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    Look Up and Teenage Affluenza There is no doubt that social media has become a major part of the lives of billions of people across the globe. The immense power of the internet is both positive and negative; it can be used for an organization to spread awareness of a charitable cause, or it can encourage ridiculous gossip stories that internet trolls thrive off. However, there is no doubt that the internet plays a key role in today’s mass mediated communication. This is proven through Gary…

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    Coming to a new country and learning a new language sometimes causes individuals to forget the language that they were once so used to speaking. That language is the language spoken at home with family members. In elementary school, the English language is learned and this helps individuals forget that a dissimilar language is spoken at home. Being bilingual can be beneficial, but it can also raise social and emotional issues. In the texts “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “Achievement of Desire”…

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    While the experimental findings used to support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, such as the foreign language effect or behavioral differences in bilinguals based on the language used tempt us to infer that thought might employ natural language, they only account for the influence language has on concept acquisition. In order to perform reasoning, the brain takes a body-centric approach: define and determine the desirability of an idea as a sum of elementary sensorial input from the body or the…

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    IMPACTS OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Engineering is basically coming up with solutions to the problems that affect the society. It may also be referred as coming up with creative imaginations and implementing them. Engineering technology has really improved the lives of many in the society. A good example is in the Middle East where tremendous engineering technology has been noted. There been a great increase in the construction sector and this has resulted to rise in employment opportunities not…

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    Exception of Child Labor Third world countries are the utmost underdeveloped countries in the world; therefore, their citizens are underprivileged and necessitous. Families living in developing countries, such as Madagascar or Afghanistan, have children under the age of fourteen whose societal and living conditions force them to work. Nevertheless, child labor is a subject of controversy. In the twenty-first century, society has deemed child labor unacceptable, an inconvenient decision…

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    Code Switching

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    express him or herself in that language so they shift to the other to repay for the lack and disability of the language (Crystal). As a result to what one of those students being interviewed said, Bilingual speaker may be moved into speaking in the second language for a time. This factor mostly occurs when the individual is upset or tired in some…

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    demonstrated that in second-generation children, bilingualism is prominent; whereas in the third-generation and later generations of children, English monolingualism becomes the prominent form. The study also looks at demographic trends, such as observing that although the third-generation children use more English in their lives, there are areas along the Spanish…

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    ESL-201 Final paper Amber (Xizhao Liu) Language, Race and patriotism It is a fact that many languages vanished in North Africa after the Arab conquest of the Maghreb region, just like native American languages were eliminated because of British colonize, and many languages are still disappearing in Eastern Europe because of Russian imperialism. Some countries, like France, Germany, Japan and China, have already legislated to protect their language and invested money to develop their own…

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    Bilingualism is the ability of a person to communicate using more than one language. Bilingualism is also the ability to communicate with more than one language, but with greater skills for one language. It results from learning the language naturally through interaction with people from different cultures. It can also be learned from school. Bilingualism has been common in United States for a period of time. In United States bilingualism is a result of immigration from different parts of the…

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    Being able to experience cultural sightings in the U.S is a fascinating experience. For example, places like China Town in New York and El Mercado in Austin is filled with history and artistic views of people’s values. In America, worldwide integration is increasing not only in the business side but in everyday living. Because of the great opportunities in the U.S., shop owners from different ethnicities are able to offer their products. Consumers are offered with various shopping centers owned…

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