Multilingual Essay

I found Roxane Gay’s media criticism in Bad Feminist very compelling through her use of humor and pop culture to make powerful arguments about women’s representation in media. When contemplating my own research in feminist video game criticism, I found myself struggling with how I could emphasize the seriousness of harmful depictions of women in interactive media, when gaming is often viewed as a childish or “fluffy” topic. I found Gay’s breakdown of Fifty Shades of Grey in the chapter, “The…

One might argue that this is because, not until in the 1970s, Denmark was considered as a relatively homogeneous society. However, since that time, Denmark has become what is described as more multicultural and multilingual. Risberg and Søderberg (2008) opined that this change tends to result from an increase in globalization of organizations and immigration levels. It is telling that Risberg and Søderberg (2008) emphasized that diversity management has become a managerial…

Hosokawa’s translator experiences a tremendous change through his internment at the vice presidential mansion. Watanabe portrays a significant role in this novel, as his multilingual character aids other hostages and terrorists cross language barriers. However, his abilities overcome his personality and thus he is overshadowed by the people, he is communicating on behalf of. For instance Mr. Hosokawa considers Gen an extension…

The Earth has an amazing diversity of environments, species and elements which are interconnected and which deals ones with others. This diversity makes the planet richer and complex. In the same way, human beings have features which make that specie unique and each individual especial. When we talk about biocultural diversity we have to consider biodiversity, linguistic diversity and cultural diversity and those aspects are extremely related with education and schools. Societies are…

Personal Statement of Melanie Ayllon Three years ago I had to decide where my focus for the next three and a half years would lie. I needed to choose between languages, science, arts or economics and law. I decided to take economics and law as part of a bilingual program (German and English) at my school. My decision was not primarily based on my interest in economics and law, but rather on the opportunity to take half of the syllabus in English. To participate in the bilingual program you could…

As a matter of fact, majority of the children who attend school having some competency in a number of languages were either bilingual or multilingual while growing up in their home environments (Ball, 2010). Such children have not experienced consecutive attainment of other languages. Studies have also found out that the level of proficiency of a particular language does not spring forth in…

Our Moroccan society is one of the most societies believing in attitudes and stereotypes. People hold attitudes about any type of people according to their culture and education. Popular Moroccan culture employs all the possible methods to spread and sustains these attitudes and stereotypes, and this task is much easier using means of communication and especially social media. Attitudes can be positive or negative, but in the Moroccan society, most attitudes and stereotypes are created to…

In the preface of the book, “Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development”, Anna Wierzbicka explains that the people who are bilingual, are facing problems every day, due to the sense of the meaning of an word or a frase. She is focusing on multilingualism and emotions, the things that make harder the meanings of understanding between people. Also, she gives examples from her own life, whice are accurate, and shows very clearly the differences between languages. She was born in Poland…

functions is to read a picture book to children. While typical storytelling requires someone to be a reader, Happy mini enables both parents and children to be listeners so that they can share the same perspective. Another popular function is a multilingual learning: Happy mini helps children learn a new foreign language by interacting with them in that lan-guage. Having participated in the RoboCup World Cup in the home robot league three times, we have come to realize that the robotics designs…

More companies are in search for employees whom are bilingual, as their services can be found in multilingual, and diverse populations. Whereas services can be found in diverse areas, many companies also have international offices, sell products and services globally, or have facilities that produce their products in foreign countries. At almost two-thirds…