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    Should Student’s Use their Language in School? The article “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” provides an argument regarding a resolution arrived at by the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee (CCCC) concerning students’ dialects. From the article, this became an issue due to an influx of students with foreign dialects in American schools. Thus, the significant argument in the article regarded whether students should uphold language variety, modify or eradicate it…

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    The country of natat mortem (death swims), is under the sea located in the bermuda triangle along the tropic of cancer, northwestern hemisphere, with the coordinates of 25.0000 N and 71.0000 W, elongated east to west. The climate is tropical and extremely hot throughout the year, in fact the water is in the constant state of boiling due to the tropical temperatures. Though it seems there should be no survival in the hot temperatures the genius supreme leader esther falokun developed pod like…

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    M1-Compare the strengths & weaknesses of Operating System There are many different types of Operating Systems that are developed for different reasons, the most common operating systems in desktop computers and laptops are Windows and Linux. The company has requested that I run comparison of Windows 7 and Linux 14, there functions, features, pros, cons and at the end give my overall opinion. Windows 7: Windows 7 has incorporated new features make it more advance than Windows Vista but also make…

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    The persistence of Ebonics defies the intentions behind the dehumanization of African people. Furthermore, the use of Ebonics in literature highlights this defiance and persistence. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston paints the picture of displaced descendants of enslaved Africans lacking their native tongue in the color of their innovative vibrant language (Ebonics). In her use of Ebonics, Hurston promotes the value of African American language while adequately displaying the complexity…

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    Starting with “Negro English” or “Black Speech”, these were the first denominations that African American English had. It has to do with the period of time to which they belonged, as at this time colored people would be also designated as “Negro”. It has also been labeled as “Black communication”, which makes more sense than the other two as, at least, this label is referring to the communication patterns, or the communication features, that could be found in the black speech. Also following the…

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    Rudy lives in Kahalu’u, Oahu with his three sisters and mom and dad. Rudy’s dad is hawaiian and his mom is caucasian, Rudy is somehow white with red hair. So this makes him stand out in his small town of locals. Rudy's dad is a typical big hawaiian, pidgin speaking man, who “runs the place”. However Rudy’s mom is quite the opposite, in fact she doesn’t like his lifestyle at all. She doesn’t allow any pigeon-talk in her house, and she insists on sending all of her kids to private school. Both of…

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    this story he is telling here about the beliefs in the tribe of the Ibos, the same tribe or group of people he is a member of. And also for what I have read about Chinua, he is known for incorporating words from his tribe (Ibo or Igbo) as well as Pidgin English (a form of English usually heard in some parts of the word that had gone under British Empire). And this is also the reason why the characters in Marriage is a Private Affair spoke a perfect British…

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    Science fiction, which is a fiction that deals with the impact of actual or imagined science as if we see the future. For example, one character can fly to the sky after taking medicine, can be an invisible man, and can go to the past or future with a time machine. In the case of the old science fiction movie, characters use a little technology that is similar to a smartphone which we use. Recently, some of the things that we only see in the movie actualize around us. If I argue some examples,…

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    What’s that Pig Outdoors by Henry Kisor is both a dream and a nightmare. It is a book written by a deaf man, and self proclaimed to be for the deaf. Kisor’s autobiography takes the reader through his life, starting with the meningitis that caused him to be deaf at age 3, to his adult life as a journalist. In between, Kisor experiences some discrimination, such as not being allowed to be a lifeguard, but goes largely unopposed throughout his life. Kisor’s parents are very accepting, and fight…

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    As the decades pass by, words are being added into the English dictionary. Many may not realize the effects of such terms that have been introduced to the English language. George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, predicts his vision of what the future would become in his novel 1984. The novel tells a powerful vision that the future would be controlled by the government from what we wear to how we speak and think. Orwell also introduces the idea of Newspeak. It’s…

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