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Grades Seventh through Twelfth and Dropout Rates

and test performance, inasmuch as stereotype vulnerability has proven to predispose ethnic populations to related test anxiety. "...

Analyzing Lines in Macbeth from Act II, Scene iii 100-105 and Act V, Scene v 20-29

/ I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant / Theres nothing serious in mortality. / All is but toys; renown and grace is ...

Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Uses of Syntax and Language

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Setting in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

Influences on Culture

material products" (Bodley, 2002; bodley-text.html). In addition, it is often noted that "Culture also has several properties: it ...

Rudyard Kipling's Language and the Novel Kim

Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...

The History of COBOL in American Business

COBOL is a high-level programming language developed decades ago. Once the standard for dealing with masses of complex data, it is...

Are the Aztec Codices Art or Language?

elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Realism and Language

the 1830s did not refer to blacks without using the epithet "nigger," or some other derogatory term. But because Twain accurately ...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the Staging of the Witches' Scenes

the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...

Overview of Language Arts

predecessor to writing (Tierney & Readance, 2000 as cited in David, & Capraro, 2001) . Again, there are few who would argue that ...

Caracas, Venezuela's El Universal Newspaper

is bias in any of the news items, it is not evident. The serious nature of the news is tempered by stories of local interest, pre...

Reviews of Articles about Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language (ESL)

believe that acquiring English skills is the more important than teaching the children in Spanish (Porter, 1999). Porters article...

Language and Professor Noam Chomsky

of the need to learn how to assemble said sentences because the language is fully learned long before children are cognizant of th...

Iowa Test of Basic Skills Analyzed

if they find any errors. If they do find an error they must identify the line, or, they can simply mark "no error" if that is wha...

Language Barriers to Students from Indonesia, Japan, China, Croatia and Turkey Entering the United States

is the mental lexicon, which is the mental representation of the forms as well as the meanings of the words and the morphemes in a...

Feminist Perspective on Religion

ostensibly, the use of the masculine pronoun is suppose to encompass both men and women, Johnson argues that to consistently use t...

Authority and Power Through Language in Quentin Tarantino's Movie Pulp Fiction

from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...

English Words Borrowed from Italian

years. Some of these include gondola, cameo, arsenal, regatta, fresco, studio, vendetta, broccoli, motto, piano, opera, grotto, vi...

Mexican Mafia and Sociolinguistics

into the gang, the only way to leave is by shedding ones own blood, which is most typically done by death for violating one of the...

Connection Between Language and Dance

uttering but a single word, dance is able to communicate to all who partake of it, no matter their origin. "Nobody says you cant ...

Effectiveness of Ebonics

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

ESL Students and Fine Arts Instruction

not fair to the ESL student. How can fine art teachers embrace their ESL students in the same way as they do others who speak the ...

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Compared

of epic romance between two people from vastly different worlds. When prospective tenant Mr. Lockwood arrives at the Thrushcross ...

Analyzing the 1995 Film Seven by David Fincher

taking his time. He halts, turns to one wall where the current wallpaper is torn away to reveal flowery wallpaper underneath. So...

Should the U.S. Officially Speak English?

there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....

Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...

Poetic Analysis of 'If We Must Die' by Claude McKay

exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...

Life and Writing Style of John Steinbeck

In general (which is unjust), Steinbecks novels are classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labor,...