Is enough being done to preserve languages ? Discuss. Thesis statement : not enough being done P1 Topic sentence/main idea : Some efforts have been done to save dying languages. Supporting idea1: Documentation efforts attempt to record dying evidence. Evidence But there are encouraging signs that the field has turned a corner. The Volks-wagen Foundation‚ a German charity‚ just issued its second round of grants totaling more than $2‚ Whalen says. It has created a multimedia archive at
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him and Maximus to settle it all up. Knowing that Maximus is a better fighter‚ Commodus then stabs the restrained Maximus with a knife before their bout. Despite his injury‚ Maximus defeated Commodus by driving a knife into his neck. Maximus‚ now dying from his
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Act 4 Scene 2 For this scene I chose the song “Compassion(Change the World)” by Andrew Witt. I chose this song because it talks about one person that really wants to help the person who is in trouble. It also talks about that maybe that person doesn’t know how to assist everyone‚ but he’s going to at least help one person and make them feel better. The quotation that I chose from this song is:”And when all’s said and done I can’t change the world But I can change the world for one.” I think this
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had briefly blocked the direct sun. I had gotten to my house and seen my mom in a lawn chair drinking water in the backyard‚ which was unusual as she was still typically at work. I walked into the backyard and said hi when she said " Joe‚ Wade is dying." To say it was like someone took a sledgehammer‚
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when compared to males however‚ this disorder does not discriminate. An individual that is diagnosed with this disorder view themselves as overweight even when they are underweight and continue to engage in unhealthy weight loss tactics. The video “Dying to be Thin” depicts a story with a young girl that is struggling with her weight and feels as though she is not thin enough. This girl begins to engage in actions like binging and purge eating in order to lose weight and continues to believe she is
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Communication through chemistry- The film stated by investigating why kudus were dying with no obvious causes present. So scientist started to research the situation and found that all of the dead kudu had high levels of tannin from plants. They also found that plants can increase their tannin levels when they are being over utilized and can communicate by air. It’s the plants way of chemical defense. Then the explanation of how carnivorous plants have developed to kill and trap their prey. Also
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Dying of a Broken Heart 5.1 million people across America have congestive heart failure and almost half of those people will die within 5 years of diagnosis. Heart failure is a weakness of the heart that leads to the buildup of fluid in the lungs and surrounding body tissues. This decline in cardiac productivity leads to the blood not being able to circulate from the body and lungs back to the heart‚ causing fluid to leak from capillary blood vessels. Heart failure is most commonly caused by
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Title: A lesson before dying | Author: Ernest J. Gaines | Quote from the novel | My thoughts | Author’s message about society and/or human nature: “Then I began to listen‚ to listen closely to how they talked about their heroes‚ how they talked about the dead and about how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere.” (Gaines 90). | It is our human nature to constantly want the next best thing. To look up to someone or something. We admire anything that we feel is better than ourselves
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The articles and documentary‚” Dying to be thin” were very insightful and discussed the challenges of individuals with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. These eating disorders are dangerous and can be fatal. Not only are there physical affects‚ but mental affects take place as well. In the documentary‚ pressures to be thin and the “ideal” body weight were discussed amongst aspiring dancers and models. In was reported that three out of one hundred girls will develop eating
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In A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines‚ Mr. Grant Wiggins’ life crises were the center of the story. Although he was supposed to make Jefferson into a man‚ he himself became more of one as a result. Not to say that Jefferson was not in any way transformed from the "hog" he was into an actual man‚ but it could be believed this story was really written about Mr. Wiggins. Mr. Wiggins improved as a person greatly throughout the novel‚ and that helped his relationships with other people for the most
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