and publicly. In Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”‚ she talks about her family’s language. Her family was from china. So Amy talks about her understanding of her mother’s English. She says “I again find myself conscious of the English I was using and the English I do use with her” (240). She wants to speak in the way that her mother can understand her‚ and feel comfortable. It is not that her mother does not understand‚ but that Amy just wants to use the language her mother knows. When I am around my family
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says: Mothers are angels who teach their children to fly. Indeed mothers are angels and although we often think that mothers were sent to torture us especially in our adolescent years when we would rather go out with friends instead of washing the dishes or doing our assignments‚ our mothers nevertheless become our pillar‚ not just of faith but also our pillar of strength. Mothers may often be misunderstood but it does not mean that they do not know better. My earliest memory of my mother at the
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equate my work to that of a mother‚ but in part that is what I do. Just like a mother who teaches her child‚ I am there helping them to understand. The feeling of unconditional love ‚ is alien to me. Sure my mother had it towards me but I have never felt that way toward someone else‚ until
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Why Chinese Mothers are superior Every parent wants to be proud of their children‚ to see them succeed in school‚ music‚ sports or whatever path they may choose. The professor and the author Amy Chua wrote the essay “Why Chinese mothers are superior”‚ where she tries to compare western parents to Chinese mothers and their different methods of raising children. Plenty of the people reading this essay may get the wrong idea and misunderstand‚ when Amy Chua tries to present Western parents as bad
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Why not a “Tiger Mother” Nowadays‚ numerous parents connected their strict Asian-American parenting style with their children’s academic success‚ but is this narrow definition of success sufficient for raising an effective member in the society and have the parents pondered the consequences of this kind of parenting? “Tiger mother” refers to Amy Chua‚ a Chinese-American Yale law professor and author of the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. Her book documents her motherhood experiences
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Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) One of the changes in Basic Education Curriculum brought about by the new K-12 program is the introduction of Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) specifically in Kindergarten‚ Grades 1‚ 2 and 3 to support the goal of “ Every Child- A- Reader and A –Writer” by Grade 1.” MTB-MLE refers to “first-language-first” education that is‚ schooling which begins in the mother tongue and transitions to additional languages particularly
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their caregivers may become strained or almost non-existent. Regardless of cognitive impairment‚ my personal caregiving commitment is to communicate‚ communicate‚ and communicate some more with elders in my life‚ including my beloved octogenarian mother to whom I am a full-time caregiver. There is always something to talk about unless caregivers choose otherwise. Clinically diagnosed Alzheimer’s‚ other dementias‚ Tourette’s syndrome and strokes are just the tip of the medical iceberg of chronic
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In Mother tongue‚ Amy writes how her mother who couldn’t speak well Standard English was treated unfairly in the foreign land. In this essay‚ she mentions some stories related to her childhood experiences which were happened to them. "... I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores‚ at banks‚ and in restaurants did not take her seriously‚ did not give her good service‚ pretended not to understand her‚ or even acted as if they did not hear her." Amy
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demands of the developed world and the continuous pursuit for a better life have led to the increase of double-income family. Mothers usually opting to continue to work few months after giving birth then has naturally become common in some nations. Significantly‚ this trend brings about some inevitable drawbacks in every family‚ but also it has considerable benefits. If mothers have their own source of income‚ they can undoubtedly improve the financial condition of their family. Raising children has
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Sharon J Rabess AC1204216 EN120.2.1 English Composition I Assignment 02 EN120 English Composition I June 11‚ 2012 An unusual person My sixteen year old brother‚ Ranny‚ definitely stands out in a crowd of teenagers because of his unique appearance loving and caring ways. The very first thing that you notice when you look at him is his size. He stands at shoulder height next to me; indeed‚ he is taller than teenagers his age‚ and is definitely stronger and of course taller than me. His weight
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