Pound Cake speech

After listening to and reading the excerpts of Bill Cosby’s “Pound Cake” speech, I was able to identify the language ideologies Cosby relied on and his attitude towards AAVE. All of the ideologies and attitudes produced by Bill Cosby were negative. He despises that AAVE is being used and believes that AAVE speakers are stupid individuals who are uneducated and due to the way they speak they will not be able to be successful or be put on the same social status as caucasian people. Furthermore, he

Robert Mugabe Feasts at 92; Country Still Starving According to the Daily Mail, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's 92nd-birthday cake weighed in at the weight of a prize fighter – a full 92 kilograms (just under 203 U.S. pounds). The overall party cost upwards of a million dollars. As the world's oldest living leader, you might think Mugabe has earned a nice party, but his country is in financial ruin, drought has brought vast food shortages, and political turmoil continues to fuel fighting

Summary The Cosby Speech or popularly known as the “Pound Cake Speech” is a speech that Bill Cosby gave in commemoration to the “Brown Vs. Board of Education Supreme Court” anniversary. In his address, he talked about how parenting affects the attitudes and behaviour of the children. He described how bad parenting results to the improper and unwanted actions of the children today, like: violence, going to jail, the repeating cycle of teenage pregnancy, and unwed mothers. He also talked about the

you. Sugar is not fashionable any more. Cecily: Cake or bread and butter? Gwendolen: Bread and butter, please. Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays. Cecily: Hand that to Miss Fairfax.”(Wilde 38) Wilde’s concern with Victorian’s people trying to maintain an upper class stature is seen clearly in this quote. Gwendolyn requests no sugar with her tea and just bread and butter. Her reasoning is that sugar is not the norm anymore and cake is not at the best of the houses anymore. Gwendolyn

with him as a BLACK MAN addressing his fellow brothers and his community. I respect him more than those who sweep shit under the rug. He is correct when it comes to Bill Cosby he was seen as a hero(still is). He had an air of superiority the Pound Cake speech(I

The racial barrier of segregation have been attempted to be broken over time. Important leaders such as Martin Luther King, Malcom X, as well as other symbols such as the movie “The Negro Soldier”, Eldridge Cleaver, and Booker T. Washington all had certain points about the racial barrier of segregation. Back into the Jim Crow laws, these were laws that were enforced in state as well as locally known laws enforcing racial separation between blacks and whites. Some historical figures were able to try

This shows a lack of emotional expression. During her interview, she did not appear suspicious or guarded. Her answers became increasingly unique and irrelevant as it progressed. Ms. Larkin seems to have disorganized speech. Patients who have schizophrenia may have trouble concentrating and keeping thoughts. They respond with unrelated answers, where it starts from one topic and ends with a different one. She seems to have loose associations where she rapidly shifts

that will be defined is metaphor, personification, and hyperbole. Metaphor Metaphors are considered to be one of the most important forms of figurative languages used in everyday speech, prose, fiction, and poetry. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, a metaphor is “a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison” (Van Engen, 2008). Metaphors are used to enhance imagination

body known as your brain. Your brain is kind of like the manager that tells the rest of your body what to do. It tells your lungs when to breathe, your muscles how to move and your mouth what to sing when the birthday cake comes out. All human brains weigh the same, about three pounds, and they are made up of the same parts. The nervous system is

Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet”, Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, Apr. 3, 1964 You are told this problem does not exist and the only reason you claim to suffer from it is because you believe in it. Ignore the black elephant