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The speech 'I have a dream' by Martin Luther Kind, Jr. persuades Negros to their freedom of racial justice in the American society. This was achieved with the use of inclusive language, rhetorical devices such as anaphoras, metaphors and diacope. To begin with, MLK speaks about American history where the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and thus, made millions of African Americans hopeful. The metaphor present here says "a great beacon of light of hope to millions of Negro slaves". This sentence provides a visual of the great significance the Proclamation held for Black Americans, and how much dependency was put onto it. Later on in his speech, he mentions how all hope was destroyed as the lifestyles of Negros declines, subsequently exposed to discrimination. The presence of anaphora "one hundred years later, the negro..." exemplifies the frustration of the Negros when their lives aren't getting any better. They're still outcasts and in pover...

        We express our thoughts through speaking the language in a way that others are able to understand your message. As long as they understand, does it really matter the way you say it? “Twtr? It’s majorly bad! Leading head teacher condemns ‘text speak’ for eroding schoolchildren’s language skills”, published by Laura Clark for the Daily Mail, literally communicates the effect of text speech in student’s academic performances, especially in the English language. The authoritarian states that the constant use of the ‘fingered speech’ limits the child’s vocabulary, accurate spelling ability and even frequent grammatical mistakes. If the words were to be complex or simple, the spelling spelt completely or as an abbreviation, the grammar correct or incorrect, would the meaning of it still change? Because I don’t think so. Professionally, you might say that the changes made to their core foundation may lead these schoolchildren to be affected in the future, perhaps ...

Interviewer : Joining the revolutionary artist, Edwin Starr, we will be celebrating the 10 th year anniversary of his biggest known hit music, War . His magnificent vocals for the single track , turned it to land as the chart topper, securing a position of number 1 in the US pop category in 1970! Now in the brand new 1980, we’re here to discuss a few of his reasons and motivations to publicize this prodigious piece. Welcome Mr. Starr. A star indeed! [ chuckles ] Starr: Thank you for the compliment there [ chuckles ]. And yes, War was the hit that got me to the top man, like really. 10 years from now and I think that this song have actually made some positive changes to human mind. Interviewer : So Starr, how did you end up with this song in your recording list anyways? Starr : This wasn’t my song actually. The Temptations performed this song initially but then, it wasn’t included in their album because of their fear of controversies arising. They were quite at their peak at t...

In the song “My Block”, Tupac is addressing the struggle in the African American community, where issues such as racism and substance abuse appears, thus causing AAVE speakers to strive in this criticizing environment. From the lyrics saying “…the three strikes law is drastic” we can interpret it as saying how the African American people are shown injustice and unfairly treated by the society, just because they are different and considered as “non-standardized English speakers.” Along with this, he talks about how the newer generations are being born into pre-decided fates and that “it’s like a trap.” The use of simile here communicates how African Americans are literally being unconsciously tricked into going involved in dangerous business like drug dealings and such, thus, ending up being recognized only as the nigga “clutching on a four-five”. This implies how African Americans are considered as dangerous people and so, is kept a certain distance with. This labels their whole comm...

           Entering the room, I could hear the TV turned on with my sister watching her favourite Hindi series, Pavitra Rishta. Humming along with the pleasing tune of the title track, I walked step by step to the couch and dropped into a cross- legged position. “Pure Relationship.” The only two words I understood was the title’s literal translation. A great progress to me personally, as memorizing the meaning for those two words took me a lot of practice. Oh! And my mother’s scolding for asking her the definition, a million times! “What are you doing here?” a question that interrupted my memories, was posed by my sister who was still gazing at the TV with the remote gripped firmly like as if someone might steal it from her. What was I doing here? It took 10 minutes into the 50 th episode that finally made me interrogate myself on what my presence here signified. I didn’t understand what the actors were talking about but, something made me sit there froz...

Mother Tongue In Amy Tan’s writing, she specifies how her mother’s lack of communicating proper English left her discriminated in front of a society that expects proper English to be spoken. For this, she needed to help her mother for even official matters like conversing with the stockbroker and translating some things as well. This certain scenario reminded me of a personal experience with my own mom. Last year, during the 3 way conferences, I had to translate most of what my teachers were saying to her as she couldn’t really comprehend different accents. Since she was used to just communicating in English taught back in India, she only understood English spoken in a South- Indian accent. Also for the fact that she wasn’t exposed to a wider range of international English speakers didn’t make her situation better. Therefore, I needed to reassure her of whatever she heard from my teacher by translating it back into my mother tongue, Malayalam. She could understand most of the conve...

Introduction! My name is Amoolya Shishupalan and I’m from India with a lot of its tradition and arts developed in me. I love to dance and sing but the difference is, I do classical dance and Carnatic music. They’ve always fascinated me and I was involved in it since I was 4.  I also love K-Pop, something that students in Raha brought me into.  My inspiration was my sister, who was an all-rounder, let it be in academics or through cultural activities. We both received the prestigious Hamdan award at a young age and I thank both my parents, especially my mom for putting up so much effort and time just for us to succeed. Reverting back to my origin, although I am an Indian, I was born here in Abu Dhabi, UAE and therefore, I was brought up with two different cultures at the same time. The mixture of the two countries’ traditions and cultural created a sort of respect and admiration for their similarities and differences. Language, was a great influence in this scenario. Though...