Endangered languages: what is to be done‚ and why? The threat to linguistic resources is now recognized as a worldwide crisis. Language death is what happens when the last speaker of a particular language dies‚ or when a language community ceases to exist. It is an extinction that is happening on a massive scale and with astonishing speed. According to Krauss (1992a)‚ as many as half of the estimated 6‚000 languages spoken on earth are "moribund"; spoken only by adults who no longer teach them
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children are allergic to peanuts. Nut allergies in general are on the increase (Hourihane et al 2007). What symptoms should I look out for? It should be quite easy for you to tell if your child has an allergy. The symptoms include: * Hives (nettle rash) around your child’s mouth‚ nose and eyes‚ which can spread across his body. * Mild swelling of his lips‚ eyes and face. * A runny or blocked nose‚ sneezing‚ watery eyes. * An itchy mouth and irritated throat. * Nausea‚ vomiting
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How groups can influence people in positive and negative ways People have many different roles in life‚ these roles serve many different purposes. It is in these roles we find we belong to different groups this makes up our social identity. It is these groups that can have negative or positive effect on ourselves. People can be part of the ’in-group ’ or the ’out-group ’. The ’in-group ’ being people who belong to the group which we consider we also belong to. The ’out-group ’ being people
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Before I started my SAE project‚ mending a Pasture in winter‚ I spent many hours researching how to do it correctly and the types of plants that would be the best fit. The plants used to seed are often the most neglected part of a pasture‚ yet it usually provides the majority of nutrients to the stock. Well-managed pastures that are properly grazed have the potential to minimize feed costs and increase long-term health or your field. Pasture is the most natural diet for animals. Pasture plants
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Do not pollute your environment! Nowadays the society has to face up to a lot of problems. Among them the pollution is one of the most popular topics. People generally don’t think of it that they injure their environment with almost every action and this carries consequences. With few exceptions they can be solved. There are several ways of the environmental pollution. The most frequent question is the air pollution because the different gases appear everywhere: in the most beautiful
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Metafictional Elements in Ian McEwan’s Atonement At first reading‚ Ian McEwan’s Atonement seems to be a modernist novel that owes much of its stylistic techniques to classic novels by authors such as Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen. That is‚ until the first-time reader turns a page to discover the epilogue entitled “London‚ 1999” and has this illusion shattered by the revelation that in fact Parts One‚ Two‚ and Three were penned by none other than the 77-year-old Briony Tallis. This epilogue‚ and
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Studying history can sometimes cause a person to wonder what it was like to live during that time period or even be able to visit it to see what its like. In the medieval period it would have been a nightmare to live there‚ mainly because of the medical practices. The medical practices were nothing short of horrifying. There was no sanitation‚ no good aesthetics‚ no pain killers‚ and no real doctors. Of course they had doctors but the amount of information they actually knew about whatever
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Introduction An experiment was done to determine the allele frequencies for a gene in a model population and to describe the affect of natural selection on this population. The Hardy-Weinburg theorem states that the gene pool of a non-evolving population remains constant over generation but the natural effect of Hardy-Weinburg’s equilibrium by selecting the individuals who are most fit for the environment‚ and allowing them to reproduce more of the genotype that is allowing them to survive. The
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Corrina Bryceland ‘Dark Encounters’ Imaginative Essay The wind howled around me like a pack of starving wolves as I entered the cemeteries rusty iron gates. Yet it seemed so wild and chaotic that it reminded me of home‚ so it didn’t bother me at all‚ I was used to it. My brother’s headstone was only a ten minute walk away so I let myself drink in the moonlight and the memories the cemetery held. I remembered the first time I went there with my mother‚ just after Jason died... She led me down the now familiar mud
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They are referred to as fine herbal extracts and they should include: Saw palmeto extract (PE 25%); Ginkgo biloba extract (PE 24%‚6%); Panax Ginseng extract (PE 20%); Gotu kola extract (PE 30%); Nettle root extract (PE 10:1). How Does Hair Again Work? Scientific research has proven that high level of DHT (Dihydroxytestosterone) negatively impacts hair growth. This implies that to treat or prevent most cases of hair loss‚ the body’s DHT level should
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