English heroic legends

The story of Beowulf is ancient. The first manuscript was penned sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries, but the poem itself dates back to 500 CE. What’s even more remarkable is the age of the stories and histories that comprise the interludes of the text. Arguably, the most famous of these interludes is the Finnsburg Episode. Another, lesser acknowledged interlude is Beowulf’s recount of Herebeald’s death and the Father’s Lament. When reading various translations of this interlude,…

In 2008, the Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and the National Governors Association organized a meeting to discuss new education standards for the United States (Common Core Timeline). From that conference came the idea of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, often shortened to “Common Core.” About one year later, the United States officially adopted the education guidelines (Common Core Timeline). After the Common Core’s implementation, American parents and educators realized…

How Texting Is Wrecking Society In modern times, texting is a huge part of our society. But it has changed how people communicate for better or for worse. Author John Humphrys, explains in his passage “I h8 txt msgs: How Texting is wrecking our language”, how society is changing because of texting. The main arguments in his passage is “They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.”(Humphrys, 482). I agree with his…

The average American may think that just because both regions Mexico and Puerto Rico speak the same language they are very similar. Well, they are but they also have a lot of differences as well. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans make up two of the largest speaking groups in the United States. Although the two cultures have lots in common, for many years there has been much animosity between the them. There are resentments due to illegal immigration, crimes, and collective judgement from non-Latinos…

Riley Powers Mrs. Crehan Language Arts November 7 2016 Compare and Contrast Norse Mythology Building the Wall and Eight Legged Steed are getting compared and contrasted in the essay. Building the Wall, a play was about a ruler named Odin. He and his family members wanted to build a wall around Asgard. The plot of Odin’s Eight Legged Steed is about how Loki turned into a horse and helped Asgard take away the mason builder of the wall with Freya, sun and moon. These were two stories going on…

As it is stated by Jonathan Culver, “The English language is a work in progress”. This is indeed the case, as to this day, new words are still being introduced. Moreover, the English language is a combination which originated from different languages. These include Sanskrit, Gaelic, Latin, Old English (Anglo Saxon), Norse, French, Greek and Hebrew. The earliest influence on the English language is from Sanskrit. Many simple English words are derived from this Indian-European based language. For…

The study of Newspeak is very interesting, and it has it’s benefits and drawbacks. Getting rid of words from our human vocabulary can be helpful in that it makes speaking more efficient, easier to learn and to converse with, and removes bad words that are not okay in our society. But getting rid of excess words can also be a setback if it takes away words that help us describe stuff better and more vividly, If we were to start taking away unnecessary words from our vocabulary, that would be…

This helps teachers detect where students are lacking, and point out any problem areas a student might have. A small group of 13 states, which including Illinois and the District of Columbia are creating a new assessment on student’s abilities in English and mathematics that coincide with the…

Have you ever heard of William Shakespeare, an English Poet? You may have heard of Shakespeare if you ever studied the English language. Shakespeare is studied in many English Classes, and has created plays like “Romeo and Juliet”. William Shakespeare is considered one of the most greatest playwrights of all times. Shakespeare always had a unique style of writing, and language in his plays. His plays brought entertainment to the rich and the poor, people would gather around to watch his…

Surrey International Children’s Festival, Storytelling by David Bouchard Although I had been studying French for over a decade, this was my very first French cultural event I have ever been to in the Lower Mainland. Living and studying Core French in BC did not give me much exposure to French Culture. Unless I intentionally choose to listen to FM 97.7, La Radio-Canada, the only French station in BC, I perceived difficulties in finding the French and Francophile community in Vancouver. However,…