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Endangered languages: its deteriorate situation and the solutions With approximately 7 billion population, currently, there are around 6900 languages used all over the world (Romaine, 2007). However, most of them are not be used by sufficient population so that their survival may be faced with threaten now or in the future. According to Sallabank (2011), 50 to 90% languages will disappear in nearly 100 years. Though it seems that the living conditions of those…

Case 5.2: Negligence on page 101 Negligence is defined as “failure to exercise the care toward others which a reasonable or prudent person would do in the circumstances, or taking action which such a reasonable person would not.” (Law.com Legal Dictionary, 2017) “Under the doctrine of unintentional tort, commonly referred to as negligence, a person is liable for harm that is the foreseeable consequence of his or her actions.” (Cheeseman, 2013, pp.91) To be a successful case of negligence, it…

Fukuzawa Yukichi was a lower station samurai from Nakatsu, Japan. He wanted to rise vertically on the class rank ladder, which was seemingly impossible in Japan. He thought that Japan was stuck in it’s traditional roots. During the time period western countries and the rest of the world were passing Japan by with new innovations and knowledge. The solution he proposed to solve this issue was education on Western society to create a national independence through personal independence for Japan…

Just as the Party maintained their claims to power through the manipulation of historical fact, the PC Police manipulate language in order to achieve their goals. The dictionary definition of “violent” is: “using or involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.” This clearly defines violence as a physical act that is deliberately inflicted upon someone with the intent of causing measurable physical harm. Under this traditional definition of violence, murder and…

It’s the future and you see everyone with a type of technology around them. We see holograms, flying cars, and everyone in the same type of clothing. This is usually seen in movies and books, but are we already living in that vision of the future? The technology everyone has are from phones to computers, but it seems people depend on it more than usual. People have screens that can give an answer in mere minutes and communication doesn’t happen face to face that often. In this generation,…

statement in my initial draft of the following statement, “I must say that Arabic-English Dictionary is the most helpful tool I ever get to survive in the culture of the USA and also to understand the most common terms being used by the people of the country.” It has significantly improved from my first draft because this thesis statement successfully communicates the effectiveness of the Arabic-English dictionary to…

biblical research tool is called Baker 's Evangelical Dictionary. Here the website provides a biography of the selected biblical characters life and where key events happen in the scriptures. In the section labeled [H], the biblical research tool is called Hithcock 's Bible Names Dictionary. This section provides a brief description of the selected bible characters name. In section [S], the biblical research tool is called Smith 's bible Dictionary. This section provides in-depth descriptions of…

Or even know what religion truly is? By definition, religion may be defined as: “the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods” (Oxford Dictionaries). In today’s world, there are 4,200 different religions that people identify as. Most people have never heard of more than half of those religions. Christianity is the most heard of religion in the world, and up till now, has dominated other religions…

end up growing and advancing their lives. They achieve their dreams, feeling how great being successful can be. So, what is a sacrifice? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, one definition of sacrifice is the destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sacrifice). To put it in context sacrifice means that you are willing to give up what you are now for what you will become in the future. See, a true sacrifice must hurt,…

problems that Hyperloop is having or might have in the future. When I was translating this article, I found some words, phrases and sentences difficult to translate. Vocabulary For most of the unfamiliar words, I simply looked them up on the online dictionary www.wordreference.com, and find out their translation. I like using WordReference because it gives you multiple options for each word, and explain when to use which. For example, when I searched “fired” in the sentence “pods are fired…