In 2009‚ The Modern Language Association of America published the article " Says Who? Teaching and Questioning the Rules of Grammar" by Anne Curzan. She relates how a middle-aged man and a senior coleague questioned her teaching method. Curzan answered‚ " ...I believe that students... have the right to know where the prescriptive rules of written Standard English come from.’ ...all speakers have the right to make informed decisions about when those rules are appropiate for their writing." (870) The
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What would you say to a foreigner moving to your home country? Belgium: Belgium is separated into three very different regions: Flanders‚ Wallonia and Brussels. There is a very big disparity in terms of wealth and demographics between those regions as well as some significant regional tensions. Major political conflicts often appear and I would definitely avoid speaking about it with Belgians‚ unless one is very acquainted with his interlocutor. For the same reason‚ I would additionally
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photos in the paper how they were touched by photographs and the emotions that was felt when seeing them. The author states in the fifth paragraph‚ “Most newspaper editors anticipate some reader reaction to photographs like Foreman’s; even so‚ the response around the country was enormous‚ and almost all of it was negative (170 para.5)”. She goes on to tell about all the negative letters readers have wrote to the papers voicing their opinions on the photos that Forman took. Some people were stating
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Running head: JUST SAY NO TO LEGALIZATION Just Say No to Legalization of Marijuana Your Name Your University Legalization of illicit drugs is a controversial topic. Proponents approach the issue from many vantage points. This paper will address two main arguments proponents of drug legalization put forth. First‚ they claim illicit drugs such as marijuana should be legalized due to medical value this drug is alleged to possess. They also claim that legalization would reduce crime. The
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Listening and Response Kendra Farmer CCJ2358-12_Week4 February 8‚ 2013 Everest University Online Listening and Response The best thing for a person to do when confronted with such a statement is to defuse it. They must by all means avoid escalating the conflict through inflammatory statements of their own. What the person should do is to remove the focus from the personal issues at hand. Instead‚ they should do what negotiators are told to do. They should focus on the problem‚ not on the
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plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad.” This is the main theory behind philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s work. Because of the absence of knowledge about right and wrong in existentialism‚ Sartre says that “[w]e are left alone‚ without excuse. This is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free” (32). In this sense‚ ‘condemned’ does not have a negative connotation to it. Sartre
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Alliteration: A technique where a sound repeats in the beginning of the word or phrase‚ it’s usually a consonant. Alliteration is used in the poem “Song” by Sir John Suckling. The w is alliterative throughout the whole poem. “Why so pale and wan fond lover? Prithee why so pale? Will‚ when looking well can ’t move her‚ Looking ill prevail? Prithee why so pale?” (Ferguson 1588) Allusion: A reference
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and say‚ “Professor‚ I NEED an A in this class” (Schuman). Reading this has also brought on a new perspective for me‚ that being of a teacher who must deal with these stress full questions. Schuman goes about dealing with the I need a question extensively in her passage. Her writing is surprising in many ways‚ but one way that stand outs the most is that she uses what “they say” much more than” I say”. Although Shuman does not use “I say” so much in her writing‚ I feel that using “they say” instead
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Catch-22 The Reader’s Response By: John O’dea I have chosen a reader response criticism for Catch-22‚ because I believe it gives me the freedom to interpret‚ and explore the book on the freest and most personal grounds. It gives me the opportunity to look inward and contemplate the thought provoking scenes occurrences in Catch-22 on my own terms‚ and then allows me to relate these findings to fellow peers and readers. A reader response criticism complies with my beliefs of Literature‚ in
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Victor Frankenstein was always fascinated with his studies witch ultimately lead to the creation of the monster. Since Victor Frankenstein felt isolated from the outside world‚ one would assume that he built the monster to have a companion and to perfect humanity in the process but he ultimately fails. Even though he created the monster‚ Frankenstein was appalled to see he had created such a grotesque abomination and had no intension in keeping him around. If only the monster would have received
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