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    workplace‚ more specifically language discrimination on the basis of national origin. National origin discrimination in the workplace occurs when a company makes employment decisions based on a person’s origins‚ birthplace‚ culture‚ surname‚ language or accent. The Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits workplace discrimination based on religion‚ national origin‚ race‚ color‚ or sex. The law ’s prohibitions include harassment or any other employment action based on any of the following: affiliation

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    one of theses difficult languages. In some countries‚ learning English is very difficult because they start learning it in a late ages. Actually‚ learning English is difficult because of its various vocabularies‚ complicated grammar‚ and its hard accent. English language has a lot of words. These words are not easy to remember for most of English learners. Most English words have different parts of speech like adjective‚ verb‚ and adverts. This division of English words make them not

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    Ifemelu takes the telesaleman’s call‚ she speaks an American accent of English‚ and the salesman tells her that her accent "sounds just like Americans". Many foreigners who speak English would consider this as a compliment‚ such as the girls in the hair salon‚ they praise the other customer for her "American accent". It is sad for those foreigners who speak English‚ especially if they are from a English speaking country‚ to assume their own accent of English is considered inferior.

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    most of the time. One of the problems that I faced in my life and could successfully overcome was getting on with my English skill after I migrated to US in order to settle here permanently. Because‚ English wasn’t my first language and the American accent was new to me‚ I had problems conversing with people here. I emigrated from India seven years ago with lots of dreams and the hope to settle in US after marriage. But initially‚ I was shy talking to people here as I couldn’t express myself clearly

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    Alienated By Accument

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    “Alienated by Accent” The manner in which a person speaks is more than just a complex order of certain intonations and slang words‚ it is a representation of the historical‚ cultural‚ and ethnic background of an individual. Infants learn language from their parents who learned it from their parents who learned it from their parents on and on all the way to the ancient ancestors of those infants; meaning that each person carries with their words a cultural identity that is unique to them but also

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    Introduction The Wind Cries Mary was recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in the United Kingdom. It appeared on their debut release Are You Experienced in 1967. Written by Jimi Hendrix‚ the song is based around an altercation between himself and his long time lover Kathy Mary Etchingham. The sixties was a defining decade for experimental music‚ fueled by the drugs musicians were taking at the time. Rock n Roll was a worldwide phenomenon and Jimi Hendrix became one of the main pioneers of

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    The Mozart Effect

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    Have you ever hear the old saying “Mozart makes babies smarter”? Can a mother simply playing Mozart while the infant sleeps actually increase her baby’s brain function? Well there is now evidence that this once perceived ‘old wives tale’ is actually true. The studies done to prove this seemingly bizarre event have deemed it‚ The Mozart Effect. The Mozart Effect is a set of research results that indicate that listening to Mozart’s music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain

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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a difficult media to classify into one genre. An obvious classification of the programme¡¦s genre would be horror; but this isn¡¦t entirely true‚ because the show has more concepts and themes that a horror movie would‚ and deals with more issues as well. The show uses elements contained in the more fantasy-orientated horror movies (such as Dracula): these include mythological beings such as vampires‚ demons and zombies; things that aren¡¦t always contained in horror movies

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    Unit 051 – Promote communication in Health‚ Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings Outcome 1 – Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting. 1.1 Identify the different reasons people communicate. There are many reasons why people communicate. We communicate to establish a relationship‚ we start using eye contact‚ smiles and general greetings such as ‘hello’. Having good relationships as a practitioner is essential because you are always meeting

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    Choose three of the short mystery stories we have studied. In the three you have chosen write about how successful the authors have been in describing the creation of atmosphere‚ memorable characters and vivid settings. We have been studying four mystery stories‚ written before 1900. ‘The Beryl Coronet’ ‘The Adventure of the Engineers Thumb’ ‘The Speckled Band’ All written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ‘The Monkeys Paw’ written by W.W.Jacob’s. Three of the stories feature Sherlock Holmes‚ the famous

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