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    using their hands. It is also useful for people with certain disabilities, such as blindness and some types of paralysis. The problem is, many voice recognition softwares work extremely well for people with certain accents, but do very little for people who do not have these specific accents. Thus, it creates an imbalance of resource availability, as well as a host of other problems. The first step to fixing this problem is understanding why it occurs. According to the provided article, voice…

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    weird accent. The state where I am from is very distinctive for its unique accent and then I moved to two states where accents are different. My accent is a combination of the three, so my accent never belonged anywhere and it was something that made me stand out even more. In 2012, my mom got a call to come and work in Houston. So we moved to the U.S when I was a 14-year-old still insecure about being loud and having a weird accent, being in America kind of made everything worst. My accent is…

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    regarded the event when Dev (Aziz Ansari) was asked to give an Indian accent rather than his normal speaking voice for his desired acting role. In examining this scene, one can notice the racist implications when the audition interviewer did not accept Dev’s initial acting for the role with his usual speech. She stated after Dev expressed being uncomfortable in giving an Indian accent for the role, “You know, Ben Kinglsey did an accent in Gandhi and he won the Oscar for it” (Master of None).…

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    said that there is only one way to speak a language properly. I don’t disagree with that, however, the way we add accents and dialects is part of who we are. Speaking a language perfectly is very unnatural and may even sound awkward. People making fun of an accent happens everywhere, it certainly does in the country. I find it a bit amusing how a person with a different regional accent is looked on as less intelligent, regardless of where they are.…

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    experiences and message of the speaker. The speech was written by Sojourner Truth to address the discrimination that she faced as a black woman in America (National Park Service). This dialect of English reflected the average daily discourse and accents of slaves in the United States at the time. Trying to correct this essay would simply defeat its purpose…

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    The English language now days considered as Global language, because it is used in almost everything. It has been used in technology, education, employment and scientific communication. This essay will include three primary questions to answer it and analyze, Why English is a global language and when it started? Regarding to answer this question we will need to speak about numbers and some historical dates, starting in England moving to America, Canada, Caribbean and Africa and we are going to…

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    There are hundreds of different languages spoken across the globe today. It is interesting to note that the United States, one of the most diverse countries in the world, does not have an official language. While English is what a majority of the American population speaks, it is by no means the only language that can be heard here. In California, specifically Southern California, two of the most widely spoken languages are English and Spanish. Often in the past, scholars as well as regular…

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    fact I still cannot order a #4 Combo at Taco Bell (I can't say '4,' seriously, I have to say "The Mexican Pizza Combo" every single time! Anyways, I digress)-I would not change my Apraxia. I would not want to get rid of it. I would hate to lose my accent. I would hate to have missed the journey I went on. I would have missed the late nights of homework between speech therapy and school. I would have missed out on learning that you can still fail miserably, even if you try your best. I…

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    My sense of cultural identity that compares to my parents is that we both have the louisiana type of culture. Cultural conflict can help shape the way that you are today and how you go about things. The way that I am today has to do with my cultural identity and life's challenges. I will be talking about the things that helped shaped my culture today The way my culture is today is based on a lot of things like food, language, and the way I was raised. Some of the foods that we eat are crawfish…

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    In every school there is always conformity and rebellion even though it might not involve guns or weapons of that sort. There is always a trend to how people act, dress walk and other things in school but where there is a trend there is somebody that tries to change the trend with their own trend. There is not always physical pain to the people that try to set a trend there is always people that will make fun of that person or the trend. Even though not everybody will expect the trend they still…

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