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    -According to Joseph Healey (2002), “cultural assimilation is demonstrated when the minority group suppresses their language, food, lifestyle, and way of living in order to adapt to a different system with a total different regime than the one they were used to practice (p. 49). Usually, this happens when they move to another territory. Secondary structural assimilation is defined when the minority group adapts to the new culture they decided to reside and starts to educate himself or herself to…

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    The United State (U.S.) government has a very active International Affairs. The International Affair’s concerns are not restricted to the United States but to the entire world (International Affairs, 2014). Many times, the U.S. is not welcomed and is consider interfering in matters that does not concern us. There are American people that agree with the citizens in foreign counties that the U.S. should not be involved in issues outside of the U.S. Is our involvement in International Affairs…

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    Summary of Video: This video reflected the American Dream. The ideas of an American Dream were self invention, possibilities, freedom, and opportunities to be a self made person. It also valued hard work. Benjamin Franklin’s, Theodore Dreiser’s, and Scott Fitzgerald’s autobiographies and writings exhibited the American Dream. These influenced the American Dream essentially with money and social status. Benjamin Franklin told a very optimistic narrative about his life. Benjamin boarded a boat…

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    The Image of a Housewife The summarization of “The Problem That Has No Name,” a chapter from the book The Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan. The common themes throughout Friedan’s writing are about the concerns, expectations, and fears of the housewives of the middle twentieth century. Friedan’s writing could provoke thought about how the expectations of housewives in the past have shaped the present and how it will impact future. While the housewives of the middle twentieth century…

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    America is no longer the Land of Opportunity that Uncle Sam so boldly embodied. Instead, it is now a siren that sings the Star Spangled Banner and lures millions into her den where they are cast under her spell “The American Dream”, only to be crushed afterward by the cruel reality; The American Dream is dead. It is now for sale to those who can afford it. Dating back to the reconstruction when America was rebuilt with the blood and sacrifice of thousands of Americans-White, Black,…

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    All the aforementioned are considered serious crimes, and violation of human rights in the United States. Conflict Perspective Theory will be used to substantiate the message that our video will be conveying to our audience. According to Kelly Welch, the author of the book “Think Human Sexuality,” stated that the conflict theory support the basic…

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    European Culture

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    The Culture of Food in the United States and in Europe According to the Fast Food Industry Profile: Europe published in 2012 : « The European fast food market has experienced moderate, consistent growth in recent years. This moderate growth is predicted to continue to the end of the forecast period.” This statement obviously implies that European countries have somehow taken more and more examples on the American ways of living, where fast foods and eating habits would be included in these…

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    We all have gone through it at some stage in our lifetime. We might have done it, without knowing it or knowing. We also consider it as illegal or bad, though the world is polluted by it. It takes place everywhere and all the time. We face it because of different features that we possess compared to another group of people. We are the originator of it. Everyone has a label because of it. This phenomenon is called discrimination, meaning the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of…

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    In society now until eternity, women of color are facing oppression in their lives. There are four readings that connect each book together. Within those four readings there three main issues that women of color facing oppression are their racial model minority, gender role, and how the way women are look down. What ties all these main issues is what happened in the 19th century when racism, stereotype, and inequality was exits until now. The cause that women of color happen to be oppress is by…

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    the Philippines and her government. The American government only acquired the Philippines due to the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and had no right to make any changes to their government. The acquisition of the Philippine Islands by the United States was an encounter and exchange of social, political and economic ideas between the east and west and was driven by the urge to have…

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