Reading Response Mother tongue usually means the language first learned by a person‚ but for Amy Tan it has a special meaning‚ limited language which is the language her mother speaks. Tan feel so deeply about her “mother tongue” because the limited language effects that many people misunderstand her mother. The way Tan’s mother speaks effects the native English speaker think that she isn’t able to express her thoughts perfectly and don’t want to communicate with her. For examples
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Reading Response 1: Douglass Fredrick Douglass was a slave who against the closed minded thinking of the society he lived in‚ rose above and taught himself to read and write which changed his life for the better. After his master had forbidden his learning any further‚ he continued to learn by making connections with the local boys in the city which lead to his successful escape from the south. Douglass explains the conflict between literacy and slavery as being connected. Douglass writes‚ “education
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Reading Response: Resisting Hitler 1. What types of connections did you make most often as you read: text to text‚ text to self‚ or text to world? How did making connections increase your understanding of the magazine article? The connection I made most of as I was reading Resisting Hitler by Susan Campbell is text to world. I think this is because in today’s society‚ there are many rebellions all over the world‚ making it easy for me to recall these kind of acts upon reading Resisting Hitler
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Heath LyBrand Readers Response Native Son Native Son is a story about an African American boy that has grown up in a poverty stricken area‚ and lived in the shadow of the successful white community. The narrator of the story is Bigger; which is an angry boy that has been created to hold a grudge of hate towards the white community. Wright depicts Bigger as this angry boy that has been molded by racist propaganda on the 1930’s along with the oppression of African Americans during this time
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The Chrysalids Reading Response Chapters 4-6 There are a few patterns that I noticed in the Chrysalids the one that really jumped out at me was the idea of “normal” the entire story is based around the idea of “normal” and gods image. It’s repeated all throughout the book‚ Sophie gets her foot stuck in the rocks she doesn’t want her shoe to be removed because she fears David will think of her having six toes as something abnormal‚ in Davids house where there are no paintings on the walls instead
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The Comedy of Errors: Reading Response 2 Act 1‚ Sc. ii of Comedy of Errors begins the cascade of confusing identity that is played up throughout the play with the interaction of Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus. Through this brief interaction‚ particularly lines 53-94‚ the hierarchy of social status is shown between the two characters. A section of this scene also reveals Shakespeare’s playing with the time period it is supposed to be set in. The significant theme of Comedy of Errors
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“What’s in a Name” Reading Response Within the story Gate’s describes the difference between his family and other black families in town‚ he says‚ “we had stopped off at the Cut-Rate Drug Store (where no black person in town but my father could sit down to eat‚ and eat off real plates with real silver wear).” Gates’ family social status is different from other black families in Piedmont‚ West Virginia due to the fact that his family has “financial security.” His father works two jobs in order to
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Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727) was an English physicist‚ mathematician‚ astronomer‚ natural philosopher‚ alchemist and theologian‚ who has been considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived.[8] His monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica‚ published in 1687‚ laid the foundations for most of classical mechanics. In this work‚ Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion‚ which dominated the scientific
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Scoot Principle activity: air transportation‚ equity is fully held by parent company‚ SIA 4 aircrafts of B777-200‚ 1 more aircraft for B777-200 and 20 B787 to be added (transferred from SIA) a. History and management structure of the company Started services on 4 June 2012 b. Markets (countries and customer groups) served and products & services offered by the company Low cost mid to long-haul airline‚ no frills Market: young and fun Cheaper by 40% (or so it claims) 2 class: ScootBiz:
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she wanted him to suffer rather than for him to marry and fall in love with a women whom she despised. I still wonder why the author made the ending the way it was. I think this story shows how your actions could possibly cost you your life. After reading this story‚ I will always think carefully about what I do- what is right and what is wrong. Although this story is described as in a semi-barbaric village‚ it still shows a very meaningful message. I really enjoyed this story and it can really teach
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