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	Spanish American War - United States of America in Battle, Remember the Maine! When The U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto ...
		The Spanish commander on the island obviously had not heard of the outbreak of the war, for on the previous day when Captain Glass fired on the island with a message was sent to the Charleston with an apology for not having returned the salute -- there was no ammunition on the island.
		Spanish commissioners argued that Manila had surrendered after the armistice and therefore the Philippines could not be demanded as a war conquest, but they eventually yielded because they had no other choice, and the U.S. ultimately paid Spain 20 million dollars for possession of the Philippines.
		The USS Yosemite in the Spanish American War - The story of the USS Yosemite and the men of the Michigan Naval Militia who served on her in the Spanish American War.
	www.spanishamericanwar.com (3190 words)

	The Future of Spanish in the United States
		Yet the case for the fading of Spanish is bolstered by data such as that from a recent study in Dade County (Greater Miami), Fla. In that traditional stronghold of Spanish, the study found that only 2 percent of public high school students graduate as full-fledged bilinguals.
		Spanish is the native language of Puerto Rico: Puerto Ricans are native U.S. citizens.
		But as the Hispanic presence in the United States continues to rise through immigration and high birth rates, there are sure to be renewed calls for ending immigration.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/JWCRAWFORD/Castro1.htm (1978 words)

	Why is it important to learn Spanish?.
		In the United States, whose residents traditionally haven't been eager to learn any language aside from English, more and more native English speakers are making the move to learn another language because of globalization and the increasing importance of being able to communicate with those from other countries.
		Spanish is spoken by almost 400 million people worldwide, which is reason enough to learn the language.
		Spanish and French share the role as the official language of Equatorial Guinea (República de Guinea Ecuatoria), making it the only country on the continent of Africa with Spanish as a primary language.
	www.spanish-school.com.mx /learnspanish.html (1329 words)

	BU Libraries \| Guides \| Spanish & Latin American Language & Literature
		Restricted to Spanish literature (with a small section on the Spanish of Spain), this is the most detailed guide to the subject.
		Two indices, one in Spanish and the other in English, refer either to the section in which the term is to be found or to the actual picture.
		The second volume concludes with a "cross-reference index to authors" (indicating when an author is mentioned in a critical article not included in the entry for his or her name) and index to the critics included.
	www.bu.edu /library/guides/spanish.html (4224 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Spanish en los Estados Unidos adds to immigration heat
		Spanish dominates in Miami, is everywhere in Los Angeles and widespread along the border with Mexico.
		Promoting Spanish is anathema to many social conservatives who fear the United States is growing into a country with two dominant languages and two cultures.
		Speeches, banners and chants in Spanish poured fuel on anti-immigrant fires and the “blogosphere”, often a good real-time gauge of popular sentiment, came alive with exchanges on the wisdom of using a language not understood by most Americans to ask for the right to stay in the country under lenient immigration laws.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20060504-0930-usa-spanish.html (864 words)

	The Spanish language spoken in the United States
		The Spanish initially established colonies in Florida and explored the coasts of Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, and New England.
		At the present time, the Spanish language in the United States is being impacted by the immigration of Hispanics from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Central and South American countries.
		It is the nature of the United States being a “melting pot” of immigrants.
	www.strictlyspanish.com /article7.htm (793 words)

	Settlement Agreement between United States and Spanish Garden Homes Condominiums (N.J.)
		Spanish Gardens Condominiums is comprised of 28 buildings containing a total of 224 units, 112 of which are ground-floor units.
		Upon reasonable notice to the Respondents, representatives of the United States shall be permitted to inspect and copy any records of theirs or inspect any developments or residential units under their control covered by the Act bearing on compliance with this Agreement at any and all reasonable times.
		In the event the parties are not able to resolve this issue to the reasonable satisfaction of the United States, the United States may seek to enforce the Agreement, or any provision thereof, in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada through initiation of a lawsuit.
	www.usdoj.gov /crt/housing/documents/spanishgardcomp.htm (1846 words)

	Use of the Spanish Language in the United States: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities. ERIC Digest.
		After 10 to 15 years in the United States, some 75 percent of all Hispanic immigrants are speaking English regularly, and virtually all their children will speak English.
		The maintenance of Spanish language use in the United States depends on the continuous arrival of new Hispanic immigrants.
		The Hispanic Population in the United States: March 1988.
	www.ericdigests.org /pre-9221/spanish.htm (1755 words)

