{"id":351,"date":"2016-12-04T17:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2019-12-04T12:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:52:03","slug":"news-commentary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/news-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about language"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On\u00a0November 20, 2019<\/strong>,\u00a0Dr. Jennifer Delfino<\/strong>\u00a0gave a guest lecture on\u00a0\u201cAfrican American Language (AAL) Education and Social Justice.\u201d<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 Students in Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology posed questions\u2014read their questions and Dr. Delfino\u2019s answers here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Talking about language in US Census data<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/a>Thematic Map of Total Population of 5-17 Year Olds in Middlesex County, NJ Who Only Speak English \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
Posted by Nicholas Silowka <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Tuesday, November 14, 2017 10:53:37 PM
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My goal through the creation of this map<\/a>\u00a0 was to identify the youth, children aged 5-17, to determine the number of only English speaking adolescents.\u00a0 I used the location of Middlesex County, New Jersey to better understand the youth of my own home, Spotswood, NJ.\u00a0 I would have to say that the vast majority of the data I found to be not surprising.\u00a0 Areas such as Perth Amboy, New Brunswick, and Madison Park had far less individuals who were limited to only the English language in comparison to areas such as Monroe, Milltown, and to a degree my hometown Spotswood.\u00a0 What I was not expecting to discover was that the percentage of 5-17 year olds (84.9%) who only speak English is much relatively similar to the percentage of 18-64 year olds (85.2%) who only speak English.\u00a0 One would expect this number to decrease at a higher rate due to the cultural assimilation to the English language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Speak English only or speak English “very well”; Population 5 years and over \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
Posted by\u00a0 Zanique Barnes <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Tuesday, November 7, 2017 9:41:55 AM
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Heres my clickable\u00a0map<\/a>\u00a0of my county (Middlesex\u00a0county) that shows the amount of people\u00a0who only speak english\u00a0or speak english\u00a0very well.<\/p>\n

B. I chose this because English is my first language and it is the only language that I can really speak fluently. Ive lived in middlesex\u00a0county for a few years now, and\u00a0I wanted to see how many families in my county speak only English\u00a0or if there were a variety of different languages that are spoken at home. This map shows that in my town there are many different people who only speak english\u00a0or speak it very well but there are also a good amount of people who speak a variety of different languages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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People in Ocean County who speak a language other than English at home- Other Indo-European languages \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
Posted by Micaela Pezzolla <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 10:12:59 PM<\/div>\n
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A. This is my MAP <\/a>of people in Ocean County, New Jersey who speak a language at home other than English. This map specifically refers to people who speak other Indo-European Languages.<\/p>\n

B. I chose to research Ocean County because I am very familiar with the area. My family has a house in Ortley Beach so I usually spend much of my summers in Ocean County. I chose languages spoken at home other than English because I think it is important to know about diversity in an area. I can only speak English but I think it is fascinating that\u00a0many people in an area such as Ocean County\u00a0can be bilingual or multilingual. I chose Indo-European languages because my family is of Indo-European background. My family is Italian and my grandmother is the last of the family to speak fluent Italian. Italian can fall under the range of Indo-European languages that are spoken at home in Ocean County. The population of people who speak Indo-European languages at home is moderate in Ortley beach, but is in the middle of Seaside Heights in which the population is greater, and Lavallette Beach in which the population of people speaking Indo-European is even smaller than Ortley Beach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Density of Bilingual Chinese-English Speakers and University of California Davis \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
Posted by\u00a0 Monet Watson <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 9:04:17 PM
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This map is of the\u00a0Yolo\u00a0and Sacramento counties<\/a> in California.\u00a0 The map contains data from the census track from 2015 and\u00a0primarily\u00a0focuses on Chinese speakers who also speak English “very well” in both counties. I grew up in both counties and noticed a higher concentration of bilingual Chinese\u00a0speakers in Davis, which is in\u00a0Yolo\u00a0county, than in Sacramento. Davis is also home to University of California Davis (UCD), a vigorous\u00a0medical college, and attracts students from across America and internationally. \u00a0Although, Davis is where I believed\u00a0the higher concentration of bilingual Chinese speakers were, I included Sacramento County to see if the concentration was substantially\u00a0higher in Davis.<\/p>\n

The map illustrates that in Davis, particularly\u00a0around UCD, there is a dense population of bilingual Chinese speakers and that level of density is not found in the neighboring county of Sacramento. I believe\u00a0this is because the college attracts more varieties of people and that is the cause of the defining traits of Davis listed above.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Youth ages 5-17 who speak spanish at home in Middlesex County New Jersey \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
Posted by\u00a0Christopher Adams <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 7:44:24 PM
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1.map<\/a> of Middlesex County. individuals from 5-17 who speak sSpanish at home<\/p>\n

