Inklings

How and why can language vary? No two individuals will sound the same, we all have subtle differences in the way we sound and how we speak which is unique to ourselves. Many differences in our language occur for many reasons such colonisation, immigration or invasion and can affect the dialect or accent that someone may have. Dialect The main question that is asked often is: What is a dialect and how does this affect the way in which language can vary. Dialect is an umbrella term used for a…

When Liesel first arrived on Himmel Street, Death stated, “When Liesel arrived in Molching, she at least had some inkling that she was being saved, but that was not a comfort. If her mother loved her, why leave her on someone else’s doorstep? Why? Why?” (32). Later in the novel, Liesel even stood up to the mayor’s wife to speak her thoughts and ridicule the mayor’s wife…

My preadolescent self and engineer father often talked during the quiet midnight hours as our family travelled from Gauteng to Cape Town. Such powwows eschewed expected paternal patterns. Instead, we were waxing over Quantum Physics, Thermodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence. The eternal thought-experiment of alternative histories always haunts. For example, what if these talks turned to other relevant topics, such as social matters? O, if one could obviate in retrograde! Truly our wounds…

J. R. R. Tolkien The English writer J. R. R. Tolkien is best remembered today as the author of the fantasy writer of the Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien has changed the world in his writings. Many people see him as the most famous fantasy writer. He once said, "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future". He definitely lived up to what he said. J.R.R. Tolkien was a guy who will be remembered for his amazing writing style and fantasy novels. Ever since he was…

In order to determine that hope exists for humanity in Joseph Conrad’s novel, readers should delve into the literature and investigate its dichotomies: apathy and compassion and life and death. At the same time, readers must be aware that while authors generally have experiences or beliefs that influence their writing, the impressionistic style of fiction writing allows readers “to form his or her own ideas as to what the writer is trying to convey as opposed to the writer telling outright how…

Every Cubs fan, player, and staff member had some inkling of fear from heartbreak, whether he or she would admit it or not. However, Manager Joe Maddon openly spoke about his nerves before the game “Absolutely. You should be nervous. We have to win tonight, so go ahead and be nervous.” Frankly, the Cubs…

The reader of Raymond Edwards’ 2014 biography of J. R. R. Tolkien will indeed find an extensive examination of the author’s ‘academic interests,’ for the strength of this work is in its author’s sympathy with two of the major influences in Tolkien’s life: philology and Catholicism. The dust jacket says that Edwards “followed the Oxford undergraduate course originally devised by Tolkien,” which would have required mastery of Old English and Middle English philology as well as Anglo-Saxon and…

Nazi leaders for premeditated evil” and that the regime was not as horrific as it is commonly believed to have been [Mason, 1995, p. 217]. Historians have been evidently capable of discovering proof verifying that some “Nazi officials . . . had no inkling of a master plan for the Jews and that within the party there were examples of opposition to mass murder” which thwarts the Functionalist notion that orders for mass murder came from lower in the ranks [Breitman, 1991, p. 25]. Intentionalists…

There are many ways in which a judge and/or jury may decide to punish someone who has broken the law. However, to determine which punishment should be delivered to a certain criminal depends on a number of things. Judges have to consider the seriousness of the crime that was committed, if the offender is more or less likely to commit a crime again before they decide the sentencing of the criminal, and if the criminal is a direct threat to society. The punishment may be as simple as a fine or it…

From within the two passages I was able to analize the information provided by the authors and produce a compare and contrast essay. In “The Lonely, Good Company of Reading", reading is considered irrelevant or to comprehensive for most, but Richard Rodriguez was determined to break the mold placed upon learning by individuals in his societies. In " Superman and Me", the author Sherman Alexie shows how he was able to overcome and become more than what his community expected him to accomplish.…