Mother Tongue‚ by Amy Tan This story is about a young Chinese-American‚ who grows up speaking Chinese and English (many different forms of English). She talks about how not being able to speak English can create some real difficulties. She tells stories about how her mother spoke‚ what she calls “broken” English‚ and how it affected her everyday life‚ as well as her daughters. At first she was ashamed of her mothers English‚ and that if reflected the quality of what her mother was trying
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Peiwen Su Professor Ibrahim English 107 October 5‚ 2014 Mother Tongue Amy Tan uses her mother’s experiences as a sample to represent a type of new immigrants who is always disrespected by locals and have troubles in dealing a lot of things; the reason why this happens is because they cannot speak English well. However‚ from Tan’s perspective‚ although non-native speakers should also improve their English if they want to fit in to different cultures‚ native speaker
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Mother Courage Brecht opens his play with a conversation between two ordinary soldiers‚ the first of many choices emphasizing that this is a play about the war’s effect in the people. The setting is not pretty the soilder’s are cold‚ and the issue they face is organizational and pragmatic. Rather than presenting an active battle‚ Bretcht opens with a recruiting officer moaning about how difficult it is to get people involved in the war. The army is presented from the bottom up rather than
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"MOTHER TO SON" OF LANGSTON HUGHES "Mother to Son" of Langston Hughes is my favorite. What the mother in the poem tries to tell her son is that there will be many rough roads that he has to go by in his life but she hopes that he will not give and complete it like his mother. Through the dialect that Hughes used in his poem‚ we can see that the mother was not a well educated woman by the way she talks "there ain’t" (13) and some grammar mistakes. She was living a poor area with "boards torn up"
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Mother Teresa is known across the globe as the brave and selfless servant of the poor and sick of Calcutta’s slums. She was also much more: a bold social advocagte‚ and even a thoughtful theologian. In 1994‚ just three years before she would pass away‚ Mother Teresa spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington‚ D.C. The focus of her presentation was a condemnation of abortion‚ given in the presence of the pro-choice administration of President Bill Clinton (First Lady Hilary Clinton was also
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Mother Tongue Not all people who speak the English language speak it the same way. A language can be subdivided into any number of dialects which each vary in some way from the parent English language. “Mother Tongue‚” an article based on the power of language; without standard language skills‚ one is identified as an outsider‚ often wrongly perceived and unfairly discriminated against. In the article Amy Tan describes her observation and thoughts about the use of the English language and the
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In Yo Soy Teresa La Fea the story of Teresa and her whole family fighting for having a child illuminates the ways institutions in this case medical institutions embody and reproduce oppression which is later internalized by the subordinated group itself. Racism and ranking of people based on skin color is embraced by the medical institution of Dr. Hidalgo and Dr. Castro: Most of the egg donors are light-skinned as it is widely believed that there should a shared preference for whiter babies. It was
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the implementation of the Mother Tongue Based- Multilingual Education in the Philippines Paul Julian Santiago Osaka University pauljuliansantiago@gmail.com I. Overview: From Bilingual Education Policy to MLE The Philippines saw a big change this year when the Republic Act 10533‚ also known as the “Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013‚ was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino III last May 15. One of the salient features of this law is the use of the mother tongue (MT) as the language
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Working Mothers Many women today are facing choices that their mothers never had to face. One of these choices is whether or not to go back to work after having a child. This was practically unheard of in the 1950 ’s. In the 1990 ’s it is not whether the mother will or will not go back to work‚ rather a question of when. When did the choice become set in stone? Why do the mothers of today have to work outside the home versus working in the home‚ much like their mothers did. When one thinks
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FrontCover-SP11:Layout 1 3/31/11 4:02 PM Page 1 ILO-001-TOC-SP11:Layout 1 11/3/11 7:25 PM Page 1 on-line digest Vol. 90‚ No. 1 • Spring 2011 IVY LEAF MAGAZINE: OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY‚ INC. special features 5 Carolyn House Stewart 2011 National Founders’ Day: Reflections & Remembrance of Timeless Service EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Deborah L. Dangerfield EXECUTIVE EDITOR Connie Lynne Cochran EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ivy Leaf (ISSN 0021-3276) is published quarterly
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