“Conversational Ballgames” NANCY MASTERSON SAKAMOTO American-born Sakamoto (b. 1931) lived with her Japanese hus band in Osaka and taught English to Japanese students. She is currently a professor at Shitennoji Gakuen University in Hawaii. “Conversational Ballgames” is a chapter from her text book on conversational English‚ Polite Fictions‚ published in 1982. Her contrasts of English and Japanese styles of conversa tion and her strategy for developing that contrast make us aware of the effect
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In Three Lives Gertrude Stein created a bigger picture about life through her writing style and use of language. Throughout Three Lives‚ Stein uses adjectives and other descriptive words to describe her characters personalities and tendencies. These descriptive words made the reader question the actual meaning of the words because theses descriptive words were not necessarily consistent with the specific character they were associated with. With this inconsistency‚ Stein presents the idea that not
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Nicole Hands Professor Dinh English 100 11 November 2013 Identity Identity is what defines a person on who they are and what they are all about. Commonly identity is only labeled as male or female. Your personality and physical characteristics are just a couple of things that shape your identity. In certain situations a person feels that he or she does not completely belong to a certain identity‚ male or female. Some say they feel half
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3.0 GOVERNANCE INNOVATIONS IN THE 19th CENTURY In the 19thC‚ commerce and trade among the European countries and between European states and their colonies expanded and inter-state relations became more frequent and more intense. Ideas for a more international approach to governance were proposed. In a pioneering textbook on international organization‚ Swords into Plowshares‚ 1964‚ Inis L. Claude describes three major innovations of governance that emerged in the 19th C: i) The Concert of Europe
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Based on your knowledge of White Collar Crime‚ these documents and any independent sources that you deem appropriate‚ please explain what white collar crimes Madoff committed (including citing the applicable federal statutes) and describe the actions that he undertook that constituted the commissions of those crimes. Madoff and his investment firm was charged with securities fraud‚ for a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. The scheme wasn’t revealed until Madoff himself confessed his crimes. The Federal
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The genetic disorder which I have chosen as the subject of my report is hemophilia. There are two types of hemophilia‚ hemophilia-A and hemophilia-B. The clinical symptoms of both are very similar so for the purposes of this paper I have chosen to concentrate on hemophilia-A. Hemophilia-A is an X linked bleeding disorder resulting from a defect in a protein known as coagulation factor VIII. Since the disorder is X linked it is expressed mainly in males‚ who must have mothers who are carriers. Females
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Clarisa Rivas The Three Passions of My Life What is passion? Passion is a strong amorous feeling or desire‚ such as love or hate. I have three passions‚ simple but strong in my life: a desire to imagine‚ the search for understanding‚ and family. Three passions that will carve the path I have walked and will continue to guide me on my life’s journey. A desire to imagine‚ my first passion‚ is my overwhelmingly desire to create a world of my own. Great stories‚ presented in any form
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Jake Alexis ENG 092-08w Essay3 Step 5 What is it like to be a teenager in America in today’s world? Teenagers today don’t take for granted how lucky they really are. However‚ there are many teens that live in a fantasy world. This is shown in‚ “Teenagers in Dreamland” by Robert J. Samuelson. With new technology coming out everyday‚ many teens have become lazy with schoolwork and their everyday lives. Teenagers today need to understand that they need to get good grades in high
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The idea of raising bilingual children is both appealing and possible for more and more families these days and growing up with more than one language certainly has its advantages in today’s global village. In “My Spanish Standoff”‚ Kuntz writes‚ “My daughter is frustrated by the fact that I’m bilingual and have purposely declined to teach her to speak Spanish‚ my native tongue‚” Considering the information in her article as well as the information in “English Only‚ But Where” and “English- Only
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Is it ever morally permissible to lie to someone? Describe a circumstance in which it seems that lying might make more people happy than telling the truth. Would lying be the right thing to do in that circumstance‚ or is it our moral duty to tell the truth‚ even then? I believe in some causes it is morally permissible to lie‚ but in only if no one is in danger or if telling a lie could prevent harm to someone. At Christmas time we had an angel tree for the youth of our church‚ my aunt happened
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