Draft

Crystal Montemayor

I BELIEVE IN YOU

Michelle Obama and Eva Peron are two first ladies that love their people and are loved in return. They both have given touching and inspiring speeches to the audience and they are loved back by them. Both speeches were given with the purpose to give courage to the people and show care for them. What I am going to analyze here is whether if Michelle Obama or Eva Peron had more insight and interest in the audience's life. I’m not going to focus on the big image, if not in the little details that make the people excited and interested on what they are going to say.

Michelle Obama tells her own life experiences in order to encourage the students into never giving up in their life, no matter what others believe and expect of you. She had a difficult life dealing with critics and cameras every day, every hour, so she made the best out of it and gave advice to the students, she said,  “I had to ignore all of the noise and be true to myself and the rest would work itself out.”;in our lives we feel that if the others are not happy, then we can’t be happy, the noise according to Michelle Obama is the others, so we basically only have to ignore them and continue with our lives normally  . Eva Peron’s approach to the audience was somehow different, her advice wasn’t based on her life, instead, on her beliefs. Both of them made a huge impact on the audience, both inspired, both made them believe in a greater future and both were written by two first ladies. When someone tells her own story and how they succeeded, it gives you some kind of real hope, it makes you think, if they could do it, I can do it. It makes you think it is possible no matter what. The students are going to struggle after they graduate and hearing from her that she thinks it is possible for them to have a great life is exciting. Eva Peron encourages you to do it, but doesn’t warrant that it is possible.

Questions such as  “What kind of First Lady would I be?  What kinds of issues would I take on?  Would I be more like Laura Bush, or Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Reagan?” are the questions that Michelle Obama felt pressured to answer every day as the first African American lady of the United States of America. “Who am I?  No, really, who am I?  What do I care about?” throughout her journey she had to answer those questions and made her realize who she really wanted to be, and formed her, she realized that she didn’t have to please the critics and the rest of the world, she only needed to please herself and be happy with her family. “Who do you want to be?  What inspires you?  How do you want to give back?  And then I want you to take a deep breath and trust yourselves to chart your own course and make your mark on the world.” those were her exact words for the students, and those questions are so hard to answer, because the decision you make is going to define your future life.

What is our purpose in life? We will actually never now, but, what we know is that we can make the best of our life to help others and help ourselves. Michelle Obama focuses on them, on their future, on their lives, and on the possible difficulties they are going to have. In Eva Peron’s case, she tells everybody that they have to fight for Perón, she actually never said something about their lives and how they are going to be grateful later on. That is the difference, they both showed love for their people, but Michelle Obama showed more concern for their future. Showing an interest in someone's life, has as a consequence, love in return from your public. Both of their audiences love them, but Michelle Obama is loved worldwide.

Michelle Obama’s use of logical and emotional appeal in her speech had a higher impact on the audience than Eva Peron’s speech. She accomplished this  by using her own life experiences as an inspiration and using rhetorical questions to make us question our purpose in life. Both were great speeches, but Michelle Obama demonstrated more interest. When we make someone believe they can do something when their odds aren't in favor it has a huge impact on them, both of them achieved that, but the little details, as I said before, make a huge difference and Michelle Obama accomplished that, she made you think, she made you imagine and more importantly she made you dream.

Draft

Crystal Montemayor

I BELIEVE IN YOU

Michelle Obama and Eva Peron are two first ladies that love their people and are loved in return. They both have given touching and inspiring speeches to the audience and they are loved back by them. Both speeches were given with the purpose to give courage to the people and show care for them. What I am going to analyze here is whether if Michelle Obama or Eva Peron had more insight and interest in the audience's life. I’m not going to focus on the big image, if not in the little details that make the people excited and interested on what they are going to say.

