Suffix

Gender equality is a very hot topic these days as women demand equal rights in the workplace and are even running for President. This fight for equality is even in the way people speak and write. The English language is increasingly becoming gender neutral in an attempt to be sexually unbiased toward women. However, the overuse of gender neutral terms is quite comical. To write or speak an already complicated language in a consistent and unbiased way is, if not impossible, futile. Neither…

The old Norse name, Óðinn is formed in two parts, the first being Óðr, meaning fury and inspiration while the suffix being inn, meaning masculine, so the entirety of his name means ‘The Furious. He was the leader of the Aesir tribe which was one main tribe of deities and would usually go on daring journey’s away from the kingdom. He constantly sought after harsh…

animalistic state in the final hours of life, Byron shrink’s them from a human being to an insignificant member of a pack of beasts that “gnashed their teeth and howl’d” (32). Throughout this poem it is easy to find negative descriptions along with the suffix ‘less’. Byron’s Earth is “moonless” (5) and the sun appears “rayless, and pathless” (4). In the final lines of the poem the world is described as “[s]easonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless” (71). All of these negative terms help…

we even went to the zoo and she taught us I enjoyed the class. The Ell class in middle and high school was too easy. For example, the professor will give us a book to read and we had to write a summary then the professor will gives us a list of suffix and prefixes to make up sentences us the method used in elementary school…

1. In the novel, Trauma by Michael Palmer, one of the biggest emotional impact for me was in chapter two. When Dr. Carrie Bryant was administering Beth’s surgery to remove the brain tumor, she kept thinking to herself and her goal was to keep her promise. I felt sad but also proud at the same time because of wellness of the patient being described and Dr. Bryant’s will. The diction and details used to entail the surgical scene allowed me to really feel Dr. Bryant’s dedication to keep Beth alive…

important especially for someone that may have a speech impediment or has trouble sounding out certain syllables. Morphology follows right after phonology and its rules are how the words are built or put together. Being able to utilize prefixes and suffix at certain times is a big portion of this component. Syntax is just as important. Syntax is how are sentences are formed, sentence structure. At various age levels there are many individuals that have problems with syntax. One of the easiest…

The growing number of idioms in Dictionary of American Idioms shows the fundamental role idioms play in daily language use (Bortfeld, 2003). In this regard, Moreno (2011) explains three principal reasons why it is so important to teach idioms. Moreno (2011) argues that because of high frequency of idioms, special attention should be paid to them and language instructors should not relegate them to a secondary state in the curriculum. According to Moreno (2011), the three principal reasons why it…

waiting for godot The play "Waiting for Godot" has been the source of many interpretations despite its ambiguous nature. These interpritations have ranged from biblical allusion to the word I can 't spell without a dictionary, existentialism. In Ann Bugliani 's essay, The Biblical Subtext in Beckett 's Waiting for Godot, she presents the reader with exerpts and analysis them by what she belived them to be of a biblical subtext. One example of this it the name of the person Vladimir and…

Robert Deon Blanchard, wow what a name, but what does it mean and where did it come from? When I was younger, I learned that my first name, Robert, was given to me because my dad’s name is Robert. The name Deon was given to me by my mom, who was a huge fan of the football star Deion Sanders. Because she favored the athlete so much, she decided to name me after him, but her intention was to spell my name exactly like he spelled his name. Not knowing that his name was spelled with an “I”, she…

Fibrous Dysplasia is a rare bone disease characterized by areas of abnormal growth or lesions in one or more bones. The skull is usually affected as are the legs, arms and ribs. This disease cannot spread from one bone to another. About 70% of people have only one bone involved. This condition is called monostotic fibrous dysplasia. When fibrous dysplasia is in more than one bone it is called polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (fibrousdysplasia.org). This bone disease replaces normal bone with…