	Do You Speak American . For Educators . Curriculum . College . Spanish \| PBS
		Spanish was established in parts of what is now the United States before English-speaking settlers arrived.
		Wall is a language teacher who believes that English should be made the official language of the United States and that Spanish poses a serious threat to national unity and to English in the U.S. In a supermarket in Laredo, Texas, customers and clerks speak mainly Spanish.
		Phillip Carter’s article “The Past and Present of Spanish in the U.S,” reflect on the history of Spanish in the United States.
	www.pbs.org /speak/education/curriculum/college/spanish (3755 words)

	Spanish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is spoken by a large percentage of Andorrans, by 12% of the population of the United States and 0.1% of the people of the Philippines.
		Spanish and Portuguese share similar grammars and a majority of vocabulary as well as a common history of influence of Arabic while a great part of the peninsula was under Islamic rule (both languages expanded over Islamic territories).
		Spanish holds co-official status with English in the unincorporated U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, and is widely used alongside English in both official documents and everyday speech in the State of New Mexico, so much that there is a widespread misconception that Spanish and English are the official languages of that state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_language (4392 words)

	The Growing Hispanic Market in the United States
		Virtually every type of company and organization in the United States is being impacted by the growth of the Hispanic population.
		Spanish speakers are becoming a very significant part of the workforce and they need to be trained properly, in their native language.
		In 2002, there were 37.4 million Hispanics in the civilian, non-institutional population of the United States, representing 13.3 percent of the total U.S. population.
	www.strictlyspanish.com /white_paper4.htm (725 words)

	Retrospectives, Advances, and Current Needs in the Teaching of Spanish to United States Hispanic Bilingual Students (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Having followed closely the trends and developments in Spanish for native speakers, she points out that often members of the Spanish teaching faculty are not “quite sure what to do with the bilingual’; track now that they have it.
		Historically, Spanish has been taught as a foreign language in the United States, and insufficient attention has been placed on developing and coordinating well-designed and well-articulated programs that can meet the educational needs of the varied Hispanic bilingual college-student population.
		Vaté, a member of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Division of Language, Literacy, and Culture within the School of Education at Stanford University, was a key participant in the board of reviewers that helped develop, seek opinions on, and fine-tune the national standards in foreign language education.
	www.mla.org /adfl/bulletin/v29n1/291037.htm (5020 words)

	Towards New Dialects: Spanglish in the United States
		As with Canadian, American and British English, varieties of Spanish exist, varying from country to country, from immigrant to immigrant entering the United States.
		Unsurprisingly, Spanish variety causes Spanglish variety; the first quandary that Spanglish presents to those encountering it is its mutability.
		Under scrutiny since the 1960s, attributed to Spanish is everything from a “protectionist movement” (Crystal 115) designed to preserve and give official language status to English in the United States to an ability to “address.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6362Olague2.htm (1998 words)

	Spanish Lessons for the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For years, and in particular since the Iraq war, whenever the administration was confronted with the charge that his policies had isolated the United States or that he didn't have allies in Iraq, it would proudly draw on the example of Spain to rebut the charge.
		In the face of his weak-willed, anti-war population, the conservative prime minister José Maria Aznar stood steadfastly behind America and was a critical ally in the war in Iraq, where 1,300 Spanish troops served with valor.
		The new Spanish government, with a questionable mandate having been elected in the emotional days following the country's worst-ever terrorist atrocity, needs to be very careful about rashly drawing lessons and letting its election go to its head.
	www.brook.edu /views/op-ed/gordon/20040323.htm (943 words)

	Why Learn Spanish
		The obvious choice is Spanish as it is the next most widely spoken globally.
		Learning Spanish in Spain is easier and faster than learning at home, it produces better results and, just as important, it's much more stimulating and fun.
		When you learn Spanish in Spain studying includes not only the classroom but an introduction to the rich Spanish culture through the fiestas, the intoxicating effect of the dancers of the Sevillanas and the Flamenco, the variable and numerous "tapas" bars and cafes, the promenading and the colourful streetlife of Spain's exotic cities.
	www.intstudy.com /articles/whyspanish.htm (562 words)

	:: Spanish - United States International University :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This is the first Spanish course in a sequential series conducted in Spanish.
		This course is a bridge between Beginning Spanish and Advanced Grammar and Composition with emphasis on spoken Spanish in the context of skills needed in the business world.
		This course is a bridge between Beginning Spanish and Advanced Grammar and Composition with emphasis on spoken Spanish in the context of skills needed in the Tourist World.
	www.usiu.ac.ke /programs/catalogue/0405/spanish.htm (401 words)

