America Today

Write an essay arguing and universities should- or should not- require foreign language for admission or graduation.

America Today

           It’s 2010 and technological skills have taken a back seat to world wide work skills.  A few years ago every student was trying to gain as many technological skills that they possibly could, but with the economy changing everyday, Americans are looking to work with other countries. In order to be able to work with other countries all students should be studying other languages. While studying those languages they will also gain culture history and world wide economics information. Countries world wide have children learning two languages by the age of ten, due to the fact that it easier for the brain to process new languages. In America schools are behind in that way, but America does require a year of language at college level depending on the degree. I personally feel that it’s great to have to take diverse courses.

          The national world language is English but it can and does change. University students should be taught a foreign Language because: 

1.     Knowing two languages gives anyone an extremely cutthroat edge over those who do not know a foreign language.

2.     One will be able to communicate with an entire group of people from another nation that might work for the same company.

3.     While learning a foreign language, one will learn about the culture, history and their economic stand.

4.     Knowing a foreign language makes it easier to travel and work in another country.

           America is one of the few most industrialized nations to not have children learning a foreign language. Learning two languages is important to be well rounded person and to have a step up over others in finding a high paying job. Companies today are now world wide and need employees to be able to communicate with the other nations on a day to day bases. Knowing two languages puts you ahead in communication. It makes it possible to travel for work or even be stationed in another country.

            Foreign languages can be fun and open a college student to a whole new world. If a college student takes foreign languages course is gives them an option to study overseas. It can allow a student to see two countries sides to a world war, and other historical events. America is the most diverse country with many cultural differences. Most Americans came from immigrating and everyone should learn their cultural background and their family’s native languages.

          College students in America should count their blessings to have the ability to learn a foreign language. Not all college students get that option. America is a nation full of immigrants and everyone should want to learn other languages and cultures. It is important to know two languages while living in California, due to the fact that California is a bilingual speaking state and on all government papers there are two languages.  I feel that no matter what everyone can gain something from taking a foreign language course. I see it as new, great experience and a way to gain knowledge of different parts of the world.

**3 descriptions of my outfit**

3. Write three descriptions of the outfit you are wearing: as it might be seen by an artist, a tailor, and a nudist.

At young age of nineteen I had got to my nude beach. I was wearing a white two piece bikini and a light sun dress over it, the dress went to my middle of my upper tights. I was shocked to see many people wearing Speedos. Both girls and guys wearing very small Speedos, I think I would be more comfortable if they were all just plain nude. I can feel every eye on me; I had become the big fat elephant in a small little room, but wasn’t a little room it was a beach filled with millions of eyes, full of judgment. As I look down at my dress, I could start to see sweat marks between my boobs. I felt as if the big fat elephant was sitting on my chest stopping all air from circulating my body. My friend and her mother, whom lived about ten minutes from this beach must of seen all of my color drain out of my face. My friend’s mother takes me by my hand and started walking me back to the car.

As I looked back on that day, the reality was it was around nine in the morning only about thirty residents of the beach from the beach front apartments were there.  My mind took over every two minutes as I stood there on that beach. I know they were looking at me but not in the way my mind munipulated myself to see it.  My friend’s mother explained that no one cares if I was wearing clothes or not. She told that most nudists, see too many out of town to care way more.  The only reason they where looking at me was, due to the fact I couldn’t stop staring at them.  They didn’t care that I was wearing a dress, as my friend’s mother put it how do they know we weren’t going to strip down and start running around? Most of those people on the beach that day where middle age and didn’t care to judge.

Growing up in California I did a lot of camping and was always surround with local college students taking film classes, which my aunt took every summer. The family had become close friend with the college teacher Lee. Lee would always use me to model the light, due to the fact that I was the only person on the camping trip not taking his class. After having to hike miles to get to the spot he wanted to take picture of I would have to sit there, in a puddle of my own sweat and have pictures taken.  When I saw the pictures they took, I would always be shocked to not see my sweaty face. Every picture had different views and was pretty in its own way.

If they where to take a picture or draw me right now, it wouldn't be pretty. I am wearing my favorite big, holey, stained, t-shirt I been wearing to bed for the past five years now. I just don’t think anyone getting to find a view of what I am wearing to be anything more then someone rolling out of bed. But then again artist always have a way of seeing the world in a very different point of view and it’s not always a view you would want the world to see.

And lastly a tailor I never have been around a tailor; I have a feeling that a tailor wouldn’t be pleased to see what I am wearing. When I think of a tailor I think of the show “what not to wear,” and “project runway.” In both shows I see the people telling people not to leave the house in what I am wearing in my favorite big, holey, stained, t-shirt. I think they would see me as someone not fashionable, lazy, and a home body that stoped getting dressed for the day.

A Dream That Has Never Stop

It all began with an educated man; this man is a hero in every American's heart and a leader to America being the true land of the free. Martin Luther King "I have a dream," speech made the greatest change in America to date. Martin Luther King is an idol of American history; his speech opened the door for true America land of the free. Growing up as a 90s kid, I never knew that men where not always treated equal. About the fourth grade in a history lesson my teacher played an old black and white film. I wasn't paying any attention to the speech, due to the fact that it was old and in black and white, but when I heard Martin Luther King say, "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood"(King, 1963).



