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Niccolo Machiavelli George Orwell
1,195 wordsMy focus is upon a piece by Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian prince from the renaissance period who writes "The Morals of a Prince", and in an opposite vein, an essay by George Orwell, an English author and enemy of totalitarianism whose essay is "Politics and the English Language." Within these essays I have found a similarity in which Orwell illustrates that 'political writing becomes the defense of the indefensible, most political writing is bad, where it is not the author is usually a rebel w...
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Bilingual Education Programs Hispanic Students
412 wordsBilingual Education: Development and Language Most parents want their children to learn English and do well in school. The essence of Bilingual Education is to develop academic English and success in school. The initial education a child receives should be taught in that students first language. Once the children understand a certain subject instructed in their first language, they would be able to better understand that same subject when taught in the English language. In Bilingual Education pr...
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Ancient Egyptians English Language
398 wordsIn the ancient times (4000 - 30 B. C. ) the Egyptian Pharaohs were the most powerful people on the planet. They had sophisticated methods for building and irrigation. In one area that they lagged in sophistication was the basic form they used for writing their language. The ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics that was often expressed through pictographs that are stylized pictures used to express words and subjects. The use of pictographs was a very primitive form of communication that took lots...
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Changing The American Language
975 wordsMy brother and i are alike in that we both often have very strange dreams. A couple of months back, he dreamed that he was driving in Mexico with his best friend Jacob, when he got pulled over by the Mexican police. When asked if he was drunk, he replied with, "Of course not, sir. I dislike drunk drivers. I disapprove of drunk drivers. I disc ringe drunk drivers. " Hearing this, the police simply let him go. As he was driving away, however, Jacob turned to him and said, "Dude... disc ringe?" Aft...
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Gender Bias In Language
1,152 wordsLanguage is a very powerful element. It is the most common method of communication. Yet it is often misunderstood an misinterpreted, for language is a very complicated mechanism with a great deal of nuance. There are times when in conversation with another individual, that we must take into account the person's linguistic genealogy. There are people who use language that would be considered prejudicial or biased in use. But the question that is raised is in regard to language usage: is the langu...
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J R R Middle Earth
1,077 wordsJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien, creator of a world. When someone who knows Tolkien is asked about his works, one thought comes to mind, Middle Earth. This was the playground in his mind that such vivid descriptions of fantasy lands came from. It is the base of his most well known stories, where dreams are just the norm. J. R. R. may owe much of his success to his diverse beginnings. On April 16, 1891, Mabel Suffield and Arthur Reuel Tolkien were married in Bloemfontein, South Africa. They soon gave b...
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My Ideas On Learning English
519 wordsGood morning, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished judges and my dear friends! My name is Jin Zhao, a sophomore from College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University. Standing here, in front of so many talented English learners, I would just like to share my ideas on learning English with you all. Last time when I was participating in this summer camp and talking about my ideas of how to learn English, I mainly discussed the importance of the cultural background of the English language. However, lookin...
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Language Minority Students Bilingual Education
1,733 words... he students is adjusted to their conceptual and linguistic level, using many features of "mothers" to facilitate language comprehension and acquisition on the part of the students. Fifth, concentrated exposure to language is important to promote language development. Sixth, the two languages are kept distinct and never mixed during instruction (Lindholm. 1992). Bilingual development may facilitate cognitive functioning if the duo language development is sustained over a long period of time s...
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English Language Learners Adult Learners
374 wordsWithin the last 10 years, some changes happen to the U. S. student population. English language student number has increased by 1 million students. English language learners now comprise 6 % of the total school-age population, with a disproportionate number of such students in California, Florida, New York, and Illinois. This tendency promises that the numbers of English language students will continue to grow. These students come to school representing a diversity of languages, cultures, experi...
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Bilingual Education Programs English Language Learners
1,190 wordsThe Official Language Movement The Hispanic American minority includes the Spanish-speaking people from Spain, Mexico, Caribbean Islands, and Central and South America; the three largest Hispanic groups in the country are the Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the Cubans. According to Morton Winsberg, a professor of geography at Florida State University in Tallahassee, these three ethnic groups comprise three-fourths of the total U. S. Hispanic population while the rest of the other groups are Brazilia...
