not completed in class should be finished for HW. Use the links to answer the questions listed below and please PARAPHRASE your answers. Submit electronically to my inbox. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer 1. What kind of writer was he? He’s an English poet. 2. What were the years of his birth and death? 1340-1400 3. Where was he from? London, England 4. What was his “masterpiece”? Canterbury Tales http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chaucer.html 2. What is a pilgrimage? A journey to
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Me and English/English and me Me and English. We met for the first time when I was in third grade, it wasn’t love for the first sight, on the contrary, I felt more like hate towards it then anything else. How dare it come and play all-important I thought. At that time I already knew 3 languages in and out, Chechen, Russian and Danish, I didn’t need one more to add to the collection. Now when I think back at it, it was stupid, but I was young and we all make mistakes. I have learned from
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ENGLISH IN THE 20th CENTURY Tarik El Adraoui In the 19th and 20th centuries, English emerged as the leading language in areas which have affected all aspects of society and laid the cultural foundation for the eventual growth of English as a world language. The rise of the British Empire could have established English as a world language. But in fact, the rise of US economy continued the English language dominance. Following the World War II, English has been rapidly spreading around the
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military made the appropriate decision by sending to English-speaking officers to train the Hondurans because of the language barrier presented. I believe that there are alternative solutions that U.S. government could have made and I will now go into those. The first alternative solution I came up with was that the United States could have done more due diligence and been able to find a trustworthy Honduran representative who spoke both English and Spanish fluently and used that person as an interpreter
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1 ETYMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MODERN ENGLISH VOCABULARY The modern English vocabulary falls into two main sets: native words and borrowings. Native words belong to the original English word-stock and are known from the earliest Old English manuscripts. It is customary to subdivide native words into those of the Indo-European stock and those of the common Germanic origin. The former have cognates in the vocabularies of all or most Indo-European languages, whereas the latter have cognates only in Germanic
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Mother Tongue, by Amy Tan I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others. I am a writer. And by that definition, I am someone who has always loved language. I am fascinated by language in daily life. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language -- the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of
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some English educated girls do not appear to her Indians at all. They madly copy the western culture. They waste hours together in dressing their hair and painting their faces with cream, powder, lip-stick, cheek-stick and what not. Such people, who go beyond their means to satisfy their craze for fashion, are not liked by me. Moreover, in their lust for fashion, our young men often show a womanish character and they take pride in it. Such people are dislike by me. I am not against English literature
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German Law system Public Law * Public law rules the relations between a citizen or private person and an official entity or between two official entities, e.g. a law which determines taxes * Public law was formerly based on the so-called "superiority inferiority relationship", means that a public authority may define what is to be done, without the approval of the citizen. * E.g., if the authority orders a citizen to pay taxes, the citizen has to pay, even without an agreement.
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Response In the article “From Outside, In” By Barbara Melix is about the use of different types of language. Melix points out Black English and Standard English are used in different contexts. Melix explains Black English is used as slang and Standard English is more formal or proper. Melix states that when African Americans speak Standard English instead of Black English they tend to be inferior because they feel embarrassed and ashamed to be their real selves. In the article Melix says, “ We were
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all of my family because our English was tested by our neighbor. We had no idea what he was trying to say. Took us hours to understand him. He was simply telling us welcome to the neighborhood. We were all limited on our English Skills. Our English Skills were our first challenge that we faced. We had to communicate with people that we didn’t speak their language. We managed to find a family close by that spoke Arabic. They helped us as much as they could with English and Doctor’s appointments and
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