2. In the map I created, I have chosen to do the amount of Spanish speaking individuals between the ages of five and seventeen in Middlesex County. I choose this specific topic because from age five in school we had to learn Spanish and\u00a0 I was curious how many people in my area speak this language outside of school.In creating this map I wanted to see if the number of Spanish speaking youth was higher or lower than I projected in my area Edison, New Jersey. My approximation was about one hundred in Edison but the number was much less. The number ended up being 67 individuals from eEdison spoke Spanish at home which i felt was a low number. I was taken back by this because while growing up i knew many people my age and younger spoke Spanish at home with their families.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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People speaking Spanish in Morris and Passaic County from 2000 & 2015 \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
Posted by\u00a0 Christopher Heredia <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 11:19:46 AM
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  1. I have attached two maps (Map<\/a> & Map 2<\/a>). These maps show Spanish speakers in Morris and Passaic County from the year 2000<\/a> and the year 2015.<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. In these maps I chose the oldest year available and the newest year available of Spanish speaker\u2019s census reports in Morris and Passaic County. I chose two maps and two different years because I wanted to see if there was a difference in Spanish speaking growth or decline in my area in a 15 year period. I knew of certain areas that I knew would have a high amount of Spanish speakers in these two counties and I know of areas that are more likely to not have as much Spanish speakers. I estimated that Spanish speaking would have grown over the years, because of schooling and immigration. I found that in 2000, there were more widely spread over the two counties to have Spanish speakers. In 2015 this spread got more focused in the densely populated areas and where I knew there was a lot of Spanish speaking. Overall, Spanish speaking has appeared to decline in these two counties, and has been more driven into these highly populated areas where Spanish speaking is more likely to be expected. I knew That my town of Bloomingdale had a noticeable presence of Spanish speakers, and learned that my area is an area of Spanish speaking growth since 2000.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    <\/a>Differences Among Spanish Usage in Poughkeepsie and Poughquag <\/a> <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Posted by\u00a0Ashley Gallina <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 10:50:13 AM
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    A.\u00a0This is my map<\/a> of Dutchess County New York, the county I grew up in. Using the “Language Spoken at Home” data.<\/p>\n

    B. The reason that I chose this map in particular is because I know that Spanish is the second largest language that is spoken in the county, yet I only hear it when I am in the city of Poughkeepsie.\u00a0\u00a0I live a couple towns over from Poughkeepsie, about 20 minutes away in\u00a0Poughquag. My high school had many of my peers who were from this city of Poughkeepsie, so I am very familiar with the area. I always wondered why I heard Spanish more in this area than anywhere else in my county. I wanted to see how drastic the difference between Poughkeepsie and\u00a0Poughquag\u00a0are when it comes to the language spoken at home. In my town in particular, I never really hear much language diversity when going to the grocery store, out to eat etc. Yet, when I go to Poughkeepsie for events, doctors\u2019 appointments etc., I tend to hear Spanish used socially amongst people. In my map, indicated to the left with the darker shade of green is labeled \u201cPoughkeepsie\u201d, the town indicated farther to the right is my hometown (Poughquag) labeled with the blue dot, which is very light green. I was really curious to see how those who lived in the city differed in Spanish language usage than in my area.<\/p>\n

    It is obvious by seeing this map that Spanish is widely spoken in Poughkeepsie, yet not in my hometown. This is why when I go to the city area I always hear Spanish being spoken freely, much different than the town I come from. This map just further proved that Spanish is spoken much more frequently in Poughkeepsie than in my area, although I was still surprised about the drastic difference between the two areas in my county. Therefore, this map answered a question that I have been trying to figure out for a long time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    <\/a>Russian Speakers in Passaic County NJ \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Posted by\u00a0 Ryan Derose-Travia <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 10:33:39 AM
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    A.) I created a map<\/a> of Russian speakers within Passaic County, NJ, where I have lived my whole life.<\/p>\n

    B.) I chose this demographic to map out because I have had a great many Polish and Czech friends from my area throughout my life, and nearly all of them and\/or their families had spoken their native language, so I was curious as to the amount of Russian speakers in the same area, as Russian is linguistically similar to Polish and Czech, but I had never heard much of Russian speakers near me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    <\/a>Spanish Speakers in Burlington County who have Spoken English for 5 years \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Posted by\u00a0 Brian Pulverenti <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 9:15:36 AM
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    (A).\u00a0 The map <\/a>I created displays the number of people able to speak Spanish or Spanish Creole among those able to speak English for 5 years in my home county of Burlington, NJ.<\/p>\n

    (B).\u00a0 I was hoping to demonstrate the linguistic plurality I have noticed within my own community.\u00a0 During the course of my schooling, I attended four distinct schools within the county.\u00a0 During those experiences, I noticed that being bilingual was always common among a few of my classmates.\u00a0 Although, the map does demonstrate that there are a few people who fit this criteria, there were not as many as I expected.\u00a0 This leads me to think that this is a feature unique particularly to the young people population.\u00a0 If I were to redo the assignment, I would try to adjust for this variable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Morris County: Less Spanish Spoken at Home Than You’d Think \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
    Posted by \u00a0Theresa De Poortere <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 8:49:06 AM
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    A). I created this\u00a0map<\/a> (via Census Tract) to demonstrate the Spanish language spoken at home for ages 18-64 in my home county in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

    B) I chose this map because I am very passionate about Spanish and I wanted to see its influence around me geographically. I also narrowed it down to the ages 18-64 in 2015 because I wanted to see a targeted age similar to mine in a somewhat recent year. Morris County is very diverse which is why my map surprised me. I thought the patterning would show a greater use of Spanish for my whole county when really it is only my town. My church is bilingual which inspired me to learn Spanish in my community specifically. After thinking about its importance to Morristown particularly, I wanted to see other parts of Morris County that rely on Spanish as a main form of communication and it was not what I expected.There were only about three towns that were a dark green ( data class 1,800-3,300). All in all, I learned that Spanish spoken at home in my home county was not as prevalent as I thought which makes me more thankful that my town is one of the three where it is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    <\/a>People in Bergen County Over the Age of 5 Who Speak Korean at Home \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Posted by\u00a0Alexandra Leicht <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 8:36:08 AM
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    I created a sample map<\/a> using my home county of Bergen County, New Jersey and chose to focus specifically on the Korean speaking population.<\/p>\n

