RRR"Talking in Color"

In Tiffany Henderson's personal experience essay "Talking in Color" (2013) she explores her balance of diversity that she has through her voice. Tiffany's develops her unique voice from being around African American , she also had a deaf mother and a father that read on a 6th grade level. Tiffany's purpose is to inform the readers about code switching in order to become a better diverse reader and writer. Based on this essay audience is anyone who grew up in a Caucasian home , and speaks more diverse or grew up around a different race.

Growing up in a diverse culture and mix neighborhood, with a different accent, I am completely agree with Tiffany Henderson, when she said, "a voice is much more powerful". In fact being a white Caucasian girl, went to a black high school also sound black, she realizes that her voice does not reveal her culture and socioeconomic class. Living with a deaf mother and with a father with fourth grade reading level and a black African neighborhood , she realized that some people being judged by their accent.

Many people classify certain actions with certain races, but fail to realize that people gain their characteristics with their surroundings, and only acting as themselves. The world is has classified the characteristics of race, gender, ethnic groups that people are unable to be themselves. Hendrickson was a female who was raised around black characteristics, but since she was white she was looked at as if she was weird. She stated “as I speak, I stand there watching students shoot judgmental stares my way” (par 2). Certain actions are so classified that certain people of certain color have to act a certain way, instead of what they are comfortable with. “I always felt the isolation from the unknown white world when I was in other neighborhoods that seemed superior” (par 4). White people who actions classify them as black, are always isolated from both race because they aren’t acting like their original race, but want to be another which the black race does not accept. But all the person is doing is acting like themselves, but we are so subject to act a certain way that people cant be accepted for who they are. 

RRR "Watch your language"

In Mark Larson's personal experience essay "Watch your Language" (1996) express to readers about how he took a remedial class for English that helped him become an English teacher. Marks explains how his Hurdles class help him develop better English . Mark informs the reader in order to explain that it is okay to struggle but you have to overcome obstacles. Based on this reading the audience is anyone who has a difficult time with reading and writing.

The point of view of Mark Larson, makes me agree in fact that, when you learned something In the past it will always help you in the future, because of his lack of English, he was assigned to a hurdles class, so that it can improve his writing and reading, I found that experience is very helpful for our new generation, by learning the basic English will always help. By learning the rules of the grammar, he taught that his teachers were making up all this nonsense until he discovered that those rules were the most important things to learn. By became a teacher now he used the same skills he has been used since he was a student. He Also explains how this class was so wonderful, it taught you how to start and end a sentence How and where to use the proposition, what wrong with a contraction and what is a conjunction.

Mainly in this generation, people take their flaws and let them eat away who they truly are, but in this reading, they teach you how to make it a pro in your life. Some people would realize their flaws and try to avoid them. This passage shows that you can actually turn your flaw into something that can help you and also help others. You might feel like an outsider with your flaw like the author did when they went to the luncheon as stated: “I knew I was taking my risk at saying an ignorant bunder”(Par 4).Which means that they were afraid that their grammar would seem low class or stupid. But it shouldn’t matter what people think and that is why this generation needs to learn that a flaw is just something that you can improve. Although language is the type of speech, but how you pronounce each word is another way of coming about the language. That’s why the author states “they are all experts in their own language that might not sound right to others”(Par 9). This passage teaches you that your flaws in life have the ability to be accepted and switched into something that is able to help them and others