assignment

Instructor's choice (These research posts either received high grades for excellence or were otherwise interesting for expanding range of assignment)

Mary Brooks
1st posting: Intermarriage and Assimilation: The Road Not Taken
2nd posting: The Fall and Rise of Intermarriage

Charles Colson
1st posting: Development of a Dominant Culture
2nd posting: Cultural Hegemony and the Immigrant Narrative

Daryl Edwards
1st posting: An Examination Of Resistance To Assimilation Of African-Americans By Dominant Culture
2nd posting: Differences in African American and African Immigrant Assimilation

Julie Garza
1st posting: Literacy in Progress: Education and Literacy Rates among Minority and Immigrant Cultures
2nd posting: Literacy in Progress: Motivating Literacy among Immigrant Children

Chrissie Johnston
1st posting: Educating the Irish
2nd posting: Jewish Assimilation / Acculturation

Ellen Kirby
1st posting: The Dream Becomes the Nightmare: Contemporary Slavery
2nd posting: How can we get a better handle on the cultures in the book and in the classroom?

Samuel Mathis
1st posting: Absorption or Expulsion: Overcoming the Language Barriers of Immigrant Cultures
2nd posting: Deporting the Dirty Aliens Who Cut in Line: An Examination of the Language Surrounding Illegal Immigration

Christine Moon
1st posting: A Reflection of the Immigrant Narrative through Japan’s Population Crisis
2nd posting: Using Immigration to Save India’s Female Annihilation

Pamela Richey
1st posting: Haitian Immigration: The Minority Immigrant?
2nd posting: Policy of Discrimination: Haitian Immigrants and U.S. Policy

Katie Vitek
1st posting: The Original Immigrants and Minorities: James Town
2nd posting: The Evolution of Identity: Methods of Assimilation and their Effect on Identity

Other submissions

Denielle Alexander
1st posting: What are the possible of advantages of Mexican immigrant children learning English?
2nd posting: What are the negative factors that Mexican immigrant children endure while learning English as a second language?

Bridget Brantley
1st posting: Should Minority Cultures Assimilate?
2nd posting: Assimilation and Intermarriage

Nate (Nathanael Lee)
1st posting: The American Dream
2nd posting: Who is Meagher?

Elizabeth Scoggin
1st posting: Puerto Ricans: Fitting the Mold
2nd posting: Who’s Assimilating?

Amy Sidle
1st posting: Literacy: Securing the Key to Success
2nd posting: The Fourth of July 2010: A Reflection on the American Dream

Betty Vasquez
1st posting: Interethnic Marriage: Dissipating ethnic boundaries in America For Love or Political Agenda?
2nd posting: Is Spanglish a Language?

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