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Clifford E. Strunkey
Student
English D1211
March 14, 2019

Caribbean Life
The impact of Latinos in the United States of America
By Clifford Strunkey
The term Latino alludes to an ethnicity sharing a typical culture, history, and dialect. As indicated by Espinosa 2016. Latinos and Hispanics make up over 18% of the United States of America’s populace. In addition, more than 57 million Latinos and Hispanics living in the United States originate from various monetary, social, and geographic foundations, making them have different social classes, relying upon their national root and family legacy. Not with standing, there are some social similitude’s that unite the Latinos.
A standout amongst the most well-known social attributes of Latino culture is their language “Spanish”. In the year 1980, there were slightly over eleven million native speakers of Spanish in the United States. That population was about 5% of the total populace. By the year 2012, that population expanded to more than 38 million, translating to 13% of the total populace of the United States according to Barreto & Segura, 2014. Latino families regularly promote the Spanish language to their children as a method for safeguarding their culture,heritage,and legacy. This accentuation on bilingualism has resuscitated the Spanish language in the United States.
Religion assumes a critical task in Latino culture. Most Latin Americans are Christians. As per an examination led by Espinosa 2016, most Latinos identify themselves as Protestant and Catholic. Furthermore, Latino cooking styles are prevalent in the United States. Their cuisine has played a major role in American food and dietary patterns. A portion of the average things in Latin American cooking incorporates corn-based dishes, for example, tortillas, tacos and different salsas and toppings, for instance, guacamole, as per Espinosa, 2016. Tortilla chips and salsa are popular to the point that they are currently one of the most elevated moving nibble nourishment in the United States.
I was attracted to the Latinos because their culture puts a solid incentive on family. The Latinos will, in general, have extended and affectionate families. It is not extraordinary for three ages to live in a similar family unit or adjacent to one another. Grandparents regularly assume an essential job in their grandkids’ childhood, according to Barreto & Segura, 2014. The accentuation on the prosperity of the family makes the Latinos very group-focused with family and social events being typical.
Political Influence of the Latino
The Latino group of people is winding up progressively imperative to the culture, economy, and governmental issues of the United States of America. Currently, in excess of 55 million individuals very nearly one-fifth of the United States’ populace is Latin Americans and Hispanic, over 50% of whom have their roots from Mexico according to DeSipio, 2006. In the U.S. Latinos are achieving new statures in literacy, making critical financial additions, and drastically shaping the political scene according to Espinosa, 2016. These advancements will have significant ramifications for the United States in a period of two decades.
The noteworthy pressures and inward governmental issues of the Latino Diaspora are increasingly huge given the rising political impact of the Latin Americans: More than 11 million Latinos casted a ballot in 2012, and 40 million are relied upon to be qualified to cast a ballot by the year 2030, DeSipio, 2006. As the United States’ Latino populace keeps on expanding, its impact develops, both electorally and financially. Different countries in the Western Hemisphere should alter their strategies to oblige the statistic move. Given the social, financial, and political ties between Mexico and the United States, it is especially critical for Mexico to perceive the monetary and political ascent of Latinos, especially Mexican Americans living in the U.S, Espinosa, 2016.
Misconception about Latino Voters
The biggest misconception or myth is that Latinos are unresponsive and do not care about political issues. It is simple for a few strategists to make this contention when they take a gander at voter turnout rate that does not match its populace. Barreto and Segura, 2014, states that this is a misleading idea. When researcher’s conducts interviews and surveys, they find that Latinos are extremely intrigued, educated, and know current governmental issues. Additionally, researchers claim that Latinos are wise buyers. The only thing that political parties have to do to get their vote is to mobilize them, Barreto & Segura, 2014. Nonetheless, the Latinos ask themselves if the politicians care about them. They wonder if political parties need their vote.
Mentor Text from NCBI
National Center for Biotechnology Information is a national library of medicine based in the United States of America. It is an informative platform dedicated to giving accurate and credible information to its audience. I chose the article Latino Civic and Political Participation as a mentor text because all facts and arguments have been cited and research has been conducted to give credibility to the information given. NCBI targets researchers and scholars with interest in diverse topics. In the mentor text, people with political interest have an opportunity of benefiting from understanding the significance of the Latino population, and how it can help the political landscape. The model of persuasion used by NCBI is ethos. Information cannot be published without being verified by editors. Hence, the audience believes the information provided due to the credibility of the author. The audience for my article will be people with political interest. I will use professional language and factual statistics to add credibility to my article.
“Sources Used”
Barreto, M. A., & Segura,G. M. 2014. Latino America: How America’s most dynamic population is poised to transform the politics of the nation. New York, NY: Public Affairs.
DeSipio, L. 2006. Latino Civic and Political Participation. Hispanics and the Future of America. Washington DC, WA: National Academies Press. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK19906/
Espinosa, G. 2016. Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and politics in action. Cambridge: Harvard University Press

