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Often times, we rely on the world to we live in to shape us. From mass media, to magazines to commercials, we always find ourselves seeking the next best thing instead of what we already have. The way society shapes us develops each and every one of us because we are persuaded by such advertisements. Robert Scholes of “On Reading A Video Text”, and Shirley Jackson of “The Lottery”, show appropriate examples of the world we live in today. Robert Scholes proves how distorted and misconceiving people construe the world through the “Lottery”, proving his idea of cultural reinforcement.

Our childhood plays a significant role in defining the kind of person that we become and the type of life that we live.

What defines an excellent childhood? Childhood is the precious time in which children should live free from fear, go to school, and have fun. My childhood memories mostly take place in New York because that is where I grew up and where the journey started. I didn’t move to California not until I was nine years old. I had a fun adventure going from state to state learning about their

When a person remember the childhood is all with parents, playing in park with parents, going to school with parents, watch TV with parents. It sounds like a very happy family. But, where are the friends? It is sad to have no friend memory because it just likes nothing special happen in the life. I had a lots freedom when I was youth because my parents were very busy. I like to be free because I like to explore new things just like Wergin’s daughter. When children grow up childhood will be important. Overall, I partially agree with Wergin that give freedom to children is helping them to develop better.

The Government should provide healthcare for anyone who can’t afford it there selves. I feel this is a must because they are more than capable to provide a good insurance for those who need it.

Owl Moon written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Schoenherr, takes the reader for a winter walk through the woods on a moonlit night. Father and son trudge slowly and silently through a snow covered forest in hopes of finding owls. It is a story of patience, perseverance, but most of all hope. “When you go owling you don’t' need words or warm or anything but hope”.

In everyone's life most memorable part and best is their childhood. Those child hood situation and incidents will put a smile on ones face when they were grown up. In childhood there will be many memorable situations left behind. when they were grown up they will definitly feel that they are missing those child hood days. In child hood there were many situations like childish behaviour, scoldings of parents for not getting good marks, secrets between two best friends and steeling of money from parents pockets. Everyone will feel very difficulty at that time of childhood, but they were grown up they feel that they missing them very much. Situtions, memories and also lessons from hurting all will be fixed in the ones mind very strongly. So the

Teachers spend a great deal of time creating and preparing engaging and culturally relevant learning materials. A teacher’s workload increases when one is tasked with offering material of varying difficulty in an attempt to make the class accessible for all students regardless of their learning level. This is a common situation throughout Canada due to the influx of individuals who are enrolled in a mainstream English speaking school but are still learning to speak English. A concise journal review has reviled simple ideas that can be implemented into diverse classrooms to make them accessible for students learning to speak English.

The NASW and I have different positions on the issue of language in the United States. The NASW language and cultural diversity in the United States policy statement reads that “language is a source and extension of personal identity and culture…to limit or deny language as an extension of culture is to reject that aspect of human beings that helps to define them” (p.217). While, I don’t disagree that language is part of an individual’s identity, I find the statement harsh and exaggerated to meet the point the NASW is trying to convey on the topic. Language differences can hinder communication, it’s a barrier to effective communication. Non English speaking individual face barriers

For me growing up was the most fun part of my life. Since there were no self created technological barriers it was easy to mix and mingle with people and share our feelings. Most of us remember being chided in our childhood for the wrong deeds that we did and those are the things we still look back to and base our rights and wrongs upon. Also at the same time I remember being praised for working hard in school,college and currently at work which makes me push my self and achieve more.

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.

Everyone has a different interpretation of the word, “invention”. However the word is simply defined as; a new device, method of process developed from study and experimentation. An invention is just a mental fabrication; it’s a falsehood (Dictionary.com 2013).1 Although in the essays, “Why I write” by Joan Didion, “Life in a new Language” by Eva Hoffman, and “Basmati Rice: An Essay about Words” by Audrey Thomas, each author has their own view on the English language, how they each began inventing their own writing styles, and also their reasons for why they chose to become writers. These are the three things that make their definitions of invention very particular and their own.

My father always told me that “Nothing in life is free”. For years I have always been weary when I was told something was free. I would have to double check and ask the question “Am I really getting this for “nothing”. Most of the time the answer was; “No”. The first time I remember dealing with this was buying my first car. It was a beautiful 1993 Ford Explorer, jet black, low miles, and it had a great stereo. The salesman had everything done and ready for me to sign. My father looked over the contract and noticed a “service fee” hidden in the price. According to the salesman, all service for the first three years I owned would be free. But of course the “free” service was paid

It’s the seventh grade. Next year, the entire class of students would be required in incorporate a foreign language into their curriculum. Would it be Italian, French, Spanish, or German? Most chose Spanish because a majority of upperclassmen thought it was “easy”. For some people, they chose Italian simply because of the fact that most of their family spoke it, and they wanted to be able to interact with them in the way they were most used to. Others in school would pick French because it would help with ballet pronunciations and understandings. But are Italian and French the best second languages to learn for other people? Many may be wondering, “What are the most useful secondary languages I should learn?” English speakers should find a language that is commonly spoken in many countries, and can potentially help them get ahead in the field they desire. One would want to pick a common language, so when faced with interaction with a non English speaker, they can still have and maintain conversations. Spanish, French, Mandarin, and Arabic are the most useful second languages to learn because they are commonly spoken around the world, can be learned relatively easily, can help to land people jobs, and can provide insight among a variety of cultures.

Although it was my mistake, 8th grade year I was in ELA with my best friend Alyssa. We never did our work; we messed around. We need to read Anne Frank’s diary, and we were sitting there doing nothing. These assignments and projects started coming on and we were struggling but we somehow we ended with A’s. We always would mess around so I believe people could say it was a fun English Class but if we think of it in a way where we need to read we never enjoyed that. Our teacher, towards the end of the year, have us in different reading groups because we always messed around and never actually did anything. One of the best memories when we were reading was when we were playing with a water bottle and got