Amy Lowell

The Negative Influence of Mother Tongue on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition ---Through Chinese Students Learning English Experience I. Definitions Mother tongue means the language which a person has grown up speaking from early childhood. It has a great influence on the second language acquisition. As professor Robert Lado emphasized in his book Linguistics Across Culture, that in the environment of the second language acquisition, learners depend on their mother tongue and transfer the…

In the genre of political television programs, most shows are noted for their serious and dramatic acting and plot. Many of those shows have a male as the main character while the women are noted to be minor, yet important characters to the plot. That is not the case for the popular series Parks and Recreation (2009 - 2015). Based in small town Pawnee, Indiana the show centers around the life of government workers in the parks department. The series presents issues of feminism, and patriarchy.…

Amy Tan’s discussion of her cultural identity is heightened through the varying levels of intimacy in her tone to ultimately mirror the fluctuating reverence and admiration that she has for her mother. Though unaddressed, it is implied through the absence of “we” that there is a prevalent cultural divide between Tan and her mother. Tan speaks to daughters of immigrant mothers in, Mother Tongue, as she analyzes the limits of being culturally and linguistically authentic in a society where the…

Pearl S. Buck is the author of The Good Earth. She was born in 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, two American missionaries. When Buck was three months old, she and her family moved to China where she spent most of her childhood and young adult life. In 1910, she moved to the U.S. to study philosophy at Randolph-Macon Woman’s college in Virginia. Although she had planned on staying in America, Pearl returned to China after learning that her mother was…

“Two Kinds” is a short story by Amy Tan narrated by Jing-mei. In the end, Jing-mei notices the piece “Perfectly Contented” and sees that it is longer and faster than “Pleading Child,” which was “shorter but slower.” She then realizes that these two pieces “were two halves of the same song.” This means that the music pieces represent Jing-mei, as she played both parts and while the parts are different from each other they come together to form on whole piece, one individual; Jing-mei. When…

Children realize their identity through their family and surrounding environment while growing up. During childhood, they identify their internal appearance, such as who they are, and where they are from. In Calonline Hwang’s cultural essay, “The Good Daughter,” the writer talks about her childhood and how to identify her own self in an immigrant family. Hwang writes “I identify with Americans but Americans do not identify with me.”. The author grew up as an American in the United States by her…

“Lost Sister” by Cathy Song presents the universal struggle of women in finding who they are in society as observed in two different environments. The first half of the poem is in China and presents the women as united as sisters, but in the second half in America one sister becomes lost. Song is able to use inclusive terms such as sisters and they to show to juxtapose the you that both relate to the universal struggle i to create a helplessness to the poem that truly encompasses what a lost…

o#ixzz4fT8jbNzC). Where the topic of discussion was, why being open, sharing your feelings, and having hard conversations, is indeed the only way to dare greatly in life. This brings me to the comedian Amy Schumer, who simply embodies authenticity. After reading her book, I discovered that Amy Schumer is an incredibly amazing comedian and human being! After seeing a number of Schumer’s performances,…

In the passage The Rules of the Game, there is a little girl named Waverly througout the story she is torn apart by two cultures American and Chinese while her mother on the other hand is all for the Chinese culture. In the text we see this many times like when Waverly's mom said "in Chinese we say" and "Chinese people do buisness, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people" This is showing us that Waverly's mother does not care for American culture. But Waverly on the otherhand…

According to “ Mute in an English-only World” by Chang-Rae Lee, for Lee’s mother English sometimes made her hurt. English was not so funny for her and always caused troubles. She had lots of harrowing experiences because she could not speak English fluently. I can understand that feeling. I have made a lot of jokes due to the language barrier since I arrive in the United States, and some of them were embarrassing. One incident happened during the first time I went to New York City. My friends…