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    Mayan Culture

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    Culture Outline Topic: Mayan Culture General Purpose: To Inform I. When I thought about this speech at the beginning I thought to myself what would be an interesting culture to research? A. Well after a little googling… I decided to go with the culture that is considered to be the Jewel of all ancient American cultures and one of the greatest cilvilations‚ the Maya culture. B. I had some questions about the Maya Culture and they go as follows… C. Who were the Maya people? What were they all

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    Mayan Weaving

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    Mayan Weaving Mayan women have been weaving for over two thousand years. When a daughter is born the midwife will take the baby at three weeks of age and run small weaving instruments through the baby’s fingers and hands praying that they will become a good weaver to maintain tradition. In Guatemala weaving is still a part of everyday life for the women. Weavings are used for exchange‚ tribute‚ payments and gifts. The Mayan women would weave clothing for their families. Mayan women would weave

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    International Language

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    Introduction Across 294 countries in the world‚ there are about 6‚500 languages are commonly using in the daily life. The domination of English has been proved as an international language all across with the coming of globalization in future‚ English is the language of diplomacy and international communications for the use of business‚ tourism‚ education‚ science‚ computer technology‚ media‚ Internet and etc. Without language‚ all the things couldn’t happen and stay in place like today.  People

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    Language Innovations

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    Language Innovations in a Multi-lingual Classrooms Multilingualism is noticed all around the world. Connotatively‚ multi as several or many‚ and lingual as language‚ combined‚ basically meaning the use of multiple languages. It does not simply dictate the language they use but also the place where they have been influenced and had grown‚ thus‚ even reaching out to multiculturalism‚ meaning multiple experiences‚ influences‚ cultures‚ ideals‚ and more. It is clear furthermore that the above linguistic

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    Mayan Calendars

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    calendars to reflect time within their cultures? Well since many researchers have discovered many different types of calendars throughout time and been used differently than other due to culture or belief. The three most popular calendars are the Mayan calendar and the Eygtian Calendars (Source 1). The Egyptian Calendar has been around for many years and was used to count the days in the years. As our calendar we have 365 days in a year‚ the Egyptian calendar has 354 days in a year (source 1)

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    Language Proposal

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    Bazakhstan’s diversity and rich regional cultures should all be respected when this language proposal is implemented in the nation. This proposal has taken more care to respect the differences of the regional tribes‚ while still attempting to unify the nation. The national language that shall be designated in Bazakhstan shall be Bolgar. This designation as a national language was chosen because of the group’s powerful effort in the independence movement against the Russian Federation. Although

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    Language and Identity

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    Language and Self Identity Have you ever considered that language can be more than just a means of communication? With roughly 6‚500 languages being spoken in the world today‚ linguistics is one of the most complex subjects out there. One thing intriguing about linguistics is how we use language to create our own identity and to identify others. Neither language nor identity are fixed ideas; both are dynamic and constantly changing depending on our surroundings. The varying uses of language are

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    Attitudes to Language

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    COMMUNICATION STUDIES ATTITUDES TO LANGUAGE Language clearly plays a major role in all aspects of society. The most obvious is its social role of allowing people to relate to each other in all facets of their lives: to share information‚ emotions and ways of life. We use language as a means of navigating our daily lives and it plays an integral role in most of our interactions. Perhaps for this reason‚ French is regarded as an elegant and romantic language‚ while German is considered to be

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    The second example of spoken language is Obama’s contribution to the interview by talk show host Jay leno. I will analyse this piece of spoken language which has been pre-recorded to be broadcasted in America making a huge audience of listeners for Obama to promote himself as president as well as convey his opinions on the closures of the embassies in the Middle east. The tone of the interview is very informal even when discussing difficult‚ serious topics. The atmosphere remains friendly and calm

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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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