Neologism

Badriah Albesher is perhaps the most controversial contemporary woman writer in Saudi Arabia. She became popular in the last decade when she wrote a couple of stories about women’s struggles to find freedom in a country that sets rules against their own will driven by old cultural norms. Hend and the Soldiers is her first work that was recently translated by Sanna Dhahir, a Professor of English at Effat University in Saudi Arabia. Dhahir has translated several literary works from Arabic into…

progress has been made but they decide on punishing Thomas anyway. “It’s called the changing. It’s what happens when someone gets stung. We haven’t been able to get a clear word out of ben since it happened. And it’s only going to get worse.” The neologism and close up shot heighten the idea that they cannot cure an illness so they decide to kill him instead. The society’s inability to find a way out of a situation has resulted in the mistreatment of particular…

Smart home system refers to the use of computer and information technology to control home appliances and features (such as windows or lighting). Systems can range from simple remote control of lighting through to complex computer/micro-controller based networks with varying degrees of intelligence and automation. Smart home system is adopted for reasons of ease, security and energy efficiency. In modern construction in industrialized nations, most homes have been wired for electrical power,…

Mental Status Examinations (MSE) are semi-structured assessment interviews designed to evaluate the client’s current cognitive process, while focusing primarily on psychiatric diagnoses versus neurological functioning (Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan, 2014). As an examiner, ideally, you should be able to “balance emotional sensitivity with appropriate objective detachment” (Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan, 2014, p. 250). Additionally, as with any interview or assessment, it is crucial to…

and nurture, or if there were traumatic events in the child 's life. The child regresses back to the pre-ego state where he only acknowledges and satisfies his needs. He displays positive symptoms of loose association, delusions of grandeur and neologisms (Comer p. 375). After this regression the child tries to control the ego and get in touch with reality, causing auditory…

1. Introduction 1.1 The emergence of netspeak buzzword Netspeak buzzword is new languages that developed with the internet that is different from the traditional mass media. Many netizens like it, when it is born, and it develops very fast. The language includes spell, the abbreviation of English letters, numbers, and expressions and so on. Numbers with special meanings and vivid network animation and pictures, firstly, it was a way that taken by the net citizen to improve their efficiency or…

Ableism can be defined by Campbell (2008) who argues ableism is connected with the production of ableness which refers to the perfect body by default (p.153). Campbell (2008) also argues that “the creation of a neologism that suggests a falling away from ableness that is disability (p.153). Ableism causes social marginalization and exclusion to those who do not conform to societies ablest norms (Dhamoon, 2009, p.113). The concept of ableism can be shown in the two readings the first one is…

In this paper I will give a brief overview of a) the community which I will study as part of my coursework for ‘Digital Ethnography“, b) the reasons why I chose this particular community as object of study, c) the boundaries of my research project, and d) the types of qualitative evidence I will hopefully be able to collect. The Community The community I will study as part of my coursework is a group of German Lego fans of various ages who have made it their hobby not only to build, create,…

Annelise Nussbacher Professor Drago LIT 211J 10/31/17 The Importance of Filth in Art and Protest “It was ‘the word’ which, greeted by the spectators with laughs or whistles, with applause and boos, played the starring role. It fluttered about from the stalls to the circle, and was exchanged from seat to seat.” The word to which Henri de Régnier is referring, in this quote from his 1933 memoir of Alfred Jarry De mons Temps, is merdre, Jarry’s hapax legomenon, which features prominently in…

The last stanza emphasizes that war destroys the soul of one being, and this is shown as the author uses abstract nouns such as: “strength,” “humanity,” and “entirety.” Overall, the hopeless tone and the use of vivid language deliberately creates a dark image of the society to the readers, conveying the message that the baby will lose its pureness once they come out into the real world and that it might be better if the baby elected death instead of life. Hide and Seek is thematically and…