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    Why is good writing and speaking important? English is the most important and famous language on this earth‚ most people of higher education speak it. I do not know why out of all languages. English is the one that decided to be world famous‚ maybe because English is in America and when people think America they think the land of the free. We all have fluent speakers and writers in every language as much as we have illiterate people. Most are actually in-between where there is some form of education

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    Commentary on Lawrence Binyon’s For the Fallen For as long as mankind continues to feel the need for international conflict and bloodshed‚ there will be war and hence‚ literature pertaining to war. Lawrence Binyon’s For the Fallen optimistically theorizes the exalted position of the deceased after succumbing to the horrors of war. Lawrence Binyon’s formulated transition which was further complimented by his precise vocabulary to emotionalize the dramatic situations aids the poem to effectively

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    Torture Is Waterboarding

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    and loss of control. Calling it anything other than torture is absurd. You wouldn’t call a bank robbery a “cash gathering technique‚” even if the president said it was so. There are no such things as “enhanced interrogation methods.” That is the euphemism the Bush administration used in 2002 when they were redefining torture so the president could authorize it. There is never an excuse to torture a person‚ not even during war. It undermines our cause‚ endangers our soldiers on the battlefield by

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    “Party” to confine its citizens from liberty. As Vynckier continues to critically analyze George Orwell’s 1984‚ he highlight’s “One of Orwell’s greatest contributions was his intense awareness of the abuse of language‚ particularly in the case when a euphemism is used to suggest the exact opposite of the truth” (Vynckier

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    Rogerian Argument

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    assessing data and ideas‚ for determining what to acknowledge and believe. Read critically is refers to a cautious‚ active‚ considerate‚ analytic reading. What is an annotation? Underling a note of remark or clarification added to a text. What is a Euphemism? Is an indirect word of expression that is considered to be offensive. What does connotation and denotation mean? They are two principal approaches of unfolding the meanings of

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    Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib and Enaq H. Sabbah Language Choice in Mobile Text Messages among Jordanian University Students Abstract This paper examines the linguistic structure and sociolinguistic functions of ArabicEnglish code-switching in mobile text messages as used by a group of Jordanian university students. It also aims at investigating the distribution of the switched elements by syntactic category. The corpus was collected from 46 male and female undergraduate and post-graduate students. Qualitative

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    RESORT OPERATION

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    Ma. Teresa F. Refrea Nov. 12‚ 2013 Mrs. J. Pagne Resort Operation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Resort Operation A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation‚ attracting visitors for vacations and/or tourism. Resorts are places‚ towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company. Towns which are

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    one’ (1991:173). It is ‘totalizing and imperialist’ because it casts all experience in the verbal image of the dominant group’s experience. From the dominant group’s perspective‚ it is ‘obvious’‚ for instance‚ that African-American is a pompous euphemism‚ that no one should shrink from a good plain word

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    First Love John Clare

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    have become metaphors more easily attributed and immediately understood than the word ‘love’ itself. The first point of note is the familiarity of the language used by John Clare in the nineteenth century to the anecdotal stereotypes and euphemisms of medieval literature and contempory rap lyrics. Love can be defined by its confusing ability to remain indefinable by perfect boundaries and text‚ but‚ also‚ it has a changeless and non-temporal aspect that elevates it to the realm of the divine

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    Old Woman

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    Speech Situation: The poet recalls a visit to an old couple; the old woman is helpless‚ and dying slowly. It is clear from the description that she has no quality of life. She is cared for by her husband who prays for her release from this life. Significance of the title: no definite article emphasises the universal nature of the experience Degradation of the old woman as this suggests she needs help. Simply eating to stay alive. Animal connotations. Simile – like an old horse. Useless

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