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brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and development aphasia....The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result ...

concept of work is changing and jobs "appear to be less stable than they were twenty-five years ago" (Working for America). If th...

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

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

they are considering the impact of nutrition on the condition. They believe that factors causing this condition are both genetic ...

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

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

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

Its clear this feminist perspective seeks no harm, but merely wishes to illuminate her celebration of women. Specificall...

The name Thaw for instance, in this work, can be indicative of the fact that his character is in a state of flux at times. One can...

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

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

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

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

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

mankind needs to hear. One of those messages is that of the role of poetry, for himself, and for mankind. He sees himself as a t...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

African American vernacular (Crowley, 1997). One can easily drawn parallels between the linguistic construction in many West Afric...

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

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

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

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

dentists outside of health care facilities. Dentists work independently of the health care system except for the cases where denta...

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