READING – A DYING CULTURE. My apologies to everybody for I intend to take a quick precious seven minutes from your busy schedule to talk about a lesser important deemed matter as reading. I am not here to tutor you about the benefits of reading…I am just being mindful about the dying culture of reading in general. I too dislike reading.[Surprised? You must think that I must be nuts to state such comments in this scholarly gathering. Please allow me to explain:Like many of you‚ I find reading a
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Is enough being done to preserve languages ? Discuss. Thesis statement : not enough being done P1 Topic sentence/main idea : Some efforts have been done to save dying languages. Supporting idea1: Documentation efforts attempt to record dying evidence. Evidence But there are encouraging signs that the field has turned a corner. The Volks-wagen Foundation‚ a German charity‚ just issued its second round of grants totaling more than $2‚ Whalen says. It has created a multimedia archive at
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The Game Darfur is Dying is a game where you have to go through what the people in Darfur are going through. You are given the experience of suffering through hunger‚ loss of a family member or friend‚ and torture and pain. You are given the option to choose an avatar that varies from male to female from the age of 10 to a fully grown adult in their thirties. The first part of the game is to forage for water‚ but it is not as easy as it sounds. You have to run and hide from Janjaweed militias that
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Nicoleen Ochoa October 24‚ 2014 Freshmen Seminar A lesson Before Dying By Ernest J. Gaines In A Lesson Before Dying‚ by Ernest J. Gaines‚ we begin by recalling a scene from the trial through Grant Wiggin’s eyes. Grant Wiggins is an elementary school teacher and also the narrator of this novel. He is an intelligent black man living in Louisiana. When recalling the vents of the trial‚ he states that he wasn’t there but he can visualize it. The events leading up to the trial were that Jefferson
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Rhetorical Devices Schemes Term Definition Example Alliteration頭韻 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August. Anadiplosis反覆法 repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause The crime was common‚ common be the pain. Anaphora首語（句）重複法 regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses We shall fight in the trenches
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Spirituality in Death and Dying Leaha K. Carson Liberty University Abstract Spirituality and faith play a role in how the terminally ill cope with their upcoming death. Faith also plays a role in how parents cope with the sudden loss of a child. A person’s response to death can cause them to lean on his or her faith and in some cases may cause them to lose their faith. Pastors‚ counselors‚ physicians and lay people can help decrease a person’s death fear and anxiety. They can also help parent’s
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A Lesson before Dying‚ one of Ernest J. Gaines later works‚ was written in 1993. Some of his earlier works include A Gathering of Old Men and In My Father’s House. The novel covers a time period when blacks were still treated unfairly and looked down upon. Jefferson‚ a main character‚ has been wrongly accused of a crime and awaits his execution in jail. Grant‚ the story’s main protagonist must find it within himself to help Jefferson see that he is a man‚ which will allow him to walk bravely to his
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THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Department of Social Work and Social Administration & Department of Sociology CCHU9024 THE LAST DANCE: UNDERSTANDING DEATH AND DYING GROUP PROJECT REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 LITERATURE REVIEW 4 Suicide 4 Identification of deliberate self-harm and steps of suicide 4 Categorization of suicide 7 Statistics on suicide cases and DSH in Hong Kong 7 Factors that affect the probability of committing suicide 8 Effect of suicide on surrounding
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LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES Metaphor Genuine metaphors Trite(dead) metaphors Metonymy Metonymy Metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated: ‘The White House said…’ (the American government) ; the press (newspapers and magazines); the cradle(infancy‚ place of origin);the grave(death); The hall applauded; The marble spoke; The kettle is boiling; I am fond of Agatha Christie; We didn’t speak because there were ears all around us; He was about a sentence away from
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