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English Language English Literature
702 wordsBeing an English Major The popular opinion downgrades the importance of humanitarian disciplines, because they do not incorporate scientific formulas as something that defines their essence. This is especially the case when one mentions being an English major. However, this point of view originates in industrial era, when empirical sciences were on the rise. Nowadays, it becomes clear to many people that the role of persons communicational ability cannot be underestimated, because it allows indi...
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Challenges Of Limited English Language In The Classroom
1,112 wordsChallenges of Limited English Language in the Classroom In many classrooms today non native English speakers go into the regular ones. This practice is known as Sheltered English approach. The main purpose of it is to provide understandable instructions to Limited English Language students. The innovation played an important role in increasing the level of knowledge of LEP students; they did not compete with native English speakers, but work with them on peer conditions. But Sheltered English ap...
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Booker Prize Literary Tradition
736 wordsBooker goes global Provincial, insular, philistine, conservative: these are some of the epithets The Observer has deployed to characterise the British literary establishment. Occasionally, I have wondered if these terms were not shall we say? a trifle exaggerated, a shade unjust. Then along comes the dear old Booker Prize to remind us that, no, such descriptions are, if anything, too generous. The reaction to the new Booker sponsors suggestion that American writers should be eligible for the com...
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Speech Sounds Vowel Sounds
2,286 wordsBY: Destiny Phonics And You PHONICS BY: Destiny Abshir? Phonics isn? t a method of teaching reading; it? s a body of knowledge consisting of 26 letters used to symbolize about 44 English speech sounds. There are 70 most common spellings for these speech sounds. ? (National Right to Read Foundation). Phonetics is? the science dealing with speech sounds. ? (Gans). ? Studying Phonetics means studying a phonetic alphabet, diacritical marks, technical terms, and many other scientific tools and techni...
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African American Culture African Americans
580 wordsOne of the conflicting issues among African Americans and Caucasians is the issue of ebonics. It s not just an issue facing one race or the other it effects both races along with other ethnicity s. On one side people believe that ebonics is a distinct language that African American use and is part of their culture, and they believe that ebonics should be taught in schools. Other people believe that ebonics is just a black dialect that black people use as slang, and that teaching ebonics in schoo...
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Ethnic Backgrounds Speech Patterns
2,615 wordsMinnesota EngL 3851 Fall 1998 Minnesota Iron Range Dialect I am a Minnesotan. I have lived here all my life and may continue to do so. Stereotype me: The 10 oclock news is my window dressing for the 10 oclock weather (Mohr, 9). You betcha it is. Yah. I wouldnt want you to think that Im not happy here-it could be worse. Lutefisk... umm, my favorite. Are you close; is this representative of myself and most my fellow Minnesotans? Forgive us, but this is slightly, no this is completely ludicrous. Fo...
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Capital Letters English Language
1,971 wordsEnglish Linguistics Words and word-formation processes in the English Language 1. Introduction In our daily use of language we often are not aware of word-formation processes which create, invent, produce or form new words in a language. Most of the times we have no problems with understanding these new words ( = neologism). Furthermore we know immediately the various forms of that new word and include them all in our vocabulary. Sometimes we even may build them ourselves. This ability to adopt,...
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Geoffrey Chaucer English Language
758 wordsWhy is Geoffrey Chaucer an important figure in the development in the English language? Geoffrey Chaucer once wrote And for ther is so get diversity, In English and in writing of our tonge, So prey I God that non mys write the, Ne the mystere for default of tonge Which translated into Modern English means And because there is such great diversity In England and in writing tongue, So I pray God that none wrongly copy thee Nor get thy meter wrong because of a failure of tongue What that means is t...
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English Language Natural Language
1,648 wordsIs The English Connective or Best Is The English Connective or Best Modelled By Inclusive Or Exclusive Disjunction? We know from our everyday experiences that natural language is plagued by ambiguities and a lack of clarity. Often these can be a source of humour c. f. the age old gag, My dog used to chase an old man on a bicycle. How did you stop him? I took his bike away. and many would argue that our languages are enriched by the presence of such idiosyncrasies. However, to linguists attemptin...
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African Literature English Language
1,174 wordsNgugi wa Thiong o had a goal of not being associated with the English language and starting to write in his native language Gikuyu. In his mind English in parts of Africa was like a process in wiping out the memories of pre-colonial cultures and history, as well as putting in a new fashion of colonialism. Ngugi wrote Decolonising the Mind, with a mental state that of turning back to the roots of Gikuyu traditions. This quote from summarizes his thoughts and beliefs. A specific culture is not tra...
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