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Corpus Analysis In corpus linguistics, the recurrence of patterns of small fragments like phrases and words in sentences is analyzed using strategies that do not necessarily focus on the contextual meaning of the analyzed texts. In this case, the corpus consisted of written text data from thirteen files. The corpus was named Kurdish non native speakers corpus. Analysis for the use of Conjunctions The following three corpuses were used in the analysis of conjunction usage among Kurdish non native speakers. • BNC- British National Corpus This corpus consists of a hundred million words from both written text and spoken words sources. The corpus is monolingual since it focuses on British English excerpts from the latter dates of the twentieth century.…

California. California is currently home to the largest death row in the nation housing 743 inmates as of January 1, 2015 (Death Penalty Information). Sentencing an inmate with the death penalty is more expensive than its alternative of life without parole. Judge Arthur Alarcon assessed that more than $4 billion have been spent on implementing the death penalty from 1978 to 2013 (DPIC). Here is a following breakdown of the costs: $1.94 billion spent on pre-trial and trial costs, $925 million…

AIMS The following questions have to do with the study of patients who have undergone a surgery (for medical reasons, severe epilepsy being one) that severed the corpus callosum. This leaves the two halves of the brain to work independently from one another. The main questions this study seeks to answer are: how do the two halves of the brain interact with each other and how is this relationship altered after the subjects have undergone this surgery? METHODS Basically, subjects were asked…

2 a. They generally suffer from severe epilepsy and to reduce the severity of the seizures, as a last resort, a surgical operation is performed to sever the corpus callosum either partially or completely. Because of this, the patient essentially has two different brains such that the two hemispheres are isolated preventing intercommunication as well as the spread of the seizure to another hemisphere. 2 b. Hence we can observe that language is predominantly lateralized to the left hemisphere.…

states the writ of Habeas Corpus, which requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention (1). The lower courts deemed no constitutional rights extended to the Guantanamo detainees because technically Guantanamo Bay is not an American territory, but rather, it is a Cuban territory with an agreed upon American jurisdiction, and therefore, the Constitution did not apply. Needless to say…

justice to be brought to our current president, Mr. Lincoln. Not only has Mr. Lincoln stepped outside his respective presidential power, but he has acted unconstitutionally, and thus he deserves to pay for his actions. Throughout this American Civil War, Lincoln has executed many improper, unjustified, and unconstitutional deeds, and on those grounds, he deserves to face the proper consequences, just as anyone else who did what Lincoln did would face. Lincoln deserving the proper consequences…

were targeted assassinations. Black and republican leaders alike had to be constantly aware of their surroundings. Charles Caldwell, a former slave and a current state senator, became a marked man for angering the white members of his county. At a bar on Christmas Day, Caldwell was shot in the back of the head by an assassin. Just months prior, he had escaped an angry mob of white democrats for the crime of trying to organize a barbecue. Four days later, the mob hunted down and executed forty…

2014 states that in 2005, epilepsy was described as a disorder of the brain in which individuals who experience seizures that cause abrupt and sometimes brief muscle jerks or long-lasting uncontrolled muscle spasms. Sometimes epilepsy can be treated with drugs and as Kara had been suffering from epilepsy since a young age, the operation was vital. The surgeon who operated on Kara, removed the corpus callosum, that is the fibrous strap which keeps the two parts of the brain in connection.…

recommended hospitalization (Bernard pg. 97). Because the offenses were serious, he believed that the Judge would waive jurisdiction and he wanted to have the opportunity to argue against it. He did not want the case to go to adult court. The judge, although received the notions, did not rule on them. He later waived jurisdiction over the case and it was send to trial in adult criminal court. Three weeks after the crime was committed, September 25, Kent was indicted in adult criminal court on…

Advance Access published on 23 June 2014 “L2 vs. L1 Use of Synonymy: An Empirical Study of Synonym Use/Acquisition” Dilin Liu1, and Shouman Zhong2 The article,” L2 vs. L1 Use of Synonymy: An Empirical Study of Synonym Use/Acquisition” by Dilin Liu and Shouman Zhong seeks to examine the use of four sets of synonyms by Chinese second language learners and native speakers of English by using a forced choice question instrument beside corpus data as reference. As it is clear from the abstract,…