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    Southern Colonies

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    Southern Colonies The southern colonies consisted of five of the first thirteen colonies‚ which were North Carolina‚ South Carolina‚ Georgia‚ Maryland‚ and Virginia. Where the climate was the warmest out of the three colonial regions‚ which to those living there was a good thing because survival in the winter was easier for them. Even back in the day‚ money has been an issue for many. This is why many colonist from New England decided to move to the Southern Colonies. In the southern colonies‚

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    Southern American English

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    means to have a Southern accent‚ your mind goes straight to the stereotypical renditions you have heard from media portrayals of the South. Probably‚ the examples you think of are highly exaggerated‚ like Scarlett O’Hara’s Deep South‚ r-less rendition of a Southerner exclaiming Well ah nevah! (Bailey 11) or like those in “Gone with the Wind” or “Dukes of Hazzard County‚” both of which reinforce the negatively stigmatized‚ stereotypical Southern accent (Lippi-Green 218). Southern American English

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    Southern Patriarchy

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    After her father dies‚ Emily meets Homer Barron and after learning he will leave her she poisons him. At the end of the story‚ the townspeople discover his body in a room in Emily’s house after she has died. In this essay feminist theories like the southern patriarchy and her father’s control over Emily will be applied to explain how it contributed to Emily’s bizarre personality and the eventual murder of Homer Barron. The feminist theory can be shown through Emily’s dependence on her father both economically

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    Southern Company

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    The Southern Company is a utility holding company whose principal subsidiaries provide power in Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Florida‚ and Mississippi. With the gradual deregulation of the utilities industry in the 1990s‚ Southern Company expanded its holdings into New England‚ New York‚ the Midwest‚ and California‚ making it the largest power producer in the country. In addition‚ Southern now owns power generating operations in Europe‚ Hong Kong‚ the Philippines‚ and South America. The early 1980s saw a

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    Language and Dialect 学生 : 学院 : 高级翻译学院 年级 : 2007级 研究方向 : 商务翻译研究 课程名称 : 语言学理论 任课老师 :莫爱屏教授 论文提交日期 : 2008/01/08 Abstract: This paper aims to probe into the study of language and dialect in the field of sociolinguistics. Part 1 is a general introduction to the issues being covered in the paper. Part 2 centers on the analysis of certain criteria that probably could be applied as

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    West Saxon Dialect

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    Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)‚ English author‚ feminist‚ essayist‚ publisher‚ and critic wrote A Room of One’s Own (1929); All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that‚ as you will see‚ leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.-Ch. 1 Now regarded as a classic feminist work‚ Woolf based her extended essay A Room on lectures she had given at women’s

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    Name: Sanjeeb Thakali. Subject name & code: Mathematics for IT (BT 0063) Roll no.: 1308014090 Q.1 In a group of 50 people‚ 35 speak Hindi‚ 25 speak both English and Hindi and all the people speak at least one of the two languages. How many people only speak English and not Hindi? How many people speak English? Solution: Here‚ Let people speaking English language be ‘’E’’ and people speaking Hindi language be “H” respectively. E

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    Gatsby Dialect Journal

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    Dialectical Journal The Great Gatsby Excerpt:“Wilson’s glazed eyes turned out to the ash heaps‚ where small gray clouds took on fantastic shapes and scurried here and there in a faint dawn wind. ‘I spoke to her‚’ he muttered‚ after a long silence. ‘I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God. I took her to the window’---with an effort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned with his face pressed against it---‘and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing‚ everything you’ve

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    Билет 7 Basic variants‚ dialects and vernacular of English Dialects are linguistic varieties which differ in pronunciation‚ vocabulary and grammar from each other and from Standard English (which is itself a dialect). Dialects can be usefully defined as "sub-forms of languages which are‚ in general‚ mutually comprehensible".[1] British linguists distinguish dialect from accent‚ which refers only to pronunciation. Thus‚ any educated English speaker can use the vocabulary and grammar of Standard

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    Dialects of The Help The Help is a book that depicts the lives of blacks in the 1960’s and what it was like to live in a world that was so harsh and unequal. During the 1960s blacks and whites were on unequal playing fields the blacks were seen as inferior and not as important. Within the novel the lives of two black maids are depicted and the struggles that they had to go through to live in an all white world. In the 1960s blacks and white were kept apart they were not allowed to go to the same

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