Daniel Palma

Interview - Paul Mccartney a very well renowned singer/songwriter, his involvement with the Beatles gain an increasing amount of fame as an individual artist when referring to his songwriting prowess. Known for many of his songs like “Hey Jude” and “Ebony and Ivory” the guitarist strumming melodic tones, which we know today as Paul Mccartney. Today an interview with Paul Mccartney referring to the influence for his songs in today's society. Which one of your songs would you say has the best impact on society or a song which critics the social norms of our current community? Well. Ebony and Ivory has quite an influential impact given it's a reference towards the discrimination amongst caucasian and African communities and was based on Martin Luther King’s ideology, not to mention it was a collaboration with Stevie wonder which the guy himself is a major influence not only in musical terms but in our society. The album Tug of war was essentially where the majority of my ...

Tupac's track “Changes” display a lot of vulgar voices to transcribe the social norms/discrimination towards African Americans. Tupac uses African American vernacular English to essentially transcribe political issues towards police brutality, racism, poverty and substance abuse to name a few. It's highly evident that Tupac’s tone is initially dejected in the first verse. This created a mood which displays a deficient towards changes In American society while presenting the African American community using dialect specific to African Americans, “ kill a nigga, he's a hero” “‘I made a G today,’ but you made it in a sleazy way” words such as “nigga”, “g” and “sleazy” are commonly used in African American dialect, this represents the African American community as a whole. Tupac uses this tone as a means to become aggressive as well, for example, “Cops give a damn about a negro Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero” a direct line referring to the police using irony ...

The mind of a 5yr old living in the Philippines is the most joyous and momentous imagery, seeing the rich luscious green and running on the Springfield's, then I turned 6 and moved to UAE then ‘BAM’ my linguistic struggles began. The little fragile 6 yr old child began to move around his newly confined international school where bright wide eyes of different ethnic children look directly at you, while you mumble and jumble the words “Herro, My narm is Darniel” around the school. These small judgmental, reprobate little bums have the nerve to tell me “what are you saying?” as they ran back to their little cubies where they pretend they own an aristocratic accommodation with gender-specific roles such as ‘wife’ and a ‘husband’ while one kid, whose smaller than the others, “ambiguously” pretends to be a child, hell why not add a dog while they're at it. Back to oriented virtual discussion. As time would progress classes were mostly awkward for me, discussing in groups was the...

Amy Tan : Mother Tongue Daniel Palma We’ve all been there as a bilingual child with a parent who can only speak your native language. If this is the case then your parents tend to have a severe case of ‘limited english’ also referred to as ‘broken english’, symptoms include speaking english with broken grammar, dialect intermingled with your native dialect and accents which may or may not sound intimidating. Basically am off in a tangent to describe how racially separated the foreign group and the english speaking community really is. In this case I’ll use Asians to support my backing. Asians or non-english speakers, for some reason don't have an expectation on how english should be spoken or rather the expectation is too high. What Amy Tan discusses in her essay mentions on  the limitations and her perception on her mother's english, it describes her mother being ashamed of her english, in which she can't speak efficiently, using her daughter to make calls with th...

Textual Analysis: Kool A.D Kool A.D, How to pay for a Baby. Kool A.D’s piece “How to pay for a baby”, shares many Idiolect and regional Dialects which shares and transcribes the cultural influences Kool A.D was partaking in. The many uses of Slang that Kool A.D shares displays parallels to American slang primary used by African Americans, such as “yaper” and “doggie” (Yaper referring to money and doggie referencing to the reader.). The use of Slang relives comedic gestures which makes the piece informal and less convoluted. The structure and use of slang gives a sense of colonialism, using phrases and ongoing rants towards unrelated subjects. Kool A.D uses a variety of vulgar languages to transcribe a more genuine dialect all in which have the sole purpose of entertaining and transcribing an urban way of speech. The usage of informal diction was very prominent throughout the passage as Kool A.D’s way of entertaining the reader through vulgar usage and related rants which tr...

I have a huge bucket list, mostly filled with absurdly unrealistic goals. However, a goal I would love to achieve by learning the material in class is to travel around the globe and to write/record my experience on what event happened. Due to the many years, I lived in UAE, I’ve been landlocked and wasn't diversified into different aspects of culture, therefore as an international IB student I have a sudden desire to travel around the world and explore whats out of my comfort zone. The information given in class is highly susceptible to being interpreted into a global and cultural basis. 'language in cultural context' is 1 part out of 4 that I think suits well into the goal that I'm starting to consider. It mentions audience and the purpose and its effects on the integral structure of the 'journal' which should give more of a broad working space on influential personalities concerning culture and influence. This unit asked questions about culture and language,...

Hello! My name is Daniel Palma, a student in RIS(Raha international school). My interests are basketball, badminton, music, communism, gaining/searching some egotistical value or any political power which can place myself above others as a materialistic god, and pie. I was born in the Philippines. Thus it would be natural that I was to inhabit the native language ‘tagalog,' however, after 3-4 years living in the Philippines I moved out with a very limited mindset towards different cultures and now lived under the  U.A.E, a thriving country mixed with many ethnicities. I  happen to inhabit English and slightly disregarded my native language as I grew accustomed to the country and its mixed cultural influences. The disregard of my mother tongue made me accept different cultures while still retaining the culture I have through various ethnic languages. Throughout the years studying in an international school I’ve learned that language had a significant impact on one's culture...