Renee Hagon To be Canadian means to be able to look around you and only see various different shades of green in the many diverse types of trees. It means your body is pumped with adrenaline when your favourite hockey team comes on to the ice‚ and it’s that moment when you sing the national anthem proud‚ with a smile on your face. To be Canadian means to respect others opinions and religions‚ to accept one another no matter the race‚ religion‚ or sexuality of another. Canada has been the most
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English Words ‘The air is always thick with our verbal emissions. There are so many things we want to tell the world. Some of them are important‚ some of them are not. But we talk anyway. A life without words would be a horrendous privation.’ (from the Introduction) Words and language‚ keys to human identity‚ are fascinating subjects. The aim of this book is to arouse curiosity about English words and about the nature of language in general‚ especially among students who are not intending
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What does it mean to be an American? By: Savannah Shiveley For centuries of years the United States has been attracting immigrants from a variety of different countries‚ races‚ and religions to come live in a land full of freedom and opportunity. These people were looking for more than just rights and privileges. Their real desire was to become something that depicts pride and honor‚ an American. Being an American means much more than living in the United States. Along with the name come a number
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What it means to be Educated To be educated is to be taught in a way that I believe will help you to succeed in the real world. Education is the idea that is supposed to be taught in schools all across the World‚ but is it really being taught? Education means something and is defined differently by many different people. A few people who have different views on what the meaning of education is are Paolo Friere‚ Bell Hooks‚ and Theodore Sizer. In the words of Paolo Friere‚ professor at Harvard
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weigh on someone. Originality is what sets us apart from other people‚which is why Comparison is the thief of joy. It took me a while to grasp the fact that spending time comparing yourself to others is ludicrous. It is as if I was unaware that I am the only “me” this world will ever know‚no one will ever talk like me or walk like
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where your train of thought is headed concerning Mark Twain’s use of the word nigger‚ but I would like to add to it as well as bring up another perspective. Twain may be speaking out about the demeaning aspects of slavery and the lifestyle those people had during that time period‚ but I believe the use of the word nigger is not ment to be offensive. From what I gathered from the novel the word nigger was a synonym for black person‚ just like to a child poddy is code for bathroom. To say the word is
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the person that is talked to. Someone may consider anything sacred if they wanted to. Most people‚ like myself‚ would correlate the word “sacred” with religion‚ and items related. The word “sacred” is defined as being “connected with God‚” or “relating to religion” (Sacred‚ n.d.). Although the definition relates religion to sacred elements‚ we can see that today the word sacred is used as
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What do you understand by the term “Lancefield groups”? History In the early 1930’s Rebecca Lancefield recognized the importance of serological tests for the identification of organisms. The system is based on specific antibody agglutination reactions with cell wall carbohydrate antigens (C polysaccharides) extracted from the streptococci. Lancefield also showed that further sub division of group A into specific serological types was possible using type-specific M (protein) antigens. The groups
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You are what you say The essay‚ " you are what you say " is written by Robin Lakoff‚ a Professor of Linguistics at University of California. She has explicated her view on how English language has functioned to revile and debase women‚ why women are thought to be juvenile‚ dependent and frivolous species. Certain views which makes fair sex less thriving than men. The subject is of great interest as it illustrates that women only say what they mean‚ but what they say is inferred by men in a pejorative
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Imagine willingly inflicting dire pain on yourself while experiencing some of the happiest moments of your life. It seems almost too contradictory to be possible. However‚ as a cross country and track runner‚ I encounter this situation quite often. Running is painful. Muscles cramp‚ stomachs churn‚ and heads get dizzy. Even so it is a pain I would not trade for the entire world. When I go out to run‚ my mind clears of everything except the finish line ahead. It is an escape like no other. There are
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