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    my personal idiolect is mainly influenced by the environment I live in. I am originally from Pakistan however; I have lived all my life in Bahrain. Since‚ I started school I have studied in a British curriculum school therefore‚ I have a British accent. My mother tongue is Urdu and I also speak French as well as English‚ which makes me a multilingual student. However‚ this has become very problematic for me because code-switching become very collective. ‘Gee umma. I have homework.’ This is a typical

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    Beach Of Falesa Analysis

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    Robert Louis Stevenson was a Victorian celebrity famous for his Treasure Island (1883)‚ Kidnapped (1886)‚ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1885). He was a poet and his famous poetry collection A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885) is constantly reprinted. He wrote about the south pacific Sea Islands broadened the imagination of millions of British Readers giving them insight into far lands and strange communities. He wrote the beach of Falesa after he travelled to Samoa in 1889. The edition

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    For my entire life‚ I grew up in a Caucasian community - a privileged suburb area where everyone around me was a different race than I am. As a child‚ I never wondered how it shaped who I was as a person. I never thought about race‚ I never thought that my upbringing in this neighborhood would change others perceptions of me. I knew that I was black. I did not know that people expected my race to be my personality. A recent death in the family leads me to a gathering in which I would have to meet

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    Identity Collage Essay

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    my ethnicity. I chose to represent this aspect of my identity on my collage as it defines other parts of my identity such as my language‚ accent‚ clothing‚ and culture. Globalization is linked to my ethnicity as Pothwaris are a result of hybridization between Punjabis that immigrated and Urdu‚ Pushto speaking locals in the area. My culture and language dialect has pieces adopted from other cultures as a result of

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    BIOL 3101 Assignment 1

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    Assignment 1 Part A: 1. a) H b) P c) P d) H e) P f) P g) H h) a and g are based on group selection 2. a) P ; P b) U ; EF c) P ; P d) U ; G e) P ; G 3. A) This is the best way to keep the species’ population from getting too large & C) This enables females to pick the best male‚ thereby improving the genetic quality of white-throated sparrows. 4. C) A comparison of identical and fraternal twins enables us to test the hypothesis that some differences among individuals

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    Pygmalion – Themes Appearances and Reality Pygmalion examines this theme primarily through the character of Liza‚ and the issue of personal identity (as perceived by oneself or by others). Social roles in the Victorian era were viewed as natural and largely fixed: there was perceived to be something inherently‚ fundamentally unique about a noble versus an unskilled laborer and vice versa. Liza’s ability to fool society about her “real” identity raises questions about appearances. The importance

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    Baugh‚ Ph.D‚ the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor and director of African and African American Studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis‚ has founded that many people made racist‚ snap judgments about callers with diverse dialects. Mexican Americans According to Angel Tate with the Associate Content News‚ Mexican Americans are diverse people who have attained socioeconomic‚ linguistic assimilation‚ and legal status. Most are in pursuit of the American Dream and work hard

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    environment they grew up in or the people they socialise with. The media‚ education‚ class system‚ location of birth and where I live have directly influenced my personal idiolect. I was born in Leicester. People in Leicester have a very distinct accent and dialect and during my short period there‚ I collected many of these features as my own. Ends of sentences would be punctuated with “luv” or “duck” and “good food!” became “bostin’ fittle!” Due to unfortunate circumstances‚ I was adopted at the age of

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    Orthography in Latvia

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    Orthography Historically‚ Latvian proper was written using a system based upon German phonetic principles and latgalian dialect was written using polish orthography principles. At the beginning of the 20th century‚ this was replaced by a more phonetically appropriate system‚ using a modified Latin alphabet. Standard orthography Today‚ the Latvian standard alphabet consists of 33 letters: The modern standard Latvian alphabet uses 22 unmodified letters of the Latin alphabet (all except Q‚ W

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    British vs American English

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    One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster‚ who wrote the first American dictionary (published 1828) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain‚ much like a regional accent. This divergence between American English and British English has provided opportunities for humorous comment‚ e.g. George Bernard Shaw said that the United States and United Kingdom are "two countries divided by a common language";[10]

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