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On November 3 rd 2016, my parents took my sisters and I to eat at Jim's Kitchen telling us that we were going out for brunch instead of eating at home. We sat down ordered and my dad said that we are going to play a game, he told us that a life-changing event was going to happen and that we had to guess what it was. My first thought was a Baby but I didn't actually say that what I said was "We aren't moving again are we?" "No it's happier news." My sisters and I continued to guess a couple more times until I finally hesitantly guessed if it was a baby and to my happiness it was. Eight months after that my mom goes back to Canada to live with my grandparents and have the baby while the rest of us stayed and finished the month and a half that was left of school. Two weeks after she left she skypes us and tells us that the baby is going to be born much earlier than we thought (3 weeks early) as there was a problem with the pregnancy. On the ea

This week in class we analysed and discussed in groups the essay Mother Tongue by Amy Tan. In the essay Mother Tongue, Amy Tan describes that the kind of English that her mother uses is normally seen as "broken or incorrect" English. Throughout the text, Amy Tan expresses her experience of being an English speaker in a Chinese family and what stereotypes the English world has made about non-native English speakers. Some stereotypes about non-native speakers would be about how they seem less educated. They may seem uneducated to native English speakers when they live in a native English country because they wouldn't know the country's language that you are living in and that could be a major disadvantage to the non-native speakers as it would be harder for them to communicate with others if the English that they spoke wasn't proper. In the poem, Tan talks about how language is very powerful and how it is her tool of trade. She talks about the different types

In the article "How to pay for a baby" by Kool A.D. Kool A.D uses a very informal vocabulary which is used to hide the fact that what he is talking about is not how to pay for a baby but he is using the article so that he can criticize society. He has used this language so that only an educated person would be able to understand what the article is about. The informal language he uses in the article mainly consists of swearing yet he writes some parts of tthe article as if he was talking to young children as he explains what money is for even though it would not be an article that a kid would read. In the article, he also does not talk about the main reason for the article which is "How to pay for a baby."