1 Sthefani Rojas Natalie Meyer Composition I 9/29/13 Who speaks two languages is worth two “To have another language is to possess a second soul.” ‒Charlemagne Coming from a different country is not easy for anyone‚ specially if you don’t know the language. Being in a place were everyone speaks a language that you don’t understand‚ and adapting to a place you must call home its probably one of the most scary and insecure moments of your life. One of the reasons for
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A Changing America Black or white. Those are some of the most common words used to describe race. As Americans marry and procreate‚ the country is becoming a racial mixing pot of not only blacks and whites‚ but also people of Asian‚ Hispanic‚ African‚ and European dissent. The Face of America is changing‚ and people are starting to have a more culturally diverse make-up. Society‚ economics‚ and politics are bound to change with the race. Over the years‚ categorizing someone as a single race is becoming
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who are overweight has more than doubled‚ while rates among adolescents have more than tripled since 1980.” (Wechsler‚ 2004). Childhood obesity in America is becoming an increasingly severe problem. Conditions such as type 2 diabetes‚ heart disease‚ and depression are becoming more prevalent as a result of obesity. The childhood obesity pandemic in America can be traced to several causes‚ however‚ topping the list is public school systems and their inability to provide quality nutritional and physical
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Racial profiling is a serious issue in America and is widely found in the nation’s police force. Imagine being accused of a crime that you knew nothing about‚ and that in defending yourself‚ you could end up being severely beaten or arrested with no proof of your involvement‚ with only a police officer’s view of you based the colour of your skin. This is the reality of racial profiling in America today. To actively use profiling to stop‚ search‚ strip people of their rights? Today you would think
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Vienna‚ revolts plagued many European countries as well as several areas in Latin America. France was driven from Haiti‚ Portugal lost control of Brazil‚ and Spain was forced to withdraw from all its American empire except for Cuba and Puerto Rico. Colonial government in South America came to an end. Three countries where revolts were successfully established were Haiti‚ Venezuela‚ and Brazil. The countries in Latin America benefited from the revolts because they became free from colonial rule‚ but‚ except
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America is a land of opportunity‚ social and economic mobility‚ equality‚ and continual progress toward its ideals of liberty and justice. Everyone can achieve socioeconomic advancement through hard work and everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. According to this view‚ the colonists in North America had abundant opportunities for success because of cheap and widely available land‚ and they eventually threw off the yoke of the British constitutional monarchy. Driven by their hatred of tyranny
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Classes Are Undervalued in America American high schools often offer an array of classes and extra curricular activities for it’s students. However‚ it is clear that these activities may be more valued than the typical core subjects. America‚ compared to other leading countries‚ undervalues the importance of the core subjects in high school by making sports seem like a priority. Sports is the number one thing preventing core subjects from being more valued in America. Many students and parents
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how free are we really? I would argue that America is one of the freest countries in the world‚ though it could be freer. The rights and freedom described in the US Constitution‚ the Declaration of Independence‚ and the Bill of Rights‚ as compared with what current society actually allows creates many different pictures of freedom from several perspectives. The many documents that became the foundation of American “freedom” support the idea that America is free. One of the most well known lines of
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Unemployment in America Today in America unemployment is a very big issue that everyone speaks about. America has been digging itself into a modern recession ever since the collapse of banks and large institutions. All this led to bailing out banks and trying to fix the financial crisis that we got ourselves into. There are people who blame the Bush administration for the crisis that we were put into‚ but there are others who do not. Our new president‚ Barack Obama‚ is trying his best to put America back
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driver had saw the disbelief and my eyes and he sympathetically told me I could sit the box near him. He apologized and told his assistant to help me with the box and wait with me until my next bus came. I was grateful but upset because this is what America was truly like towards Muslim individuals.
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