Mother tongue
Amy Tan’s story about the mother tongue is an interesting one. The story highlights how language is not only used as a tool of communication, but also used as a sociological tool. In most cases, we perceive language as a tool that is used to pass information from one individual or a group of people to another. However, we rarely look at it from a sociological point of view. For instance, a person who has been socialized in a Chinese set up may learn English as a second language. This makes the difference between a person who speaks English as the first language and that individual who learnt it as a second language. While one will speak ‘broken language, the other one will speak the standard language. Use of either standard or broken English gives an individual a social tag. Speaking broken English in a standard-speaking-audience makes one be perceived from either a racial or ethnic viewpoint.
Thrift stores are thriving
Thrift stores were once disregarded by potential buyers on account of selling products that have been used. For instance, buying donated clothes from thrift stores was once affected by the notion that they may contain germs. These germs may be difficult to remove from the clothes and to some extent, may cause skin irritation. However, the perception of the consumers towards thrift stores is changing. Most consumers prefer purchasing their products from thrift stores because they usually sell valuable goods at a low price. Secondly, purchasing goods from thrift stores is preferred on account of the notion that the money collected is channeled to non-governmental organizations, which embarks on supporting humanitarian courses. Supporting humanitarian courses gives a perception that one buys not only for him or herself, but to support a certain initiative. Lastly, thrift stores are thriving because goods are sold at a relatively low cost compared to other stores.
The constant battle
J C Kurtis, in his book, the constant battle is a reflection of the hard situations that we are faced within our lives. He highlights the extent to which people may find themselves in the middle of the battle, which affects them to the point of considering suicide. He also highlights the experience that he was faced with when he lost some of his best friends and an account of the broken marriage. The constant battle paints a picture of human life. In most cases, we find ourselves in the middle of the battle, where we do not know what action to take and what to disregard. It also paints a picture of how we deal with the hard situations that face us in our lives. In my view, committing suicide should never be a consideration as it only leaves those who care about us in deep trouble that they are when we are alive.
Our fear
Our fear is a piece that was written to reflect the normal life of human beings, which is described by many worries, which we are in the struggle of overcoming. While in some cases these fears appear to be too overwhelming for us the deal with, we must devise a way of overcoming them. When we fail to overcome these fears, we find ourselves at the point where we cannot achieve our goals or ambitions. Therefore. One of the critical aspects that we learn from overcoming we fear that we should have a way of overcoming these fears. This is to ensure that we have achieved whatever we dream about achieving. Equally, our worries have a positive aspect that is rarely looked at, which is the aspect of motivating us. Most of these fears are not what we feel or what we think. They are about what other people would think about us. Therefore, we should feel motivated to go past what people will say.
moses 