Grammatical gender

Old English enforces a way to express pronouns and provided grammatical genders. Once William the conquer took over Britain in the battle of Hastings, marking the end of old English and the start of Middle English, he provided the English language with new forms of grammar, vocabulary, and less grammatical genders. Finlay, Middle English ended in 1476 with the creation of the printing press, allowing for literature and language to reach different sections Britain and including the new world. This led to the world which had been established with technology and quicker forms of…

Frederick Douglass constructed an image of Haiti that is conflicting and variant at best in his document “Life and times”. These images can be deducted based on his personification of Haiti, the imagery that he invokes, and the diction he uses throughout certain passages. While mentioning Haiti in “Life and Times”, Frederick Douglass uses a feminine pronoun at various times of the document; By doing this, he personifies Haiti as Female. For example, he refers to Haiti’s government by saying her…

Throughout time art has been the main connection between the many generations of people who have roamed earth. Slight and noticeable contours in varying pieces of art tell stories of royalty, reveal the nuances between different culture and present historical facts. Egypt, a country that has literally and figuratively been painting pictures of their world through art since the start of time, have many particular pieces of art that tell more than just seen. The sculpture Mycerinus and his queen,…

When I first time hear about we have this trip, I disliked the trip and hated the person who created out this trip, because I don 't like camping, and it wasted my labor weekend, but after I had gone to the retreat, those things happened over the trip changed my mind. During the trip I got lots of new friends, have a chance to know the diversity around the world, and I enjoyed the teamwork with my teammate, I glad to I can join this fantastic retreat, you will know what some experience I got in…

Code-switching is a normal part of everyday language and is often overlooked, but through this assignment it became more apparent than ever before, most notably when code switching occurred between languages and within each separate languages. For this field report, I analyzed code-switching in my native language-Polish and then English as they both took place in the same context, my sister’s kitchen. It was a rather peaceful and relaxed saturday afternoon when the communication event took…

The thing I disliked the most about English was irregular Verb. In Steven Pinker’s essay, Horton Heared a Who! The author presented an interesting idea regarding the linguistic development when one learned a new language. Professor Pinker introduced the idea that English verbs can be divided into two main types: The regular verb that could be conjugated with normal rules and other Verbs that need special conjugations. Those special verbs, Pinker believe, are difficult to pick up and learned and…

Lately, it seems hard to turn on the TV or internet without hearing something about someone being Transgender or exploring what gender means to them, and rightfully so, it's unexplored area for most people. We are just beginning to hear about these journeys for some families. This is a family whose love knows no gender, they know love. Love moves mountains, love knows no boundaries, they love above all, selflessly, unconditionally and with so much understanding and beauty. So, what is a…

congressmen report everyday. He is the scrawny, pimpled face freshman amongst the sea of upperclassmen. With man seasoning our language, “we peg maleness as the dominant group, effectively “other”-izing groups who don’t fit that standard.” (Mastrine). This is not a claim for misogny, but an unveiling of the oppressive nature of gendered language on our society as a whole. Men and women, LGBTQ+, and the unidentified are all drowning in a language that suppresses individuality and forces…

analysis to contextualize the speaker’s voice. For example, in line 9 “me diero mis chrismas” is an irony that can be translated as they gave me my present. In this case, the speaker is being ironic, thus, meaning the opposite. As we see later in the development of the poem, the expression comes to signify the rape or sexual abuse of the speaker whom cleverly avoid detail with the topic. Instead, opt to use an irony in place. Accordingly, “me partieron la madre” (line 14) is a metaphor meaning…

American Standard English should adopt they as a third person epicene pronoun, also coined a gender neutral, gender-fair, or common-gender pronoun (Adami 281, Baranoski 379). Generic he has persisted since the 1850 Act of Parliament that declared it so, but is he truly generic (Zuber and Reed 519)? The use of he is sexist, excluding females and people who do not fall neatly within the male-female gender binary (Strahan 17). English also lacks a third person pronoun for instances when a person’s…