By the Way

definitely the most secretive man I know or because of this he intrigues me and my fellow students. Dr. McGee more than anything I think wants the very best for his students, all of them, and tries to train them for the rest of their lives in the best way he can. For example, he’s always talking about how the only reason he assigns so much work is because he wants to teach each us how to read. He continually claims that he could do the same thing with a history text book, but I think he chose…

tell that they weren 't American but hard to tell what exactly their ethnicity was. They asked my sister and I for help but at first we were hesitant to do so. When they saw our demeanors change, they quickly apologized if they had offended us in any way. Once they apologized we immediately felt bad for giving off an impression as if we were afraid of them. My sister was so embarrassed that she left the aisle with her head held low. After she left, I helped them with what they needed. When I…

Angelou affirms that regardless of the abuse the speaker suffers that she will rise; she won’t disappear, she will not be defeated, and she won’t be held back. In the same way as Soyinka’s poem reinforcing the point Angelou’s poem is based on. “Telephone Conversation” includes several instances of the word ‘silence’. Often one of the ways people use to indicate prejudice is through silence. Together, both poets imply that the black race is being held down through the use of…

It's Friday at Glendale Elementary school and that means it's Friday friendship friend of the week, day in Ms. Day’s class where the kids vote on who was the friend of the week with the winner getting a 150 mini chocolate bar bag prize. Susie had never won the Friday friendship friend of the week but this week was going to be different. Susie's friend Johnny had always won every Friday and she had never come close. Susie thought to herself I have to do something different than just being nice…

communicate with another. People have altered the way language should be interpreted by associating a language with a personality. As people continue to adapt to these changes, it will soon become the cultural norm. A norm that says people are to be judged based on their language and, not their personality. Sociolinguistics have proven that society has developed a norm which illustrates the way a person judges another individual, the way they treat them, and the way an individual is labeled in…

novel Truth & Bright Water there is a confusion of cultures due to the fact that British colonial ways have been integrated into the community of Truth. The three ways that British colonial ways have caused a confusion of culture are the way the people in Truth think, the tools they use and how the people of Truth act. Each of these effects cause confusion in their culture. To start off, the first way that the people of Truth are loosing their culture is how they think about different…

traveling in the Yukon to get back to camp. On the way there the man builds a fire every few feet, they travel back to camp. The man faces a few obstacles, but he still manages to try and make his way back to camp.Jack London created a story called ‘’To Built a Fire’’ he made the story about a man and his husky passing through the Yukon to get back to camp.The setting in To Build A Fire has an impact on several parts of the story. One of first ways that the setting has an impact involves the…

As many college students like you, I often get terrible headaches because of many routine situations such as: late-night studies, early morning classes, puzzling situations, or just simple tiredness. Pain is one of the most common and essential parts of our life. Since our births, we adapt and learn to express our pain. First, as kids, we don’t do much effort to express our discomfort, and we start crying and annoying our parents for half an hour. Then we learn to not be as naïve and at least…

understand what it means to get to where I want and be able to answer if what I want is really what I want and not because that’s how someone else got theirs. And if it is, why in the world are my still sitting and thinking that there’s no way I can achieve it or what way do I choose to go to achieve…

Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships,” at some of the concepts in Tannen’s chapter “The World of Conversational Style” it is clear to say that there are different ways a person can convey a conversation and the way a person carries their communication style. Tannen connects some concepts that can relate to the way communicating with technology can affect our skill with one another. For example, the effects behind a screen like a text message or an email to being in-person can…