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Racial Identity, Misrepresentation and African American Culture In this story, Stephen Balkaran criticizes the United States racial structure and the way people approach the issue of racial identity. The article bases its argument on the back of a recent story that involved the current Washington Spokesman for NAACP, Rachel Dolezal. According to the story, Rachel is white, but has been posing as an African American inside an institution that stands to protect the rights of African American…

reading by Baker and Gomez, Freeman & Freeman, and the evidence provided in the research cited, and considering your understanding of how bilingual education works and what makes it most effective in teaching language, content, and literacy skills to English Learners, what specific factors do you believe have made bilingual education programs most effective? Name and discuss a minimum of three factors. What specific factors do you believe have made bilingual education programs least effective?…

their graduate but also to establish a reputation among ASEAN and Asian leading universities. Thus, a radical rethink of instructional policy is one of their many enthusiasms. As a consequence, the graduates’ competencies in content knowledge and English proficiency will be taken into consideration when the decision on teaching and learning development is made. Khon Kaen University (KKU) is a good example of taking those aspects in deep concentration and contemplation.…

According to Zinn, in traditional history textbooks, Columbus is portrayed as a heroic figure who discovered the New World and spread religion to the people already living there. While it might mention that he was not perfect and did some things that he should not have done, it simply brushes over these aspects and pushes forward things such as “what a great sailor he was”, etc. The way it is written makes what he did seem like an exciting adventure that should be celebrated on Columbus Day, yet…

world today English deserves to be regarded as a word language. It is world’s most widely spoken language. It is the common means of communication between the people of different nations. One person out of every four on earth can be reached through English… In India, English continues to be the medium of instruction in school, colleges and universities, and is also the language of administration. These words written by C.Paul verghese successfully express the palce and importance of English,…

language at all, were they able to logically think? The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis suggests, “Language is a force in its own right, that it affects how individuals in a society perceive and conceive reality” (Ember 245). The English language was compared with Hopi. Whorf stated that the English language has discreetness in regards to time and space. The Hopi language does not. Hopi speaks of things going on as an ongoing process without time being into fixed segments (245). Every language is…

and narrator Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria, exemplifies misconceptions and stereotypes Latin women face, as well as how American and Latin cultures differ. “You can leave the island, master the English language, and travel as far as you can, but if you’re a Latina, the island travels with you” (par 1), when being at the other side of the world, Judith witnessed a man kneeled before her, performing for her a rendition of “Maria” from West Side…

English becomes the major language that I use in my daily life, however, when I was in elementary school, I thought the English course was unnecessary and defeat. In China, about in my fourth grade in elementary school, English became a required course, and it is as important as Chinese and Math lessons. Because during that time, the United States, Britain and other countries that English is their mother tongue, become the top world 's strongest countries, and that making English become the…

As alluded earlier on that employing a more diverse workforce could enhance an organization’s service or products to a wider range of clients or customers. For example, Deloitte and Touche, a decade ago had to introduce a positive organizational culture after an alarm bell sounded on the high rate of men and women turnover in the firm, Susan E. Jackson, et al (2003). It was observed that with the new culture, members of the majority and minority subcultures felt respected and equally expressed…

There are various stylistic devises that perform different functions in the written or spoken texts; however all of them influence readers’ subconsciousness on one or other level, creating colourful images and new views on the particular subject. From this traditional approach to the definition of metaphor we can conclude that metaphor expresses the unfamiliar through the familiar. Metaphors are used in order to create an emotional response in the target audience, to show obvious things from…