are willing to listen.” The Last Speakers page 242 K. David Harrison is a linguist‚ activist for language preservation and documentation‚ and author of The Last Speakers. Written in a journalistic style his most recent book‚ The Last Speakers‚ sheds light upon the global language extinction crisis. It is a mix between a scientific notebook and a travelog‚ featuring photos‚ interviews‚ and personal stories from the “last speakers” themselves. In The Last Speakers‚ Harrison expresses his views on
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MOTION: This house condemns the buying and selling of authentic cultural artifacts BENCH: Affirmative POSITION: 3rd Speaker Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen .Our topic is about the condemning of the buying and selling of Philippine artifacts. As our first speaker had said‚ it is wrong to buy and sell Philippine artifacts because if we sell our artifacts‚ the next generations would not be able to see the only evidences of our ancestors’ life. She also talked about the “National
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The speaker that I would like to come be a motivational speaker and speak to us as a class would be Anthony Brinkley. He was in the military and still is he was a special security for the president. He is from Weldon Nc but lives in Connecticut‚ also he is one of my close realities on my mom side. Mr. Brinkley would be the best one to choose as a speaker because he doesn’t brag about himself while talking. He can compare the things that we been through and compare it to our lives and struggles that
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2014 Dance Classes Have you ever taken dance? I have been in dance for twelve years. Three examples of my favorite dance classes are tap‚ ballet‚ and pointe. Dancing has been one of my favorite hobbies since I was five years old. One example of my favorite dance classes is tap class. The reason it is one of my favorites is because my dance class has high heel black shoes with metal taps on the heel and toe that make noise when touching a hard surface. In tap we mostly
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"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost I have chosen "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost as the topic of this Poetry Analysis Paper. "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem consisting of four stanzas of iambic tetrameter and is one of Frost’s most popular poems. In "The Road Not Taken"‚ it tells a fabrication of a person who reaches a side road in the forest and must choose which rail to take‚ each caterpillar track being different from the other. Robert Frost illustrates a difficulties decision
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If you notice warning signs at your company that clearly say‚ "Somebody’s going to be leaving here on short notice‚" don’t wait until you’re handed a pink slip to start thinking about your next career move. Here are nine tips that can help make a layoff less traumatic‚ and put you on track to quickly land a new job. Assess Your Next Move It can be unnerving to show up for work every day knowing that a layoff is looming. Help relieve some of that tension by taking stock of your professional situation
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Casa Youth Shelter short term crisis shelter : Casa Youth Shelter is a nonprofit organization located in Los Alamitos‚ California providing emergency temporary shelter for homeless‚ runaway and abandoned youth. They have 12 licensed beds
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be painted in your favorite color‚ It could have been a older sibling’s room‚ or may have your favorite game system in it. My favorite room makes me feel as though no one can touch me while I am in there. The room is a very calming place to be when I am stressed and have a lot on my mind. Now that I am in college my room is even more special since I have to share the one I am in. Being in college even makes me appreciate it more to because I can’t do some things like play my radio or the television
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president Kennedy to the lunar landing in 1969 was ham packed with events that shaped American history. Although America was engaged in the Vietnam War‚ there was plenty of development at home to run the idea that a new era has arrived. With influential speakers such as MLK and JFK‚ it was obvious that change was coming to the then segregated America and would leave America not only less racist but willing to help other minorities. The lunar landing in the late 60s showed Americans what the human potential
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How do the two speakers use language here to describe the problems the family has faced? Support your answer by referring to specific examples from the transcription. This transcript focuses on a radio programme discussing dangerously high levels of lead being found in the water supplied to newly built houses. Two people (presumably married) Meg and Cameron are discussing how these high levels of lead affected their son Brandon and how they managed to discover and solve the problem. The radio
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