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Barnes, Susan Kubic. "Sign Language With Babies: What Difference Does It Make?" 38 (2010): n.          pag. Web. 20 Nov. 2016. 23,25. Summary:  Singing can help language proficiency.  ASL is the            third most common language in the united states behind Spanish and Italian.   She used  data from     BabySigns.com that supports the idea that signing does help a child acquire language.  She also           references Goodwyn’s support of thought-language connection impacting early learning.  She lists     benefits of baby sign language.  How I will use it:  Paraphrase, Summarize/Paraphrase/Quote

Spanglish Summary

We can understand Spanglish even though it is not our language. Spanglish is cross between Spanish and English. It gets picked up mainly from children or TV.  Spanglish is used to simplify sentences. It can be different depending on location.  A city on one end of the country could speak Spanglish differently than the opposite side of the country. People are keeping the simpler words or phrases from each language and merging the languages together. Spanish is usually elected in high school , so even though we, English speakers may not think we know Spanish we are a least familiar with it.  The hybrid language has increased the last ten years.  Latinos use Spanglish in transitioning to and from languages.  Spanglish is more time efficient so it is being used more. Spanglish has connected two cultures. Advertisers are trying to hit the $134 billion cross market by advertising in Spanglish.

Complain about..

Minimum wage increase -- What the hell? What are people thinking? 12 dollars for Minimum Wage?! I don't get it.   So, okay, we all like money.  but where is this money coming from? So you get 12 dollars a hour, guess what happens to your rent? and your clothes, and your movie tickets? Guess what happens to the cost of living in flagstaff?  Rent is already at 1600 dollars for a 2 bedroom 990 sqft apartment.  BOTH OF my paychecks won't cover rent and utilities.  My Health Insurance that my employer pays 80% for already has gone up 100-150 dollars a month.  How do you expect the community to support a 12 dollar minimum wage? OOOOH, yes, I forgot.. The NAU students.  They will pay for whatever they need because they can add it to a load or have their parent's help them out because they are 'college kids'.   I was looking at an ADDITIONAL job .. as in SECOND FULL TIME job ( I already have a very part-time gig on top of my full time job).  just to cover my insurance, and now it looks like I will most definitely need a second full time job to pay for rent and gas, and utilities.      Who voted for this prop?  They need a hit in the head with an economics book.  Are they seeing a different outcome?... what are they seeing?  ... this is ridiculous.   I thought of trying to get my full time job to open a compressed work shift so that we can also work a second job, because my full time employer has denied cost of living increases, since forever!  I DON"T GET HOW TO LIVE HERE?   What do people do?!?!  

James Bond - Adaptations

Adaptation of James Bond "From Russia with Love"

"From Russia with Love" has been adapted from a book (written in 1957) into a comic in 1960 then into a film in 1963.  It was a second Bond film that starred Sean Connery as Bond.  The film also had a soundtrack. The book was also adapted into a video game along with a Radio drama. The radio drama released in 2012.  These adaptions came along probably because the film was successful, the most popular in the British box office, enough to prove that extra money could be made by creating different adaptations.  Having different media mediums helps make the story more accessible for different audiences. Comic, video games, films can make the story more entertaining.  If one media gets old to a person, they can switch it up to another and enjoy a new spin on the story.  Each alternate piece can create a different feeling about the story as a whole, so to keep with the true spirit of the original, there must be certain events that happen that remind the audience of the main characters or plots and the original excitement they experienced.

Reader Response to Contextual Analysis Essay

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1. I'm not sure I understand his intention. I'm not sure if I'm following what he is saying.  Is he saying there can never be equality? Maybe, he is pointing out that politics is trying to tell us how to have a inter-racial relationships? 

2. & 3. I think he focuses on the 'facade' of black/white friendships and the relationships of black and whites. He also focuses on how black history is minimized and true emotions that could actually connect and unify us are passed over. He believes that media/politics is trying to conform and define how black/white relationships are suppose to look like. He thinks that the media is trying to fix racism by minimizing the blacks history (ignoring it?). That black-white relationships are being forced by media,politics and guilt. 

4.  What are the features of the text that are discussed by the author?  Black & white american's relationships, well-fare associated with guilt, black statistics vs white statistics...

5.  What are the intended effects of the text?  (Generally considered by the audience) to show another way of thinking about the differences between blacks and whites. This other way being, rather than conforming to the just accepting ways of equality that the media and politics define, we try to build real connections and understandings.   (?)

6.  What are the unintended effects of the text as identified by the author of the essay? I have a question, I guess, that is in what generations will there be same-ness, then?  

