prompt #7

        Robert D. King, author of "Should English Be the Law," has a purpose to his audience to compare our official language of the United States to other national countries debating on their language to unify oneself. Robert's attitude is strict and concerned with the agreement of unifying a nation by a language. His background involves writing many articles based on languages.  He is a professor at University of Texas at Austin and also has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His purpose to his audience in academic journals is to persuade the reader that the language does not unify a nation because of their "unique otherness." His text is smaller than 12 font. Readers of the article should have an attitude to focus on his article to comprehend a better understanding of language unity. The audience's feedback will help his article and main points get across to society to comprehend his idea. His tools to make the text was a computer to print out the text. "Should English be the Law," was published in April 1997 in the "Atlantic Monthly.

"Self Respect"

1. In "On Self Respect," Joan Didion uses allusions to literature such as: Gone with the Wind, The Great Gatsby, and Wuthering Heights, to portray an image of self respect. The reason she does this is to give a better understanding to the reader of "self respect." Each allusion has an issue with self respect. She added these allusions to make the audience understand different examples of her opinion of self respect in a more complex way. The allusions are only helpful if you have had read the different works she had listed. If not, they are great sources of proof explaining that her work is legit and not just information she made up herself.

2. She lists that self respect has nothing to do with the approval of others. Most people would generally have arguments about this statement. She uses the quote, "Committing adultery without asking forgiveness to illustrate "courage of their mistakes" and "character". I think she uses this quote to demonstrate her own personal experience for people to think of it as a lesson learned of her own self respect. Maybe it could mean something else. Generally people could use many interpretations to determine what this means.

3. I believe self respect can be used in people's personal experience when writing. It would be a more complex understanding though deeper meaning to portray to the audience. Using self respect from your personal experience can be used however you want it as long as you have experience to tie with it your complex meaning of self respect.