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be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

will come to being able to communicate effectively" (Gassin, 1990, 437). Like Adams, Gassin (1990) also believed that the achieve...

different legal systems in operation (Barker and Padfield, 1996). Therefore, law at this stage was fragmented and diverse. ...

as an anecdote in this article is one located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts oft...

in that language, and the world was well on its way toward the development of dictionaries as we know them today. In 1603, Robert...

doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...

it is to be presumed. And, in the end, if the goal of the creators of the dictionary is to present an accurate picture and depicti...

element and understand the theory behind it. Dr. Lazanov developed this process in the 1970s (Lazanov and Gateva, 1988). ...

(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

is embraced by American schools to varying degrees. Still, the subject usually attracts heated debates. Bilingual education is t...

surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...

not on receipt. Looking at the level of the income we need to look at the exchange rate at the end of February, as the payment for...

also be seen as the natural forum. Where there is a dispute jurisdiction will become an important issue. Even where this is stat...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

to the English, it was felt perhaps, by many other less powerful classes, that also learning the language and adhering to the Brit...

be a way of discreetly getting his message across while solidifying his professional literary reputation.5 His greatest satirical...

128). This individual clearly is quite capable, and sensitive to the nuances of language. Fu and Townsend (1998) quote ano...

the historical record to present well-documented evidence that Native Americans did indeed have not only an opinion but an express...

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...

"N" word, which incidentally does appear in the dictionary. To an extent, there is a mystique about urban culture and a true emb...

not known, although the effects still influence the way we use language nowadays. It was a huge change in the way that English vow...

was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...

instruments selected to measure an individuals language proficiency should be "suitable for the characteristics and background of ...

make sense - for example, what is a "New York Minute" and how does it differ from a regular minute? New York Minute involves time ...

This research paper describes the need for educational reform in order to meet the needs of the twenty-first century, with a parti...

of the English word "play," which can be a noun, a verb or an adjective in English use (Green, 2005). Considering this, Green (200...

European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms with the section indicating the law should be in interpreted in line ...