The Power of Words In 2004‚ human rights were violated in the form of physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse‚ including torture‚ rape and homicide of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. These acts were committed by military police of the United States Army. Did this happen because the soldiers considered the Iraqis as inhuman‚ and was it caused by having a certain language to refer to the enemies? In war‚ soldiers find it easier to cope after killing if they know that they have killed the opposing side
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1 Academic Word List: Kadkhodaee 1. Analysis The newspaper printed an analysis of each candidate’s positions. Approach He approached the issue from a historical perspective. Area Settlers came to this area from the east. Assessment The owners claimed the tax assessment on their house was too high. Assume I think we can safely assume that he is out of town. Authority The French authorities have refused to issue him a visa. Available The articles are available at any drugstore
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written word inferior to the spoken‚ and much of the frustration experienced by novelists is the awareness that whatever we manage to capture in even the most transcendent passages falls far short of the richness of life. Dialogue achieves its power in the dynamics of a fleeting moment of sight‚ sound‚ smell and touch." -excerpt taken from Gloria Naylor’s ’The Meanings of a Word’. Words The first sentence of this excerpt can have several interpretations‚ depending on which synonym of the word ’language’
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1522 Word families: building possibilities... Words often come in families. You can expand your vocabulary by becoming familiar with these word families and this can also enable you to become a more fluent speaker and writer of English. If you know all the possible words within a word family‚ you can express yourself in a wider range of ways. For example‚ if you know the verb and the noun forms related to the adjective boring‚ you can say: • The lesson was boring. • The lesson bored me. • That
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Republic of the Philippines B BATAAN PENINSULA STATE UNIVERSITY Main Campus‚ City of Balanga‚ 2100 Bataan A Written Report Presented to the Faculty of the TOURISM AND HOTEL AND RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN HOTEL AND RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT Submitted By: Dana Carmela M. Rubiano i Republic of the Philippines BATAAN PENINSULA STATE UNIVERSITY
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بحث بعنوان: Taboo Words and Euphemisms إعداد الطالب : أحمد خويلد بإشراف الدكتورة: أمينة معتوق Taboo words and Euphemisms Taboo: is a word or phrase not to be used or at least it is consedevd as not polite to use the word "Taboo" came from tongan‚it refers to acts that are forbedden. words are considered as taboo words because of: fear‚ tradition‚ education‚ hurting‚ language beauty and social limit. there are no general rule for Taboo words‚ some words may considered as a
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UNIVERSITY LINKING WORDS AND PHRASES Most pieces of formal writing are organised in a similar way: introduction; development of main ideas or arguments; conclusion. Linking words and phrases join clauses‚ sentences and paragraphs together. A piece of writing or text may include the following: idea and one idea is linked to another idea or an alternative is presented idea but an objection is made idea Connectives The main linking words and phrases are grouped
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Chapter 4: The World of Words "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." —Ludwig Wittgenstein When we think of communication‚ we often think about the language used to convey the message. Language and many of our nonverbal behaviors are symbolic. We need to keep in mind that across cultures‚ symbols do not always mean the same thing and can cause confusion or misunderstanding. The text offers the following example on page 95. "The arbitrary nature of language becomes obvious-sometimes
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The word freak is something that we use in everyday language without realizing that in the past‚ the word was not just a casual phrase to throw around. We associate the word freak with other words such as strange‚ weird‚ and odd in order to insult a person who is different than us or define something that is out of the ordinary. However‚ when we use the word freak so casually we are disassociating it from its original meaning and changing the words context. In most instances‚ the word “freak”
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