In the short stories of Mother Tongue by Amy Tan and Public and Private Language by Richard Rodriquez‚ both essays describe an influence on the English language and what impact they had while coping with that language. For Amy tan in Mother Tongue‚ she roots the common source for who had what kind of impact on her learning of that language. In Public and Private Language‚ Richard Rodriguez establishes a view point on why it is important to be given a public identity. Both stories come together to
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In Mother tongue‚ Amy writes how her mother who couldn’t speak well Standard English was treated unfairly in the foreign land. In this essay‚ she mentions some stories related to her childhood experiences which were happened to them. "... I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores‚ at banks‚ and in restaurants did not take her seriously‚ did not give her good service‚ pretended not to understand her‚ or even acted as if they did not hear her." Amy
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PASIG CITY – The Department of Education (DepEd) has added seven more languages from the current 12 major local languages as medium of instruction from Kinder up to Grade 3 under the Mother-Tongue-Based Multi-Lingual Education (MTB-MLE). The additional languages are Ybanag for pupils in Tuguegarao City‚ Cagayan‚ and Isabela; Ivatan for the Batanes Group; Sambal in Zambales; Aklanon in Aklan‚ Capiz; Kinaray-a in Capiz‚ Aklan; Yakan in Autonomous Region Muslim Mindanao and Surigaonon covering Surigao
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The Benefit of English After I read “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ and “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee‚ I understand that the familiarity with the English language affect the authors a lot. All of those three writers share the same attitude that learning English can affect people’s lives. I totally agree with these three writer’s opinions that English can affect people and I think people who live
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Native. Source. Origin. Protector. These are all words that can be interchanged with the word “mother.” Like anything else all language has an origin. Likewise‚ language is something that comes from a source but changes‚ or is raised‚ over time. Different languages are native to different people and some language is protected over time‚ whether through books or the human mind. In her work “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan explores the creation of her language and her mother’s role in it through her literary
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Sawatdee Khrab‚ Millicent. Good morning! I’m Jettrin from Thailand. Nadia: Hello! It’s nice to be with you. I’m Nadia from Dubai. Sujeet: And good morning‚ Millicent‚ Jettrin‚ and Nadia. Sujeet ere from Nepal. Host: OK. Let’s get started. I see our first caller is on the line. Hello‚ Arturo from Montevideo. You’re on the air. Arturo: Good morning‚ actually‚ good evening. It’s 10:30 at night here in Montevideo. Here’s my question. I’m traveling on business to Thailand next month‚ and I’ll be working
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When we see Michael Jordan‚ we assume he is the greatest basketball player in history and how succesfull he became. But‚ the reason why he became very succesfull is because of his numerous amount of failure. This quote is relevant in my life because after I read his quote during my sophmore year‚ I accepted failure. I always hated losing and failing‚ but I never thought how failing will only drive my motivation to work harder. I wrestled my sophmore year through senior year‚ but i kept losing when
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America’s Talent: Gone “Are We Losing Our Edge”‚ an article published in Time‚ written by Michael D. Lemonick‚ discusses the competitive edge that America has against the rest of the world. The thesis that Lemonick conveys are future scientist and engineers around the world moved to America for its enormous resources‚ academic freedom‚ and history of excellence. However‚ the times have changed‚ and these scientist and engineers are now moving to their native land to continue research and development
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A Brief History of Alternative Education by Ron Miller Why are there "alternative" schools? Our system of public schooling was first organized in the 1830’s to provide a common‚ culturally unifying educational experience for all children‚ yet from the very beginning‚ certain groups of educators‚ parents‚ and students themselves have declined to participate in this system. Their reasons are various‚ and the forms of schooling--and nonschooling--that they have chosen instead are equally diverse
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making individual‚ whereas the mother depends on the father and obliged to respect his interest and rules. Thus‚ the mother has less writes and limited authority in the family. Limitation of authority leads the children to undermine and disrespect the mother. The other problem of unequal authority is the daughters in the family could develop inferiority complex against the sons and the daughter’s self-esteem could be affected. Because of the problems above the mother and daughters could be unhappy
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