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    Language and Literacy

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    EDKL102- Assessment Task 1 Essay- What is Language? What is Literacy? How are they different? Teachers must have a sound knowledge and appreciation for language and literacy to be able to make the two concepts a valuable part of a student’s curriculum. This essay will explore the importance of language and literature in a students learning and how they assist in enhancing their development. Most importantly the similarities and differences will be distinguished so that the relationship between

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    Symbolism: “The Lottery” and “Everyday Use” Symbolism is a magnificent thing. It can prep the reader to expect something unique to the story‚ and sometimes symbolism isn’t even recognized until the reader has completely finished the story. For this critical analysis‚ I will be looking at the symbolism in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson In this story‚ the symbolism begins with the description of the black box. The

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    turns her back on it according to her actions. She has become somewhat superficial and wants to take these household items‚ such as the butter churner and dasher‚ to put on display in her home. Those items were made by hand to be useful tools in everyday life. Her idea of honoring her heritage by using these items as displays of art instead of their intended use is more like a parody of her life. Her education and flashy style and poise earn her some resentment from her mother. Dee grew up with everyone

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    revolve around it. The fancy desires and colorful world leads to materialism. Thus‚ the environmental influences add a lot more to it. Simplicity‚ symbolism‚ family values are some of the themes that also reflect different perspectives on life. In “Everyday Use”‚ Alice Walker presents the character of Dee as arrogant and selfish; however‚ closer examination shows that Dee is not expressive towards her family and is rather smart and straightforward to go with the flow of life.

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    free of worries and ready to take on the world and make it a better place. Now imagine a song that brings both your childhood and present worlds together and allows you to be your inner-superhero and conquer the world-that song for me is “Wonderful Everyday: Arthur” by Chance the Rapper and The Social Experiment.

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    When looking at families‚ whether in stories or films‚ one can spot the person within the family that is the outcast. Lars from Lars and the Real Girl and Maggie from “Everyday Use” both share the role of being an outcast‚ and it is evident by the way they are treated within their respective family. One can infer that Lars’ family and Maggie’s family are similar‚ in the way‚ they are both overlooked in their families and are negatively affected because of this. As Lars and the Real Girl begins

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    only is attributed to the ill-mannered profiling of the elderly but stretches among diverse age groups. These views create a system where the society is only perceived to function properly when certain age groups are dominant. Ageism is present in everyday life activities.

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    Paper downloaded from www.wcaanet.org/events/webinar as part of the EASA / ABA / AAA / CASCA webinar 2013 Political Economies of Language: Power‚ Epistemology and the Representation of Research by Alexandra Jaffe Both sets of questions raised in this virtual seminar make the important point that the political economy involved in how we conduct‚ and then represent our ethnographic practice has both linguistic and epistemological dimensions. With this in mind‚ I take a critical look at linguistic

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    While Miss Brill in “Miss Brill”‚ Dee and Mama in “Everyday Use”‚ and Marji in “Persepolis‚” are women of different cultures and ethnicities‚ their roles as women is faced with similar gender inequalities. Some might argue that women are treated as an equal gender with the same amount of opportunity as men. However‚ Miss Brill‚ Dee‚ Mama and Marji share in common psychological‚ social‚ and economic issues that women face not only exist today in America‚ but also Worldwide. Mansfield’s work in “Miss

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    Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets”‚ the author’s seem to explore a common theme of heritage. Alice Walker is exploring the concept of heritage as it applies to an African-American family. Amy Tan is displaying the theme of heritage as it relates to Chinese and a Chinese-American family. Dee‚ from Everyday Use‚ and Jing-Mei‚ from A Pair of Tickets‚ have different adaptations of their heritage‚ but ironically it takes a trip back home to reveal the truth. In the story Everyday Use

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