Essay 1

Should the U.S  have more than one national language? Why? 

according to us.gov, the United States has no official language. Therefore, it would not make sense to add an official language. If it were to have one, the most logical thing to do would be to have more than one. Due to the diversity of the population, having one national language would exclude immigrants who do not speak English. 

According to the 2010 census, there is 229 million English speaking people living in the US and 35 million people speaking Spanish. The third language used is some form of Chinese language with 2.8 million people. 

In a way, having one national language would unite the people of the United States and help people have a better communication. If there was to be one official language, it can be infer that it would be English. Having English as the official language would not really change anything because it is the primary language language in the US and 27 states including California have English as their official language.

Even though having more than one national language would not not have a big impact on the population, it would symbolize the acceptance of diversity, which is why the US is known for, and it would celebrate the different languages spoken in the US. 

PEER REVIEW

Overall, the blogs I review today were organized and had the majority if not all the assigned post there. The post that stood out to me was Valentina's blog because the posts were colorful. 

WHATS THE STORY

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VOCAB 5

Anthropologist: the study of humankind 

compendium: a collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject, esp. in a book or other publication.

Yorùbá: a member of a people of southwestern Nigeria and Benin; the Kwa language of the Yoruba, and an official language of Nigeria.

quantum: a required or allowed amount 

tertiary: 3rd in class or level

myriads: countless or extremely big number to count

shrouded: cover or envelope used to conceal from view 

infatuated: be inspired with an intense but short-lived passion or admiration 

diverted: to cause someone/ something to change its course 

hierarchical: arrange in order of rank 

tenets: a principle of belief (religion or philosophy) 

ardour:enthusiasm or passion 

zealot: person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.

monolithic: formed by a single big block of stone 

demagoguery:impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace

espousal: an act of adopting or supporting a cause, belief, or way of life.

Alight: to descend 

arbitrarily: Based random choice; without reason

precarious:  not securely held in position or likely to fall 

intricacies: the details about something

VOCAB 5 (AP ENG)

parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form

parody: an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.

pathos:  the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.

pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake

personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.

plot: the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

poignant: eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

point of view: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from
which the observer views what he is describing.

postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple  meanings,
playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary

prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.

protagonist:  the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist

pun: play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.

purpose: the intended result wished by an author.

realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.

requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.

resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

restatement:  idea repeated for emphasis.

rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade

rhetorical question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.

rising action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax.

romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth  century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.

satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

scansion:  the analysis of verse in terms of meter.
setting:  the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.