How It Feels To Be Falsely Confused

  In article “How it Feel to be Falsely Accused” (2014) written by Josh Green. Green informs

 readers about discrimination in the justice system. Green shows this by telling Clarence Harrison’s

story of how he was accused of crime in 1986 that he never committed. Green show readers Harrison 

was falsely accused in order to tell the audience about his case and how Harrison’s DNA could not 

possibly match that in the rape kit. Intended audience for this article will be the people who wrongly 

accused of a crime and went in jail.

After reading the article, it gives me insight on how the justice will unfairly treat you with no remorse. A lot of people in this world gets wrongly convicted of certain things and i find it unfair how they cant even get a fair trial with the right evidence or accusation. I feel as if majority of our prisons are filled with people who got wrongly convicted of crimes they did not commit and still have to serve the unjustified time.

Black English Isn't Language by Baldwin

Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell me, What Is?

      In this article "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell, What Is?" (1979) written by James Baldwin, he states that the black culture has their own version of English. He supports his statement by giving examples of how one word could mean something to black people, but then the white culture would use the word in a different term; such as, "jazz". It was written in order of how the Black English was created. This article was written to inform others on the English language that black people uses. 

   From my perception, I would impose that language, overall, is a worldwide culture that differentiates people even from their own culture. After reading Baldwin's article, I understand his perspective that he gives on the English language that infers on how Blacks English language is different regular American English. Furthermore, I agree with the article in general and came to the conclusion that no one language is the same.

    In Article, “Black English Isn’t Language, Then Tell Me what is it?”, Baldwin’s editorial compares

 the features of other dialects to Black English to suggest that Black English is a legitimate language or dialect. For instance, he states, “ A Frenchman living in Paris speaks a subtly and crucially different language from that of the man living in Marseilles; neither sounds very much like a man living in Quebec; and they would all have great difficulty in apprehending what the man from Guadeloupe, or Martinique, is saying, to say nothing of the man from Senegal--although the "common" language of all these areas is French”(1). Basically, he is telling that language is culture, so you can’t critique people by their language because they don't speak the way you speak. He some of the word to compare their English like “Jazz me” into “Jazz age” (2).

Watch Your Language By Mark Larson

Watch Your Language

    In the article "Watch Your Language: Teaching Standard Usage to Resistant and Reluctant Learners"(Nov. 1996), Larson asserts the value of teaching the English language to young or older people, but more-so students. Larson shows this by giving the regular ideals of society along with certain research provided by other resources from different books as well as viewpoints from teachers in schools. Larson highlights these speech barriers in order to provide the incentive behind the resistance of learning the language norm. The intended audience for this article are both teachers and students that struggle with learning and observing how to conduct a meaningful conversation.

    I agree with him that label on a child regarding their language can be damaging and confusing. so on the article Larson try to help students get more interest in English language and try to help to be like his English.

      Larson believes that English could be taught in different ways instead of forcing student to learn it a certain way. He goes on to ask questions on why English is the way it is; known to him as the "Nonsense Rules of Grammar". "Why is it a crime to end a sentence with a preposition? What's wrong with contractions? And why can't I begin a sentence with a conjunction?" (1). He then compares students resistance to learning standard English to his experience of going to a fancy dinner a few years and how he felt as if he was an outsider. He did not know which fork to use which is the same as student not knowing the rules of "proper" grammar. "... If it sounds weird, it's right.I believe they are saying. What you are teaching feels wrong. It isn't me. It's you. I'll play along, but I won't incorporate it into my life."(2) Students feels this way when they are forced to learn what Standard English is.