Rodriguez, Through reading your book I learned a great deal about your family and the role you played in it and how strongly influenced you were by the environment of your Latino family. ... Through most of your book you seem to center on how close and tightly knit your family was. ... At school and in public you describe hearing the cold, harsh sounds of the English language and wishing that your teachers would welcome you in Spanish, instead. ... No longer did you hear the warm sounds of Spanish fill your house. ... You say that you felt that your close-knit family ceased to exist as it onc...

• Word Count: 812
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hall argues that Senegambia is the root of traditional African-Creole culture and she gives sound documents and arguments to back up her claim. ... The arguments in this chapter are backed by many stories and documents of events that lend credence to Hall's very intriguing and sound debate. ... Hall then makes a sound claim how all these conditions combined to create "the most Africanized slave culture in the United States" (161). ... The last point in the book that Hall makes in this book is that the Louisiana cultural tradition of racial openness couldn't be entirely des...

• Word Count: 1683
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, The Pronunciation Book by Bowen & Marks or 'Sound Foundations' by Adrian Underhill seem very different from a book such as Ship and Sheep by Baker. ... " Achieving Intelligibility can be carried out through segmental (individual sounds) or suprasegmental (features of speech which extend over more than one sound segment in an utterance, such as a pitch, stress or juncture pattern) approach. ...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main goal of this book is not to explain how the West rose to power but rather how the less developed parts of the world such as China, Mexico, Ethiopia, and Turkey, understood and responded to this new power. ...

• Word Count: 2216
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Children and Bilingualism According to the 1990 United States Census, one in seven or 31.8 million people speak a language other than English in their home. In the past, second generation children were encouraged to adopt the customs, culture, and language of what was identified as the majority culture. Today, with greater recognition and celebration of cultural differences, people are more likely to maintain and share their primary language with their children and to promote bilingualism as a reflection of ethnic pride and identity. What is Bilingualism? Different people use the term in ...

• Word Count: 5919
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate