During the span of my life till today‚ I have experienced many circumstances which has shaped the way I think and my overall personality and morals‚ these have structured my idiolect in today’s society‚ there are many influences in my life that have shaped me‚ such as my family‚ culture‚ friends and media (internet or TV) . Although I am immerse by my upbringing and I am greatly influenced by the family‚ neighbors and friends‚ I also inculcate my own experiences and actions in life. Such as trying
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Article Critique The Southern Roots of Ida B Wells-Barnett’s Revolutionary Activism By Rychetta N. Watkins Before Ida B Wells-Barnett expanded her revolutionary essence to the north‚ and even all the way to places like Britain; she began her long journey to activism deep in the heart of her southern roots‚ in Memphis. In the article‚ The Southern Roots of Ida B Wells-Barnett’s Revolutionary Activism‚ by Rychetta N. Watkins‚ Watkins reconstructs Ida B Wells’ life of activism‚ feminism‚ and leadership
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No Accommodation? The language of Stanley and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire David Kinder The dynamic opposition between Blanche and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most important forces in the play. Williams creates and maintains an antipathy and tension between them so that‚ despite the audience’s horror at what Stanley does to Blanche in scene 10‚ the fact that there is a final clash between the two characters comes as no surprise to us. Stanley’s gruesome boast to Blanche
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Role of Southern Children and Women in American Civil War The American civil war which is widely known in the united states as the civil war was fought between the year 1861 to 1875 .it was a war between the confederates who were mainly seven states supporting the idea of slavery. The southern was made up of the seven states formed a coalition called the conferades states of America and were supporting slave trade. The conferades fought against the north union which were opposed to the slavery. The
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term homos). Gay language is not something that is new to modern times. In 18th century in London queer or gay slang was a modification of thieves’ cant and prostitute slang (Norton 1992). The most striking feature of the eighteenth-century ‘Female Dialect’ was that gay men christened one another with ‘Maiden Names’: Madam Blackwell‚ Miss Kitten‚ Miss Fanny Knight‚ Miss Irons‚ Moll Irons etc. During this time gay language is also known
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Indigenization of English in South Asia/Pakistan Rescuing Culture? Outline • • • • Questions Linguistic Levels of Indigenization How is it happening? What will be the future? Can we drive English away? • A. R. Haque: – “It may not be possible to alter the position of the English language in the national set-up radically‚ or to reduce its role” (1993‚ p. 17). • A. Mahboob: – “No English‚ no future: Language policy in Pakistan” (2002) So what about cultural loss? • A. P. Saleemi: – If so‚ what
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Throughout our lives we communicate to a vast array of people on a daily basis from teachers to friends to family. Each time we speak to these individuals there tends to be a different “slang” that is used with each yet at the same time still portraying the same message. In groups of different cultures they have a similar voice through language. Even though the languages they speak are different the meanings can be the same. Through this everyone has the ability to show love‚ anger‚ sadness‚ and
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within a country creates a big gap between people from different regions. How can the residents of a country stand united in better or worse if within the same country the residents cannot even agree upon speaking one language in one particular dialect? Having one official language is like a bridge way between people from different nations‚ colors‚ ethnicities‚ and it tells that in spite of all the difference that there is among these people one thing is really common among them: The way they speak
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The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform‚ by David W. Southern‚ opens with his representation of the Progressive Era and the subsequent American shift from emancipation to segregation that occurred during it. The author uses social history to examine and demonstrate his subject. He argues that “the nation was in fact caught up in a powerful tide of white supremacy at home and imperialism against people of color abroad.” Southern discusses the hopes and expectations of the emancipated and
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first obstacle. The pronunciation in English puzzles me a lot because the same letter has different sounds. For example the letter “a” in “bath” is not pronounced in the same way of that in “bathe”. The “ou” in “South” is also different from “ou” in “Southern”. Generally verbs and nouns are pronounced differently although they are written the same. Record is a good example to illustrate it. In order to solve this puzzling question I carefully study The A.P.A (The International Phonetic Alphabets) which
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