Bullying

        Bullying is known to be the most common problem amongst schools. This issue has existed for many years and the worst part of it all is that just like any other type of violence issue that exists nowadays, this bullying behavior causes great amount of damage to others. Bullying can happen amongst adults too like at work, parties, reunions etc. But in schools amongst kids and teenagers it seems like the center of attention for this type of behavior. Kids can suffer from bullying while in parks, playgrounds, at the bus stop. I wanted to research on a subject that should be of great interest and concern to us as students so I picked Bullying. While surfing the web for some info on the subject I found this very awesome webpage called "StopBullying.gov. I chose it because it does not only talk about bullying but because it also gives ideas on how to stop and prevent this issue.

         Now I realize that bullying isn't just a playground's bad moment for some kids but that it can become a long lasting life threatening situation. This is a social matter. This article talks about Bulling and its different types, who's at risk, how to prevent this issue etc.
       
         some rhetorical strategies used in this article are:
                 
                   bullying            imbalance       verbally
                   behavior           power
                   threat                rumors
                   children            attacking
                   childhood         physically

Blogger #3

The reason I chose this ad was because it shows a lot about bullying. I liked it because it accurately shows how many woman are stereotyped and bullied just because of the fact that they are woman or they dress a certain type of way. It made me realize that a lot of times, we just judge people based on how they look without even knowing them. It's a really big issue that many of us ignore because we do not think about the actual damage that we do to others. This is just one of many ads that are out there that accurately define the social issue. 

Stanley Charles III

Rayes

30 September 2015

”black hat" hackers don't believe what they do is wrong:

                                                So Are You at Risk

A study by Justin Kahn says that “86% of hackers do not believe they will ever have to face repercussions for their actions. While many of them believe they are above the law, over 50% of those surveyed said they aren't in it for the money, but rather just for the fun of it. Only 18% said they were motivated by financial gains and 29% claimed to be hacktivists driven by exposing the truth regarding various issues. Many people hear the term hacker and think of someone or a movie were someone set at a computer typing at the screen just hacking away. To some extent this is true but the term “hacker” refer to a person that gains access to something in an unconventional way whether it be for personal financial gains or to help prevent future attacks to their clients. The way hacker hack in many array of way they may dress up as a I.T guy go in to a building ask for access to the server room, hacker may even call say they’re from whatever internet provider you have saying “that you that your computer many have virus and for me to help I need this information.” One meth about hacker is that they only go after computer data, but they can go after more than that. Hacker can steel your identity then empty out bank accounts. An in to day world were everything and anything can be or is connected to the internet putties more and more people at risk.

Genre:

• Computer hacking
• Cloud hacking

Topics:

• Type of hackers

• Are you at risk
• Can you stop/prevent risk of attacks
• What can be hacked
• What is at risk
• What was do the go about hacking
• what is being done stop or punish them

Blogger #4: U.N Proposal Blogger

Due: Wednesday, Oct. 7th 

The Scenario:

You are each representative/activists for your specific social issue (the one you chose for Blogger #2).  We are attending the yearly U.N assembly and we are told that there is a $150 million fund available.  The U.N assembly agrees that proposals/presentations will be made for the money and the collective majority vote will decide on how the money is allocated.

The Presentation:

• you will have 5-7 minutes to present your proposal to the U.N assembly 

Keep in mind:

• you may work individually, in pairs, or groups
• you must represent your specific social issue regardless of who you work with 
• your presentation can include but is not limited to the following:
• visual aids: powerpoint, keynote, prezzi, posterboards, use of whiteboard
• handouts: flyers, postcards, note cards, fact cards, etc.
• technology: video clips, music, visuals, etc. 

**If you need any materials for workshop on M or W of next week, please let me know.  I can provide poster sheets, markers, glue, and scissors. 

