Endangered languages: what is to be done‚ and why? The threat to linguistic resources is now recognized as a worldwide crisis. Language death is what happens when the last speaker of a particular language dies‚ or when a language community ceases to exist. It is an extinction that is happening on a massive scale and with astonishing speed. According to Krauss (1992a)‚ as many as half of the estimated 6‚000 languages spoken on earth are "moribund"; spoken only by adults who no longer teach them
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Helping the Nonnative English Speakers with Reading Filipinos are nonnative speakers of English. There are people who speak English from the time they’re able to utter a word. Others use the language only when communicating with foreigners. In our situation‚ whether we like to learn English or not‚ we are forced to do so because it is included in the school curriculum. We could not escape from using it because not all the subjects are taught in Filipino. However‚ there’s a need
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frsafsdafasfa frsafsdafasfaTechnology enables us to do things that were previously unimaginable‚ and has certainly made many tasks far easier than they were before. But is also enables us to display previously unimaginable feats of stupidity. It is possible then‚ that technology is actually holding us back as individuals‚ rather than propelling us forward. Or given its current omnipresence‚ could it actually be taking over? A frequent and quite frankly depressing sight on the news is that
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about how He thinks about you. I believe He will reveal new truths to you‚ and also a new mindset. Day One Dear: Today I am going to share with you about finding your Why. You will want to have your journal handy for today’s assignment. If you don’t have one‚ make sure you go What do I mean by finding your why? Your WHY is what drives you; it is what gets you out of bed every morning‚ it is all the reasons you do the things you do. However‚ it is
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Take a Stand Essay Tarik El-Ali University Success 103 September 24‚ 2011 Monte McKay Take a Stand on Bullying Bullying is a form of verbal and physical abuse that needs to stop. It takes place every day all over the world. It represents the attacking of someone that is stronger mentally‚ emotionally and physically attacking someone that is weaker in all of these fields. Bullying has long term effects on its victims such as mental and emotional stress that can
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Design of a Speaker Recognition Code using MATLAB E. Darren Ellis Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville Tennessee 37996 (Submitted: 09 May 2001) This project entails the design of a speaker recognition code using MATLAB. Signal processing in the time and frequency domain yields a powerful method for analysis. MATLAB ’s built in functions for frequency domain analysis as well as its straightforward programming interface makes it an ideal tool
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Using two different psychological perspectives explain how a worker could apply psychological thinking to one of the following situations. - A teenager who has been diagnosed as having an eating disorder People who work in the industry of Psychology explore the scientific study of behaviour and see many questions arise about human beings and how certain psychological thinking can explain irregular behaviourisms. There are many different perspectives when it comes to Psychology but some of the
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Affirmative POSITION: 3rd Speaker Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen .Our topic is about the condemning of the buying and selling of Philippine artifacts. As our first speaker had said‚ it is wrong to buy and sell Philippine artifacts because if we sell our artifacts‚ the next generations would not be able to see the only evidences of our ancestors’ life. She also talked about the “National Cultural heritage Act of 2009” which states that we must conserve our national heritages
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Reaction Paper about the Guest Speaker Last Wednesday‚ September 5‚ 2012‚ was our National Science Month Celebration with the theme: “Science in the K-12 curriculum‚ sustaining a better future.” Our guest speaker was born on July 15‚ 1965 in Cotabato City. She finished her study on Western Mindanao State University in 1978 as third honourable mention. She passed the examination for the qualifications on studying in Philippines Science High School and studied in Philippines Science High School-Diliman
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nd nd 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (2 ICBER 2011) PROCEEDING WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A MANAGER: THE CASE OF MALAYSIAN FIVESTAR RESORT HOTELS Rozila Ahmad (rozila@uum.edu.my) Noor Azimin Zainol (azimin@uum.edu.my) Universiti Utara Malaysia Sintok‚ 06010 Kedah ABSTRACT This article investigates the requirement for managerial posts in five-star resort hotels in Malaysia. Despite the growth of hotel industry in Malaysia‚ academic literature especially qualitative
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