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    Compare and Contrast: Amy Tan and Richard Rodriguez ! The United States is a melting pot‚ made up of people from many different cultures and backgrounds. With no national official language‚ it allows immigrants to stick to their roots and embrace their heritage. For Richard Rodriguez‚ he grew up with Spanish strictly spoken in his household. This made him feel safe in his private life‚ which discouraged him from learning English. Richard felt most comfortable speaking Spanish at school and

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    world.” This quotation means language has no limit‚ it’s something that can be translated into a wide variety. Both Amy Tan in the essay‚ “Mother Tongue” and Richard Rodriguez in the essay‚ “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” write about their struggle with their identities not only because of their race‚ but also the language there families speak. Amy Tan and Richard Rodriguez both struggled with there families language conflicting with the need to speak the language of society. While children

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    Written in an eloquent manner‚ both Frederick Douglass and Richard Rodriguez have a mesmerizing yet laborious narratives about their early lives. Growing up‚ both authors worked hard to approach literacy and develop their skills. For instance‚ as a former slave Douglass struggles to learn how to read and write without his owner’s permission. Therefore‚ he took every opportunity to use the resources around him. Meanwhile‚ Rodriguez has easy access to books that were ‘essential’ for his education.

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    English III AP/ Period 5 9/15/13 “Mother’s Tongue” by Amy Tan 1. Amy uses emotional appeals throughout her essay as she does in her first couple paragraphs. Amy says “I am a writer” to show that she simply loves to write down her mind and that is it. 2. Tan’s argument is simply referring to the somewhat embarrassment she has when people notice her mother’s broken English. As she goes on it begins to bother her to a point where she feels sympathetic for her mother. As she feels this‚ she

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    with less respect because of the way they talk or pronounce a certain language. In the article "Mother Tongue‚" Amy Tan describes her relationship with her mother‚ who speaks "broken" English that essentially‚ isn’t broken at all. She shares her stories about the struggles of growing up with a mother who spoke imperfect English and the prejudice she received in turn for it. However‚ Tan didn’t let her mother’s “limited” English bring her down; instead she used it in her own personal narratives to

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    20 February 2014 (21 February) After reading the strongly “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tran‚ it shows a great deal of strength from the Asian American Culture. Throughout the reading it showed how hard it was and still is for Asian Americans to work through the difficulties of the English language. In her essay Amy Tan writes about the problems immigrant families have with speaking English‚ by reflecting on her own experience. While reading Mother Tongue‚ I remembered the difficulties I faced when I

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    by your family? In the memoir “Fish Cheeks” by Amy TanAmy‚ a Chinese-American girl is embarrassed by her family’s Chinese customs at Christmas Eve dinner. The reason she is so humiliated is because her family invited the minister and his family over for dinner‚ and Amy‚ who has a crush on their son Robert‚ is acutely aware of the cultural differences between the two families. In spite of the fact that the meal was a horrifying event for young Amy‚ she eventually learns to appreciate her mother’s

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    Kinds by Amy Tan‚ there is a mother who motivates her daughter by making her participate in several trainings to enhance her skills. Amy is signed up for many practices and events that she does not want to do. However‚ throughout the story we see a dramatic change in Amy from being an obedient to defiant caused by her mother’s pressure to become someone who she was not. From the story we see countless bad parenting habits. The first habit that we capture is the unsympathetic feeling towards Amy. A parents

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    The relationship between Richard Rodriguez and Richard Hoggart is supremely that of a student to a teacher with Rodriguez as the student and Hoggart as the teacher. In moments when Rodriguez says that Hoggart’s opinion of what a “scholarship boy” entails is “more accurate than fair‚” Rodriguez is learning more as if he is a student (547). Of course Rodriguez now‚ after having written “The Achievement of Desire‚” understands his place as a “scholarship boy” student; however‚ there are brutally honest

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    Amy Tan’s "Two Kinds" is an autobiographical look into her childhood that shows the conflict between Tan and her mother‚ the difference between old and new cultures‚ the past and the present‚ and parents’ expectations vs. reality. Couples of opposing elements comprise the basis of the entire story; to another extent even the title itself‚ "Two Kinds‚" shows the friction that Tan creates. The strongest argument that Tan suggest is that this may not only be a look into her own life‚ rather it may

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