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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...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

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

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...

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...

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...

Language and Ideas in Derek Walcott's Poetry

poem. The rhyming pattern is alternately free form and occasional standard abab. It follows the pattern of iambic pentameter of ...

William Butler Yeats' Poem 'The Second Coming'

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...

Gustave Flaubert's Realism in The Sentimental Education and Madame Bovary

expand from merely entertaining to entertaining while instructing (Realism). At the time of the movements launch, much of art and ...

Infants, Language Therapy, and Speech

child to combine vowel-like and consonant-vowel sounds, such as "ma" and "da." * Maintain eye contact to reinforce attempts to ma...

Difficulties Presented by Consonant Elisions in English as a Second Language

the proper manner in which to utilize the language, partly for their own benefit and partly for the benefit of foreign speakers. ...

Tutorial on the Acquisition of Language

way they learn other things. He offered a number of justifications for this proposition: * Children are exposed to very little co...

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...

Cognitive Development Process

reversible mental actions * * Logical Use of symbols * Formal logic *6 Development of abstract concepts *...

Influences on Culture

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

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...

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...

2 Articles on the Conscious Choice of Language

In three pages 2 articles Robert B. Moore's Racism in the English Language featured in The Meaning of Difference and Dennis Baron'...

In the Jungle by Annie Dillard and Writing Style

In five pages this work is analyzed in terms of the writer's stylistic use of allusions, repetition, similes, metaphors, and langu...

St. John's Wort, Pro and Con

The writer examines the opinions of St. John's Wort, a herb commonly used to treat depression, from the point of view of tradition...

Children With Downs Syndrome and Development of Language

In five pages this paper examines how children with Downs Syndrome acquire language skills and how this acquisition is different f...

800 AD Middle East and Islam

In six pages this paper examines how Islam took root in the middle East during this time period and considers the importance of th...

'The Chimney Sweeper' by William Blake

In five pages the poet's language use is compared and contrasted in the two versions of 'The Chimney Sweep' that appear in Songs o...

Constructivism and Logo

In eight pages this paper discusses the Logo programming language in a consideration of its educational potential. Eleven sources...

Patient Teaching Plan on Diabetes and the Internet

In five pages this paper examines how the Internet can be used as a tool to teach patients how to manage the disease diabetes....

Is Language Universal?

In six pages this paper examines whether or not language is universal across various cultures. Five sources are cited in the bibl...

Various 'Pickup' Approaches

In seven pages this paper considers how both genders employ 'pickup' lines in an outmoded meeting approach that is still being use...

Communicating Nonverbally

In five pages this report examines how to communicate nonverbally through facial expressions, body language and tone in business, ...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and its Feminism Theme

In five pages this tale is examined in terms of how the feminist theme is conveyed through symbolism, tone, and language literary ...