English Essays

Simply because of the exponential growth in divorce cases for opposite-sex couples does not mean a success for homosexuals. (Michael). The real issue is not on gender, but the various components of a healthy relationship

This increased temperature happens when greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, and water vapor retains the heat coming from the sun into the earth’s atmosphere2. This increased temperature in our environment melts the permafrost,

I had to be by myself most of the time and to avoid any friendship by anyone who tried to come close. This was my way I had to escape the chances of being found out and exposed shamefully. During my period of stay with the prison commandant, I

Necklace, for those who do not know, is a jewel that is made to be worn by an individual around the neck for aesthetic purposes. When making a necklace, six main stages need to be followed. In stage

Therefore, an effective way of successfully exposing people to facts would first involve changing their attitudes or beliefs. For instance, changing the negative attitude that parents have

Due to the diverse ways in which politics influence detective work, the 21st-century literary writers need to incorporate the theme into their work to not only mirror the societal phenomena, but also to make their work thought-provoking and remarkable.

Arthur Millers inspiration for writing The Crucible came from the events that surrounded the McCarthy trials and their similarity to the historical Salem Witch

Sport: Play or Work This article focuses on the concept of sport and tries to investigate whether the term sport lies within the boundaries of the concept of play or it has some association with work. The author has analyzed views of different sociologists in this regard.

The movie is an introduction to the realities of life. The viewer realizes that behind the money and glamour of the sport, there are some harsh realities. The first thing that strikes while watching the movie is the fact that lack of guidance can hamper the future of young children coming from disadvantageous social background.

I remember waking up one night to a sensation in my sides that felt as if someone were stabbing my womb with nine-inch steel blades; terrified, yet excited, because I had been waiting with bated breath, and morning sickness and swollen feet for the past nine months.  

“His System of Logic 1843 was an ambitious attempt to give an account not only of logic, as the title suggests, but of the methods of science and their applicability to social as well as purely natural phenomena.” Throughout his early life, it was evident that philosophers played a large background in his discipline, unlike others.

Since grade school, teachers have been giving writing projects to their pupils from noting down a memorable summer to affirming a New Year’s resolution. In my undergraduate studies, I did academic writing, particularly in accounting and management subjects.

This is because all languages are in constant state of flux, and this continuous change is the reason for dialects and even new languages. In monolingual societies people don't have much choice. But in some bilingual and multilingual situations, the language we choose is governed by social and economic factors.

It thus seems that the two Greek works come to different conclusions regarding the efficacy and desirability of justice and injustice,although the details and manners in which they do so are contrasting.Taking each in turn,the first argument suggests that Thrasymachus is a supporter of natural right,and thus claims that it is "just" for the strong to rule over the weak

However, before discussing any determined results, we must underline the importance of language awareness and its theoretical foundation in the acquisition of learning a 2nd language. Effective instruction for children from culturally diverse backgrounds requires a variety of instructional activities--small group work, cooperative learning, peer tutoring, individualized instruction, and other strategies that take the children's diversity of experience into account.

According to the paper William Shakespeare remains one of the most influential writers for centuries to come. Even though he might have been writing four hundred years ago, there is still a lot of breakthroughs that Shakespeare made in terms of literary competence, which are a benchmark for modern writers as well. The thesis statement for this paper is one that revolves around the elements of Shakespeare’s writing that have shaped the modern literary landscape.

The needs of this particular group of students are related to a certain level of English that hey require (average) and unique vocabulary that they need to know as per their specialization request. The group targeted for this program is a standard university group consisting of 25-30 students.

It is a first language for 380 million, and a second language for 150 to 1,000 million (Wikipedia 2005). English has definitively taken on the status of the lingua franca of the world to some degree or the other. A digression to explain the terms we have mentioned is in order.

The researcher states that it has been his dream to graduate in social work and take it up as a profession. He also understands that social work is not an easy job and he will have to put his heart and soul into it. The researcher wants to be a social worker and wants to contribute to the social well being of his country.

In this circumstance he makes the register-switching. Later on he speaks on his own register. The workers stayed speaking on their own rural colloquial register all of the time. This is an artificial koinisation initiated and finalized by the boss on the grounds of making fun of the workers as a way of relieving the deep anger that he was feeling on them.

Why Am I Here, In This Class. Life is not very easy and a person has to come across many difficulties and cross many barriers if he wishes to achieve success and attain the best for himself. I am the youngest child in my family and I have three elder siblings.

Technology is important to students because the act of learning is not a process that can be limited to 40 minutes per subject in school. The use of technology as an extension of the classroom learning experience is therefore of the highest benefit to students who have easy and long term access to gadgets that can aid in their discovery and learning processes.

As the paper highlights the Shipper’s Representative should give prompt attention to the completion of orders up to its delivery. After delivery is consummated, it is the responsibility of the Representative to submit complete documentations of said transaction to the accounting section for whatever actions deemed applicable to its final completion. 

