My interpretation of this data is that the ESL classes are held during the regular work shift. For the classes to be held at a time where no one can attend them is almost as if there were no such program in the community to begin with. ... America is the home of the free, and that is what attracts many immigrants; therefore, America needs to improve the availability of ESL education. ... For example, the ESL classes could be held at a local high school after regular school hours. ... It was recorded that in 2013, America had a total population of approximately 80 million people and was hom...

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The differences between the rich and poor American families were profoundly visible in size and value of the home. ... At even less of a percent, the richer American families owned a dwelling that a held value of over three thousand dollars or more, which was equivalent to a very large and graceful Federal-styled home with paired chimneys, a spacious central hallway entrance, and ten to a dozen rooms. Yet, despite the difference in size and value, the homes all shared a distasteful and bland front yard. ... By the 1830s, furniture such as sofas and softer chairs were seen more and more in ho...

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But despite all of the pressing issues, education was held in its highest regard before and at the beginning of World War II. In fact, Negro education was held to be the cornerstone of achievement to African Americans. ... African American roles: People at home. Lastly I want to examine few aspects of African Americans at home. ... The role of African Americans at home during World War II is similar if not parallel to any American at home during the war...

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But despite all of the pressing issues, education was held in its highest regard before and at the beginning of World War II. In fact, Negro education was held to be the cornerstone of achievement to African Americans. ... African American roles: People at home. Lastly I want to examine few aspects of African Americans at home. ... The role of African Americans at home during World War II is similar if not parallel to any American at home during the war...

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With the infamous potato famine wreaking havoc back home, the United States, having far better economic opportunities than Ireland, became home to the largest independent female migration in American history. ... In addition to factory jobs, Irish women also worked in mills and took up domestic work in American citizens' private homes. ... Although not all followed this way of living, some Irish immigrant families adopted a more traditional American behavior in their homes (if they could afford to do so), dividing the men and women into gender role stereotypes; the male was the primary pr...

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In reality, the colonial legislatures held the most power. ... As colonial societies expanded and matured, colonists expected the British home government to uphold, or at least not interfere with, the prosperity and autonomy they enjoyed. ... The New England ships brought molasses back home to be distilled for rum production. ...

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Imagine a working woman going through all this while performing at her highest efficiency possible to provide for her family in addition to being a home maker. ... In addition, with their exceptional dedication and militancy in New York City and Lawrence, women helped transform the image of the working woman.6 They no longer held a sense of dependency on anyone other than themselves and became appreciated for their willingness to fight for their causes. ...

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Exploration, fisheries, mining and plantations quickly fueled the success of white entrepreneurial colonists formerly held back by British law. ... The outcome was future generations of broken homes, lost heritage and tradition as well as large numbers of unemployed and poor resulting in mass depression, drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide. ...

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During the nineteenth century, the "nuclear family" structure dominated in American cities; with husbands working in factories and businesses to earn income and women remaining at home to raise children and attend to household duties. ... Women were considered to be virtuous, and sexually passionless, and thus were held to a different moral standard than men. Because of this presumption, most middle-class Americans saw women as the moral guardians of the home, charged with controlling the lustful natures of male family members. ... They contended that prostitution was a vice for both the pr...

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Seamus Heaney's poem, Mid-Term Break, is a great example of how society's expectations can impact identity because the poem is about a young man who is away at school to obtain an education and establish his identity when he is called back home to deal with the death of his younger brother. From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. Instead, the line, "I sat all morning in the college sick b...

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These were people who were content with their simple lives, people whose religion preached pacifism, those who did not want to see their homes, families and lands ravaged by war, and those who felt that the colonial armies where not strong enough to defeat the British and did not want there land and possessions confiscated. ... Throughout the war, the patriots looted the Tories, raided their strongholds, and confiscated their lands, homes and businesses under the treason acts. ...

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These were people who were content with their simple lives, people whose religion preached pacifism, those who did not want to see their homes, families and lands ravaged by war, and those who felt that the colonial armies where not strong enough to defeat the British and did not want there land and possessions confiscated. ... Throughout the war, the patriots looted the Tories, raided their strongholds, and confiscated their lands, homes and businesses under the treason acts. ...

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Between 1849 and 1854, nearly 50,000 families were evicted from their homes (IHW). Mass funerals were held where the people would use a "Community Coffin" but instead of burying the coffin a trap door opened and the body would just fall into the grave (TIF). ...

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An example of this is the Jaycee Lee Dugard case; she was kidnapped in California at age 11 and held captive for 18 years in Phillip Garrido's garden. ... The stigma drove Evan to drop out of school, leave his home in Salina, Oklahoma and move to Tulsa, where the troublesome requirements associated with his sex offender status meant that he could not maintain employment. ...

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The voters religions were of Baptist, Catholics, and Southern Whites, they had the belief in the "home rule"(p.445, The Unfinished Nation). ... The southern alliance, in contrast to the northwestern one, held back from plunging into politics. ... As a result, they decided to meet in secret, along with the Colored Alliance, at which time they would agree upon a Democratic candidate that held views most similar to their own. ...

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Privacy between family members may have contributed to the original concerns over privacy but more modern feelings over privacy issues tend to revolve around the privacy of an individual's home and also privacy from their government. ... Although the Constitution does not specifically state that every U.S. citizen has the "right to privacy," it does imply that the right to privacy is held by every citizen. ...

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The policy debate held in the 1930s paid less concern about the risks that inflation was likely to bring. ... The employees were thus able to work from different locations, including homes, without having more of employer supervision. ...

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Settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were families searching for a permanent home; people who were dedicated to hard work and moral living and were totally committed to the creation of their divine city (Lerner Publishing, 2002). ... The highest social ranking one could achieve was that of a lawyer or a merchant, meaning that, unlike Europe, all people held a similar social status. ...

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"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Fami...

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First, neglecting other cultures, or presenting them through a Eurocentric view, further reinforces stereotypes held by the dominant culture. ... When a child speaks little, or no, English in the home or outside of the classroom environment, they may need intensive help in learning and mastering the English language. ...

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Following a Feudal tradition the Mafia disdained legal authorities, sought justice through direct action and held a rigid code of secrecy, practices that enabled Mafiosi to rise in organized crime, after migrating from Italy to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ...

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Through voucher programs, access to a good school, whether public or private, is "no longer determined by one's ability to purchase a home low income families gain the necessary purchasing power to attend the public or private school of their choice" (Giraitis). ... Advocates believe that by keeping schools in constant opposition to one another, the quality of education would increase because schools would then be held accountable for the performance of their students. ...

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