Most people won't notice, but despite the difference in unique writing styles and preferences, the social "correctness" of the language in which all blogs are written is exactly the same despite the diversity of race, ethnicity, age, birth origin, and gender of the students who wrote the blog posts. While the method of presenting information varies in each post, ranging from journal entries to memoirs, the correct use of grammar, sophisticated vocabulary, calculated word choice, sentence structure and syntax remains consistent throughout. blog. Four of the blog posts were written by Nadine Goldberg, Nadia Estelle-Fiat, Clive Mudanda and Sarah Haas. Simply by looking at the names and profile pictures of these students, it is obvious that they have different cultural backgrounds. Clive even states in his post that his home is "literally 8,043.24 miles from Durham, North Carolina to Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa." Duke's website also states that students who attend the university "come from public, private and parochial schools and from all points of the economic, political and geographic spectrum." These four students most likely grew up in cities or even countries very distant from each other, interacted with different types of people, were immersed in disparate forms of society, perhaps spoke different languages
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