Biographical Analysis of John Mcwhorter

Robert MacNeil, a writer of many great historical articles, was once, a journalist and news anchor. In his article, “English Belongs to Everybody”, MacNeil responds to the fear of many Americans who believe that Spanish will soon sweep over English. He argues that English can not be diluted by any other language as “it has prospered and grown because it was able to accept and absorb changes,”

‘ "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember the advantages that you 've had..." In consequence I 'm inclined to reserve all judgments.’

The English language has many tongues. From the 1500’s where people started migrating to the thirteen colonies to today where America is surrounded by immigration. From the beginning of history, society has been shaping English and its quality. It’s shown in Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” the varying ways one speaks them, regardless of being the same language. The author’s mother is being discriminated against due to speaking a different English from the proper form of English. Amy uses her personal experiences to contribute to the English- speaking community about inequality of different tongues through rhetorical appeals such as pathos, ethos, and logos. Amy Tan in her essay “Mother Tongue” claims that foreigners and immigrants who can’t speak proper English are treated differently.

David Foster Wallace’s essay regarding language and the usage of the English language in America captured my attention from the beginning. Through several gasps of humor and wording geared toward an audience of intellectual scholars, Wallace’s stance on language was raw and honest – nothing was held back that he thought important.

Speaking American: A History of English in the United States tells the story of the evolution of English and how it has been effected(affected?) by different regions of the continental United States. The author, Richard W. Bailey, passed away before the book’s publication. I believe that this is one of the reasons for the book’s rambling and inefficient writing style as the editors, because of their inability to contact the deceased, “left potential ambiguity unresolved” (Bailey xi).

Many people have their own criticisms of Cotton Mather. As Kennedy tells us in the beginning of his book, The First American Evangelical: A short life of Cotton Mather, all we need to do is search for “Cotton Mather” on the internet to find a wide range of opinions. We easily run into articles or other writings of the hatred out there for this man, who is very commonly depicted as a villain. Even in one of Marvel’s comics there is an evil villain by the name of Cotton Mather whose purpose is to hunt witches. However, based on Kennedy’s reading we find that Mather was rather one of America’s most famous, influential, and respected pastors and scholars. By Mather’s promotion of inoculation, ideology of witch trials, and devotion to the lord, he was one of the greatest and most important figures of his time.

As a writer, this exposure to all of these “Englishes” has affected her greatly. She no longer focuses on writing to the readers who can understand English perfectly. Tan’s understanding of the multifaceted “Englishes” present in our nation allow her to get her message across to a larger audience.

Throughout The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson construes the origins and the history of English and the language's countless quirks.

Language insensitivity signifies a severely alerting issue that countries around the world encounter on a daily basis, which infiltrates into all aspects of life. In the short story Mother Tongue, written by Chinese-American writer, Amy Tan focuses on the power of language while battling the cultural discrimination. The prejudice apparent in Mother Tongue is language. In America, the most common language spoken is English. It is exceedingly rare to find two people who speak the exact same English, however.

Marshal Mathers better known as Eminem has succeeded against all odds, growing up in a multitude of broken homes in the ghettos of Detroit, and fighting to rise to the top of African-American dominated art form. Eminem was constantly bullied and victimized, being told that he did not belong just for being white and that he was not going to succeed. He has proven that with desire, drive, and dedication anyone can accomplish their greatest goals no matter their background. Eminem has suffered to get to where he is today. The theme of suffering is embodied even in his music, “Lose Yourself” “ Sing for the Moment” and “Not Afraid”. Each song demonstrates an area in his life where he has suffered, even after reaching success.

“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). Happiness is an important idea in “ The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway as suggested by the title. However after reading the story Hemingway does not make it seem that Macomber really lived a happy life. Macomber had multiple problems throughout the story and didn’t seem to show any happiness until the end of the story. In “ The Short happy life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway Francis Macomber did not lead a happy life until the very end of the story.

The essay is chiefly about the writer 's own rumination and judgment about how "broken English" compared to Standard English. Moreover it came to her sense that language not only "authorizes" individuals to participate as members of a designated community, it is also a essential key in enabling individuals to establish and define the dimensions of their identity. Though a lover of language and an erudite lover of language she is, she has never recognized this concept until she realized that she has never appeared eloquent and rhetoric in front of her mother.

Contempt Leads to Murder “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” is a short story by Ernest Hemmingway. In the story Francis and his wife Margot Macomber take a vacation and participate in a safari in Africa, an expedition led by a man named Robert Wilson. The story involves themes of control, beauty and wealth and how they affect the married couple within society. The conflicts that this couple experience are never resolved. The story is a sad commentary about how a marriage, which is supposed to be full of love, can actually be an arrangement of convenience.

In his novel “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, Ernest Hemingway portrays the conflict of how Americans consider normal aspects of admirable and heroic behavior. Francis Macomber, a wealthy American citizen goes on a visit the safari for an adventurous hunt. Francis wants to learn how to hunt and prove to himself that he can be a heroic male. Margot Macomber, his wife, accompanies him on his travel. He wants to go hunting, because that 's what American men like to do, but he actually does not want to. In reality, he is terrified, and is unsure of what to expect. Margot is depicted as a powerful woman and uses her

James A. Michener’s The Novel details the creation of the titular novel as it passes through the hands of four different characters in their respective chapters to reach completion. These four characters—the writer, Lukas Yoder; the editor, Yvonne Marmelle; the critic, Karl Streibert; and the reader, Jane Garland—each contribute to the story in some way and are each necessary to its creation and success in varying ways and in various magnitudes. However, the one who was the most integral to the creation of Lukas Yoder’s final work was Yvonne Marmelle, his long-time editor who never gave up on him. Michener’s story is done in a very unique way and provides much knowledge for the reader to gain in regards to literature as a whole.