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- 1781: Luis Gutierrez
- ... once a problem with congressional district. It was meant to have its majority Hispanic but, since the south side Mexican-Americans and the north side Puerto Rican-Americans, were separated by the west side African-American communities, Hispanics were not the majority. In order to fix this problem, the Latin communities became the seventh district. Hispanics in this district are two thirds of the population. Mexicans out number Puerto Ricans two ... are the majority only thirty-nine percent are registered to vote while, fifty-eight percent of white are registered. As of 1990 District four had a population of 571,162 people. Eight percent were African-American; three percent were Asian; sixty-four percent Hispanic; fifty-nine percent were white and forty percent were of other ethnic groups. There were 383,285 people eligible to vote. Fifty-eight Hispanic; six percent African-American; twenty-four percent had college education's; forty- nine percent married and thirty- one percent married with children. The average rent was 393 dollars a month. The cost of housing is relatively low in ...
- 1782: Issues To Consider In Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Patients
- ... assessment of deaf and hard-of-hearing patients are provided in Table 1. Table 2 provides suggestions for conducting interviews with these patients. Illustrative Case A 60-year-old deaf woman, a native user of American Sign Language, presented as a new referral. During visits with her previous physician, she had always communicated by using her daughter as an interpreter. The referral physician arranged for a certified interpreter and then called ... to 40 percent of spoken speech is visible externally. For example, "mama" and "papa" are indistinguishable from each other, as are "eight," "nine" and "ten." The modes of visual communication used by deaf persons include American Sign Language (ASL, or Ameslan); "manually coded" English (numerous artificial systems in which gestures and borrowed signs are used to represent parts of English speech); Cued Speech, in which hand movements near the mouth are used to make lip reading unambiguous; pidgin signed English (PSE), which is a mixture of ASL and English, and the natural sign languages of other countries. American Sign Language is used by approximately 500,000 "signers," making it the fourth most common language in the United States. ASL is a natural linguistic phenomenon that is not derived from English or any ...
- 1783: Joel Poinsett
- ... Joel Poinsett as the first U.S. minister to Mexico. His first assignment was to persuade the Mexican government to sell the U.S. the province of Texas, thus continuing the rapid expansion of the American democracy. The United States continued to pursue Texas with little success for the next 20 years. It was not until December 1845 when the U.S. finally annexed Texas by a joint resolution (and thus simple majority) . Immediately following the Texas acquisition, and with U.S.-Mexico relations swiftly deteriorating, the U.S. wanted the Mexican province of California, mainly for her harbours San Frasisco and San Diego. The American policy towards Mexico which ensued in the following years was governed almost exclusively by President James Polk's personal opinions and actions, as well as Nicholas Trist's defiant behavior; a manifestation of the state-centric theory in which key individual decision makers govern policy. In addition, Polk's policies were secondarily influenced by the consideration of relative power, American mass ideology, and Public opinion. In 1845 President Polk began, cofidentially from the public, considering the annexation of California. Polk's initial desire was to simply purchase California, attempting to maintain peace. He soon ...
- 1784: Goodbye Columbus
- ... same plot, but in the case of the two novels, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the novel Goodbye Columbus, by Philip Roth they explore the same dynamics of the chase of the American dream. In both novels there are similar themes, they both use the idea of sex and money as a form of power. Both novels can relate to each other because the authors decided to show how the pursuit of the American dream may not always be a good thing, and how sex and money can cause problems in that pursuit. Overall in both of the novels the reoccurring theme of sex, money and the search for the American dream is present and in both novels the authors show that just because it may seem like someone may have everything, that is not always the case. The idea of the new world verses ...
- 1785: Almost A Woman
- ... for that matter. When Esmeralda was thirteen she moved to New York with her family from Puerto Rico. She did not know a word of English nor did she have any idea of what the American culture was like. To top off her ignorance of the American culture, she was poor, making her more of an outcast. As she was growing up in the United States, most people related her to the only Latin people they had ever seen, who were Desi Arnaz from "I Love Lucy" and Rita Moreno from "West Side Story". She hated those assumptions; they were inaccurate. Desi Arnaz played to role of a Cuban musician who was married to an American and was always put as the dumb, ignorant Hispanic who was sometimes lost in the ideas of the American. Some of that is true, but she didn t like the idea that people thought ...
