In the article “Why be normal?”: Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls.” Bucholtz first described what both speech community‚ and community of practice were? According to her definition‚ Speech community was a language-based unit of social analysis used in traditional sociolinguistics research. The community of practice‚ on the other hand‚ was an ethnographic‚ activity-based approach. In her research paper‚ she strongly agreed with the theory of community of practice. The reason
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Essay on “Me talk pretty one day” ”Me talk pretty one day” is an essay written by David Sedaris in 2005. It tells the story of the authors return to school at the age of forty-one and about his experience with learning French in Paris with a very strict teacher. The theme of the essay is David Sedaris attitude towards learning a new language. Although he seems to have an attitude towards learning French he actually moves all the way to France with only one month of French lessons as his previous
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The “New Normal” In 2009‚ Mohamed El-Erian‚ CEO of PIMCO– the world ’s biggest bond fund manager – coined the term "new normal" to describe the period of economic malaise the U.S. would experience in the wake of the biggest recession of a generation. The "new normal" was characterized by below trend growth‚ high unemployment‚ and ultra-low interest rates as the U.S. suffered the economic consequences of the crisis. El-Erian says you can profit in any investment environment but that it’s much
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The line between normal and abnormal cognitive changes with age remains indistinct. Normal aging is due to physiological processes over a person’s lifetime‚ in which the biological clock controls development and survival of nerve cells. That does not exclude a spectrum of variable levels of health or a continuum within normal aging‚ as well as between normal and pathological aging. At one end there are individuals with “successful aging” [34]. At the other end‚ we find frail‚ easily incompensated
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SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION BASED ON NORMAL AND WISHART INVERSE MODELS A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY LILIANA FORZANI IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY R. DENNIS COOK‚ Advisor December‚ 2007 c Liliana Forzani 2007 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA This is to certify that I have examined this copy of a doctoral thesis by Liliana Forzani and have found that it is complete
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"mythical norm" normal? Why or why not? “Mythical norm” is the idea of something or someone by society’s perception of what “normal” is said to be. An example would be that a normal woman would be portrayed as “white‚ middle-class‚ heterosexual‚ abled‚ then‚ and a young adult.” A “mythical norm” is not normal because not everyone has those physical aspects in order to be a woman. The “mythical norm” is just made up by what is believed to be “normal” but in reality there really is no “normal”. 2. What
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Monologue From Faking Normal Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all its own. I’m glad I don’t have to wear it very often My dress‚ which I found after rummaging in the back of my closet‚ still smell vaguely of summer and chlorine. The smell is probably just a memory. Alexi‚ slide in closer so Craig can sit with Kayla. My mother’s voice pulls me from my misery and back to the funeral. Mom makes room for me to shift down the pew toward her‚ and I slide
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On my three-day diet study I consumed 2‚213 calories‚ which is 93.2% of my DRI. I am basically maintaining my weight‚ without losing any. My Body Mass Index (BMI) is 23.4%‚ which is in the normal weight range. My lifetime weight history have always been normal. Before having a baby I weight a lot less‚ but my weight always fluctuated from 120 pounds to 130. After having my baby at 28‚ I gained weight and stayed at a much heavier side at 150. Three years after having my son‚ I decided to change
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when you think of the lake you think either fishing or some kind of water activity. It’s usually fishing because your dad owns a bass boat. This time though one of your friends‚ who you had no idea had a boat‚ invites you to go to the lake for the day with him. What do you think you are going to do? You ask your friend and he says that it is time you learned how to wakeboard. You get to the lake and it is silent there is no one to be heard or seen for what looks like miles. The driver of the
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shorts‚ and fast cars. The 1980’s were loose‚ wild‚ and rock and roll were the perfect matches to the powerful machines rolling out of Detroit. Although the late 1970’s were the start of the Malaise era of cars‚ the late 1980’s saw a real resurgence in fun cars with power. Automakers had learned to cope with emissions regulations and with technological advances engines became more powerful‚ more efficient‚ and thanks to computers had some impressive dashboards. This was also the decade that turbocharging
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