Essays on German-Speaking

Intercultural Communication

Before the arrival of the Portuguese in the year 1500, Amerindian people stayed in Brazil who spoke different languages. There were around six million Indians in Brazil who spoke 1,000 different languages. After arriving the Portuguese settlers encountered the Tupi people, who then controlled most of the Brazilian coast and used to speak a set of closely related languages. The Portuguese were called "Tapuias", by the Tupi people. In the first two centuries of colonization, a language known as ‘Línguageral’ was widely spoken by all, from Amerindians, Portuguese to the African and their descendants, and a vast area from Sao ...

Throughout American history, different ethnic groups have faced different challenges. The Native Americans obviously were treated very differently than the Irish, for example, and the Chinese were particularly singled out for treatment which included banning them from attaining citizenship at all in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. African Americans obviously also suffered greatly, not only during slavery but also after its abolishment, and with even greater difficulties being accepted by white society even to this day given their appearance and a complexion that was impossible to hide. Yet other groups attained wide acceptance, including Germans, English, and Scots. Andrew ...

Instuctor

Even with his winning slogan “He Kept Us Out of War”, President Wilson felt the need to join the war with the Allies against the Central Powers. When the war broke out in Europe, popular opinion in the United States was that they were going to act neutral to the war. The United States stayed neutral exporting goods to European countries. But in February of 1915, Germany declared that all enemy shipping boats were to become target for their submarine attack. The justifiably believed that the United States was using commercial shipping to secretly send war-related supplies to England. ...