Mother tongue by Army Tan employs the aspects of simplicity to appeal to the audience. In her introduction‚ she brings herself to the same level as his audience which makes them attentive and desires to know more. The author uses easily understood English which makes the readers easily relate to what she is saying. The author employs the aspect of the flashback where she tells her audiences about her experience speaking broken English and where this makes today‚ her viewers curious and to listen
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COMPARATIVE PUBLIC Structure ‚ 5.0 5 I 5.2 5.3 5.4 Objectives 1ntrod;uction What to Compare? Levels of Analysis The Range of Comparative Studies 5.4.1 54.2 5.4.3 5.4.4 5.4.5 Inter-institutional Analysis Intra-national Analysis Cross-national Analysis Cross-cultural Analysis Cross-temporal Analysis 5.5 Nature of Comparative Administrative Studies 5.5.1 Nonnat~ve E~npirical to 5.5.2 Ideographic to Nomothetic 5.5.3 Non-ecological to Ecological 5.6 Scope of Comparative Public Administration 5.7
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Essay #1 There are so many different forms of English that are used on the daily basis that we unknowingly switch up on. Some are based on the people 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
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Issues on Mother Tongue as a medium of Instruction These changes in curricular content and focus emanate from the bill’s intention to do away with the bilingual policy and to affirm mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE). The bill provides that for kindergarten and from Grades 1-3‚ the regional or native language of the learners shall be used for instruction‚ teaching materials and testing. From Grades 4-6‚ there shall be a language transition plan so that Filipino and English are
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short store "Mother Tongue"‚ readers are introduced to Tan who is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant mother. While in school‚ Tan always excelled in mathematics and science‚ but felt she had a disadvantage with English and Literature. This disadvantage was caused because her limited English she had to use with her mother. As a young girl growing up Tan was embarrassed because of her mothers poor English "I know this for a fact‚ because when I was growing up‚ my mothers limited English
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Comparative Public Policy Analysis examines the courses and consequences of public policies on contemporary democracies‚ through a strong interdisciplinary frame work. According to Hiedenhiemer states that comparative public policy “relate to the dynamics in the social and economic systems‚ but the primary focus is on explicitly comparative analysis of how states differ in the manner in which their policies are politically grounded” (1985:442). His argument revolved around various thresholds of visibility-
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In the article‚ "Mother Tongue" by author Amy Tan‚ she uses its context to persuade readers not "Judge someone’s intelligence by their English" (Tan‚ 20) but instead treat others the way you would want to be treated‚ therefore acceptance is essential because it helps us respect other people who are different than we are‚ to avoid misconceptions about another person‚ and to accept others for who they are regardless different ethnical backgrounds. Acceptance is important‚ because it helps us to respect
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Are we losing our Mother-Tongue? It is‚ and it’s getting worse. In an increasingly urbanised India‚ mother-tongues are under siege and facing a sustained attack from the three Ms of migration‚ market and mixed marriages. The mother tongue is the true vehicle of the mother wit. Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas. But the mother tongue is one in which a man is born. It is through the vernacular that the new conceptions of the mind should press their way to birth in
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From the article “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ I realize that language nowadays is very important because it is the only way to communicate with many other people. We born in many different places and learn many different language since born. She is telling us that she is Chinese and majoring in English language‚ but most of Chinese people tends to learn engineering or math related major. She also feel that she is better in math and science than English‚ but she enjoy challenges and choose the opposite
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PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP) Assignment on NH-7 project reference no:NS2/BOT/AP-7 INTRODUCTION: This project is between NHAI and M/s.Patel KNR Heavy Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd. on BOT annuity basis. SITE OF
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