Monday, April 23, 2007

Aria: a Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood

When I was younger my family and I didn't really have a special language as Rodriguez did. My dad's side of the family is from Guatemala so they tried teaching me Spanish as a child that way I could communicate with my grandparents however I was reluctant to learning and called them "bad words". I wish I would have learned spanish because even though i took three years of spanish in high school i don't have a great knowledge of it. I couldn't tell you how to say a lot of things but I wish i could. i can't talk to my grandparents because like me, they don't know englihs very well. therefore i have to use my dad to translate for me when i speak to them on the phone and that's disappointing. i would like to be able to have a conversation, even if it was short, once in my life but it doens't look like that's going to happen.

Thesis

Thesis: the central idea in a work of writing to which everything else in the work refers. In some way each sentence and paragraph in an effective essay serves to support the thesis and to make it clear and explicit to readers. Good while writing, often set down atheis statement or thesis sentence to help them define thier purpose. They also ofthen include this statement in their essay as a promise and a guide to readers.