I can always count on her to do something if she says that she is going to do it. It just so happens that it was true. I called my mother on her cellular phone and it just so happen she was at a store where there was a Western Union. I caught her in a lie and there was nothing that she could do about it but just sit there and look dumb. She "no"‚ because they were yellow and they look like they I had been walking in a puddle of urine. One example is when I was in Houston‚ Texas at a Robotics competition
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Not a Native Tongue” English as a second language is an issue now days. Many people that don’t speak or write English‚ life tends to be a bit harsh on them. I personally have experience how difficult it is when one is not born in a family where English is not the native language. I came across two great essays‚ written by Amy Tan and Richard Rodriguez. These two great authors wrote about the challenges they faced while growing up in families that English was not their native tongue. Tan from an
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In the article “Does your mother tongue shape how you think” Guy Deutscher argues that our mother tongue does indeed shape our experiences of the world. However‚ it does not do so as Benjamin Lee Whorf’s theory suggests but rather because of what our mother tongue habitually obliges us to think. Guy Deutscher takes a claim made by Benjamin Lee Whorf‚ a chemical engineer‚ who essentially stated that our native language constrains our mind and we are unable to grasp concepts that are not given
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Katelyn McCoy English 1101 Summary/Response September 26‚ 2012 McCray “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” In the article‚ “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ Gloria Anzaldua focuses on the idea of losing an accent or native language to conform to the current environment. Anzaldua grew up in the United States but spoke mostly Spanish. The problem is that the language she spoke was Chicano Spanish‚ not true Spanish. She was living in an English speaking environment‚ but was not Anglo. She wasn’t living
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TONGUE TWISTER Voiceless “Th” word lists - Thief thieves thinker third - Thanks thatch theme thigh - Thing thorn thought thumb - Thump thanksgiving thermos thighbone - Thimble thistle thunder theory - Thermometer thermostat theater thumbtack - Thursday thin thaw think - Thirst thud threaten thick - Thicken thinking thirteen thirty - Thirsty thankful thankless thorough - Thoughtful thoughtless thousand thermal Voiced “Th” word lists - Smoother their this thee them - Thou then
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HOW TO TAME A WILD TONGUE The writer dialogue within relation to a dilemma she faced about her own language and how she represents herself through her language. Gloria Anzaldua who is a Chicano talks about how Chicanas have problems expressing their feelings. Since they lack a native language‚ instead it is a product of several languages. And their language Chicano Spanish has incorporated bits and pieces of several versions of Spanish. The author speaks about people who are neither Spanish nor
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“My Perspective of a Wild Tongue” “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ by Gloria Anzaldua‚ is a very expressive story about a Mexican American women’s struggle to preserve her culture. Her main fight revolves around a struggle to keep a form of Spanish‚ called “Chicano Spanish”‚ a live. In the short story she says‚ " for a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard (formal‚ Castilian) Spanish‚ or standard English‚ what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?"(page
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Natalie Gonzalez 3/14/2007 Gloria Anzaldua‚ author of the article " How to tame a Wild Tongue"‚ expresses very strong views on how she feels her native Chicano Spanish language needs to be preserved in order to maintain cultural unity when used as a private form of communication. Her statement‚ " for a people who cannot identify with either standard (formal‚ Castilian) Spanish‚ nor standard English‚ what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?" suggests that despite the societal
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Film Response #1 “American Tongues” Synopsis: The video American Tongues is a documentary‚ illustrating the aspects of geographical linguistics within the United States. A dialect or an accent means the words we use and how we pronounce them‚ and in this case the language is American English. Variations of English that result in local dialects are discussed‚ reasons for dialect differences are given‚ and attitudes about dialects are shown in the video. There are several ways that dialects form
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MOTHER Introduction The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman‚ or business man‚ or artist‚ or scientist. Motherhood is a rewarding and often difficult job. A mother is a child’s first teacher and affects a child’s life like few others can. Effective mothers can inspire their sons and daughters to love themselves and others‚ work hard‚ make healthy choices‚ serve causes greater than self‚ and achieve their dreams. Mothers who
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