everyone else. Now that I have reached a level where speaking incorrectly is not acceptable‚ I have to practice speaking. Rachel L. Jones and Amy Tan both made excellent points on different backgrounds having their own way to converse‚ but also being able to speak professionally. Amy Tan stated “I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say.” My father has always made fun of the way I speak and I believe he underestimated my intelligence. Recently
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"Black English" Another Way to Classify Humans "To open your mouth You have confessed your parents‚ your youth‚ your school‚ your salary‚ your self-esteem‚ and alas‚ your future ". After reading the two essays‚ "From Outside‚ In" by Barbara Mellix and "If Black English Isn’t a Language Then Tell Me‚ What Is?" by James Balwin‚ I came to realize a few things one of them being that the way we speak‚ is a means of identifying somebody’s culture and background. Much in how a license can tell a person
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Black Mirror by Gail Jones How does the narrative construct the character and her childhood world as complex? The complexity of the character in ‘Black Mirror’ is constructed through the use of conventions to depict the conflict between her inner self and society. ‘Black Mirror’ is about a young girl‚ Anna‚ and her journey from childhood to adulthood‚ from the familiar to the unfamiliar respectively. The setting‚ plot line and the town’s environment help in show the complexity of the character
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the greatest of all sins. What about poverty‚ ignorance‚ hunger and weaponry?” Around two weeks ago‚ a friend of mine from UP Diliman sent me a link and told me to read it if I had spare time. It was an argumentative essay entitled “Abortion‚ Right and Wrong” by Rachel Richardson Smith. In the said article‚ the writer stated what she thought about the two sides – pro-abortion and pro-choice. She also provided arguments for the stand of both parties and in conclusion‚ Rachel Smith stated that she fully
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The societal struggle to understand both stories characters and what they’re going through life is in their secrets that they can only tell to the readers. In both stories not many know what going on in their lives and simply ignore them because their secrets are keeping the society from knowing the truth for acknowledging the issues there facing‚ (But then it was time for X to start school. The Joneses were really worried about this‚ because school was even more full of rules for boys and girls
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Black Vernacular English from Virginia Black Vernacular English‚ a dialect at times used by as many as 80 to 90 percent of African Americans and long identified by whites as substandard English‚ is in fact a different and unique form of American English. Black Vernacular English (BVE)‚ or Black English‚ is fundamentally a spoken language derived from the slaves and still remarkably consistent throughout African American culture. Because of the roots and many unique aspects of Black Vernacular
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Summary - Black English - The following text is a summary of an essay written by James Baldwin in July the 29th in 1979 about the time that the issue of African American Vernacular English (AAVE)‚ or simply Black English‚ was surfacing in the linguistics discipline. The author of If Black English Isn’t A Language‚ Then Tell Me What Is? claims that Black English is a language‚ not a dialect. The first step that Baldwin goes is to show the differences between a dialect and a language using many
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lives and treated as equals. [They] wouldn’t tell them what to do‚ but left them to make their own decisions.”(I LET MY CHILDREN DO WHAT THEY WANT) They believe that they are permitting their children to make their own choices when it is quite the contrary because the decision has been made for them. Children have no say in how they will be educated. Although school may not be a favorite among children‚ they do not have the chance to explore what it is like even if they wanted to. It goes both ways:
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“What is right and wrong?” and “What is Truth?” What is right and wrong? Life is characterized by many situations that require decision making‚ especially on moral grounds. The issue of what makes an action right and wrong has been studied for a lengthy period of time and several theories developed to address this issue. Socrates and Aristotle are some of the early philosophers who came up with theories about the rightness or wrongness of actions. As noted by Warnek (2005)‚ Socrates considered
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For Rachels and Rachels‚ "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism‚" in Abel pp. 397-409. All of your responses should be written in complete sentences. What is the “Cultural Differences” argument? Different cultures have different moral codes. Therefore‚ there is no objective "truth" in morality. Right and wrong are only matters of opinion and opinions vary from culture to culture. Why do Rachels and Rachels think it is a bad argument? The conclusion does not follow from the premise that is‚ even if
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