Michelle Obama tells her own life experiences in order to encourage the students into never giving up in their life, no matter what others believe and expect of you. She had a difficult life dealing with critics and cameras every day, every hour, so she made the best out of it and gave advice to the students, she said,  “I had to ignore all of the noise and be true to myself and the rest would work itself out.”;in our lives we feel that if the others are not happy, then we can’t be happy, the noise according to Michelle Obama is the others, so we basically only have to ignore them and continue with our lives normally  . Eva Peron’s approach to the audience was somehow different, her advice wasn’t based on her life, instead, on her beliefs. Both of them made a huge impact on the audience, both inspired, both made them believe in a greater future and both were written by two first ladies. When someone tells her own story and how they succeeded, it gives you some kind of real hope, it makes you think, if they could do it, I can do it. It makes you think it is possible no matter what. The students are going to struggle after they graduate and hearing from her that she thinks it is possible for them to have a great life is exciting. Eva Peron encourages you to do it, but doesn’t warrant that it is possible.

Questions such as  “What kind of First Lady would I be?  What kinds of issues would I take on?  Would I be more like Laura Bush, or Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Reagan?” are the questions that Michelle Obama felt pressured to answer every day as the first African American lady of the United States of America. “Who am I?  No, really, who am I?  What do I care about?” throughout her journey she had to answer those questions and made her realize who she really wanted to be, and formed her, she realized that she didn’t have to please the critics and the rest of the world, she only needed to please herself and be happy with her family. “Who do you want to be?  What inspires you?  How do you want to give back?  And then I want you to take a deep breath and trust yourselves to chart your own course and make your mark on the world.” those were her exact words for the students, and those questions are so hard to answer, because the decision you make is going to define your future life.

What is our purpose in life? We will actually never now, but, what we know is that we can make the best of our life to help others and help ourselves. Michelle Obama focuses on them, on their future, on their lives, and on the possible difficulties they are going to have. In Eva Peron’s case, she tells everybody that they have to fight for Perón, she actually never said something about their lives and how they are going to be grateful later on. That is the difference, they both showed love for their people, but Michelle Obama showed more concern for their future. Showing an interest in someone's life, has as a consequence, love in return from your public. Both of their audiences love them, but Michelle Obama is loved worldwide.

Michelle Obama’s use of logical and emotional appeal in her speech had a higher impact on the audience than Eva Peron’s speech. She accomplished this  by using her own life experiences as an inspiration and using rhetorical questions to make us question our purpose in life. Both were great speeches, but Michelle Obama demonstrated more interest. When we make someone believe they can do something when their odds aren't in favor it has a huge impact on them, both of them achieved that, but the little details, as I said before, make a huge difference and Michelle Obama accomplished that, she made you think, she made you imagine and more importantly she made you dream.

Draft

Crystal Montemayor

I BELIEVE IN YOU

Michelle Obama and Eva Peron are two first ladies that love their people and are loved in return. They both have given touching and inspiring speeches to the audience and they are loved back by them. Both speeches were given with the purpose to give courage to the people and show care for them. What I am going to analyze here is whether if Michelle Obama or Eva Peron had more insight and interest in the audience's life. I’m not going to focus on the big image, if not in the little details that make the people excited and interested on what they are going to say.

Michelle Obama tells her own life experiences in order to encourage the students into never giving up in their life, no matter what others believe and expect of you. She had a difficult life dealing with critics and cameras every day, every hour, so she made the best out of it and gave advice to the students, she said,  “I had to ignore all of the noise and be true to myself and the rest would work itself out.”;in our lives we feel that if the others are not happy, then we can’t be happy, the noise according to Michelle Obama is the others, so we basically only have to ignore them and continue with our lives normally  . Eva Peron’s approach to the audience was somehow different, her advice wasn’t based on her life, instead, on her beliefs. Both of them made a huge impact on the audience, both inspired, both made them believe in a greater future and both were written by two first ladies. When someone tells her own story and how they succeeded, it gives you some kind of real hope, it makes you think, if they could do it, I can do it. It makes you think it is possible no matter what. The students are going to struggle after they graduate and hearing from her that she thinks it is possible for them to have a great life is exciting. Eva Peron encourages you to do it, but doesn’t warrant that it is possible.

Questions such as  “What kind of First Lady would I be?  What kinds of issues would I take on?  Would I be more like Laura Bush, or Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Reagan?” are the questions that Michelle Obama felt pressured to answer every day as the first African American lady of the United States of America. “Who am I?  No, really, who am I?  What do I care about?” throughout her journey she had to answer those questions and made her realize who she really wanted to be, and formed her, she realized that she didn’t have to please the critics and the rest of the world, she only needed to please herself and be happy with her family. “Who do you want to be?  What inspires you?  How do you want to give back?  And then I want you to take a deep breath and trust yourselves to chart your own course and make your mark on the world.” those were her exact words for the students, and those questions are so hard to answer, because the decision you make is going to define your future life.

What is our purpose in life? We will actually never now, but, what we know is that we can make the best of our life to help others and help ourselves. Michelle Obama focuses on them, on their future, on their lives, and on the possible difficulties they are going to have. In Eva Peron’s case, she tells everybody that they have to fight for Perón, she actually never said something about their lives and how they are going to be grateful later on. That is the difference, they both showed love for their people, but Michelle Obama showed more concern for their future. Showing an interest in someone's life, has as a consequence, love in return from your public. Both of their audiences love them, but Michelle Obama is loved worldwide.

Michelle Obama’s use of logical and emotional appeal in her speech had a higher impact on the audience than Eva Peron’s speech. She accomplished this  by using her own life experiences as an inspiration and using rhetorical questions to make us question our purpose in life. Both were great speeches, but Michelle Obama demonstrated more interest. When we make someone believe they can do something when their odds aren't in favor it has a huge impact on them, both of them achieved that, but the little details, as I said before, make a huge difference and Michelle Obama accomplished that, she made you think, she made you imagine and more importantly she made you dream.

I Believe In You/ draft

Michelle Obama tells her own life experiences in order to encourage the students into never giving up in their life, no matter what others believe and expect of you. She had a difficult life dealing with critics and cameras every day, every hour, so she made the best out of it and gave advice to the students, she said,  “I had to ignore all of the noise and be true to myself and the rest would work itself out.”;in our lives we feel that if the others are not happy, then we can’t be happy, the noise according to Michelle Obama is the others, so we basically only have to ignore them and continue with our lives normally  . Eva Peron’s approach to the audience was somehow different, her advice wasn’t based on her life, instead, on her beliefs. Both of them made a huge impact on the audience, both inspired, both made them believe in a greater future and both were written by two first ladies. When someone tells her own story and how they succeeded, it gives you some kind of real hope, it makes you think, if they could do it, I can do it. It makes you think it is possible no matter what. The students are going to struggle after they graduate and hearing from her that she thinks it is possible for them to have a great life is exciting. Eva Peron encourages you to do it, but doesn’t warrant that it is possible.

Questions such as  “What kind of First Lady would I be?  What kinds of issues would I take on?  Would I be more like Laura Bush, or Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Reagan?” are the questions that Michelle Obama felt pressured to answer every day as the first African American lady of the United States of America. “Who am I?  No, really, who am I?  What do I care about?” throughout her journey she had to answer those questions and made her realize who she really wanted to be, and formed her, she realized that she didn’t have to please the critics and the rest of the world, she only needed to please herself and be happy with her family. “Who do you want to be?  What inspires you?  How do you want to give back?  And then I want you to take a deep breath and trust yourselves to chart your own course and make your mark on the world.” those were her exact words for the students, and those questions are so hard to answer, because the decision you make is going to define your future life.

What is our purpose in life? We will actually never now, but, what we know is that we can make the best of our life to help others and help ourselves. Michelle Obama focuses on them, on their future, on their lives, and on the possible difficulties they are going to have. In Eva Peron’s case, she tells everybody that they have to fight for Perón, she actually never said something about their lives and how they are going to be grateful later on. That is the difference, they both showed love for their people, but Michelle Obama showed more concern for their future. Showing an interest in someone's life, has as a consequence, love in return from your public. Both of their audiences love them, but Michelle Obama is loved worldwide.

Michelle Obama’s use of logical and emotional appeal in her speech had a higher impact on the audience than Eva Peron’s speech. She accomplished this  by using her own life experiences as an inspiration and using rhetorical questions to make us question our purpose in life

Eva Perón

Eva Perón was born on May 7, 1919, in Los Toldos, Argentina. She grew up poor, dreaming of becoming actress, later on became one. She married Juan Perón, who became president of Argentina, and she became first lady. For years Eva Perón faught for women's suffrage and improving the lives of the poor, and became an important figure in Argentine politics. She died of cervical cancer in 1952.

Her speech "Descamisados":
Eva Peron had been diagnosed with the cancer, she gave this speech to a million workers.

• She gave her speech on October 17th, 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mis queridos descamisados

Es éste un día de muchas emociones para mí. Con toda mi alma he deseado estar cm ustedes y con Perón en este día glorioso de los descamisados. Yo no podré faltar nunca a esta cita con mi pueblo de cada 17 de Octubre. Yo les aseguro que nada ni nadie hubiera podido impedirme que viniese, porque yo tengo con Perón y con todos ustedes, con los trabajadores, con los muchachos de la CGT, una deuda sagrada; a mí no me importa si para saldarla tengo que dejar jirones de mi vida en el camino.

Tenía que venir y he venido para darle las gracias a Perón, a la CGT, a los descamisados y a mi pueblo. A Perón, que ha querido honrarme con la más alta distinción que pueda otorgarse a un peronista y cm lo que acaba de decir esta tarde, que yo no terminaré de pagarle ni entregándole mi vida para agradecerle lo bueno que siempre fue y es conmigo. -Nada de lo que yo tengo; nada de lo que soy; nada de lo que pienso, es mío: es de Perón. Yo no le diré la mentira acostumbrada; yo no le diré que no lo merezco; sí, lo merezco, mi general. Lo merezco por una sola cosa, que vale más que todo el oro del mundo: lo merezco porque todo lo hice por amor a este pueblo. Yo no valgo por lo que hice, yo no valgo por lo que he renunciado; yo no valgo ni por lo que soy ni por lo que tengo. Yo tengo una sola cosa que vale, la tengo en mi corazón, me quema en el alma, Me duele en mi carne y arde en Mis nervios. Es el amor por este pueblo y por Perón. Y le doy las gracias a usted, mi general, por haberme enseñado a conocerlo y a quererlo. Si este pueblo me pidiese la vida, se la darla cantando, porque la felicidad de un solo descamisado vale más que toda mi vida.

Tenía que venir a darle las gracias a la CGT por la distinción que significa el homenaje de laurear una condecoración que es para mí el más querido recuerdo de los trabajadores argentinos. Tenla que venir para agradecerle el que hayan dedicado los trabajadores y la CGT a esta humilde mujer este glorioso día. Y tenía que venir para decirles que es necesario mantener, como dijo el general, bien alerta la guardia de todos los puestos de nuestra lucha. No ha pasado el peligro. Es necesario que cada uno de los trabajadores argentinos vigile y que no duerma, porque los enemigos trabajan en la sombra de la traición, y a veces se esconden detrás de una sonrisa o de una mano tendida. Y tenía que venir, para agradecer a todos ustedes, mis queridos descamisados de todos los rincones de la Patria, porque a sabido jugarse la vida por Perón. Yo estaba segura que ustedes sabían --como lo han sabido- ser la trinchera de Perón. Los enemigos del pueblo, de Perón y de la Patria, saben también desde hace mucho tiempo que Perón y Eva Perón están dispuestos a morir por este pueblo. Ahora también saben que el pueblo está dispuesto a morir por Perón.

Yo les pido hoy, compañeros, una sola cosa: que juremos todos, públicamente, defender a Perón y luchar por él hasta la muerte. Y nuestro juramento será gritar durante un minuto para que nuestro grito llegue hasta el último rincón del mundo: la vida por Perón.

