Second Party System

Muhammad Ali, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Whoopi Goldberg, Jim Carrey, and Bella Thorne are all great athletes, inventors, and actors/actress but did you know all of them has/had dyslexia? (“Famous”). Caitlyn Jenner describes dyslexia this way “The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem. It is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem” (“Alternative”). Just because someone has dyslexia doesn’t mean they are different from anyone else it just means…

When I was five years old I taught myself how to read and write in Spanish. Although I live in a Hispanic family I was not aware of how to read and write in Spanish. My mom’s side of the family is from Puerto Rico, and my dad’s side of the family is from Ecuador. I was always spoken to in Spanish by my family except for my mom. We spoke in English, so I never learned how to read or write in Spanish. This is when I taught myself how to. It was the day I taught my self how to interpret…

I’ve grown up as a white girl in New Mexico, a forty-eight percent and majority Hispanic state, complete with a Latina Governor and bilingual state song. A Hispanic heritage is not bound to immigration: many can trace their ancestry back hundreds of years to family ranches or even Conquistadors. Thus, in New Mexico, xenophobia lacks accuracy and more often than not, clout. By observing culture manifesting in the way people live, I’ve found that heritage is passed down through practice, only…

Lior Bar-El Sinai Scholars Essay 4/10/16 The First Roman Jewish War The First Roman Jewish war was a conflict with great ramifications. It resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and started the transformation from a Judaism centered on temple sacrifices to a Judaism dominated by Rabbis and the interpretations of scripture. Militarily, this conflict was important as it saw diverse militaries fighting with contrasting tactics. The Jewish rebels fought with irregular tactics…

home with parents and other family members, however, English holds power via hegemonic means, and is used in a multiplicity of domains. This paper presents an exploratory qualitative and quantitative study documenting the linguistic methods by which second generation Argentineans maintain the Spanish language and reveals major factors which are successful in Spanish language maintenance in an English-dominant society.…

have almost nothing to do with their parents’ home countries as they both are now a settled American family living in Oakland with two kids, but in other ways they have maintained an understanding and appreciation for where my family comes from. As a Second Generation child, I have been taught the importance of both remembering my cultural background and also succeeding in modern…

While in Spain, I participated in the Tandem program and taught English as a second language. The Tandem program paired volunteers with different native languages to have regular conversations with each other. Outside of the Tandem program, I tutored elementary children to teach them English. Both experiences allowed me to improve…

Having found myself in dicey debates with myself regarding commas that would satisfy the need for a mild pause or the full stop that would “totally” serve the same purpose; the fictional yearnings for an existence that would have an unbiased, yet debugging nature that would clarify and put an end to subtle, tricky-little-things have always hovered around my writing table. And here I am, many years later, looking at an opportunity to help a fellow Engineer or a burgeoning scientist shape his/her…

There are hundreds of languages in the world, each making us unique to others who don't speak it. Being able to speak more than one language such as English, French, German and Spanish gives us a greater opportunity at acquiring a job that will pay our dream house and car than those who don’t, especially in the United States because it’s one of the most diverse countries in the world. Being bilingual or trilingual opens many doors for people to be able to progress, but some people feel that…

What if the entire world spoke one language? What would that language be? In John McWhorters writing the Cosmopolitan Tongue he talks about how languages are dying and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. He claims that by 2109 ninety percent of the world’s languages will be dead. That would take us from the current 6000 languages down 600 languages for all of the world. Do you think that is a bad thing? Mcwhorter doesn’t, he feels that it is a natural progression caused by people of smaller…