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  • Goals For English Writing Reading Semester
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    Henry David Thoreau once said, "In the long run, men hit only that they aim at, therefore they had better aim at something high". I agree with Thoreau completely. When you have goals in life, you " re going to do anything and everything to accomplish those goals. Therefore why not set higher goals that you will endeavor just with diminutive amount of more effort? One semester of English has gone by and there's another semester to go. Even though I have done fairly well in English the first semes...
  • Word Atonement In The Old Testament
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    Atonement Atonement in the larger sense deals with a common factor which is sin. The definition is a making at on which points to a process of bringing those who are estranged into a unity (Douglas, 107). It is a theological term which derives from the Anglo-Saxon. The word atonement appears eighty seven times in the Old Testament in the RSV Bible (Nelson, 55). According to Strong Exhaustive Concordance, which is using the King James Version, appears seventy seven times in the Old Testament and ...
  • Swift Wrote Plain Perfection Of Prose
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    Swift wrote plain perfection of prose. Comment. Many critics like William Deans Howells; T.S. Eliot etc. have called Jonathan Swift the greatest writer of prose like T.S. Eliot says that "Swift, the greatest writer of English prose, and the greatest man who has ever written great English prose". But there are reasons for this greatness. One of the main reasons is that Swift wrote in a very plain and downright style. He didn't use any embellishments. At times, when Swift was writing serious stuff...
  • Use Of Slang
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    Slang, when used as a noun, refers to nonstandard terms or nonstandard usage of standard terms. Slang provides different symbols from which communication messages can be constructed. Slang is more than a noun though. Slang is a process. This means slang is also a verb. We slang as well as speak slang. The process of slanging involves the creation and use of slang. In everyday life, slang reflects the experiences, beliefs, and values of its speakers. Every new generation and subculture has a diff...
  • Poet's Use Of Mockery As Diction
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    Poet's Use of Mockery As Diction in Poem Tom Dink el The poet's use of mockery as diction conveys his disillusioned attitude toward the men that plan the battles without actually fighting in them. Using the words "If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath", to describe the majors allows the reader to picture the majors as old, fat, out of shape men that spend their days "guzzling and gulping in the best hotel" safe from any danger. Fierce, bald and short of breath give the reader a negativ...
  • English Net Jargon
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    An analysis of Internet jargon Approximately 30 million people world-wide use the Internet and online services daily. The Net is growing exponentially in all areas, and a rapidly increasing number of people are finding themselves working and playing on the Internet. The people on the Net are not all rocket scientists and computer programmers; they " re graphic designers, teachers, students, artists, musicians, feminists, Rush Limbaugh-fans, and your next door neighbors. What these diverse groups...
  • Line Four Of The Poem Cummings
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    Is the of style e. e. cummings' poetry its true genius, or the very reason the works should be called drivel Alfred Kazin says that the poet's style is "arrogant" and "slap stick" and that cummings is "the duality of the traditionalist and the clown" (155). Others, such as Richard P. Blackmur, say his technique is an insult to the writing profession. He says that cummings' poetry would only appeal to those with a "childish spirit" (140). It was Mark Van Doren, though, who probably said the truth...
  • Their Method Of Historical Criticism
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    The Bible and the Word 'Inspire " According to the Random House Dictionary, the word inspire means 'to infuse an animating, quickening, or exalting influence into, or to communicate or suggest by a divine influence. ' This definition indicates, when applied to the scripture, that the stories and writings in the Bible did not come solely from the minds of the respective authors, but rather from a divine source. This suggests that the authors were scribes, reproducing what was instilled in them by...
  • Sound And Effective Use Of Words
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    Gwendolyn Brooks-A Critical Analysis of Her Work Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been most responsive to changes in the black community, particularly in the community's vision of itself. The first African American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; she was considered one of America's most distinguished poets well before the age of fifty. Known for her technical artistry, she has succeeded in forms as disparate as Italian t erza rim a and the blues. She has been praised for her wisdom an...
  • John Kerry And President George W Bush
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    Language was a very important tool in the 2004 presidential campaign. The way that both John Kerry and President George W. Bush used language was extremely important in this election. The way a candidate uses language can make people feel connected if used effectively and aloof is used ineffectively. There are many components of language such as word choice, vocabulary, repetition of words, and dialect used in political discourse. Each candidate used several of these components in their campaign...