Proposal Components & Details 

1. Summary
1. The Proposal Summary should be about one paragraph of 1-3 sentences and should include the amount of funding requested and give the most general description of the use that will be made of the funds.
2. Organization or Representative Description & History
1. The Organization Description and History section should be about 1-4 pages in length and should include the history of the organization, its structure, information about office locations that will be involved in carrying out the activities that will be funded by the requested grant, major accomplishments of the organization, relevant experience and accomplishments of the organization, established partnerships and relationships that will be important to carrying out the activities funded by the grant, information about prior grants received from the source to which the proposal will be sent, and an explanation of how the description you provide makes your organization an appropriate grantee
3. Social Issue Background
1. The Background section, of 2-5 pages in length, should provide the reader with an explanation of the problem that has created the need for the program that will be funded by the requested grant. It should provide evidence that the problem exists as well as that the proposed project will contribute to a solution to the problem or will reduce the harmful impact of the problem. It should highlight media and government publications suggesting that the problem is a high priority and that the proposed solution is one that decision-makers support and believe in. It is important that the reader who finishes this section know why your program should be funded over others. 
4. Project Description
1. The Project Description may vary widely in length depending on the size and scope of the program that will be funded and the size of the award being sought. The project description should give the reader a detailed description of the program that will be funded by the requested grant. This description should explain the duration of time during which the funds will support the project, the goals of the project, how they will be achieved, how success or failure will be measured, what services you promise to deliver to what population and what results you expect to bring about. A useful structure is to break the project down into component goals. Use each goal as its own heading and under each goal heading, list and describe the activities that will be funded to achieve that goal and how achievement of that goal will be measured or defined. The Project Description may also include information about the staff who will work on the project, their experience and qualifications to perform the activities that will be funded
5. Project Timeline 
1. Using your Project Description, provide the reader with a timeline that shows the chronological order in which the activities listed under each goal heading will be undertaken and/or completed. Also include information about how/when funds that are awarded will be spent to support each activity
6. Budget
1. Provide the reader with a table with categories of expenditures that will be funded by the requested grant, how much funding will be required for each category, and how much of that funding will come from the grant request.

Alcoholism

The topic Alcoholism has been discussed by many by choice also because it is a problem. Not only for adults but for teens as well. 30% of the alcohol sold in the U.S is consumed by  teens. Teenagers that are exposed and try alcohol before they are 15 are more likely to become alcoholics, But who do you blame? The liquor store that sells the alcohol to the teenager or the parents at home that might have led to this young teen to drink. Who ever is at fault there is no doubt that alcoholism is a problem. It can ruin families most importantly it is destroying our youth. Teens perform horrible at school due to alcoholism and adults perform horrible at work and at home. There is no doubt in my mind that something has to be done. I am sure there are programs for people suffering from alcoholism but are there enough?

Blogger Entry #3

Moises Escobar
1. The topic I chose was racism.
2. My source Anne Coulter: Hispanic Culture is deficient (video on YouTube)
3. The reason I chose this video as my source because Anne Coulter is the true definition of racism. One of her arguments was "if you don't want to killed by Isis don't fly to Syria and if you don't want to be killed by Mexican there's nothing I can tell you". She assumes that all Mexicans are criminals, drug dealers , rapists and low-lifes but little does she knows that us Mexicans are CEO's , Valedictorians , College Students and hard workers. She also states that the US is being taken by Mexicans and only Mexicans she did not state other races for example African Americans, Asians, Middle Eastern , Pacific Islanders and other races that are also here in the US in large amounts why is that? That proves that she is clearly racist.
4. I say that the genre of this is Historical. Many topics where discussed and said in this video such as Racism how she clearly targets Mexicans only, Stereo types how she assumed that every Mexican is a killer or a drug dealer or rapist, And Last but not least How she says people should fear Mexican immigrants more than Isis.

Draft

Irvin Santiago 

Professor Reyes 

September 29,2015 

  

      Blogger #3: Social Issue Break-Down                            

1).  The social problem/issue I'm interested in

     Is about Bullying and making Suicide.

2).  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-187330/Boy-driven-suicide-bullies.html

3).  I choose the topic about bullying and making suicide because it shows how kids and teenagers have to go threw at school or at a part time job with people making fun of them. Also theirs going to be a time where they get tired of being bullied and they don't tell their parents what's going on at school or at work instead They decide to do suicide. Like this article titled Boy 'driven to Suicide by Bullies". For instance Thomas story explains that he had been bullied at the bus stop when some unknown kids came along him and started messing with him calling him names punching him and doing some other stuff to him. So when he got home Thomas took an overdose of painkillers causing him to have a fatal heart attack. This made me realize that kids do suicide because they don't have any communication with their parents and causing them to do bad choices on life instead of doing the right choice.

