Reflection Essay After reading the article “Mother Tongue”‚ I started interesting in Asian Immigration problem especially Chinese immigrants. The first generations of Chinese and Japanese immigrants were coming to the United States for mining gold‚ farming and railroad in the early of 19th century. They were followed by Korean and Filipino immigrants who came to work in the sugar cane plantations in Hawaii. Then‚ the growing numbers of Asian immigrants raise up much faster due to the economic
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wardrobe‚ the outfits we wear to express how we feel and who we are. Though‚ some people may have similar outfits‚ we all pertain to a style that represents us‚ that makes us unique as individuals. On top of that‚ we carry things along with us that stay‚ experience‚ wisdom and knowledge. In the many pieces that we have read‚ culture reveals how the author was brought up and how it affected them and limitations to that. Starting off with Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue‚ culture has its limiting effect in different
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Call of the Wild In the book‚ “Call of the Wild‚” by author; Jack London‚ we will be comparing this wonderful piece of work and its characteristics to the early southwestern United States of American frontier literature. We will make a comparison of “The Call of the Wild‚” to other great books‚ such as “Shane‚” “True Grit‚” and “Tracks.” Jack London tells a beautiful story‚ (London‚ 2005) takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon‚ during the nineteenth century. We find a tough
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She expressed her feelings as if‚ “somehow‚ I had betrayed him. That was how I felt.” (201) However‚ she soon comes to understand that Matt betrayed himself. He had made Marie pregnant preventing him from going to university being the wish that the Morrison’s family had always dreamt of. As a child‚ Kate had constantly looked
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American Tongues Film Commentary In the film “American Tongues‚” enormous majority of American from different cities have different regional accents of English. Some people have positive attitude towards the different regional accents of English. They believe that the way people speak is always changing based on what they hear from their linguistic environment. There are a few scenes in the film where people share what they think about using certain dialects in positive attitude. In one scene
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Mother Tongue is a story about a mother-daughter relationship between the writer and her mother and the difficulties that they had to face as immigrants in a foreign country. The story also centers around the difficulties that her mother had with English and how she evolved her own dialect that later became part of their relationship. At the beginning of the story‚ Tan makes it clear that she was not much of an enthusiast of English making her claim that she was no expert on English. “I am not a
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Active Listening Makes all the Difference With reading Saving Civility: 52 Ways to Tame Rude‚ Crude‚ and Attitude for a Polite Planet‚ and experimenting its hypotheses‚ I have discovered that my positive behaviour can easily shape the way others act. I ran a simple experiment on being an active listener‚ to see what the effects are. I concluded that being a good listener encourages those you are talking to‚ to also be more concentrated on the conversation. The first thing I did as I prepared
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The issue of bias is often seen throughout the mass communication world. Bias is prejudice in favor of or against a person‚ group‚ or a thing. It is usually considered to be unfair‚ but that depends on its contents. Most of our biases are unconscious‚ which is also known as implicit bias. This helps to explain why discrimination exists which is something we also see in the mass communication world. For example overweight job applicants are often viewed as less intelligent‚ and lazier. In a
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Yes‚ living alone in the wilderness like Thoreau and London sounds exciting‚ especially if you fake a big part of your adventures or if you can pack up and go home when you get too hungry. Chris McCandless doesn’t have these options‚ but Shaun Callarman believes that Chris is full of “Romantic silliness‚” and by this statement I think he means that Chris goes into Alaska seeing only the good parts of the wilderness experience. Like Callarman‚ I believe that Chris has a head full of “Romantic ideas”
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Driving west out of Atlandta‚ he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself one in which he would be free To the desert go prophets and hermits through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat‚ not to escape but to find reality. But apart from sending greetings the main purpose of this card is to thank you again for all your hospitality. Its rare to find a man as generous and good natured as you
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