Pragmatics Exercises (Source: Fromkin & Rodman’s 1998 edition of An Introduction to Language (6th ed.)) Task I: The following sentences make certain presuppositions. What are they? (The first one has been done for you!) 1. The police ordered the minors to stop drinking. Presupposition: The minors were drinking. 2. Please take me out to the ball game again. Presupposition: 3. Valerie regretted not receiving a new T-bird for Labor Day. Presupposition: 4. That her pet turtle ran away made Emily very
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HMEMS80 2013 SEMESTER 2 ASSIGNMENT 01 (Unique number 866292) DUE DATE: 26 AUGUST 2013 INSTRUCTIONS Note that there are two documents for this Assignment. 1) This INSTRUCTION document that provides the tasks and the information that you need to correctly complete the assignment. 2) A TEMPLATE FILE (that you must RENAME to indicate your own details) and on which you will complete your answers. This is the ONLY file that you will submit online for this assignment in PDF format.
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Should ex-convicts be allowed to vote? According to the Constitutional Law‚ at the age of eighteen you are legally given a right to voice your opinion in voting. What happens when the law is broken for something you have done illegally‚ should your rights be taken away? How can a crime be so bad to where rights are taken? I believe all rights should be restored once the person whom committed the crime have paid their debt to society by doing the time because No Crime should take away their right
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Main Street Appliances To: Customer Relations Department From: John Wright‚ Customer Relations Supervisor Date: July 20‚ 2009 Subject: Improvement on written refusals I am writing today to provide all employees with some useful tips on how to compose a customer refusal letter. While the example letter to Mr. Largo is factual‚ there are some things that could be presented much better. Presentation of facts could determine if we are able to retain customers and reflect the credibility
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Shiva Extreme Guide Hey guys‚ Mrhappy here and welcome to my guide for Shiva Extreme‚ the new primal in Patch 2.4. Keep in mind that this not the only strategy for defeating Shiva‚ just the one we saw the most success with. Should another‚ more effective strategy be discovered‚ I will be sure to update this guide.. Before attempting this fight I recommend an average item level of 110 for each party member‚ though having some members at less than this is fine if they know the fight. This fight is broken up into 3 phases
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Notes for Essay James Weldon Johnson - The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored man 1912 Anon. 1927 with credit. Published during "Harlem Renaissance Johnson was a "Polymath" - multi-talented. Reconstruction period 1877. All free men were giving 40 acres of land but no supplies‚ money or other resources. US army was sent to the south to protect black before "Reconstruction." He came from a stable family‚ mother was educated and father was present and healthy growing up in Florida. Was the 1st black
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How should Convicted Criminals be treated? The prison population has increased rapidly overtime as the level of crime has elevated. This observation may lead us to think that the officials are doing a good job keeping criminals off the streets‚ but many of the offenders that eventually leave prison will return within a year. This may be caused in part by the fact that society labels offenders by what they did and it is hard for them to re enter the community as productive citizens. Prison may
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Critical Lens Essay 12/8/10 American poet Robert Elliot Gonzales once wrote‚ “A good many family trees are shady.” What he means is that parents do not always give their children what is most necessary to achieve in life. In Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike and Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller the main characters lack self-esteem and cannot fulfill their dreams primarily because of their lack of familial support. More specifically‚ the protagonists‚ Flick Webb and Biff Lowman‚ suffer
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A Reading of Updike’s “Ex-Basketball Player” The purpose of this essay is to inform the reader about a poem by John Updike‚ called “Ex-Basketball player”. The speaker in the poem talks about a man named Flick Webb and his apathetic life. He informs the reader about Flick Webb’s exceptional talent as a basketball player in high school. Towards the end of the poem the realization is that Flick Webb’s exceptional basketball talent had been berried under his reality of life. In the eyes of the
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The future is frightening according to the book The Circle‚ by Dave Eggers‚ and the movie Ex Machina‚ directed by Alex Garland. The Circle is about a woman‚ Mae Holland‚ who starts working The Circle. The Circle is a powerful tech company that creates an all-in-one password solution and transforms the Internet by pushing users to embrace their real names online. Mae quickly rises her way to the top by going transparent and having an inexpensive‚ high-quality camera around her neck that streams HD
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