Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brah, so lemme show dese haoles how fo' speak pidgin," Jeff Hayashida (one of the emcees) begins. "If you don't know what pidgin is, it's kinda like everything I saying dat you don't understand...
...Belgium. Carrying my life across Harvard Yard in four small suitcases, I eagerly searched for students who had visited the city in which I grew up and who, by sharing their recollections with me, could assuage my pangs of home-sickness. Instead, I heard such questions as: "Do they speak Belgish in Belgium?," "Belgium borders Italy, right...
Most likely, though, the lack of interest and patience for European affairs is ingrained in Americans from childhood. Americans have always been proud of their culture, and they indoctrinate their children with patriotism. Before they can speak, American children, unlike Europeans, learn to stand at the first notes of the Star Spangled Banner. Why search beyond this overwhelming culture for more, say the parents? Why bother to learn about Europe? Children grow up assuming that the world revolves around America. After all, America is already a productive country full of enthusiastic and ambitious citizens. Why should Americans reach beyond their...
Wisse's current course focuses on the changes that have occurred in Jewish literature over the last century, as the number of Jews able to speak Yiddish and Hebrew has declined drastically...
...people were a crucial part of the civil rights struggle of African-Americans, just as men stood beside women to seek equality of the sexes, straight people are an integral part of the fight for gay rights. In churches, in the media, in Congress and on campus, heterosexuals can speak with tremendous power and influence precisely because they are heterosexual--because they directly counter stereotypes and prejudices...