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Emily Dickinson's Poem, 'My Life Had Stood-A Loaded Gun'

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

Spanish Language as Cultural Expression

in a particular cultural and language community-that is, language allows us to be able to communicate in a culturally appropriate ...

'The Story of An Hour' by Kate Chopin from a Formalist Perspective

women at the time, including women writers such as Chopin (Levy 242). Structure The structure of Chopins short story "The Story o...

Lester and Onore - Learning Change

reread the same text while logging summaries, connections and questions that arose. As a follow-up they were divided into groups ...

Complexities of Self Philosophy, Language, and Consciousness

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

An Analysis of Dr. Georgi Lozanov's Integrated Learning Techniques

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

Bilingual Education Argument

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

Why English Should Not Be the U.S. Official Language

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

Literary Comarison of John Cheever's Stories 'The Housebreaker of Shady Hill' and 'The Worm in the Apple'

modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...

Critical Thinking and Language

t hat has been linked to complex problem solving and other forms of higher cognition, such as deriving abstract principles and cha...

Teaching Reading

explained the bottom up model: "the reader first identifies features of letters; links these features together to recognize letter...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

Communication Both Human and Nonhuma

of these devices include reading machines made for the blind, speech-recognition devices, as well as computer programs that detect...

Comparing 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger' by William Blake

the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...

Psychology Students and College Campus Linguistic Subcultures

my guide in understanding how he and his fellow students actually comprise a subculture in their use of such jargon. I, of course...

Language Self Learning and CDs

et al 1996). Some teachers were given specific instructions that in addition to avoiding these possibly difficult and controversia...

Meaning and Rules in Teaching ESL

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

Fortran Computer Programming Historical Overview

Visual program, his brother William went a step further by using the same computer (TX-2) to create a data flow language(Najork). ...

Multimedia Features in Programming Languages

this is with the use of a WebQuest that had been created by Bernie Dodge (2003). WebQuests have a structured, inquiry-based method...

Language Learning Instruments Assessment

data in an assessment process. According to Greenhalgh (1997), reliability and validity begin with an explicit statement of the s...

A Language Arts Lesson Plan

trust, and the conflict of good vs. evil. III. Materials Needed: This is a writing section, and so students will only be requir...

Overview of Schema Languages

in the view that DTD will have limited applications in the future (Bray et al, 2004). W3C XML Schema As...

Research Proposal for High School English Class Motivation

this study is quasi-experimental and uses questionnaires to provide the data to determine the effectiveness of motivational strate...

English Language Learning and Lau v. Nichols

for some native language maintenance (Texas Education Agency Bilingual/ESL Unit, 2004). * 1988: More amendments to Title VII impos...

Case Study of the ELL Program

Other 615 1.2% Total other language 4,258 8.4% (Source: San Juan Unified School District, District, 2004). All 4,258 students wh...

Use and Impact of Australian and Canadian Language Policies

broader ranging policy, but was also symbolic of the boarder policies in addition to having direct impact. The policies wh...

Immigrant Communities and Learning Needs Addressed by Public Schools

the nature of bilingual education have urged support for ESL programming in many educational settings. In recent years, ESL and...

Michael Corballis' 'The Language Evolution Debate' Article

speak at certain evolutionary stages of development. It is also speculated by Corballis that language emerged from facial expressi...

Acquiring a Second Language

younger learners when learning a second language (Bucuvalas). Older learners have already achieved proficiency in and mastery of o...

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...