University of British Columbia (UBC ) • English

Barry on his article, Beauty and The Beast, presents a very critical moment which occurs generally several times in the life of an ordinary man. Barry’s ideology towards an average woman’s perspective on beauty demonstrates that women are more focused on knowing how the other people see them rather than how they see themselves. According to his sarcastic presentation of the article, Barry presents a woman who is being disturbed by the other people’s opinions on how she looks. As this artic...

Divided into four stanzas, Marilyn Chin’s poem “How I Got That Name” is the story of a Chinese-American woman named Marilyn Mei Ling Chin. Narrated in first person, each of its four stanzas focuses on a different part of the narrator’s journey into assimilation in the American society and her connection to her Chinese roots. The first stanza narrates her father’s ordeal as he makes his way into America and how within that journey her name was born. The second stanza explores her strugg...

Advantages of Speech Corpora over DCT Speech Corpora and Discourse Completion Tasks (DCT) are both ways of analyzing speech. However, speech Corpora is more accurate when analyzing text for foreign language learners. DCTs are a tool used by linguists to analyze speech. It also gets utilized in assessing the acts that are closely related to speech. A DCT is usually made up of a one-sided situation whereby the informant is required to come up with an answer to an already set question. For instanc...