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“The Richest Man in Babylon” By George Clason As a young man of 18 who has yet to make his fortune in this world, I found this to be a very interesting article and I did take the time to listen to a snippet of the book on Youtube. I have to admit that at first I thought it would be boring, but after listening to it on Youtube; it turned out to be an okay book. Like most people in the world, I would like to be “rich” by the world’s standards in regards to financial gain. As a man, I want to…

and/or closing of topics, or subtopics” and they “indicate [that] a shift or change is about to occur” (p. 2). Transitions are one example of discourse markers that inform the audience that the speaker is moving to a new topic. Transitions include words such as well, then, so, and next and can also be phrases and gestures. As I viewed the 8th Grade Social Studies with Prosody file, I noticed that the teacher transitions to several new topics…

The English language is complex with an infinite amount of words, all having multiple meanings for themselves. Have you ever wondered why only one word could have so many meanings? Experience and perspective. Words over time lose its meaning and earn a whole new one based on experiences or a person’s perspective in life. One word that has an unquestionable amount of meaning is courage. Courage, according to the English dictionary, is the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face…

The first quote I chose was, “I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint.” This quote is when Nick is explaining his house and talks about how he has books on the shelves on investments and other things. He says that they stood there like new money from the mint. The reason this is, is because he wishes to become rich on his own and make more money by himself. It also explains to us that he is…

Bad Code Switching Code switching is to tweak the style of discourse to the gathering of people or gathering being tended to. I had problems code switching when I met these friends that were Mexican and a bad influence my freshmen year of high school. Their names are Gabbie and Morelia yet we called her Moe I had history class with Gabbie and I had science class with Moe and the three of us had foods class together. I was spending so much time with them in school. Well I knew Gabbie and…

because words are a way to express yourself which I often take for granted, but find very useful. Words are the most effective way to express what I think or feel and if vocabulary shrinks then I wouldn’t be able to express myself which is why I find Newspeak frightening. The limitations Newspeak puts on people makes them unaware of their emotions, because they have no way to express them or describe how they feel. Today in society English is always gaining new words with each year or words get…

Deceptive statements will contain more negative emotion words, motion verbs and exclusion words compared to truthful statements. In addition to the model, we expect deceptive statements to include fewer words and more positive emotions words than truthful accounts. Secondly, in line with the Reality Monitoring framework, we predict that participants will provide more perceptual, spatial and temporal information in their truthful statements compared to their deceptive ones. In terms of cognitive…

A scarf activity is a great activity for a story time class. It acts as an extension of the story and can really help with inciting some movement as well. Our students always react with such excitement at the sight of the scarves. We're sure it's the same with yours. Given the fact that we are still working through our "Ocean" themed ideas, we created this fun and simple song\rhyme, with jellyfish in mind, which works really well with scarves. It illustrates the movement of the jellyfish using…

Suzanne Britt did a very nice job of creating this tone. She creates this tone by her word choice and her sentences. One of the words she chooses to use is cavalier, which means very informal. In this situation Britt could have used the word informal but she chose cavalier. This comes across in a smart and sassy manner. Another word she chose to use was viscous; the word means cruel or violent. When she used this word she was explaining how neat people just throw most of the mail straight in the…

Weight of the Words on My Shoulders The spoken English language contains many words with double meanings. In fact, it seems like almost every word can have a different meaning given the right emphasis and context of the surrounding sentence. This is a lesson that Gloria Naylor learns in her story “Meanings of a Word”. In this story a young, third grade age Gloria makes a comment on a young white boy’s score on a math test. This child then calls her the “N” word, leaving Gloria confused yet…