Systemic functional grammar

When I was little my grandmother would tell me all the stories she had of her past. She told me about stories of my mom and her siblings. She told me about how she grew up and how fun it was at school. Her job was always a mystery and her knowledge evoked my curiosity. She loved to tell me everything and especially reminded me and asked me what I wanted my future to look like, whenever she tried to talk about what her about what her job was. She always wanted me to become a doctor. I decided to…

Abstract: Participation and ultimately success in any sport depends on a range of factors. These factors can be organised into five groups according to Peter Figueroa who was a sociologist who developed a framework to analyse racism within society, particularly to look at how equity and access to society’s resources are affected by a person’s race. This framework can also be applied to other aspects of sociology, including equity and access in sport. At FLSHS swimming participation is extremely…

INTRODUCTION: This essay is relating to the participation of swimming within the school community. Section 1 of this essay will analyse the first two levels of Figueroa’s framework in depth and relate it to my participation in the sport of swimming. Section 2 of this essay will consider the equity and access issues, and the barriers that may be present within Forest Lake State High School students. The final part of the essay will recommend strategies to improve the involvement of swimming…

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…