Grave accent

“Fish Cheeks” In the essay “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan writes about being proud of your culture and more importantly who you are. In the essay Tan recounts her Christmas eve dinner when she was fourteen, and the mortification that she felt when the ministers son that was her crush and his family had been welcome to have a customary Chinese dinner. She was frightened of what he would think about her and her family Chinese Christmas festivities. When everybody had left, Amy 's mom had given her a gift…

Throughout the Bronze Age, the cultures of the Aegean civilizations showed influences in trade, religion and economic administration. The iconography of these civilizations not only revealed their culture but also how they functioned throughout Greece. Weapons and animal representations like bulls and griffins, are all characteristic of Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. But the settings in which they are presented offer deeper implications into their values and identity. Excavated frescos,…

Throughout the Renaissance, demarginalised groups of society were often neglected in favour of the elite, which mostly consisted of rich white men. For the most part, men resided over their wives and were the dominant members of the household and therefore society. Women were expected to be completely devoted towards their husbands and children; a role often seen in Shakespeare’s plays and many others during the Renaissance era. If their husband were to die, they certainly must not remarry and…

The Houston runway was quickly disappearing beneath me, the plane ascending, leaving my stomach dismantled on the tarmac. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I was truly on a plane, by myself, headed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. My mother laughed at the thought of me living abroad; consistently making it known my ideas were childish, financially unstable, and unattainable. With a slight grin pulling at my lips, I close my eyes and begin to wonder what the world will look like on the other side…

I was used to being stared at, as was my little sister. From a very young age people told us we were beautiful. Our first day at St. Jerome’s or St. Germs as I heard numerous of the kids call it, was no different. My sister and I stepped out of the car and right away I noticed a boy outside. He stopped what he was doing and looked at us. Routine choppy hair and boxy clothing, he obviously wasn 't done growing nonetheless you could tell he was Ojibway. I smiled at him as we passed. We’d pass…

Wind howled at sunset leafs and the swollen silver moon rose from its uncoiled grave as the sun nestled once more into the grip of heaven's edge. Those nights you could smell autumn in the air, and even a deaf man would have heard the season’s calls, light and entangled with icy breath. The pathway flooded with crisp yellow leaves…

feelings of sadness, anger, and physical discomfort. Upon arrival to the museum we were ushered into a lecture hall to hear the speech of a survivor of the Holocaust. When Elizabeth Mann said her first sentence I recognized she was Hungarian from her accent, which immediately…

and nastier. They had their own clicks and yep, I stood out like a sore thumb. I was not a small kid 5’9” 165 pounds and always worked out. But that didn’t stop the bullies. At gym, kids made fun of me because my accent. Here in GA they have a southern accent and I have a New York accent. So I’m was told. At gym class every chance the upperclassman had, they would take my clothes and shove them in the shower, steal my sneakers, whatever they could do they did. I tried talking to my counselor,…

Andrew Parker had finally received his dream job as a sports journalist. Ever since he was a kid, he dreamed of being able to travel the world and being the first to report stories on America’s favorite athletes. Ever since he was a child, Andrew loved sports, and his mother always said that if he was not going to be in the game, he definitely was going to be reporting on it. After he graduated college, Andrew flew out to Los Angeles for a job offer working in an office, primarily getting coffee…

mental functions’ development. Vygotsky thought, the functions of language are interactions, communications, contact with others and give impacts on others. The language expresses speakers’ intention and accent. It is passed through the social interactions from adults and peers to children (Zack& Graves, 2001, p.231). Language can be classified into two ways of use. One is talking with others, and the other one is talking with ourselves - private speech. Robert has the behavior of making guesses…