    When creating the map, I dropped the transparency to 20% to make differences easier to see, as well as changing the color range to a darker set for the same purpose. Additionally, I changed the classing method to quantile, as it allowed me to see a more clear pattern as to where the language was spoken more. With other options, there were only 2 census tracts that were showing a large population, and the rest of the tracts were blending together, making it harder to distinguish more minute differences. It was interesting to see that, traditionally, the further east on the map you look, the more dense the population of Korean speakers. I struggled when creating the map, because Bergen county, statistically, is not very heavily language diverse. While there are many languages spoken, they are not spoken by many people, and most are almost entirely contained to a specific census tract. It is for this reason that I chose to focus on speakers of Korean in general, whether or not they spoke English well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    <\/a>People who speak Spanish in the 201 \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Posted by\u00a0 Sean O’Malley <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, November 6, 2017 2:57:38 AM
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    A. Here is my example of the map of Bergen County\u00a0NJ<\/a> for individuals who speak Spanish that range in age between 18 and 64.<\/p>\n

    B. The reason I chose this particular map is because\u00a0I live and work in Bergen County, New Jersey. I found it interesting to see how many people actually do speak Spanish, although compared to the overall amount of people in the area it does not seem like a lot. Spanish was always a popular secondary language in my high school to fulfill\u00a0a language\u00a0requirement as well as the language I took here at Seton Hall. I noticed the majority of the towns in Bergen County that have Spanish speaking homes are in southern Bergen County. What really interested me about this was the fact I work for the Paramus Police Department as a 911 Emergency Dispatcher answer 911 calls for 14 towns in Bergen County. 97% percent of the calls we receive\u00a0that are not\u00a0“English Speaking” individuals\u00a0are Spanish\u00a0speaking individuals which means we have to use the language line service to interpret these calls. The map actually does match up with what I am familiar\u00a0with when answering calls for Hackensack and Palisades Park, which have a high Spanish Speaking population. Living and working in Paramus, I learned there are 27,000 residents, two major highways, four malls, one of which is among the largest in America and has over 500,000 individuals at any given time in the town itself.\u00a0 One other thing I have always wondered outside of just Spanish Speaking individuals in Bergen County\u00a0would be to find the percentage of languages used at any given time in the town of Paramus, with everyone being present at once, from passing motorists to employees to mall shoppers and so forth. I understand this would be quite difficult to track but just the thought of it interested\u00a0me, being from a city like town during the day to quite suburb town during the late hours of the evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Native Spanish Speakers Who Identify Themselves As Speaking English As “Less Than Very-Well” In Relation To Means Of Transportation <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Posted by\u00a0Carley Quirin <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Sunday, November 5, 2017 11:51:58 PMLast Edited:Wednesday, December 13, 2017 1:05:11 PM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    A.\u00a0<\/strong>Attached\u00a0is the map<\/a>\u00a0that I created utilizing data sets from the United States Census Bureau. I grew up in Union County and wanted to see if language was possibly correlated to means of transportation. The map linked demonstrates individuals from Union County who have self identified as native Spanish speakers who claim to speak English less than “very well”.B.<\/strong> I focused on this element of transportation as a representation of\u00a0\u00a0wealth. I made this judgment because individuals who have their own means of transportation tend to be wealthier and have more stable incomes. Likewise, those who take the bus, train, or other inexpensive means of public transportation likely have less financial stability. I then chose to compare it to individuals who have identified themselves as speaking English “less than very well” because this would often indicate that these people grew up without American culture being their native ethnicity. When analyzed together I believed that a suggestion could be made about the expected wealth of individuals who immigrated into the United States rather than being born citizens. While I originally intended to focus on different languages as a whole the available data and typical ethnic composition of Union County, NJ made it easier to identify individuals who spoke Spanish as their primary language and were actively learning, or were only moderately successful in learning English. Individuals who live in an area with less English speaking tended to be consumers of the public transportation system in immensely\u00a0higher percentages than other areas. For example, I looked at my hometown Cranford and the town directly next to it Elizabeth. Elizabeth is much larger, composed almost entirely of minority communities, and is far more affordable than Cranford. Spanish speakers who lived in Cranford tended to speak English “very well” suggesting that Spanish was actually the second language, or they received\u00a0formal language education. Elizabeth was the opposite. Elizabeth’s\u00a0public transportation system was also the main source of mobility for much of the populous. I believe that this correlation\u00a0demonstrates that individuals born outside\u00a0of the United States who move here permanently have a harder time accumulating wealth and basic resources unless they moved with money and were able to originate their residencies in higher income areas with established formal education systems. I also propose the concept that many people who speak English “less than very well” are likely to have a more difficult time obtaining a steady and lucrative means of income. Many of the highest\u00a0paid individuals in our nation are in positions that require a mastery of the English language, and those who did not have often graduated from English driven educational institutions. This considered I would suggest that individuals who immigrate to a nation and are forced to learn a new language\u00a0to assimilate are frequently burdened by these disadvantages\u00a0for a prolonged period of time. The inability to speak English at a proficient\u00a0level would suggest nothing about an individual’s intelligence or skill, but would impeded typical financial growth as measured here through means of public transportation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    People in Hunterdon County that can speak both English and Spanish \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
    Posted by\u00a0Maria Gomez Polo <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Sunday, November 5, 2017 10:52:36 PM
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    A. This is the\u00a0 map<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0I created to see how many people in Hunterdon County, New Jersey speak another language other than English at home and I selected Spanish as that \u201cother\u201d language.<\/p>\n

