Amy tan's mother's language variety played a significant role in shaping tan's identity. which excerpt from her reflective essay "mother tongue" shows her admiration and appreciation of her mother's broken english? 1.and sure enough, the following week, there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and i was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real mrs. tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken english. 2.sociologists and linguists probably will tell you that a person's developing language skills are more influenced by peers than by family. but i do think that the language spoken in the family, especially in immigrant families which are more insular, plays a large role in shaping the language of the child. 3.lately, i've been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as "broken" or "fractured" english. 4.i began to write stories using all the englishes i grew up with: the english i spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as "simple”. . i wanted to capture what language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

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Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion