Systemic functional grammar

According to Jeremy F. Strayer, only 69 percent of students who start high school finish four years later. However, the other 31 percent of the students are dropping out of school due to the lack of understanding of the given concepts. On an average, 7,200 students drop out of high school each day, totaling 1.3 million a year. This startling statistic makes one wonder what is discouraging our students from finishing school. Schools should develop and implement a new form of teaching that would…

After years of roaming the halls of your high school, especially in a small town such as I, you have already detected the various types of teachers. We don’t do this on purpose, but how can you not pay attention to who cares about your future and who is there for a paycheck? Some teachers have been here since our parents attended and can relate to the same generalizations that we have come to and that opinion is passed for years to come. There are instructors who appeal more to some than others,…

incorporated into the human brain and that evolution of language was facilitated by cultural intelligence through the gradual process of social changes and evolution of earlier communication systems. Chomsky and Pinker base their theories on Universal Grammar concept, which is the assumption that languages have a similar design and universal structure. The counter argument, which Evans presents to prove their theory to be wrong, is that recent findings in linguistics uncover the existence of…

Analyzing “Decolonizing The Mind” In Decolonizing the Mind, the author Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, writes about the importance of language and how it communicates one’s culture. He first writes about growing up in Kenya; describing the language, Gikuyu, and how storytellers told stories that were mostly about animals or humans. He considers Gikuyu as the language of his community, culture, and work. Later, due to the English colonization in Africa, he went to a “colonial school” where he was forced to…

Personal Reflection/Hypothesis The social issue I picked for my dissertation is early school times affect on students grades. My personal reflection on this topic is that I think school should start later because from personal experiences almost everyday I wake up for school and i’m still tired, and I know every grown up says “maybe you shouldn’t stay up so late and go to sleep earlier” but that’s the thing we can’t because we have homework, work and sports etc. I understand that if we started…

Working an after school job is an experience many high school students will never forget. In fact, a lot of students across the country have an after school job. This is no exception to Scottsburg High School; around eighteen percent of adolescent students work part-time jobs (Rembusch). While some students choose to work a part-time job out of desire, some students have to work out of necessity. Regardless of a student’s financial situation, working part-time can have a huge impact on a…

The idea of a perfect school has always been a thought, but it’s never been executed. However, with that being said, I don’t think anybody has ever seen Columbia City High School as a perfect school, and they never will see it as a perfect school. With a few changes, the perception of Columbia City High School could be slightly better than it currently is. Columbia City High School’s routine day for some students includes extensive classes, incomplete homework assignments, repulsive lunches, and…

After Keiler examines Bernstein’s logical fallacies, he dismantles Bernstein’s claims of the harmonic series as basis for all music. He writes that even the “simple diatonic scale requires…gross adjustment” (Keiler, 208). This is indeed true, with the fourth being 29 cents flat, the third 14 cents flat, and the seventh 12 cents flat (as compared to equal temperament tuning). Keiler also says the diatonic scale reaches into the outermost limits of the harmonic series. This is again factual, since…

Styles of the English Language Even though the English language is commonly used throughout the world; it is difficult, and is consisted to be the most challenging language to learn as a second language. One of the main reasons for this is the sheer complexity of the language itself. What makes it so complex can be associated with many aspects including dialects, regionalism, how it is ever expanding and changing, and possibly the most complicated reason is how the same word can have multiple…

High school athletics have long been touted as a necessity in the United States. They have been a staple of secondary school education for over 100 years and are deeply rooted in the American culture. Advocates point, primarily, towards high school athletes’ better grades and character as proof that secondary school athletics are beneficial (Sage & Eitzen, 2016). However, both points are not necessarily correct or proven. In reference to athlete’s academics, Sage and Eitzen stated that it is…