    B. I chose to make a map showing this because my family recently moved to Hunterdon County and I come from a Spanish background.\u00a0 I grew up in Somerset County where many of the surrounding towns are very diverse and have many Spanish speaking populations. I am not familiar with much of Hunterdon County so I was curious to see which\u00a0 towns had the highest population of people speaking Spanish. If you zoom in you can see my specific location. You can also see “Lebanon Township” to the left and “Tewksbury township” to the right of me. I am considered “Lebanon township”. I was surprised to see that from all of Lebanon township, My area had the darkest shade of green and the town right next to me, “Highbridge” didn’t even have a shade of green it was just clear. I also noticed that a town south of me, Flemington, had a dark shade of green as well. This didn’t really surprise me because Flemington is more populated than the other towns in this county. Most of the towns with the lighter shades are mainly made up of farm land which in return i think contribute to the amount of census data collected. Over all, this map showed me that my County does not have a large number of Spanish speakers but my town and a Flemington do even though they are not near each other. I named my map ” People in Hunterdon County who can speak both English and Spanish”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    <\/a>How much Portuguese is spoken in the Ironbound area \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Posted by \u00a0Meagan Domingues <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Sunday, November 5, 2017 9:15:44 PM<\/div>\n
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    A)<\/b>Here is a sample map<\/a> that I generated using the borough of Newark (via Census Tract) and using Portuguese (focusing on those who speak very little English). This is my explanation: B) <\/b>\u201cMy family and I have been going to the Ironbound section ever since I could remember. I\u2019ve never thought twice about how many Portuguese restaurants are cramped in one corner. Or the fact that majority of the older people in that area prefer to (or) only speak their Portuguese verses English. The second generation that came from those families all speak English as well as they speak Portuguese. Every store in the area tend to only hire people who are bilingual knowing that majority of their customers only speak their mother language. Based on the results on this map, it seems that the Ironbound is a great neighborhood to stay connected to my dad culture (Portuguese culture). In fact, my brother is in a Portuguese folklore group that is primarily located in the Ironbound, as well as the cities surrounding it.\u201d C)<\/b> Then I entitled this entry \u201cHow much Portuguese is spoken in the Ironbound area\u201d because this assignment allowed me to examine the fact that English is rarely spoken in the Ironbound if you are bilingual.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    People who speak Russian at home in Monmouth County, New Jersey \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
    Posted by\u00a0Alexandr Trifonov <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Sunday, November 5, 2017 9:13:23 PM<\/div>\n
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    A.\u00a0Here is an example of\u00a0the\u00a0map<\/a>\u00a0I created, which reflects the population who speaks Russian at home (5 years and older) in\u00a0the county where I live (Monmouth County, NJ).<\/p>\n

    B. I created this map, because it was interesting for me to see which areas of my home county have denser population who speaks Russian at home. I thought all the time that there is a lot of Russian people in my area, who speaks Russian at home, however, the map did not confirm it. According to the map, in the city I live (Tinton\u00a0Falls, NJ) there is very small population who speaks only Russian at home. However, in the adjacent cities like Eatontown, Oceanport and Little Silver, there is a denser Russian population. Indeed, in the area where I work in medical office (Morganville) in the same county, but to the West, there are a lot of Russian people living around there, which I already know by the contingent of the patients.\u00a0In conclusion, that’s why my grandmother (who does not speak English very well) always complains that all her Russian friends live in Morganville\u00a0(she has to travel 30 minutes to see them) and always asks to move there, of course, in a joking manner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    <\/a>Poverty Status of Individuals Over 18 Who Speak Spanish at Home in Passaic County,NJ \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Posted by\u00a0Adam Varoqua <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Sunday, November 5, 2017 9:03:48 PM<\/div>\n
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    A.\u00a0Here is the map<\/a>\u00a0I created of people who speak primarily Spanish at home in Passaic County whose income is below the poverty line.<\/p>\n

