Introductory Blog Post

Letter To The Editor Currently, I’ve noticed extravagant changes in the standard English used in school and university campuses. As a school principle in Abu Dhabi, I have been receiving many complaints from teachers in every profession about the ‘slang’ language English students are using in their formal test papers. Therefore, I have also heard the same repeated comments are being brought up in an article from your newspaper company ‘daily mail’ published on the 24 th of March 2014 by Laura Clark, called: “Twtr? It’s majorly bad! Leading head teacher condemns ‘text speak’ for eroding schoolchildren’s language skills.” Your article argues that the media is influencing all the average school children negatively since they are using the ‘fingered language’ in class hours with teachers, other peers and even on tests. I completely agree with all your arguments stated since figured language ‘text speech’ is driving emergent complexity since children are finding it difficult to...

Today on ‘RollingStone’ we have a special guest with us ready to share his biography and what drove him into being an influential pop/ R&B singer. Sometimes they call him the father of soul music; he’s the one and only Sam Cooke. He reached the top of the charts in 1957 with his ever first songs "You Send Me." Afterwards a thread of pop and R&B hits/ albums soon followed. Sam Cook was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he grew up in Chicago as the son of a minister. It was Cooke's hope to cross over to the white audience more carefully, and open up doors for the black performers. What are your careers highlights? “After six years with the Soul Stirrers, I began to branch out into earthly music. That’s right! I recorded my first single in 1957 called "Lovable”. Later that year, I released first number one hit, "You Send Me." Music fans loved this song, or as they like to call it the magical poem, since the words I sing come out so tender and ...

“Changes” By: Tupac Shakur Analysis Tupac Shakur has always stood out in the rap industry since he has the ability to be poetic while rapping in a “gangster tone”. In his most famous song “Changes” Tupac was able to dominate his rapping skills while still being able to tackle the social issues African Americans Face. In the first few lines of Tupac’s song he has clearly allocated us to the content of the song by rapping “I’m tried of bein’ poor and even worse I’m black, my stomach hurts, so I’m lookin’ for a purse to snatch”. These lines portray how the black people in America live in extreme poverty and are not given the opportunities or rights to do what the normal American can do. Also we can see that his African American jargon is used in his song to illustrate to the listener that he is not giving up on his culture or traditions. Furthermore, in the second stanza, the last word of the first two lines is a stylistic feature of rhythm (brother, other), which allows the listene...

Complication on Learning A Second Language and how it Shaped my Identity Looking back over all the years that have passed, I can say that I have been challenged throughout my life. I can say that my identity has shifted completely as I had to learn a second language, which is Arabic once I had to move to the U.A.E. I lived in Australia for the first 4 years of my life, where I would speak English with somewhat of an Australian accent. But then one night my whole life was changed as I was tolled that me and my family where moving to the middle east far way from the greenery, the kangaroos, the “G-Day mate” greetings and most importantly far away from the rest of my family. As the time was getting closer and closer to the big change in my life, I just overlooked that everyone in the middle east speaks the Arabic language and that I had to learn it someday to be able to live a happy and successful life in the middle east. I started to image how this second language I have to...