Years later I learned to understand the meaning behind those hopeful words. Today, as I sit at my laptop hoping not to wake my son, reading Martin Luther King speech over and over, think, WOW! I wish I was born to see the day when he delivered that great speech, known to man kind. I wondered what it would be like to see the speech live on TV and be an African American. What hope went through their minds? Did they cry with belief that one day this will happen? Did they look away and say that man crazy?


History is written and studied for many reasons. I love reading history and I always wondered what it would be like to live on that day. I think of Martin Luther King speech as the ultimate speech in history. I feel that he uses Ethos, Logos & Pathos in all the right spots. There are so many reason why Martin Luther King "I have a dream," speech is one that went down in history.


Ethos are used when explains that he, himself is making him happy and taken the steps to make the changes needed to make a America better tomorrow, with "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’” (King, 1963). It truly shows what a great man, Martin Luther King was. He was always looking to the future and saw nothing but a great new beginning. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream," speech made him the most respectful man of his historic time. The speech let the world see what kind of character Martin Luther King was.


Logos are the reason for the speech, which Martin Luther King "I have a dream," speech is all about the right reasons. He uses the black separation at the time for the reasons of his speech. The reason he explains as "We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream'"(King, 1963). Those are the reason that made the speech so historical and the true hurt behind those reason.


Pathos are the emotion used in the speech, I have read and listened to Martin Luther King "I have a dream," what seems like a million times. You can feel the emotion oozing out of the speech just by reading or hearing it once. Those words will bring tears to your eyes "But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition"( King, 1963). To think of the day I truly understand the meaning behind those words. I think that the King will never be forgotten and his work will never die, due to this great emotion he put in his speech.


Martin Luther King is a household name from his speech "I have a dream." I feel that all great writers and politicians look to this speech and hope for only ten percent of the success this speech has had. This speech will remain in all Americans hearts forever. Martin Luther King is truly great and for millions of years human will be looking to this speech for inspiration. I hear speeches today that quote Martin Luther King and it always gets my full attention. Martin Luther King "I have a dream," will never die!

A Never Ending Challenge

A Never Ending Challenge

A growing disability in American today is illiteracy. Challenge of illiteracy impacts every part of your life. What jobs do illiterate people have to chose from?  How far will an illiterate person get in America or in most  Industrialisation nation and some Industrialisation nation? What modern tools would an illiterate person miss out on using? How do politics affect an illiterate person? Can an illiterate person overcome their disability and succeed? Illiteracy is a never ending challenge.

When a person needs a job they look in the newspaper, internet, or by word of mouth. To look in newspapers a person most be able to read and if a person is illiterate, then the newspaper will be the last place to look for an job. An illiterate person will not be able to find, look up, research, anything on the Internet. Word of mouth will be the only job source a person would be able to take. If a family member or friends help them get a job it doesn't mean that they will succeed in that job. Most jobs require some reading but all jobs require writing, example filling out time sheets and the ability to correctly spell one's name which is actually a bigger issue than you would think. Also if the job requires travel, need to be able to read maps and street names, for example a job that most feel an illiterate can do is landscaping but a landscaper often has to read product names, product directions, landscaping designs and have to read street maps. 

In most Industrialized nations and some Industrializing nations education is very important. Most illiterate people don't have a high school diploma, in American with a high school diploma, the average income is about $35,000 and are mostly working class. The people who don't have an high school diplomas are working poor or are underclass, with average incomes under $20,000 a year. Living between $20-35,000 an year is not a comfortable, they are living pay check to pay check . The jobs that illiterates have don't pay well and most of the Americans who are in those classes require assistant from the government.

When illiteracy is brought to my mind, I think of everything they miss out on. One being modern tools, like computers, cell phones, using the Internet, and having a drivers licence. Computers are the greatest modern tool and everything the computer does requires reading and writing of some kind.  Some cell phone an illiterate can use no problem but with the modern technology cell phones have became little computers, for the most part a cell phone can do whatever a computer can do. The Internet is the main source for everything these days and it requires reading and some writing, being illiterate one will not be able to navigate around the websites. I know a lot of people drive without having an license but to get a license you have to take a written test. There are so many things illiterate makes people miss out on.

Politics play a role in everything that happens in America. If a person is a illiterate and a law is passed to cut a government assistant program that the person cant live without, what happens to the illiterate person? A new laws pass that makes employers test their employee and the employee is illiterate fails but is great at their job, again what happens to the illiterate? What happen if an illiterate person gets fired and doesn't understand why? The most important is knowing about government agencies can help protect them from abuse. To know to vote  for laws and candidate that can protect them as well.

America has so many programs that can help a people of all ages learn to read and write. If your illiterate, how do you find about those programs? Illiteracy can be a life long disability and will always be an never ending challenge. I feel that at any age one can learn to read and write but has to learn and want it bad enough.  In a America being an illiterate is not being able to read or write in English but if they have the ability to speak or write another language it is possible to learn to read and write English.