The English language is very different today than it was in the 1920’s. Drastically changing over the years due to cultural‚ social standards and status. An alcoholic beverage that used to be called “giggle water”‚ or “giggler” due to some of the effects that alcohol can have on a person. But‚ if you were drunk due to too many “gigglers” and become a “splifficated” or “zozzled” they would call you a “boozehead”. After work “drugstore cowboys” which were young bachelors‚ would wait outside of a brothel
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Dimensions of Body Awareness: 1. Perceived body sensations or the ability to note changes in body processes‚ to identify inner sensations (e.g. a tight muscle‚ fatigue‚ warmth‚ pain) and to discern subtle bodily cues indicating varying functional states of the body or its organs and the emotional/physiological state. This dimension is the primary sensory‚ physiological aspect of body awareness with its early‚ mostly pre-conscious appraisal or affective “coloring” of that sensation. It is subdivided
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Personally‚ both of my AP courses‚ AP Biology and AP English Language‚ were the most challenging. Throughout the year my grades for these two classes fluctuated quite often. My peers and I were given more work and more was expected from us being AP students. From this year coming to an end I have discovered several of my strengths and weaknesses‚ I found that‚ like most students‚ I procrastinated and I had trouble managing my time however I was still able to maintain a positive attitude by being
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specific complaints about advertising. He states that advertising is intrusive ‚ deceptive‚ exploits children‚ and demean and corrupts culture. Ads can be intrusive because they are everywhere and interfere with and alters our experience. It can be deceptive because the ads implicitly and sometimes explicitly says that it came improve someone’s lives through a purchase of a product. Ads also exploit children because they are targeted. There are ads that are specifically mind blowing go them. Finally‚ ads
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Mercy Among the Children and Unforgiven The film Unforgiven tells the tale of a former killer who embarks on a journey in order to kill two criminals and later confronts a law driven sheriff who controls a town with brute force. Towards the end of the film the protagonist confronts the main villain and kills him. Before dying the man complains that he did not deserve to die the way he did and in response the protagonist replies that “Deserves got nothing to do with it”. This line has left a legacy
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Abstract In English language‚ there are many fixed‚ identifiable‚ non-idiomatic phrases and construction. Such groups of words are called recurrent combinations‚ fixed combination or collocation. Collocation fall into two major groups: grammatical collocation and lexical collocation. For people who regard the English language as a foreign language or second language‚ it’s so difficult to express it as perfect. This “mini research paper” talks about “Cultural Effect on English Language Collocation
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Being among school children‚ Yeats confronts human frailty‚ reflecting on the impact and worth of his life. Frightened by the inevitability of death‚ Yeats initially chooses to wear a mask of acceptance and reconciliation‚ while internally‚ he agonizes over the most basic of questionsthe value of life itself. By comparing Maude Gonne’s current appearance to her appearance in youth‚ Yeats realizes time’s toll on the physical being. After finally understanding the mortal implications of humanity‚
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Deroy Murdock‚ the author of “Terror and the English Language‚” argues that the language use of terrorism is weak and not specific. As the consequence‚ “while basketball players and their fans battle each other on TV‚ actresses suffer wardrobe malfunctions‚ and rap singers scream sweet nothings in our ears‚ it’s very easy to forget that Islamic extremists plot daily to end all of that and more by killing as many of us as possible.” He believes that “Language can lull Americans to sleep in this new war
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their lives. When Kimberly first started school in America she had a very hard time adjusting‚ especially with knowing so little English. Her teacher‚ Mr. Bogart‚ doesn’t bother to accommodate her and even accuses her of cheating. This is a major flaw with the public school system. Those who immigrate to America often have very little knowledge of the English language‚ and need help when reading. This should have been taken into account‚ especially within the first few months of Kimberly’s education
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group) • Power in discourse- the ways in which power us manifested in situations through language • Power behind discourse- the focus on social and ideological reasons behind the enactment of power. (Gender‚ class etc.) • You cannot look at how power is communicated through language without looking at the society. • Language is underpinned by strong ideological perspectives. • No example of language used is a completely neutral. Fairclough- Synthetic personalisation- Basically when
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