Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer‚ best known as one of the most popular salsa performers of all time‚ which is how she got her nickname. Salsa music is a popular dance music that initially arose in New York City during the 1960s. Salsa is the product of various musical genres including the Cuban son montuno‚ guaracha‚ cha cha chá‚ mambo‚ and to a certain extent bolero‚ and the Puerto Rican bomba and plena. Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer‚ best known as one of the most popular salsa performers
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1. Linguistic features of Germanic languages: vowels. Germanic languages also have some peculiarities in the sphere of vowel sounds‚ which distinguish them from other Indo-European languages. Their main characteristic feature in this sphere is the treatment of the Indo-European short vowels o and a and the long vowels o and a. Indo-European short o and a appear as short a languages. E.g.:in IE Germanic Russ. Яблоко germ. Apfel Lat. Noctem goth. Nahts Russ.ночь germ. Nacht Indo-European
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Language plays an important role in human life. One tries to acquire‚ learn and use language as a means of communication‚ and simultaneously as social symbol of humanity. It forms the foundation of our perceptions‚ communications‚ and daily interactions. By using language someone could make statements‚ convey facts and knowledge explain or report something‚ and keep social relations among the language users. It is a system of symbols by which we categorize‚ organize‚ and clarify our thinking. Language
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Strayer University English 115‚ English Composition Lance Anthony Coley Professor Dorothy Valentine January 21‚ 2013 Week 3 Assignment 1.1 A summary of “Se Habla Español” By Tanya Barrientos Coley 1 Tanya Barrientos main point is that her parents spoke Spanish to each other on a regular basis‚ but insisted she and her siblings speak‚ read and write only in English. As a young woman growing she didn’t understand why her parents wanted this‚ but she did know the reason. So as she
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naval quality that encompasses the island. During the Ten Years War‚ between 1868-1878‚ the Cubans fought against Spanish rule in their country. Rebellion broke out around the island‚ and the rebels joined under a united leader‚ Carlos de Cespedes‚ a wealthy planter‚ who proclaimed independence from Spain. Nearly 200‚000 lives were lost‚ until the Treaty of El Zanjun was signed. This
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that were harshly suppressed. US intervention during the Spanish-American War in 1898 assisted the Cubans in overthrowing Spanish rule. Subsequently‚ the 1901 Platt Amendment to the Cuban constitution authorized the US to intervene in Cuba in the event
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Spanglish is a well-known term that describes the linguistic behaviors on Spanish speakers‚ who’s Spanish is uniquely influenced from the English language. Spanglish can also be defined as a “mixed-code vernacular that includes a range of linguistic phenomena‚ most notably code-switching”. Despite the fact that Puerto Rican linguist‚ Salvador Tio‚ coined the term ‘Spanglish’ in the late 1940’s‚ this language contact phenomena has actually been used over the past 150 years‚ since the Treaty of Guadalupe
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Language and Mind – Spring 2013 – Second Practice Exam 1. Which of the following statements about parameters is FALSE? a. They specify the limits on possible differences between languages b. They do not belong to Universal Grammar # c. Their values must be “set” on the basis of experience 2. From the viewpoint of the principles-and-parameters theory‚ the process of language acquisition consists of: a. Setting the choice for each parameter that fits the language that is being acquired # b. Storing
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Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish—a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover‚ metaphor is typieully viewed as characteristic of language alone‚ a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason‚ most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found‚ on the contrary‚ that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life‚ not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual
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The Cuban Revolution The Cuban Revolution was one of the most defining events in Cuba’s history. With blood hardwork and a dream the Cuban Revolution was one of the most influential and defining moments in Cuba’s history. The Cuban Revolution was led by Fidel Castro and a few other key figures such as Che Guevara and his brother Raul Castro. Before Castro’s revolution the Cuban government had been taken over by Fulgencio Batista. He made Cuba into a puppet for countries to take resources from without
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