Evan Huang’s Blog

Not many people realize that we stereotype before we meet a person, if we see someone with a unique name we might assume what kind of person they are. Or if their name is from a different country, say Iran, then some might make assumptions. That's what happened to Firoozeh where she vividly describes in her essay, The "F" word". During her application for jobs she never got a single interview, even though she, "graduated with honors from UC-Berkeley" but it wasn't only after she began to add her american name "Julie" into the conversation that job interview began flowing in.  This example not only shows that you can be limited solely based on your name, but stereotypes can also be made. Many people assume that I can speak, write, and read chinese, which to a degree I can. However, truly, I can barely read or write. But speaking is the easy part, because at home your always speaking your native language to your family and maybe friends.  As I e...

  The Onion is a news source that instead of focusing on the actual details of the world's events, satirizes it. This specific article goes along and satirizes one of the latest executive orders signed by President Trump and how the latest one shows that apparently political decisions undermine education and critical thinking.  The article achieves this idea by using mainly three strategies, exaggeration, Irony, and juxtaposition. Exaggeration is located in various parts of the short article be can be best seen as follows, "going forward, all government communication must be short and lack any kind of coherent grammatical structure". This exaggeration creates the idea that simplifying language is ridiculous, especially at the highest level of the country, the federal government. Showing how such an approach can make communication worse instead of better by using absurd examples.     The irony is also something that is used to poke at the government for its poor ...