Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood By Richard Rodriguez Questions for Discussion: 1. Bilingual Education and Public Language 2. Paragraph 15 reveals to the readers how bilingual people are viewed in this particular society. It is viewed that as long as a non-English speaker can get their point across, it is okay. However, not having English-speaking parents makes Rodriguez feel like he is sticking out in society (his parents couldn’t help him with English).
Nathalie Eugene EN101 Professor N. Sforza 01/21/2014 “I JUST FOUND OUT that our family is no longer what the Census Bureau calls a traditional family, and I want everyone to know that this is not our fault.”(582, 1) In this excerpt from the book “A Traditional Family” By Calvin Trillin. The author here is talking in first person narrative. Throughout the book the author is talking about his feelings towards his family no longer included in the world’s census bureau about being a traditional family. His family no longer qualifies because the official definition of a traditional American family is to have two or more parents and one or more children under age eighteen (582, 5). They no longer qualify because his daughter has just turned nineteen.
I compared three unlike points of Coontz with my family in this essay. Coontz describes that on the 1950’s families use to have a stable life. But on the other hand my family never have a stable and settled life till the 1980’s. My grandfather was a track driver from state to state , So he use to move from state to state with his family. My Grandfather never believed in distance relationship neither with his wife nor his children so he moved his family from place to place along with his work .
Anita Gates . Jennifer Williams journal 2 . 10/28 .2012 How do Tan and Rodriguez perspectives on bilingualism differ what are some common thread in their arguments. Both writers are immigrant fiction writers that has English as their second language and they grew up with parents that can hardly understand or speak good English. Rodriguez viewed bilingualism as two languages his Spanish language as private that is spoken in the family and this language bonded the family together and viewed English as public language and that has no impart to him when he was growing up according to his word he said ,i wrongly imagined that English was intrinsically a public language and Spanish was intrinsically private.'
This complicates the process and restricts peoples freedoms and rights of where they belong and what services they are eligible for. The article Growing Up in the Shadows :The Developmental Implications of Unauthorized Status by the Harvard Educational Review. explains how million of young people in the United States lives in limbo status, without formal documentation. Many of these people are brought here as children and spent most of their formative years in the United States in neighborhoods, attending schools, and internalizing a sense of themselves as young Americans. Some were brought by their parents as babies across the Southern border.
He made of had some emotional trouble as his never had a father. Childhood His mother had high hopes from him and wanted him to become a doctor or a lawyer so his mother and grandparents where pushing him to improve his education by reading a lot. This meant Samuel was now intellectually developing at a higher level then he should be at his age. His social skills were also good as he went to several segregated schools meaning he was meeting many people but he never really spoke to anyone who did not attended the segregated schools meaning he may have a struggle learning to talk to them. He was at the right level for physical development.
The second outcome of moving was having a closer relationship with my extended family. Having lived my whole life in the states I never had the chance to develop a close relationship with my family that lived in Hong Kong. Due to the language barrier I remember feeling distant from my extended family when they came over to visit. Neither side knew how to interact with the other. This dilemma did not stop till I realized the importance of language and took the effort to learn Cantonese in hopes of being able to hold a conversion longer than a minute
My feelings for not speaking Spanish are that we speak more English because we are in America and that is the language spoken primarily. They have taken Spanish class and did ok but don’t use it much. My parents and I talk in Spanglish on a daily bases, especially if we don’t want to let my boys here what we are talking about. I don’t feel like not teaching them was a bad thing. I also feel like I don’t like it when I am approached by other ethnicities and spoken Spanish to.
Until my cousin because a teenager was when all the problems started because he was not able to have a driver’s license neither get help from the government or take out a loan to pay for his college tuition. B. Tie to Audience: One of the people having this kind of situation might be someone you know, or this person could have been you also just because your parents wanted a better future for you. C. Thesis and Preview: 1. Thesis Statement- The need for this dream Act is very important to so many immigrants that are brought to this country when they are children.
He didn’t want them to touch his toys or play with him. Donnell is a black, male, who is two years old. He lives on the south side of Chicago. He is the only child of teen parents. He lives with his mom and grandmother, but spends most of his time with his father and his father side of the family.