Americans want to be accepting of foreigners, but the fear of offending a person of another race sometimes prevents them from starting an interaction. Dumas disguises this masterful emotional manipulation as a witty rant. The author describes her struggle between being called Firoozeh and Julie in an intensely comedic way: “I felt
Anzaldúa also talks about how this criticism of learning English can make one be deemed as a traitor to their people. From this confusion of language, new dialects were formed to compensate on the different ideas of what the language should be. It was neither Spanish nor English, but both, a variation of the two languages. Different forms of the dialects are used in different areas and are only appropriate with certain groups and individuals; some of the dialects are so different that Chicanos from different states choose to speak English to each other. “If a person has a low estimation of my native tongue, she also has a low estimation of me.” (Anzaldúa 136) Anzaldúa states that language is part of ethnic identity and should be a prideful part of one’s self.
Why do you think this person chose to conform? (2-4 sentences. 1.0 points) 10. Describe a time when you or someone you know chose not to conform to the behavior of others. Why do you think this person chose not to conform?
The documentary explores the development of English through many aspects of how it is spoken. Because of the many immigrants into the United States, the English language evolves with every new group of immigrants. I identified that when people wear an image they act different, changing the personality and every aspect of them. I am not saying that people are expressing themselves with their clothes but when they adopt a new language, they tend to act and mimic the words, phrases and accents. It is my opinion that the English language is dying, losing its values of what it used to be, but at the same time it is adopting new words, mutating into a new language, the
What is nativism? citizens who fear that large influxes of foreigners will corrupt American culture, undermine American democracy, and impoverish American workers. 3. How does Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem "Unguarded Gates" represent a strain of American thought? Aldrich's poem may strike modern readers as embarrassingly xenophobic, if not downright racist.
What went well? 2. What would you do differently in the future? 3. Were there any barriers or challenges that inhibited your ability to complete the assessment tool?
Chris ENG 101 13 September 2009 Assignment 2: Final Draft Orwell and Lederer Arguments George Orwell in “Politics and the English Language” and Richard Lederer in “The Case for Short Words” share a similar concern with bad habits forming in the English Language and its impact on a writer’s perspective in writing a good paper. Orwell’s central point in his essay is that the English Language is becoming untidy. Supporting his case, Orwell argues that bad habits are forming do to our foolish thoughts, caused by the slovenliness of our language. Of equal importance is Orwell’s insistence that all these bad habits are reversible. As Orwell states, “The habits can be avoided if one is willing to go through the trouble.
It is through these ideas that composers convey the growing complacency of those who receive the truth as the value of truth is diminishing behind the shadow of personal opinion. The subjectivity of the truth is explored in Geoffrey Robertson’s “Oz” as individuals are seen to have differing interpretations of the truth. The multiple versions of the truth make it indefinite and undefined, contributing to the complexity of truth. This is reflected in the slightly different definitions of ‘obscene’ as Judge Argyle “…read to them from the Oxford English Dictionary, which said it meant… ‘indecent’. In law, that is precisely what obscene does not mean”.
Nicole Brouwer 2nd hour Honors English Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover “The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.” -Arthur Schopenhauer Stereotyping, superstitions, and being prejudice are all components that lead to misjudging others. Many myths have been associated with different ethnic groups, and it leads to ethnic segregation. An understanding about other cultures may help decrease the negativity and overcomes prejudice. What does being prejudice mean? Why do societies leap at the chance to judge others?
Noam Chomsky, an American linguist states that the human brain has a limited set of grammatical rules for organizing language. Some disagree because even though every language has their difference we are not limited in our understanding. In the German language there is a word for being happy over someone else’s misfortune “Schadenfreude.” That doesn’t mean that we will not be able to understand that when someone’s enemy falls and they start laughing at them that they are conveying “Schadenfreude.” Languages are different in what they must convey but not what they may convey. Another notable subject in the matter of language and communication was Tannen’s article on how gender differences correlates with styles of speech. It can be generally stated that women or men speak in a particular way.