Shorthand

In Sui Sin Far’s The Story of Once White Woman Whom Married A Chinese, there was a clear distinction between the characteristics of Minnie’s ex-husband, James Carson, and her new husband, Liu Kanghi. James Carson was a well-educated American man that was well versed in the problems of the human condition, including woman’s suffrage, labor politics and socialism. Despite his intellectual persona, he was also a deep-seated, emotionally abusive man who treated his wife with callousness and disrespect by insulting her intelligence and ambition, ignoring her attempts to communicate with him and despite the fact that the couple was still married and were raising their daughter together, he even sought out the companionship of another woman. An instance of James’ multiple insults was when he commented; “If you had ambition of the right sort you would have perfected yourself in your stenography so that you could have taken cases in court. There’s a little fortune in that business” (Far, 3). Instead of encouraging Minnie to continue to improve upon her talents as a stenographer and appreciating her for earning enough of an income to support his desires to write a book even when it was not completely necessary, he just discourages her. There came a point in her marriage to James when the emotional abuse had reached a point when she wished that he would just hit her, “He was neither a drinking nor an abusive man; but he could say such cruel and cutting things that I would a hundred…

Baltimorean’s accents can be classified as both southern and northern. Baltimoreans do not pronounce every letter in some words. We use a lot of phrases, slang, and we shorthand a lot of words and phrases as well. Baltimore’s phonology plays a huge role in having a conversation and pronouncing words because Baltimoreans do not pronounce every letter in certain words or we shorthand words and phrases. Baltimore’s lexicon plays a role when calling our family or friends by their relations to us.…

not familiar with deciphering shorthand. Therefore, Stoker needed a character to transcribe, collect and order the abundance of documents that Dracula consists of – Mina Harker, née Murray. Like Alison Case’s quote at the top of this page already hints at, Count Dracula can ultimately only be defeated because of Mina’s devotion to transcribe, collect and order documents, which include information about him, his goals and his doings. Due to the collection of documents produced by different…

Chapters One through Eight reveals the progression of Mina Murray, Jonathan Harker’s fiancé, character as well as the theme of gender. As stated in Chapter Five, Mina is an assistant schoolmistress. Unlike Harker, she knows a little about shorthand, but is trying to be caught up to Harker’s level of shorthand and his studies (Stocker p. 67). During the Victorian era it was expected for a man’s wife to be educated and pure. Mina wants to acquire all these things, such as shorthand, to be seen as…

the Afubau process to fill the orbitals with electrons and lastly the sum of all the superscripts should add up to the complete number of electrons. An excited atom has either an electron or electrons that are not in the lowest possible energy level, however an excited atoms are unstable energetically. Aluminum's electron configuration is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p1. Argon's configuration is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6. Key Idea V Instead of writing out Aluminum's entire electron configuration, there is a…

In order to be a cut above the rest, women are expected to learn multiple languages, as advised by Jay Cee, such as German and French, and are also expected to know shorthand, mainly in order to take dictation from men. Women are also expected by society to keep their virginity safe until marriage and also only have one sexual partner, while men can have as many as they please. Lastly, women were required to stay home after marriage and tend to the children and their husbands needs all day…

help” (39). Esther’s mother was callous on her. Her mother had to take care of 2 kids without any money left from her husband. Consequently, Esther had to work adamantine and assist for her family. By doing that, Esther could not take it anymore and decided to move to New York away from her family. Next, after Esther moved and had anxiety in New York she decided to spend the summer back home. When she got home, Esther did not get into the writing program. She decided to write her own novel, but…

texting craze that has encapsulated modern society, affecting the way in which individuals are speaking and writing. Relative to communication, texting and other forms of digital media have prompted a shorthand version of the English language to be used instead of the grammatically correct skills we have taught thus far in elementary, middle, and high school education courses. In a specific study conducted by psychologists Sarah De Jonge and Nenagh Kemp, teenage Australian students proved this…

but not medications, to aid in the treatment of addiction to opioids. Addict is shorthand for opioid addict. For example, the statement “Some addicts abuse heroin” is the same as saying “Some opioid addicts abuse heroin.” The word ‘addict’ derives from the Latin word ‘addictus,’ which means to become a slave (http://bit.ly/20Isq0N). Addiction is shorthand for opioid addiction. The medical term is opioid use disorder or opioid dependence. Street terms are a monkey on your back, chasing the…

The concept of Newspeak frightens me the most. I consider Newspeak the most frightening of all the technological advancements in 1984 because the vocabulary gets smaller each year (52). I value vocabulary because words are a way to express yourself which I often take for granted, but find very useful. Words are the most effective way to express what I think or feel and if vocabulary shrinks then I wouldn’t be able to express myself which is why I find Newspeak frightening. The limitations…