Personal Narrative: Doctor Rutherford Bentson

Although I’m not a doctor, Dr. Almonds book, Stories of a West Virginia Doctor pulled me in to keep me guessing throughout his many stories to make me feel as if I was the doctor working the case. I would try to guess the diagnoses of the patients, and I came to care for them as well. I aspire to become a doctor one day, so I found this book exceedingly interesting!

Talking Black In America addresses how advanced, unique, and culturally important African American English is (Hutcheson and Cullinan, 2017).

Machan uses diction to create cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words to illustrate the fact that Hazel is not highly educated. “Up pops this frog/ musta come from the sewer” (Machan 5-6), The tone is disgusted, she doesn’t say ‘a frog’, she says ‘this frog’, she also describes how it

The book is littered with explanations about fishing. I admit that I frequently got lost in these passages. This knowledge is an important element of the story. When a component of the boat malfunctions, readers know the significance of this to the sailors. Without this, the book would have provided a message that only other sailors could understand. Junger, by supplying this information, wants to make sure that all readers can fully grasp the danger and suspense of the book.

The article, Nobody Mean More To Me Than You And The Future Life Of Willie Jordan by poet June Jordan combines two stories she acknowledges as important memoirs that occurred during her career as an English professor. In this essay, Jordan mentions a class she taught on Black English and the other one concerning Willie Jordan, a young black student in the class trying to bring justice to a corrupt South Africa while facing the unexpected death of his brother who was killed by a Brooklyn police officer. Jordan’s essay demonstrates the importance of Black English and her effort to help students discover the commutative power and clarity of the language. Jordan successfully incorporates notable student examples and creative guidelines for a well written paper while still enlightening students about the difference between standard “Standard English” and “Black English”.

Dr. Alice Howland is a thoroughly modern, middle-aged professional woman. A brilliant, psycholinguist, she is the William James Professor of Psychology at Harvard University where she studies the mechanism of languages. But she feels as if something isn 't right. For Alice it begins with forgotten words during lectures, a moment in Harvard Square where she has no idea where she is nor how to get home, a forgotten trip to the airport to catch a plane to a conference she 'd spent the day preparing for, and names on to-do lists that mean nothing to her.

“There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.” This quote by Edward Gibbon illustrates the intensity of writing and what gratification it can hold. When one writes, they are not confined to one certain formula. A person is able to express their thoughts and feelings in any way they choose. Language is a border for many people in that some cannot comprehend a certain language, understand how to use it, or recognize what is being said to them. On the other side of the border, they are not viewed as equals or as important compared to those who are not competing with this barrier. In his essay “Coming into Language,” Jimmy Santiago Baca uses his personal experiences to demonstrate how much

Perplexed, he rushed out the mansion onto the beach and frantically searched for help, a way off the island, anything! To his displeasure, he perceived nothing that seemed useful for escape and when Rainsford spotted a vacant, lonely dock, he knew the transport ships were long gone and were not an option of escape. Although he was somewhat disheartened to learn about the ships, he was pleased to take in the refreshing wave of beauty that the view provided. Beyond the thriving, swaying trees, the sea was calm, like a slumbering, tranquil baby, and the sky was absent of any clouds. The soft breeze brought a sweet tropical scent that aroused his senses and reinvigorated his thinking. Rainsford recalled how he came to Ship-Trap Island and when General Zaroff mentioned the many sailors that were also stranded on the island. He wondered if there were still any sailors on the island. He decided to search the

The Conference on College Composition and Communication discusses two very important and controversial questions within their article “Students’ Right to Their Own Language”: “What should the schools do about the language habits of students who come from a wide variety of social, economic, and cultural backgrounds?” (2), and “Should the schools try to uphold language variety, or to modify it, or to eradicate it?” (2). While for academic writing purposes students should be expected to use standard American dialect, it is important to respect the diversity and various heritages throughout the country by allowing students to use the dialect they choose when speaking.

Regional dialects were seen to be used by those from a lower class and being less intelligent. However, regional dialects were given points for sounding warm, trustworthy, friendly and honest. These positive connotations are usually for rural, beautiful landscapes. To find this, he got the same actor to read a passage but in different accents and listeners had to score them.

However, he had a moment of brilliance by his actions when Isaac Peters noted “… he kept shovelling dirt on the back tires” (Simmie, 84). That dirt was the leftovers that the body had displaced.

The lad stormed off after placing the hog and his belongings down to go check out the well out in front. The boy approached the stone well, and checked to see if everything was still in tact. It was, there was even more than one bucket. Jessime rotated the lever to uprooted the small bucket from the water below, he checked the water to see if it was any good and hauled it back to the church. He decided it would be best if he bathed after he finished with the swine.

5. Why did the author think that English is weird? First, English is weird because its spelling is not corresponding to the way people pronounce the words. In addition, we can get about half of what people are saying in English without training and the rest with only modest effort, and no other language like English.

‘Should we answer it?’ Norton Amparo asked the nameless and silent driver, who responded with a shrug. ‘That is the third time, it can’t be a coincidence.’ The diabolist saw a rock in the trail and held the handle above the window. He braced himself as the car sped over the impediment. The bump jettisoned

His fifth claim is that different forms of speech do not equate to differing levels of achievement in school. As a sixth claim, he argues that ethnographic assumptions offered by Deutsch, Bereiter, Engelmann are wrong. His final claim, is that training a child to learn the logical manner of Standard English doesn’t guarantee that he’ll succeed. Nonstandard English isn’t the problem to learning; it’s the ignorance of the language and the belief that it’s inferior.