Languages of the United States

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and the United States education law. ESSA was signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015, as a bipartisan measure to provide equal opportunity for all students within the U.S (ESSA, 2015). The purpose of this memo is to describe how to identify federal statute and individual state regulations, that are defined to identify English Learners under the requirements of ESSA. Further, this memo…

between staying close to home or going to the United States, which many things would change, had me thinking for a long time. My first language has always being Spanish. Yes, I know English but I don’t perfectly speak it nor write it. I finally made my decision. I knew that I had a future in front of me and going to the United States was going to be an unforgettable experience and a big advantage when enter the real world. I was very worried about my poor language ability and experiencing a very…

English and is a member of the American Dialect Society. This essay is a piece that explores the English language, specifically the need for a gender-neutral singular pronoun. I will examine whether the text is balanced, examples of various perspectives the author adopts, and main questions and ideas that provoke and drive the author. This essay opens explaining the problem of the English language from Peter’s perspective which is the gender problem. Peters explains that the words he, she, his,…

than many do in their entire life. Yilan was, in a sense, the essence of a volunteer. She found her purpose in helping others through the Peace Corps, a venerable organization that has served to greatly improve the lives of people outside of the United States. This group of people…

in a video game. In the United States you can do almost anything as long as it is not harmful. In some ways The Giver society and different but they also have similarities. We both have rules and leaders, but the United States has fewer and less strict rules. Here are some ways Jonas’ community and United States are similar. We both have a group of leaders. We also share the fact that we have certain rules. Some rules that Jonas’ has are that if your language is not precise you’ll…

Ever since I was a very young kid, the only world I knew was Pakistan, where I was born and raised. I lived there until I was 12 years old, then I came to United States. I was raised in a family home in the city of Kohat in Pakistan. My family has been living there for generations; my immediate family was the first family to come to United States. It was something new for the whole family ,However, for me ,as a young child who was just going to ,what at the time seem to be a whole new world.…

Barack Obama is the forty-third president of the United States of America. He is the first African-American president. President Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After high-school Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. Afterwards he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a political science degree. He worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, when Obama moved to Chicago he…

Language barrier. The difficulty of having an immigrant parent is the language barrier. My mother had to struggle when transitioning from Spanish to English. Being raised in a Spanish speaking home and attending an English speaking school was tough. I soon gave up on Spanish because I needed to translate for my mother in everyday life. Throughout elementary school, it was as if both my mother and I had to learn English. Slowly, but surely, we persevered and began to practice and master the beast…

is seen as unattractive and a danger in the United States. His assimilation process is heavily based on the pursuit of education, on the power of language, and the role…

Facts”). The GDP of Indonesia in 2015 was $859 billion where United States has $17.95 trillion(CIA). That shows that Indonesia is still a developing country. Indonesia is rich in natural resources. The natural resources that Indonesia has are petroleum, tin, natural gas, nickel, timber, bauxite, copper, fertile soils, coal, gold, and silver. By having this much resources, Indonesia is able to do trading with super powers, such as United…