Que vengan ahora los enemigos del pueblo, de Perón y de la Patria. Nunca les tuve miedo porque siempre creí en el pueblo. Siempre creí en mis queridos descamisados porque nunca olvidé que sin ellos, el 17 de Octubre hubiese sido fecha de dolor y de amargura, porque esa fecha estaba destinada a ser de ignominia y de traición. Pero el valor de este pueblo lo convirtió en un día de gloria y de felicidad.

Yo les agradezco, por fin, compañeros, todo lo que ustedes han rogado por mi salud. Se los agradezco con el corazón. Espero que Dios oiga a los humildes de mi Patria, para volver pronto a la lucha y poder seguir peleando con Perón, por ustedes, y con ustedes, por Perón hasta la muerte. Yo no quise ni quiero nada para mí. Mi gloria es y será siempre el escudo de Perón y la bandera de mi pueblo y aunque deje en el camino jirones de mi vida, yo sé que ustedes recogerán mi nombre y lo llevarán como bandera a la victoria. Yo sé que Dios está con nosotros, porque está con los humildes y desprecia la soberbia de la oligarquía. Por eso, la victoria será nuestra. Tendremos que alcanzarla tarde o temprano, cueste lo que cueste y caiga quien caiga.Mis descamisados: yo quisiera decirles muchas cosas, pero los médicos me han prohibido hablar. Yo les dejo mi corazón y les digo que estoy segura, como es mi deseo, que pronto estaré en la lucha, con más fuerza y con más amor, para luchar por este pueblo, al que tanto amo, como lo amo a Perón. Y les pido una sola cosa: estoy segura que pronto estaré con ustedes, pero si no llegara a estar por mi salud, cuiden al general, sigan fíeles a Perón como hasta ahora, porque eso es estar con la Patria y con ustedes mismos. Y a todos los descamisados del interior, yo los estrecho muy, pero muy cerca de mi corazón y deseo que se den cuenta de cuanto los amo.

Dialects in Perspective

· Is dialect a help or a hindrance? What resources does it make available for scene setting and characterization? Does it enlarge or restrict one's vocabulary?

A dialect helps you most of the time, because in any case that you are trying describe a place or a person it would give us a larger idea of how they are and a way of understanding them. I guess that when you are describing something or someone, we use some words in particular that can’t be translated to explain their meaning but for the people that understand them it gives them a bigger image of what they are trying to imagine. This may enlarge your vocabulary because you are learning new ways to express feelings or describe things.

· How does dialect influence plot development and narration? Does it limit one to the "and then, and then" connection of incident to incident typical of oral storytelling? Does it open opportunities for sliding easily off on a tangent?

With experiences you have in your life your vocabulary starts to expand and by enlarging that vocabulary, you will be able to explain, narrate or describe things more profoundly. It does not limit the connection of incident to incident it actually enriches the oral storytelling because they are connected and make sense. Depending of the situation the sliding gives and doesn´t gives opportunities, you don’t have to actually “speak” the dialect to slide off the tangent.

· Comment on Twain's use of dialect, what goes into the dialect he creates—misspellings? grammatical mistakes? inventive punctuation? loose sentence structure? colloquial turns of phrase? Have students point out examples of each of these stylistic tricks and describe the tricks they used to create a dialect effect.

He uses all these types of “errors” to give us a bigger idea of how the characters are, if they are gentle, aggressive, and I think the way you read the word for example, “An’t/ain’t” gives us a way of how they talk.

Mark Twain uses misspellings, grammatical mistakes, inventive punctuation, loose sentence structure and colloquial turns in “the jumping frog” such as:

•        Any thing/ anything
•        Solittry/ solitary
•        Wan’s/ want’s
•        Underjaw’d / underjaw
•        Jest / just
•        Back yard / backyard
•        Edercate / educate
•        Cal'klated / calculated
•        May be/ maybe
•        An’t/ain’t
•        Tom-cats/ tomcats
•        Sur-prised/surprised
•       Hisself/ himself
•     "Why, blame my cats, if he don't weigh five pound!"
•        It always makes me feel sorry when I think of that last fight of his'n, and the way it turned out.
•    ...he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump.
•     "H'm so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?"