4).  The genre of this article is society 

            The rhetorical strategic are 

    •Drugs •bullying •Suicide •name calling 

  •tired  •painkillers •overdose •death 

   •deals with life •Society •No Communication 

    •school •bus stop 

   

blogger#3

Cinthia Muratalla 

1.      The topic I choose to talk about is drug addiction.

2.      Scarface movie with Al Pacino.

3.      The reason why I chose this movie is because I have known many people who have come over to this country in search of the American dream and in the quest for that dream, they end up going into the wrong path. I have experienced this because many people that I grew up with chose the lifestyle depicted in the movie Scarface. The movie is such a great way to teach people that drug addiction will only end up in a bad way. That there is no good way out of it. It is a world that can bring unimaginable luxurys and power but yet it will also doom you life forever. It also illustrates the pain that familiys go thru when a love one is involve in such lifestyle.

4.      The genre that this movie fits in is drug abuse and addiction. The aftermath of drugs.

In the movie the topics that are discussed is mainly on drug abuse. The temptations of easy money. The pros and cons within this drug infused world. The main point and focus of this text is that easy comes but easy goes. Its main point is that drug abuse has no happy ending. Although the lavish lifestyle seems great, it will not long before drug abuse takes control and ruins everything in its path.

The rethorical strategies used are the following;

·         Community struggles

·         Drug abuse consequences

·         The harm of drug abuse

·         Broken families

·         Ethnicity issues

·         Bad temptations

It must stop now

Dianna Huerta
Professor Reyes
English A
29 September 2015

                           It must stop now

Spousal abuse violence is a major public health problem affecting 2 million women and 800,000 men, leading to homelessness, injury and in some occasions death. Domestic violence has no race, sexual orientation, age or religion. It can happen to anyone. Spousal abuse can go from physical, mental and verbal. Sometimes growing up in a home were abuse occur, we tend to think that it is okay when it happened to us. We don’t know any better. A lot of the times spousal abuse is not stop due to the fact of being ashamed so they continue in an abuse relationship for many years, specially when having kids. They might not want their kids growing up in a broken home. Another reason might be that they don’t know there are resources out there to get help. No one deserves to be in an abusive relationship. Spousal abuse or any type of abuse MUST STOP NOW!




Genre:
Spousal abuse
Medicalnet.com
Topics:
Spousal abuse
Domestic abuse
Verbal abuse
Physical abuse
Mental abuse
Rhetorical
Reasons for abuse

Mario Ruiz 

English A

Alcoholism

     Alcoholism caught my attention right away when I saw it. Alcoholism does many bad things to people. It kills people, destroys families, and causes people to do things they're not aware of. It caught my attention because a close friend of my family is an alcoholic. I've seen many things he does and made me realize how alcholo is one of the worst drugs you could use. It is also one of the easiest you could find. It also made me realize how many people go through alcoholism around me. Even thoe there is many programs that could help people they don't go get it because of how damaged they are because of the alcholo.  One of the biggest place were they help people is

Union rescue mission. This caught my attention because of all the homeless we were learning and alcoholism is a reason why there is homeless people.

blogger #3

1. my social problem is drug addiction
2. Jake . website at the bottom of the page.
3. My social problem or issues that were interested me in doing is drug addiction. I did it on addiction because I can relate to it. My uncle has more than 6 years that he has been in recovery and has not fallen in the temptation of wanting to taste drugs. He has been a good example to the family and made us get closer because he touched rock bottom and was able to stand back up and change his path and become a person sociality wants to be around and have.  Another example is Jake. He was addicted to drugs. He said that he felt good and exciting and the first time he consumed drugs it took him out of him self. He didn’t know what the people in parties would act like that and do certain. He said that it was like he was let in a secret of the universe. That he never knew what  was going through their brain and what they thought but when I got a taste I can tell you it was off to the races , that he thought he was going to do that the rest of his life and every time he did it was ablate . He said that his family went through a lot of pain because of what he caused with his addiction. But he is 27 and has recovered from drug addiction and he will continue to recovery and not fall into that path again. I think a lot of people can relate to these topics because the drug addiction has been a big part. 24.6 million People are addicted to drugs any type of drug (marihuana, cocaine, etc.). That’s the reason I choose drug addiction because my uncle is recovered of his addition to drugs.

