Second Punic War

The book, “Things Fall Apart”, by Chinua Achebe gets its name from the poem, “The Second Coming”, by W. B. Yeats. These two written works have many things in common. They share a common theme and back it up with several literary elements. However, “The Second Coming” by W.B Yeats isn’t the only poem similar to the book, “Things Fall Apart”, by Chinua Achebe. “Things Fall Apart” is also similar to another poem called “Welcome Change”, by Gina Whitacre. All three of these pieces of literature…

Julius Caesar Final Essay Shakespeare is known to cover important statements on life in his plays and other works. In Julius Caesar he conveys various statements, one being that people always try to find the easiest way out of their problems. This can be observed in the reasons for why Cassius has Caesar killed, how the conspiracy wanted to just kill off Antony, and why Cassius had Pindorus kill him instead of taking his loses on the battle field like a man. However, it 's funny that none of…

English as a second or foreign language could benefit from the study results and implement multimodal literacy strategies in their classrooms to better satisfy the needs of ELLs in the media and technology immersed world of language learning. It is also expected that language and literacy researchers use the current study and other related studies as a springboard to continue exploring innovative instruction strategies and effective intervention procedures of English to benefit more second…

Summary/History of the Problem The changing demographics throughout the United States have resulted in a rising of English Language Learner (ELL) populations in the classroom. In the past ten years there has been a “417%” increase of ELL students in Kentucky and similar percentage increases for several other states, including Maryland. (Blake 1). The odds are good that most teachers will encounter one or more ELL students during their teaching career. These students vary in English language…

pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. Basically, it is the way you speak. A person will have an accent when they use some of the rules or sounds of the native tongue to speak a second language. Why do people have accents? There are over 800 different phonemes in human speech. A phoneme is the smallest distinct unit of sound in a language that will distinguish one word from another. As babies, humans can hear all phonemes,…

The phenomenon that has been going on in the realm of bilingualism with regard to parenting, schooling, and education is that more and more parents, monolingual parents included, start to become aware of and appreciate the importance of mastering a second language and wish their children to be bilingual. Considering the practical advantages of being bilingual, such as better future career opportunities, positive effects on self-image, and the development of skills of enabling effective…

I had a cousin, Dan Nguyen, 23, was born in America. He graduated Catonsville High School, and he worked on Giant market then left the college last three years ago. When his mother asked him to come back to school, he always said he got the better job of currently his work. Otherwise, I had the plan in mind was the focus in school that helped me to get a better job. One made different on me that I came from outside America and though not the same with my cousin. I saw his mother told him the…

According to a report on IZA World of Labor, an online publication that prints research materials often used in policy-making in the United States, “Enrollment of limited English proficient students in US public elementary and secondary schools reached 4.4 million in 2011/2012, or 9% of total enrollment, and is growing much faster than enrollment of other students” (Chin). This is the outcome of a massive influx of immigrants from all parts of the world exacerbated by globalization. Naturally,…

for English as an official language (Sarah Palin Speak American). This demand, however, is not a new topic. Since this country’s birth, language-based discrimination has existed. For example, during the late 1700s, John Adams, a founding father and second president, tried to establish English as the official language of the United States (Schultz). One of the main arguments for an official language was that it would unify the country as a whole. However, the U.S. has never had an official…

Schools focus more on the results they get back from standardized tests than the actual students learning. Students are put under extreme stress to perform well. Students are taught that the standardized tests are what will hold them back. Standardized testing needs to change, it goes as far as affecting students who do not have to take the tests. An example of this is a letter written by a 1st grade teacher in New York, her students have to deal with the consequences of a test that they do not…