...bibliography page appends four sources in Harvard format Outline I . Introduction II . Analysis III . Conclusion Introduction The Geffrye Museum located in East London puts forward a breathtaking imminent interested in the way people of London used to live all the way through the past . Basically the museum under consideration is of English household interiors and has space sets from the year 1600 till just about up to these days . Every single period room that is present in the Geffrye Museum is a superior illustration of how English people belonging to the middle-class in those times , with astonishing innovative furnishings , materials , works of art and accessories used to live . In every single room that you look into one would find something that has never been seen before , for example , the chess set that is arranged and exhibited in the Regency room or the string for calling upon the maids and house workers in the Victorian room are just examples (Porter , 2008 Analysis Perhaps the most welcoming and appealing museums of the United Kingdom the Geffrye puts forward the times gone by of the English household internal from the year 1600 to the contemporary times . A succession of epoch rooms restraining excellent compilations of fixtures , works of art and ornamental arts replicate the altering feels and approaches of the inner-city middle classes . The museum is developed in wonderful 18th-century almshouse constructions with good-looking private...
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...sustained by another nation as a result of hostilities with the defeated nation” (merriam-webster.com). “The paying of descendants of enslaved Africans for free labor of their ancestors. Supporters argue that the government of the United States at one time sanctioned enslavement and now it should try to remedy the effects of it by paying the descendants of the enslaved for their work” (Asante, Molefi Kete 486). I interviewed a diverse group and asked if they felt that due to the long stretch of years of oppression and torture African Americans have gone through in this country should they be given reparations and if so how. The group I interviewed included family, friends and co-workers: my son a seventeen year old African American male who is Baptist, a co-worker a twenty-five year old Caucasian female who is Catholic, a co-worker a forty-four year old Latin American male who is Catholic, and a good friend a thirty-five year old African American female who is Muslim. The twenty-five year old Caucasian female believes that there is no price for compensation applicable to those today that had their enslaved ancestors suffer. Even if compensation were given it is impossible to determine who would receive what depending on who were their ancestor and their direct relation. The amount of pain and suffering that they had to endure, the type of torture that they had to go through and how they were discriminated against would also be a factor. The government would be contradicting...
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...Reflection of Independent learning At the beginning, I think my listening skill needs to be improved and my vocabulary is too small too. So I wanted to improve my English listening skill and enlarge my vocabulary through this independent learning activity. What’s more, I also wanted to know some techniques of taking tests, and know differences between British English and American English, and what features does British English or American English has. Last, since I’ve never done a presentation before, so I wanted to grasp some skills and tips to apply on my presentations. In order to achieve those goals, I selected many activities which train the listening skill such as learn English through movies, lyrics training BBC Podcasts, and help to enlarge my vocabulary such as word dynamo, Free rice. I also selected some activities which contain simulated tests and some tips about how to write an outstanding article. Besides, I thought that activities sharing the presentation skills also worth to take, so I put them into my calendar. Then, according to my calendar, I do corresponding activities from the independent learning website. When I practice my listening skill by doing the activities I selected, I tried to listen to each word that had been spoken in the activities, and listen to the same movie or song twice, then take the corresponding tests it has. When I do vocabulary activities, I would look up the dictionary when I encounter an unfamiliar word, and read the word out loud...
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...culture. In her "How It Feels To Be Colored Me", Hurston speaks about the culture of the Americans and the African Americans. She mentions how people believe that these cultures differ, yet she thinks otherwise. In her Size 6 : The Western Women's Harem, Mernissi believes that men dictate all the judgments surrounding what women's size should be. In her Excerpt from On Seeing England for the First Time, Kincaid displays her own biases towards English culture because she is originally from Antigua. Hurston speaks about how white Americans believe that they and African Americans are different, yet she believes that they're the same. She does have her doubts however, for example when she was in the bar and saw a white person, she noticed the difference between herself and him. "He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored" (197). She speaks of the cultural biases that are placed on her and her family because she is of color. She states, "at certain times I have no race, I am me"(197). She states this to oppose what other people think about white Americans and African Americans. She says that she has no race and is only herself, to show that she is nothing more than a human. She also emphasizes that she only feels American, neither white or black. "I have no separate feelings about being an American citizen and colored"(197). To make a point that African Americans and white Americans are not different, she states that she doesn't feel a difference between blacks and...
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...American English / British English * Jenny feels ill. She ate too much. * Jenny feels ill. She's eaten too much. * I can't find my keys. Did you see them anywhere? * I can't find my keys. Have you seen them anywhere? (ii) In sentences which contain the words already, just or yet: American English / British English * A: Are they going to the show tonight? * B: No. They already saw it. * A: Are they going to the show tonight? * B: No. They've already seen it. * A: Is Samantha here? * B: No, she just left. * A: Is Samantha here? * B: No, she's just left. * A: Can I borrow your book? * B: No, I didn't read it yet. * A: Can I borrow your book? * B: No, I haven't read it yet. 1. Verb agreement with collective nouns In British English collective nouns, (i.e. nouns referring to particular groups of people or things), (e.g. staff , government, class, team) can be followed by a singular or plural verb depending on whether the group is thought of as one idea, or as many individuals, e.g.: My team is winning. The other team are all sitting down. In American English collective nouns are always followed by a singular verb, so an American would usually say: Which team is losing? whereas in British English both plural and singular forms of the verb are possible, as in: Which team is/are losing? 2. Use of delexical verbs have and take In British English, the verb have frequently functions as what is technically...
