The English War with Spain‚ The Wars in Ireland‚ and The war against the Tyrone Rebellion. The reasons for war with Spain was wealth and power from trade was at demand in the New World. The Spanish Armada which had 132 ships was beat by England who had an army of 165 vessels and 35 ships. The reasons for the Elizabethan War in Ireland were that the war wanted to create English governors that would rule instead of the Irish Lords. The outcome was terrible
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Spoken language assessment In this essay I will be analysing a transcript from a Newsnight show featuring Jeremy Paxman‚ Baroness Amos and Dizzee Rascal. I will be talking about the effects of choices in the use of standard and non-standard forms of spoken language. Often the situation influences the structure and fluency of the conversation. Especially in this situation the location of the debate is a key factor that tests the rule of conversation‚ because each person is in different studios there
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Spoken by Virginia Wolfe‚ this quote immaculately captures the overall importance of Aphra Behn to women everywhere. A British playwright‚ poet and novelist‚ Aphra Behn was a woman amongst men. Though there has been no shortage of speculation regarding the facts surrounding her birth and parents‚ it is widely accepted that she was born to Bartholomew Johnson and Elizabeth Denham on July 10‚ 1640 just outside of Canterbury‚ UK. The first of many strides towards breaking down the walls of gender
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Butcher (2013) state that the purpose of language is to communicate‚ whether with others by talking and writing or with ourselves by thinking. There are many differences between speaking and writing in English and studies have been conducted to evaluate these differences (Chafe & Tannen‚ 1987). The spoken language is a transient (Crystal‚ 2005) and automatic response accompanied by body language‚ hand gestures‚ facial expressions and paralanguage. Unless speech is recorded‚ it becomes an immediate and
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Even before the dawn of civilisation‚ people have been talking to one another. The earliest record of written communication stretches back almost 5‚400 years ago‚ and some speculate that spoken languages have been around for at least 100‚000 years – around 60% of human existence‚ or 15 times as long as civilisation itself. (Derbyshire) Languages are the building blocks of communication – sets of words related to one another so that people understand the world around them and the intents of others
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The Golden Number 1.61803 39887 49894 84820 is by no means a number of memorization. However‚ it is a recognizable one. Never will you find a combination of numbers that is more significant than this one. This ratio is known as the Golden Number‚ or the Golden Ratio. This mystery number has been used throughout different aspects of life‚ such as art‚ architecture‚ and of course‚ mathematics. One may wonder where the Golden Ratio came from? Who thought to discover it? When was it discovered? And
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Variety of Spoken Communication Many aspects of spoken communication are distinct in their uses of language. This distinction is for the fact that each variety of spoken communication‚ in return‚ uses the functions of language in their own specific ways and for their own specific purposes. Language of radio announcers is but one form which illustrates this distinction and the discussion of this essay attempts to explore the use of language within this variety of spoken communication – through
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Spoken Language Study Lord Sugar’s idiolect stands out in this transcript because it’s completely different to the candidates. His language features are very informal which is surprising considering they are in a boardroom and you would expect everyone to be professional‚ especially Lord Sugar‚ as he is the boss. Alan’s informality is shown with his cockney accent and the fact he uses elision and slang in his dialect‚ such as “dunno”‚ “talkin” and “should’a”. This shows that is so assured with
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interface designing team has done a very good to make it user friendly and easy to learn even though there are few up and downs with the 8 golden rules. Strive for consistency Figure 1 – Open dialog in MS Excel Figure 2 – Save dialog in MS Excel Figure 3 – Excel help Figure 3 – Excel help Generally‚ this is the most frequently violated rule. The presence of this rule is very important towards the user’s learning time because if the interface is inconsistent it can create hassles in the user’s mind
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Spoken language controlled assessment How do TV chefs adapt and change their language to suit their audience and purpose? There are as many different styles and variations of spoken language as there are people on Earth as language is an abundant ocean of creativity that will never dry up. The inventions of modern day technology such as the TV have meant that English spoken language is as varied now as it has ever been; you only have to flick through the TV channels to discover the differences
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