Rhetorical Analysis of “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan “So easy to read”(p.4). Amy Tan ends her essay‚ “Mother Tongue” with this short and even grammatically wrong sentence. She tells us this mother’s brief review is a proof of success of her writing. Why does she think that easiness is an essence of her writing? She suggests answers to this question by her essay. In her essay‚ Amy Tan effectively convinces her readers that “broken English” is not an inferior language‚ but just
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by Astrid Blodgett in 2012. We don’t know exactly where the story takes place‚ but we know it is some place cold‚ because there is ice on the lake‚ and snow on the roads. It could very possibly be Canada since Blodgett is Canadian. It takes place in modern times‚ and we know this because there are modern day things like televisions and cars. The story is about a family of 5. Mom‚ dad‚ and three daughters. They seem to have a good relationship overall‚ but we get a sense that something
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Mother Teresa: Life Span Development and Personality Mariflor Custodio PSY 300 November 3‚ 2014 Kathy Rupe Mother Teresa: Life Span Development and Personality “By blood‚ I am Albanian. By citizenship‚ I am Indian. By faith‚ I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling‚ I belong to the world. As to my heart‚ I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus” (The Holy See‚ 2014). Mother Teresa is an inspiration for many. This quote shows her true devotion and yet shows how she accepted diversity. When one thinks
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Mother Tongue The essay I want to write on is Mother Tongue‚ which is written by Amy Tan. This article recalls me some adversities when the first few days I came to the United States. Amy is an ethnic Chinese writer who was born and living in United States. She was faced with language problem during her life. In this essay‚ Amy Tan talks about her mother’s broken grammar and the dialogue in English without grammar between her mother and her. But when Amy talks with other people‚ gives a speech‚
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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 should respect them
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Kathy Dunn What I Think It Means to Be a Counselor February 18‚ 2013 Counseling means to help someone else through a situation or problem that they cannot solve alone. Counselors are good to have to help you with different problems that you may encounter. If you are having marital problems and seek help you would want someone who would listen to your problems and give sound advice. Counselors have to be good listeners and caring people. They need to be qualified to give advice on what to
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Mother to Son Analysis Langston Hughes’ moving poem "Mother to Son" empowers not only the son‚ but also the reader with precious words of wisdom. Through the skillful use of literary devices such as informal language‚ symbolism‚ metaphors‚ repetition‚ as well as clever use of format‚ Hughes manages to assemble up the image of a mother lovingly‚ yet firmly‚ talking to her son about life. This poem is an advice from a mother to son about life that will be challenging and do not think about giving
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Mother tongue means it is the language first learned by a child or one’s native language rather a parent language and passed from one generation to the next. It is the language community of the mother tongue‚ the language spoken in a region‚ which enables the process of acculturation‚ the growing of an individual into a particular system of linguistic perception of the world and participation in the centuries old history of linguistic production. As a student my big perception of this is it’s a big
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Topic 1 Although we are in the 21st century‚ the society has the patriarchal thinking that women should ocuppate workforswork only ay at home. Her main task however‚ is to cook‚ clean and take care of the children. This is enough for her‚ according to a large percentage of the "stronger sex". Staying home mom is a stereotype that is very specific for the traditional American family. Many women stay home to take care of their children in their most active years in which they can achieve many things
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Mothers Are Angels I grew up in a middle class‚ single parent family in Ukraine. My mother had to work a lot to make some money for living. Even though we lived in a Democratic country‚ our government didn’t give any chance for people to improve their lives. Back then‚ I would have never imagined that someday I’ll live in America and be blessed with the opportunity to make my life the way I want it to be. Moving to the United States gave me a whole new world to look at. However‚ nothing of this
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