Canadian English

more than fifty fiction and nonfiction books, including one of his most popular ones, “The Call of the Wild.” “The Call of the Wild" was written in 1902, and published in 1903. London wrote this book just shortly after he returned from the Canadian North during the Klondike Gold Rush. Upon returning he claimed to his wife and friends that a spiritual wolf inspiring the…

Turning points in life are usually difficult and challenging times and this idea of turning points is expressed in the story, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, the autobiography I Never Had it Made, by Jackie Robinson, and in the memoir, Warriors Don’t Cry, by Melba Pattillo Beals. Throughout history though, people have not only changed themselves, but they could’ve also changed their people and their country. Brian Robeson, as a result of being in the wilderness, became more manly. Jackie Robinson and…

I am an American born Taiwanese. I was educated by my father, saying that the philosophy of our culture is the practice of Confucianism: In my life, I habitually help people. Following the instructions from my parents, I spread kindness around the world. In college, I participated an after-school activity: Recycling and Waste Management(RWM). During weeks, I rouse from sleep at 5:30 on weekends and rode a scooter to the Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation(BTCMF). With a brief period, I put…

“M. de Jumonville made a sign that he had a letter from his commander; hereupon the fire ceased, and they surrounded the French officer, in order to hear it. He immediately ordered the summons to be read, and as it was reading the second time, the English assassinated him.” This source account reports that Jumonville died by gunshot. Standing unarmed and desperately trying to deliver a…

involvement in the Concurrent Education program at Queen’s University I had numerous practicum experiences. My most valuable experience was at Parkland P.S., where I took a role in conducting a Reading Recovery Program for immigrant students learning English to advance their skills and allow them to gain confidence in communicating the language. I was humbled to see how my support developed students’ progress and impacted an individual’s life. I was also involved in various extra-curricular…

We use slang in English to communicate effectively in an informal manner, and with some degree of humor. In Slang Origins by Woody Allen, the author explains how a variety of phrases became known as slang. Allen included stories of slang derived from marital customs and how the woman accepted or rejected the proposal, misunderstandings because of not being able to hear what someone else said properly, and ones that started because of something a single person did that was amusing. These origins…

Are there particular organizations that you liaise with when you are working with such clients? Brian: I have a few community partners I work with depending on what their need is. I have been working a lot of ATM the last month or so especially since we moved here, we have been having those discussions of what does us partnering more look like. That has been good and I am pretty connected with all of the other employment agencies in town. Sometimes, for whatever reason, client get connected…

language. Languages differ from each other, the most important way of reading and grammar. Learning a new language like a child at the beginning of learning to speak. According the essay “Literacy: A Lineage”, by Melanie Luken, who was a French and English major at the Ohio State University “Studying a foreign language can, at times, be just like learning how to read and write as a child”(135). This statement made me wonder is it possible to be adults and children have the same capacity to learn…

right, but instead north or south. This interested many scientists and brought about several studies. The most curious of which was done by showing one native English speaker and one native Guugu Yimithirr speaker a room facing south, and then showing them both a room across the hall that had the exact same layout but was facing north. The English speaker saw the rooms as identical, but the Guugu Yimithirr speaker saw the room as entirely different. Their languages made them see the same…

and press it agains herself or like Staples mention she would have it across her chest. People talk differently for example the Black English or today it is called slang. “The slaves began the formation of the black church, and it is within this unprecedented tabernacle that Black English began to be formed”(Baldwin). They would have their ceremonies in the english language that they know. Since they were uneducated blacks only spoke the language that they know. They church was their way of…