    B.\u00a0For this map,\u00a0I chose to use people who speak mostly Spanish because many people in Passaic County,where I live, are bilingual and people of Spanish heritage make up a pretty sizable portion of the community. What I also wanted to focus on was the poverty level, since most people in poverty tend to belong to minority groups. I feel as if that often gets neglected unfortunately because\u00a0it doesn’t\u00a0tell the whole story with poverty in America, especially\u00a0in regards to urban areas such as most of the area in Passaic County. The data showed that hundreds of people who are Spanish speakers above the age of 18 live below the poverty line. This wasn’t too surprising for me since, while there are affluent towns in the county, there are also areas of impoverishment, like some parts of the city of Paterson. What I hoped to achieve with this map was a perspective with poverty that, as I said before, not many people focus on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    <\/a>People who speak Spanish at home in Ocean County New Jersey \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
    Posted by Laura Guempel <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Sunday, November 5, 2017 4:54:17 PM A) I have attached my map here<\/a>. It shows the amount of people in Ocean County New Jersey who speak Spanish at home.<\/div>\n
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    B) In the map I created, I chose to find out how many people speak Spanish at home in the county that my family lives in. I chose this because I am studying Spanish and one day I hope to be a bilingual Speech Pathologist. By creating this map, I wanted to see if there is a large population of people that I might be able to work with in my future career. From the map, I can tell that there are many more people who speak Spanish at home in northern Ocean County because there is a large Hispanic population in the town of Lakewood. While I knew that there was a larger population in that town, I was surprised that there were not more people who speak Spanish at home in my town. In my area, there are between 169 and 389 people who speak Spanish at home and that surprised me because I thought there would be more!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    People in Essex Country Who Have the Ability to Speak Italian and are 5 Years Or Older \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
    Posted by\u00a0Maria Bongo <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Sunday, November 5, 2017 3:01:04 PM
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    1. This is the map<\/a> I created to look at individuals, age 5 and up, who speak Italian in my home county, Essex County, New Jersey. This map shows Italians who can also speak English. I chose to make a map of this because my town, and the areas around it, are heavily influenced by Italian heritage, and I was curious to see how many of the citizens actually spoke the language.<\/li>\n
    2. While this data was actually of Italians who can speak English \u2018very well\u2019 or \u2018less than very well\u2019, this also means that these people are native Italian speakers. Since this is the area in which I grew up, I knew that there would be a high population of Italians in the area. I was curious as to how many of those people actually spoke the language. I achieved this because this map showed me how many people in my area actually spoke Italian. I was surprised that, even in the darkest areas, only 294 people spoke it. I was not expecting there to be a ton of people who spoke Italian, but 294 people seemed like a low number to me. I was also surprised that, in my actual town there was 192 people who spoke Italian. My town is very small, and mostly everyone knows each other. While the Italian culture has heavily influenced my town, I was not expecting so many people to be native speakers because I have never known anyone who actually spoke the language, or was directly from Italy. I was not surprised to see that my town, West Caldwell, was one of the darker areas on the map, because of the amount of Italian restaurants and the various other ways that Italian culture has influenced my town.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Another thing that I noticed came from one of the maps that we looked at in class, which was the number of people who speak Spanish in Essex County. In comparing the two, I noticed that on the Spanish map, most of the people who spoke Spanish were around East Orange, Newark, and other areas in that direction. However, when looking at the map of Italian speakers, there are very few, if any, Italian speakers in that area. I found this interesting because of the shift in the culture of the population in areas that are very close together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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      People Who Speak a Language other than English (Middlesex, NJ) \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
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      Here is\u00a0a sample\u00a0map<\/a>\u00a0I generated\u00a0using my home county, Middlesex County in New Jersey, using the “Census Tract” option which focuses on people who speak another language other than English at home. The particular language I decided to focus on was Spanish. Although I was born in Jersey City, I moved to Middlesex County (Edison in particular) when I was just five years old. From living in this county for more than fifteen years, one thing I grew up realizing is that Middlesex stands out for its diversity. For example, in Edison, I hear people speaking different languages all the time whenever I step out of my house. Some languages I hear people speak other than English are Spanish, Hindi, Gujarati (my language),\u00a0Mandarin, Urdu, Polish, etc. Because of Edison’s high diversity, people come across others speaking different languages\u00a0on a daily basis whether they are going to a restaurant, gym, park, mall, etc.<\/p>\n

      The reason I chose to focus on Spanish, however, is because lately I’ve been seeing a lot more Spanish people move into Edison and also other parts of Middlesex as well. What’s so interesting about that is I am very familiar with the Spanish language (speaking and writing) because of where my dad’s liquor store is located (Passaic, NJ). Every weekend, I help my dad out at the store and majority of our customers speak Spanish. Seeing more Spanish people in Edison and other parts of Middlesex as well is exciting because I can continue to learn the language and also make more Spanish friends as well.<\/p>\n

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      <\/a>People who speak Other Indic Languages at home in Middlesex County \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
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      1. Here is my example of my map<\/a> of Middlesex County, New Jersey of the \u201cLanguage spoken at home by ability to speak English.<\/li>\n
      2. The reason I chose to create this particular map is because I have lived in Middlesex County for basically my entire life. I moved here when I was two so I spent my whole childhood here and I was curious to see how many people spoke other Indic languages. I fall into that category because I speak Bengali at home and I was always taken aback when I heard strangers at a local store near me speak it because there is not a huge population near me that do. It\u2019s a pretty small county with a lot of the Indian population that speak Hindi since it is the universal language, however, it is rare that I come across or over hear someone communicating in Bengali or any other Indic languages. Especially in the town that I live, I always felt like the odd ball out among my friends who are predominantly Hispanic. I\u2019m not surprised towns like Edison and Menlo Park have a more greater number of people who speak other Indic languages because there is a diverse group of Indian ethic groups that live in that area from what I\u2019ve seen first-hand. My town, Fords is very small so I\u2019m not surprised that it has a value of 0.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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        <\/a>People Who Speak Spanish at Home in Nassau County, NY \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
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        A) This is my\u00a0map <\/a>of the county I grew up in <\/a>which is Nassau County, New York. I was actually born in Brooklyn, NY which is where my mom grew up, but my parents decided to move out to Long Island, which is where my dad grew up. We moved to Nassau County when I was just 1 year old. I made my map focus on those who speak Spanish at home in my county.<\/p>\n