  • Great Apes
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    Are apes capable of using the language? During the recent time frame scientists have shown that such mammals as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans are capable of learning and using ASL (American Sign Language) and several artificial languages like, for example, "Yer kish". However, there is a controversy in how far that ability of great apes spans. There are two different groups of researchers, experimenting with language and apes, those who are in favor of a traditional approach, and those w...
  • Relatively Modern For English Language Word
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    There are not that many words in English that can be, without any change in their grammar structure, both a verb, a noun, several slang nouns, and a transitive verb (that is the one that derived form the noun). The verbal meaning of can came to our language from either Old High German kan (in modern German it is kann and has the same meaning as English can) or from Old Englishs cu nnan which meant to know more. If we think for a moment about the meaning of being able to do something as can presc...
  • Training Of An Automatic Speech Recognition System
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    Table of contents Abstract 3 Overview of the Characteristics of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems 4 Number of Words 4 Use of Grammar 5 Continuous vs. Discrete Speech 5 Speaker Dependency 6 Early Approaches to Automatic Speech Recognition 6 Acoustic-Phonetic Approach 7 Statistical Pattern Recognition Approach 8 Modern Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition 8 Hidden Markov Models 9 Training of an Automatic Speech Recognition System Based on HMMs 11 Sub-Word Units 11 Applications of Automatic ...
  • Slang Words And Expressions
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    (by the example of College Slang) Moscow 2009 Content: Introduction: Main Characteristics of Slang The Main Part: History of College Slang Studying in American Linguistics Main Features in Functioning of American College Slang Conclusion References Main Characteristics of Slang The main function of language - communication - could be realized not only by codified literature language, but also with help of colloquial forms of speech, one of which is slang. Etymology of word "slang" hasn't an exac...
  • Maps And Territories The Words
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    - Abstraction - to move to a different level, leaving characteristics out - Agreements - harmony of opinions or feelings - Allness Attitude - someone who believes they know ALL about a topic or object - Analogy - a complex metaphor when all items are expressed as words - Argument from absurd extremes - using unrealistic extremes in arguments - Argument form definitions - using your own definitions of words in an argument - Argumentum ad hominem - argument to the man - Aristotelian System - the s...
  • Use Of An Outside Source
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    Dishonest in Plagiarism The essence of plagiarism is theft and misrepresentation. One who plagiarizes is attempting to get credit, in the form of a grade, for someone else's work; in effect, he or she is doing the same sort of thing as copying another person's answers on an exam. Thus guilt or innocence in plagiarism cases is not a matter of how much material was stolen or what the motives of the thief were. Any material which is taken from another writer and presented as if it were the student'...
  • Play With The Word
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    The simile helps the reader think of other mealy and crisp items, most of them won't be very pleasant. Once again, Seamus Heaney relies on the idea that we ourselves will have images of things, and that we will use them and relate... sed" and "slung" and we can see vividly the kind of person that Dan is. He is not, at first impression, a nice man, because the words imply heartless and rough and uncaring behaviour towards the kittens. The words such as "pitched" are images of Dan's cruelty to the...
  • English Word Erudite
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    Erudite is a misunderstood word. Several adult, when asked to define erudite were found to be sadly misinformed. One adult answered that erudite was like", Fred Astaire, with a top hat". Another misinformed adult said that an erudite man is one that, "thinks he is better than everyone else". Answers such as these are most obviously wrong. One fifth of the adults surveyed answer with a resounding, "I don't know". While only three out of ten adults were truly erudite in their answers. My search fo...
  • Use Of The Word
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    A Time for Words to Die? The cast of characters in this drama is both short and long at the same time. The players are Anthony A. Williams, mayor of Washington DC; David Howard, the director of the Office of the Public Advocate; Marshall Brown, a staff worker in the aforementioned Office; and last, a minor character, John Fanning, witness to the beginning of a debacle concerning race relations, hyper-sensitivity and irrational anger. They are African American, white, African American and white, ...
  • Whites Use Words Of Pressure
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    A word is just characters (letters) put together to make a meaning, statement, or idea. In the South, whites wanted power over the blacks, and the only form it came in was a word. By the first amendment the whites had power to use words, as did the journalist against the southern whites. Richard grows up learning about the south and how it demolishes others, and how it stabs him in the back by words. Richard at the age of four learns that words have an undeniable power behind and in front of the...

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