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    Body Language

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    Abstract This research examines how men and women communicate using body language and why does it matter. Studies from various psychological and medical centers have shown that your body moves can tell more about someone than the words he or she speaks. People never realize the movements they make and how the people around him or her would interpret those moves. Lately‚ body language has been a topic very important psychologically and how it affects somebody emotionally and in other areas. Through

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    Animal Rights. Should it really happen? By Joey Sullivan We eat animals‚ they help us to create medicines and vaccines and we use them to create everyday goods that we intake or use. Should animals really have the same rights as us? Some people agree that they should have the same rights as us and some people disagree. Should they really be enforced? Animals are often treated extremely badly‚ and abused because of the owners and because of companies doing testing on the animals and animal rights

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    The World Language

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    1 India has about a billion people and a dozen major languages of its own. One language‚ and only one‚ is understood-by an elite-across the country: that of the foreigners who ruled it for less than 200 years and left 52 years ago. After 1947‚ English had to share its official status with north India’s Hindi and was due to lose it in 1965. It did not happen: Southern India said no. 2 Today‚ India. Tomorrow‚ unofficially‚ the world. [fhe spread of English] is well under way; at first‚ because the

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    Figurative Language

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    Figurative and literal language is different methods used in conveying and analyzing language. Literal language refers to words that do not differ from their original definition. Figurative language refers to words or groups of words that exaggerate the meanings of the words. Figurative language is not used literally but instead involves similarities to concepts or other contexts; which results in a figure of speech. For example‚ “it’s raining hard outside” is literal and “it’s raining cats and

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    Assembly language can execute the same commands as machine language; however‚ the commands have names instead of numbers. Assembly language‚ unlike machine language‚ is a symbolic representation of operation codes‚ symbolic memory addresses and pseudo codes‚ which makes the virtual environment user friendly. Machine language‚ on the other hand‚ is represented as binary bits consisting of a string of 0s and 1s‚ which makes the virtual world challenging since the lingo is only comprehended primarily

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    Language Development

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    LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT By Betsy Metzger “In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker” (Benjamin Franklin). Language development begins from as early as within the womb‚ we seem “born to talk” (Gunning‚ 2003‚ pg 2). Evidence that a fetus recognizes‚ listens for‚ and finds comfort in its mother’s voice is seen soon after birth when an infant will strain to gaze in the direction of his mother’s unique sound over all others; having become accustomed to her

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    Language is essential

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    Sociology 101 Language is essential Humans have an innate capacity for language and it ’s quite remarkable. Ever wonder how you learned how to talk‚ or how you transitioned from "goo-goo gaga" to "please pass the potatoes?" Turns out that we are born with a mental module called the language acquisition device which allows us to be open to languages of our culture. While we are just babies‚ our parents are talking and carrying on about their business and we are listening intently

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    Why Did 9/11 Happen

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    On September 11‚ 2001‚ a disastrous tragedy happened. Four planes were being hijacked by 19 Islamic terrorists on Tuesday. The terrorist’s leader was Osama bin Laden who planned the attacks. Two of the planes were flown into the World Trade Center in New York City‚ the third plane hit the pentagon that was supposed to hit the White House‚ and the last plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. From that day‚ multiple changes were made after this horrible occurrence. Some people still mourn about

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    Heritage Languages

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    Oliver Rajan First Year Seminar: What are Heritage Languages? 13 September 2014 The Importance of Language Maintenance at Home. Immigrant families come from numerous parts of the world to settle in the United States for a variety of reasons. Whether they come for economic prosperity or to escape persecution‚ and whether the stay is intended to be permanent or temporary‚ as long as they are speakers of a language other than English‚ they will face the dilemma of language maintenance. Parents have to make

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    disaster‚ August 16th‚ 1992 Hurricane Andrew was formed This piece‚ you will be learning all about Hurricane Andrew. I will be explaining what a hurricane is‚ what was the damage caused‚ and how meteorologists track the hurricane. It got up to a category five and the top wind speeds were 175 mph. It was one of the worst‚ most disastrous hurricane of all time. What is a hurricane and how does it form? A hurricane is a type of severe weather that can rip houses to shreds and destroy many things with

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