"I’m Adam Lanza’s mother " a popular article by Liza Long talking about mental illness within kids‚ in fact stories related to her son who’s suffer from it. Her idea is that we as a nation need to gather and do something about mental health in US‚ she is quite right. Mental health effect both kid and adult daily living‚ people that are around them‚ kids grow up to be something that can’t be predict. Most of adults diagnosed with mental health is because they didn’t get any treatment when
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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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Mother in Mannville Narrative He lied. Why would he lie to me? He doesn’t seem like someone who would lie like that. Does he understand that? “Hey you kid in the corner‚ help me find Jerry.” “Okay.” Said Frank‚ the kid in the corner. We walked in the snow‚ it was very cold and I felt so numb. Where could he be? Is he lost? Could he be dead? I saw Jerry. He was sitting in the snow‚ a knife next to him. His wrist was cut. I screamed in dismal. “Someone help!” I yelled but we were too far from the
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To Be Is To Live With God The Effect of Using the Mother Tongue on Learning Vocabulary in Elementary Levels Compared to Using Dictionary Examples (A Research Proposal) By: Reza Rouhi Rad Supervisor: PhD Tahriri May‚ 2012 Introduction An inseparable part of learning every language is vocabulary. With poor knowledge of grammar and rules of pronunciation‚ one can communicate‚ but having an insufficient knowledge of vocabulary may lead to severe problems. Vocabulary knowledge is the most important
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I can always count on her to do something if she says that she is going to do it. It just so happens that it was true. I called my mother on her cellular phone and it just so happen she was at a store where there was a Western Union. I caught her in a lie and there was nothing that she could do about it but just sit there and look dumb. She "no"‚ because they were yellow and they look like they I had been walking in a puddle of urine. One example is when I was in Houston‚ Texas at a Robotics competition
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In the article of “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” written by Gloria Anzaldua‚ she discusses about the relationship between the language and identity. In the other article‚ which is “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan‚ she discusses her observation and thoughts about using the English and the perceptions‚ prejudices from other people regarding other languages. Both articles are pointing out how important is the language is in our lives and how we can suffer if we are not using do not use it correctly.
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Effectiveness of mechanical tongue cleaning on oral levels of volatile sulfur compounds RAINER SEEMANN‚ ANDI KISON‚ MOZHGAN BIZHANG and STEFAN ZIMMER J Am Dent Assoc 2001;132;1263-1267 The following resources related to this article are available online at jada.ada.org ( this information is current as of August 21‚ 2010 ): Updated information and services including high-resolution figures‚ can be found in the online version of this article at: http://jada.ada.org/cgi/content/full/132/9/1263
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HOW TO TAME A WILD TONGUE The writer dialogue within relation to a dilemma she faced about her own language and how she represents herself through her language. Gloria Anzaldua who is a Chicano talks about how Chicanas have problems expressing their feelings. Since they lack a native language‚ instead it is a product of several languages. And their language Chicano Spanish has incorporated bits and pieces of several versions of Spanish. The author speaks about people who are neither Spanish nor
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“My Perspective of a Wild Tongue” “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ by Gloria Anzaldua‚ is a very expressive story about a Mexican American women’s struggle to preserve her culture. Her main fight revolves around a struggle to keep a form of Spanish‚ called “Chicano Spanish”‚ a live. In the short story she says‚ " for a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard (formal‚ Castilian) Spanish‚ or standard English‚ what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?"(page
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