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    public high school understands the struggle of dress code. On those scorching hot days as the school year approaches summer‚ many girls can be found scavenging through their closet for a “school appropriate” outfit or one they won’t melt into a sweaty puddle in. Her dresses will show too much leg‚ her tops will inapporpriately expose her shoulder or collar bone‚ and her shorts will be too short - at least that’s what the school says. Dress code in modern day high schools discriminates against female

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    to achieve your goals. If you dress in ratty clothes and messy hair‚ people will think you will not achieve much in life. What is a dress code? “Generally‚ dress codes are much less restrictive than uniform policies. Sometimes‚ however‚ dress codes are nearly as strict‚ as in the case of a middle school in Napa‚ California. This particular school’s dress code required students to wear solid colors and banned images or logos on clothes. When a student was sent to detention for

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    Dress codes and uniforms have been around since the 1900’s. However‚ skin shaming has been around since the 1600’s. In Victorian ages‚ men would gasp at the sight of an ankle. Now people wear shorts that cover the same as one’s underwear. As times change so do social norms. In 2015 it is perfectly acceptable to see a person walking down the street in short shorts and a crop top. It is now accepted that people’s bodies are not meant to be criticized as if they are no more than a sexual object. However

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    realize it’s not in dress code? Or‚ how many times have you worn it anyway & came to school with a plan to avoid Dr. Silvernail so you won’t get dress coded? Let me tell you a story. It’s the first day of freshman year. It’s an important day. It’s the day I will make first impressions & meet future friends. For females‚ we spend HOURS finding just the right outfit. After all‚ THIS is the outfit that would be featured on your ID for the next 3 years. I had read the dress code carefully and picked

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    "we dress our self‚ not to impress the people‚ but to have comfort.’’ Dress code is something we need to change from schools. All schools from the beginning say they want to treat us like if we are adults. But we all know they say young women are not a distraction to the education. Dress code should end at every school because we should be able to wear what we want.one thing and it turns to a different thing. The It’s like every time a girl has wholes on the jeans it’s a big deal because we are showing

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    students these days do not need rules such as: dress code‚ identification cards‚ and truancy (not attending school). We are old to understand the consequences of our actions‚ and we are willing to accept them. Most of the rules in our school are somewhat logical‚ however‚ we don’t need rules that are going to disrupt our learning. The reason I say this is because when we go to school everyday‚ all we worry about is if we have our ID‚ or if we’re in dress code

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    Chance’s can be that you have been under a dress code‚ but didn’t think about it that much. There is only 47 percent of schools that have dress codes‚ but 60 percent of schools that don’t. We are here to tell you what we think‚ and why there should or shouldn’t be dress codes. At the Troy Junior high‚ my school‚ the following dress code is enforced; “there are not any hats or and other coving head things are not allowed‚ shorts and skirts should not be inappropriately tight or short and

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    play. Speech acts by Austin (1962)‚ Searle (1969)‚ and Grice (1975) are considered a kind of pragmatic meaning to clarify the ambiguity of meaning of a sentence within its context. Speech act theory must reckon with the fact that the relationship between the words being used and the force of their utterance is often oblique (Back‚ 18). Indeed‚ Austin’s How to Do Things with Words (1962) sheds light on the use aspect of language since he has established the groundwork for speech act theory and its

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    well as a man could. In addition to this‚ dress code has become a extremely biased controversy. Dress code is meant to restrict the wardrobe of all students‚ not just girls. Young girls are told every day what they can and can’t

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    Introduction Till the middle of the XX century the only function of speech acts was to describe the reality. The process of realization of language units in speech was viewed through the comparison of language and speech as a potential system of signs. Pragmatics itself studies how transmission of meaning depends not only on the linguistic knowledge of the speaker and listener‚ but also on the context of an utterance‚ knowledge about the status of those involved‚ the inferred intent of the speaker

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