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…. I’m amazed to think that people become accustomed to communicating other than verbally. This phenomenon is possible through American Sign Language or ASL. Today American Sign Language is a complex visual-spatial language that is used by the Deaf…

…The twentieth century, specifically the period of after WWII was a period of great change for Latin America. One of these changes has been immigration from Latin American countries such as Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and etc. Many…

…“American History” is a story about a girl in 1963. She is a Puerto Rican girl and she lives in the tenement building El Building. She sits on the fire escape and watches the family in the house beside her, a family from Georgia. Over time, she feels…

…to this, the American electoral process does not operate in a way where individual?s interests are the main focus. In Canada, not only is our electoral system more democratic than that of the United States, but our system of government, including checks and balances, ensures…

…“’Indians’: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History”, an essay written by Jane Tompkins, a professor of English at Duke University, outlines Tompkins dissatisfaction on how American Indians are portrayed throughout history. As children, we…

…Part of a group presentation on Native Americans - The American Indian History in the Eastern part of the country is always associated with the Cherokee Indian nation. The Cherokee's were by far the largest and most advanced of the tribes when…

…One enduring theme of American economic history has been a continuous debate about when, and how extensively, government should intervene in business affairs. American history has seen the pendulum swing between laissez-faire principles and demands…

…Inequality in the American Justice System David Cole wrote, "our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality" (5). Cole has substantial grounds for making this statement. Race and class have long been issues in the criminal justice…

…American Criticism Nineteen-Fifty-Five by Alice Walker and On the Road by Langston Hughes both use a wide variety of implicit and explicit criticisms of American society within their short stories. Both essays focus on White culture vs. Black…

…, to remind Americans of the horrible witch trials that took place in Salem, even before the American Revolution was a thought. It served as a tool to warn against the same thing happening with the Communist hearings going on in our country at the time…