Good morning Mrs Njapha‚ teachers‚ parents‚ students and to the class of 2016. It is really an honor for me to be addressing you at your speech day function today. When Mrs Lategan asked me to be the guest speaker at this function I was initially pretty nervous was I going to be funny‚ interesting or inspiring. Afterall the last time I spoke at a public function was at my sister’s wedding and considering they were family it wasn’t a tough crowd to please. Standing here on the podium gives me an immense
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Revolutionary Mothers Carol Berkin’s book‚ Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for American Independence‚ proclaims that the Revolutionary War was "the last great romance with war". It was more so a time of turbulence and disorder. The American Revolution did not discriminate against man or woman‚ class‚ race nor culture. The Revolution took a toll on the families during this time in history and it also made women important figures. Women were forced to take charge over their families and
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himself/herself and how others identify certain groups of people‚ but what happens whenever a certain group’s language doesn’t meet the “standards” of the usual American way of using language? Many problems arise. The authors‚ Amy Tan‚ who wrote “Mother Tongue”‚ Gloria Anzaldua‚ who wrote “How to Tame a Wild tongue”‚ and David Sedaris‚ who wrote “Me talk pretty one day”‚ all support a common argument that shows the linkage of identity and language. Because language is both part of identity and used
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Mother-tongue Education in South Africa - Andrew Foley Introduction The question of mother-tongue education in South Africa remains a vexed one. On the one hand‚ it seems reasonable and desirable that learners should be able to receive education in their mother-tongue‚ if they so wish. On the other hand‚ there are some very real difficulties involved in the implementation of this ideal. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what these difficulties are‚ and then to suggest what
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Negro Mother” and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. Both of these poems are about a mother speaking to her children and speaking of the hard times that she has been through in the past. If we read these poems it’s very much telling us about history and the things that black people had to endure back in the days. Many people can view it as her speaking to her children or to her son directly but I see it as her speaking to the black children of society. The Negro Mother is a poem where a mother is
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WE KEPT MOTHER’S DAY So we decided to have a special celebration of Mother’s Day. We thought it a fine idea. It made us all realize how much Mother had done for us for years‚ and all the efforts and sacrifice that she had made for our sake. We decided that we’d make it a great day‚ a holiday for all the family‚ and do everything we could to make Mother happy. Father decided to take a holiday from his office‚ so as to help in celebrating the day‚ and my sister Anne and I stayed home from college
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Speech Analysis Paper Name Institution Speech Analysis Paper I selected a speech that was given by Manal- Al Sharif. The speech was entitled “A Saudi woman who dared to drive”. The speech was delivered sometime in June 2013. It was presented in a worldwide set of conferences referred to as TED (Technology‚ Environment‚ and Design) conference. TED provides live streaming of dialogues and address an extensive array of topics within the practice of science‚ culture and research. The speech was
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accomplish any of that with a child (you can’t it’s almost impossible) but my mom did it‚ she was in high school when she had me and i give her a big thumbs up because she also went to college and she never thought of having an abortion. But some mother get diagnosed with cancer and then have to make THE choice. The choice to save their life or thier unborn child’s life also keep in mind if you do get the chemotherapy you would be cause growth defects on your child causing the child to be very underweight
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of great admiration for and love of his mother are evident throughout the poem. The opening line with its succession of superlatives‚ ’most near’‚ ’most dear’ and ’most loved’‚ and straight way attests strongly to these feelings. His exuberant exclamation near the end of the poem‚ ’and so I send O all my faith and all my love to her...’confirms the strength of these feelings. The warm‚ humorous‚ delightfully frank way Baker describes his ’irresistible’ mother in the intervening lines also convinces
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Jaineel Patel Mr. Spacek ENG 3UI- 05 30 May 2013 A Tribute to Those Who Never Gave Up People‚ at one point in their life‚ lives in the illusion that when they risk it all for the one thing they have a passion for (sport‚ music‚ art‚ etc.)‚ they always succeed in their goal. Life is like the force of gravity‚ one can only jump so high before they realize they need to step up their game and use a plane to fly. A passion never comes easy; it has competition for success in every aspect of it
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