INTRODUCTION English is so widely spoken‚ it has often been referred to as a "world language"‚ the lingua franca of the modern era‚ and while it is not an official language in most countries‚ it is currently the language most often taught as a foreign language. Watching the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” could make you noticed how English native speakers differ Phonologically‚ Morphologically and Syntactically. Yet there are a lot of foreign people who really have the accent of a native English tongue
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The Roles and Images of Women in “The Good Earth” In the novel‚ The Good Earth‚ one of the images of women here is an unattractive wife who is only but a servant to his husband. This can be seen in the character of O-Lan. She was his wife and she did nothing but to serve him and his grandfather faithfully. She prepared food for them everyday. She helped Wang Lung with the field. She bore him sons. After she bore his first son alone‚ she immediately returned to Wang Lung to help him in the field
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China is said to be “the rising power” these days and that it will become the world’s center of power just like the United States used to be before 2007. It’s the world’s most populous country with a population of roughly 1.3 billion and the biggest middle income class. According to the National Bureau of Statistics‚ china has the second largest nominal GDP and as of 2012. China is the largest holder of US public debt. For the last couple years though‚ China has been investing in raising its GDP
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I believe that the author’s style was very unique. First of all‚ the structure of the novel was very weird. What I mean is that almost half of all the pages in the novel were around 1-2 pages long while the other half were 6-10 pages long. There were also Feed chatters which was what was going on in the feed. Second of all‚ the author’s word choice left me intrigued. I have never heard of words such as youch and girlf in my entire life and it surprises me that the author would use slang like this
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The song; “Fools Gold”(“THIN LIZZY”)‚ tells the story of America attacked on 9-11 etc; like “Ezekiel 34” and other Rock-N-roll works. Near the end of the song it talks about a circus act AKA: the clowning around with America circus act of deception causing deficits and high taxes and insanity attacking America with the fallacy that America stole the oil promoting; “Anti-Americanism” worldwide and compromising our national security while devaluing our currency and the entire international stock market
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creeks ran red with the blood of men and women defending their claims or ceding their bags of gold dust to bandits. The "West" was a ruthless territory during the nineteenth century. With more than enough gold dust to go around early in the Gold Rush‚ crime was rare‚ but as the stakes rose and the easily panned gold dwindled‚ robbery and murder became a part of life on the frontier. The "West" consisted of outlaws‚ gunfighters‚ lawmen‚ whores‚ and vigilantes. There are many stories on how the
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The Gold Rush The discovery of gold in the colonies had a major impact on Australian society. When Edward Hargraves discovered gold in Australia in 1851‚ it marked only the beginning of the changes about to happen in Australia. The discovery of gold had a major change in Australia; it affected not only those in Australia but around the world. The news of gold found in Australia resulted in huge numbers of people migrating to ‘find gold‚ get rich’ what people didn’t realise is that it wasn’t that
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Reaction Paper: “Smart Babies?” Documentary Film Smart babies‚ a very fascinating thought a parent could have probably wish his/her child could be. Who would not want to see their child learn faster than anyone else his age or watch him play violin at a very young age? Obviously there’s none‚ but the question is how? Is there really a way‚ a technique or a formula maybe to be able to create a genius out of every child? As I watched the documentary film entitled “Smart Babies?” I began to realize
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This movie was one of my favorite American horror/thriller. As we can see on the tagline there is a line says‚ Can you keep a secret This film centers on a couple who adopts a nine-year-old girl named Esther‚ who is hiding a dark secret behind her sweet. She apparently was born in Russia‚ she lost her first adoptive American family to a mysterious fire only she survived‚ her records in the old country cant be found‚ and bad things happen whenever she is around. The couple decided to adapt a child
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