4. science or addiction
5. The thin g that the video is talking about is the life of Jake. How his addiction to drugs started. And how he recovered from his addictions. It is very hard to recover but it not impossible.

The website to see Jake's story is https://youtu.be/n2DYngb7zEI

 

blogger #2 post

In the reading how to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua, she is talking about her life and how she wants to change others in a positive way like in the video of Jamila Lyiscott: 3 Ways to Speak English. She is saying that she was a treat her languages are correctly and are worth the same has any other language and that they are articulate Americans sounds fault or funny to the British ear. I think both things the article and the video have in common that they are fighting for their tongue (their languages). In the article Gloria Anzaldua said they called her a culture traitor, her own community called her that. Others would get punished for other things but they would get punished for speaking Spanish or other languages and in the video her dad and people around her would tell her that she changes they way she speaks depending where and who whom she was with. They were very interesting to read and see because they are actually saying the truth of what happens when English is the number one language , that other languages get put down in value and left behind.

Blogger #3

Edward Quintana
1.The social issue I choose is addiction.
2.Stephen King The Tommy knockers, Tommy knockers(mini series)
3.I choose this novel because it gives an insight of what addiction can do mentally and physically. Through metaphors King shows the transformation people go through during their addictions; literally turning into grotesque monsters the longer they stay addicted. The story is told from the perspective of several individuals some addicted, one fighting off the addiction, and the rest fighting against those who are addicted. It also shows some of the King's mind during his fight against his addictions.

4.Its genre  is science fiction, horror
The topics discussed in the novel deals with lose of ones self, the temptations one deals with during their fight to stay sober, how easy it is to get addicted.
background, state of mind.

 "The pro-choice believe this due to the fact of not harming the baby from your sickness but another option is adoption! You’ll still be able to let the baby live. For teen pregnancies, there are some religious beliefs as to where you shouldn’t have premarital sex. If you don’t want a child, you shouldn’t have sex at a young age because it’s not always safe. Also, abortions can result into a risk of getting ill, physical damage, stopping you from having a child again or even death. Not only will the baby die, but the mother will as well. One last reason for the side that agrees with abortion is that they believe outlawing it, would be discrimination. Women with a lower income can lead them to into participating in an illegal abortion or a ‘black-market’ abortion. Getting an abortion illegally can cause much more harm to the mother and baby than giving birth. I believe that it is not worth risking the lives of you and your child for a surgery." - Ishika M. "Abortion: Why It's Wrong"


 Abortion is a well-known debate in our society today. We have politicians with plans to defund our resources and religious leaders antagonizing us everyday for being immoral in this decision we, as women, must come to make. Not every woman will come to face having to make a decision of ending a pregnancy or allowing to proceed to full term. Only 35% of women will have an abortion by the time they are 45 years old. That's only 35%! We teach women that they must be in control of their bodies, and yet we shove religious and political views down their throat and label them murderers because they ended a pregnancy that was not planned. There are women who's pregnancies were not planned due to rape. You're going to tell a woman that she has to carry this baby, for 9 months, after a traumatic event? And then raise the child a full 18+ years because you say she has to? That's not right, and it's not ethical to put that burden on a woman. I agree that their are other options such as adoption, but then again you have people saying how placing your child into adoption is negligence and also irresponsible. Plus, not every child gets placed into a loving home. Some are placed into the system and they grow up in hardships. Approximately 120,000 children are adopted each year in the United States. Only 120,000 children. Yes, it is a great number, but compare that to the number of pregnant women in the United States today. Not every child is lucky enough to be adopted.
 Abortion is not an answer to everybody's problem, but then again it is not the church's or government's voice that matters when it concerns a woman and her body. It is a good resource to have when a woman is sure that this is the way she wants to proceed. Taking that away would just bring the world in a crisis and backdoor abortions would be back in business because the world couldn't accept a U.S. citizen's personal choice.

Blogger #3

Brittany Garcia

1. The social problem/issue i am interested in is about body image.

2.http://www.body-images.com/research/journal.html

http://brown.edu/Student_Services/Health_Services/Health_Education/nutrition_&_eating_concerns/body_image.php

3. I choose the topic on body image because it opens up a barrier about everything that goes on with body image, breaks down to disorders, changing the way you look, going to extemes, human perfrences, asthetics. It caught my attention because i an relate to it, a personal experince. It made me realize that their is a problem in society.

