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The Debate about Making English an Official Language

both English and French are official languages (Krauthammer, 2006). According to Mr. Krauthammer, the experience of having more th...

Language and Symbols to Communicate Personal Identity

feminine or masculine identities (Dobkin and Pace, 2006). While disliking the concept of stereotypes, in communicating identity ma...

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...

Advance Organizers and High School Language Arts

In eight pages this paper examines advance organizer theories in terms of purpose and model components and then one for a high sch...

Search Applications, Java, and Complexity of Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

Wide Web which previously had not existed, providing new dimensions for primarily static web-based material. Countless numbers of ...

Foreign Language Instruction and Technologies

In ten pages this paper discusses foreign language teaching and the application of technology in the US and elsewhere. Twenty one...

Testing the Validity of California's Proposition 227

The writer suggests an experiment as a research project, in which the object is to test the validity of California Prop. 227, whic...

Negative Language Impact of Cyberspace

In three pages this essay discusses the view that cyberspace will one day destroy written language as reflected in typographical r...

Gender and Variations of Language

differently to girls than boys...is the tendency to adhere to social conventions and gender stereotyping. But the other part...is...

Writing and Speech in Novels by Camara Laye and Ousmane Sembene

In one page this paper examines Third World Africa in a contrast between written language and oral tradition as represented in G...

Analyzing America is Her Name by Luis J. Rodriguez

of the population and discrimination among Hispanics toward any of their own who also can claim Indian heritage. Less obviously s...

Puppet Show Adventure of Walt Disney's Pinocchio

In one page this paper examines how small children can acquire language and improve vocabulary by viewing this Walt Disney interpr...

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Their words were powerful weapons that turned into action that threw the entire city into war. Because of the feuding families of...

An Introduction to Robert Bolt's A Man for All Season

In this paper consisting of ten pages the play that explores Sir Thomas More's conflict with Henry VIII and his conscience are dis...

Analogical Language, Aquinas, and Adler

In a paper containing 5 pages the usefulness of analogical language in theological inquiries is evaluated by incorporating the the...

Workplace Language and Shirley Brice Heath's Ways with Words

much character and attitude as a living breathing entity. For example, most modern hospitals have sophisticated technology which r...

Traditions and Language

that angle. Heaths study followed the students into the schools during the first few years of desegregation and this is where sh...

Techniques for ELL Students

(Ghaith, 2003). Cooperative learning encourages meaningful, real-life conversations between students, regardless of age. Researc...

Shakespeare's Tempest/Act III Scene 1

Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...

American Slang, Changes in Language and Changes in Attitudes

(Mahoney, 2008). Language also changes because no two speakers use it exactly the same way (Mahoney, 2008). People speak using th...

Perception, Language, Cognition and Consciousness in Classic Indian Philosophy

modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....

'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...

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Preface

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...

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...

Female Communications and Body Language

will a man make his approach to a woman? This can vary a great deal depending on how a woman is "advertising" herself so to speak....

Metaphors and Language

and still love the book, the friendship. Friends can cry together over the hard parts, and love and laugh together in the fun. ...

Culture and Teaching ESLs

a mix that is becoming increasingly more diverse in the present era. 3. Multicultural education: Multicultural education refers ...

Promotion of ESL Student Literacy and STEM

This paper pertains to the needs of English as a Second Language students and STEM instruction. Twelve pages in length, ten source...

Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

Melting Pot or Tapestry How to Best Integrate Cultures

This paper argues that forcing people to abandon their own culture and language in favor of another is wrong. There are two sourc...