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    Elvis Presley is considered a legend by many people today. He is commonly referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll.” Elvis has sold over one billion records and has 151 albums and singles (Kemp). Elvis is the artist with the largest number of gold‚ platinum‚ and multiplatinum certificates (Kemp). Elvis has performed in many arenas in the United States. Elvis Presley changed the culture of the United States by changing fandom‚ views on segregation‚ music‚ stardom‚ and fashion. Without Elvis‚ we

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    Stylistic Analysis

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    CAN-CAN The text is head-lined CAN-CAN. The author of the text is Arturo Vivante. ARTURO VIVANTE was born in Rome and grew up in Italy‚ England‚ and Canada. He earned a medical doctorate from Rome University in 1949‚ but left his medical practice in the mid-1950s when his short stories began to be published. Now he lives in the United States where he has been a fuul-time writer for over thirty years. He has published two novels “A googly babe” (1951) and “Doctor Giovanni” (1969)‚ as well

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    Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8‚ 1935 in Tupelo‚ Mississippi. Elvis’s parents were Vernon and Gladys Presley. His twin brother‚ Jesse‚ died at birth‚ making Elvis grow up as an only child. For seven days after his birth‚ Elvis lay sick before the signs of sickness finally stopped. Elvis very easily could have died‚ leaving the world without ever hearing his great music. This was the beginning of a great and historic life. Vernon and Gladys introduced Elvis to music early in his life. At

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    STYLISTIC LEXICOLOGY

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    Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary PLAN 1. Stylistic classification of the English language vocabulary. Classification criteria 2. Standard English vocabulary and its constituents. Neutral words. 3. Specific literary vocabulary. Terms‚ poetic and archaic words‚ obsolete and obsolescent words‚ literary coinages and neologisms‚ foreignisms and barbarisms 4. Specific colloquial vocabulary. Professionalisms‚ jargon and slang‚ vulgarisms and nonce-words‚ dialectisms. LITERATURE Galperin

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    Stylistic Analysis

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    Stylistic Analysis of “ I Have A Dream” “All the fun is in how you say a thing.” Robert Frost’s words give us a perfect explanation about why the style is so important in an article. According to Alan Warner‚ style is a way of writing‚ a manner of expressing one’s thoughts and feelings in words. A same meaning can have different effects on its readers by being put in different ways. This article is to take the famous speech of Martin Luther King as an example to analyze and discuss its stylistic

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    The only time a problem in the ghetto gets addressed is when a cop murders a black male. Which by the way “every 28 hours a African American is killed by a security officer” according to alternet.com. Police brutality is a very big problem in ghettos all around the world. “Although black men make up only 6% of the U.S. population‚ they account for for 40% of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year” according to WashingtonPost.com.The officer that committed the murder usually gets just a

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    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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    In the eyes of the Jewish‚ ghettos were the worst experience of the Holocaust‚ before all of the Jews went to the death camps. Making the Warsaw Ghetto a significant symbol of the Holocaust. Thousands of people were stuffed into tight communities and were exposed to diseases‚ starvation‚ and deportation. Children had to fend for themselves because their parents were powerless and had to stand by watch. Families in the ghettos also watched their friends and close relatives slowly disappear. To attempt

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    Ghettos are often associated with crime‚ poverty‚ and cruelty‚ but it doesn’t have to be. The real definition is a minority living in an area such as Chinatown‚ Manhattan. But‚ with our prejudice opinions‚ we have towards the inhabitants and the area we create a new definition. Instead‚ we should reform our personal definition of a ghetto and not let our behaviors or actions affect the inhabitants. “Ghetto” just means a minority inhabiting a small area‚ but the way people react to the term proves

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    Ghetto In The 19th Century

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    The American Ghetto To an extent Ghetto’s have always existed within the United States. Beginning with the Five Points Area of New York City in the late 18th century every city in the United States has had neighborhoods where the poor‚ the recent immigrant‚ the desperate‚ and the criminal have made their homes. However; it was only in the late 19th century that the systematic poverty in the ghetto and related problems such as‚ alcohol and drug abuse‚ child abuse and neglect‚ spousal abuse‚ and crime

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    Ghettos, 1910-1970

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    Ghettos‚ 1910-1970 After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed‚ most of the black population scattered to find their families and friends. About ninety percent of African Americans lived in the confederacy and around 1970 more than fifty percent lived outside of the south. Millions of African Americans sought to escape poverty in the south by moving to Northern cities where they hoped to find better lives‚ also seeking bigger opportunity and racial tolerance. Most of the migrants

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