4. The genre is social

The topics in the text Ive read so far relate into fitiing into society, looking a certain way to inpress others, or make your self feel better, but their is more to than that and can cause bigger problems. No one sees what happens.

body image>obesity>anorexia>bulimia>binge>anxiety>aesthetis>human

perefences>how people view others>media

Blogger Entry #2

People think there is only one language used for each culture. Little do they know that within that language there is certain sub-languages used by a variety of people. These languages are used to connect to different people with those sub-languages people connect with each other, with a group of friends, family and also at school. For some people, they use the language of their homeland while with family and maybe use some slang with their friends. Gloria Anzaluda  states “ For some of us, language is a homeland closer than the southwest for many Chicanos today live in the Midwest and the East. And because we are complex, heterogeneous people, we speak many languages”. Therefore languages are used in many different ways for different people. Some might have a different language do to the area in which they live, because of the people they hang around. Also people have different languages do to their origins. 

Blogger #3: Social Issue Break-Down

Due: Wednesday, Sept. 30th

1. Pick a social problem/issue that you are interested in  (ex: hunger, poverty, ageism, alcoholism, bullying, spousal abuse... for more examples of contemporary social issues check out: 
1. http://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=326995&p=2194601
2. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005018778.html  
3. topics list under handouts  
2. Select a text that has to do with your social issue
1. ex: article, book, show, movie, commercial, ad, speech, poem, building, etc. 
3. Write a paragraph response about your text.  This can be any kind of response
1. ex: summary, why you chose it, what you liked about it, why it caught your interest, what it made you think of or realize, etc. 
4. Break it Down
1. What genre is it?
2. What topics/ideas/points are discussed in the text?  You can list as many as you can think of.
3. What rhetorical strategies does the author use? Create a list like we did in class.   

CHALLENGE:   write your paragraph using the double-voice technique   .... this is optional

Mario Ruiz 

Languages

      

  Most people identify people by the way they speak. Not only can they sometimes identify what ethnicity you're from but what type of person you are. I think there are different styles of speaking one language. It changes depending what situation you're in. The way you speak to your parents isn't going to be the same way you speak to your friends. It's still English but a different style of speaking it. Like Jamila Lyiscott says she is trilingual she could speak different in her home, school, and with friends. It's still English just a different style because of the place and time she is in. She won't be speaking at a meeting the same way she does with her friends. 

Blogger #2

Tonica Russell        Russell 1
Professor Reyes
English A
25 September 2015

          My impression of the article of Anzuldua and the video of Jamilia Lyiscott is that they are explaining how hard society makes it for us to fit in if we are not exactly what the world thinks we should be. It seems as the world likes to judge us by the way we speak. Like how Jamilia says ," I'm so tired of the negative images that are driving my people mad, so unless you seen it rob a bank, stop calling my hair bad." She's basically comparing how the world sees some black people if they come off as talking in slang, broken English, or whatever is not appropriate English to them. When I heard her say that, so much came to mind. It's a shame how people categorize into what they think we should be. Just because a person talks differently than the majority of the world gives no one the right to knock them of that. I mean if you think about it we all talk a little different. It's normal. People like to judge Latinos for speaking broken English but you have to give them credit for at least trying. For a lot of them, Spanish is their first language so of course any other language that comes after that is not going to be as great. They shouldn't have to feel less than because of how they sound. No one should.

Blogger Entry #2

            In the modern world today, we are expected to have a specific way of talking. We have a exact way of talk to be considered “articulate” and “American”. We are a nation filled with a major population of diversity. From the Latino population, to the African-American population, and more, we as a community have various ways of communicating with one another. But, within this country, we are taught that only one way is correct- or “articulate”. We are required to “tame” our wild tongue, as Anzaldua has worded it.

            In the United States, there are a handful of languages we come across everyday walking through the streets. Diversity is what we are known for. We have Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, English, and the list goes on. We have slang, and Spanglish- the combination of Spanish and English terms.  But it is never considered eloquent to the English majors, or English teachers, because it is not what their tongues were educated to say.  They were taught a proper way of communication. In the YouTube video with Jamila Lyiscott, she is presenting an argument through poetry. The argument concludes that she is articulate even when speaking in slang, or in her native tongue. Because she is articulate, she can speak freely in any way she pleases. She states, “I have decided to treat all 3 of my languages as equal because I am articulate,” when saying her 3 languages consist of her tongue from home, with friends, and when she’s in class.

