Limited English In Amy Tans’s short store "Mother Tongue"‚ readers are introduced to Tan who is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant mother. While in school‚ Tan always excelled in mathematics and science‚ but felt she had a disadvantage with English and Literature. This disadvantage was caused because her limited English she had to use with her mother. As a young girl growing up Tan was embarrassed because of her mothers poor English "I know this for a fact‚ because when I was growing
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From the article “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ I realize that language nowadays is very important because it is the only way to communicate with many other people. We born in many different places and learn many different language since born. She is telling us that she is Chinese and majoring in English language‚ but most of Chinese people tends to learn engineering or math related major. She also feel that she is better in math and science than English‚ but she enjoy challenges and choose the opposite
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Gloria Anzaldua (“How To Tame a Wild Tongue”) and Richard Rodriguez (“Aria”) have written powerful‚ painful‚ and very personal stories about their attempts to fit into American society while being taught a language that is not of their ancestors. There are significant differences in the tone of the each reading and the feelings evoked. The methods used by each writer to describe specific points (Anzaldua‚ with force and anger; Rodriguez‚ with a resigned acceptance that only thinly veils his sadness
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Oct 3‚ 2014 Rachelle Worrell In Amy Tans "Mother Tongue" the emphasizes on american english‚ views on Amy’s mothers "Broken English". When speaking from amy’s mother tongue she rights using all sorts of different grammatical. When she is addressing an American professional Amy’s english is very proper. Amy views her mothers "broken english as normal. Amy knows her mother is not a dumb lady by any means she understands things like the stock market. Amy is frustrate by how society looks down on her
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parades and shows are held to exhibit the latest dresses. Dresses are designed to fit in every occasion of life. Students generally try to copy fashions from films. . Some people feel happy wearing fashionable dresses. Others go in for fashionable hair styles or both. Some others adopt the latest trend in their speech and manner. Fashion is unpredictable and keeps on changing according to the moods‚ fancies and ideas of the people. Films and cable T.V. influence fashion. Fashion is also influenced
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matter how careful you are‚ your carpets in your home or office are bound to get dirty and emit odors. If you have pets or children‚ then you know that your carpets have seen a lot. Dirt and leaves from outside‚ spills and crumbs from inside‚ and pet hair and dander can quickly make your carpets dirty and smelly. It can be worse if you have a pet that has had accidents on the carpet‚ too. When looking for the best carpet cleaner spray‚ make sure that the spray isn’t just masking odors. You want one
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In paragraphs 27 through 34 of Gloria Anzaldua’s essay "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"; she subtly conveys her own disgust at the invariable destruction of her Chicano culture by using the rhetorical strategies of organized syntax‚ narrative flashbacks‚ and the incorporation of her "native tongue". Between paragraphs 27 and 30‚ the syntax conveys Anzaldua’s deep emotions about her lingual identity using mostly balanced and declarative sentences. The perfect balanced in noticed in excerpts such as "Until
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Issues on Mother Tongue as a medium of Instruction These changes in curricular content and focus emanate from the bill’s intention to do away with the bilingual policy and to affirm mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE). The bill provides that for kindergarten and from Grades 1-3‚ the regional or native language of the learners shall be used for instruction‚ teaching materials and testing. From Grades 4-6‚ there shall be a language transition plan so that Filipino and English are
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After reading “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ I have realized how many variations of English that are actually used today. When I am writing a essay‚ or speaking in front for a audience‚ I try to sound very formal. I use words I normally don’t. But more importantly‚ I structure the way I write or speak differently. Most of the time‚ I don’t focus on the words I put in my sentences‚ or how I structure them‚ I just say it. Like Tan‚ I speak differently with my family compared to when I am speaking to my
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Men’s Hairstyles and Facial Hair by Aaron Marino Table of Contents Alpha’s Basic Hair Principles page 3 Hair Style Based on Height page 4 Hair Style and Face Shape page 6 Find the Perfect Hairstyle page 10 Facial Hair Based on Face Shape page 11 Hair & Facial Hair for Balding Men page 12 Hair Cut Prices page 16 Virtual Grooming page 18 Get BUENO HAIR! page 20 2 Alpha’s Basic Hair Principles Get a Fresh Cut- Do not wait too long! Short hair (under 2 inches) every 3 to 4 weeks
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