The way a person communicates whether it is by vocal speech or various written forms depends heavily on how they developed their literacy which is unique per person. The article Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics by James Paul Gee goes through different theories he has on the correct and incorrect ways that language is used when communicating during different scenarios and why. The main cause of unique levels regarding literacy are the different Discourses a person may have. First and foremost
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Jessica G. Piercy Professor Kruck English 2 Honors 28 December 2012 Maurice Sendak Have you ever heard of the book Where The Wild things are by Maurice Sendak? This book is very popular among children and adults. While I was researching and investigating Maurice Sendak‚ I found a lot of interesting facts about his life and accomplishments. Maurice Sendak was born on June 10‚ 1928‚ in Brooklyn‚ New York and died on May 8‚ 2012 (About). His Jewish family came to the United States from Poland and
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How would we survive without technology? How were people before our time able to contact someone is less than a minute a thousand miles away? How were they able to navigate to an unknown area? Today there is a form of technology for every need. Phones and computers can be used for; communication‚ getting directions‚ and any piece of information a person could ever want to obtain. Technology affects the way individuals communicate‚ learn and think. People are immersed in the world of technology. Society
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of hockey legend Maurice Richard‚ that uses sports to highlight historical bigotry. The movie highlights the discrimination that faced French Canadians at the time of Richard’s hockey career. This caused Richard to be torn between his desire to play hockey‚ and the pressure to give voice to an emerging nationalism. The movie depicts the sociological theme of French Canadian discrimination demonstrated by the language barrier‚ racial harassments‚ and physical assault between Maurice Richard and English
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affect Holland and Barrett‚ a franchise brought to Singapore by the Jay Gee Melwani Group. 2.0 Company Background Holland & Barrett is a leading European brand‚ selling vitamins‚ minerals and herbal supplements (Holland and Barrett‚ 2013). The Melwani Group is a family run business‚ which represents and markets leading brands like Aigner‚ Aldo‚ Levis‚ Celio‚ Adidas Kids and many distinctive household brands (Jay Gee Melwani Group‚ 2013). The company brought Holland & Barrett to the Singapore
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in reading‚ then the willingness to want to learn more will be declined and they will suffer in later school grades. In my articles‚ none of them mentioned about how video games can be a helpful tool to children’s learning abilities. In James Paul Gee “good video games + good learning”‚ he mentioned how video games can be helpful and can develop children’s problem solving abilities in certain games or even in card games like Yu-Gi-Oh‚ by using complex content and using specialist language. Other
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inside the home playing video games and being consumed by stimulation‚ but what society fails to realize is that there are actually many beneficial factors to video gaming. “Pro of Reality” by James Paul Gee is the strongest factor to prove that video games help to develop literacy skills in children. Gee makes very valid points throughout his paper and gives numerous examples. He supports his opinions and thoughts which favor the argumentative side supporting gaming to enhance literacy skills. There
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James Paul Gee defines discourse communities as a way of life‚ which consolidates with language and texts (Gee‚ 274). He goes to say that discourses are used to create meaning to activities or to “get things done or not” (Gee‚ 275). According to Swales‚ there are six characteristics in order to be entitled a discourse community. The characteristics are as following: "[It has] A broadly agreed set of common public goals‚ [It has] mechanisms of intercommunication among its members (such as newsletters
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between her and Maurice. They met while Laura was walking to work one morning; Maurice was a homeless‚ eleven year old panhandler who asked her for money one day. Instead of giving him money‚ Laura decided to take him out to lunch. They continued to meet every week after this and ended up becoming great friends. While reading this book‚ I have been observing the major conflicts‚ Maurice’s life at home‚ Laura’s childhood‚ and the relationship between Maurice and Laura. When Maurice and Laura first
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