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Teaching Character Education

Jean Piaget and also on the philosophy of American educator John Dewey (Barger). This model of moral development pictures children...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

How Alaskan Boarding Schools Hurt the Natives

linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...

Informal Time Terms

of vague terms, they clearly have a place in it. But what about terms that are ambiguous? As noted, the complexity of language su...

The Importance of ESL in the International School Curriculum

meet the demands that society dishes out, and cultural demands as well. This is becoming increasingly more significant as the worl...

Language & Critical Thinking

Critical thinking has been defined as "the ability to construct and/or extrapolate abstract meaning in and from a variety of setti...

Summary of “Listening in the Native and Second/Foreign Language: Toward an Integration of Research”

human understanding, theorists such as Aristotle and Saint Augustine also considered the same subject as did Hobbes and the Port R...

Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

Teaching American Sign Language to Infants

Could sign language be taught by the parents? Should a class be taken to ensure the right words were being taught? Could a person ...

Women in Management

Gilbert, 2003). In order to get to the top of a corporate hierarchy, women have been advised to "mimic the sometimes coldhearted, ...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Article Critique/Suspected LD

the pre-test due to differences in cultural background make significant improvement, but children with "true language impairment" ...

Indian Cultural Conflict

have taken service jobs in motels or restaurants, today, Indians are managing Fortune 500 companies, such as United Airlines and U...

Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

English-Language Learners

do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...

Clive Harber/Schooling as Violence

survive attendance. However, at this point, it is easy to dismiss this information as regrettable, but not applicable to most situ...

Balanced Approach and the Impacts on Teaching Literacy

that the most important result of these skills is that the "children can shift their attention away from the content of speech to ...

Mainstream Psychology and the Explanation of Gender Differences by Feminism

but one aspect of feminism in the middle part of the twentieth century; however, along with it also came undesirable consequences....

English Language and Its Degradation

In twelve pages this paper examines the gradual English language degradation in a consideration of its social causes. Twelve sour...

English Language from a Feminist Viewpoint

The changes in the English language is considered in a fourteen page paper and considers shifting word meanings, the creation of n...

Derek Walcott, Chinua Achebe, and Non Native Writers Use of English

cursory look at Achebes work shows that this is a reasoned and well thought-out choice that serves to underscores the authors mess...

Article Critique, Duranti

This essay offers a critique of a 2003 article by Alessandro Duranti, which is entitled "Language as culture in U.S. anthropology:...

Article Review on Global Marketing

There are many pitfalls with global marketing. One is that words, phases, gestures, humor, and other issues do not translate very ...

Kung Fu Television Series A Semiotic Review

In five pages this paper analyzes body and spoken language in this semiotic review of the television series Kung Fu The Legend Co...

Cognitive Development and Therapy

Piaget did not start out to be a developmental psychologist. He was very interested in natural sciences and did not turn to psycho...

Pidgins and Creoles, Origins, Features

This research paper/essay discusses how pidgin and Creole languages develop, emphasizing the influence that African Americans have...

Comparing the works: The Contingency of Language and The Marxist Sublime

This 7 page paper gives a summary of the texts “The Marxist Sublime” and “The Contingency of Language”. This paper includes in add...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

This essay pertains to "Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller" and presents a complete overview of the play that discusses its feat...

ESL Instruction, Cross-Cultural Activities

This essay offers two lessons and activities that provide cultural instruction within the context of ESL (English as a Second Lang...