Two Thesis Statements

Matthew Williams
ENGW 1100_34
17 November 2015
Professor Young

Two Thesis Statements

1.)  Therefore players should not cheat, because when they try to gain an advantage by cheating, they  end up ruining their careers and reputations. 

2.)  Because players try to gain an advantage by cheating, they ruin their careers and reputations, and therefore should not cheat. 

Ten Questions to the Analytic Question

Matthew Williams
ENGW 1100_34
8 November 2015
Professor Young

Ten Questions to the Analytic Question 

Analytic Question: How does cheating in a sport effect how the game is played?

10 Questions:

1.  What if others players are cheating in a game that you have to play against? Factual 

2.  How can a player become better without cheating? Analytic

3.  In what ways is cheating in sports ok? Analytic

4.  Why do many sports players need to cheat? Inductive 

5.  Why do players have to tamper with equipment to win games? Inductive 

6.  What happens when players don't cheat to become better? Factual 

7.  Why do players need to cheat in sports? Factual 

8.  How does cheating make you become a better person? Inductive

9.  Can some sorts of cheating can be ok for some sports? Factual

10.  How many people have cheated in a sport that got away from it? Factual 

Three Quotes to Discuss from Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid

Matthew Williams

English 1100

29 October 2015
Prof. Young

1. "Perhaps most damaging to any serious effort to address racial segregation openly is the refusal of most of the major arbiters of culture in our northern cities to confront or even clearly name an obvious reality they would have castigated with a passionate determination in another section of the nation fifty years before—and which, moreover, they still castigate today in retrospective writings that assign it to a comfortably distant and allegedly concluded era of the past."  This quote  means that many people refuse to put their students in these types of schools.  These schools want to get rid of segregation in schools.  They want more types of people in the school. 

2. "Many educators make the argument today that given the demographics of large cities like New York and their suburban areas, our only realistic goal should be the nurturing of strong, empowered, and well-funded schools in segregated neighborhoods."  This quote means that the town should put more funds into the schools to make it better, so more types of people come to the school. 

3. "The bad times were seized upon politically to justify the cuts, and the money was never restored once the crisis years were past."  This quotes means, that the students are not getting the extra curriculum activities because of the budget cuts in the schools.  The students are not getting the right kind of equipment they need to have in school.

Three Quotes from Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid

Matthew Williams

English 1100

25 October 2015
Prof. Young

Three Quotes from Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid 

1. "In New York, Nearly three quarters of the students were black or Hispanic." 

2. "At John F. Kennedy High School in 2003, 93 percent of the enrollment of more than 4,000 students were black and Hispanic; only 3.5 percent of students at the school were white."

3. "School physicians also were removed from elementary schools during these years. In 1970, when substantial numbers of white children still attended New York City's public schools, 400 doctors had been present to address the health needs of the children."

What Identity Means to Me

Matthew Williams

English 1100

2 September 2015

Prof. Young

What Identity Means to Me

     What the word "Identity' means to me is what do you believe who you are.  The identity characteristics I think identity is about are race, culture, language, religion, presentation, clothing, friends and family.  Gloria Anzaldua thinks identity is about race, language, culture and family.  In her story she writes about how she can’t speak English fluently.  She is of Mexican decent because of her family and lives in the Texas’s Rio Grande Valley on the U.S.-Mexican border.  She can speak some English that is broken up, Standard Mexican Spanish and Tex-Mex.  “We’re going to have to control your tongue” (Anzaldua 255). Gloria is a strong and stubborn child and as an adult, she really wants her language to survive in the future. She wants the language to be brought down to generations to generations.  When she is in her mother’s house she would always talk in Tex-Mex.  Gloria always cares about her identity.  My identity is mainly about my race, culture, language, religion and family.  In my house we have big Italian celebrations for holidays and get togethers.  I care about my whole family like Gloria does.  Even though I do not speak a lot of Italian, I do pick some up still.  Having your race, culture, language, religion and family is a great part of your identity. 

Works Cited

Anzaldua, Gloria. "How to tame a Wild Tongue" Teaching Development Writing. Ed.  Susan Naomi              Bernstein. Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 245-255. Print.

Reading Response Questions to "How to tame a Wild Tongue"

Matthew Williams

English 1100

30 August 2015

Prof. Young

Reading Response Questions to "How to tame a Wild Tongue" 

1.  The opening scene of Anzaldua in the dentist's chair connects with the overall point/message of the essay and title by having her being strong and stubborn in chair.  She wants to protect her language. 

2.   Anzaldua's use of the Spanish throughout her writing does does make sense because she is answering the question in her own way. It is her purpose of keeping the language alive.  

3.  Yes because Spanish is more taught in schools and Chicano Spanish is not taught because only a group of people use it.  People can use whatever language they want to use that is a nonstandard because this action is your identity.

4. The necessity of speaking and/writing in Academic English is an identity because it's about how your are as a person on the type of level.  it is necessary because English is spoken in many parts of the world.  

5.  Anzaldua does describes different types of Spanish she knows and speaks.  I use the Academic type of English. I have been using it my whole life.  

6.  I do not use a secret language, secret identity to communicate with my friends.  

7.  I speak standard English to my friends,  When I speak to my parents, professor and others I speak standard English because thats what they use. 

8.  "I am my language" means, I know the language I speak. This statement connects to a person's identity because its about who you are.  

9.  How both of the paragraphs connect connect by talking about how the tongues are stubborn and know how to survive.  

10. I can not really speak a part of my identity because I took Italian my freshman year and did not get a good grade in the class.  

11.  How my identity is important to me because its how I am in the real world.  Anzaldua believes it's important to have an identity because it's how you act in society.

Quotes:

"We're going to have control your tongue," the dentist says.

"If you want to be American, speak 'American.' If you don't like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.'' 

"Flies don't enter a closed mouth"

Works Cited 

Anzaldua, Gloria. "How to tame a Wild Tongue" Teaching Development Writing. Ed.  Susan Naomi               Bernstein. Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 245-255. Print.

"How to tame a Wild Tongue" 3 Quotes

Matthew Williams

English 1100

3 September 2015

Prof. Young

"How to tame a Wild Tongue" 3 Quotes

1.    “We are going to control your tongue.”  This quote means Gloria is a strong and stubborn child and as an adult she wants her language to survive.  

2.    “If you want to be American. Speak ‘American.’ If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.”  This quote means immigrants have to speak American if they want to stay in American.  It is hard for them to speak a language they don’t really know

3.    “Flies don’t enter a closed mouth.”  This quote means you should always talk to get what you want.