Different dialect‚ different status‚ different identity? By: Angelina Costan What does the way we speak a language have to do with status and identity? Eliza Doolittle‚ who once was a flower girl‚ is now a noble lady. Her weird English dialect has changed into proper English‚ and now she is seen as an upper-class woman It appears that a dialect has a special role of determining someone’s status and change of dialect changes the person’s status in the society and identity. Is it true? People
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Written Task (Draft-1) 1. What prompted you to make Taare Zameen Par? (Aamir) When i read the story‚ I was moved. Ignorance of such complexities have led to unwarranted stigmatization of children suffering from disorders such as dyslexia. I felt that here was a god sent opportunity to convey to the world how important it is not to use a thumb rule to compare performances of children when they are blooming. Children are close to me and in the story i found innocence‚ trauma‚ desperation
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Written Task 2 – Text Shame by Dick Greggory This essay will discuss an episode from the autobiography by Dick Gregory‚ Nigger (1964)‚ entitled Shame. Here‚ the author talks about one of the most important lessons he learned during his childhood: the world is not equal to everyone‚ and does this by telling his experiences lived in his school and neighborhood‚ all with the aim to present the difficulties that he and his social group faced during the forties in the United States. Using this
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Written task 1 Michael: interviewer Big Z: Rapper Michael: Tonight please welcome the king of hip hop‚ the artist to sell over a million copies in 1 week. The one and only Big Z aka slicey dice. Michael: So how you feeling? Big Z: Good. Michael: So Big Z‚ how does it feel when your album climbed up from number 8 to number 1 on billboard. Big Z: well‚ I think I saw it coming cuz all the other albums I feel didn’t have much feeling in em. Michael: what makes you say that? Big Z: Like
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Rationale This task will be related to Part 1: “Language in cultural context” specified in the topic of “Language and Identity” and how both (language and identity) are related to each other. In order to find the relation‚ the movie “The Freedom Writers” was studied. This film portrays the achievement of dreams‚ and how people living in the same place can express their language in different ways depending on their social and cultural history. The task was centered on how language is shaped by a
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http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/standpoint-gender-stereotyping-in-indian-recruitment-advertising-1994209 Rationale: For my written task 1 I have decided to write an opinion column based on the topic “Gender Inequality” to the public and the readers with the writing style of the author. I chose to write an opinion column from an article which talks about how woman are showed unimportant compared to men in advertisements. I chose to write on this topic because I feel that gender inequality is a major
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quality is shown in the advert‚ that McDonald’s are natural and sell the highest quality ingredients. World famous French fries and the food sold at Maccers are pure. Food and the process of cooking are shown. As well as being a family restaurant. 2. How is this advert using the style of a fashion shoot to create an image of its brand? The fashion shoot suggests that McDonalds in high end like the model and the fashion shoot. The appearance and the sexual stance of the model entice the viewer
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Title: The Mean Blues and the Mean Reds Written Task 1: Literature‚ part 4 English A Language and Literature: Higher Level Rationale: 300 Word count: 800 Session: May 2014 The American School of Milan Carolina Galbiati Candidate Number: 000261- 018 Rationale The Mean Blues and the Mean Reds is a short story I wrote‚ based on the collection of short stories written by Nadine Gordimer within her collection called “Jump”. I chose to write a short story as my passion has always been
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to know basic facts about them. What I am trying to do here is to prove the above point I made by showing different styles of speaking amongst certain people. I chose to write a conversation between two or three people. There are two scenes in my task. The source for the first text was a tiny article which featured in the magazine “Brunch” which showed the use of Hindi and English together‚ known as hinglish. The source for my second scene was the movie‚ “The bodyguard” which is an interracial romantic
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represented in a particular way? Social groups are always represented with a stereotype. This could include their physical appearance‚ their language‚ style‚ or manners that will define this certain social group. In “Master Harold”… and the boys‚ written by Athol Fugard ‚ social groups are represented in a particular way. In this case‚ Fugard represents South Africans creating a stereotype‚ creating characters like Willie that represents the cultural context of the play which is Apartheid and ballroom
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