Different Varieties of English

India

Indian English or South-Asian English is a distinctive dialect spoken mostly in the Indian sub-continent. According to the 1991 Census of India, Ninety million people speak English in India. English is one of India's official languages. Less than a quarter of a million speak English as their first language, these people are most likely Anglo-Indians, consisting of less than a million people in India. Most other Indians use English as their second or third language. These people often need English to work. 

In general, Indian English has fewer peculiarities in its vowel sounds than the consonants, especially as spoken by native speakers of languages like Hindi, which in fact has a vowel phonology very similar to that of English. Most pronunciations of Indian English are rhotic, but many speakers with higher education are non-rhotic. The Indian people often use the "ing" ending more often than the normal English speakers.

China

English spoken in China is often referred to as Chinglish, often containing bad spelling

and may have pejorative or deprecating connotations.

The degree to which a Chinese variety of English exists or can be considered legitimate is disputed. A normal issue with Chinglish is the wrong word order. Some people might say "Up your bottoms!" instead of the familiar expression "Bottoms Up!"

Indian English and Chinglish does not have many similarities. One of the few is that both varieties of English is hard to understand for a English speaker from England or America. Indian English has one big difference from Chinglish and that is that Indian English have most of the right words, they just pronounce it differently from Normal English While Chinglish has changed several words and then makes it incredibly hard to understand.

How do Hollywood films portray people of different races and ethnicities?

I have chosen do complete this task a little bit different from the way i was probably supposed to. I have done this because i have come to the conclusion that most Hollywood movies portrays people of different races and of different ethnicities different from each other. I have then decided to focus on how the movie Gran Torino portrays these people, since the main character of the movie has several issues with people from different races than himself. 

The movie contains a series of racial issues. These issues are mostly between the main character, an old man who served in Korea, and the Hmong people living in his neighborhood. The main character is portrayed as the stereotypical old man: always angry, not wanting anybody on his property and a little racist would be an understatement. He is always sitting on his front porch watching the neighbors who just happen to be only Hmong people. He cant pronounce any of the names and he doesn't really care if he says anything racist to or around them. 

The Hmong people are portrayed as the average stereotypical Asian family with their big families living in the same house or in the houses next to them. They often have barbecues, diner parties and other festivities. The Hmong people are also described as a very traditional people. One of the Hmong girls says in the movie that the girls grow up to go to college while the boys end up in jail. The boys thought of in the last sentence is the boys in the neighborhood gang. These people are portrayed as the classical wannabe gangster. They always carry their weapons, talk down to women, force others to join their gang and give each other cheap nicknames like "Snake". Another gang is also portrayed in this movie. this gang contains African Americans and act as if they are better then everybody else. They are against the Hmong gang as gangs usually is against each other. 

The portrayals in this movie are not very original and you can see the same type of characters in several other movies. The way the characters is portrayed is not the movies greatest qualities while the way they act towards each other is incredible. While the gangs act tough when they around their own people, you can see how this attitude changes when they are alone or with somebody else than their normal social circle.

Withing the traditions of the Hmong family, respect for the elders is very important. Every character in this movie has a different way of treating these elderly people. There is a family Shaman who has the respect of every family member, probably because to have him read you is a great honor. The gang containing Hmong people does not respect anyone but themselves if i understood it correctly.

Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes is the character of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I have read the book "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The book follows Dr. John Watson as he and Holmes solve a crime. This is the book through chapters 1-5:

Sir Charles Baskerville is found lying dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall. The cause of death is found to be a heart attack. Fearing for the safety of Sir Charles’ nephew and only known heir, Sir Henry Baskerville—who was coming to London from North America to collect his inheritance. Dr. James Mortimer travels from Devon to London and appeals for help to Sherlock Holmes.

Mortimer, Sir Charles' doctor comes to Holmes and Watson. Traditionally, the Baskerville family is said to be afflicted by a curse. Mortimer reads to Holmes and to Watson a description of the origin of the curse, as written down by a descendant of one Hugo Baskerville, who had lived some 200 years earlier. According to this old note, Hugo Baskerville became infatuated with a woman's daughter, kidnapped her and imprisoned her in his bedchamber. She managed to escape while he was talking with his friends. A drunken and furious Hugo cried that he would give his soul to the Powers of Evil if he could only overtake her. He rode a horse after her, his hunting hounds upon her scent and his friends in pursuit. Sometime later, his friends came upon the bodies of Hugo and the girl. She had died from fear and fatigue, while a giant spectral hound stood over Sir Hugo's body. With his friends watching, the hound plucked out Hugo's throat and disappeared into the night.

Apparently, prior to his death, Sir Charles had become fearful of the legendary curse, with its scary hellhound. Furthermore, Mortimer has deduced that Sir Charles had been waiting for someone at the time of his death. Sir Charles' face was contorted into a ghastly expression, too, while his footprints suggested that he was desperately running from something. It was known that Sir Charles' heart was not strong, and that he planned to go to London the next day. Mortimer also reveals that he observed the footprints "of a gigantic hound" near Sir Charles' body, a fact that he did not reveal at the inquest.

I have read the whole book but as the task was to write about the first chapters i did so and i look forward to presenting the book in its entirety.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the 22 of may 1859. He died in 1930. through his 71 years of life he managed to be a renowned physician and a critically acclaimed writer. He´s most recognizable work is his stories of Sherlock Holmes. He wrote 56 short stories and four novels about this character and his assistant Dr. John Watson. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will always be known as one of the worlds greatest authors of all time. The first novel about Sherlock Holmes has been made into a movie several times. The most critically acclaimed is the 2009 film simply named Sherlock Holmes.