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Demetria Martinez Speaks the Mother Tongue

her heritage is (Diaz, 1999). Because she is still wandering, Jos? Luis represents something wonderful to her: a man who is commit...

Finding Love and Meaning in the Mother Tongue

Luis, and it is foreshadowed from the first sentence of the book. Mary is at the airport to meet him, a refugee from El Salvador t...

'Speaking in Tongues' or Glossolalia

more comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon as well as addressing the components of both faith and human psychology. Psycho...

Elizabeth Martinez's Article 'Scapegoating Immigrants Immigrant Bashing on the Rise'

In nine pages this article by Elizabeth Martinez is discussed. There are no other sources listed....

Black on Black Pottery of Maria Martinez

In five pages Tewa potter Maria Martinez's amazing life and are are explored. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Maria Martinez's Tewa potter extrodinare

In four pages Maria Martinez's life and work are explored. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Multicultural Writing and Exile

In seven pages th is paper discusses how exile is thematically developed in such multicultural writings as Goodbyes by Pablo Nerud...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

English Language: Tan and Baldwin

because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...

Comparative Analysis of Min Zhan Lu's From 'Silence to Words' and Amy Tan's 'Mother Tongue'

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

Another Mother Tongue by Judy Grahn

In eight pages this paper attempts to provide a place in history for gays and lesbians they have long been denied. There are no o...

Comparing "Mother Tongue" And "You're Short, Besides"

the company of literary associates and her readership, her English transforms to what she deems "broken, as if it were damaged and...

Mao Zedong's Cultural Vision Of China

grew tired of this gaping void in their marriage and had an affair, despite her complete loyalty and subordination to him. She ye...

"Mother To Son" - Reader Response Criticism

Hughes mother who says "So, boy, dont you turn back. Dont you set down on the steps. Cause you finds its kinder hard," mine was ...

Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

Learning A Second Language In Infancy And/Or Childhood: Benefits Or Costs For Language Development?

controversial - examples of how the spoken language has fallen victim to the lazy tongues of many bi- and multilingual societies. ...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

English Language Learners (ELL): Families And School

country is not only complex and troublesome, but it is also quite an involved process. Even more exasperating is the quest to con...

Ursula Hegi's Floating in My Mother's Palm, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Mothers and Daughters

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

Global Commonality of the English Language

were able to teach through the medium of Welsh and Welsh cultural texts were promulgated....

A Poem Comparison, Frost, Hughes

and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...

African American Single Motherhood

problem in regards to available options that can cope with the needs of sick chidden (Accordino, 1998). I want to make something...

Last Wish by Betty Rollin

with introducing Ida Rollin to the reader. She was a remarkable woman. A "people" person, Ida "adopted" people. Rollin explains ho...

Communication Issues/Neonatal ICU

some problems that can be encountered include "breast engorgement, nipple soreness, and latch-on" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). An interp...

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

Kim Chernin's In My Mother's House

shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Sexual Activity and Pregnancy in Adolescents

In six pages these two articles pertaining to the many aspects of sexual activity and pregnancy are presented 'Early adolescent se...

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

that of her mother because they are both gluttonous. Mrs. Price is gluttonous because she puts up with Mr. Prices philandering. ...

Mothers and Daughters in the Works of Dorothy Allison, Sylvia Plath, and Edith Wharton

Relationships between mothers and daughters are contrasted and compared as they are represented in Bastard Out of Carolina by Doro...