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The tempest act 3 scene 2 analysis (IOP practice). https://soundcloud.com/mohamed-abousen/tempest

Most Meaningful Takeaway

How To Tame A Wild Tongue 

The whole article was great and had a lot of quotes and meanings, but what my group and I found most intriguing was a quote that really hit me. "So, if you really want to hurt me, talk badly about my language". Anzaldua also mentioned   "Ethnic identity is twin to linguistic identity- I am my language". This shows how much Anzaldua takes pride in her language. As mentioned before in class, a person's language and culture is what defines, without culture or a language, you will not belong anywhere and you will not have an identity. This is of the main reasons Anzaldua doesn't want to let her language leave. 

Another way Anzaldua connects language to identity is by using historical details to show how changes in the Chicano language affected the people as a whole. She makes various distinctions between Chicano Spanish and the standard Spanish spoken in Mexico and most other parts of the world. She makes the point that the new language came out of necessity because Chicanos didn’t feel a connection to either American English or Mexican Spanish, and they had no other way to connect themselves and to identify themselves as a people than by creating a new language to bond them together. The new language became an integral part of Chicano identity as it helped the people identify themselves with others of their ethnicity. Later on in the essay, Anzaldua alludes to various Chicano musicians,writers, and even films made her feel more pride not only in the Chicano language, but in herself, showing the strong connection between language and identity. 

Where do we see evidence of linguistic imperialism in the Anglophone world?

What is linguistic imperialism ? The basic meaning of linguistic imperialism is the transfer of a dominant language to other people and in this case the dominant language is the English language. In our rapidly globalising world today, the English language is becoming the most dominant language in the world. There appeared a number of modern purposes, determining the predominant position of the English language and allowing to retain its importance in the world society. My own opinion is that all people must know English to a certain degree to use as a common language throughout the world, but learn their native language as well. The most important factor in the majority of English speaking people, from whom English is their native language. Another important factor is that knowing English gives people great opportunities for studying, business, international career and travelling. English is a language of international community. It is in its way of world society of the epoch of globalisation  The number of people in the world speaking English is more than one billion people, only a quarter of them consider English as their mother language. Today we see that English seriously strengthens its positions as the language of international communication not only is Europe, but in the whole world. As evidence, today the international conferences, symposiums are held mainly in English. Most universities around the world demand applications in correct formal English. One of the main reasons that children abandon their native language (which is one of the main causes for the extinction of languages) is due to the fact of them being too lazy to learn it or due to them being embarrassed to speak it in public. In an Indian boarding school, the students were not aloud to speak their native languages. When a person abandons their native language, they abandon their culture and more importantly their identity. UAE is arab country yet in all the school here, Mathematics ,Sciences and other subjects , are all taught in English. I speak more English at home than Arabic even though my parents are Arab. When people go out in this country the majority speak English not arabic. That is due to the fact that they are being taught to speak English in school. That is why Education is an example to where we see linguistic imperialism in the world today. 

Oxfam International - Food crisis in Sahel.

The text is created by Oxfam International and was published in 2011. It discusses the impending food crises in Sahel. The author begins the article with a brief summary of what the article is actually about. Whilst taking a closer look at the article, there is a sense of advertising for the charity Oxfam rather than informing people about the crisis. The author is yet undeniably informing the audience of the food crisis in Sahel and what is being done to aid this problem, but they are as well trying to make the people donate to this organisation. The text was made for those with a strive to aid for the organisation. The style of the text is not formal, thus implying that the text is for everyone to read making it easier to be read by people of all ages. The text is not intended towards a specific gender. 

In the beginning of the article, harsh images shows the people and the harsh conditions they are living in. This is shared to the people reading the text making them feel bad and in a way persuading them to give money to the organisation.  The text then speaks about the images and the crisis and basically the problem is summarised. The style in which the author writes the text is very persuasive as it talks about the situation in Sahel and what they are doing to fix it. He mixes up a serious text with a persuasive text to make the reader really think about what he is reading. One of the many ways he persuades the audience is by using logos. The author uses many numbers and statistics in the text to help persuade the readers. 

 

Although the author uses a lot of logos in his text, ethos is used as well to change the mood of the text and appeal to the readers emotions. The style in which the author writes in the text is as, I mentioned before ,  very persuasive. It is obvious that the author intends to reach world wide readers for the text is not as formal. The author uses many persuasive techniques in the text which helps the fact that the text isn't only to inform the people but to let them pay money to the organisation. The author adds sentences such as "In Chad 13 out of 22 regions could be affected by this food crisis". This makes the reader really feel sorry for the people and feel bad if they don't donate. 

As I mentioned before, images are shown in the beginning of the video which really makes people feel for the people. Even though the article seems more like an ad for the organisation, it does well to inform the people about the problems and about how to aid the people and help educate the readers about the situation in Sahel.  

Persuasive Argument

The Media

How many of you , honestly, before you came to this country though it was going to be a barren wasteland? Or thought that you would (the most stereotypical one but is still used) ride camels to your school or to your homes? Do any of you actually know what is going on in Palestine ? Or do you make the assumption that its just a feud between Jews and Muslims ? Honestly, this is media manipulation. The media are very influential in shaping the peoples perspective of the world. The way they do this is by selecting and emphasising certain aspects of issues and presenting it to the world, and of course , the people blindly believe anything the media says due to the fact that they think that "the news knows it all". In a 1972 article in Public Opinion Quarterly, Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw came up with the term "agenda setting" and demonstrated how media agenda influenced public agenda based on a study of a local election. Every day, we read newspaper to be informed of what is happening. We rely on the news media for all kinds of information. However, there are thousands of things occur daily around the world. It is impossible to cover all the stories so the news media determine which stories are newsworthy enough to be presented. That act of highlighting certain issues is called setting the agenda for the public agenda. From the news media, people acquire information about public affairs and place the importance of a topic based on how much the news media emphasise it. Newspapers place the importance of a certain issue by making it on the front page with large headlines while TV news make that issue the first story to be presented in the newscast and devote longer time talking about it. The public then will believe those stories are very important and should be thought of and discussed with other people. The people that are however most affected by this media manipulation are the uneducated people who depend on the news for knowledge. These people are the ones who are victims of the media. Thinking that all Arabs are Muslims is a big one even though there is a majority of Christians in the Middle East. I mean common Jesus was born in the middd east. People should wake up and not believe anything the media tells them, think for yourselves and you'll find out that a lot of those so called "headlines" or "breaking news" are not worth missing your T.V show for or your football game. Don't be a victim, don't let the media control you.