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This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most important United States city, New York. At the same time this volume makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on urban multilingualism and the sociology of language. The book contains chapters on languages of ethnolinguistic groups who arrived early in New York and which have been somewhat silenced (Irish, German, Yiddish), the languages of groups who made early contributions and continue to be heard in the city (Italian, Greek , Spanish, Hebrew), and languages which are acquiring an important voice in the city today (Chinese, Indian languages, English creoles, Haitian Creole).
Over the past few decades, a wave of immigration has turned New York into a microcosm of the Americas and enhanced its role as the crossroads of the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Yet far from being an alien group within a "mainstream" and supposedly pure "Anglo" America, people referred to as Hispanics or Latinos have been part and parcel of New York since the beginning of the city's history. They represent what Walt Whitman once celebrated as "the Spanish element of our nationality." Hispanic New York is the first anthology to offer a comprehensive view of this multifaceted heritage. Combining familiar materials with other selections that are either out of print or not easily access...
Giving status of the Catholic Church as of January 1, 2005.
Con los innumerables medios de informacion en la actualidad, es imperdonable que un creyente no conozca, por lo menos lo mas basico, sobre los pasados 20 siglos de historia de la Fe Cristiana. El proposito de este libro es educar al creyente en los temas de Dios, Jesus, la historia de la Iglesia, la Biblia y el origen de ciertas creencias; sin compromisos a ninguna congregacion o doctrina. Entre los temas que se exponen este libro estan la veneracion a la Virgen Maria, Santos, la observancia al sabado, hablar en lenguas, la Trinidad, donacion de sangre, el aborto, el diezmo, muchos mas, asi como resumenes de los libros de la Biblia. Es muy importante conocer de estos temas, aunque no se este de acuerdo con ellos, para asi hacer una mejor defensa de la Fe Cristiana. Este libro se ha recopilado la informacion mas basica e importante que TODO creyente o predicador esta OBLIGADO A SABER, para estar siempre preparados con mansedumbre y reverencia a predicar y defender el Evangelio. NT 1 Pedro 3:15
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