Reflexive verb

hopeless. From the opening line to the closing line, we are presented with polarized emotions that are unreconcilable. this sharp turn at the end of the poem, serves as a conclusion that tells the reader how was the travesty. The dialogue with the rapists is a one-way: the rapists ask two questions before apprehending the victim, but the victim does not respond to them. She only reports what occurred that night, which is narrated using the simple past tense. Finally, the reflexive verb form only presents in Spanish allows for the erasure of the subject. While, in English this reflexive verb form felt in disuse by Middle English (e.g. Shakespeare uses bethinks technically, I think, in modern English. In this case, by employing the reflexive case of the verb, the speaker of the poem avoids mentioning her subjects/the rapists (e.g., “me llevaron al yonke” or they took me to the junk yard). However, the Spanish sentence reads “me taken to the junk yard” because the pronoun “they” is embedded in the form of the verb take. Juxtaposition of Dialects Anzaldúa juxtaposes four dialects, namely, Spanish, Spanglish, Chicano and English in this 130-word poem. Therefore, she forces the reader to navigate in trouble water. It opens with a Mexican saying, “a lo macho simón que sí”, which is another way of saying yeah. By doing so, the speaker’s identity is revealed to us. This is the first thing the author wants the reader to acknowledge, since it situates the speaker of the poem on…

Reflecting on an issue or situation is taking serious thought and consideration of what happened and how one could behave differently or respond differently. So simply, reflection is the ability to turn a negative into a positive. This is incredibly important in nursing practice as when we make a mistake, learn a different technique or a situation happens that we feel we could have handled better, reflection allows us to look back where we went wrong and how we could correct ourselves in the…

Reflection on Mathematical Power In a thoughtful paragraph, summarize the key learning you are taking away from Mathematical Power? I have definitely learned a lot of concepts, ideas, and more through reading Mathematical Power and hearing more about Ruth and Cathy’s journey through creating an interesting math class for Cathy’s students. I think one of the ideas I learned that really stood out for me was being willing to take risks and do things outside of my comfort zone. There were…

Personal reflective account I have chosen to use Kolb 's (1931) experiential learning model of reflection to reflect on my personal experience of moving house. I considered this to be the best model to assist me in reflecting on my experience as it allowed me to reflect on what happened, what my experience was, why it happened and what I will do when/if it happened again (McLeod, 2010). What happened? I lived with my parents for 20 years, we had always lived in the same house, so I had never…

my help would solve the problems the clients where encountering, such as social, exclusion, oppression and discrimination. In addition, when the group work was presumably failing to achieve my assumed goals, I was momentarily perplexed as to how to deal with the situation (Hill 2015). Although I effectively dealt with my confusion/agitation by professionally detaching from my feelings thus performing appropriately, the fact that my assumptions almost reduced my effectiveness was enlightening…

In the article, The Role of Reflection in the Effects of Community Service on Adolescent Development: A Meta-Analysis, researchers van Goethem, et al. explored the benefit reflection has on adolescents participating in community service. The act of reflection is when a person takes mindful approach to thinking the relationship between community service and possible psychological benefits (Ogden & Claus, 2006 as cited in van Goethem, et al., 2014). Reflection is important part in the process of…

Structural Techniques Structure in a novel can improve the story to make it a more important story. The structure in the stories help make them become a form of literary fiction. In the stories The Things They Carried and Love Medicine, the authors use multiple different structure techniques to help improve their stories. These techniques make the story interesting to read and make the characters much more relatable. But, the techniques make the stories more complicated and therefore more…

taken to move animals by humans. However the word Fahrad in German means to drive, as in drive a vehicle. Although there was the concept of driving animals before vehicles, the meaning changed with the change of technology. Now the word driven has change to be used in verbal phrases. What is familiar now was once unfamiliar language in the past, much like the internet is changing our language now. With the internet there have come different forms of communication, mail became snail-mail and the…

population, but American is only 23 percent with same group of people. Moderators of the podcast also said that people who speak Mandarin are 20 percent more likely to save money. However, in the research, Chinese spent 29 billion dollars for consuming smoke, which is much higher than America and other English-speaking countries. Those data show that the conclusion in the podcast is not even close to truth. Some words that English does not have, and some words that the other languages do not…

1. What is the central idea of each text? Answer in complete sentences!!! (3 pts each) “Use It or Lose It: Why Language Changes over Time” Words more commonly used in everyday life are far less likely to evolve compared to less frequently used words, seen across multiple Indo-European languages. One of the main examples, in English, is irregular verbs. As language evolved from Old to Middle to current English, fewer and fewer irregular verbs (non “-ed”) existed. Studies found that the verbs…