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ESL CAN WORK: REFUTING CUMMINS' POINTS

if their communities are similarly doomed, there is a good deal of evidence that ESL can be taught in even uncaring communities. T...

English Language: Tan and Baldwin

because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...

Change and Linguistics

of the Americas. English and Spanish, for example, have a number of dialects within them that have, over time, developed in...

Global Community Perspective on the English Language

nation the United States involves itself in the affairs of other countries to some extent. In Third world countries the United S...

Rhetoric, Thought, and Language

than just discourse designed to persuade. Since the 1970s, scholars from a variety of academic fields have placed metaphor at the ...

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Social Alienation

were outcasts from the beginning largely due to her mother Annettes social displacement as a native of Martinique. The memories o...

Philosophy of Nursing and Future Plans

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

Internet Communications and How Language Has Been Affected by Globalization

In eighteen pages this paper discusses Internet languages with IRC channels and globalization among the topics covered. Ten sourc...

Film, Identity, and Language

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

Should School Students Be Made To Learn An Additional Language?

one of the most dividing among peoples. Given the nature of todays globalized society, learning a second language will inev...

Shakespeare's Tempest/Act III Scene 1

Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...

Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' Pamphlet

the style the writing. This pamphlet was phrased in language which was understandable by the common man (Kashatus 53). In this hi...

ESL Posts

writer/tutors suggestions is for the student teacher to ask for a "dance lesson" in order to aid the student in assimilating the c...

Connolly, Hall and Philosophical Differences

asks whether pluralism "is a philosophy for wimps," that is, "for those whose beliefs are too saturated with uncertain and ambival...

Education, Politics And The Student: How Traditional Cultural Expectations Challenge And Shape Twentieth Century Educational Systems

and speak the truth; without the ability to stand against wrongdoing, people remain pawns of a contemptible political system run b...

Women's Perception of Female Images in Ads

fashion magazine indicated greater body dissatisfaction than the control group after only a brief exposure to type of advertising ...

The Effect of War

Another loss of life associated with war is the loss of wildlife and the destruction of nature. War creates battlefields that rese...

Narratives: Redefinition and Redemption

men in blankets who would sexually use little boys as prostitutes. The boys would receive money and so they would be able to eat a...

Having an Alcoholic Parent/Effects in Adulthood

with college students as participants who were self-identified as adult children of an alcoholic parent concluded from the study d...

Art Analysis

superb, as its various elements naturally move the viewers gaze into the landscape and onward as the artist takes the viewer on a...

Cultural diversity, End-of-Life Issues

rituals of this religion in order to offer quality care. They should know, for instance, that an Orthodox Jew is required to wash ...

Language, Power and Creativity in “The Tempest”

the power he can invoke through its use: Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises, / Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight ...

Shakespeare/Sonnets 73 and 130

and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...

Contrasts in William Shakespeare's Othello

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

Politeness Theory and Pragmatics

functioning of language as a dynamic process operating on context structure relationships at various levels of salience." (Versch...

Culture of Costa Rica

and final voyage to the New World. Archeologists have determined that native civilizations existed in Costa Rica for thousands of ...

Illness and the Relationships Between Body, Mind, and Language

persecution of the "monster." Of course, part of the trouble with any film like this is the knowledge we have as audience members...

Culture, Language, and Laughing in English

than it might be, but the very lack of attention given to it might lead us to conclude that the situation it recounts doesnt reson...

Ape Tool Utilization and Language

sticks are the primary example of such primitive tools. Apes select these sticks, modify them, and use them to entice ants to cra...