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

English A

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?

Multilingual

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Dianna Huerta

Professor Reyes

English A

22 September 22, 2015

Multilingual

                Language is an international form of communication. My ideas of language are somewhat similar to those of Author Gloria Anzuldua. In the article How to Tame a Wild Tongue she speaks about having multiple languages linked to Spanish. I believe there is different ways to speak Spanish. For instance when speaking to your parent we tend to speak proper Spanish verses when speaking to friends it’s more of a slang Spanish. Even English has different ways of speaking it. This article cannot get more real. On a daily basis we see these things happening like those of Anzaldua. Some people are ashamed of speaking Spanish because they live in America. Why be ashamed of your roots. Being bilingual can sometimes identify your background. Anzaldua mention that “ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity-I am my language.” In my personal view Anzaldua is saying it should be an honor being bilingual.

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Due: Wednesday, Sept. 23rd

Watch:
"3 languages"- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fmJ5xQ_mc

Create a connections paragraph that includes ideas from you, Anzuldua, and Jamila Lyiscott.  You will need to include one quote from either Anzuldua or Lyiscott in your paragraph response. Essentially, you want to write about the topic of multiple languages and their connection to identity using your own personal thoughts on the matter as well as the insights made by Anzuldua and Lyiscott.

In-text quote should be cited according to MLA (check the sample MLA essay in the handout folder for reference)

Ana Garcia

English A

Professor Reyes

September 16, 2015

                                                            Who are the homeless people?

            Have you ever wonder why some people become homeless? How they manage to survive day by day in the city of Los Angeles, full of discrimination, violence and crime? The biggest question we ask our self, where do they sleep at night? Well in the city of Los Angeles the homeless population is about 45,000 people per night, every individual have their own story on why they are homeless. They manage to survive day by day. And they find anywhere to sleep, even in the floor under the bridge. Homeless people are humans just like you and I, they just need support, lot of help from the advocates.

            Every homeless person has their own reasons on why they are homeless, they are many reasons, you wouldn’t imagine .For example in the interview with John, and he had mentioned he was a retired veteran. Many people would think he was a drunk or a drug addicted or maybe something even worse, but it turned out he fought for our country. But yet many people think worse of a homeless. Not only are some veteran, but some are actually homeless due to drinking too much alcohol or liquor, or just addicted to drugs, and have hard time giving those up, that they end up losing their money and even home, they even lose the most important thing, their family. The majority of the homeless population is the runaways, those who run away from their home due to some type of abuse, physically, mentally, domestic violence, etc. They have nowhere to go, and when the shelters are full there nowhere to go but to be homeless. Same with some families that lose their jobs, their homes, and all the money they had, and it’s even worse when you don’t have support from no one, and have nowhere to turn but a shelter. They are many other reasons why people are homeless, not all reasons make them a bad person.

            Homeless people manage to survive day by day in many ways. Some manage to stay in the same area, so some people who already know them, offers them food water or clothing. Some also use their talent like playing guitar, singing, juggling, or even cleaning people car, for money. The majority of the homeless also beg people for money; some ignore them while other try to spare money to them. The city of Los Angeles is a place full of violence, and full of discrimination, they manage to survive by staying away from the places they know they shouldn’t be around. Many people discriminate them, they see them as criminals, as soon as they see one they tend to walk the other way around, or they quickly hide their belongings away. But all they are trying to do is survive one more day.

            Many shelter are offer to homeless, but not all can fit, so they have a limit, it mostly first come first serve kind of thing so the rest are stuck sleeping outside. Some sleep under the bridge, the park, outside business buildings, and on the bus stops, there are many other places in which they sleep in, but they get up before they get in trouble, or are authorize to move away from the property. Some place are illegal to sleep in, the police don’t care of their statues that they even take them to jail, and categorize them as criminals. I strongly believe banning the benching on the parks and bus stops are just dumb, it doesn’t make a difference, they want to do is sleep, only escape from reality.

            The reason I am writing this is to inform you about homeless people. Homeless people are human being like you and I, the only difference is that we have a home and they don’t. There are many reasons why they are homeless, so don’t quickly assume the worse of them. They don’t judge you so why should you. Think twice before you walk away from a homeless begging for help because you never know when you’ll need help.