Deer Cloud’s artistic goal is “getting out the voices of sister and brother writers (especially indigenous writers)” (Susan Deer Cloud). During our class visit with Susan Deer Cloud and at her poetry reading on November 7, she mentioned Akwe:kon which is a Mohawk word meaning, "all of us." She says that “we are all a part of this and are here together sending out energy and when we speak our breath mingles with other people's breath and other voices” (Deer Cloud, Class Visit). She is Iroquois and
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Were you read to as a child? Do you remember your favorite story, or book? It is very possible that you can remember books from your childhood because they are extremely impactful. Children’s books have a huge impact on the development of the children who read them, making even their subliminal messages important. Sometimes, these books are extremely beneficial to the child who reads them. In the case of many books, though, negative subliminal messages are extremely prevalent, biasing the children
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What is Linguistics? According to Professor David Crystal, Linguistics is the science of language. It is the subject whose practitioners devote their energy to understanding why human language is the way it is. They study the history, acquisition, structure, and use of as many languages as possible. In general, Linguistics studies the nature of human language. It aims to uncover the general structure of natural language which is not dependent on individual languages and ways in which languages
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represent what I one day hope to become. He came to this country as a student in 1983. At age 28, he became one of the youngest national news anchors. Since then, having accomplished many countless effects on this country he has become “the voice of the voiceless” for other immigrants like himself. He is also an anchorman for Noticiero Univision, in addition to being an anchorman he works as the host of a show that displays top-stories of the week which is called, “Al Punto.” In Spanish “Al Punto”
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Accents, Accents and Did I Mention Accents? By Gabby Zonker Everyone who speaks a language speaks it with an accent. A particular accent essentially reflects a person's linguistic background. Accents typically differ in quality of voice, pronunciation of vowels and consonants, stress, and prosody. For this assignment I chose to go to the “speech accent archive” website. The Speech Accent Archive website is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language
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people’s opinions would drastically change. The children are not just in photographs and commercials, they are real people with real stories that deserve a chance to live a different life. Everyone has the chance to step up and be a voice for the millions who are voiceless on the streets of
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William Shakespeare, Anne Rice, Dan Brown and so on. These famous authors can write their masterpiece because they are able to find out their unique voice for their writing. However, finding the own voice is easier said than done. How can I find my own voice? Is everything will be easier if I just agree with the authors? And why should I have my own voice in writing? The processor once said that if I want to response to the authors, I should engage with the author, understand his or her article
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What Work Is by Philip Levine We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is—if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it. Forget you. This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another. Feeling the light rain falling like mist into your hair, blurring your vision until you think you see your own brother ahead of you, maybe ten places. You rub your glasses with your fingers, and of course
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learning hours. What I have attained from my brief time there was that having an impact on younger people is very important. This opens up my eyes as to getting involved with helping young men becoming better fathers’ better husbands and having greater voices in the community. I learned that teaching young people about the importance of growth in the community starts with unity. The biggest problem we are having when it comes down to change in the community is voting. This doesn’t particularly refer to
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would have tried like the social worker in the article to look into groups that focus on oppression and discrimination. I’m not sure, but I feel like I couldn’t just stay quiet. Isn’t our job as a social worker to be the voice for the voiceless? But how can I be someone’s voice if I don’t speak up or do anything possible to get all the resources to help my client. I know that the social worker was bound to the rules of the shelter, but even then, maybe she could’ve reached out to a colleague who
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