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...Intro to Diversified Studies Cultural Background Although my maternal grandmother was born a mixture of English and Native American, she was raised in a household that was a blend of Native American and Mexican American. Her mother, my great grandmother, who was also a mixture of English and Native American, remarried after giving birth to her first four children. This new marriage was to a Mexican American man and brought another eight children into the family. Growing up in this type of household influenced not only the foods she cooked, such as fideo, tortillas, and green chili; but, established a multigenerational line of care giving. Being the second oldest of 12 children, my grandmother cared for her siblings as well as her own children at the same time. She then transferred this type of nurturing to her grandchildren. It was common for me and my siblings to be taken care of by my grandmother and great grandmother for entire months at a time, in order to help my mother while she worked. Typical of Mexican Americans "family interdependence involves extended family members sharing the nurturing and disciplining of children" (McGoldrick, Giordano, & Garcia-Preto, 2005, p. 234); yet, my grandmother was not Mexican American. This point became a source of ridicule and ostracizing from her other siblings. This type of racism continued even unto her death three years ago, where at the funeral her siblings sat on the opposite side of the church and never spoke to...
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...Eating Sugar A: Remember the feeling you might have had as a child, when you got lost from your parents in the shopping centre. In the crowd to a concert or maybe on the beach. Do you remember? It is a feeling of hopelessness. But the feeling you had, when you were found by your parents again was an indescribable feeling. A feeling which made you calm down. Exactly those feelings may the Englishman Alex associate with his holiday in Thailand. Together with Alex, is his wife Eileen, who finds Thailand extremely nerve-racking. The reason why they are there is their twenty-one-year old daughter, Suzanne, who works as an English teacher in Bangkok. The story starts out by letting the reader get into the environment where the family has lost their way. They are in a forest clearing and Eileen is crying because of their obvious bewilderment in unfamiliar surroundings, far away from their home in England. It is burning hot and Alex, the leader of the family, almost cries too. The only reason why he doesn’t is Eileen who suppresses his real panic. He’d better show masculinity, even though he is bursting with nervousness as well as she is. And even though their daughter is grown-up and has much more experience with Thailand than them, Suzanne’s mother cannot relinquish her parental role. Constantly she is confronted with a different culture, and it is sure that she has difficulties adjusting to it. She is afraid that every man is a rapist or a bandit. “Anything could happen”, Alex...
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...between the American healthcare system and the English healthcare system is, that in America the healthcare system is based on insurance. Often you have insurance through your job, but if you are unemployed you have to buy insurance privately, and it can be very expensive so many Americans do not have any insurance, and if you do not have insurance you do not get any treatment. In England you do not have to be insured, healthcare is free for all Englishmen, because the English healthcare system is financed through taxes. The insurance system in America is maybe an advantage for few people, but the people without a job and those who do not earn so much money are often without insurance, and therefore they either get no treatment, or they have to pay for the treatment themselves. Often the treatment costs several thousand dollars and they cannot afford the treatment. In the film we get that exemplified by a man, who had sawed off two fingers, and he had to choose between the two fingers, because he could not afford to get both fingers replaced. In the film we also see examples of people who have insurance, but they do not get any treatment, because the insurance companies have people employed to find reasons not to pay for the treatment. In England you always get the treatment you need, although you do not pay taxes. That means that the poorest people in England can expect to live longer than the wealthiest man in America. Another difference between the American and the English healthcare...
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...This Morning by Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from New York. Her work emphasizes endurance, mostly focusing on her African - American experience and family life. Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage, and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body. This poem is mostly about how the speaker view her identity. The purpose of this poem is to show that the speaker’s belief in herself. The first sentence, “This morning I met myself coming in” means that as the girl wakes up, she recognizes who she is and then she describes herself. There are metaphors used in the second stanza, the sentence “a bright jungle girl shining” represents an image of a girl who is very active. This metaphor also describes things in nature, it shows that the speaker see herself as an unique, and special. “This Morning” it’s a metaphor for the present time, is that she found herself or appreciates herself. In the last stanza, it says “And all day I have been a black bell ringing I survive, survive, survive.” it means, out of all the things that she has been through, now she has finally got through her problems and found the person she truly is, in Lucille Clifton’s case, it means she found where she stood in the society as an African - American. The speaker kept repeating “I met myself” in line 3 and line 12 to show that she survives from her problems. A simile is a figure of speech that expresses...