Rhethoral Analysis of the Lations

Clifford E. Strunkey
Student
English D1211
February 27th, 2019

Rhetorical Analysis of the Latinos
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The term Latino alludes to an ethnicity sharing a typical culture, history, and dialect. As indicated by Espinosa (2016), the Latino and Hispanics make up over 18% of the United States of America’s populace. In addition, more than 57 million Latino and Hispanics living in the United States originate from various monetary, social, and geographic foundations making them have different social classes relying upon their national root and family legacy. Not with standing, there some social similitude’s that unite the Latinos.
A standout amongst the most well-known social attributes of Latino culture is their language “Spanish”. In the year 1980, there were slightly over eleven million native speakers of Spanish in the United States. That population was about 5% of the total populace. By the year 2012, that population expanded to more than 38 million, translating to 13% of the total populace of the United States (Barreto & Segura, 2014). Latino families regularly promote the Spanish language to their children as a method for safeguarding their culture, heritage, and legacy. This accentuation on bilingualism has resuscitated the Spanish language in the United States.
Religion assumes a critical task in Latino culture. Most Latin Americans are Christians. As per an examination led by Espinosa (2016), most Latinos identify themselves as Protestant and Catholic. Furthermore, Latino cooking styles are prevalent in the United States. Their cuisine has played a major role in American food and dietary patterns. A portion of the average things in Latin American cooking incorporates corn-based dishes, for example, tortillas, tacos and different salsas and toppings, for instance, guacamole (Espinosa, 2016). Tortilla chips and salsa are popular to the point that they are currently one of the most elevated moving nibble nourishment in the United States.
I was attracted to the Latinos because their culture puts a solid incentive on family. The Latinos will, in general, have extended and affectionate families. It is not extraordinary for three ages to live in a similar family unit or adjacent to one another. Grandparents regularly assume an essential job in their grandkids’ childhood (Barreto & Segura, 2014). The accentuation on the prosperity of the family makes the Latinos very group-focused with family and social events being typical.
Political Influence of the Latino
The Latino group of people is winding up progressively imperative to the culture, economy, and governmental issues of the United States of America. Currently, in excess of 55 million individuals very nearly one-fifth of the United States’ populace is Latin Americans and Hispanic, over 50% of whom have their roots from Mexico (DeSipio, 2006). In the U.S. Latinos are achieving new statures in literacy, making critical financial additions, and drastically shaping the political scene (Espinosa, 2016). These advancements will have significant ramifications for the United States in a period of two decades.
The noteworthy pressures and inward governmental issues of the Latino diaspora are increasingly huge given the rising political impact of the Latin Americans: More than 11 million Latinos casted a ballot in 2012, and 40 million are relied upon to be qualified to cast a ballot by the year 2030 (DeSipio, 2006). As the United States’ Latino populace keeps on expanding, its impact develops, both electorally and financially. Different countries in the Western Hemisphere should alter their strategies to oblige the statistic move. Given the social, financial, and political ties between Mexico and the United States, it is especially critical for Mexico to perceive the monetary and political ascent of Latinos, especially Mexican Americans living in the U.S (Espinosa, 2016).

Literacy Final Draft

Clifford Strunkey
Student
English D1211
February 21st, 2019

Defining Literacy as you understand it, and connecting it to experiences in your life as a Student or outside of school.

