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    Language assisted in making us truly ‘human’ in a variety of different ways‚ however it is through the main factors of the extent of the efficiency of our unique method of communication‚ enabling the ability to share unlimited knowledge with one another and finally‚ the role it played in accommodating humans with the ability to adapt to foreign environments. It is through these three key features that language is distinctly outlined as being a main influence on the characteristics of typical human

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    Texts: “On The Sidewalk Bleeding” (short text) by Evan Hunter “On The Bridge” (short text) by Todd Strasser “Do You Need Prehab?” (article) by “The Blind Side” (film) directed by John Lee Hancock A connection that I have explored throughout my four texts are the choices that have been made by the main characters. The four aspects of choices that I have learnt about from the texts are the freedom of choice the characters had‚ influences‚ the positive and negative choices the characters made

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    Express our own self: Shape our identity  Use different language with different people Language is part of own identity and it can express our own self‚ but also language may have some bad influence‚ for example some family who speaks wrong grammar will limit their future path and may being discriminate. We use different language with different people. In the article ‘Mother Tongue’‚ Amy and her mother used ‘Broken English’ to communicate to each other‚ it is because of her mother tongue. Although

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    (Aristophanes). This is a direct correlation of how a woman was thought of in Ancient Greece. In its simplest terms‚ the Lysistrata is a tale that centers around an Athenian woman named Lysistrata and her comrades who have taken control of the Acropolis in Athens. They are protesting against the endless wars that men are fighting and refuse their husbands sex unless they cease their battles. This revolutionary due to the views of women at the time and how little dominance women had. The woman faced a

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    Melvin Burgess uses language very powerfully in a variety of different ways. He uses very persuasive ways of changing the readers opinion but leaves it open a bit to you can still think what you want and kind of have your own opinion about the book but adds a bit of his own opinion. My first reason why Burgess uses language powerfully is that he said “Its’s getting colder and you know you’ve got nothing to lose.” This shows that one of the characters is in deep trouble when something is

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    You all now The crazy man in America don’t you? Well if you don’t know who he is then I will tell you. He is America’s 45th President. He has been a successful businessman and tv star. Donald Trump had a big impact on Canada in different ways. He went after Canada’s resources like lumber and dairy. For lumber President Donald Trump told reporters to expect a 24 per cent tariff on softwood lumber going into the U.S. from Canada. He also mentioned putting a tax on Dairy product too. For dairy Mr. Trump

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    “Only Connect…” The Goals of a Liberal Education William Cronon What does it mean to be a liberally educated person? It seems such a simple question‚ especially given the frequency with which colleges and universities genuflect toward this wellworn phrase as the central icon of their institutional missions. Mantra-like‚ the words are endlessly repeated‚ starting in the glossy admissions brochures that high school students receive by the hundreds in their mailboxes and continuing right down to the

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    How Religious Belief Connects with Humans And Nature   Humans’ relationship towards nature is complicated. Phyllis Trible‚ a well known scholar‚ mentions in her paper A Tempest in a Text : Ecological Soundings in the Book of Jonah that “Theological language is ecological language” (Trible 189). It suggests that widespread religion has a reflection on the relationship between humans’ belief and nature. Besides‚ the two main characters‚ Arab and Jonah‚ from the movie Moby Dick and the religious book

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    between the ways Duffy and Pugh explore the power and limitations of language? In your response you must include detailed critical discussion of at least two of Duffy’s poems.” Duffy explores the “power of words” in being able to translate as well as influence complex emotions and thoughts‚ thus reflecting on the possibilities of language. She addresses the elusive nature of meaning‚ which –although expressed uniformly through language-is also restricted in being unable to fully interpret that which

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    Does Your Language Shape How You Think? Seventy years ago‚ in 1940‚ a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance‚ there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title‚ “Science and Linguistics‚” nor the magazine‚ M.I.T.’s Technology Review‚ was most people’s idea of glamour. And the author‚ a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted

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