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...Christophe Dufour Dr. Schoen English 210 November 4, 2014 The United States is comprised of a wide demographic of people from different nationalities and language backgrounds. One of the challenges that are commonly faced is learning to read and write in English. This presents a problem for those who already struggle with a learning disability (LD). A common but ignored learning impairment in the U.S that affects both children and adults is bilingual dyslexia. Compositions in this field go unrecognized, because of misdiagnosis in children and adults. Therefore little information is known about this (LD). The more commonly (LD) known is dyslexia. Dyslexia presents itself in the subcategories of the brain that process information via visual, auditory, and kinesthetic comprehension. This general form of (LD) typically identifies with difficulty in reading comprehension with problems in recognition of words, decoding, and spelling (Editorial Team, NCLD). This affects both visual and auditory sectors of the brain. So, what is bilingual dyslexia? Bilingual dyslexia is the difficulty of recognizing phonemic sounds within two or more language systems. This specific learning disability (SpLD) affects both adults and children who are multilingual. (Dulude, 2012) states, this difficulty is crippling to children based on a low phonemic awareness because of no prior experience with reading. What is the demographic of children and adults that bilingual dyslexia effects...
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...Background and Family * Unearth your character’s roots. What is the character’s ancestry or cultural background? How does ancestry shape your character? Is the character at odds with family traditions? * Write a series of short paragraphical biographies of each of the character’s closest family members: spouse, children, parents, grandparents, siblings, close friends, etc. * Write a monologue in which your character summarizes his or her life story; be sure to write it in the character’s voice. Motivations and Goals * What motivates your character? Money? Love? Truth? Power? Justice? * What does your character want more than anything else in the world? What is he or she searching for? * What other characters or events are interfering with your character’s goals? What obstacles are in the way? Flaws and Fears * What is your character’s single greatest fear? How did your character acquire his or her fears? * What are your character’s flaws and weaknesses? * How does the character’s fears and flaws prevent them from reaching their goals? Appearance * What does your character look like? Make a list and include the following: hair, eyes, height, weight, build, etc. * Now choose one aspect of the character’s appearance, a detail (bitten nails, frizzy hair, a scar) and elaborate on it. * Write a short scene in which your character is looking in the mirror or write a short scene in which another character first sees your character. ...
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...THE TRANSATLANTIC CONNECTION Do Americans and Englishmen really speak the same language? It isn't only a question of accents. Spelling and vocabulary are different on either side of the Atlantic, too. Some people would say that the differences are getting fewer. The now 'language' we call 'Transatlantic English' is helping to bridge the gap between our two countries. It's a mixture of British and American characteristics in accent and vocabulary, invented by the increasing number of tourists and businessmen who cross the Atlantic frequently. But wouldn't it be a pity if we all started talking English in exactly the same way? Variety is the spice of life and it's impossible to say that British or American English is wrong or right. Let's hope that we can go on being inventive in our own individual ways on both sides of the At lantic. The differences in spelling are well known — for "instance, words like 'colour', 'honour' and 'neighbour' are spelt without the 'u' in the United States. While the British have kept the original spellings of many foreign words now used in the English language, Americans have made a point of simplifying spellings and often change them in ways that seem curious to their more conservative British cousins. 'Catalogue' becomes 'catalog', and even 'cigaret' has been seen for 'cigarette'. Some of the differences in vocabulary could load to amusing situations. Did you know that American buildings have no ground floor? This does not mean you have to...
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...The Difficulties Settling Charles Town Have you ever moved before? Well when the English wanted to move they moved across the Atlantic Ocean. But, when they moved there were a couple of difficulties. They faced difficulties with geography, resources, and diseases. When you moved I bet you didn’t have problems with the geography or not having enough resources to build a house. So why was Charles Town difficult to settle? Settle means to move to another place and live there. When the English went to settle Charles Town they had problems with the geography. The maps back then were very hard to read. So when the settlers tried to read them they might have gotten lost. If the settlers didn’t read the map right they probably didn’t see that...
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...British colonies in the Chesapeake region and New England both had conflicts with the Native Americans due to cultural misunderstanding and the desire for land. The colonists brutally slaughtered the Indians because they control the land that the English colonists wanted for plantations and other resources. In the Chesapeake region, clashes occurred between the Virginia settlers and Powhatan tribe and resulted in the first and second Anglo-Powhatan wars. The colonists exterminated the Indians and burned their villages, banishing the Powhatan tribe from the Chesapeake Bay region to inferior lands. Similarity, in New England, the Pequot War and King Philip's war was fought between the Puritans and the Pequot tribe to resist English settlement on Indian land. In the Mystics Massacre during the Pequot War, the English set an Indian village on fire and shot the escaping survivors; a total of three hundred women and...
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...All- American Dialects was written by Richard Lederer. Mr. Lederer was a lifelong student of language. In All- American Dialects Lederer presented many different ways that American speaks and dialects that are being used around the United States. Many states talk with different accents and broken- English. Dialects was a major way of knowing if a person is from a different state. Due to the fact, that many states have different accents they use that to their advantage with specific things. Such as making access code because some different states could not say specific letters they use that to get people who was trying to spy or find out specific things. Lederer presented in the article how a Unabomber who had terrorized the nation was caught...
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