Republic of the Philippines Department of Education Region VI-Western Visayas DIVISION OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL Cottage Road‚ Bacolod City Division Unified Examination in English Grade II – Second Grading Period TEST I: LISTENING DIRECTIONS: Listen as the teacher reads pairs of words. If the pair of words has the same initial consonant sound‚ write S and if it has different initial consonant sound‚ write D. 1. 2. 3. DIRECTIONS: Listen to sentences the teacher will be reading. Write
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Book 2 Quiz 6 I. Give synonyms: (10%) 1. Those ad campaigns celebrating the Big Apple‚ … 2. The giant Manhattan television studios where Toscanini’s Symphony once played now sit empty most of the time‚ while……and the Johnny Carson show live‚ preempt the airways from California. 3. But no; what most excites Europeans is the city’s charged nervous atmosphere‚ its vulgar dynamism. 4. New York is about energy‚ contention‚ and striving. 5. Nature’s pleasures are much qualified in New York.
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Journal Article Review Women have always historically been viewed as the weaker and inferior sex. This often translates to the oppression of basic human rights and disabling women from actively engaging in politics and society when it comes to their bodies and choices. Amos Idowu’s article “Effects of forced genital cutting on human rights of women and female children: the Nigerian situation” (pages 111-122) from Law‚ Democracy & Development of Nigeria‚ Volume 12‚ Number 2‚ published in 2008‚
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Mother to Mother The purpose of this paper is to introduce‚ discuss‚ and analyze the book "Mother to Mother" by Sindiwe Magona. Specifically‚ it will critically analyze the book. The book "Mother to Mother" is a touching and elegant story of race relations and misunderstanding in South Africa. The author bases her book on a true incident‚ but looks at it from the eyes of a mother who loves her son but recognizes his inadequacies. It is a devastating look at apartheid‚ violence‚ and anger
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Funnyhouse of a Negro was written in a dreamlike style. It deals more with ethnic stereotypes than the idea of slavery. It was written in such a way that it evokes an emotional and psychological response from the reader or audience. Funnyhouse discusses racial discrimination and the mental and emotional stresses of the main character‚ Sarah. This play took a look into the tortured mind of Sarah‚ a college student‚ also referred to as “Negro”. In order to understand what is going on in Sarah’s
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In the essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”‚ Hughes’s disdain and contempt were evident when he gave an example of the typical black household‚ which led to black children feeling stifled by themselves and the preset stereotypes in society. He claimed that there
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divorced when he was young and his father moved to Mexico. Because his mother traveled a lot to find work and was often absent‚ his grandmother raised Hughes until he was 12. His childhood was lonely and he often occupied himself with books. It was Hughes’s grandmother‚ a great storyteller‚ who transferred to him her love of literature and the importance of becoming educated. In 1914 he moved to Lincoln‚ Illinois‚ to live with his mother and her new husband. It was here that he started writing poetry he
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Analysis Paper One The essay is mainly about the writer’s own reflection and judgment about how broken English compared to Standard English. Sense Amy Tan knows many languages that her mother does not‚ this skill give Amy more power over her mother in the knowledge using literacy. It is also an essential key in enabling herself to establish and define her dimensions of other identities and types of languages. According to Amy she did not realize how we use different languages or different tones
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The Strivings of The Negro People The essay that I am presenting today is “Strivings of the Negro People” by W.E.B Dubois. This essay was written in as an article in the Atlantic Monthly in 1987‚ but before I get to essay‚ I would like to give some background information about Mr. Dubois. Both scholar and activist‚ W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23‚ 1868‚ in Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard University and‚ in 1895‚ became the first African American to earn a doctorate
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Somebody’s Mother Analysis Somebody’s Mother‚ by: Mary Dow Brine‚ is basically about somebody’s mother. The title of this poem implies that you will probably be reading about a mother and what she does. When you think of a mother‚ you think of a woman maybe in her thirties with kids who are around age five through nine‚ and possibly not afraid of anything you throw at her. That’s what is expected of a mother right? The first two lines of this poem imply the physical features of the mother. She is
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