Second Great Awakening

who come to this country should be given a timeline to learn this language. The system to help immigrants learn English is already established, there are many adult schools, community programs, and colleges such as Rio Hondo that offer English as a Second Language (ESL) so making it mandatory would only help this situation. Also, when it comes to the workplace, many of the hazards and safety precautions are in English and without knowing the meaning of some of this warning, it cannot only…

dominant discourses” (4). For instance, when monolingual writers and multilingual writers try to apply for work position, the manager definitely picking the multilingual writers, because they can speak several different languages. When one learns a second language, it can open up the writer to new persuasive techniques. Unlike monolingual writers, the multilingual writers somehow can relate to the discourse and can provide a stronger claim to the discourse. Academic discourse requires the…

After the Six Days War ended in 1967, the Israeli began establishing a settlement in Gaza Strip and West Bank. Almost four decades later, an increase terrorist threat to Israel, protecting the interest and security of the Israeli at two fronts was putting many strains on the government’s national security. In 2003, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon officially announced that he was pulling out his people from Gaza Strip and northern West Bank . The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and national police would…

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…

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”…

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…

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 only in the area but also in the whole world. Another great sector is the industry sectors especially the fire protection engineering. Specifically the United Arab Emirates and Qatar hold and host fire protection engineers…

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…

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…

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…