Two Kinds of English Most of us are familiar with the song lyrics “You say poTAYto and I say poTAHto‚ You say toMAYto and I say toMAHto.” These lyrics exemplify one of the differences between American and British English‚ the two most widely spoken varieties of global English. Despite the seemingly endless number of similarities between the two‚ significant differences between American English and British English in three specific linguistic areas make each one quite distinct from the other.
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Between the U.S. and the Soviet Union‚ the greatest difference was over the system of communism. The people under the communist system disagreed with the belief that private property should be replaced by community ownership. resulting in the death of millions of Soviets who had different ideas about Russia’s future. America will take action upon the Soviets attempt to expand and create containment. Containment meant that the Soviet Union Communists should not expand. The U.S. contained the communist
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Puritans were planning their trip to the New World‚ they saw possibilities they could not see in England. They wanted to be free to build their own godly community‚ but they did not want to separate completely from the churches in England. They wanted to establish a community that others looked up to. They wanted to move to this new land that had so much potential. The Puritans found the opportunities they were looking for when they decided to move across the water to New England and were successful
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Developments of New England colonies are rapid in the early 1600s. Colonies developments are influenced by the Puritans‚ who immigrate to America after protesting against the Church of England fearing religious persecution. The Puritans idea of representative democracy‚ strict values of frugality‚ and society based solely around the church shaped the development of the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660s. The Puritans idea of a representative democracy greatly influenced the development
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“The Devil In New England” is a persuasive piece written by Cotton Mather. He advocated the belief that witchcraft was a wicked force that was growing within New England. He believed that this was the work of the Devil‚ and that the Devil was conjuring up an army of witches to destroy religion. According to Mather‚ the Devil “was exceedingly disturbed” by the presence of the Puritans. Knowing his audience were Puritans‚ he used the fear of the Devil and his workings to instill uneasiness in the
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Why did English civil War start? In this essay I am going to clarify why the civil war started. A civil war is a conflict fought between inhabitants of the same country. In this case the two sides that fought against each other in England were King Charles I’s side and Parliament’s side. The main reasons for going to war were parts of these three main topics: Money‚ Religion and Power. There were many reasons for the civil war‚ some of the proceedings of 1642 were the grand remonstrates made by
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TITLE Wedding Dance (Region I) AUTHOR Amador T. Daguio SETTING • In one of the mountainous provinces in the northern Philippines CHARACTERS • Awiyao • Alumnay • Madulimay PLOT The Wedding Dance by Amador T. Daguio is about Awiyao and Lumnay‚ a long married couple from the Mountain tribes. Awiyao is going to marry another woman‚ Madulimay‚ because Lumnay was not able to give him a child. Awiyao went back home to see Lumnay because he didn’t find her among the dancers at his wedding
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Explain how political‚ economic and social constructs can be used to categorise society. Look at how Irish society stratifies according to social class and gender. Sociologists develop theories and concepts to help reveal the structure of social life and they engage in numerous different forms of empirical investigation to test and develop these theories. They are interested in how people communicate and create meaning and understanding‚ but they are also interested in questions of power and inequality
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similarities yet they have distinct differences. Their form of government was different because Han China had an emperor and Classical Athens ran a democracy. When it came to the children both Classical Athens and Han China the murder of a child was justified. Also women in both Empires played a similar role in society. When you have two great empires they always seem to share common components that in their own way seems to be different. Classical Athens and Han China had their own kind of government
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In 1759 the British had many victories including‚ capturing the French islands‚ defeating the French in India‚ and destroying a French fleet. The greatest victory for them was when they defeated the capital of France‚ Quebec‚ which was thought to be impossible to attack. The fall of Quebec brought the fighting to an end‚ and a peace treaty was made allowing France to keep some sugar-producing islands and forcing them to give a lot of land to Great Britain. The treaty of Paris also marked the end
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