In the book, “Rereading America,” written by Toni Cade Bambara along with Gary Colombo and Robert Cullen, Bambara focuses on the challenges and desire to teach by contras of what you don’t have and what you can achieve. (Bambara, pg. 253-259) It is without doubt that even though a cookie cutter theory is used in most schools; there will be certain social economical neighborhoods in which a teacher or adult will have to vary the process of communication in order to get his or her point across with dedication and teach the love for learning. Ms. Moore had been a wise educated woman who did not avoid the challenging attitudes of children going up in a disadvantaged economical community.
What she previously thought was “bad” English is merely a language variation, each variation with its own history and culture. Lanehart now believes these variations need to be celebrated and that they don't always need to be corrected. The more Lanehart learned, the more she believed that English can vary as long as we can all understand each other. Lanehart decides she doesn’t want to correct people anymore.
1) Because John Simon argues that American should be care->care about English grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, and demonstrates that this problem is mostly from miseducation, intended audience for “Why Good English is Good for You” are American educators and parents who are concerned about their children`s English education. The purpose of the text is to suggest that American citizens need to do their best to use the Standard English that has more advantages than sloppy English. 2) By using elevated diction, superior tone, and linguistic jargon, John Simon, the author of “Why Good English is Good for You”, demonstrates the importance of using correct English to American educators and parents who are concerned about the children`s English
In the article It’s Hard to Make It in America: How the United States Stopped Being the Land of Opportunity by Lane Kenworthy, talks about how family background and history has the biggest impact on your personal success in life. Overall the article touches on how america is working on closing the gap of opportunity for everyone of every race and gender, but consequently doing so has rearose the topic of family background and upbringing. I am going to be focusing on the family background and upbringing as[ect in a child's life plays a role in whether or not they will be successful later in life. Even though there is no good way to prove this idea, because you can not fully associate family background with one’s individual work ethic and
The article “It’s Hard to Make It in America: How the United States Stopped Being the Land of Opportunity” by Lane Kenworthy provides an eye opening view on how the modern world has changed from the past and what kind of change it brought to the economy. I think this article was written for young Americans who are planning to start their own families to know the statistics on how their actions will affect them and the future generation involving their children. The article seemingly provides such a simple solution to decrease the gap between low income and higher class families, to grant more money to low-income families. But if this is the case, where is that money coming from, and how will it be regulated so it undoubtedly helps the future
Kamm explains how critics are judging people’s use of the English language unjustly and how he disagrees with this. He describes how people grow up speaking a certain way by instinct and observation, similar to scholarly linguists, rather than by using stylistic conventions, as pedants would. Kamm expresses his disagreement with pedantry, which, in his opinion, is a discourteous act of misconception and should instead be replaced with general usage of the language. He claims that people should get rid of the idea that Standard English is the only correct form of English and in the process achieve social and linguistic
A Change in America Identify Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history - Oscar Handlin. Everyone has their own opinions when it comes to immigrants. Yet, Immigrants have helped shaped American Identity by making America diverse and unique. “Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans" by Richard Rodriguez, in the article America can be seen as a diverse country.
What does it mean to be an American today? Being an American isn’t hard,but sometimes people just like to not follow things. First thing is being to say The Pledge of Allegiance in school than sitting down on your lazy butt. Second thing is being yourself. Three thing is if you are at a game standing up and put your hand on our heart for The Star Stander Bender .
334)”, this is explaining that Americans are not being properly educated. They have to teach themselves what is right and wrong when it comes to the English language. They are unable to look up to older authorities to help them therefor they cannot broaden their horizons when it comes to the English language and culture. In “Lost In America” McGray says, “ The president’s language may promise $24 million to promote foreign-language instructions in K-12 schools, but that seems pretty paltry compared to the $206 million he requested to fund abstinence-only sex education”(McGray Pg. 356), this proves that our priorities are focused elsewhere and not on our language and culture.
In the discussions of language, one controversial issue has been what language is correct and acceptable. Grambs argues the usage of the word like. Others believe that the usage of the word like in speech is okay. My own view is there are certain times when using the word like is acceptable. When it comes to the topic of the word like, most of us will readily agree that it seems difficult to talk without using the word.
Being an American can mean many different things all depending on the different perspectives of different ethnic or religious groups. So what does being an American mean to me? Being an American to means that everyone can live a happy stress free life where they don’t have to worry about being discriminated against or feeling like they don’t have equal rights. To start with, being an American can range in definition depending on a person 's perspective of America. Personally, I would say being an American is when you can live a happy life where you don 't have to worry about being treated differently because of the color of your skin.
The “Survivalist” series is survivalist, dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction about a man named Morgan Carter, a survivalist. Morgan and his family must learn to survive after the power grids in the United States go down, leaving the world without electricity and running water. Not to mention other things that the modern world is used to having, if not takes it for granted. The author of the series A. American, uses his experience in survival communities that he has worked with for over twenty years.
“America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand”(Truman). Nearly everyone has an individual definition of what it means to be American. It seems, however, that many have a relatively generic definition and often have a “work hard, play hard” mentality, and some believe all it takes to achieve the American Dream and to be American is to put your head down, work hard and get lucky. However, it is much deeper than that. Being American is defying people's expectations with bravery and boldness and achieving your goals regardless of obstacles you face in life.
I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It by Viet Thanh Nguyen is an argumentative essay about a man, (the author), who claims multiple countries as his own and has grown a deep understanding of his countries that have led him to love his countries, but also see what is wrong with them. He argues that even America has many flaws that most Americans do not recognize. The author makes his argument by showing the flaws of his countries, but also showing what there is to love about these countries. The two main countries he talks about in the text are Vietnam and America.
The book Speaking American: A History of English in the United States by Richard Bailey was a rather interesting read. The book, overall, provided an abundance amount of information about the history of the language majorly spoken in the United States of America today. If one needed to do research about American English for their history class, this would be the perfect source of information that dates all the way back to even before the 1650s. However, obtaining the knowledge is not as simple as the title may suggest; personally, for me, the author used words that were harder to understand and connect. The brilliant factual qualities were definitely dulled out by the occasional difficult to understand word choice in this book.
