Analysis Of Se Habla Esspañol

In Michaela Cullington’s essay titled, “Does Texting Affect Writing?” the author tests the ongoing question of how today’s youth handles the effects of texting in the education system. Using successful evidence from both sides of the argument as well as participating in her own experiment, Cullington is able to fully demonstrate how texting does not interfere with today’s students and their abilities to write formally in the classroom.

In his essay, “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez, goes into detail about the struggles he is faced with growing up as a Bilingual Hispanic in America. He was an immigrant living amongst upper class American’s with his family. Strictly speaking Spanish gave him a sense of safety and comfort. In school, he would not feel comfortable speaking and was not sure where he belonged. When he first started school, he was a part of the bilingual program up until his parents were informed if would be better for him and his family to learn English. Rodriguez struggled at first with the battle of losing the closeness he had with his family. Feeling like he had lost his cultural background and let his father down. Explaining the struggles, he overcame to become who he is today.

As long as I can remember my accent has always played a role in my life. There have been moments of uncertainty, discouragement, annoyance, and lastly pride. Throughout each emotional stage I’ve learn acceptance and responsibility of what defines me as a women who happens to be Latina. In Tanya Barrientos “Se Habla Español” she defines what resonates within me “Without having to offer apologies or show remorse. If it will help, I will go first. Aqui estoy. Spanish-challenged and pura Latina (45). She beautifully states the acceptance that too many find difficulty fitting in. Especially in a world that will defined you not only by your looks but as well as the way you speak.

This is Jarmain Harrell from your English 1023 class at the North Acadian BRCC College on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10: 30 am - 11:45 pm. I know our essay rough drafts aren’t due until Thursday but I hoped you could take a look at mine to see if I did everything correctly. I added a few things such as quotes and a couple of sentences but the majority came from the six summaries I did. Was it okay that I used a quote twice in the essay? I used it in the Introduction and reword it in the conclusion. Is are the quotes in the correct place?

One way in which these texts portray this is how they outline a certain social divide that exists between Latinos and Anglo Americans within society. Although it may not be obvious upon first glance, it is often found that these people struggle with being “too” Latino, and their cultural expression can sometimes emphasize their separation from Anglo Americans. In, Latino Cultural Citizenship, Inequity, and Multiculturalism, Renato Rosaldo explores culture, and how it is expressed in both public and private life. Rosaldo references to Richard Rodriguez’s memoir, Hunger of Memory, in which Rodriguez had claimed that Spanish was a language that should be saved for the privacy of one’s home, rather than in public areas and the workplace (Rosaldo, 1997, p. 32). Rosaldo then emphasizes that this idea is not rare, and in fact, this particular mindset is something that many people tend to believe,

Recently the use of our language has become a hotly debatable subject that identifies who we are. Many people now routinely use Standard English and have been forced to speak it, because it’s the “American way”. On the one hand people who use their upbringing language are shamed for using it. On the other hand, many people who use their upbringing and Standard English are shame for it even more. Take as an example Chicanos are mestizos who have to live on the very border between different cultures and countries. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua, she argues the negative social attitude toward Chicano ways of speaking and the harmful effect of this negative attitude on the self-identity of Chicano people who live in borderlands. Despite on how Americans are compelled to disregard their culture and subdue to American culture in order to fit in, using your own native language doesn’t violate any law in the book, therefore everyone should be able to speak freely in whatever language they please to use.

Nevertheless both “culture clash” and this sense of “otherness” within communities creates a harmful effect in society but equally harmful is the alienation that appears as an outcome of their presence. The other tends to feel this alienation most when realizing there is disengagement between them and their society, work, and even at times themselves. Alienation is what a Hegelian theorist would call the essence, for it is what both of these ideas are factored out to. Coco Fusco’s book “English is Broken Here” does an adequate job of bringing to the forefront those themes through her compilation of essays from other Latino/a and herself.