Grammar Girl #3 - episode 463

1.  What I know:
I don't know what this means. I don't know what Parallel structure refers to. 

2.  Grammar Girl Episode #463

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-to-use-parallel-construction-correctly

3 & 4.  http://www.dailywritingtips.com/5-sentences-with-problematic-parallelism-in-lists/

1. “The writer will sit, eat, and interview the subject.”
It seems more logical for the writer to interview the subject after being seated but before eating him or her, but whatever. If the intended meaning of the statement is that the writer will dine with the subject rather than cannibalistically consume him or her, however, the sentence should be revised as follows: “The writer will sit and eat with, and interview, the subject.” Better yet, for a smoother flow to the sentence, introduce a pronoun: “The writer will sit and eat with the subject and interview him [or her].”

What I learned:  Parallel Structure refers to the pattern intended as a way to organize a list.  The list should fit with the previous verb.  example: I need to water - the trees, flowers, and house plants. You could know you are using Parallel Structure right if you can list the items with the verb this way and it still makes sense: 

I need to water the trees

I need to water the flowers

I need to water the house plants

ACT II and III of "A Raisin in the Sun"

1. How is Beneatha dressed and behaving at the opening of Act II? Why do you think she is interested in Nigeria? Why do you think Walter participates, whereas Ruth is embarrassed, particularly once George arrives?
1. She's dressed in cultural robes from Nigeria.  I think she's interested in Nigeria because she is interested in her ancestry.  Walter was drunk, I don't know why.  Maybe he felt compelled to try expressing himself too. Ruth was embarrassed when George arrives because walter was rude/insulting and was giving george trouble because he was rich and went to school. He didn't like his George's shoes either. 
2. Why is Walter so resentful of George? For example, what is he getting at when he says to him, “I see you all all the time – with the books tucked under your arms – going to your ‘clahsses.’ And for what! What the hell you learning over there? Filling up your heads - with the sociology and the psychology – but they teaching you how to be a man? How to take over and run the world? They teaching you how to run a rubber plantation or a steel mill? Naw - just to talk proper and read books and wear them faggoty-looking white shoes…”
1. He's resntful because he feels he doesn't get to have a dream and the college kids have opportunity but don't know what to do with it. 
3. How are George and Asagai different? Consider George’s white shoes compared to Asagai’s Nigerian robes. In what ways are these items symbolic of the men themselves, and perhaps their own dreams?
1. George is more of a socialite, aristocrat type. Goeroge isn't too romantic and did want bene going out in public in the robes.  Asagai is romantic, a bit of a dreamer like bene. He's okay in dressing bene in robs and taking care of her, he's a student (like george) but Asagai doesn't seem to keep up with George's wealth. 
4. She's overwhelmed.  We find out that having a nice house with space for everyone was her dream. 
5. How do you think it impacts Mama when Walter says, “So you butchered up a dream of mine – you - who always talking about your children’s dreams…?”
1. He was making her feel guilty, She was probably hurt, confused, and didn't know how to talk to him. 
6. What does Mama mean when she says to Walter, “I say I been wrong, son. That I been doing to you what the rest of the world been doing to you…there ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else – it if means- if it means it’s going to destroy my boy...?”
1.  that there's nothing worth losing yourself over,  losing honesty, pride... money and dreams can't replace those things. 
7. What big decision does Mama make? Do you think this is the right decision? Why or why not?
1. She puts money down on a house, and trusts the rest to walter.  I'm not sure if it was the right or wrong decision.  I think the fact that she used part of her money to buy her family a house made sense. I think that if walter didn't have the money then he would never have "grown into a man".  Maybe that was what walter needed.
8. Although Travis does not have many lines, in what ways is his character significant?
1. He shows the audience that the family is just beginning and that having future dreams are still fairly important, because kids=future. 
9. What is Karl Linder’s purpose for visiting the Youngers? How do the Youngers respond? How do you think you would respond were you in their situation?  Could something like this take place today?
1. He wanted to buy them out of the neighborhood. The youngers were almost expecting it then thought they were on the same page for a moment, then kept their composure when they realized that Linder was telling them they don't fit in and the neighboors don't want them there (b/c of their color)
10. What do we find out regarding what Walter did with the money? What is your opinion of Walter in this moment? How do you think the family feels in learning the money is gone? How do you imagine Walter feels?  In particular, how does Mama react to the news and why?
1. He dind't go to the bank and he put it down on the liquor store.  He is a selfish lying rat. They are crushed and blame walter. He feels taken advantage of and is VERY angry. He realizes that he lost his father's earnings. Mama is VERY upset as well and prays for patience so she won't slap/yell Walter. 
11. Overall, how do you think the Youngers' environment has impacted their life?  How do you think the new environment is impacting them?
1. I think they became a tight family, and their tiny space and enviromonet kept them dreaming of something better. I think the new environment is impacting then in a way that is testing their dream and their patience.  I think they are working much harder and are trying to hang on to their dream of living in a nice neighborhood and in a house with a garden even with everyone telling them they aren't welcome.