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Censorship And The Catcher In Rye
1,009 wordsKatie Johnson sent me the exact info about the censorship of "The Catcher in the Rye." She found it in "Banned Books: Suppressed on Social Grounds" by Dawn B. So. vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, c. 1998. 'The novel has long ignited disapproval, and it was the most frequently banned book in schools between 1966 and 1975. Even before that time, however, the work was a favorite target of sensors. In 1957, Australian Customs seized a shipment of the novels that had been presented as a gift to the g...
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Native Speakers Target Language
1,801 wordsEver since God punished the people who wanted to build the Tower of Babel with the confusion of tongues in the time of old testament, people around the world have faced the problem of communication. When giving out a historical overview of second-language teaching in Second-Language Acquisition in Childhood, McLaughlin stated: As early as the third millennium B. C. , in what was probably the worlds first great civilization, the Sumerians had scribed devoted exclusively to education. When the cou...
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Mcgraw Hill Unskilled Labor
1,617 wordsPoles and Italians in Detroit In the late 17 th century and early 18 th century Detroit was a hotbed for foreign immigration. The booming automobile industry and resulting growth of the city ensured that many jobs were available for those able to take them. Among these immigrants were distinct groups originating from many different countries. Two of these groups were the Poles and the Italians, who arrive to Detroit looking for a new beginning. Although many similarities can be found between the...
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United States Congress Spanish Speaking
903 wordsRecently National Language Good Morning Recently the United States Congress has been debating whether or not to declare that English is the national language of the United States and that all instruction in public schools is in English. There is no question what the language of this country is, it is irrefutably English, it was the language of our Founding Fathers and the language that the Declaration of Independence was written in, as well as the United States Constitution. I resolutely believe...
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Social Learning Theory Operant Conditioning
1,668 wordsI Psychology Applied The Classroom I was placed in an eighth grade English class that is an inclusion classroom. Inclusion classrooms are general education classrooms that include children with special needs. These classrooms typically have one subject oriented teacher and one special education teacher. The classroom I was assigned to had an English teacher (Mrs. V. ) and a Special Education teacher (Mrs. S. ). The English teacher gave the day to day assignments and instructed the class, while t...
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C S Lewis Maya Angelou
1,049 wordsSchlesinger's Canon Vs. My High Schools Canon In school, whether it be at the high school or college levels, there are usually lists of books thought as being essential reading. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. a Pulitzer Prize winning historian calls this list in his book The Disuniting of America, a canon or canonical literature. A problem exists with this canon, at least Schlesinger claims there is. He states that the canon is being used as an instrument of European oppression enforcing the hegemon...
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