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FIGHTING DISCRIMINATIONDiscrimination is common in all of society. Weather it is intentional or not,

people discriminates against each other. It is just a natural thing that

humans do because that is the way we are. Discrimination begins in the

mind and it is only when we intentionally base our decisions on these

prejudices that are wrong. The fight against discrimination has been an

ongoing process and in order for us to continue the battle against

discrimination, we must understand the different types of discrimination

that exists, what causes discrimination, and what can we do to stop it.

Types of discrimination exist from your gender to ethnicity, from your status

in a society to your preferences in dating. What all these types of

discriminations have in common is that it segregates one group from

another. You discriminate when you thin of someone differently just

because they are poorer than you, smarter than you, overweight, too short,

loo s gay, have different political beliefs. !ll these are forms of

discrimination but the most widely publici"ed forms of discrimination are

racial, ethnic, and gender. #acial discrimination has happened since that

late $%&&'s with slavery. Issues of racial tension between blac s and whites

are well nown. (thnic discrimination, for example, against )hinese and

*ative !mericans, occurred there after when minorities immigrated to

(uropean lands. +ainly, the fight has always been against the dominant

group which was whites. ender discrimination also occurred when

women wanted to be treated e-ual to men. In this case, the dominant

group was mainly white men. Women wanted e-ual rights such that of

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being able to vote. Discrimination is associated with prejudice. rejudices

are caused when one group thin s they are better than another because

they lac the -ualities that are similar to a certain group. To feel prejudice

and then to discriminate, that is wrong we would thin that by now, in the

/&th century, that discrimination is a very aggressive to us.

Everybody can fight against discrimination! You can too! Here is what you can do by

yourself: !Help people who are treated badly because they are different. !Tell people what

it is like to have a disability. !Make friends with people who are different. !Try to

understand people who are different. ut you can do much more together! You can try to

find other people who have the same problems. Then you can do things together to stop

the discrimination. This is called campaigning against discrimination. "inding friends

Together we are strong! #eople with intellectual disability must stand together. There are

many self$advocacy groups. These are groups of people with intellectual disability who

speak for themselves. You can %oin them! ut we must work together with other people

too. They could have the same problems as you. They can also support you to solve the

problem. &e call them allies or friends. #arents' family members' carers and disability

organisations are good allies. (llies are people who are on your side.

)ove English language

(nglish, despite not being the most0spo en language in the world by some

margin, has become an almost universally accepted lingua franca, and the

language of choice for students to learn if they want to get ahead in life.

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Yet most of the reasons for this don't have very much to do with what a wonderful language itis. It's the language of business and finance, mostly than s to the economic dominance of1ritain in the $2th century and the 34! in the /& th

I really like the English language. I've been speaking it all my life, butit's not until I became an English teacher, teaching English as a foreignlanguage, that I really started to understand how it functions and toappreciate both its richness and its versatility.

I believe that, at an elementary level, English is easier to learn thansome other languages. A beginner can form good basic sentenceswithout knowing a lot of complex grammatical forms. English verbsdon't have many different endings to memorize before one can expressthe simplest of thoughts.

Another strong point is that English does not, as a rule, havemasculine and feminine nouns and there are no changing forms forad ectives to slow a learner down. !or instance, in !rench you mustmemorize a number of verb endings and match ad ectives to nounsbefore you can verbalize even the simplest ideas, but a novice doesnot need to study English for long before being able to construct goodbasic sentences.

English has a mix of vocabulary with "ermanic roots and vocabularywith #atin or !rench roots, allowing speakers of numerous Europeanlanguages to recognize and understand many English words. Although

sometimes the meanings are no longer the same in the two languages,they are often still similar enough to serve as an aid to comprehensionand to help a learner get the gist of texts.

$nce English learners have reached a more advanced level, theybecome exposed to additional structures that reveal some unexpectedcomplexities in the language. !or example, the uses of the presentperfect tense can be %uite confusing. $n the other hand, English verbforms allow for a wonderful element of sub ectivity and point of view inexpressing attitudes towards events. &onsider I've ust lost my

glasses and I lost my glasses an hour ago. (oth are fine, but yourchoice of one or the other reflects your attitude toward the situation.)o you want to emphasize the conse%uence of losing your glasses* Ifso, then choose the former, the present perfect tense. If you prefer tofocus on when the glasses were lost, then use the latter, the pastsimple tense.

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English can be wonderfully expressive. (ecause it has accumulatedvocabulary from many different languages, there are far more words tochoose from than some other languages offer. +ou can discuss a topicat length without ever repeating yourself or overusing a specific word.+ou can choose from an array of words with similar meanings to findthe most perfect match in meaning and connotation to suit the thoughtthat you want to express.

ure, you can simply walk down the street, but you can also stroll,march, amble, trot, mosey, shuffle, skip, run, race, promenade, lope,slink, fly, zip, crawl, gallop, whiz, zoom, or careen down the street. Acursory glance reveals that the English section of my bilingualdictionary is considerably larger than the !rench portion. -he enormityof English vocabulary allows for precision and economy of expression.Ideas and instructions can be concisely stated. hen viewing

multilingual signs and e%uipment usage manuals, the English version isfre%uently shorter than that of many other languages. -o take a simpleexample, in !rench it takes four words, sautez a cloche pied, toexpress what English does in ust three letters/ hop.

English easily absorbs new words from other languages and cultures.0ust think of salsa, smorgasbord, taboo, wampum, and

pa amas, for starters. hen necessary, English also seems to revel ininventing entirely new lexicons of words, such as for new technologieslike the Internet. Internet is full of colorful and amusing imagery from

the web to spidering and click on the mouse, let alone such sillysounding words as googling, blogging, and I1I. It is a riotously

living language and this flexibility has helped English become such awidely used international language.

I also love English because colorful wordings and vivid imagery aboundin both old and new expressions. I picture tall sailing ships and Errol!lynn films when I hear someone say, he passed her exam withflying colors. -hink of other expressions, too, such as -hat makes myskin crawl, It sent shivers up and down my spine, 2e's got his head

in the clouds, he's full of get up and go, and -hey're head overheels in love.

English even has a strong sense of whimsy, and so lends itself todelightful combinations of alliterative phrasings like the whole kit andcaboodle, or footloose and fancy3free. It's also chock full of amusingwords that are especially for children. -hink of choo3choo train,

puppy dog, kitty cat, or do the hokey pokey. !un3loving authors

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have added to the festivities by feeling free to invent their own words, ust for the pleasing sound of them, from Edward #ear' s )ong with the#uminous 4ose to )r. euss's neeches with stars on thars. 0. 1.5owling has invented an entire vocabulary of her own to use in themagical world that she has created for 2arry 6otter. -he so3called

language of hakespeare has contributed much literature and poetryto the world, plus other beautiful expressions of thoughts through theabstraction of words. As someone who writes stories for children, I'malso fond of simple ingles and fun forms such as 7other "oose rhymes.