CLOUD PILLOW 1 Cloud Pillow Mountains Robby Carter Melanie Watson ENG121 February 3rd‚ 2013 CLOUD PILLOW 2 Cloud Pillow Mountains My family and I went on a mini road trip to a small town up in the mountains one winter afternoon so that
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As Lantis said of vernacular culture‚ “even the most urbanized people have an everyday culture‚ including everyday speech that is different from the literary language of from the language of straight news reporting” (202). In terms of the Philadelphia Union‚ the fans have their own way of expressing themselves. Tailgating‚ playing‚ cheering‚ supporting and talking about the game are the vernacular culture of the Union. This culture is unique to any sports
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Phillis Wheatley was one of the most iconic African- American poet. Her poems are the voice of the people who were treated as slaves. The short poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” was story of her life‚ and how she used Bible as a weapon to fight for the equality. In the beginning words of “On Being Brought from Africa to America‚” Wheatley used the word “mercy”. I think Wheatley used it because being brought to America‚ the land of Christianity‚ was the chance for her “benighted soul”
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vast it is and the different ways people communicate. The first‚ and most interesting topic for me that was brought up in week one was vernacular language. “A vernacular variety of language is the form of language people use in their “everyday” lives when they are not speaking as specialists of experts of any sort.” (Gee & Hayes‚ 2011‚ p. 8). Learning about vernacular language led me to think about and explore the different ways language can change depending on factors such as a social setting‚ social
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In the poem she says‚ “Taught my benighted soul to understand...Their colour is a diabolic die." She talks a lot about how she got to be raised in a good family‚ she got to learn how to read and write‚ she got to live in safe conditions‚ and best of all she didn’t
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the sixteenth century. By using the evidence of immigration patterns into the United States‚ rise of free black communities in New Orleans‚ understanding of the Atlantic Slave Trade route‚ development of Architectural traditions‚ and adoption of vernacular architecture‚ Vlach will prove his objective. Vlach proposes that his counter parts in his profession have got it all wrong. He uses Kniffen as an example. While Kniffen’s definition of the shot gun house a‚ “ the one room width to three or more
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Comic and Serious Scots Poems both Ancient and Modern. The collection included mixture of poems‚ macaronics1‚ mock elegies‚ epitaphs‚ sixteenth century love poems‚ patriotic pieces‚ laments‚ etc. The major achievement of this collection in the early 18th century Scottish society was that it diverted the public attention from politics to literature and encouraged the production of vernacular poetry‚ but Watson’s personal main goal was to “rival the collections of miscellaneous poems in our neighboring
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1. Rap Descendant Rap has its origins that belong to ancient Africans brought to America‚ where the Rap ancestors got their own accent (Vernacular English)‚ and lived their own culture (African American Culture) such as Funk‚ Jazz‚ Rock‚ and then Hip-Hop; like the majority of colored race‚ the black race suffered from enslavement and terror of the whites‚ thus in order to establish their position within American society‚ African Americans revolted against the white regime in the sixteenth (Civil
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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “benighted” as “existing in a state of intellectual‚ moral‚ or social darkness.” The word “darkness” really strikes me in this definition‚ just as the word “benighted” struck me when reading Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America.” This use of “benighted” most certainly refers to her time in Africa‚ which she calls a “Pagan” land. This could refer to actual Paganism being practiced in Africa‚ or a lack of religion entirely. She says that
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African-American Vernacular English originated in the slave plantations of the American South‚ and it shares a number of phonological and grammatical features with Southern dialects of American English ( Nordquist‚ Richard). Contributing to the evolution of American English
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