Ninety percent of U.S Latinos speak Spanish. In contrast, speakers of Italian dwindled by ninety-four percent from the second to the third generation. There is no one explanation for why Latinos have maintained their language where other immigrant groups have not. The result however has been a distinctly new and hybrid culture which has impacted the United States as much as it has impacted Latinos: "soon the United States will have the second largest number of Spanish-speakers in the world". The impact of this group’s preservation of their native tongue language is demonstrated by the growing Spanish and Portuguese (primarily in Massachusetts) language market and mass media.
In 2001 it succeeded in shutting down Napster (the leading on-line source of digital music), and it has threatened thousands of individuals with legal action. [10] This failed to slow the decline in revenue and proved a public-relations disaster. [10] However, some academic studies have suggested that downloads did not cause the decline. [11] Legal digital downloads became widely available with the debut of the iTunes Store in 2003. The popularity of internet music distribution has increased and in 2009 more than a quarter of all recorded music industry revenues worldwide are now coming from digital channels.
The dominance and power of the west is affecting cultures. Bagdikian states that in 2004 only 7 corporations owned all the media from approximately 50 in 1983. This concentration of the media brings limited views and benefits capitalism as people will only be influenced in a certain way as news is a social construction to benefit the capitalist state. (McQuail) Cultural hegemony is the result of this. It is therefore threatening the cultural identities of many countries because this one culture is being largely promoted due to the dominance of the western media and media imperialism.
Wal-Mart does not care about the American economy because they are thriving the way the economy is now, so American citizens have to stand up for their communities. According to the book, How Walmart is destroying America and what you can do about it, when you are a huge rich company and all you want to do is get huger and richer, it turns out a lot of smaller, poorer people have to get hurt in the process. Wal-Mart with all its size and power, could hurt people or help them in a lot of situations. Which do you think it normally chooses to do (Bill Quinn 102)? The answer for so many years has obviously been hurt people.
Also by the first half of the 16th century early modern authors had their works printed and distributed to the general public (Doc. 9). This allowed modern and current ideas to spread more quickly and on a grander scale. With all the new books and ideas getting printed and distributed to the public, people couldn’t help but to be inclined to read more. This spread literacy very quickly.
There are many colleges and universities that have tried to improve their graduation rates and have succeeded in doing so (Davis, 2010). Graduation rate of any country is a reflection of far more than what may seem. The number of college students graduating from a college shows an insight to its accountability and transparency. The graduation rates show a great deal about the college itself and a low number of graduating students may indicate an unsatisfactory performance by the college or it may point towards something faulty within the organization (Sealey-Morris, 2015). The constant increment in the wage given to the students in order to increase the college graduation rate has been unsuccessful in tackling the situation and the increased amount of students enrolled in college courses are not directly proportional to the amount of students graduating from these colleges.
John Doe Anita Hames Ap Language April 3, 2013 The Lacking Precision in the English Language Every day billions of conversations are held and trillions of words are spoken to one another. We use a lot of the same words that have been used for centuries. But, as time continues the meaning of these words change, become irrelevant, or lose the precision of their meaning. One could conclude that using the same words every day and so frequently we’ve become very familiar with them; they lose their meaning or their meaning changes. For example in Geoffrey Nunberg’s essay “How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack,” he talks about the words “terror” and “terrorism” and how with time the words’ meanings have changed since their origin (Source 1).
The 1920 – WWII The United States has the economic power in the world according to researchers. Japan, Germany, China, ext. all try to catch up to the United States but aren’t able too. They might have slightly higher standards of living but will never compare to the U.S. economically. The U.S. produces almost double than what japan produces.
According to Ronald Takaki most Japanese Americans men in California received the same total income of the average Caucasian man in the 1980 but only through more hours of work and more education. Even though a lot of Asian Americans are going to college and getting good educations and a good salary, most of them can see the possibility to get promoted but they can’t because they hit a “glass ceiling"- the obstacle through where higher positions can be seen but not achieved because of their ethnicity. Only 68% of all Korean Americans in the New York metropolitan area earned the median of the average of the American
American’s can’t “pinpoint any lasting way in which the stunning attacks brought Americans together, strengthened our national character, made us more willing to sacrifice or even changed the daily routine for most citizens of the United States”. The shaky economy is still present today, the United States’ GDP accounted for about 23 present of the world’s outputs. Today that has gone to about 19 present. The nation is in debt, 5.8 billion in 2001 and now over 15 trillion in 2011 which is about 100 present GDP. People wanted a memorial for 9/11 but this will cost the country more money and that fact that it will put them even more under isn’t helping either.