stars comedians such as Amy Poehler‚ Aziz Ansari‚ Rashida Jones‚ and Chris Pratt. Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope‚ the Deputy Director of Parks and Recreation in Pawnee‚ Indiana. Her assistant‚ Tom‚ is played by Aziz Ansari. Together‚ they solve many of Pawnee’s problems‚ gathering more members for their team along the way. Through seven seasons‚ many heartbreaks‚ and even more laughs‚ Leslie Knope grows her family and climbs up the professional ladder. Although it is a unique series‚ Parks and Recreation
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the fact that it doesn’t really exist. Having been a fan of the television show Parks and Recreation for quite some time now‚ I can confidently say that Pawnee would be the most exciting place one could go. My day would begin with meeting Leslie Knope‚ an extremely loyal and visionary person who truly believes in transforming not only the parks department‚ but also the world. Leslie and I would then talk about the everyday transformation of the world we live in. Next to her desk‚ Leslie keeps a
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specifically belongs to is nonetheless; Put Down comedy is mostly what this episode has; which states how characters exercise power over the character in a humorous way. Put down comedy is seen throughout this particular episode for example Leslie Knope trashes the person that is claimed “never to be mentioned because its fills her with rage” and than goes out to say that he’s nothing but a “ garbage head doo-doo face”. She quickly sees the guy that they’re not suppose to mention and says “hello former
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Goeie môre klas my toespraak vandag oor my ervaring in Afrika. Most of you are probably asking themselves now what is he saying‚ is this English‚ well I said to myself the same worlds 18 years ago. Imagine with me a 5 year old kid coming from Lebanon sitting in class in an African school for the first time in his life and his teacher is welcoming him to the class with an African language‚ weird not .well today the purpose of my speech is to show that it is not easy for a person to enter a new culture
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of Pawnee‚ Indiana consists of an eclectic selection of employees‚ ranging from the ignorant yet good-spirited Andy Dwyer to the sassy‚ but sage‚ Donna Meagle. Yet the zeitgeist of the department is found within the unique personalities of Leslie Knope‚ Ron Swanson‚ and April Ludgate. These three characters‚ although having wildly varying interests and views‚ share certain attributes characteristic of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras. The beliefs of the Enlightenment thinker and the Romantic figure
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culture compromise of: black Afrikaans ‚ white Afrikaans‚ mixed-race Afrikaans‚ Asian-Indian‚ White Chinese-Taiwanese (Koopman & van Muijen 1994). The black Afrikaans are the majority race in South Africa. The Zulu nation makes up the majority in the black Afrikaans‚ The white Afrikaans are the minority race and have the majority of the power. The white Afrikaans are predominately from the English origin. The mixed-race Afrikaans are closer to the white Afrikaans but they are discriminated against
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continuing separation of the Zulus‚ Afrikaans and the English driven by the evil forces of hatred and prejudice. John G. Avildsen’s The Power of One comments on the struggle endured by many in the 19th and 20th centuries in South Africa against the ignorance of racism‚ named by the white-German colonials (Afrikaners) as the apartheid. Avildsen’s intention is to illustrate that the discourse of racism is not only driven by hatred and
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When it comes to linguistics‚ South Africa is like a melting pot of languages. In total‚ South Africa has eleven major languages coming from both Africa and Europe. The major languages used are Afrikaans‚ English‚ Ndebele‚ Pedi‚ Sesotho‚ Swazi‚ Tsonga‚ Tswana‚ Venda‚ Xhosa and Zulu. In order to understand how each of these languages arrived in South Africa‚ we must first look at the history of people living in the country. The first identified language spoken in the South Africa was Khoisan.
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made Afrikaans the official language? Mark Mathabane is the author of Kaffir Boy and grew up as an unprivileged black boy in the Apartheid system. South Africa is controlled by the white minority and has been that way for most of the 20th century (the 1900s) and the main problem was Apartheid. Apartheid is a system made for blacks to flounder and for only whites to profit from and Mark has advantages through this system even though he is black by learning different languages such as Afrikaans and
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and higher education were run. The population of South Africa is not only multiracial but it is also multilingual. It is estimated that about 25 languages are spoken within South Africa’s borders (Mesthrei‚ 2006). Historical Background In 1924‚ Afrikaans‚ a relatively new‚ hybridized language in use for only about eight years at the time‚ became one of the official languages of South Africa. Prior to 1924‚ English was the only official language in South Africa. In 1948‚ the infamous policy of apartheid
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