Ap English Language Case Study Monologue

“Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott, is a hilarious must read for junior high school students and any other aspiring writers. Her essay inspires comfort and confidence in writing a first draft. It concretes that all writers experience the “shitty” first draft. Anne Lamott wrote this instructional information in 1995, but it is timeless information. She blows the idea of writing an immaculate first draft out of the water. Anne supports the idea that bad first drafts will almost always lead to better second, third and final drafts. She symbolizes the first draft to be like a child. Where you put all your thoughts and emotions out there in words on paper, you go all over the place, you say all kinds of ridiculous things, and all with the

When Catherine goes to her brother's occupational therapy meeting, she meets another young man there, Jason, who is about her age. He is confined to a wheelchair, but additionally he cannot speak. He must communicate with words on cards. As someone who is writing all the time, Catherine is struck by how difficult it must be for someone to...

In the essay, “What You Eat is Your Business”, Radley Balko writes to tell his audience about how the government is trying to control people’s health and eating habits by restricting food, taxing high calorie food, and considering menu labeling. Balko includes in his essay that government restricting diets and having socialist insurance is not helping the obesity problem, but it is only making it worse because it not allowing people to take their health in to their own hands so they have no drive to lose weight or eat healthy. In his essay, Balko is targeting society, including those who may be obese, he is trying to show them that the laws our

Many people in today’s society tend to believe that a good education is the fastest way to move up the ladder in their chosen. People believe that those who seek further education at a college or university are more intelligent. Indeed, a college education is a basic requirement for many white collar, and some blue collar, jobs. In an effort to persuade his audience that intelligence cannot be measured by the amount of education a person has Mike Rose wrote an article entitled “Blue Collar Brilliance”. The article that appeared in the American Scholar, a quarterly literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, established in 1932. The American Scholar audience includes, Company’s , Employees,

“She can as she wishes arrange to be in the company of individuals and people most of the time, belonging to her race.” “She mentioned that she can go for shopping alone most of the time and pretty well assured that she will not be harassed or followed”. She wishes to have widely representation from people of her race when she opens the television or the front page of paper. She mentioned that she can swear or dress in the second hand clothes, or not answering the letters, without having the people attributes these choices to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy of my race.

What is the tone of this video? What is the purpose? Who is the audience? Did you like the video, or not? Why?

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I chose an interval variable, and in this case the interval variable is the polarity score determined by SentiStrength represented by t (Ferrara 3). The conceptual definition the author gave was that emotions can spread through empathy in various methods and depending on the social medium we employ it can spread faster, becoming more potent. Thus manipulating others Focusing on social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, the author tried to connect the “micro-communications” (Ferrara 1) we take part in online to the emotional states we convey and spread to others to feel and share across several social media outlets. Ferrara operationalized this emotional output using an algorithm to measure positive and negative emotional sentiments through

With patients who have learning disorders or are cognitively impaired, care givers or family members can be educated about their condition. In this case, a combination of learning styles can be used. Picture boards can be included with the teaching style appropriate for the family members. Patients with auditory, visual or speech impediments can also affect learning. In this case a combination of handouts, videos and interactive programs can be used.

But I found that what was most distressing, above all, was that I could not completely grasp language. I understood words literally; hospital is where I was, walk was a motor function I could not execute, eat was to lift a speared gravy biscuit to your mouth. But strung together, they were almost meaningless. Voices were muted and lucent, both in my mouth and in the mouths of others. Doctors came and went, made sounds close enough to words, yet I could not understand them. “Speak slow,” I’d say. “Like this. Noun, verb. I’m sorry. I can’t understand.” Likewise, they focused intently on my lips as I spoke, silently diagramming them into something at least somewhat comprehensible. A friend would later tell me how I sounded “soft and mushy,” my mind seeming to wander and circle above us. I lost words, my voice trickled away as I spoke. There were conspicuous blanks, scooped-out linguistic holes. I felt terribly alone, then: a languageless writer, cut off from the world. I could not truly communicate with others, and others could barely understand me.

Hobbling into A4 for his scheduled detention, Mycroft nearly laughed in disbelief. A few months ago, this room would have been full to the brim with misbehaved children, the population so high that most students could not find chairs to accommodate them, but rather stood up for the full hour. It was getting to the point where his fellow students were racing to detention, just to guarantee themselves a seat. Now, in front of him sat merely four equally glum students.

Communication through the use of drawings and symbols is a life-changing technology that has given a voice to many who do not have one. In Lord’s story Rules, protagonist Catherine can be seen helping her friend Jason as she discovers his way of communication and all the hidden strengths that it holds. One hidden strength that Catherine discovers during her first interaction with Jason is that he can effectively communicate without anyone hearing him. Jason, when his speech therapist arrives calls her “Stupid. Speech. Woman.”(Lord, 2008, p. 48) and on another account, Jason can be seen telling Catherine in silence that his speech therapist “Stinks a big

At times, circumstances in life can unknowingly guide one on a path leading to a promising and rewarding career. Thanks to my family and sister, I am here today. When I was four years old, my younger sister Carly was diagnosed with a rare developmental disorder, called Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS). Of course at the time I did not understand what this meant, but as we got older, many of Carly’s challenges were attributes that came easily to me and other typically developing kids. One of her biggest challenges was - and still is today - is communicating effectively. For instance, Carly didn’t use full words until early elementary school. Before that, she communicated mostly through pointing or using monosyllabic repetitions when she wanted objects. At worst, she would express her thoughts and frustrations through outbursts. From this young age, I was able to observe Carly and her SLP work on improving her communication, either in our home or during her speech sessions at the therapy clinic. However during my high school career, becoming an SLP was just in the back of my mind, and was never my first choice. It didn’t become prominent until entered my freshman year of college at the University of Iowa, and took the Intro to Speech & Hearing Processes and Disorders class. Throughout the semester I not only became interested in the concepts I previously experienced through my sister, but also in concepts I had never heard of or thought twice about like stuttering, aphasia, and

As being the first Canadian-born daughter to my parents who have immigrated from India, I have encountered a lot of hardships towards my journey in learning the English language. Since childhood I have always been a quiet girl, who was always to shy to express what her thoughts had to share. I would never raise my hand in class to answer questions I knew answers of, nor be the first to talk in a conversation. Rather, I would convince myself that it was right to not talk aloud incase my English was at fault. Due to this barrier at a very young age, I needed some sort of balance in understanding my thoughts. Therefore, I developed a deep devotion towards writing and it become the single one thing that gave me a voice, which provided me with clarity. My life only made sense to me, if I had written it down in front of me where I could recollect my thoughts into one place to reflect on them. Through all the situations I have encountered in life, whether then were good or bad, I have written them all down through short stories, poems, song writing or just daily blog posts. Doing such has helped me to put into practice the grammatical techniques I was taught starting off as a child.

Human language is a complex system of communication. The estimated number of extant languages in the world vary between 6,000 and 7,000. Human language relies entirely on social convention and learning, so that it evolves and diversifies over time, thus these features cause some of the languages distinct over time. In fact, only 4% of the non-extinct languages are spoken by the majority of people in the world, which is 97%, and the 50% of the left languages are expected to extinct in the current century at an accelerating rate due to the process of globalisation.