In my early childhood my understanding of literacy was the ability to read, write and comprehend my spoken language, which is English. As I grew older, I began to realize that reading, writing and comprehending, wasn’t the only parts to literacy. In today’s world, literacy includes the ability to understand numbers, images, computers and being able to communicate some form of basic different languages.
I woke up one morning in and ask myself what I am doing with my life. So on July 27, 1987 I decided to join the U.S Military, to be specific the Army. Three months later I was sent to Ft. Leonard wood Missouri for basic training. I and fourteen others left New York on a Friday afternoon, and arrived in Missouri that night. All of us were from different parts of the city. We were meet at the airport by three Sergeants, who were called drill Sergeants. They greeted us politely and loaded us on a bus. Three hours later we arrived on the base where we got a rude awakening. They started shouting and yelling, which caught us by surprise, and was the beginning of two Months of hell. Wake up was five every morning by noise of trash cans banging in our rooms, doors slamming, and yelling and screaming, wake up you aren’t in your mothers bed. Once we were up, we quickly formed up outside in a formation of platoons, to began our daily training. The first thing we would do is stretch, then warm-up, which was jogging in place. After completing those tasks, we would go on a three to four mile run, which usually ends in half hour of push-up, sit-up and jumping jacks. We would quickly head to our rooms to shower, shave and get dress in our military uniform, so we can go eat breakfast. Everything was done as company, which consists of four to five platoons. Usually about one hundred to a hundred and twenty five soldiers makes up a company. After breakfast we would head to our basic training site, an open area in the woods, about a mile away from our living quarters. This was our first time together; so learning how to march as a group was challenging. Being in step with each other was very complicated at first, but by the time graduation came you best believe we would have it down pack.
Training consists of learning a variety of different classes. In the medical field, how administer CPR, apply a field dressing and turning kits, caring a wounded soldier and how to stop someone from bleeding to death. On movement, navigate a map with a compass and a map, reading the information on a map and identify the features. I was also thought how to identify and shoot weapons with precise accuracy. By the time of graduation, I was mentally and physically tough to be called a soldier.
I was then sent to Ft. Lee, Virginia for my job training. Yes everyone in the military has a skill set, which they do every day once they get to their duty station. I became logistician, which is managing, accounting and verifying movements of equipment and soldiers. I wanted to be a manager so I had to educate myself at every level to get to the top. I also attended college while I was in the military, and receive my associate degree in Business Management and Accounting.
During my years in the Army, I attended numerous schools and programs that prepaid for me senior positions. There are many books related to military techniques and history that was part of my military role. This was the Army method of educating and teaching soldiers to become leaders.
I retired as a Master Sergeant after 31years of service, which is one step away from the top level, in the Non Commission Officer Chain. I accomplished going to college while I was in the military, and receiving my associate in Business Management and Accounting. I am currently continuing my education that will allow me the opportunity to grow personally and professionally as a person. Learning to read, write, speak, comprehend, and communicate, will help me to be relevant and proficient in today’s diverse modern world.
Growing up in the Caribbean where literacy is such an important factor from junior to high school, sets the precedents for me to understand that education was the key to my success in life.

Unit 1 Working Draft Literacy

Clifford Strunkey
Student
English D1211
February 7th, 2019

Defining Literacy as you understand it, and connecting it to experiences in your life as a Student or outside of school.

I woke up one morning in and ask myself what I am doing with my life. So on July 27, 1987 I decided to join the U.S Military, to be specific the Army. Three months later I was sent to Ft. Leonard wood Missouri for basic training. I and fourteen others left New York on a Friday afternoon, and arrived in Missouri that night. All of us were from different parts of the city. We were meet at the airport by three Sergeants, who were called drill Sergeants. They greeted us politely and loaded us on a bus. Three hours later we arrived on the base where we got a rude awakening. They started shouting and yelling, which caught us by surprise, and was the beginning of two Months of hell.
Wake up was five every morning by noise of trash cans banging in our rooms, doors slamming, and yelling and screaming, wake up you aren’t in your mothers bed. Once we were up, we quickly formed up outside in a formation of platoons, to began our daily training. The first thing we would do is stretch, then warm-up, which was jogging in place. After completing those tasks, we would go on a three to four mile run, which usually ends in half hour of push-up, sit-up and jumping jacks. We would quickly head to our rooms to shower, shave and get dress in our military uniform, so we can go eat breakfast. Everything was done as company, which consists of four to five platoons. After breakfast we would head to our basic training site, an open area in the woods, about a mile away from our living quarters. Usually about one hundred to a hundred and twenty five soldiers are in a company. This was our first time together; we had learning how to march in step with each other. It was very complicated at first, but by the time we would graduate you best believe we would have it down pack.