HATEFUL WORDS By Amy Tan The most hateful words I have ever said to another human being were to my mother. I was sixteen at the time. They rose from the storm in my chest and I let them fall in a fury of hailstones: "I hate you. I wish I were dead...." I waited for her to collapse‚ stricken by what I had just said. She was still standing upright‚ her chin tilted‚ her lips stretched in a crazy smile. "Okay‚ maybe I die too‚ " she said between huffs. "Then I no longer be your mother!" We had
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Karim‚ saad THE TONGUE THE TONGUE is one of the important parts of your body THE TONGUE is a muscle; the tongue is really made up of many groups of muscles. (They’re the strongest muscles in your body) These muscles run in different directions. The most flexible part in the tongue is the front part and working a lot‚ working with the teeth to create different types of words. This part also helps you eat by helping to move food around your mouth while you chew. Your tongue pushes the food
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other for who they are. Influence of media and language being a barrier helps give a reason to discriminate and become a societal monster. In the story “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan her mother was a Chinese immigrant who didn’t speak English correctly. Amy touches upon the subject of language barriers creating societal monsters. Amy Tan’s mother not being able to speak great English consistently
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"Two Kinds‚" by Amy Tan is a story in which a Chinese mother believes that her daughter can do anything in the United States as long as she puts her mind to it and decides to push her daughter‚ Jing-Mei‚ into being a prodigy. Unfortuantely‚ Jing-Mei and her mother do not share the same views on things. Jing-Mei wants to establish her own identity apart from her mother and feels that she can be successful through her own efforts and determination. Jing-Mei’s desire to be an independent person leads
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my little sister has grown up. We were wiping each other’s tears as June May’s dad took a photo of us. We stood around as the picture June May held developed. I remember when we first learned about our real mom. Mei Ching‚ who we thought was our mother‚ told us how she saw us on the side of the road when we were babies. “How could I resist?” she later said about that day. It was when everyone was fleeing when the Japanese were taking over Kweilin‚ and we were left on the side of the road. Mei
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Club‚ by Amy Tan‚ centers on the interconnected story lines of four immigrant Chinese-American mothers and their now grown‚ adult daughters. The mothers meet every month to play Mahjong and enjoy Chinese delicacies in their social group‚ the ‘Joy Luck Club’. When Jing-Mei “June” Woo’s mother Suyan Woo dies‚ June takes her mother’s place at the meetings. At June’s first meeting‚ the older women tell her stories about the past in China and lament the barriers between The other three mothers worry
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during his school years‚ “Hair’’ from the Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley focuses on how it can be hard to accept oneself when society tries to say different‚ and “Two Kinds’’ from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan tells about a distraught relationship between a mother and daughter over piano lessons. Culture Clash is
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[THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE ON LEARNİNG SECOND LANGUAGE] -THE MOTHER TONGUE AS A VİTAL POINT- The language is the most important tool in human life to survive.We use language in order to inform the people around us of what we feel‚ what we desire‚ and understand the world around us. We communicate effectively with our words‚ gestures‚ and tone of voice in a multitude of situation. Not only is it a means of communicating thoughts and ideas‚ but it
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I. Introduction Background of the Study Before we discuss the so-called Gullas bill or the proposed act strengthening and enhancing the use of English as a medium of instruction‚ let’s get a backgrounder on the state of education in the Philippines. For every 100 children that start grade one in our country‚ only 65 will reach Grade 6‚ the others having dropped out along the way (with 18 of the dropouts occurring between Grade 1 and Grade 2). What this means is that even before these children
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national or international language‚ it is recommended that children experience at least five to eight years of education in their mother tongue while gradually being introduced to other dominant languages (Thomas & Collier‚ 2002 in Oredina‚ et al 2015). The strategy of beginning school in the first language and eventually adding other languages is commonly called Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education‚ or MTB-MLE. A UNESCO report (Baron‚ 2012) on the importance of language to the Millennium Development
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