In her essay “Se Habla Español,” Tanya Maria Barrientos raises the question of self-definition by discussing the struggling to find her ethnic identity in American society with Latino heritage. The essay starts with the author expressing her embarrassment facing society’s expectation on her fluency of Spanish based on her Latina appearance, in particular when she signed up to learn Spanish—the language her parents use to communicate. As a child who grew up in the United State, Barrientos learned the poor reputation on Spanish americans and developed the wish to isolate herself from the stereotype, which she approaches by not speaking Spanish. Then, as America became more open to different ethnic groups, the author suffers from finding a place

In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldúa investigates the negative social attitudes toward the Chicano language and the effect that the negative attitude has on the identity of Chicano people. She insinuates that a person’s language is the key to identity, uniting people and helping them to identify with one another. She also makes an attempt to explain that some people might speak differently, but American citizens need to change their mindset towards diversity rather than continuing to look down on those that have different identities from us.

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Technology is a helpful tool for teaching the writing process, and Marchisan and Alber (2001) concluded that writers can be taught to write using the writing process approach paired with tools of technology, direct instruction, and committed well-trained teachers. Graham, (2008), Graham & and Perin (2007a), and Rogers & and Graham, (2008), agreed that technology makes the process of writing easier and often provides very specific types of support. Word processing provides at least four advantages: (a) revisions are easily made, (b) publishing is professional-looking, (c) typing provides an easier means for children with fine motor skill challenges to produce text, and (d) word-processing programs have software programs, such as spell and stylistic checkers designed to reduce specific types of miscues. Other tools are speech synthesis (i.e., the writer’s spoken words are transcribed to electronic text) and word-prediction programs (i.e., the computer program reduces the key strokes by predicting the writer’s next word). This is helpful for students with difficulties with spelling and the mechanics of writing. In addition, outlining and semantic mapping software can aide with the planning process, and the use of computer networks and the Internet can help to promote communication and collaboration among writers.

Jing-mei’s inability to connect with her mother arises from her upbringing. Mrs. Woo pushed Jing-mei to extremes with her parenting and failed to realize the lasting trauma it had on her daughter. Jing-mei as a fragile child wants nothing more than for her “mother and father [to] adore [her]” (233). The developing girl is looking for acceptance through her parents, but Mrs. Woo does not understand the positive reinforcement required in those early stages of development. Instead

Writing tools, such as pen and paper, has modernized to meet our essential needs in a classroom environment. Technology continues to advance so much that we could not live a day without it like a writer cannot live without writing. Although “personal computers were not initially meant for word processing either, through that has become one of their primary functions”(Baron 646). When computers were first introduced in a classroom environment, teachers feared students would forget how to properly spell, but now teachers complain if students do not double check their spelling when turning in their papers. A student’s literacy knowledge and skills development are not only advancing in spelling, but their vocabulary is expanding as well. Success in literacy is measured by what a student can do with it, not what they know about texts and print. Having a computer in hand gives us access to synonyms and/or antonyms along with many more tools

Take a moment to reflect on your day, how often do you find yourself writing. We live in a world that revolves around technology. If you think about it, we have email on our cell phones so we do not have to write letters, we have cars that can park themselves, and we even have televisions that are smarter than some human beings! Despite how much technology surrounds us, writing is something that will never go away. Written language is something we experience in every day life and it is something that is essential to daily activities. Whether or not we realize it, written language is present in all aspects of our lives. “The good and readable handwriting is another dimension that is necessary in developing society” (Rostami, p. 10). Although the written language is such a large part of our daily living, how we express this written language, spelling, is often overlooked. Rostami states, “handwriting is generally the storage of information. The data are written objectively and everyone can use it in every time and place. From the benefits of handwriting we can refer to the limited amount of data that human memory can hold and the unlimited amount of data that can be stored in written form. Thus, humans are not only able to learn the knowledge of their ancestors, but also they can use them to achieve new discoveries and new conclusions” (p.7).