The Circassians or rather the Adyg, are the oldest indigenous society inhabiting North-West Caucasus. This society belongs to the Caucasian language group (Besleney 231). The Caucasian language constitutes a unique phonological system with a significant scarcity of vowels and an overabundance of the usage of consonants (Colarusso 476). These facts have generated great interests amongst different linguists across the globe. Between the 6th and 7th centuries, the Circassians were Christianized due
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The Elizabethan Era is often referred to as the golden age, but was it really that golden? Everything during this time period was simple and relied on your social status. The clothing and fashion played an important role among the rich and the poor during the Elizabethan Era. It is the same scenario with food and architecture. Life during the Elizabethan Era was simple. The clothing was based of social status. Even though the outfits they wore had more accessories everything was similar. Everyone
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The abrasive sound echoed through the air. The vibration ringed in my ear after our last note, after my first and last performance in marching band, and immediately relief and poignancy sweeps through my feet. I felt happy and accomplished, after all the sweat and tears everyone has shed to finish this show. In my previous school in Japan, we had marching band unlike this one with no competitors, but both groups has shaped the person I am today. Just like my hobby of illustration, I learned that
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benefits the human health. Finally, many people could fluently use this language when traveling the world. This is why everybody should learn Spanish. One benefit to learning Spanish includes a variety of careers options to choose from. Spanish and English language offers a higher pay in the career fields that are chosen. Careers such as teachers, bilingual clerks, and bank tellers. Also, reports have shown that employers are now seeking employees who are bilingual.
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In Gloria Anzaldúa’s, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” she tells the story of the many difficulties she faces throughout her life. These difficulties coming from her ethnic identity along with her lingual identity. Gloria has had a lot of literacy sponsors throughout her life. Some of these sponsors being encouraging and others not. One discouraging literacy sponsor she encounters in her life are her school (Elementary and College) teachers. In Elementary school, on page 200, she says she received three
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Gloria Anzaldua, in How to Tame a Wild Tongue, argues that one's primary language influences who they become. She uses Chicanos as a way to strengthen that argument. Chicanos, speak both English and Spanish, it’s a mix of two distinct cultures, therefore, how one identifies themselves, influences how they dress, speak and act. The language you speak is a part of your culture, it is who you truly are, and what defines you the most. Anzaldua uses pathos to also argue that in order to fully have a sense
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In the American lifestyle, Spanish speaking people must transition to their “American Dream”, starting with speaking fluent English. I was raised to speak Spanish as my first language due to my parents not understanding English. This problem placed me in to special ESL classes, if I did not commit to the classes, I would not be where I am today making all kinds of successful choices, and earning the best grades. We as Hispanics
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“Inside Out” by Francisco Jimenez is a realistic short story about a ten or ten year old kid who goes to a English school and he only knows knows Spanish. In the beginning Francisco parents move to America not knowing any English. In the middle when he goes to school he had know idea what anyone was saying because they all spoke in English. In the end people didn't know what he’s saying but they didn’t care just because he only knew Spanish. This story shows that it is not what's on the outside
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The era of Elizabethan times was quite the historical mark on entertainment arts, because of the vast popularity that it began growing. The arts were specifically used for entertainment and fun, as well as jobs and a way of life for some entertainers. Some entertainers used drama and theatre as a way of art and expression, but also to make others just as happy. The importance of the era, drama, theatre, and politics have greatly affected today’s outlook on the arts of entertainment. Elizabethan drama
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The english language is one of the hardest languages to learn because of its multiple roots of different languages.Before the english that we speak today was spoken,older versions of it had been spoken by the people before us.Since 450,the english language had begun its transition,including the culture of the time periods starting with the Anglo-Saxon. Years before the era of the Anglo Saxon had begun,the royal families of the Danish (the Danes)and the Scandinavians(the Geats),had inhabited the
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