Listening and Speaking in a Second Language—what is it like?
In 1987, working as a receptionist at an International Conference Center in New York, I had the following experience: A loud, large, and fast-speaking woman asked me a long and convoluted question. Since I did not understand her, I asked her to repeat it. She [...]
The hearing to determine if Elena Kagan nominated by President Obama to be the next Supreme Court Justice opens this week. As she endures questions and inspection into her qualifications, records and opinions people will get to learn more about her positions on key issues that affect us all. If she is confirmed, [...]
On my last two blogs, I have addressed a fairly common interpersonal dynamic that occurs when people from different backgrounds interact. In socio-linguistic terms, it is referred to as “code switching”. It is about how certain women and certain people of color tend to adapt their way of interacting in [...]
In yesterday’s mid term elections, women ran for major high profile positions and in many cases won. Women like Blance Lincoln in Arkansas, Meg Whitman in California and others across the country. There were winners in the Democratic, Republican and independents that demonstrated women coming out and getting success in high profile campaigns. While there [...]
Fast food is a term some take seriously, and some just don’t care about. To me, fast food is bad and I don’t see how people can sell it to other people: it can cause obesity, heart failure, and other serious illnesses.
Is it really hard to sell good, healthy food to the world? It’s not [...]
FAST FOOD! That just calls every body’s name. Most teenagers love to eat fast food all the time. They don’t realize that it’s extremely bad for them, and that it’s killing them slowly. I think that we buy fast food because it’s really cheap and fast. A lot of times people don’t have time to [...]