            Each tongue has its own rules. Speaking from the Mexicana side, I do have an accent when speaking some words. Or when I am upset, my Spanish is rolling off my tongue as if it has been my first and only language. We are robbed of our own person because we are taught there is only one way or the highway when it comes to being articulate. We are people of different ethnicities and we are people who come from different homes with different way of being considered normal. Our language is what makes us, us. It is what we use to describe our feelings of emotion and our way of life. When a Chicano come up and says, “Wassup ruca, where’s your vato at?” That is their way of being articulate. That is the tongue they were raised with. In a home where that is considered the correct way of speaking, we must not take that away from someone with developmental speech classes just because some may not agree with their speech. Everyone is different, and maybe different is exactly the articulation we need.

Grande 1

Shirley Grande

Professor Reyes

English A

23 September 2015

            “Chicanas who grew up speaking Chicano Spanish have internalized the belief that we speak poor Spanish. It is illegitimate, a bastard language. And because we internalize how our language has been used against us by the dominate culture, we use our language differences against each other. Chicana feminists often skirt around each other with suspicion and hesitation…We are afraid of what we’ll see there. Pena. Shame. Low estimation of self” Anzaldua has defiantly given me confidence to continue on speaking Spanish by eliminating the belief that we speak poor Spanish. Though Anzaldua relates this quote practically too Chicano speakers, this internalized feeling does affects other Spanish speaking individuals like me. Of course there has been numerous times were I’ve felt that Spanish was too good for my tongue, especially when I leave to El Salvador that’s where my actual Spanish ability is tested.

             It is not normal to have this feeling that we aren’t wary to speak our own language and to think that Spanish is my first language. I put Spanish into practice when I am speaking to my parents; someone is in need of a translator or parents of a friend whereas English is with my brothers, friend, school, work and everywhere. As I converse in Spanish, usually Mexicans notice right away that I’m not Mexican and ask me if I make Pupusas , I say yes. I am not troubled by my accent, it’s a daily reminder of my parent’s root in which makes me branch out. I thank them for also encouraging me to continue on speaking Spanish unlike what Anzaldua went through structural violence at a young age. There is no need to tamper with physical action just to force upon change. This impairment that “we are all equally” needs to be reevaluated.

Stanley Charles III

Ms. Rayes

English A

23 September 2015                                                           

Cultural language wiped away

English is the only languish I’ve known seen the day I could seek. But it does not come easy to me. I read it and hear it but it ain’t easy to understand. I speak what some my broken Language but it ain’t my first language, this broken English. One thing about English to me you must understand it is not my native language my language comes from a place in Western Africa I do not know where, but I know it has to.  It is to believe slaves were brought to America at the beginning of the 19 century. Slaves came from Western Sahara all the way to Angola this was known as a Slave Coast. The African people were not the only people enslaved so were Brazilian and Caribbean people along with people from Europe and Asia. But unlike immigrants from other places most Africans in that were brought so the United States had little or no records of their ancestor’s lives and histories. Gloria Anzaldua said “Yet the struggle of identities continues, the struggle of borders is our reality still.” Much of my culture has been wiped away during the slave era, never identify my true native language.

Draft blogger #2

                         

                

               Multiple languages 

     One important point of the article How to Tame a Wild Tongue" is that theirs all different types of Languages spoken and not all are perfect but still can communicate and understand with others. I think that the language we speak identify who or what a Person is. Also if they have any emotional feelings and the way we hear their voice tone. Jamila Lyiscott thinks that Language is something neutral and not political and how broken English can be ignorant and how articulate Americans sound foolish when speaking English. Anzuldua describes her upbringing in a dual culture society and how the English culture required her to reform to proper English annunciation and speech. Also Anzuldua describes how begin Mexican is a state of soul not one of mind. Well on my own opinion Lyiscott and Anzuldua speak different way of English and 

How theirs other ways to speak Spanish also and how we have three ways of speaking proper English Linguistic and regional accent to English.

Like when we at school we use proper English and for our job we use fluent English and for home or parents we use a different type of English. For me I use proper English for school and when I'm at home I speak Spanish they way how I was thought.

