Speak Good English Movement

South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond famously wrote in March of 1858 to fellow Senator William H. Seward of New York, “No, you dare not make war on cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is King.” Cotton was chief to the South’s economy, and was spearheaded by 1793’s invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, allowing for a single worker to clean fifty times more cotton than previously possible. Similarly, Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th century philosopher, said, “The…

morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbours up. (Thoreau, 1966, p. 84) 1.1 Background of the study Transcendentalism flourished in New England as a philosophical, religious and literary movement in the early middle of the nineteenth century. Transcendentalism was an American movement in that it corresponded to the beliefs of American individualism. Transcendentalism also had a political aspect, and writers such as Thoreau began to use their transcendentalist beliefs through…

Ambidexterity in the Martial Arts My thoughts on ambidexterity go back to early childhood, long before I had even known there was such a word to describe being able to use both sides of the body with equal ability. When I was a child entering elementary school in the first grade during the middle 1960’s I had naturally started to learn how to print and write using my left hand. However, much to the dismay of my teacher and my parents, the thought of me writing with my left hand must have been…

Al Gore is the acclaimed winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was the runner-up for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2007 1. He has received international recognition for his involvement in politics, business, and environmental activism. He was the vice president under Bill Clinton from 1993-2001, the Democratic nominee for the 2000 Presidential Election, a member of the board of directors at Apple, and a senior advisor to Google2. He has taught at…

In response, Allison nodded her head in agreement. “Apparently,” she said, “Even when many died futile deaths over such demanding requests. The good thing is the request was from the leaders of the 5th and 6th Foreign Volunteer Legions, Victor Malinski and Mickey Landolfi respectively. They are requesting that they be allowed to oversee the training of twenty Obergruppen sized formations of Dweller soldiers. Organized under the Grenadiers specialty of RGA and Adelbu formations, these motorized…

Unité d'Habitation was easily the most important influence on the New Brutalism, both in terms of aesthetics and social programme. Although the Unité still reflected the utopian aspirations of pre-war Modernism then under attack, Brutalists like English architects Alison and Peter Smithson saw its form and aesthetic as reflective of the spirit of the present moment and providing a way forward for a broader regeneration of Modern architecture. The rough-cast concrete, béton brut which Le…

MANITOBA PORK MEXICO EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In order to truly consider the expansion of Manitoba Pork to the country of Mexico, it is important to understand the company as a whole and the country in which the expansion will take place. Factors that have an impact on the final decision such as the company’s history, competition, annual revenues and the products/ pork parts exported will be revised in details. The countries cultural, political and economical information will also be reviewed.…

Age. Throughout his life good health seemed to be a luxury that he had in abundance, but towards his mid-sixties his age began to catch up with him, and soon it was very difficult for him to continue. If Washington had stayed in office one more term, he would have died while…

In late May of 2016, I was referred to as one of several “costumed character” in grammatically troubled, but overall positive TripAdvisor review. My supervisor John King was visibly angry, not at me (this time), but at the visitor. “These aren’t costumes. This isn’t Disneyland.” For three months, I wore period clothing (this was John King’s preferred term and one does not fail to use John King’s term). The period was the mid-nineteenth century. Depending on my scheduled tours and assigned…

Table 1 Stylistic features studied following the critical reception of Hemingway’s style Critical Reception Linguistic Features -Meyers (1982, p. 5) ‘his classic style, stripped of adjectives is bare, sharp and direct’ - Paul (1999, p. 3) admires Hemingway’s ‘short, tight sentences.’ -‘Hemingway’s fiction is strikingly simple and concrete. It is comprised of monosyllabic words arranged in short sentences.’ Available at: <http://www.pages.ykt.ru/miracle/hem.html> Internet accessed on…