... Tan, on the other hand has problems with different forms of Englishes. The "broken" English of her mother and her excellent English. In both essays there is the point of private language and public language. Each writer explains in different form in their essays. Amy Tan explains her home language or rather her ... "private" language as a language of intimacy. "The English I spoke to my mother" (21).This home language is special for her mom and ... expresses that she talked the broken English to her husband and it has become their normal family talk. "It has become our language of intima...

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... their own destiny." According to the essay read in class about the diamond wars and this charter, the destiny of Africa was controlled by Europe and even the United States in 1963, and is still controlled to some extent today. A good example of this is the Ogoni tribe in Nigeria whose lands were taken and exploited by American and Scandinavian oil companies. About ... have made up their minds to unite and take things into their own hands. In Heart of Darkness Kurtz had hundreds of Africans working for him bringing in ivory and these people got nothing in return but terror. Essays read i...

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... quite sad. But the traditions and festivals are not the only things that are poles apart in India and U.S.A. The schooling system is yet another example of how different the two places are. In India the education system is quite outdated. The textbooks used are often a decade old and no revisions ... end up just cramming the information for the exams and then letting it out on the paper in the form of lengthy notes. The answers themselves end up looking like professional essays. The worst part is that even the professors expect such long answers from the students and grades are awarded ...

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