Green Card or permanent resident card serves as proof of a person's lawful permanent resident status in the United States. That allows the person with the Green Card to have right to live and work permanently in the United States or even become a American citizen. A person’s valid green card also means that he or she by law is registered in the U.S. in accordance with all United States immigration laws. People who obtain a green card before 1989, the green card use to remain valid permanently. Since
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American Culture: A Medley of Food, Language, and Religion Bre McCauley COM/156 June 30, 2013 Sheri Jens American Culture: A Medley of Food, Language, and Religion I believe it was Marcus Garvey who said, and I quote, “a people without the knowledge of their past history, is like a tree with no roots.” You have to know where it is you came from, befriend that knowledge, and use what you know to move forward, to progress throughout life and make history based on your heritage. How
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thought people would speak with a “British accent.” I didn’t realize that there are many different accents and the differences are not just pronunciation, but also vocabulary. In order to get my message across, I learned to avoid using slang words as much as I could. I didn’t realize how much American slang I use in my everyday speech! Despite the many different ways of speaking English across the UK, I felt the way that I speak English made me stick out as an American. W hen we think
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of race, color, sex, religion and national origin. However when the judicial system has examined English only workplace policies in light of Title VII, it has generally determined that such policies are not discriminatory if an employee is able to speak English. Although plaintiffs have argued that language is inextricably linked to national origin and cultural identity, the courts have stated that the use of a language other than English is detrimental to the morale of monolingual English speakers
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Axia College Material Appendix E Asian Americans According to the U.S. Census Bureau Part I Organize statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau on Asian American diversity using the matrix below and the Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2010 document. Use the following directions to locate the document: • Go to the homepage of the U.S. Census Bureau website: http://www.census.gov/. • Scroll down to Newsroom. • Click on Facts for Features. • Under the 2010
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challenges to getting to the American Dream. Have you ever been in a situation where you have not had enough money to do anything you wanted or get what you imagined or needed? Have you ever been discriminated because of your race, religion, or sex? Is there ever a time when you couldn't get something because you didn't know a language, or didn't understand what someone was saying? These are all interferences to reaching the American Dream. A big obstacle to the American Dream is discrimination. In
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social classes, rich and poor. There is no established middle class, either you live in the big Americanized cities, or you are poor and live in the country. Felly has only been in America for nine years. She moved to California when she married an American. She said, “There are so many differences between the Philippines and America”. Housing The houses are small and are home to many family members. As Felly said, “You live with your whole family. I lived with my parents, grandparents, brothers
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skin tone. I consider myself a Mexican American girl. Many people, however, have had their opinions on what it means to be Mexican AND American. To me being Mexican American means that your roots are from Mexico but you yourself were born in America. When I walked down the street people told me that they knew I was a Mexican American. Other people, however, have had the problem of defining who I really was. All of my life I was brought up as a Mexican American girl whose parents immigrated to the
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In today’s American society there are many different accents, from the good old southern draw to the New Yorker or just the plain old boring mid western accent. Why are there so many differences, what makes our accents unique and why are we so sensitive when people poke fun of us because we do not speak like they do? The film, American Tongues, tries to answer these questions. Why do we speak differently in different parts of our own country? If we go back to the days of the settlers we can see
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Me: Why is the Panama Hotel important to you? Henry: Before Keiko was sent to the internment camp she left behind meaningful things such as the Oscar Holden CD. The Oscar Holden CD was important to Keiko and I because I worked extremely hard to save up money in order to buy the CD. It was also very important to us because he dedicated one of his songs to us the night we snuck into the Black Elks Club. She left other things behind such as her drawing pad, and family pictures. I thought that if I found
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