SHAKESPEARE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Multiliteracies‚ Technologies and the Bard 1 My experience as a drama teacher in public schools and my observations on prac is that high school students in English or Drama classes find Shakespeare frustrating and alienating. And for many non-English speaking and Indigenous students‚ Shakespeare requires a cognitive leap made doubly problematic by cultural distance. In many ways‚ it’s like learning another language‚ hence the title of my investigation. I intend
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The Second Mile Scandal Nonprofit organization‚ which was established to help children who require additional support‚ is now preparing to cease operation due to one of America’s most shocking scandal in history. Founder of The Second Mile‚ Jerry Sandusky‚ was charged and found guilty of child sex abuse. Despite having the responsibility as founder of nonprofit organization for goodwill‚ Jerry Sandusky committed a crime for which he deserved serious consequences. The Second Mile is a nonprofit
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Learning a Second Language Nowadays‚ both students and people in business are required to have ability of using a second language. Learning a second language is not necessary but it is getting important ability. First of all‚ people who want to learn a second language want to seek self-contentment. Besides‚ that people can realize their potential to succeed‚ and they do not need to stay in their own small world either for outward or for personal fulfillment. That people can attain new ideas
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The Second Great Awakening was a time period in the early 19th century where people became extremely religious. It reflected cultural romanticism described by enthusiasm‚ emotion‚ and an appeal to religion. Religion had a major role through out this time period. There were huge religious gatherings and revivals that attracted millions of people and it caused many different social changes. The Second Great Awakening created many different movements that involved religion‚ abolitionists‚ and women’s
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Descartes’ Second Meditation In Descartes’ Second Meditation the key philosophical idea of “I think‚ therefore I am” is introduced and thus begins a new age in western philosophy. Some of the arguments Descartes provide in order to support his claims are that in order to doubt anything‚ you must be able to think and if you think‚ you exist. Descartes brings up the point that there may be no physical world‚ along with that thought comes the doubt of anything else being real‚ which again
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to take. Other activists began to create democratic reforms as well‚ fighting to reinforce the ideals the nation so actively prides itself in. Many however‚ did not take part in these reforms‚ insisting that the old ways were the best ways. The Second Great Awakening was the push that brought on these reform movements. Beginning in New England‚ in the late 1790s‚ and later spreading
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In Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address‚ Lincoln states that our nation should not be in war. He believed that we should end the war with a mutual agreement to cease fighting. He believed that our nation was falling apart and war needed to be no more and so he gave his speech.in his case war should not be a fight to win but an argument unforgotten. Lincoln’s speech was more based around repetition more so than personification. As he spoke he used phrases like “All dreaded it‚ all sought to
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November 26‚ 12 History Second Red Scare and Its Roots Nearly seventy years ago the most treacherous war ended. The world’s population saw and felt the power and technology of the newly reformed military forces of that time‚ it was something that had never been experienced before‚ thousands of lives could be lost in minutes‚ “Some 70‚000–80‚000 people‚ or some 30% of the population of Hiroshima were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm”
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The second Punic War was a turning point for Rome‚ for Carthage‚ and for the western regions of the Mediterranean. It took place around 218 B.C. and it is a war that was never forgotten. This war marked the victory of Rome and the defeat of Carthage. After sensing Carthage as a threat to its power‚ Rome confronted Carthage which resulted in the second Punic War. After several battles‚ Carthage lost most of its acquired territories but they were free in their inland territory. 100 hostages were to
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VOSKANYAN Tigran TES1 Hamlet’s second soliloquy : oral presentation In the last scene of act I Hamlet is told by the ghost that his father has been murdered by Uncle Claudius‚ the brother of the deceased king. Hamlet once mournful and grim turns revengeful‚ he promises the ghost to “sweep” to revenge. But he is tormented with doubts. The ghost has taken its toll on Hamlet but has not been convincing enough‚ he cannot fully trust it given that it might also be an evil spirit willing to make him
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