...Famous Last Words...

found most surprising was the fill-in, “And he gave ___ written word ‘skunk’…” The correct answer was “the.” Even though 77 students gave the correct response, there were still several who used random words such as “garbage,” “things,” and “fishy.” These words do not even come close to fitting the sentence being that they are all form class words. A second point of interest is the fact that no one was able to come up with the correct word for “prolific.” That is the only entry that no one was…

strategies for understanding words, many are similar to one another and some differ from each other. One way is using another is using context clue and lastly is using a dictionary and word attack strategies. These all will help you tackle an unfamiliar word. Today I will be describing when and how to use these strategies. When you want to determine or figure out a meaning to an unknown word you first have to figure out how the word is being used. You just look at the words leading up to…

1. In “The Early Catastrophe”, Hart & Risley provided a figure that demonstrates the vocabulary size trajectory of the children in the study, stratified by age group (page 4). It appears that the trajectory of vocabulary size between children of middle/lower SES versus those on welfare remains very similar until about 23 months of age. This made me wonder why it is that the vocabulary size trajectory seems to dramatically increase around this age among children of lower/middle SES families, in…

Brady, The last few years have been like a zombie apocalypse to say the least. We've had many arguments where things have been said and feelings hurt. Never did we really sit down and discuss what happened or had a heartfelt apology. We just brushed it under a very large rug and moved on. Obviously that has not been working. As we continue to argue and not truly forgive, while not changing what we are doing I feel like we are slipping further and further away from each other. One particular…

Repetition happens a lot throughout this poem. Repeating the same phrases over and over again give the reader an insight on how the narrator is feeling about the death that has happened. It also makes the reader feel the emotions and how sad this poem actually is. The narrator is going through a difficult situation and the repetition in the poem makes it even more deep than it is meant to. It also may be relatable to someone who has gone through a death of a relative. The repetition may also…

You want me to write about the weight of words, okay. Challenge accepted, lets start with why. Words are a beautiful way to communicate but sometimes you need more, and its not enough and incomplete. To complete it we put wortheir not just sentence’s. Their emotions, gestures, ideas, thoughts and, that’s all were made of. You wanna know why they carry so much weight, such an impact because all it takes is for you to have told or to know a secrete, a truth, a confession. Once you know it or even…

“create” newspeak, it consists of the deletion of words not the creation of them. This is the exact opposite of what occurs in modern day society. We create new words in order to expand the range of thought. Newspeak is the exact opposite. The goal is to delete words in order to simplify the language. This changes the effect of words on the population. Newspeak has a large effect on the populous. This is because it is the main language of Oceania. If words from the old language, called…

1. Broken People - message: Someone is injured and they need a doctor. - shining moment: repetition of “I’m a doctor”, looks like a robot. And the patient said, “ok, I’m healed.” LOL 2. Group 2 - message: The transformation from the high school life to the marriage of a high school couple, and the teacher is a witness of their love story. - shining moment: distracted class looks so realistic (being late, playing phone, passing notes...) 3. Girl Scouts - message: writing a dramatic story…

Blasphemy. These are just a few of the many words that are used to define profanity. As taboo language, profanity holds a powerful position in our society. Throughout the various languages in this world, there are almost always words that are considered to be taboo. These profane words have a different place in the minds of people than those that fill their daily lexicon. The way that these words are used is often very different that day to day words and they have come to hold a special place in…

From the beginning, Genie was at a far greater disadvantage than Helen Keller. Genie endured a decade of severe abuse, neglect and social isolation. While their situations are both similar, their life experiences are what made their paths to discovering language very different. Genie had to learn how to trust and form relationships before she could embark on her journey. She would have to overcome her life experiences to progress forward. After Genie was found and went through the process of…