Tongue Twisters 1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers‚ Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? 2. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines‚ and where she shines she sits. 3. How many boards Could the Mongols hoard If the Mongol hordes got bored? 4. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? 5. Send toast to ten tense stout saints’
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The Benefit of English After I read “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ and “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee‚ I understand that the familiarity with the English language affect the authors a lot. All of those three writers share the same attitude that learning English can affect people’s lives. I totally agree with these three writer’s opinions that English can affect people and I think people who live
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contact with American Patrick Sawyer is 10th confirmed Nigeria case A Nigerian health official inspects arrivals at Murtala Muhammed international airport in Lagos amid fears of an Ebola outbreak. Photograph: Sunday Alamba/AP Nigeria has confirmed a new case of Ebola in the financial capital‚ Lagos‚ bringing the total number in the country to 10. The health minister‚ Onyebuchi Chukwu‚ said the latest confirmed case was a female nurse who came into contact with a Liberian-American man‚ Patrick
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To most people in society today‚ getting tattoos and piercing is just another way to express them-selves. However‚ tattoos and piercings can have both positive and negative outcomes. What most people don’t know is the history of tattoos and piercings. I think it would be wise to do a little research about the health issues that comes with tattoos and piercings and also how it has affected people’s lives. Tattoos have been dated back to thousands of years ago. While no one knows where tattoos originated
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was marked with body piercings. The Bedouins donates their wealth by the size of their nose ring in the Middle East. The same ring is giving to a future wife and it could be used as security just in case the marriage fails. During blood rituals a tongue piercing was used by the Maya and Aztec civilizations. A tattoo is a scar made by a needle attached to a hand held ink injector tool. This tool moves the needle in an up and down posistion using several vibrations per minute penatrating the skin
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reason why they want it done‚ and be fully aware of the complications that can follow. III. I chose to do my speech on this topic because it has become so common. As you can see I have my eyebrow pierced and once I even contemplated getting my tongue pierced. I did research at the library‚ online and spoke to local piercing specialists. IV. I will speak today about what kinds of piercings are available‚ the reasons people get piercings‚ and the different complications that can occur.
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When you see someone walking down the street with his or her ear pierced you probably do no think much about it‚ but when you see a man or woman walking down the street with their tongue pierced you probably take a second glance or make a slap judgment about them before even taking the time to think about why he or she got a body part pierced. Body piercing has become more mainstream in the past ten to fifteen years‚ but can still not get past the stigma attached to getting a body part pierced.
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It seems as if everywhere these days‚ someone has a part of the body pierced. Body piercings‚ also known as body modifications‚ are showing up on celebrities‚ athletes‚ classmates‚ friends and coworkers. Whether it is located on their face‚ tongue‚ or ears‚ body piercing is becoming a popular way to stand out from the rest of the crowd. Because body piercing is growing in popularity‚ more information needs to be provided about health risks and workplace dress codes‚ for those considering this
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other facial piercings (“History of Body Piercings”). B. Tongue piercing 1 Tongue piercings was practiced in a ritual form by the ancient Aztecs and the Maya of Central America. The tongue was pierced to draw blood to appease the gods and to create an altered state of consciousness so that the priest or shaman could communicate with the gods (“History of Body Piercings”). 3. Middle Eastern cultures‚ such as the Sufis‚ have practiced tongue piercing to demonstrate
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the video “American Tongues” Date: 12 February 2015 American Tongues is a 1988 documentary made to illustrate some of the dialects of American English. It features commentaries from several groups of professionals‚ such as sociolinguists Roger Shuy and Walt Wolfram‚ columnists Mike Harden and Molly Ivins‚ therapist Dennis Becker and historian A.C. Greene. The most prominent commentators are Walt Wolfram and Molly Ivins‚ who addressed sociolinguistic attitudes and stereotypes about American dialects
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