                                                         Multilingual

People are often judged by the way they speak. The video Lyiscott and the article How to tame a wild tongue both talks about how people are judged to be a certain character based on the language they speak.  Lyiscott stated '' Do not judge me by my language and assume I'm too ignorant to teach '' Anzaldua talks about how people are looked at differently based on the Spanish they speak. People are put in a certain category based the language they speak. I feel that we all speak several of languages when talking to a certain person. When talking to your friends you use  a different language with them than you would with your parents.

Blogger Entry #2

Nancy Gomez

A. Reyes

English A

September 21st 2015

Multiple Languages And Their Connection To Identity

In different parts of the world there are a variety of languages and various identities. What is language? As defined by dictionary.com, language is a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition. Language defines who we are in every aspect, whether we are in the United States or in Europe, at home or at work, with friends or coworkers. Language makes us different from each other, though we may have English in common in the United States, we may or may not use the same form of English. As stated in “3 Languages” by Jamila Lyiscott there may be more than one way we can speak English. Whether it is proper, improper or broken English. We are all entitled to our culture and our language roots and because of this we attempt to keep our roots and our right to freely express what we feel through our own form of speech including writing. Not only we can communicate but we can also relate to the words of a language make us feel. "Identity is the essential core of who we are as individuals, the conscious

experience of the self inside." - Gershen Kaufman in “How To Tame A Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua. Identity plays a big role in who we are and if we were to all be deaf I believe we wouldn’t understand each other as much as we understand each other now. Of course, sometimes, as human beings, we struggle with our understanding of certain topics or issues because language is a barrier. As a foreigner in Europe, we tend to rely on those who know more than one language and let a tourist guide us through a city tour, but what if the tourist was lying? How would we know the tourist lies or what if the tourist is telling us more than what we should know? Well it is the job of the tourist to tell us what we need to know about certain areas of the city and the tour. Without knowledge of our language, which in this case its English, we wouldn’t know what is going on and we would most likely feel lost in what is a different culture and language. Same way with acquiring and performing the English language.

Most of us are expected to speak a certain way in different situations, with different people and in different places. If we are in school we are expected to speak academically, if we are with our parents we are expected to speak properly and respectfully. If we are referring to our siblings we would probably not be expected to talk academically because it would throw out the whole concept of being a sibling and would be out of the ordinary. Some of us are Hispanic, some of us are African American, Asian, Jamaican and our accent does define who we are. Our accent sometimes is a barrier and keeps others from understanding and listening to what we have to say.

“At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents.” Some individuals were raised in different countries or in different languages and often speak with an “accent” and here in the United States we re expected to speak with a well educated “tongue” needless to say, formal English. We may or may not meet the standardized rule of the American language, but regardless of what language we speak, we are entitled to our own identity.

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       When it comes to Language Anzuldua feels that language has to do with the way a person can feel. I think that what Anzuldua says about creating a language is true in a way because language interacts with time and place and helps  identify someone's place of origin or perhaps background. It is a reality that many languages exist and are spoken like French, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, etc. And of course the two in discussion here which are English and Spanish. We often think of English as being in America or being An American this is belonging to the U.S. But in reality we often ignore that some of this unique languages have their own versions of the language if we can say it that way.



         This article on Taming a Wild Tongue  by Anzaldua is as real as a language is. The question is why? I myself that Spanish is my home language and that had to learn English as a second language, have experienced  many of the examples that Anzaldua talks about in her article. For example I've meet people that say they don't speak Spanish because they don't want to be rejected by the English speaking community feeling that by speaking Spanish devaluates their personality or identity. A few times I've talk to someone in Spanish and they respond back in English. you might think well that doesn't mean they're ashamed of it, it may not all the time but when you're in that moment you can always tell if it is or not and I have experienced it. Ray Gwyn Smith said "Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is les violent that war?"

      
          Anzaldua said "Ethnic Identity is twin skin to linguistic identity-I am my language" some powerful words this are. Anzaldua is trying to teach us that speaking to different languages or more should be a reason to rejoice and celebrate rather than to to be ashamed or embarrassed about it. that being of many languages should make people proud not inferior. Anzaldua said "I will have my voice Indian, Spanish, White".  Having a talent or in this case knowing a language and not using it I think its a waste. knowing two languages is always better than just one, even if it is two different ways of speaking the same language. Anzaldua gives us a list of her different ways of speaking Spanish with different people too. She says I would speak standard Spanish with some people and standard Mexican Spanish some other people also.

