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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MOTHERS DAY…. While being pregnant ‚ and having to tell the loved ones around me was major. I had also been suffering from a very deadly and hereditary disease‚ I was what some people call a functional alcoholic . And now finding out that I was also pregnant. While my disease was never a big deal to me and my life style. It was now a big change I was not prepared for‚ and there would be changes I could never prepare for. I couldn’t sleep‚ hot and cold sweats‚ withdraw‚ and shakes. It was now
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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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We have chosen a song entitled ‘Miss Polly had a Dolly’ and our target group is Year Two students. Basically‚ this song tells about Miss Polly‚ a little girl who desperately wants her father to play with her. She makes her doll sick and finally manages to get her father’s attention. This song is selected because it meets the requirement of exposing students with ‘World of Stories’ theme. Therefore‚ as students watch the video clip and sing along the song‚ they will be immersed with the characters
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an essay about how my mom has impacted my life but she truly has. To me my mom is 100% my motivation; I wake up‚ go to school and work. I set goals for myself and dreams I hope to achieve all for and because of her. I’m not ashamed to tell you exactly why I’m writing this common story about how she’s my inspiration. I wish that every person would get to experience having a mother like mine to impact their lives the way that she has mine. Growing up in Bosnia i Herzegovina my mom was raised in a
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Student mothers have an advantage over working mothers because student mothers can spend more time with their children. Being a mother is a very rewarding part of life for many women. Sometimes‚ however‚ mothers feel like they do not have any time for their own endeavors. As a mother in college‚ there are so many things to consider‚ such as when to get your homework done‚ how to make time for doctor’s appointments or parent-teacher conferences‚ who is going to watch the children and how you are going
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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 for a while (my great-grand-parents/
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Culture: A comparison between culture in China and America By Shijiao Chen Social Work 100 March 15‚ 2012 My parents came to the United States when I was about ten years old‚ leaving me and my younger brother to live with my grandma in China. We talked on the phone every day and they told us what their life in America was like. From what my parents told me‚ the U.S. was place where everybody could have a place to live and something to eat if they worked hard. They said there
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The Last Song “The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart” (Sparks 366). Ronnie is being forced to stay with her father hundreds of miles from her of in New York. She has to learn to get along with her dad after three years of not talking to him because of her myopic views. After they get close he father reveals news to her that will change her entire outlook on life. There are many sides to Ronnie that readers can relate to‚ she’s rebellious‚ protecting‚ kind‚ confronting‚ and
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Poem for my Mother – Jennifer Davids Notes Outline It is an afternoon and the mom is washing clothes in a tub. The child has written a poem for her mother and gives it to her as she is washing. The mother scans the poem but rejects it as not being ‘all there is to life’. She feels that there is much more to life than reading or writing poetry. Despite her protest‚ the mother glances at the poem while she continues to wash clothes. Stanza 1 The mother obviously has given her life to hard
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