In e. e. Cummings’ poem “next to of course god america i” cummings’ describes the heroic actions the military made for america. This claim is proved numerous times throughout the poem. For example‚ in line 9-10‚ cummings’ writes “what could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead”. When cummings’ mentions this‚ it shows that there is nothing more beautiful than the people who fought for our country and died. This can be shown as many military members are heroic as they are sacrificting
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Definition of Language Language Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically‚ human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds‚ expressive of thought‚ articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. The expression of ideas by writing‚ or any other instrumentality. The forms of speech‚ or the methods of expressing ideas‚ peculiar to a particular nation. The characteristic mode of arranging words‚ peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression;
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America and World War I Jeff Clark HIS/125 5/12/13 Michele Riley When war erupted in 1914‚ the United States attempted to remain neutral and was a proponent for the rights of neutral states. Isolationist foreign policy was encouraged by Congress ’s apprehensions about giving other countries a political door into US policies and the cultural melting pot of the United States ’ population. In spite of these factors‚ the United States did enter World War I‚ as a result of several events. In
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Donovan v. Dial America Marketing‚ Inc. 757 F.2d 1376 (3d Cir.) (1985) I. Facts 1. DialAmerica Marketing‚ Inc. is a telephone-marketing firm that operates in twenty states and maintains its principal place of business in Teaneck‚ New Jersey. A major aspect of DialAmerica’s business is the sale of magazine renewal subscriptions by telephone to persons whose subscriptions have expired or ready to run out. They located subscribers’ phone numbers by employing in-house researchers who would find numbers
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study of stylistics/language in literature can help improve one’s English language. (1500-2000 words) To answer the question of how stylistics improves one’s English language is to understand the question itself. The word ‘improves’ in the question entails that the person or student already has at least a basic knowledge and understanding of the English Language and he/she wants to make that knowledge better. There are many disciplines that learners of the English language can venture into to help
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To what extent can logic‚ math or music be classified as a language? “Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.” Declares the Italian physicist‚ mathematician‚ astronomer‚ and philosopher Galileo Galilei‚ when we think in modern sense language is a system of linguistic signs or symbols. In other words it’s the basis of communication. Some people communicate using sign language while others rely on gestures and facial expressions. Mathematics and music may also be used
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Clear Water Bay High School Ms. Kate Huang‚ Principal of Clear Water Bay High School‚ had just returned from the boarding meeting of the English Schools Foundation (ESF)‚ where she had agreed to cut her school’s budget by almost 12 percent to $17.6 million. Kate understood that the ESF board had to cut budgets because Hong Kong government would soon stop supporting the ESF with government subvention. Now that she was back to the school‚ Kate was taking a hard look at all costs in her budget. BACKGROUND
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1. Differences between First Language and Second Language | First Language | Second Language | Definition | any language other than English that a child was exposed to during early development and continues to be exposed to in the home or community | any language learned after the first language or mother tongue | Basis for learning | universal grammar alone | knowledge of the first language also serves as a basis for learning the second language | Learning Process | children spend
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any language means a contraction‚ reduction and impoverishment of the sum total of the reservoir of human thought and knowledge as expressible through language. To what extent do you agree with this? As globalization takes place‚ languages spoken by the majority became lingua franca of different regions. English for example as its most widely spread across the entire world‚ is spoken by 360 to 400 million as their first language and 470 million to more than 1 billion as their second language. It
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Ruby is a dynamic‚ open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. Ruby is a language of careful balance. Ruby is a pure object-oriented programming language. Ruby is simple in appearance‚ but is very complex inside‚ just like our human body. In Ruby‚ everything is an object. Every bit of information and code can be given their own properties and actions. Ruby has features that are similar to those
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