English HL Commentary - Too Many Names - Pablo Neruda The poem " Too Many Names" by Pablo Neruda written uses several poetic devices ‚ including metaphors‚ anaphoras and asyndeton light on one of the ideas the poet to shed light back into communist political opinion. It is the idea of equality and equal worth of each human being ‚ with such names as a method to this claim that names are of no use to explain. While the poem ( including the title) ‚ Neruda‚ his idea of the names of people
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The importance for polished English remains high on the priority among many firms as a basic requirement. The emphasis for proficiency in the English language starts from school for most‚ but most adults do not maintain a habit of constantly improving and updating their ability to read and write. Speaking has become a part of our daily lives and our reliance on English has turned it into the first language of many Singaporeans. Our heavy reliance on English gives us an edge when practising it throughout
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"Reflect on some aspects of your own personal talk (idiolect) Including perhaps some criticisms made of it by adults" Whilst completing this project on spoken language‚ I discovered aspects of my own personal speech (also known as idiolect) and the variation between people’s language due to their culture and environment. Living in north London for fifteen years I have had many experiences which shapes my idiolect to what it is today. Three main factors which have influenced me the most are
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How Languages Shape Lives Learning new languages may shape our ways of talking and thinking. Also every language to another has many different ways in how we communicate with other people who speak the language we have learned. In “How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?” Lera Boroditsky explains how a new language can affect the way we are thinking. The new language (second language) is one of the most important things that can change the way of thinking. Most of people who speak more than
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Language and Culture Fitting into a culture is not always easy; sometimes‚ obstacles appear and make it harder. Reading about the stories of both Oscar Hijuelos and Jasmin Darznik‚ the reader might recognize some of those obstacles. Both Oscar and Jasmin have been surrounded by two cultures‚ one of their families’ and the other was the American culture. From each story we can learn something; something about how language can affect a person’s life. Jasmin and Oscar have been through
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When people make a great fuss over the merits and demerits of a language they overlook an important point that a language is not merely a means of communicating thoughts but also a way of getting civilized. Since‚ the date of India’s independence‚ there has been running many claims and counter-claims regarding the use and importance of English in India. Some speak in favour while some others oppose the idea of retaining English as a subject‚ in our school or college curriculum. The British
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In “The Struggle to be an All American Girl” by Elizabeth Wong‚ Elizabeth Wong wanted to assimilate and embrace American culture. However‚ her mother forced her to learn about the Chinese language. She had to go to Chinese school which‚ for her‚ was such a dreaded place that she would kick and scream that she didn’t want to go. She hated almost everything about the school. The auditorium had a stench of old Chinese medicine that was putrescent compared to the sweet smell of her American teacher’s
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English is considered to be the most common and important language of the world today. A great number of people understand and use English in every part of the world.English is the most useful language. Being good at English‚ we can travel to any place or any country we like. We shall not find it hard to make others understand what we wish to say.English also helps us to learn all kinds of subjects. Hundreds of books are written in English every day in all countries to teach people useful things
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The purpose of this task is writing a blog about my personal opinion about Eric Thomas’s speech “The Secret to Success.” Eric Thomas dropped out of high school later on becoming one of the most famous inspirational and motivational speakers around. His speech was posted on YouTube and he wrote a book explaining the secrets of reaching success. I personally became very motivated after listening to his speech and this blog would include my opinion about his speech and how it is motivational. I will
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Research Question: How has the language being lost affected the lives of different people? Summative piece: In this unit I have chose to do my research project on the loss of language. I am interested in this because this is happening everywhere around the world. There are already a few languages that have been extinct and some of them we never knew about. This is an issue that is happening around the world with different languages. Issue1 Every 2 weeks there is one language that is lost. In
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