- 1786: The Censorship Of Huck Finn
- The Censorship of Huckelberry Finn The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn has been called one of the greatest pieces of American literature, deemed a classic. The book has been used by teachers across the country for years. Now, Huck Finn, along with other remarkable novels such as Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird ... thought to be objectionable. Censorship is far more than that. This mere word prohibits us from all things branded with its mark. In this instance of The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, it takes away an American treasure, and more importantly, defies First Ammendment rights. Those who find Huck Finn distasteful and unappropriate are trying to brand this work, by censorship, and make it unjust to read. This is similar to a ... slur. The Anti-Huckelberry Finn feel that it is to uncomfortable for African-Americans to read the book and think they are being stereotyped into Jim s image. Though some find it wrong for this American treasure to remain availible due to its racism, this is not the case. Even though the word nigger is used over 200 times in the book, it was common for African-Americans to be ...
- 1787: The Jury System
- ... far as law is concerned. There is a reason for unanimous verdict. If one jury is against the verdict,it is regarded as being room for doubt. Advantages of jury system are direct participation of American people, conventional judgement by people, fair stage of investigation, resistance against polictics' and judical plot, and making of democratic consciousness. For example, if a public prosecutor submit unlawful proof without trial permission, counsel makes an ... and no proper ability to serve as a juror are not closely connected. Perhaps high educational degree may become an obstacle of conventional judgement. It is said that Japanese companies always lose the lawsuit, because American juries have prejudice against Japanese. Do you think it is true? The answer is NO.The probability of winnig a suit, by a jury who represents American citizen, was fifty to one hundred in data from 1980 to 95. To my surprise, American juries do not seem to matter nationality. After all, hypothesis that American juries have preconception against Japanese and ...
- 1788: The Cold War: Conflicting Aims and Policies of Rival Powers
- ... by a plethora of events. A common cause of the war is said to be that of Soviet aggression. This played a large role in creating concerns that may have started the Cold War. Also, American paranoia has been to said to have been a catalyst to the Cold War. Although both of these reasons are viable causes of the war, one cannot be mentioned without the other, or receive the ... that the Soviets were at fault in the instigation of the Cold War due to these immense acts of aggression. The period in the United States following World War 2 could more aptly be named American Hysteria rather than history. As the Soviet Union grew more and more powerful, every American grew more frightened of the Communist movement. No event greater exemplified this than McCarthy's Communist witch hunt of the 1950's. The Cold War tensions stemmed from the fear and paranoia that gripped ...
- 1789: Marrying Homosexuals
- ... are not afforded the same rights as heterosexuals. The reasons presented against the allowance of homosexual marriage are flimsy, and have nothing to do with the constitutional rights that are supposed to be afforded every American. All of the arguments against homosexual marriages have to do with the repercussions of granting the constitutional right of marriage to homosexuals, but not with the constitutional rights of homosexuals. The arguments offered are remarkably ... allowed in many churches to be married. Part of the Homosexual Marriages: Religious Aspects page on the Internet says that the following churches support marriage for all adults, including homosexual couples: the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the California Council of Churches, the Church of Religious Science, the Pacific Congress of Quakers, the Reconstructionist Rabbinial Association, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. The argument ... this argument is that its advocates do not see the contradiction in the argument. The whole argument only works on the basis that there is something wrong with homosexuality. Richard Mohr cites that the American Psychiatric Institute dropped homosexuality from their registry of mental illnesses in 1972 after concluding that homosexuality was not a mental illness (3). Under this, the nation has accepted that homosexuality is just a deviation ...
- 1790: Bigger Thomas
- ... a white mans world. He went through hardships and troublesome events. He was prejudged by just about every white person in the country; so, in this paper, I am going to prove that the American dream only applied at this time to whites. Bigger grew up with his mother and two siblings in a small one-room apartment in Chicago. He had always been repressed by the white community, simply ... hated it. Bigger, because of this repression and prejudice, turned into a bitter, hate-filled man with no tolerance and no sense of remorse. In such a world, he had no hope of achieving the American dream; to own a home, and perhaps start a family. Bigger had to fight all odds just to get where he was in that wretched rat race of a society. Even as he barely treaded ... races ever met has finally gotten to the point where a black persons only hope of real freedom lies in his or her death. Conditions were much too cruel for the achievement of the American dream for most people, even in the rare instance that one did acquire his or her own home and family, prejudice kept him or her from living a full and normal life. Bigger was ...
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