	Spanish in the US 2007&Spanish in Contact with Other Languages
		Spanish language use and public life in the United States.
		Spanish in the United States: Linguistic contact and diversity.
		Spanish in Four Continents: Studies in language contact and bilingualism.
	mason.gmu.edu /~jleeman/spanishus/historia.htm (566 words)

	Spanish in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His studies on language shift document very high rates of bilingualism and the subsequent adoption of English as the preferred language of Hispanics, particularly by the young and by the native born.
		Although the study was based on a large 1976 sample developed by the Bureau of the Census which has not been repeated, data from the 1990 Census tend to confirm the massive anglicization of the Hispanic population in all cities and regions of the country.
		Like that of other groups before it, the future of the Spanish language in the United States depends on continuing immigration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_in_the_United_States (1969 words)

	Article for translators: The Spanish Reality in the United States – A Unique Challenge
		The issue of the Spanish language in the United States is not an easy topic to approach.
		One of the reasons for this unexpected complexity is the wide variety of origins of Spanish speakers in the United States.
		And the power that Spanish confers to this group is reason enough to preserve and defend it, remembering always to respect our lexical differences and our enriching diversity.
	www.translationdirectory.com /article1039.htm (1146 words)

	Study Abroad in United States
		The United States, bordered by Canada to the North, and Mexico to the South, possesses a diverse landscape, ranging from the rugged Rocky Mountains and deserts in the west, to flat plains of the mid-west to the long sandy coast lines along the Atlantic and Pacific shores.
		The country is divided into 50 states and is home to many large metropolitan cities like New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Denver to name a few.
		Since the United States is such a large country, we have listed some attractions in the Denver area and in Florida where our Spanish language programs are located.
	www.amerispan.com /country/United_States/27 (408 words)

	Research on Spanish in the US: Linguistic Issues and Challenges
		Research on Spanish in the United States is intended for use in courses, as well as by scholars and researchers interested in the area.
		The 29 original articles are organized into sections on interpreting; historical perspectives; borrowings of words and phrases; codeswitching, narratives, and discourse; sociolinguistics and pragmatics; phonology, morphology, and syntax; and language attitudes and planning.
		Other chapters discuss the outlook for the growing population of Spanish speakers in many areas of the United States, particularly in bilingual education and other public policy questions.
	www.cascadilla.com /sius.html (453 words)

	SSRN-Language, Employment and Earnings in the United States: Spanish-English Differentials from 1970 to 1990 by David ...
		This paper analyzes employment and earnings differentials between Spanish speakers and English speakers in the United States, using data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 U.S. censuses.
		The results show that Spanish speakers, both men and women, do not perform as well in the labor market as English speakers.
		Rather, they appear to be the result of Spanish speakers having relatively little of those labor market characteristics, most notably education, whose market value increased dramatically during the 1980s.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=245844 (470 words)

	SSRN-The Constitution of the United States in Spanish: A Service for the American People (La Constitucion de los ...
		George W. Bush, perhaps the most capable speaker of Spanish ever to serve as President, has publicly opposed the rendering of the national anthem in any language besides English, but most of all in Spanish.
		Given the sharp increase in the United States' Spanish-speaking population, this country might someday embrace the notion, pioneered by the United Nations and later embraced by the European Union, that a political system's fundamental law can be expressed in more languages than one.
		The possibility of placing the English and Spanish versions of the Constitution on equal footing cannot be dismissed out of hand, especially in a polity whose highest court has exhibited increasing willingness to consult foreign sources of constitutional wisdom.
	papers.ssrn.com /abstract=925271 (418 words)

	United States and the Spanish Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The United States government also took measures to restrict its citizens from selling arms to the Nationalists and Republicans.
		Over the course of the war over one-third of the volunteers from the United States had been killed.
		Most of the North American volunteers served in the unit known as the 15th brigade, which included the Abraham Lincoln battalion, the George Washington battalion and the (largely Canadian) Mackenzie-Papineau battalion.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPusa.htm (1342 words)

	Castonguay: Spanish-American War in United States Media Culture
		The commercial cinema was barely two years old when the United States declared war against Spain in April of 1898.
		Judging from the work of leading film historians, it would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Spanish-American War to a fledgling American film industry in the wake of cinema's putative novelty year.
		The lack of sustained political and ideological commentary in many studies of Spanish-American War films is largely the result of practical decisions involved in setting one's methodological and critical priorities.
	chnm.gmu.edu /aq/war/fs1.htm (957 words)

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