An Argument for Using Native Language in the Classroom In the essay “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan describes the limited English skills of her mother‚ a Chinese immigrant‚ noting that “my mother had long realized the limitations of her English” **Tan citation here**. Tan goes on to describe how her mother had to compensate for these limitations throughout her life. This is the experience of many immigrants to the United States‚ who struggle to learn a new language while adapting to life in a new country
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I found out from this experiment that half-life means just what it sounds like. After each cycle of half-life‚ the number of coins left was about half. Each coin represents an atom and just like in nature the half-life of decay is half depending what the element’s half-life is. If each of the scatter test was 10 years‚ the element we are testing would have a half-life of 10 years. The amount of time for a half-life depends on the elements‚ and how tightly the atoms are packed together. Some other
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“Never compromise your culture because you are your culture”. In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ The Red Headed Hawaiian by Chris McKinney‚ and The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera‚ Jing Mei‚ Rudy Puana‚ and Frida Kahlo reveals how culture informs the way you view others and the world because it defines their perspectives‚ boundaries‚ and life experiences. “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is about Jing Mei and her mother with a relationship of complexities due to the different opinions they
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After reading the narrative “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. It can be said that it is an engaging 1st person narrative where the author utilized some of her different memories to connect with the audience. At times explaining her feelings of sadness and embarrassment to strengthen her points. Thus‚ creating an emotional piece that had me connected with every sentence. I experienced a sense of empathy. The narrative started at the present time with a memory where the writer found herself speaking to a
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that we are around and others are in the area or even situation that we may be in. we rarely notice when we change from one form to another. In Amy Tan’s article “Mother tongue” she shows how her mother’s unique English led her to go through many trials and obstacles and was overlooked by many. In this essay‚ I will show how some of the issues that Amy Tan talks about in her article can be applied to my everyday life and is still very relevant. Peer pressure is a major factor in communication with
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A lie is a statement which is inaccurate and untrue with an intent to mislead and deceive. A half-truth is a deceptive statement that includes some element of truth.The classic story about blind men and an elephant. Each blind man touches a different part of the elephant and reaches a different conclusion about the nature of the elephant; while each man’s experience of the elephant is accurate‚ none of them have a full understanding of the nature of the beast. One may be touching the tail and believe
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The story is told by Percy Jackson who is a half blood. His mother is human‚ and his father is Poseidon‚ the God of the Sea. It all began in downtown Manhattan where Percy woke from a strange dream he had about his friend Grover‚ telling him something was wrong at Camp Half-Blood‚ which was a summer camp for half-bloods. Percy had hoped it was just going to be another school day‚ but‚ how wrong was he. Another friend of his‚ named Annabeth‚ another half-blood‚ met him at his school and confirmed
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the story of Amy Tan’s successful mother and her struggles with societies views on different dialects of English. The main idea of this story is that society may take a somewhat offensive stance on accents and dialects and assume many things. I agree with this idea for the pure fact that‚ yes people do judge people based on certain things‚ that is just how animals work. Is it unhealthy to stereotype people? Of course. Is it natural of humanity? Undoubtedly and unfortunately yes. The main idea in this
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Half Past Two ’Half Past Two’ is a poem in which Fanthorpe describes how a young child is given a detention for an unspecified misdemeanor and is forgotten by his teacher. Fanthorpe draws on her experience as a teacher to describe the scene as seen through the child’s eyes. The Title of the poem tells me a lot of information even before I read the poem. The information it puts across is that: A boy is told to stay behind until ’Half Past Two’ but this has no-meaning to him because he has no concept
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Why is a drug’s plasma half-life important to health care providers? Half life is important in determining the frequency of a drug administered in order to maintain a continuous drug effect. Identify 2 diseases/conditions that can increase the plasma half-life of a drug. It can be prolonged when liver or kidney disease is present. What could happen if a medication with a long half-life continues to be given to a patient with one of the diseases/conditions identified in above? Patients with hepatic
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