poems “Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan” and “Search for my Tongue” Culture is the way you live your life‚ the way you exist‚ the way you survive. It is the area that you live in‚ the cuisine that you consume‚ the clothes that you dress in‚ the dialect that you dictate‚ the way you commemorate special occasions and the way you worship and believe in a religion. The poems “Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan” and “Search for my Tongue” show how being part of two very different cultures can be
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In the Woman Warrior‚ Kingston develops a motif throughout the story about silence and voice; however‚ in the woman’s culture they are typically silenced and do not have a voice proving the Chinese society and culture is unfair and cruel. During the novel Kingston regularly brings up the concept of silence and lack of voice. For example‚ Kingston relays how when she is a young girl it is hard for her to voice her opinion‚ and she spends a vast amount of time sitting in silence. The author fails
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novelists and extraordinary writers Richard Rodriguez‚ Maxine Hong Kingston‚ and Frederick Douglass are some of the few who were victims of being silenced by fellow students‚ teachers‚ and authority. Yet‚ they found a way to break past the prison bars placed around them by society’s norm by finding themselves through education and a little strong will. Robert Rodriguez was once a young boy who felt like one with his native tongue: Spanish. He describes his household language as the glue that
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meanings can be the same. Through this everyone has the ability to show love‚ anger‚ sadness‚ and the ability to teach right from wrong. Two authors from different ethnic backgrounds show how language affects them personally and the ones around them. Kingston‚ a Chinese author‚ writes about stories based on the things she heard from her mother and
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Rabine‚ Leslie W. "No Lost Paradise: Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston." Signs 12.3 (1987): 471-92. The article‚ No Lost Paradise‚ gives a brief description about how gender determines one’s place in the family and society‚ and one’s place of power. Though neither sex possesses essential qualities‚ gender oppositions do play a vital role in organizing Kingston’s world. This article also depicts at the oral culture that they should have in their traditional
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Summary In the article‚ `Wanted: English speakers with fluency in sarcasm` (2008)‚ Peter Kingston states that there is such a desperate shortage of competent interpreters that the first generation of interpreters still assume the responsibility for conference interpreting. Therefore‚ Kingston does an interview to find out what causes the current situation and how to deal with it. Interpreting plays an essential role in international affairs. The demand for interpreters who have skills with
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The island of Jamaica is very rich in culture and has many historic turnabouts throughout the years. The country has a rich and complex history including being the first country to have Arawak and Taino Indians settle there. The Arawak Indians of South America were the first people to settle in Jamaica the named the island Xaymaca meaning land of wood and water. Christopher Columbus’ first arrival was in 1494. Christopher Columbus’ son settled in Jamaica in 1509. During Spain’s occupation on the
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Easley‚ Kelli Assignment 5 kellieasley@gmail.com[->0] English 1 America: Land of Change America the Promise land‚ America the Melting Pot‚ America the land of the free; America was built around the idea of providing a place for freedom from tyranny‚ freedom from oppression‚ freedom to expand and explore and prosper. It was first colonized by people not of this land and so began a pattern in human history‚ a pattern that has sparked a wide and controversial debate around the concept of immigration
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NAME: MARYAM TUKUR BAWA ID NO: 112447 TITTLE: NATIVE LANGUAGE VS FOREIGN LANGUAGE PRESENTED TO: DR TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract......................................................i Introduction...............................................ii i. Background ii. Aim of study iii. Research Questions Literature Review and Discussion..................................................iv
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The Woman Warrior‚ is a fictional novel written by author Maxine Hong Kingston relating the truths of the life of an Chinese-American woman. Throughout the novel‚ the author details various intimate events that occur during the life of a young woman‚ with the variety not being limited to easily accepted‚ joyous encounters. Through often intense storytelling‚ and colorful imagery provided by both narrator and main characters‚ the author is able to allow readers a sort of understanding only achieved
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