Second Triumvirate

My transformation of the Shakespearean text employs many different grammatical features to create an effective, modern version of Marc Antony’s soliloquy. Features such as nominalisation, paragraphing and abstract noun groups are a few of the features used. My transformation is suitable for modern audiences, using both language and people that today’s society is familiar with. My transformed version of the soliloquy uses many grammatical techniques and features to make it as interesting and…

Throughout our everyday life, we are constantly bumping into someone who speaks a different language. Language has always been a beautiful trait a person may possess, especially when it’s something out of the ordinary. There are many different languages spoken within our community alone. Regardless of where we go, language has a major effect on our lifestyle. It plays a major role when we are searching for a job because most employers are seeking people who can speak languages that meet the…

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…

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,…

important movements that describe feminists’ struggles throughout history. The first movement occurred between the 19th and 20th centaury, in which people focused on women’s rights, such as the right to vote, property rights, and overall equity. The second movement shows how capitalism is a very gender-biased politic, and it is intolerant to women and their very little economic involvement. The third movement is still going on today as it focuses on defining gender terms and classifications. It…

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,…