official” Language of The United States In the essay, In Plain English: Let’s Make It Official by Charles Krauthammer. Charles talks about how the United States came the conclusion of making English an official language. He also says that it was not an easy process to make it official. The United States being a very diverse place with multiple different cultures and languages it makes it very difficult to choose the most used language. But, in the end the United States made…

schools trying to protect the languages of minority students. These people believe that English should be the only language, and that education should focus on students gaining English speaking abilities. Subsequently, there would be no preservation of minority languages. It really grinds my gears that there are people who think it is a good idea for minority students to be forced into exclusively learning the English language. This could potentially cause those students to lose their native…

‘A breath of fresh air’, ‘love is like a rose’, and ‘slept like a baby’, are all phrases that are immediately recognized as problematic clichés. Many words and phrases in the english language have either lost their original meaning, or have been replaced with something new and, at times, inappropriate. A classic example that will be looked at during the next four hundred and fifty words is one of Aristotle’s thirteen fallacies; “begging the question.” Begging the question is a fallacy in…

I have grown up in New York City or “Noo York City” my whole life. So naturally I speak English, or New Yorker English to be exact. To be even more specific, the dialect I mostly associate with is Brooklyn accented English, a definite regional dialect. I would say it’s very similar to Staten Island dialect but there are distinctions. Brooklyn dialect is heavily influenced by Italian Americans since back in the day Italians made up majority of the neighborhoods but is seen more as a street/ghetto…

sound can be likened more to British English than it can to any American English accent. And just in the city of Boston, there are a multitude of accents that differ between social classes, including the blue-collar accent whose harsh pronunciation of words like “pahk the cah” (park the car) differ greatly from the smooth and elegant Brahmin accent. The documentary also discussed the way of speaking shared by a majority of African Americans known as “Black English” or Ebonics. Its nature differs…