month‚ John and Carole Hall were killed when a Naval Academy midshipman crashed into their parked car. The driver said in court that when he looked up from the cell phone he was dial- ing‚ he was three feet from the car and had no time to stop (Stockwell B8). Expert testimony‚ public opinion‚ and even cartoons sug- gest that driving while phoning is dangerous. Frances Bents‚ an expert on the relation between cell phones and accidents‚ esti- mates that between 450 and 1‚000 crashes a year have
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Deixis‚ Cognition and the Construction of Viewpoint Ambros‚ Regine; Carino‚ Myla; Gesell‚ Charmaine Erika; Lucas‚ Marjorie; Lucyao‚ Jacqueline; Perez‚ Mary Ann Joy; Pulon‚ Aisha ------------------------------------------------- STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF POINT OF VIEW A. Narrative Point of View > It is from a character’s point of view that events are described even though the story is told by a third person. > Proposed Taxonomies: * Paul Simpson’s Taxonomy (1993) =He distinguishes what
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Novel Analysis Title: Twilight Author: Stephanie Meyer # Pages (200 or more): 498 Country of Origin: New York In Stephen Meyer’s book‚ Twilight‚ a girl named for real Isabella but likes better to be called Bella comes into a knew town and fell there in love with Edward‚ who is how she finds out a vempire. She meets his family who tries not to hunt humans and has many adventures with him. I like the book because everything is described very good so the story seems so
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was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it" (5). "...and the house was still" (15). Metaphor: "She was all angles and bones..." (6) "Mrs. Dubose was plain hell" (6). " Dill was a curiosity" (7). " Mr Radley’s posture was ramrod straight" (12). Hyperbole: "...the meanest man God ever blew breath into" (12). Simile: "Her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard" (6). Personification-"Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when i first knew it" (pg5)
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References: Hoffmann‚ Charlotte. 1991. An Introduction to Bilingualism. New York: Longman Press. Wardhaugh‚ Ronald. 1986. An Intoduction to Sociolinguistics. United Kingdom: Basil Blackwell Ltd. Stockwell‚ Peter. 2002. Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction. Routledge. Holmes‚ Janet. 2001. An Intoduction to Sociolinguistics. London: Longman Press Nilep‚ Chad. 2006. “Code Switching” in Sociocultural Linguistics. Boulder: University of Colorado. Poplack
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Singleton‚ N. Lewis‚ G. (2003). Better or Worse: A Longitudinal Study of the Mental Health of Adults Living in Private Households in Great Britain. London: Stationery Office. Stockwell‚ T.‚ Hodgson‚ R.‚ Rankin‚ H. (1982). Tension reduction and the effects of prolonged alcohol consumption. Br J Addict; 77:65-73. Stockwell‚ T.‚ Smail‚ P.‚ Hodgson‚ R.‚ Canter‚ S. (1984). Alcohol dependence and phobic anxiety states. II. A retrospective study. Br J Psychiatry; 144:58-63. Swendsen‚ J.‚ Merikangas‚ K
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“An Occurrence at Owl Creek” A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama‚ looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. A sentinel at each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as "support‚" that is to say‚ vertical in front of the left shoulder‚ the hammer resting on the forearm thrown straight across the chest a formal and unnatural position‚ enforcing an erect carriage of the body. The story describes Peyton Fahrquhar‚ an old and highly respected family
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The American Civil War occurred in a time when weapons and tactics revolutionarily changed and evolved the way wars were fought. From traditional lines like those seen in the 18th century and prior‚ to a more modern way of fighting like using trenches and using cover to protect yourself. Changing the psychology of war‚ seen in Sherman’s march‚ and also in the battle of Cold harbor and creating new weapons used like the Gatling-gun and ironclad ships. Before the Civil War‚ infantry soldiers typically
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Tesco in 1919 when he began to sell surplus groceries from a stall at Well Street Market‚ Hackney‚ in the East End of London. The Tesco brand first appeared in 1924. The name came about after Jack Cohen bought a shipment of tea from Thomas Edward Stockwell. He made new labels using the first three letters of the supplier’s name (TES)‚ and the first two letters of his surname (CO)‚ forming the word TESCO. During the 1950s and the 1960s Tesco grew organically‚ and also through acquisitions‚ until it
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they lost almost a quarter of their soldiers during the winter. “Washington’s greatest victory for this war was not the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown‚ it’s the fact that he was able to keep his army alive and functioning for eight years” (Stockwell). Most people would agree that General Washington did a tremendous job pushing his soldiers to fight and
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