Jamila Lyiscott in the poem, Three Ways to Speak English, suggests that there are different ways to express the English language in their own “correct” way. Lyiscott supports her suggestion by explaining to the audience that she speaks in three different versions of english according to what place or situation she is in. The author’s purpose of writing the poem is to inform people about how speaking a different kind of English doesn’t make one inarticulate, in order to persuade people to stop thinking it does. Lyiscott writes in a humorous but urgent tone in order to convince “perfect” english speakers to stop calling hood or broken english dialects “inarticulate”.…
Upper Class are white collar job, jobs in the field of CEO, Politician and doctors, people who work in specialized fields.…
* Socializing institutions (Private Prep Schools, Fraternities, Private Clubs, Debutante Balls) are established so from Birth to Death the upper class is separated from other classes.…
A lower class that contains poor, powerless, low income citizens that often require outside aid. A working middle class, with very limited power which earns an average salary, and are able to generally get by with their nine to five occupations. Then there is the final upper class who is financially secure, and usually has some sort of power. This upper class is often idolized by the middle and lower class citizens. In modern American civilization, everyone wants the riches and power and everyone has an equal opportunity to make as much money and gain as much power as they wish. Whereas in Anglo-Saxon times it wasn’t easy to change social…
The upper class is the group of people at the top of a social hierarchy. Members of an upper class may have great power over the grant of resources and governmental policy in their area.…
August 16, 2009, Usain Bolt sprinted into the record book to redefine the fastest clocked human speed reaching an unprecedented 44.72 km/h [27.8 mph]. He had reduced his overall time from the previous year’s Olympic by and ran a 9.58 second time (Greatest). When compared to Thomas Burke, the gold winner in Athens 1896 (Tom), who had a time of 12 seconds even, Bolt seems to be dramatically faster. However, the rapid development of technology has created the separation in time. This is problematic as it causes the history books to forget about the immense talent and skill of those who came before.…
In John Simon’s article he talks about the importance of using proper English and how its use has decreased over the years. Throughout the article he talks about how most people nowadays will communicate anyway they see fit even if it is grammatically incorrect. He also mentions that it is up to us to teach ourselves to properly speak English by training ourselves to memorize the correct form of English language and discipline our thinking. He states that those who often fail to speak properly are usually a minority group. The author’s targeted audience seems to be either the general public…
They had a very nice life with servants and maids to do all their housework and cook them food. They usually lived in the countryside where it was very peaceful. Women usually wore elegant dresses and men wore suits or other nice clothing.…
In the world we live in today, many centuries ago a huge movement started to erupt in the United States, which caused a sustainable increase in population through out time and still continues on this very day. That big movement was the immigration to the United States of America. In case anyone did not know the exact definition of immigration, it is the movement of a big group amount of people into another country or area to which they are not imprinted or inherited originally to. Out of all the millions of people who immigrated to the United States the majority of the newcomers came from specifically north and Western Europe.…
Dictionary.com defines social class as “a broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status.” Despite having its advantages, social class has many faults. It can contaminate our minds and make us think class and money are all that matters. Social class has changed a lot over the years, and it is still present today. While some want to be in a higher class because they want more money, others just want to achieve fame and recognition. The class system creates a world where the upper class interacts with the upper class, the middle with the middle, and the lower with the lower. Social class has been evident in history for many centuries, modern culture, and our everyday lives.…
-standardization in the case of British English is seen as tied in with the emergence of capitalism out of feudal society in Britain;…
Standard English is a powerful tool that one can take and use from the arsenal of English Language; it is the benchmark that other “varieties” of English measure itself against and also allows us to form effective communication between communities and people that have different ways of speaking. The other “varieties” of English all fall under the category of nonstandard English, which is defined as “not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language” Even though the definition hints that nonstandard English is less prestigious than Standard English, there are still many examples out there that help to show that there are certain advantages of using non-standard English over Standard. One, it helps to forge a person’s identity (whether it be through the use of slang or a certain type of speech) and secondly, it allows for information to be transmitted across to another party in a faster, more effective manner. Lastly, non-standard English helps the English Language to constantly evolve and adapt to the ever-changing world that we live in.…
The concept of class society has been rooted in the history of The United Kingdom for a very long time. In fact, it can be considered as one of the basic characteristic features of the country. There have always been all sorts of opinions on what class society exactly means, how many classes there exist, based on what attributes are people of British society divided into those classes or even, what class is as such. All these themes are encompassed in the thesis title: The Depiction of Working Class in the United Kingdom in Two Selected Films. Concretely, working class attributes such as occupation, accent, housing, education and leisure were chosen for the purpose of the thesis. As it was mentioned, these attributes are compared and analysed…
Harvard law, MIT Engineering, Cornell medicine, or Stanford business school are my options. Well, not really. These tend to be the choices of upper-class New York families. They have societal standards to live up to. The most amazing part about these standards is that wealthy upper class creates them, and the rich upper class complain about their self-made standards. The same applies for social pressures. Most are created by us, based on the world around us. The Cuban Swimmer, Saga Volume 1, “The New,” and The Lawsuit all portray different standards and pressures in their storyline.…
African American Vernacular English, which is also known as the African American Language, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, or simply Black English has been defined as an African American variety dialect (a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially), ethnolect (a variety of a language spoken by a certain ethnic/cultural subgroup and serves primarily as a language, but can also be a distinguishing mark of social identity, both within the group and by outsiders), and sociolect (a variety of a language used by a particular social group) of American English. “Many non-linguists refer to African American Vernacular English as Ebonics which is a term that also has other meanings or strong connotations.” The pronunciations are most common to the Southern American English that is spoken by many African Americans and many non-African Americans in the Southeastern region of the United States. “As with all linguistic forms, African American English usage is influenced by age, status, topic and setting. There are many literary uses of this variety of English, particularly in African-American literature. African American English Vernacular shares several characteristics with Creole English language-forms spoken by people throughout much of the world. African American Vernacular English has pronunciation, grammatical structures, and vocabulary in common with various West African languages.”…