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    Amy Tan: Mother Tongue 1. Tan starts with speaking to a group that had her mom in it. This provided details of how she felt with the way all speak in different situations. Another situation was when she described her having a conversation with her mom on the phone. Her mom uses very broken English and I felt like I was standing there listening to both sides of the conversation. I made me remember times talking with my grandma and a couple of her saying. When Tan uses “tell him front of his boss

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    Mothers Tongue Amy Tans "Mother Tongue" is a look into the way some people‚ look to language as a way as a sign of how educated you are. According to Amy she did not realize how we use different languages or different tones when we are engaging in conversation with others. When you are talking with friends or close family you would use different dialect or slang‚ then if you were talking to your boss or teacher. The tone of your voice can also show’s that if you are louder this might mean

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    In Two Kinds‚ Amy Tan tells the story of Jing-mei‚ who as a child was given the song “Pleading Child” to practice. This song describes who she was as a child‚ desperate to stay the way she is‚ and pleading with her mother to love her the way she is‚ not the way she wants her to be. “Perfectly Contented‚” paints a different picture one that is viewed looking back by someone who has more experience. This song is longer because it takes more time to learn how to be perfectly content with one’s life

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    in communities and it allows oneself to create an identity. In “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ she writes about how her mother’s broken English‚ and about the extent that it affected her language. She writes this piece in a method that is easy to understand‚ and she simply expresses her personal opinion: That whenever someone doesn’t speak proper English they are susceptible to criticism and bad treatment. Amy Tan expresses how her mother is treated unfairly by people just because she cannot speak proper

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    In the story “Mother Tongue” Amy Tan tells the story of her mother and how her use of English within the family affected her early in life. She describes how that limited use of English had the potential to affect Tan’s choice of careers and her influence on literature. She begins by describing how she assumed the role of translator for her Asian born mother‚ who spoke with “broken English.” She describes situations where she assumed the role of translator for her mother. She was thrown into adult

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    ENTREPRENEUR 1.1 Profile of Tan Sri Dato Seri (Dr.) Lim Goh Tong 1 1.2 History and Development of Genting group 2 CHAPTER 2: ISSUES OR CHALLENGES FACE BY ENTREPRENEURS 2.1 Hardships and Challenges 4 2.2 Definition of Success 6 CHAPTER 3: REASONS OF SUCCESS 3.1 Lim Goh Tong’s 14 success principles 6 3.2 Reasons beside personal behavior and attitude 7 REFERENCES 8 APPENDICES 9 CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUD OF ENTREPRENEUR Tan Sri Dato Seri (Dr.) Lim

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    variations people use. I believe Amy Tan opened the essay with this quote to show the audience that the English Language can be used in May forms‚ Many styles ‚ and have different meanings. Everyone speaks‚ writes‚ and reads a different way. 2. Tan speaks in different types of English‚ the "broken/ fractured" English she speaks with her mother and the English she speaks at large group speeches using "carefully wrought grammatical phrases". These divisions are important to Tan because she grew up with understanding

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    who travels to China three months after her mother’s death‚ in hopes of finding her long-lost twin sisters. Along her voyage‚ she finds her Chinese heritage and overcomes the sorrow she felt for her late mother. In her story “A Pair of Tickets‚” Amy Tan uses setting‚ point of view‚ and symbol to illustrate the narrator’s journey to find her heritage. The setting of the story takes place in China‚ which enacts an important role in assisting the reader’s perception of how Jing-mei find’s her legacy

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    Tan Chong vs. Secretary of Labor Swee Sang vs. The Commonwealth of the Philippines September 16‚ 1947 Jose Tan Chong‚ petitioner and appelle‚ vs. The Secretary of Labor‚ respondent and appellant x--------------------------------------------------------------x Lam Swee Sang‚ petitioner and appellee‚ vs. The Commonwealth of the Philippines‚ oppositor and appellant Facts: - On October 15‚ 1941‚ a decision was rendered in the case of Tan Chong vs. Secretary of Labor‚ whereby

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    saying everyone has to be clones of each other; color or race. This is not etiquette. In Amy Tan’s memoir Fish Cheek‚ she touches on this subject by using humor to talk about her embarrassment at her Christmas Eve dinner with the minister’s family. Tan begins by introducing the reader to her inner feelings of her crush and her culture‚ with an optimistic and pessimistic attitude. She feels this way because she has no idea how the minister’s family will think of her strange Chinese culture. So even

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