        B) The reason I chose this specific data set is because I know that in my county there is a large number of towns in which the people speak more Spanish than others. However, I did not know exactly which do. I have been told in the past that Spanish is the next largest spoken language in my county after English, but this assignment allowed me to go more in depth and acquire more information. I live in a town called Merrick, and I\u2019m pretty familiar with the towns surrounding mine, but I don\u2019t know much about every single one. When I am in my own town, and go into towns towards the east of me such as\u00a0Bellmore,\u00a0Wantagh,\u00a0Seaford\u00a0and\u00a0Massapequa\u00a0(which are towns I go to often), I notice there is rarely any other language spoken other than English. However, when I go to towns towards the west of me such as Freeport and Baldwin, I notice that Spanish is much more prominent. After creating this map, the different shades of green are depicting of how prominent Spanish speakers are in each area. The darker the green, the more Spanish is spoke, and the lighter the green, the least amount of Spanish is spoken. In my town, it is at the lightest shade green indicating that Spanish is not a prominent language spoken at home. However, in towns such as Freeport and\u00a0Hempstead\u00a0Spanish is a much more outstanding language. Overall, this map showed me how although my town specifically does not have a large number of Spanish speakers, my county as a whole has a decent amount of places where Spanish is spoken often. This is why I decided to name my map \u201cPeople Who Speak Spanish at Home in Nassau County, NY.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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        People in Middlesex County who speak a language other than English \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
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        Here is a map<\/a>\u00a0I generated using\u00a0people who speak a language other than English in Middlesex County,\u00a0New Jersey.<\/p>\n

        This was of particular interest to me as I grew up in a small town called Middlesex in Middlesex County.\u00a0No one really knows of the town itself because it is so small and I get questioned about it quite often. While growing up,\u00a0I didn’t have to many friends that looked like me and my very Indian\u00a0parents didn’t have too many friends in our actual town, but I never truly noticed that until now. The town is predominantly white, even though in the past few years there has been a bit of a shift in favor of diversity. As an English speaker, I didn’t have much difficulty forming bonds with others even if they weren’t my ethnicity;\u00a0however, my parents always felt more comfortable around people that spoke their mother tongue.\u00a0I was interested in seeing how diverse in language Middlesex actually is and as I thought it falls on the lower side of the spectrum, whereas, towns like Edison are populated with other language-speakers. It makes sense as to why on the weekends, my parents and siblings would go spend time shopping and eating in our neighboring towns and why those towns had a distinct culture of their own. The culture and liveliness\u00a0was created by a variety of people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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        Language linked with Real Estate Prices \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
        Posted by\u00a0 Shannon Reilly <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Wednesday, November 1, 2017 3:27:27 PM
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        \n<\/a><\/b>B) My experiment with this map was to see if Real Estate prices appear to be associated with the ability to speak English\u00a0very well. I decided to look at Travis County in Texas because that is where Austin is located and I would love to live in Austin one day. I focused on the darkest and largest section that I found on the census map which portrays a number of people who speak English less than “very well.” The dark area of my focus includes the town of Dessau, so I decided to search on Zillow.com (a real estate website) what the homes in Dessau\u00a0are sold for (        Real Estate Map of Dessau, Travis County TX<\/a>).\u00a0To my surprise, I can see there could be something between being able to speak English\u00a0well and the prices of homes. Homes across\u00a0the street from each other\u00a0in Dessau\u00a0go from 250k to 50k. Now, this could be because it is a trailer park-like community. Therefore I looked deeper into this possible link by studying the other dark spots as well as its contrast: studying the lightest spots (the people who speak English\u00a0very well).<\/p>\n

        I looked at the real estate prices within the dark area by Pleasant Hill and Onion Creek. Again, a correlation between not being able to speak the English language very well and low real estate prices were seen. Across S I -35 highway west from Pleasant Hill, it seems to be a regional difference of language\u00a0separated by the highway. People are much more proficient in speaking English and their real estate prices are nearly two or three times the amount of the houses in\/around Pleasant Hill.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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        <\/a>People Who Speak Spanish at Home in Morris County \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
        Posted by\u00a0\u00a0Cecelia Pateman <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Wednesday, November 1, 2017 11:30:24 AM
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        A Here is an example of my map<\/a> that I generated using my home county, Morris County and using Spanish (focusing on those who speak it at home).<\/p>\n

        B\u00a0 I wanted to look into how many people in my area speak Spanish because at my home parish, St. Lawrence, in Chester NJ, they have Spanish Masses available. Even though St. Lawrence is my main parish, I have gone to mass a few times at St. Joes in Mendham NJ and St. Luke in Long Valley NJ. When I have attended mass at St. Joes and St. Luke, I noticed they do not offer Spanish masses. While I do know a few people who speak Spanish at home in Chester, NJ, I have always been curious how many people in Chester truly speak Spanish fluently enough to prefer Spanish masses vs English masses.<\/p>\n

        By searching this, I did not succeed as highly as I anticipated. I found Chester, according to the map, was equal to Mendham and Long Valley in terms of how many people speak Spanish at home. I was surprised because I thought Chester would have a much higher amount of Spanish speakers than Mendham and Long Valley because they are the only church out of those three churches that holds Spanish masses. Instead, I found that Dover was by far the most, and perhaps the only town in the area that was highly populated with people who speak Spanish at home was Dover, Nj. Additionally, I found Morristown to be the second most populated town of Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n

