Name: Wang Jin Perhaps you and your beloved ones have enjoyed “Kung Fu Panda” together and been amazed at the well used Chinese elements in a Hollywood movie. The splendid kung fu fighting and the cute characters made it even popular among Chinese. But what I want so say is that this kind of cultural consumption is actually the cultural expansion and colonization from America. They take use of our cultural elements as a mask to advocate their beliefs and values. We are just like cows
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Ashley Crane Central Maine Community College Jurassic Park was a very popular film that entertained the notion that scientist could bring back an extinct species with DNA from mosquitos that were carefully preserved in amber. Now‚ a group of scientists are trying to bring back the great passenger pigeon‚ Ectopistes migratorious. According to the Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds‚ there were 3‚000 million passenger pigeons in the late 18th Century‚ making it one of the most abundant species in the world
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birds chirping‚ the leaves rustling in the wind‚ and other animals scurrying below me in the mountains of Nepal was soothing. Wrapping my long ringed tail around my body for warmth and snuggling in the leaves for relief I fell asleep. As a red panda the murmurs of the other animals usually don’t wake me out of a deep slumber‚ but today something was wrong very wrong. Everything looked so different in the light of day; I was usually asleep by dusk at the latest. Sleepily looking around I noticed
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2000). Certainly‚ it is beneficial to other languages and cultures. However‚ the benefit is not because of the uniqueness of different languages‚ but due to removing barriers and making connections across them (ibid). Therefore‚ a language becomes extinct because it has lost the function of communication instead of other reasons. Additionally‚ protectionism seems to cause a negative impact on economy and society‚ especially in some multicultural society. Take Indonesia as an example‚ the government
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authorities‚ to reverse the decline of a language. If the decline is severe‚ the language may be endangered‚ moribund‚ or extinct. In these cases‚ the goal of language revitalization is often to recover the spoken use of the language. Although the goals of language revitalization vary by community and situation‚ a goal of many communities is to return a language that is extinct or endangered to daily use. The process of language revitalization is the reverse of language death. -------------------------------------------------
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ELL204/05 Society and Language (A) Four Dimensions of Sociolinguistic by Holmes (2008) Believe it or not? since the earth start until now‚ people talk ‚ people communicate for transfer their information or convey their feeling to other . Languages play an important role in this process of transfer. Every day we speak‚ but sometime we will say the same thing in different way .What makes us use the different way to speak? In fact‚ these are some factor that will cause us to change
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IS FIAT MONEY EXTINCT? | Can Our Financial System Survive On E-Money Alone? | | Charnita E. Grandison | February 8‚ 2010 | | MGT 5014 | Dr. Bice | IS FIAT MONEY EXTINCT? Introduction There are many purchase transactions previously handled by getting in the car‚ driving to a place of business‚ and conducting business personally with a representative of the company i.e. a cashier‚ an account manager‚ a teller‚ etc. Today‚ in this ever-evolving world of technology‚ this form of
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for the Earth. In the present this balance has been broken and most of indigenous languages tend to disappear. Although worldwide scientists do not spare efforts to stop this extinction‚ there is a debate whether it is sufficient to do for saving extinct languages or not. Some experts suggest that some positive trends have emerged in linguistic field which can alleviate the grave situation such as master-apprentices program and large-scale documental projects. However‚ many scientists assert that
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There is an estimated 6‚800 languages spoken in the world today. Linguists say that about half of the languages are endangered‚ and that 90% will disappear by the end of this century (Rozovsky). With the possibility of extinction for a language‚ not only does the language die but the culture will also come to its demise‚ a perfect example of this situation is the Navajo language. Also known as Diné Bizaad‚ the Navajo language is a language in the Athabaskan branch with approximately 175‚000 people
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Though the tiger is one of the most powerful mammals‚ it also faces the worst chances of being extinct. In fact‚ as many as three subspecies of tigers have become extinct in the last 30 years and there is danger of even more of the species becoming extinct. Recent estimates put the population of all tigers (including the ones in captivity) at somewhere between 5000-7500‚ with only about 3200 in the wild. At the beginning of the century‚ this number was closer to about 100‚000. This shows how fast
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