We moved sometime during the spring, so renewal must have been at the forefront of my mom’s mind: new...
Language, Power, and Society
, , , Education, Getting Started, History, Language, Showcase, Summer 2018, 0
How were all these words created?(vocabulary, language, grammar, writing, spelling, term) power colonialism, How did people use to...
Breathe Life Into Shakespeare
, , , Art, Books, Language, Shakespeare, Showcase, Spring 2018, 0
Hamlet 4.5.59-79 The character I played was King Claudius. I learned that tone, inflection, and pacing are very important...
Othello Close Reading
, , , Language, Shakespeare, Showcase, Spring 2018, 0
Emilia 4.2.159-169 A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones! Why should he call her whore? who keeps...
Othello Close Reading
, , , Language, Shakespeare, Showcase, Spring 2018, 0
First Passage Paraphrase Desdemona (1.3.208-218) Father This is very hard for me as I am torn between two duties...
Othello Analysis
, , , Books, Language, Shakespeare, Showcase, Spring 2018, 0
Desdemona, 1.3.208-218: In this passage Desdemona is confronting her father about her and Othello’s secret marriage and explaining to him...
Othello Analysis
, , , Art, Books, Education, Language, Shakespeare, Showcase, Spring 2018, 0
Desdemona 1.3.208-218: This paragraph is about Desdemona professing her love and obedience to her father, but telling her father...
Translations are an integral part of our world. Books are translated, movies are translated, even live events are translated....
Without Literature, the human mind enters the realm of insanity.
, , , Language, Psychology, Research Help, Science, Wonder, 1
The process of my research thus far concerning human interaction and the way humans emulate, or try to emulate,...
With a near 7,000 distinct languages, there must be significant difference between one speech pattern and another across the...
One subject at the base of linguistics is grammar. It is the sentence order and the way we speak....
Why memorization doesn’t work
, , , Books, Call to Action, Education, Fall 2017, Happiness, Language, Media, Politics, Showcase, Spring 2018, Technology, 8
US curriculum is one of the worst ways of “grading” one’s intellect. We use these ideas of memory and...
Fooling around
, , , Language, Showcase, 2
In my opinion, I agree with the idea of using a person’s home language to help them learn English...
Losing my Spanish
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A lot of kids in ESL are Spanish-speakers and learning English, but there are other kinds of ESL students...
Time with loved ones
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The most difficult thing you lose through immigration is I lost 5 years of spending time with my dad....
Cultural Habits
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My name is Franciely Paulino. I was born and raised in Samana, a touristy city in the Dominican Republic....
Bilingual Teenager
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Last month in New Jersey a student was speaking Spanish and told by a teacher, “Speak American.” Maybe...
My name is Ishak, and I come from Yemen. My parents speak Arabic to me. I came to the...
Can suppressing information and knowledge hinder society in the way it progresses into the future?
, , , Community, Decision Making, Education, Fall 2017, Happiness, Inquiry, Language, Point of View, Politics, Showcase, 1
1984 and Brave New World contain key attributes that define the way each society behaves. These attributes...
Chinese Talisman
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So, how about my room? Actually, my room is not much big, but...
Family Business
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Once every week, the family gets together to make tamales for the store my grandmother left for us and...
Mementos from Vacations
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In the picture above are magnets from different places like Orlando Florida, Punta Cana ( Dominican Republic ), Atlantic...
My Father Marino
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Every time I look at my parents’ picture of the day they got married, I like it because...
Mabel Guerrero
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My name is Mabel and I was born in the Dominican Republic. I am 15 years old, I lived...
About Myself
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My name is Carlos and it is important to know that I am from Chicago and I came...
Speak “American”
, , , Language, Showcase, 1
There was this teacher and all the students were involved in a situation in a public school in...
Victims Of Soweto
, , , Showcase, Soweto News, 1
Today South Africa decided to rise up against the brutality of a white-only government to change South Africa....
Mouthwatering Empanadas
, , , Fall 2017, Food, Garza's Art, Latino Power, Showcase, 1
I remember every Christmas when my mom and I made empanadas. She cooked the stuffing and left in in...
Hello, my daughter; You’re on my mind Because you somehow you in poor health But you’re response to any...
Social media play in society today
, , , Fall 2017, Language, Media, Media and Message, Showcase, Social Media, Technology, 5
81 percent of Americans use some sort of social media platform today. 1.96 billion people use social media worldwide...
Speak “American”
, , , American Dream, Fall 2017, Immigration, Language, Showcase, 2
Two weeks ago, in Cliffside Park High School in N.J., the English teacher said to two students when they...
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