AP® English Language and Composition 2011 Free-Response Questions About the College Board The College Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900‚ the College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Today‚ the membership association is made up of more than 5‚900 of the world’s leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year‚ the College
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Is enough being done to preserve language ? Language plays an important role in the progress of nations. It ’s preservation has been an important topic of discussion between the intellects. This has led us to a question whether adequate efforts have been made to save endangered languages. Some people have opinion that there had been sufficient hard work for the preservation of languages such as master apprentice program‚ documentation programs and full immersion schools system while others disagree
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Language as a tool and language as a reality Language‚ as a system of acquiring and using complex structures of communication‚ is distinguished between two components in theory of knowledge; language as a tool and language as reality. There are several manners in which language is used as a tool and in which aids cognition; one is memory augmentation‚ in which language allows the environment as an extra-cranial memory store such as physical materials capable of systematically storing large
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struggle more evident than in the works of operatic composers‚ who tailor their music to forcefully convey the poetry for which they write. An invaluable tool to these composers is harmonic language‚ helping to express desires and forces of good and evil underneath the plain and simple language of the text. Harmonic language encompasses several aspects of music‚ including the major or minor keys in which a piece is written‚ the piece’s tonality‚ or even atonality‚ what kinds of resolutions and transitions
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Owning a car has several advantages and disadvantages. To be owner of a method of transportation gives you freedom but sometimes it cost too much. On one hand owning a car‚ there is the opportunity to be totally free‚ to have a high degree of flexibility. When I was a freshman I used to go to the College by tube. More than often classes were postponed late in the evening‚ when subway was closed. In these cases I had to sleep to some friends of mine because I have no way to come back home. During
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Offensive Language in Television Offensive language has been the surrounding factor in finding subjects to base many television shows with. Many television shows use offensive language to draw in their viewers and leave them with excitement‚ through the words they use. The various television shows that will be mentioned in this paper have used offensive language as their main topic. Many of the shows are known for the offensive language they use to spotlight various races and stereotypes on many
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Language is an important aspect in human life. It is a means of communication the person to the others. The people need language to looking for and give people benefit information. People need language as a communication to express their feeling‚ though and desire. Language has two major purposes for us that are as an instrument of communication and as a vehicle of thought (Dummett: 2002). Language as instrument of communication means that people use language to gather all of the information that
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Language is a dominant part within day to day life and is a building block of our society‚ due to it’s importance in the way humans communicate with one another. Language does not only show one’s ideas‚ emotions‚ but also thoughts. If in today’s society the government eliminated all expressive words and left people with the simplest form of a language‚ the aftermath and whole concept of having language in the first place would be not only philistine‚ but also dangerous. An example of strong manipulation
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This is a speech about the language and the sport. We all know that sports offer a physical and emotional way of knowing and understanding of the world. The sports have also developed their own way to use the language which only fits in sports contexts. But in what ways does the language of sports interact with the author’s purpose? This is what I will address in this speech. The example I found to show in the interaction between language of sports and author’s purpose is a feature article which
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Grade English Politically Correct Language and Bias-Language Language is the method of human communication‚ either spoken or written‚ consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. It has been proved that some types of language can harm people. Bias-Language occurs with gender but can also offend groups of people based on sexual orientation ethnicity‚ political interest‚ or race. To remedy the harm‚ politically correct language was started. It’s supporting or relating
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