Discussion Prompt #8

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a.) I have not had that experience but I have a friend who went through this experience. Spanish was her natural language and what was spoken in her household. She was never really comfortable with the English language. She always felt insecure and thought she would say something wrong.

b.) I could greatly compare the experience of speaking one language and another at school to the idea of me having to the language pretaining to my career field. That is so because nursing requires a whole new language that is not normally spoken in my home. There will be a lot of terms for me to process and can be a hard thing to do because I am so use to the way I normally speak at home. But it must be learned becuase it will be the only way I can succeed in that career field.

c.)Yes, it will be important in my career field. It will be important because others will be using the language and you must be able to know what they are talking about. In the hospital they use very specific terms that I would not normally hear or use in my household. That means that I must really get into learning it because I will have to communicate with others in a totally different way than which I am use to doing.

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a.)Yes, families do change as the children grow up. They change because as the kids get other they find different things tha appeal to them rather than what their family does. They learn new things and meet new people that help them develop into themselves. No, success is never attainable without a scarafice. We all had to give up something we love or enjoyed for better reasons. If scarafices were not made many people would not be in the great positions that they are in now.

b.) Yes, you can have intimacy with language in academic disciplines and career fields that would be fulfilling. You can have intimacy with the language depending how strongly you feel or care a bout your career. Also if you strongly feel for the thing in which you will be using the language to do.

c.) I do not feel that Rodriguez feels like the scarafice was worth it. I think he does not feel that way because of the way he felt when he heard some people speaking Spanish. He felt like it brought him back to his childhood days and all he could do was smile.

Discussion Prompt #7

Im doing my rhetorical analysis on the essay, "Education in a Multicultural Society: Our Future's Greatest Challenge," by Lisa D. Delpit. Delpit's purpose for writing this essay is to bring everyone's attention the difficulty educators have educating diverse students. For her background she use personal encounters to show how students of different cultures had to be taught differently.

Delpit's audience is teachers and prospective teachers. This purpose is to instill information into them on how to become better educators.

The text is basically telling teachers that they need to see things and do not consider how the students sees things. The tools that were used to make the text were personal experiences of Delpit.

This essay takes occurs in todays society. It takes place in various places across the United States.

"On Self-Respect" by Joan Didion

1.) The allusions that Didion uses that related to literature could have a negative and positive effect on the reader. It could have a negative effect because some readers may not have read the books that she is using as an example. It could be positive because if the readers are familiar with the books they will be able to get a better understanding of what Didion is saying. It can be both helpful and non helpful, it just depends on the person's understanding of what Didion is trying to explain. On the other hand I do not find it to be alienating at all.
2.) Didion stated "self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about." "Although the careless, suicidal Julian English in Appointment in Samarra and the careless, incurably dishonest Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby seem to equally improbable candidates for self-respect, Jordan Baker had it, Julian English Did not." I think these two statements are based on assumptions that people would generally agree with. Personally I think that it takes a very courageous person to ask for forgiveness no matter what their wrong doing was because they are acknowledging to everyone that they were wrong. Your character becomes ruin whenever you make certain mistakes but you are able to regain you character when people notice you are asking for forgiveness.
3.) Those statements are connected to building writing skills because you have to be very disciplined in order to write well and she classifies discipline as a sign of self-respect. You have to be properly trained and develope writing skills over time. You cant neccessarily take that you are a great writer because it will show in the quality of your work.