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to maintain their own culture. She gives three causes, or explanations, on why immigrants are reluctant to assimilate, forgetting old traits and adopting new ones. First, is the strong feeling of pride Hispanics have for their country and values. Second, is the close proximity of Hispanics to their native country. Third, is the seeming lack of support from many Hispanics Americans to help new immigrants assimilate. Many Hispanics see isolation as a way to hold on their cultural…

In The Day the Crayons Came Home, Drew Daywalt writes, “[Duncan] built a place where each crayon would always feel at home.” These words are meant to appeal to children and adults with eyes towards a message of belonging, of knowing that they have a place where one is accepted no matter how different. The first book in this series by Daywalt entitled, The Day the Crayons Quit, is filled with crayons that share no difference other than color as seen in Appendix A and B. Each page is filled with…

In her article, “Mother’s tongue”, Amy Tan narrates the changes of cognition of her mother’s tongue based on her own experiences. She begins her essay by introducing herself as a writer instead of a scholar of English, which ingeniously makes a closer connection with readers. She describes three personal anecdotes from different time periods of her lifetime to create a comprehensive view for the definition of “Mother’s tongue”. The first one happened recently at her speech, which is the…

2015). This indicates that many students in China receive 12 years of formal English education. Lam (2002) argued that, to some extent, English teaching has been pushed by China’s wish to advance its international status. He further indicated that two major events make Chinese…

In kindergarten, I attended Rose Hill-Magnolia elementary school. I was in Mrs. Houston and Mrs. Hall’s class. I entered school on the first day, walked through the double doors of the school and felt like I was alone. I approached my cluster of classroom cubes. I walked past the little toy kitchen in the lobby. Saw three different classrooms but remembered earlier that week when I went with my mom there that it was on the furthest right with the dog posters. I walk into my class and I see my…

bilingualism. Bilingualism has shown to become more and more common, as countries begin to even more intertwine. However, the timing of when the second language is taught, can be key to a child 's development, cognitively, socially, emotionally, for future employment, and for the sake of their health. The earlier a child is able to begin development of a second language, is critical, and research explains it better develops their lives. The influence of bilingualism on the cognitive…

Civilians may earn special pay up to 5 percent of their base salary” (Morsch, 2016). Within this article Mersh’s is informing us that having knowledge and acquiring a second language does pay off; Furthermore from the article it is easy to understand the benefits and advantages being bilingual have in our modern…

302-303). This emotional manipulation causes Brutus to give in and he tells her the reason why he is worried. One character who manipulates his friends is Antony, who manipulates Lepidus. Lepidus is an able soldier who is supposed to be part of the Second Triumvirate with Octavius and Antony. Antony, however, does not view Lepidus as smart and questions Octavious if he should even be in the triumvirate. Antony thinks that Lepidus “is a slight, meritable man,…

Terrorism is an extremely prevalent problem in the world today. Every month there is news of a bombing in some city, or a shooting in some neighborhood, and Western media has made Islam the face of terrorism. While Jihadists only make up a fraction of the proponents of terrorism, the media has caused “terrorism” to be synonymous with “Muslim.” Even understandable acts of rebellion, like the liberation movement of Palestine against Israel, are seen as Islamic radicalism because misguided…

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” by Charlemagne, by being able to speak another language it shows respect and determination to those who originated with that language as their first. As for today there is a wide variety of different languages that are officially recognized, extinct, or unofficial languages, since there are vast amount of different languages, there 's a few that have adopted some of each other’s culture, by having different or similar alphabet or writing…