        After researching how many people speak Spanish at home in Morris County, I have inferred that my town offers Spanish masses for a few possible reasons. One, is that Chester may be slightly more populated than surrounding towns, but not enough to show up on the map. Secondly, my parish has two main priests that give mass, Father Nick and Father Rollins. Father Nick speaks only English while Father Rollins speaks both English and Spanish. Father Rollins was sent here to the small town of Chester, Nj from Mexico. This being said, since Father Rollins speaks Spanish, he can actually give the mass. Lastly, I infer the people of Chester who prefer Spanish to English, may have requested our parish to offer Spanish masses. It was incredibly interesting to research the amounts of people who speak Spanish at home in Morris County in relation to the Spanish masses that are offered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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        People in Ocean County, NJ who speak German and English \u201cvery well\u201d \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
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        1. Link to the map<\/a> of Ocean County, NJ (by Census Tract) focusing on German speakers at home who also speak English \u201cvery well\u201d, using the default \u201cnatural break\u201d distribution.<\/li>\n
        2. Explanation\/narrative: When I was in high school I had a choice of a language to take, my options included German, Spanish and French. None of these languages held any meaning to me so I decided to pick German because I thought it was different. Now, years down the road I am still taking German while in college because a language is a requirement to graduate. Since I dedicated so much time and effort in learning this particular language, I wanted to see how many individuals speak it around my home area and to see if learning the language was wasted compared to learning a more wide spread language such as Spanish. Based on the results of this map, it seems not many people speak German, especially in my neighborhood (Forked River). My hometown is not a very diverse place to live and when I started to play around with this mapping feature, it showed. Regardless, I was surprised at the number of German speakers in Ocean County.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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          <\/a>People in Union County, New Jersey Who Speak French Creole as well as Speak English “Very Well” \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
          Posted by\u00a0\u00a0Lianne Joseph <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Wednesday, November 1, 2017 8:16:47 AM
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          Here is my sample map<\/a>. I live in Union Township in Union County and I didn’t search up my area in class so I decided to search it up for the assignment. I have to admit, I am not that familiar with my county as a whole, but I am pretty familiar with my town of course as well as the neighboring towns. I wanted to search up Haitian Creole because that is what my family speaks but for whatever reason, I couldn’t find it. So instead, I went with French Creole because that’s basically what Haitian Creole is: broken down French. I was pretty surprised by the results. First of all, I had the idea that there were Haitians pretty much everywhere. But I was surprised to learn that while there a could amount of French Creole speakers in my county, for the most part, they are not that prominent. There is really one area in the county that has a lot of French Creole speakers, and it’s actually my area. This wasn’t a surprise to me because I knew there were a lot of Haitians in my town and the neighboring towns. What did surprise me is that my town of Union was not one of the darker towns. A few towns on the east of Union County were darker. There towns in the Elizabeth area having the most French Creole speakers was expected because I know a lot of Haitians live there. But an area near Linden being the darkest was unexpected to me, I thought that color would go to Union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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          People Who Speak Spanish at Home (Fluently) in Lyndhurst, New Jersey \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
          Posted by\u00a0Samuel Martinez <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:01:36 AM<\/div>\n
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          (a)\u00a0Here is link to the map <\/a>of Bergen County, New Jersey\u00a0(by census tract), which focuses on the total number of people who speak Spanish “very well” at home. I used the default “natural breaking” setting.<\/p>\n

          (b) My family has lived in Bergen County since 2005. We moved from the Bronx, New York to\u00a0 East Rutherford, New Jersey and later to Lyndhurst, New Jersey due to a better living condition in New Jersey. There is a very large Hispanic community in New Jersey especially in Bergen County. There are many Dominicans such as my family. There are a few dark purple areas, one in the area of Hackensack and Lodi\u00a0which are towns near my town. The other is Fort Lee which is right across New York City which is highly populated by Hispanics.\u00a0Bergen County is near New York City so it does not surprise me the amount of Hispanics in that urban area. I researched this because these are my people and I am proud of my heritage so I wanted to see the expansion of the Spanish-speaking culture in my county.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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          <\/a>People Who speak Japanese at Home in Lemoore, California \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
          Posted by\u00a0\u00a0Megan Ogilvie <\/span> \u00a0at\u00a0Tuesday, October 31, 2017 9:00:26 PM
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          (a) Here is a map<\/a> of Lemoore, California focusing on the total number of people who speak Japanese at home. I used the default “natural break” setting.<\/p>\n

          (b) My family recently moved from San Diego, California to Lemoore, California due to my moms job promotion. There is a large East Asian population in San Diego, the majority being Japanese, and I was curious to see how Lemoore compares. You can see on the map there are two dark purple areas, one in the center of town and the other in Naval Air Station Lemoore. I was not surprised to see this because there is a large presence of Japanese-Americans in the Navy. The number of Japanese speakers in Lemoore is much smaller than Sand Diego. I wanted to research this because Japanese culture and language has heavily influenced the San Diego lifestyle and I am interested to see the difference when I go to live in Lemoore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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          Italian Speakers Over Age 5 in Staten Island, New York \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
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          A.\u00a0 Link to map<\/a> of borough of Staten Island,\u00a0New York (by Census Tract).\u00a0 This map focuses on the “Language Spoken at Home by ability\u00a0to Speak English\u00a0for Population 5 Years and Older.”<\/p>\n

          B. Explanation\/narrative: Before moving to South Jersey, my family and I lived in Staten Island, New York.\u00a0 Staten Island on the south shore (where we lived) seemed to be heavily\u00a0populated with Italians.\u00a0 Every time\u00a0we saw someone out in the mall or on the block it would always be a, “Hey, Maria,” or a, “Hey Carmine,” or some other Italian name.\u00a0 I wanted to research the Italian speaking population on Staten Island because I was curious to see how many\u00a0Italian\u00a0speakers there were and where on the Island they were located.\u00a0 Predominantly, the Island is home to primarily\u00a0people of Italian, Irish, and Latino descent.\u00a0 Upon creating a map, I found that the south shore of the Island was the most densely populated with Italian speakers while the north shore was not as populated with those that speak Italian.\u00a0 I found this to be cool because it turns out where I used to live was right smack in the middle of the places with the most Italian speakers; my mom being one of them!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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          <\/a>Little Variety in Language Spoken at Home in Sussex County, DE \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
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          1.\u00a0A link to the map<\/a>\u00a0of languages spoken at home in Sussex County,\u00a0Delaware,\u00a0using the Census Tract approach.<\/p>\n

