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    Creole Language Analysis

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    In this article they have kept their focus on what are ‘creole’ and ‘pidgin’ languages and what the public has generally understood by the two languages. Creolist do not agree with the precise definition of the two terms, nor do they specify that how many languages have been considered under the two categories. It is a language that represents speech-forms that do not have any native speakers and is generally used by the people, as a form of communication, who do not share a common language. The…

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    What is personality? Personality comes from the Latin word persona. It's an different roles or identities. Personality is made up of many characteristic such as, patterns of thoughts, behaviors, and feeling. Personality makes a person unique. According to the "Trait Theory", a person can determine their personality based on the "Big Five Traits" (BFT). The Big Five Traits are openness to experience, conscientiouness, extraversion, agreedable, and neuroticism. Personality theorist call these…

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    Title What do the words of the title suggest to you? What denotations are presented in the title? What connotations or associations do the words posses? Colossus refers to the Colossus of Rhodes, which is one of the seven wonders of the world. The Colossus of Rhodes was built to celebrate victory over the ruler of Cyprus in 305 BC. Denotations: The poem is about a new statue that resembles the Colossus in Ancient Greece. Connotations: Colossus of Rhodes was a statue in Greece that had…

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    1. Introduction In the article Polysemy Advantage with Abstract But Not Concrete Words Jager and Cleland discuss that related senses cause a polysemy advantage on abstract words. According to this study, the role of ambiguous words seems more important as compared to unambiguous words. These ambiguous words role is taken as advantageous that is peculiarly termed as polysemy. This specific term caters many meanings and certain aspects of language in it. In Jager and Clelands’ paper, the research…

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    Nature of the native is written by Thomas Hardy who is a writer of nature and reality. He plots the story in an elaborately described landscape. His interest in nature scenes shows that he has spent his childhood close to nature. His closeness to nature makes him able to write on it. In the novel ''Return of The Native'' Hardy described a nature as Edgon Heath which is an antagonist to human beings. Heath is a character that influences other characters. It also has control on the lives of people…

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    Through the clever use of vocabulary Wild (2013) engages the reader from the beginning. It is a story retold, of people trying to escape the brutality of war, forever remaining hopeful, and moving on to a better life. However, as Tunnell (2008) notes, it is not the subject or the characters that dictate if a book is well written, but the manner in which it is written. The choice of vocabulary can either tell the story to the reader, or show them, by immersing them into the story. The latter…

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    poem the speaker’s tone shifts from easygoing to a commanding as well as demanding one. The change in the speakers tone relays a shift in the poem where it first deals with details of nature, and then turns to focusing on human life and mortality. A word that sets the tone…

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    Distraction In Language

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    meanings, or even meaningless words. In today’s day and age, phones and computers have overtaken the way we communicate. There are technologies like e-books that have led to the decrease of library traffic marginally, but programs like OverDrive were resorted to in order for libraries to keep up with the growing demand for them. The question that arises within these gadgets is distraction from these mediums of connection. Distraction not in the traditional sense of the word, but the distraction…

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    Comparably, there was an example of Taylor trying to name the President of the United States post-stroke and it was an exhausting task for her to process the question; she had to focus on each sound, lip-read, search for word meanings, then apply it at a whole sentence level. She knew her “language with linear processing was out” and by the time she had the concept or picture of what a president was, her “brain could not get from “President” and “United States” to “Bill…

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    demonstrate growth in the use of oral language. a) listen to a variety of literacy forms, including stories and poems; K.2 The student will expand understanding and use of word meanings. a) increase listening and speaking vocabularies; K.8: The student will expand vocabulary. a) discuss meanings of words; b) develop vocabulary by listening to a variety of texts read aloud. Taken from the VA Kindergarten Curriculum Framework found at:…

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