         Jamila Lyiscott in her speech video 3 languages htt://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fmj5xq_mc she talks about her opinion on speaking 3 languages and how she can change from one to the other depending  with the company she is with . Her point of view is that rather than being ashamed of communicating in a different language though the same just different quality of it from occasion to occasion, she's proud of it and even claims to be trilingual, her native language, slang English and formal English.there is no doubt language is a very impotant part of one's personality or identity. By one's language we can learn and determine people's place of origin, tradition, culture etc.



In society certain languages is pass to people to dictate a person intelligence and roots of where they come from. In the article How Tame Wild Tongue and the youtube video both demonstrate how many people look at how and way a person talk. In the video of Lyiscott she hit the racist stereotypes as well as Anzuldua of how a person speak spanish is look down on and the black slang  is of ignorance. Lyiscott stated " So I may not always come before you with excellency speech but do not judge me by my language and assume that I'm too ignorant to teach." Thats how soicety look at the slang in language in which they have marked it broken english and in spanish its Spanish slang. People need to stop judging people for there language but instead start treating everyone the same. These two ladies is saying the same message of how people categorize languages to dictate person character and background of education.

Multilingual Connections

Cinthia Muratalla                                                                                              Muratalla1

Proffesor: Amanda Reyes

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22 September 2015

Multilingual Connections

Ones identity can always fall back to language. For example, if you hear someone speaking Spanish you will assume that he or she is Hispanic. On the other hand if you hear someone talking English you will assume that he or she is American. I do agree with both authors regarding their views toward languages. Gloria Anzaldua just like Jamila Lyiscott, believe that the English they speak is a different form of English or Spanish. Jamila Lyiscott said in the popular show TED, “ now you may think that it is ignorant to speak broken English, but I’m here to tell you that even articulate Americans sound foolish to the british.(Lyiscott 1:30). What she means in the previous comment is true to the fact that the English language originates in England not in the United States. Therefore the American English can be seen as a form of slang or an improper way of speaking English. My opinion will fall within the same views as author Anzaldua and Lyiscott because I also speak different forms of English and Spanish. I don’t consider them different languages but more like a different form or accent. Alike something we see in the Spanish speaking countries like Mexico and central America. Although it’s the Spanish language that they speak it is quite different in the accent and some words.

Work cited

Lyiscott, Jamila. 3 ways to speak inglish.TED Talks

19 june 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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We all have a different way of speaking when we talk to someone. We all don’t talk the same to different people, we talk different to our parents than what we do to our friends or siblings. Like Jamila says “You may think that it’s ignorant to speak broken English” but we all have different meanings to different things so we are not going to speak the language that we speak to our friends and expect our parents to know that language as well. That is why we speak multiply languages because we speak different to everyone and not the same because then we would all be boring talking about the same thing to everyone we know and everyone would know the things we talk about, but since we speak different languages to each other then we are all different and not the same with each other.

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        When speaking to others or interpreting what others say you always think about the language and content in what they use. Whether it be talking to friends family or even at school you always speak in a different way. When watching Jamila Lyiscott and listening to her poem about they way she talks to others, and then reading on how Anzuldua believes we interpret our language by the way we feel it made me think, Why do I say the things I say, the way I say them? How did these words that come out of my mouth come to be? Lyiscott thinks of herself being articulate. She speaks differently when talking to her father as apposed to speaking on the streets to her friends. In society I honestly don't believe there is a particular way to speak because we change it up with one another and change it up throughout the day with whomever we are talking to at the time. Lyiscott said,"I had to borrow your language because mines was stolen, But you cant expect me to speak your history holy while mines is broken, These words are spoken by someone who is fed up with the Euro-centric ideal of this season and the reason I speak a composite version of your language is because mines was raped away with my history." I had to continue to replay this because at a point I had to adjust with my own life. As a human being I don't think I will ever know exactly what the "correct" language is. Honestly is there a correct way to speak? Just like when people can tell another race who isn't African American that they sound black, or how someone can say and African American or Hispanic sound white. How can you speak a race?