"My Boys Like Shootouts. What's Wrong With That?" by Jonathan Turley (The Washington Post, 25 February 2007) discusses how parents are becoming increasingly against the play of toy-guns, and how such gun-paranoia will inhibit children's development.
A Critique: " My Boys Like Shootouts. What's Wrong With That?" Assignment No 1 by Liao Yuan Jun (S9145473D) Group No. 14 Academic Writing WRIT001/Term 1 – 2011/2012 I declare that this Assignment is my original work and all information obtained from other sources has been cited accordingly. Turnitin _______________________ Similarity Signature and Date Assignment Word Count: Index ____________ Course Instructor: ___Toh Weng Choy____________ % Part One: "My Boys Like Shootouts. What's Wrong With That?" by Jonathan Turley (The Washington Post, 25 February 2007) discusses how parents are becoming increasingly against the play of toy-guns, and how such gun-paranoia will inhibit children's development. Turley, a professor at George Washington University, speaks against those negative attitudes and hopes to educate parents and fellow activists with regards to how toy weaponry contributes to children's development and emotional progress. In general, Turley portrays the image of a concerned father seemingly disgruntled at attitudes encountered from his personal experiences. The tone adopted is casual and the author's use of examples serve to reinforce his ideas and arguments. Turley claims that the allowance of gun play is
In Carver's Jerry and Molly and Sam, the main character, Al, is a loser in most aspects of his life.
MO Clara Mo Professor Michael Miller College Writing II 2th Aug, 2012 Both character and fate determine Al’s life Do you believe in fate? Believing in fate does not contradict with any religious belief. It simply means people accept the fact that their power in making changes in their own lives is limited. On the other hand, some believe in themselves. There is an old Chinese saying: man can conquer nature. Some people think that they are the owners of their lives and they are the ones who make their destinies. After all, does fate decides character or is it the other way round? There are always debates on this issue, but there are no definite answers for this question. I have another point of view: just as the main character Al clearly indicates, I believe that one’s destiny and character are constantly interacting with each other in determining one’s life. In “Jerry and Molly and Sam,” the main character, Al, is a loser in most aspects of his life. He is not even a “man” since he is so immature at problem solving by escaping from the problems that he has and turning to something else that can relax him, but not willing to face and tackle the deep-rooted problems in his life. He wants to change himself so that he and the people around him will have a happier life; however, “some dogs you just couldn’t do anything with” (Carver, 137). He uses the
What do you understand by Pidgins and Creoles? Discuss with examples why these languages are not corrupt or ungrammatical.
Holmes (2001) states that, ‘a pidgin is a language which has no native speakers’ and that ‘pidgins develop as a means of communication between people who do not have a common language.’ (Holmes, J. 2001:81) The main endeavour for speakers of a pidgin language is to enable effective communication, rather than to gain knowledge of additional languages. Pidgins are contact vernaculars and are used for specific purpose; each having its own ‘describable and distinctive linguistic structure.’ (Holmes, J. 2001:81) On Caribbean slave plantations throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, West African people were purposely separated from those who spoke the same language as themselves, so as to condense the possibility of their plotting escape or a revolt against authority. As a means of communicating with one another, they developed pidgins based on the language of their superiors as well as their own languages. (Holmes, J. 2001:81) In terms of structure, pidgins do not share any similitude to any of the languages in contact; however they do draw vocabulary items from these languages. Therefore, the term ‘pidgin’ accordingly indicates ‘a simple form of language showing signs of language mixing, which no one speaks as their first language.’ (Mesthrie et al, 2000:280) Creolist Peter Mühlhausler (1986:5) puts forward the following definition: ‘Pidgins
Comparing the pesentation of a political story in two British newspapers.
Oksana Markova (A2153126) E303 TMA05 Step 1 At first sight the first Article (broadsheet Daily Telegraph) is delivering the news in a positive way, so that Mr Osborne’s introduced changes come across like good news, with only some side effects of possible changes introduced in the end of the article. The second article however (tabloid Morning Star) openly positions the reader in a negative way towards Mr Osborne and criticises him and the budget changes he announced with strong negative evaluation. The Daily Telegraph is generally a Conservative publication and Morning Star is social democratic (Wiki, 2012) , and I think, politically ideological views are reflected in these publications and shared ideology of readership for a particular newspaper is assumed. As the news links differently with each side of political ideologies it reflects in the language it’s being delivered. The first Article reflects a positive point of view on Mr Osborne’s presented changes and the news being delivered in a relatively formal way, focusing on positives first (some evaluative language) then mentions some side effects of the planned changes in a relatively neutral way (no evaluation). The second article also delivers the news however focused more on passing a negative judgement of the Chancellor and his introduced changes. Article being delivered in a relatively
Bruner and Wittgenstein: Language Learning
Bruner and Wittgenstein: Language Learning A crucial phase in the child's development comes with its acquisition of language, but before we can engage in any pedagogical efforts to further infant development or to aid atypical cases, we need to understand methodologically what occurs during language learning. Jerome Bruner, in a methodological adaptation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's middle and later work in an extension of Noam Chomsky's LAD, has put forth one influential proposal (Bruner 1983). Ludwig Wittgenstein's own remarks on the topic also furnish an interesting story independent of Bruner's selective use of his corpus, especially insofar as his approach results in an irreducible riddle and a hypothesis by his own account (Wittgenstein 1953 and 1958). The two views are explored, contrasted and critiqued. In the end, neither will do to resolve problems in our methodological understanding of language acquisition, for which the most important reasons are given. Most children learn language with remarkable ease, but how are we to account for this extraordinary fact? The problem plaguing our understanding of language and language acquisition can be described as. How can one learn anything genuinely new and become linguistically creative and how this learning is possible at all, unless one already has some path into language, for example, a suitable framework in which
Americans are needlessly being debilitated by medications prescribed by their doctors. Rather than treating the cause, the healthcare providers are treating the symptoms with hundreds of millions of prescriptions for the magic pills worth billions of do
Malai Viorica Malai Instructor: Lindsey Byron Engl 1101 June 9th, 2010 The Drugging of Society If we are thinking about what is the most profitable business in the history of our country, the first thing that probably comes to mind is the oil or gas industry. When in fact, the pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable business. Yes, the drug companies are the most profitable businesses in the United States. We are not talking about the selling of drugs in our nation’s streets. We are referring to the selling of drugs in doctor’s offices nationwide. Americans are needlessly being debilitated by medications prescribed by their doctors. Rather than treating the cause, the healthcare providers are treating the symptoms with hundreds of millions of prescriptions for the “magic pills” worth billions of dollars. In some cases, people are being prescribed medication when they are going through normal stresses of life — as if it were abnormal to feel grief when we lose a loved one or a job, or to feel anxious when we make life changes like getting a divorce or raising children. For some people, taking a pill translates into a personal belief that there is something wrong with them, or they are incapable of solving their own problems. It encourages them to numb out bad feelings, just as they would with over-eating, alcohol, smoking and street drugs. At its worst,
Stylistic Analysis of Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech.
