LANGUAGE USE IN THE CARIBBEAN CLASSROOM Teaching English language and literacy to students is one of the major tasks faced by many teachers in the Caribbean today. When we consider the language varieties that are spoken in our classrooms‚ we can see why we have so many issues when it comes to the teaching of Standard English. It is often said that language is a powerful tool which influences beliefs and views and acts as a complete tool of social control. When we look at our schools in the Caribbean
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Early modern Europe experienced tremendous upheaval during the 15th through 18th centuries due to the Renaissance and Reformation. Discuss how these two movements were intertwined. In other word‚ how did the Renaissance influence the Reformation and vice versa‚ how did the Reformation influence the Renaissance. Be sure to use specific examples. The Renaissance was known for the rebirth in the Greek and Roman Culture and the arts and intellectual activities. It was believed that
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the mass media‚ Goebbels‚ used propaganda to influence the people. There was an extreme emphasis placed on propaganda by Hitler and Goebbels. Goebbels was in charge of Ministry for People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda. This is what controlled and manipulated the mass media. He used films books rallies and many more thing to influence the mass media. The books and the cinema as well as many other factors including different types of propaganda‚ was how Hitler manipulated the mass media. Hitler
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In Sonnet 12‚ Shakespeare uses contrasting imagery‚ ambiguous diction‚ and distinct alliteration in order to emphasize the decay of beauty and to convey the urgency of procreation. Firstly‚ Shakespeare creates contrasting images in Sonnet 12 that draws attention towards how easily beauty is lost to the world. Shakespeare‚ instead of highlighting the beauty and strength of nature‚ laments about how nature is wasting away. Early in the sonnet‚ tgohe speaker “[beholds] the violet past prime” (3).
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Shakespeare’s use of similes in Romeo and Juliet appear different then what is written in modern-day time. This is mainly because they are not as obviously written in the play unlike today where it is easy to spot a simile or even another literary language like metaphors. His style is so different that our minds aren’t used to interpreting such a difference in writing. Shakespeare’s similes can seem hidden and some may argue that they aren’t similes at all but they are there! There isn’t a title for how the
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That is not exactly how the song goes‚ but Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare explores this very current concept. Shakespeare’s early plays were written in the conventional style of the day‚ with elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases that did not always align naturally with the story’s plot or characters. However‚ William Shakespeare was very innovative‚ adapting this traditional style to his own purposes‚ capturing a complete range of human emotion and conflict. Shakespeare primarily used a
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shape it to control a country in an economic crisis? How did he influence a country and its people in his rise to power? And how did he take on the a world that hated him for his actions‚ when all he did was spread his ideals and changed the minds of his country’s people. Despite the fact that Hitler changed Germany in his rise to power‚ the influence he has spread already has left a mark on the world. Hitler did indeed influence Germany in a number of ways in his rise to power and one
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King‚ Jr. and President John F. Kennedy filled the needed roles of national and global leaders. Their most popular speeches were both alike and different in content and their use of sound devices. First of all‚ both men spoke of freedom. In Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech he brought to the attention of his audience that it had been 100 years since the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law‚ freeing all American slaves‚ yet “the Negro still is not free.” He quoted the Declaration
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still a few things that we have kept like for example show business‚ entertainment‚ and the way we see each other. One of the many things that are different now from when Shakespeare was around is fashion. People dressed different. They dressed weird but to them that was the way it was. If you had layers of clothing it showed how wealthy‚ you were. Color described what class you were. Purple for example was very expensive so only people like the queen would wear it. Now we just put some jeans and
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Shakespeare’s characters and themes in "Macbeth" are strongly developed right from the beginning. Shakespeare uses a variety of techniques to establish his themes and characters‚ via the dialogue and stage directions in his play. The introductory actions of the characters‚ along with the location and weather of the scene‚ work in conjunction with the language devices to quickly establish the key characters and themes. A prominent theme of Macbeth is the supernatural. Shakespeare uses the witches as the centre
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