          2. Explanation\/Narrative:\u00a0Before transferring to Seton Hall,\u00a0I was a student at the University of Delaware.\u00a0I lived in Newark,\u00a0DE for almost four years, and during that time I explored most of the state (Delaware is very small —\u00a0you can cross through the entire state in just a few hours).\u00a0One of my favorite parts of Delaware is Sussex County and its beaches (Rehoboth, Lewes, Dewey, etc.).\u00a0I have considered relocating\u00a0to this area once I move out of my parents’ house, where I live currently. Because Delaware is such a small state, I was curious as to what languages other than English were spoken in Sussex County. Surprisingly, the only categories present in the table I mapped were Spanish, other Indo-European languages, and Asian and Pacific Island languages. I was surprised that these categories were so comprehensive\u00a0but the numbers were low.\u00a0It must be because of Delaware’s small size, but I thought there would be more diversity in the languages other than English spoken at home. The languages spoken other than English are concentrated in the central area between Redden and Georgetown, which is not significant to me because I am not too familiar with the area. After completing this assignment, I am seriously reconsidering moving to an area that so greatly\u00a0lacks diversity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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          <\/a>Spanish-Speakers in the Homes of Essex County \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n
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          1. Here is a sample map<\/a> that I generated using my home county (Essex County in New Jersey, using the Census Tract), which focuses on those who speak another language other than English at home.\u00a0 The particular language that I chose to look at was Spanish, and I used the default \u201cnatural breaks\u201d distribution.<\/li>\n
          2. Explanation\/Narrative: I chose to look at the Spanish language spoken at home in my home county.\u00a0 I chose this topic because my church back home (St. Aloysius Church in Caldwell, NJ, a Roman Catholic Church) is one of the few churches within the Archdiocese of Newark that offers Spanish masses.\u00a0 I used to work in the rectory of this church, and I would always get numerous calls inquiring about this mass.\u00a0 The mass always gets a good turnout, and people travel from around the area to attend this mass.\u00a0 Because of this, I assumed that there would be a large Spanish-speaking population within the county.\u00a0 Based on the results of the map,\u00a0my assumption was correct,\u00a0however,\u00a0I thought that it would be more spread out.\u00a0\u00a0There was a larger Spanish-speaking population within the towns of East Orange, Bloomfield, and Newark,\u00a0and not as large of a population in and near Caldwell.\u00a0 In comparison to Caldwell, those three towns are on the opposite side of the map.\u00a0 However, it is only about a 30-40 minute drive from Newark to Caldwell, so only making the trip once a week is not too bad.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

            Greeks in Brooklyn speaking English “less than well” \"Click<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h3>\n
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            A. Link to the map <\/a>of the borough of Brooklyn (by Census Tract) focusing on Greek speakers who speak English “less than well” using the default “natural break” distribution.<\/p>\n

            B. We chose to move to our neighborhood\u00a0 about eighteen years ago because it seemed to have a healthy Greek population so that his parents, who spoke no English, could visit and somehow be comfortable spending time in the neighborhood. On the other hand, it also wasn’t too Greek so that members of my Filipino family would also feel comfortable visiting and hanging out with us. Based on the results of this map, it seems we picked the right neighborhood for Greeks (Bay Ridge). In fact, we live just a block away from one of the most statistically dense parts of the neighborhood shown in the map!<\/p>\n

            Out of curiosity, I wanted to know where Tagalog speakers lived in Brooklyn<\/a>, and found that there was no clustering in adjoining neighborhoods as observed with Greek speakers. If I mapped Queens, NY however, I would easily find both Greek and Tagalog speakers in very dense, distinct neighborhoods enclaves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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            Way before Siri and Alexa, there was the Voder<\/strong><\/h3>\n

            While commuting between New York and New Jersey one evening, I tuned to the radio station…Read more<\/a><\/span> <\/strong>of Anastasia Bushey’s post, Monday April 3, 20i7<\/p>\n

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            Talking about language in the news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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            …including how the most common vowel sound in English has no letter! Read more<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>of Michelle Prizzi’s post, Tuesday November 15, 2016<\/p>\n

            The Fight for Climate Terminology<\/strong><\/p>\n

            Posted by\u00a0Thandiwe Kangwa \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, October 31, 2016 9:28:21 AM<\/p>\n

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            This article is about how we need to stop calling the issue of climate change a “war.” It stresses the importance of using different terminology\u00a0universally so that nobody feels like they are on the “losing” side of the battle based on how much they have contributed to the cause. He analyzes the various lexical words that people tend to use when speaking about the problem that he presents and picks each apart due to their\u00a0inability to unite people on something bigger than themselves.<\/p>\n

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            From Colonization to Creole<\/strong><\/p>\n

            Posted by\u00a0Petal Joseph \u00a0at\u00a0Monday, October 31, 2016 8:49:43 AM<\/p>\n

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            Many have wondered how it is that Caribbean\u00a0creole came about. Why is it that after colonization\u00a0for so long don’t\u00a0they speak the language that was basically forced upon them? And though this might seem like a basic question with a straightforward\u00a0answer, that is hardly the case. Jamaica is one country that was colonized by Britain, and like\u00a0Britain, Jamaica has come up with their own standard English. But in many of cases such as with politicians, the use of both kinds of English\u00a0are used.<\/p>\n