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    lack the initiative and drive so valued in today’s workplace? According to what I have own. Hispanic’s are stereotyped as lazy‚ drug dealers‚ uneducated‚ job stealing‚ and poor. Most believe that Hispanic’s can speak none or very little English‚ and the English they do speak is not clearly understood. Social media constantly posts images of Hispanics piling into vans o an abundance of them living in a small home. However‚ contrary to popular belief‚ Hispanics are nothing like what they are perceived

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    Vernacular buildings What extent it is a question of the use of locally available materials and traditional building techniques The definition of vernacular buildings got a lot of people confused as some sources used a person opinion or complicates the meaning but to simplify it‚ vernacular buildings is an approach of architecture that uses local material and resources in a certain area or region where a building is built and undertakes local needs. Before 1900s‚ people unconsciously built vernacular

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    American Ethnic Literature Gerald Washington ENG/301 4/15/2013 Julie Kares American ethnic Literature What makes American literature American? When we talk about American literature we are talking about incorporating the story of an American piece. The makeup of the American values includes the rights to liberty‚ justice‚ equality‚ freedom‚ love‚ and family. American literature authors will use these values in their stories. American is well known for their short stories. When we speak of American

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    Roman empires. Later‚ became dominated by vernacular languages which now distinguishes the different areas of the world. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language is called vernacular (2012). The Latin language was the language that was used during the growth of the Roman states. It began to fade when the empire began to fall. Many of the people began to use their vernacular language instead (Scott‚ 2011). Alfred

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    African Americans African Americans (American Blacks or Black Americans)‚ racial group in the United States whose dominant ancestry is from sub-Saharan West Africa. Many African Americans also claim European‚ Native American‚ or Asian ancestors. A variety of names have been used for African Americans at various points in history. African Americans have been referred to as Negroes‚ colored‚ blacks‚ and Afro-Americans‚ as well as lesser-known terms‚ such as the 19th-century designation Anglo-African

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    Vernacular architecture Ronald Brunskill defined it accurately in saying: “A building designed by an amateur without any training in design; the individual will have been guided by a series of conventions built up in his locality‚ paying little attention to what may be fashionable. The function of the building would be the dominant factor‚ aesthetic considerations‚ though present to some small degree‚ being quite minimal. Local materials would be used as a matter of course‚ other materials being

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    American English CONTENTS Introduction………………………………………………………………………………3 Chapter I. Historical background of American English…………………………………..6 Chapter II. Characteristic features of American English………………………………...12 2.1 . Phonology…………………………………………………………………………13 2.2 . Vocabulary…………………………………………………………………………17 2.3 . Grammar…………………………………………………………………………...23 Conclusions……………………………………………………………………………..27 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………30 Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Introduction

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    ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЙ ИНСТИТУТ Реферат на тему: «American English: major dialects and variations» Выполнила: студентка 2 курса Contents Introduction 4 American English 5 Local Dialects in the USA 10 Spelling in American English 11 Conclusion 12 Bibliography 12

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    form hybrids. The African Diaspora‚ the forced removal of Africans from their native lands‚ brought on a new hybrid in the Caribbean. It all began in the 16th century when about 10 million Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves. More than half of these slaves were sent to the Caribbean. The Caribbean now has the most concentrated cluster of Africans in the Americas‚ with most of the population living in the Greater Antilles. With the imprint of millions of Africans in the Caribbean‚ a

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    Vernacular Language NAME HUMA215-1101A-05: Topics in Cultural Studies American Intercontinental University Vernacular Language As the Roman control continued to expand‚ the Latin language became the customary language amongst people where Roman’s ruled. It was the language written and spoken by the church‚ commerce and courts. As the Empire broadened‚ so did the language‚ it allowed the people to communicate freely regardless of their backgrounds. Like with any other language Latin changed

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