Samuel Junior Moses Dr. John Frongillo Writing in literature Com 1102 04/23/2015 The Prevalence of Stereotyping Stereotyping is an overly simplified attitude people hold towards another person due to race, gender or ethnicity. Stereotyping affects us by allowing us to see what we expect to see, and we have a tendency to twist and distort the characteristics of others until it fits our ideas of a particular group stereotype. Sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, and physical ability are various categories which exist in stereotyping. The most prevalent and controversial forms are sex and race. In the story the “How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)” by Junot Diaz, the narrator stereotypes girls base on gender,
I do not have any misconceptions about writing I'm just very out of practice and I'm sure with time it will become a lot easier and feel more natural. I need to focus on staying on topic, grammar and punctuation. I tend to go off topic once I get another idea something similar but not part of the idea I was going for in my paper. In order to improve this weakness is by keeping my ideas organize will help me stay on topic After reading chapter one it gave me a new motivation to learn about writing. I have always just gave myself the excuse that I am not a good writer and that’s how I am going to live.
Metamessages Men and women often receive messages in an erroneous way due to misunderstandings caused by metamessages. A metamessage is a message concealed in a message that a woman usually has a better understanding of. In Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers, by Deborah Tannen, demonstrates how women and men have different communication skills than one another. Women are seen to “have a relatively greater need for involvement, and men a greater need for independence,” causing the opposite sex to retrieve a message incorrectly from what was meant to be said (200). The article clarifies how genders react to metamessages as well as how they can retrieve them and apply them to their daily conversations.
Tannen’s writing is lengthy, personal, analytical and well sourced. Even though the differences between these two pieces can easily be highlighted there are some similarities. Both Tannen and Quindlen believe there are obvious differences and similarities between men and women. However, when specifically observing the relationship between men and women Tannen believes the main differences lie in communication, reactions, the way life is approached and the dynamics of childhood.
The phonological level of language in the reading is defined as a level of language that structures the units of sound (or of gesture in the case of signed language) that constitute linguistic form. Every language is based on a structured set of distinctions of sounds called phonemes. For example the differences between the words tick, pick, lick, thick and so on lies in the differences of the first segment of each. Words like sick can be said in different ways, and just by hearing it one can infer if it is being said by a child with a lisp, woman tend to say it with more prissiness and gayness with men. So stereotypically speaking the way sick is being said by whoever is said differently depending on gender or sexual orientation.
Although when looked at its obvious that all humans are quite similar however each individual is unique and different in many ways (Scarr, S 2008). Even twins have differences between them (Baker, A & Daniels, D. 1990), however alike they seem. These differences are due to many factors such as different cultural backgrounds and been brought up in environment that have provided us with different outlooks, values and perspectives alongside with different likes and dislikes. Everyone has different likes and dislikes and different ways of looking at things (Heap, M & Dryden, W. 1991). These differences are what make us all unique because of these differences people have different ways of dealing with certain situations, different coping mechanisms and various levels of openness or resistance.
Unit 4 Assignment 1: Power and Communication It is becoming more and more important that we as a people need to learn how to effectively communication with each other. While there are many ways to say the same thing in English (American English), there is too much slang and with how we now communication because social media. We find ourselves faced with a form of discrimination that is for the most part overlooked. Nonverbal and verbal discrimination. What is language discrimination?
We have been called “the melting pot”. Because people come here from different countries, they almost always can not speak English. Some people learn it quickly, for some it may take time, and others never learn it at all. This all may depend on a person’s financial ability to pay for an English course or the rate at which people learn. I don’t think the lack of desire to learn is a common reason as to why people never learn to speak English while living in this country.
(page 9) What it means, possibly, childhood is the time where we make mistakes, unable to judge which one is right or wrong. What it is implied in the text is that, childhood is usually the time where we make mistakes, but decided to be quiet, not to mention it to anybody, leaving all the memory to one self. Explain the section that begins with "Oh, my poor darling!" (page 10) and ends with And so on again (page 11) Why do these religious rules mean little to David? He is desensitized by the religious rules due to incessant teaching of it every Sunday morning.
Area of Study 3 Using language to persuade The focus of this area is on the use of language in the presentation of a point of view. Students are required to read a range of print and non-print texts and identify and discuss how written and visual language is used to persuade an