Chelsea T Should Students be Able to Use the Dialect They Choose? The Conference on College Composition and Communication discusses two very important and controversial questions within their article “Students’ Right to Their Own Language”: “What should the schools do about the language habits of students who come from a wide variety of social‚ economic‚ and cultural backgrounds?” (2)‚ and “Should the schools try to uphold language variety‚ or to modify it‚ or to eradicate it?” (2). While for
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with fruit. Inside the house‚ children run down the softly carpeted hallways‚ their laughter tinkling with innocent joy. The Master and the Lady of the house sit in the parlor‚ he smoking a pipe‚ and she embroidering. All reigns peacefully in this southern utopia. All except for the slaves. The individuals hidden behind the drapes‚ quietly bringing in the food‚ brushing away the dust‚ and pouring their life energies into tilling and working the land. The young man‚ who feels the harsh lash of the whip
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reconstruction took place in the South. Unfortunately‚ Abraham Lincoln was assassinated‚ killed by John Wilkes Booth. The Vice President‚ Andrew Johnson‚ became president from 1865-1866. President Johnson believed the southern states wanted state government over federal government. Southern states wanted the right to create their own laws‚ and have the whole nation create their own laws. President Johnson announced his plan to repair the the United States known as‚ Johnson’s Presidential Reconstruction
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STANDARD ENGLISHES: SPEECH AND WRITING This part or chapter focuses on the aspects of what we need to know in order to help pupils or students learn more about language and literacy skills. It is hoped that the focus on spoken and written language can‚ however‚ be read as symptomatic and as illustrative of the complex relationship between knowledge about language‚ on the part of teachers and students‚ and literacy skills. The function of spoken language grammars are interpersonal and high reciprocal
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language as well as vice versa. Maybe with all these countries intergraded into our society it hard to understand witch language to speak? Third‚ now a days the regions of America are broken up into four groups Eastern‚ western‚ mid-western‚ and southern with every region having their own language‚
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Do you speak American? American English is not spoken the same by residents from different parts of the United States. Based on America’s history and cultural background‚ English used in America differs from region to region‚ among ethnic and social groups‚ even by age and gender. In this documentary film‚ Robert MacNeil‚ a journalist‚ travelled across the United States to discover how and why people from different regions speak different kinds of American English. From north to south‚ east
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century‚ the northern states were industrially and commercial advanced compared to the southern states. They had dense cities‚ developed technology‚ and steam powered factories. Most northern cities housed free blacks that could have owned a thriving and successful business‚ but racism was common and interracial marriage was illegal. The Southern states were more agricultural and rural than the northern states. Southern landholders had black slaves work the land. Even though the north population outnumbered
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high demanding textile material. Plantation owners couldn’t work the whole plantations by themselves. The southern states depended heavily on slaves to work their plantations. The south depended heavily on slavery‚ and slavery was vital to the south because they needed the slave’s labor to work their plantations. This why slavery was so important to the southern political leaders. If the southern states didn’t have slavery their plantations would have most likely failed and they couldn’t produce anymore
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farming community in Parsons‚ Tennessee‚ where the local dialect makes strong departures from the language of wider communication. Many middle and upper class outsiders would note these departures immediately‚ marking those who speak it as uneducated or low-class. In my normal circle of influence‚ I saw my momma speak the dialect of wider communication on a daily basis‚ but when she spoke with my granny she would code-switch to the country dialect. I now understand that she spoke in the way she did
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required bringing in food raised elsewhere. But‚ to continue the King Cotton economy on that scale in the absence of mechanization‚ slaves had to be continually purchased when “natural increase” could not supply labor demand. 2. Slavery encouraged the Southern economy‚ especially in the Deep South‚ to specialize in intensive agriculture‚ cotton in particular. It was a labor intensive crop and could only be profitable if pursued on large scales with vast armies of workers. Investment in this one crop and
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