A nation can recover itself from a dark past by building itself back up and by rebuilding infrastructure, the economy etc. however, no one is going to forget what happened. The ‘new’ nation is a result of historical conflict and therefore will always be remembered. Governments can try to limit or censor the amount of […]
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‘Sexy’ Handmaids
Link to the article Which ‘side’ of the debate do you agree with? I think that the company was right to take the listing down from the website. Although I understand that there were no bad intentions, the costume was inappropriate to sell. The wearing of the red Handmaid’s dress is a symbol of female […]
Identity – Fry’s Planet World Video
How does language include/exclude; represent/misrepresent? In class we watched a video called Fry’s Planet World. I learnt that your accent can give other people an insight to who you are and that you can make an assumption about someone just by hearing their voice. Some people can sound more powerful because their accent is stronger […]
Assimilation and the Power of our Language
Today in class we read an article on the Guardian about forced assimilation in America and how it is affecting her and her grandma. When the journalist was a teenager, she wanted to assimilate as fast as possible. She stopped speaking Spanish, she didn’t want to have a quinceañera and she said that everything in the […]
English – My Language World
Why do I speak as I do, and how does my language define me? I speak the way I do because of how I have been brought up and who I interact with. I think that my family has influenced the way I talk as they are the people that I am around the most. […]