Speak “Right” English: The Unconstitutional Standard English Language Ideology In this essay‚ I question the validity of Standard English Language Ideology. Moreover‚ I employ the research done by Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa‚ Samy Alim and other authors to support my argument that the enforcement of Standard English Language violates the rights of American citizens‚ especially those minorities whose first language is not English. This includes the right of free speech and the right of equality
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When Words Fail‚ Music Speaks Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -Maya Angelou. During my 6th grade year‚ I sparked an interest in the music world. I had attended a football game in which my brother played. It was my first time being at one of these games so when halftime was announced‚ I did not know what to expect. The band took their place on the field and started to play piece after piece. I was fascinated with how one stuck to
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In the poem “ The Negro Speaks of Rivers‚” Langston Hughes writes “I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young/I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep./I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it” (“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” 5-7). In those lines Hughes was saying why would people discriminate against him and the black race if the first people were ever
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the family decided to settle in at Cleveland‚ Ohio and Hughes graduates from high school there. Once‚ he graduated from high school Langston went to Mexico to visit his father for a little while and he at the time was working on his book “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and later on in 1923 the book was published. 1921‚ somewhere around
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Introduction Double consciousness speaks of the dual identity of members of the African Diaspora who experience an internal struggle between their black heritage and the mark of the European that has been imposed upon them‚ whether by blood‚ through the rape of their ancestral mothers or by their forced immersion into an environment dominated by the European master. W. E. B. Du Bois is very explicit in presenting this conflict in his book‚ The Soul’s of Black Folk: After the Egyptian and Indian
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Some of the hypothesis in this experiment supported the results and some of the other hypothesis rejected the results. Some hypothesis which supported the results were that the there would be about one‚ two‚ or three channels in the radio‚ the bobby pin could not replace the germanium diode‚ and that the crystal radio ware efficient as a normal store bought radio. On experiment two the crystal radio had like 3 stations. The sound was very clear and loud. Also‚ the bobby pin method did not work.
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gender possess. Elaboration on the text is also done through exploring the characterization of King Ebain‚ Eufeme‚ Eufemie‚ and Silence herself‚ and the relationships these characters have with one another. In Jane Burns’ book Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature‚ she addresses how Silence’s male identity helps her from being reduced as a person. When Silence first meets nature she comments on her gender‚ Burns uses the translation “I am silent about my female identity (a male appearance)
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distinction (continued) – Being cut off from one’s foundation of love‚ what we call “universal love” becomes a kind of abstract love. This is just an abstract idea of love which is not true love. Without love‚ one becomes an animal. (Mencius 3B:9) Conclusion of the topic of love • Two conceptions of love are introduced: humanity (by the Confucians) and universal love (by the Mohists). • While they have similarities‚ there are two important differences
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“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”(Doerr 63). It starts as a Frenchman’s words radiate to a young boy in a small German town through a radio he fixes‚ but the voice comes back years later when he is a German soldier in France when he recognizes the familiar voice coming from a transmitter. In Anthony Doerr’s novel‚ All the Light We Cannot See the radio in the attic of 4 rue Vauborel is a secret when the Germans confiscate radios‚ in the Nazi-occupied Saint-Malo. The secret radio
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Humans are complicated creatures‚ with multiple expression of their nature. The variation of humans is not only physical‚ as appearance‚ power and sex‚ but psychologically as well‚ as the expression of the human emotions‚ thoughts and feelings. The language is a tool for communication‚ which is specifical for the human beings‚ which appears in the far pre-historical ages. Even though some animals use complex systems for communicating‚ they don’t have all of the properties‚ which is defined for
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