Stylistic Analysis of “ I Have A Dream” “All the fun is in how you say a thing.” Robert Frost’s words give us a perfect explanation about why style is so important in an article. According to Alan Warner, style is a way of writing, a manner of expressing one’s thoughts and feelings in words. A same meaning can have different effects on its readers by being put in different ways. This article is to take the famous speech of Martin Luther King as an example to analyze and discuss its stylistic characteristics. It is not only the spirit of equality and liberty advocated in the speech but also its impressive style that contribute to its great success. Style—Author Brooks and Warren, in an excellent book, Fundamental of Good Writing, have compared style to the grain in wood. “ The style of a work is not a sort of veneer glued over the outside. On the contrary, it is like the pattern of the grain in a piece of wood.” It is a pattern that goes all the way through: a manifestation of the growth and development of the stricture of the tree itself. As a man thinks and feels, so will he write. If his thoughts are muddled, his style will be muddled. If his thoughts are clear and sharp, his writing will be clear and sharp. “A man’s style,” wrote Emerson, “is his mind’s voice.” And he added: “ Wooden minds, wooden voices.” Since style is something
What happens to the "lost language" in language attrition?
What happens to the “lost language” in language attrition? For this essay one will need to look at what happens to the language that is lost in the process of language attrition. In order to do this after defining language attrition one will investigate the different situations in which language attrition can be found, one will also be examining hypothesis as to what theorists believe happens in cases of attrition and therefore what happens to the language that is at risk as it starts to disappear as the process of language attrition is taking place in individuals. There are also factors which are significant that one should look at that can have an impact. One will also have a look at effect of these factors in a case study of Dutch immigrants in France. Attrition is not only a term than can be used for individuals but also for societies such as immigrant communities. It is important to say that severe cases of language attrition in such communities can lead to the extreme case of Language death Seliger & Vago (1991) If one looks for a definition of attrition, one can see that this is a term that does not only concern language, but that attrition is the act of wearing away. Attrition can occur in bilingual individuals who lose all or almost all language skills in one of their languages. Van Els (1983) cited in Chin and Wigglesworth (2007:73) found there to be 4 types
Open University E303 TMA03 : Comparative register analysis
TMA 03 E303 Oksana Markova Comparative register analysis Transcriptions of both texts are enclosed as Appendices and for ease of reference the line numbers given in brackets. The line numbers and bibliographic references are not included in the word count. Text 1 Text 2 Register analysis Linguistic evidence Register analysis Linguistic evidence FIELD (Experiental meta-function). Semantic domain Topic: Census Professionals and organisations Inconvenience Questions Costs Vocabulary Lexical choice examples: Remarkable resource, bygone legacy, the 2001 UK Census, national censuses. many academic and applied practitioners the invasion of their privacy question on income, an income question, information on their income, a question on etnicity, the question. National censuses are expensive, cost £259 million Formal Focus is on questioning whether census is worthy considering the cost and time and all the difficulties in calculations and inconvenience involved. Semantic domain Topic: Census Professionals and organisations Inconvenience Questions Costs Vocabulary Lexical choice examples: This, this questionnaire thingy, the census, the fella, this thing, it Big Brother, they, the government a step too far those ethnic questions, and this one, questions about work and stuff, how much you get paid Waste of money, cost a fortune to send
Assess William Caxtons contribution to the English Language
Assess William Caxton’s contribution to the English Language In this essay my main aim is to assess William Caxton contributed to the English language, Therefore to do this I am going to have to look at his life, some of the problems he faced and his influence on the language that we use today. In my opinion it is important to say that Caxton was not the inventor of the printing press but was the first person to set up a Printing Press in England and that he was neither a linguist or a scholar. William Caxton is thought to have been born between the years 1415 and 1424. In the early 1440’s he went to Bruges as a Mercer, Whilst in Bruges he was appointed governor of the Merchant Adventurers. In 1469 he began work on his first translation which was a French account of the Trojan wars. Caxton went to Cologne in 1471 to learn the techniques of printing, This resulted with him setting up the first printing press within the precincts of Westminster in 1476 (Crystal 2003). Where he printed the works of Chaucer and Mallory and translated bestsellers from France (McCrum, Macneil & Cran 1986) Firstly to look at one of his contributions we have to look at times before Caxton, where we can see that linguists before him had identified that there were many different dialects in the English Language (Harris & Taylor 1989). Caxton was the first person to see the problem that this posed