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    What is Mouth most cancers? Most of the people have heard of most cancers affecting components of the body which includes the lungs or breasts. but, most cancers can also arise in the mouth, in which the disease can affect the lips, tongue, cheeks, and throat. Each person can be suffering from mouth most cancers, whether they have got their very own tooth or now not. Mouth cancers are more common in people over forty, especially men. However, studies have proven that mouth most cancers is…

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    Various English Amy Tan is the author of “Mother Tongue” essay. Her essay provides real life stories about her mother and herself struggling in America. Her story is an amazing eye opener because it makes people realize that someone who cannot speak standard English is less intelligent, but after reading “Mother Tongue” this person will change his/her opinion about people who cannot speak English. In her essay, Tan explain about her mother’s broken tongue, she discusses how challenging it was…

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    Mother Tongue Every language is unique in itself. Everyone have a different way to express them self. Yet why do we do not accept the people who are different? “Mother tongue” is are on the article written by Amy Tan. In the story, she discusses about her mother ‘fractured” English. How her mother faced difficulties because she had an accent when she talked. She said that “some says they understand none of it is as if she were speaking pure Chinses.” instead of praising her that she…

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    writing is clear and well thought out, but there is also the matter of what is actually being communicated, as appose to how she gets her thoughts across. While Tan explains the difficulties that her mother has with communicating clearly, she makes it clear that she has an unwavering respect for her mother, regardless of her misgivings and barriers. Although there aren’t many references to this fact directly in the text, it’s a kind of undertone that sets in with the reader, possibly without…

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    phenomenon by writing an article called Mother Tongue. In this text, tan demonstrates that her mother suffered unequal treatment because her mother didn’t have the ability to speak with the…

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    Rhetorical Arrangement of "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan Amy Tan, in her narrative novel - "Mother Tongue", recounts her thoughts of her mother 's "broken English". Tan 's purpose is to explicitly express the influences on her life exerted by "Mother Tongue", in order to attract readers with similar feelings and experience. She employs delicate rhetorical arrangements such as classification order, narrative anecdotes, and comparison. These delicate rhetorical arrangements are effectively beneficial…

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    In “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan gives us an insight into a world where diversity in spoken English is wrong. In this case, the limitation that accompanies those who speak the infamous ‘broken’ English. Furthermore, she tells us that the world chooses to believe that those who speak it (imperfect English) are necessarily inferior to its standard counterpart. This discrimination towards various ‘Englishes’ is mainly addressed as a major misinterpretation; one she is deeply concerned about. While it…

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    The essay ¨ Mother Tongue¨ by Amy Tan is an essay written in her opinion about language and about how we use it. If the essay were read and interpreted by people from Japan and the Netherlands the essay will be viewed differently because these people grew up with different cultures and customs. In Japan, Japanese people will be able to relate to Amy´s mother. The line “ the fact that people… did not take her seriously… pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her”…

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    In the article, Mother Tongue, the author Amy Tan explicitly demonstrates how she has developed her perspectives about language and the way of thinking under the influence of her mother’s limited English skill. The strategies Tan used to support her argument include vivid anecdote, striking contrast, and emotionally appealing parallelism. This journal is going to analyse how those rhetorical devices were being used during the delivery of Tan’s stories, and present my connections with her. At…

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    The Essay Mother Tongue was written in 1990 by Amy Tan. This was written for people like her, who had trouble accepting the way their parent´s spoke. It was written to share an experience not many have and is about what she had to do because of her mother´s speech. These things can be known by inferred from the text and read the small bio before the reading. This text takes the form of an essay. this is apparent because it is written in a more formal fashion and is written in spaced paragraphs…

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