Calibration 1 Text Preview “Please don’t make me choose‚” say many students who come to this country speaking languages other than English. The ethnic and linguistic diversity in the United States is what makes this nation different from any other country in the world‚ and the ethnic population of the United States has been growing at a rapid rate. However‚ with so many different cultures and languages coexisting in this nation‚ there has been constant debate about whether or not languages other than English
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Work” by Richard Rodriguez is about a young man struggling with self-confidence. He seeks to build his self-esteem by participating in real manual labor over a summer job. When Rodriguez is offered a job working on a construction site he doesn’t hesitate to say yes. His father had always told him he could never understand the hardships of “Real work’‚ and Rodriguez felt that completing this summer job would make his father proud of him‚ and in many ways consider him to be a “Real man”. Richard Rodriguez
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“Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” -Richard Rodriguez The author is a scholar‚ essayist‚ journalist‚ and television commentator. In this essay Rodriguez writes about his childhood experience as a bilingual child. He tells us about going to school without having a good English education. He is forced to start speaking English at home with his parents and he feels like he loses being so close to his family. “Politics and the English Language” -George Orwell The author is a writer‚ was
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This means that you can go out in the real world and say your are something you were not born with. For example‚ Rodriguez’s statement “I answered that I am Chinese‚ and that is because I live in a Chinese city and because I want to be Chinese.”(163-165)
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Essay #1 "The Achievement of Desire" is an autobiography about Mr. Richard Rodriguez. In this autobiography the story of the conflicts the “scholarship boy” had with his school life and home life. As he continued his education into a Graduate degree‚ he starts not thinking too highly of the education his parents have. He started to feel embarrassed by his parents because they didn’t have much education. Rodriguez then started to distance himself from his family and pursued his educational goals
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Rodriguez grew up as a Mexican immigrant in a middle class white dominated neighborhood. In his growing up and accustoming with the world around him‚ he learns that language may not be the key to the intimacy he had grown so accustomed to. Although‚ one may communicate intimacy through language. Rodriguez transferred into school without knowing English until he’s forced to learn it with the help of his school teacher. As a result‚ Rodriguez finds himself forgetting bits and pieces of how he used
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When Rodriguez says "you can’t use family language in the classroom" (London) he seems to be explaining that it is the family’s role to teach the offspring about their culture. On the other hand it is the dominant cultures institution‚ school in this case‚ which has to teach about its culture. He seems to think nobody agrees on how assimilation works and so there are assumptions about cultures from other cultures and this causes confusion. When Rodriguez says “they may be fighting in gangs right
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personality profile he presents he terms Apollonian; someone defined by this profile is “dominated by reason and disciplined analytical‚ rational‚ and coherent thought” (Altshuler and Janaro 19). A person in this category‚ in my own view‚ is likely characterized as someone requiring order in their life‚ for instance‚ maintaining a clean room and making sure that everything has a place. The second personality is Dionysian‚ this profile Nietzche describes as a “personality dominated by feelings‚ intuition
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for the duration of the scholarship. Must include a copy of the applicant’s Official High School Transcript as well as SAT and/or ACT test scores. Please include a wallet sized portrait of yourself with this application. Please print your name and County name on the back of the picture. This picture is for publication purposes and will not be used in the judging process. Must have completed a project that promotes Farm Bureau‚ or have completed a community service project which promotes agriculture
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Provide a convening argument for leadership development of Zendal executives by using what you have learned in class the last two weeks. Your paper should be between 500 and 600 words‚ double space font size 12‚ with 2 cm margins on all sides. Any paper not meeting these requirements will be rejected‚ and 20% of the grade will deducted. No late papers. Paper dur 12/05 at clas time. Hard copies only accepted. Name appearing on all pages and all pages numbered. good luck :) Barton has to: *
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