The Defense of Culture in Ama Ata Aidoo’s No Sweetness Here: The Use of Orality as a Textual Strategy Ode Ogede‚ Ahmadu Bello University‚ Nigeria In her book African Novels and the Question of Orality‚ Eileen Julien bitterly attacks the notion that there is anything particularly African about orality or anything essentially oral about African culture. The "oral form‚" she contends‚ "is not the concrete literary simulacrum of African essence but is‚ rather‚ a manifestation of social consciousness
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sometimes change can be a good thing‚ even when it’s not expected. There are very different ways how people met their partner‚ and I always like to hear how the first time was‚ when someone met their girl or boyfriend. Sometimes it’s a funny story‚ but here’s how I met my boyfriend. He was at the same university and the same faculty as me. One day we were in the same class‚ and the instructor asked to do a group project‚ I chose him to be my partner and he didn’t mind. He took my phone
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Society All through literature and stories‚ words and characters will always represent different meanings and symbols. Readers will continue to venture deeper and deeper into the meanings of the words a writer puts on paper. The writer of the story may not even have a deeper meaning to the writing but we as humans have a need to explore. The short story known as “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston may also be one of those types of stories. The short English literature story “Sweat‚” written by Zora Neale Hurston
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Impact of science on Man Science is a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method and research. Science is also a continuing effort to discover and increase human knowledge and understanding. Modern science is relatively new having it’s origin about 350 years ago. Inspite of it’s recent origin it has made very rapid progress and completely transformed outwardly the manner of our living. But before that Science was not an organised branch and neither were there any scientists. Instead
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LALALALALALLALALALLALA Story-story” is a circle game for all ages. The group of performers sit and a moderator (us) stands in the middle and provides a setting for the story. Then we point to a person in the circle and they begin telling a story (says 2 sentences). After the first storyteller has described the beginning of the story‚ the moderator points to another person‚ the story continues on; the new person picks up from the last word and tries to continue the narrative. Every performer should
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In the essay “Mother Tongue”‚ the author Amy Tan presents the process that she turned the negative impact of her mother’s “limited” English to the positive influence of her writing style. First‚ Tan introduces herself and her writing. She is a writer who uses all kinds of English that she is familiar with in her writing. Furthermore‚ she mentions that she realizes lately that the way she talks with her family is different from the way she communicates with others. Tan goes on to write about
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Lakshmibai was born probably on 19 November 1828[1][3][4][5] in the holy town of Varanasi into a Brahmin family. She was named Manikarnika and was nicknamed Manu.[6] Her father was Moropant Tambe and her mother Bhagirathi Sapre (Bhagirathi Bai). Her parents came from Maharashtra.[7][dead link] Her mother died when she was four. Her father worked for a court Peshwa of Bithoor district who brought Manikarnika up like his own daughter.[8] The Peshwa called her "Chhabili"‚ which means "playful".[citation
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The following selection focuses on Pearl‚ one of the characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s highly symbolic novel‚ The Scarlet Letter. Pearl’s mother‚ Hester Prynne‚ has been accused of adultery by her Puritan community and must wear the scarlet letter “A” as punishment. Despite her public shame‚ the letter links Hester to her illegitimate daughter and to the preacher Dimmesdale‚ Pearl’s father. In this excerpt‚ taken from a book of literary criticism‚ the writer explains what Pearl represents
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In “Mother tongue” by Amy Tan talks about her experience as a young child whose mother didn’t speak “proper” English; She Described her mother language as “Broken”. Tan recalls often having to translate for her mother in various time. She found herself feeling embarrassed of the way her mom spoke. One-day Tan was delivering a speech when she noticed her mom was in the crowded and it was the first time her mom heard her talk with such big words. After that she noticed she articulates different with
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TEACHING TECHNICAL ENGLISH AND GENERAL ENGLISH Introduction English today has become more than the Lingua Franca of the masses. It has become the lifeline. The call of the hour is for the academia to well-equip itself with the most competent language skills. Only then can suitable help be extended to the beneficiaries‚ the students. My paper will focus on the nature of General and Technical English today. It will also attempt to show how Technical English and General English can be made more student-centric
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