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    In the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the language established in Gilead promotes conformity. This language utilizes biblical and neologism appeals to get their citizens to conform and follow the new regulations. To begin with, the novel is littered with biblical names and phrases: “Jezebel”, “Martha”, “Milk and Honey”, “All Flesh”, “Lilies” and many more. All of these appellations come from the bible and are used to name the shops that the handmaid’s daily shop at, the housemaids, and the…

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    spoil it’ (Árnason 2003, as cited in Hilmarsson-Dunn & Kristinsson 2010, p. 215), further elaborating that foreign words should not be used in the Society’s journals; instead, Icelandic words would be found. The Society advocated for the creation of neologisms from Icelandic stems, with which other societies formed during this time agreed. The general support for these ideas grew exponentially when Iceland was struggling to become independent from Denmark during the 19th century and they are…

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    Can you recall a poem that use collision sounds Answer- jingle bells Write your own story using the letter bank of onomatopoeia sounds below. Draw a cartoon strip using the sounds to depict your story Ouch, click, pitter patter, thump, whisper, whizz, cheep, chortle, arf, neigh, purr, chug chug, honk, tick tock, zoom, snip, rat a tat tat, cuckoo Invent your own onomatopoeia words of the following Trees swaying in the wind Children playing in the ground Piano playing Different Jungle sounds…

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    Harry Potter Cycle

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    Neologisms in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Cycle and their Polish Equivalents: a Contrastive Study 1. DEFINING TRANSLATION 1.1 Definitions of translation New things, processes, ideas are constantly and continually created in this world; from the field of technology, education, medical, laws, etc. Thus, it is produced new terms, which enrich the language. Newmark in “A textbook of translation, 1988: 140” stated that each language acquires about 3000 new words every. These new acquires words are…

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    of this translation(Qian, 2005). 3.4.4. Neologism With rapid development of technology and sciences of social, political, economic, educational, health, and every aspect of life, new ideas, expressions, and terms have became normally a part of the language, called neologisms. Newmark (1988) defines it as “newly coined lexical units or existing lexical units or existing lexical units that acquire a new sense”(p.140). The label often contains neologisms which cause an obstacle during the…

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    voluntary but any animal absent would have their rations reduced by half.” The quotation ‘we pigs are brainworkers’ displays how the pigs have used made up language to influence the uneducated animals on the farm. The concrete noun ‘brain’ in the neologism infers intellect while the plural noun…

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    Nacirema Culture Analysis

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    essentially us brushing our teeth. Our American everyday actions have been described as religious and cultural rituals of the Nacirema’s. The Nacirema nation also got their beginnings from their hero, Notgnihsaw. Interestingly enough this is another neologism, spelling…

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    More mental health hospital beds are occupied by people with schizophrenia than any other illness. There are more Americans with schizophrenia than there are residents of North Dakota and Wyoming combined. One percent of the population (3.2 million Americans) will develop schizophrenia in their lifetime. But about three out of a hundred people will experience a psychotic episode at some point in their life. Because Schizophrenia is so widespread it is important that people can recognize and…

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    Paper On Baptism

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    baptismos; Judith cleansing herself from menstrual impurity, Naaman washing seven times to be cleansed from leprosy, etc. Additionally, in the New Testament only, the verb baptizein can also relate to the neuter noun baptisma "baptism" which is a neologism unknown in the Septuagint and other pre-Christian Jewish texts. This broadness in the meaning of baptizein is reflected in English Bibles rendering "wash", where Jewish ritual washing is meant: for example Mark 7:4 states that the Pharisees…

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    Nontraditional Rhetoric

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    Tracing the Roots of Nontraditional Rhetoric In the first semester doctoral program in rhetoric and composition at the University of Texas at El Paso, I had an opportunity to study a course entitled “Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing Studies” in a multicultural setting in which there were students from Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Like the composition of the class, the syllabus was constituted by diverse thematic titles such as civil discourse, contemporary rhetoric, composition…

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