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character improvement through her writing styles and techniques, which indicate responses and reactions between Joe and Missie May to develop their relationship. Hurston supports her character development through her written work style, her characters dialect, and encounters experiences from her own life to depict a feeling of reality to her characters identities. While the story is set in the south, we can relate it to how marriage becomes more difficult due to the background they come from. One theme

important, why we shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition and why/how different dialects can be helpful to know throughout a person’s life. Throughout the article DFW uses harshness, wittiness, empathy, sympathy and some bold words to affectively get his points a crossed to the reader. In Harpers article DFW speaks about how important it is to speak multiple dialects. SWE and SBE are two of the most common dialects. SWE is the abbreviations for Standard Written English, and SBW stands for Standard

count from one through ten and it sounded more like, “Won, chew, free” than “One, two, three” but that’s because those words were difficult for her to pronounce. Although my parents tried to educate me in the English language, Chinese was the first dialect I learned. Since Chinese was my first language, I was placed into English as a Second Language (ESL) in Kindergarten. As I wander to class, Mrs.Wilcox welcomes my peers and I with a bright smile on her face. I notice two massive metal cabinets dividing

Portfolio Element 3: Critiquing prescriptivism Within the English language many different variations occur due to regional accents and dialects. It has been suggested that ‘speech differences are not only idiosyncratic but also indicative of belonging to different social groups’. Therefore, prescriptive ideologies occur discussing whether some accents hold a precedent over others. A prescriptive ideal is ‘an approach to the study of language which prescribes how language should be used’. Appendix

The Importance of Bilingualism In my life, I must speak many different languages: English at home, English with my friends, English in public, and Vietnamese with family. At home, I speak to my parents with respect and sometimes humor. With my siblings and friends, I use sarcastic and understanding tones. In public, I carefully choose my words in order not to offend anyone. With extended family, I quietly speak in the polite Vietnamese that my culture demands. Because I can speak a variety to languages

Quynh-Nhi Tran P. 4 The Importance of Bilingualism In my life, I must speak many different languages: English at home, with my friends, in public, as well as Vietnamese with family. When speaking to my parents, I show respect and sometimes humor. I often even combine English with Vietnamese. With my siblings and friends, I use sarcastic and understanding tones. In public, I carefully choose my words in order not to offend anyone. With extended family, I quietly speak in the polite Vietnamese that

Growing up, bilingualism did not play a very prevalent role in my life. My family, friends, and everyone else I interacted with spoke fluent English, and because of this, I became sheltered from other languages. But as I grew older I began to realize that other languages did in fact exist in our community and they played a large role in most people's lives. I also began to witness the struggles others faced with language and soon understood the importance of bilingualism. Bilingualism not only allows

In the 3rd century B.C. a philosopher Aristotle formed what he called the “Six Elements of Drama,” which are thought/theme/ideas, action/plot, characters, language, music, and spectacle. Little did he know that two millennia later, we would use these guidelines in order to evaluate or develop an exquisite play. Twelve Angry Jurors followed these guidelines to pull in their audience and cause them to be attached to characters or intrigued by the plot in such a way only a play of high excellence could

Bilingual education has become a hot topic issue in the U.S. Bilingual education is designed to help students with minimal fluency in the English, in this case, are being taught academic content their native and secondary language, so they would not have to “sink or swim” or feel lost in English-only classes and drop out of school entirely. The main goal is for these students to become proficient in the English language. However, people against bilingual education say that by doing this, it will

Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo are the first Indian dramatists in English worth considering. Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali but almost all his Bengali plays are now available to us in English renderings. His important plays are Chitra, The Post Office, Sacrifice, Red Oleanders, Chandalika, Mukta Dhara and Natir Puja. The plays are firmly rooted in Indian ethos and present an unusually original dramatic vision. As Jain puts it: In these plays, there is an attempt to capture and present basic