Languages of the United States

A time when German, France, Great Britain and Austria-Hungary started fighting over influence and colonies and smaller nations were striving towards independence to fulfill their dream of being a sovereign state. The primary goal and role of the nationalism were to create a nation-state, a single political entity that would govern all the members of the nation. However, their geographical boundaries went…

legislative history of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), it is important to discover the definition of disability as enacted by the United States Congress. “When Senators Weicker and Larkin first introduced the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA; Public Law No. 101–336 [1990]) in 1988, only 30 percent of people with disabilities in the United States were employed. Title I, the section of the ADA pertaining to employment discrimination, sought to address this persistent no…

The United States Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of St.Croix, St.John, and St.Thomas, and many other surrounding minor islands. The total land area of the territory is 133 square miles. The USVI’s capital is Charlotte Amalie on the island of St.Thomas. Until well into the 20th century, sugarcane and, to a lesser extent, cotton provided the main economic base. The harbor at St.Thomas also generated some income. When the United States acquired the islands, both social and economic…

The Chief of State is President Joachim Gauck and the Head of Government is Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to the OECD, the unemployment rate in Germany is currently sitting at 44%, with an Employment rate at 74.5% at the working age. Women in the workforce has…

Does the United States have the best education in the world? You might think so, but statistics show a different result. America used to lead in the countries’ amount of high school graduates. Today the U.S. is ranked fourteenth out of twenty-three industrialized countries. According to David J. Lynch, “almost one-quarter of all students-more than 1.2 million individuals-fail to graduate” in the United States, where as in South Korea in 2013 the graduation rate was 94% (Lepi). Because of the…

race or ethnic group engage in groupthink or have the same needs, as well as language and communication styles. Case in point, the census reporting classification of “black” includes individuals from the sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean who have cultural and historically different backgrounds from African Americans, who were born and raised in the United States, but whose ancestors were brought to the United States as slaves. The same holds true for the Hispanic population which is…

Lived in USA We come to the United State in 11/26/15 Two years ago. With my family i was So excited to come to the America. First, i was playing outside with my friend my father come and he say called your mother and i have a good news, and i was So excited about good news and my father says that we are going to America Forever, and i was like what when my father says 26 November we have a flight to go to United State of America, i was so Nervous We just saw america in Tv and i was so…

born in Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, a small city in the northern part of Mexico located about four hours from the United States border. Although I was born in Mexico, it is hard for me to consider it my home, since I moved to the United States when I was only three years old. When I was little, I didn't notice the differences between my family and the other families living in the United States. To me everyone was the same, even if we looked different on the outside. It was not until I began the first…

Document Project 20 Imperialism vs. Anti-Imperialism In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States transformed itself into an imperial power. Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt carried out the tasks important for this imperialism in that era by -enalrging the navy -constructing a cana that linked Atlantic and Pacific oceans - and got stations and army bases in the Pacific to service the fleet. U.S. officials disregarded the nationalistic views of freedom…

Asian American population and its characteristics According to the Census Bureau, the Asian group in the United States counts 15.7 million Asian Americans in 2013 and represents about five percent of the total U.S. population. Asian Americans live mostly in large cities in states of California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Hawaii and New Jersey. Asian American community is fast growing. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) it is expected to comprise over 10% of the…