HOW TO TAME A WILD TONGUE The writer dialogue within relation to a dilemma she faced about her own language and how she represents herself through her language. Gloria Anzaldua who is a Chicano talks about how Chicanas have problems expressing their feelings. Since they lack a native language‚ instead it is a product of several languages. And their language Chicano Spanish has incorporated bits and pieces of several versions of Spanish. The author speaks about people who are neither Spanish nor
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MY LIFE It’s hard for me to live in this cruel cruel world. Most of your friends backstab you. Your mother is lazy and never helping you. On your ABC or 123’s but all they do is sleep. Because they work a night shift some where without a college degree. Very little money job layoffs I’m afraid that she’ll be off next. Then well be on the streets like the pursuit of happiness. It’s hard to go to tutorials. With a very hard coach. My mom forces me most of the time to play football I really don’t know
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the skin to tan which may even lead to other serious skin problems like acne‚ pimples‚ fine lines‚ wrinkles‚ skin burn‚ premature aging‚ and hyper-pigmentation and dark spots. Tanning usually makes the skin look dull and lifeless. There are several chemical cosmetic products that can be used to get rid of skin tan. However‚ the chemicals may not be good for the skin and may harm the skin in different ways and so it is better to use natural anti-tan methods and remedies to get rid of tan. Following
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Amy Mcgrath mentions that she is a retired marine in the beginning of her political ad as an exertion of Ethos. Often it is presumed that veterans are either heroes and should be treated with respect for their service to America‚ or that they make up a large portion of the homeless and disemployment population. Both perceptions‚ in reality‚ are strongly skewed by the media as less than ten percent of the homeless population are veterans‚ and about 70% of people believe that veterans help America’s
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Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother Nadirah Malarve In the year of 1938 ‚ photographer Dorothea Lange‚ took one of Americas most captivating and touching series of photographs entitled The Migrant mother. In her photographs‚ she showed pictures of a mother and her two children‚ during the Great Depression in which the family seem completely destitute‚ while setting up camp to find work in the city. This photograph symbolized the Great Depression as it shows how many lives of Americans were affected
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Mother Tongue In this passage the author Amy Tan talks about the different ways people speak in America‚ as an example she uses herself and her mother‚ she tells us that one time she was giving a speech in front of a large group and she was using all this big words‚ and phrases like she had learned in school‚ but all of a sudden she remember her mother was in the audience and she started to think her speech was bad and all her
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Amy Davidson is a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995‚ she is a senior editor who focuses on international news‚ national security news‚ and writes a web column about war‚ sports‚ politics‚ crime‚ and other national events. She attended Harvard University‚ where she received a Bachelor of Science in Social Studies. In Davidson’s article “Sent to Guantanamo as a Teen-Ager‚ and Now to Estonia” she took an emotional stance in regards to the topic. She builds up her credibility with facts‚ reputable
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Natalie Gonzalez 3/14/2007 Gloria Anzaldua‚ author of the article " How to tame a Wild Tongue"‚ expresses very strong views on how she feels her native Chicano Spanish language needs to be preserved in order to maintain cultural unity when used as a private form of communication. Her statement‚ " for a people who cannot identify with either standard (formal‚ Castilian) Spanish‚ nor standard English‚ what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?" suggests that despite the societal
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Berkin‚ Carol Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence Knopp‚ Alfred A.: Random House Pp. 194 In Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence the author‚ Carol Berken‚ revisits the Revolutionary War exploring the many diverse roles that the women of all ethnicities‚ cultures‚ and classes were called upon to assume during the eight year struggle for independence. Most often when we address the Revolution the focus is on the notable
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