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American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

African Americans and Racism

of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...

The American College of Surgeons

create such programs (The American College of Surgeons, 2006). There is the Committee on Trauma which "works to improve th...

Deciphering Gertrude Stein

reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

Plight of Labor/Bell's Furnace

in words, never in deeds. In actuality, Carnegie was totally ruthless in his business practices, coldly treating the workers as if...

Wal-Mart's Illegal Immigrant Workers

Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville" (Feds: Wal-Mart Knew About Illegals, 2003). Pomeroy (2006) reports on several situati...

Becoming New Yorkers

the facts revealed by Lopez concerns the way in which speaking Spanish is punitively regarded in the high school that was the focu...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Two Views of Immigration

to the suburbs but are leaving the area, even the state (Booth). This is causing what he sees as "the emergence of separate Americ...

Minnesota/Immigrant Cuisine & Customs

each controlled by its on nobility, and a united German state did not emerge until the 1870s. Therefore, it is problematic to defi...

"The Shock of Arrival"

retain, but also what we inherit from preceding generations, and pass on to the next" (Joshi, 1996). These two qualities, giving u...

Illegal Immigration in the United States

(Amselle, 1995). Other recommendations include having illegals receive only emergency services from the government (Amselle, 1995)...

Business Cycle Dating; Purposes of the Fed

This is a high-level view, and one that works only in retrospect. As example, it is difficult to accurately proclaim when the nat...

Merger Effects

In 2002, "eBay acquired all of the outstanding shares of PayPal in a tax-free, stock-for-stock transaction using a fixed exchange ...

Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

The Relationship Between Minority Immigrants and Poverty.

released a report entitled "Urban Poverty in Canada: A Statistical Profile". While this report covered a great many demographics r...

The Legacy Of Colonial America with Regard to Urban Development

three largest and probably most important harbors were Boston, New York and Philadelphia (Hashagen, 1998). What many may not know ...

Is It Possible for Biculturalism and Patriotism to Coexist in America?

as well. In todays world, the issue of bi-culturalism and patriotism is an important one - one precipitated by the unrest ...

Medical Profession's Cultural Clashes in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

far the most common cause of illness is soul loss"(Fadiman 8). What is most interesting about this book is that Fadiman...

Experiences of Chinese and Filipino Immigrants in the US

were sold for five dollars each to work in the fish canneries in Alaska, by a Visayan from the island of Leyre to an Ilocano from ...

Childcare and Immigrants

childcare provisions. Women in Development programs stress immediate job placement as well as training and education. During the ...

Learning Center Ideal

socially. The greater the overall interaction the better the prospects for economic improvement (Lewin-Epstein et al, 2003). Onc...

Post U.S. Civil War Immigration

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

Miami's Cuban Immigrant Community

they were not allowed to proceed with that claim ("Court rules" B6). In any event, the Elian Gonzalez case allows a student to gl...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

The Immigration of Arabs to the U.S.

this period of time came from Syria, which includes those territories that we know better today as Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon(Naf...

'British Stiff Upper Lip'

Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also f...