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    Life of Pi Animals

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    English 12A Humanities Life Of Pi Essay #5 25 February 2013 Acting and speaking before THINKING‚ this goes back to a humans’ primitive stage. We are all animals‚ in the sense that we are mammals. Manifested through our psyche or personality‚ each animal has a different representation. From personality traits‚ behavior or even symbolism‚ animals have the ability to portray these features in humans. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi‚ four distinct animals are manifested

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    the hyena. Leaving only Pi and the tiger left in the boat. Pi struggles with the tiger in which he faces challenges to take over the boat. During the time in the boat Pi and the tiger suffer from lack of food. They go through bad weather conditions and tragedies. However‚ when they finally land on land the tiger ends up leaving too the jungle. While Pi ends up alone and founded by japanese men. Pi ends up hurt that the tiger ends off to the jungle without acknowledging him. Pi personality traits is

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    Life of Pi Analysis

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    ---------------------------------------------------------------- I‚ Captain Justice‚ think that the relevance of this song to "Life of Pi" is pretty self explanatory. On the lifeboat‚ Piscine had every chance in the world to go insane. Piscine’s insanity was literally "Just a thought away". "Too many things going wrong around us" With all the terrible things happening around Pi‚ whether it’s in the first story with the animals‚ or the second story with the people‚ I‚ Captain Justice‚ find it surprising that

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    Life of Pi - Option 2 In The Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ Pi Patel and Richard Parker travel in a liferaft for many days while stranded in the Pacific Ocean. However‚ the setting helps aid the story in multiple ways. The setting guides the character’s feelings and actions to grow dynamically and adds foreshadow to the storyline. In the beginning of the plot when the weather started to become rough‚ Pi admitted that he was “very afraid” (Martel 101) and he was so frightened to where “his mind could

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    The Life of PI and The Prophet were both books that caught my attention because of two reasons. The first reason was because of the fact that both main characters were somehow traveling while learning what it is they are doing. The second reason is due to the fact that it has to do something with religion or spiritual learning and learning about what life is and what we are supposed to do with it. Why I choose these two reasons is due to the fact that me personally in the future i would like to travel

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    Critical Discourse Analysis Social communication is increasingly becoming a subject of scientists’ discussions from different disciplines‚ as well as ordinary language users. In contemporary social sciences‚ especially in linguistics‚ we see a clear shift to discourseDiscourse allows us to talk about use of the language‚ as well as the language as a socio-cultural activity. In this sense‚ discourse‚ on one hand‚ reflects the social reality‚ on the other hand‚ it shapes it‚ therefore participate

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    down approaches to discourse analysis: Based on the different basis of the analysis‚ the two approaches were differently preceded. While top-down approach viewing genre move as purpose relies on identification of communicative purposes‚ bottom-up processing concerns content and function. Bottom up approach see language as a whole. Taking the so call lower level elements of language to some extent for granted‚ it is to be proceeded from the most detailed features of discourse towards the most general

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    note of Life of Pi‚ an anonymous author meets Francis Adirubasamy‚ an elderly man who offered to tell him a story fantastic enough to give him faith in God. Pi narrates part one and explains that he has suffered intensely and found solace in religion and zoology. Pi refers to reason as fools gold for the bright. Fools gold is science and reality. The real treasure is faith and imagination. Imagination and art leads to belief and dreams that can be killed by crude reality. In Life of Pi‚ Pi’s father

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    Discourse Theory in Sla

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    The Discourse Theory Ranjit Kumar Jha KathmanduUniversity2012 Second language Acquisition or second language learning is the process by which people learn a second language. Second language acquisition is also the name of the scientific discipline devoted to studying that process. Second language refers to any language learned in addition to a person’s first language; although the concept is named second language acquisition‚ it can also incorporated the learning of third ‚forth or

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    Discourse Analysis Notes

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    Discourse Analysis -> Popularized in the last 10-15 years -> aims to ‘understand’ the world better -> power behind the phenomenon -> the ‘way’ in which we talk about something has a major influence on the way we respond to it and interpret it Discourse about asylum seekers in Australia •queue jumping •illegal •equality •asylum rights •distinction b/w asylum seekers and refugees •border security •us+them •race‚ culture: ‘our way of life’ •assimilation •detention sentence •idea of threat

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