There are three main causes of obesity including unhealthy food consumption, lack of physical activity, and lack of education. The main contributing factor is unhealthy food consumption. Today, greasy burgers and fizzy drinks have become an essential part of daily diet.

Some examples of syntactical features that are commonly used are anaphoric, cataphoric and deictic elements. It can also be achieved through logical tense structures, presuppositions and implications connected to general world knowledge. The use of anaphora may vary according to the familiarity of the speakers to the subject and too each other.

And yet, the thematic similarities in de Maupassant's "The Necklace" and Raymond Carver's "Neighbors" are gripping indeed, proving as it were the universality of the "friends with money" theme, and the eventual downfall wrought by envy and covetousness

Language has always had to contend with neologisms but, never with the active deconstruction of the foundations of spoken and written language, the rules of spelling and grammar. Language, from the purist viewpoint, is close to becoming endangered.

Pidgins do not stress on differentiation of case and gender. The phonology is unstable and varies with every speaker. There is no grammar or proper usage of vocabulary also. It implies that any form of language can be used to express the desired thought successfully.

If on the one hand the success of the English language has turned it into a vehicle for international communication, on the other hand the orientation of linguistic studies toward language as communication in social contexts has largely contributed to enhance the dignity of ESP studies.

This situation instills a feeling of dilemma on the pupils as to which is the correct way. Also the second language students have a habit of attaching more frills to the language. They misuse these frills and create their own rules while acquiring the English language.

Abdurrahman Zeitoun and The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell in his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces has described the journey of a Hero and the different stages through which the Hero has to walk through to emerge victorious in spite of all hurdles.

This type of activity is categorized under objective type testing. What happens in fill in the blanks activity is that there is sentence which is not complete i.e. some parts of the sentence is missing and the student has to put the appropriate missing part into the sentence.

In the process of learning English as a foreign language, it is quite common to the learners to find difficulty in certain particular areas of the language and in the case of Japanese learners of English, especially the learners of lower intermediate tertiary level, the use of definite and indefinite article provide with an area of difficulty, where it is common for the learners to make errors.

According to the paper knowledge management can probably be addressed as one of the most controversial and multilateral, but very promising developments in the organisational practice over the recent decades. Most of the prominent business companies of modernity report of their devotedness to the principles of KM.

Trust in personal and professional relationships is a two-way street that is equal to integrity, honesty, and reliability.  This is the best way that I find to define trust.  At first sight, this definition seems to be unrealistic, but in the real world, it is achievable within certain limits.

In Syria, we find the linguistic situation, not very complicated, as most of the people speak Arabic besides few other languages. Once when French ruled Syria, Official language was French. Exposure to English is just through media and technology since “Syria has a positive pro-Arabic stance…” say Baker and Jones.

Faggot in modern American English, Canadian English and Australian English uses is a generally pejorative term for a gay man or for mean that are judged to be unmanly, weak or effeminate. Its uses have spread to varying extents elsewhere in the English-speaking world.

The current paper aims to present two points of views on the issue of gun control to mitigate devastating effects of irresponsible use of guns through examining two editorial reports: one from the USA Today (Australian gun control holds lessons for U.S.) and the other published online in Denver Post (Gun rights and gun control aren't necessarily exclusive).

It was a fine evening when I reached the restaurant near the bazaar and I was deeply engaged in thinking about the art of writing. I wanted to get a clear idea about writing and the qualities of good writing. Two specific questions preoccupied my thinking: What happens when one writes? How does/should one learn writing? 

To say that a language is reliable is to say the obvious. We all know the potential of language to speak what we have in mind and to speak what we do not have. It is used also to lie, to aver, to adduce, to argue, to propose, to divorce, to lament, to complain, to submit, to harangue, to scold, to woo, to befriend, to accost, to pursue .

As soon as I began to think more deeply about this topic, I realized how little enjoyment I got out of writing throughout my school years.  When I examined the reasons why this was, I discovered that my main barrier to any pleasure from writing was my difficulty with taking my experiences and imagination, and converting them to the written word.

The different features of connected speech may explain the differences between written English and spoken English which many people get surprised with. But in reality, people do not really speak in separate words for words are usually spoken in logical connected groups of words.

Others supported the ideology he had brought up in his book saying that it was a proposal worth considering. W.E.B Du Bois was not only known as a writer but also an active activist of the movements that advocated civil rights reformation in the United States of America.

For instance, the use of a mobile phone to play music applies the old idea of a personal music player but this time using a modern media item that is the mobile phone. Technological convergence is the combination of several old technologies into one technology item that can perform several tasks (Junkins 200).

The terms text and discourses are utilized in a number of different ways by linguists and researchers. There are a number of theoretical approaches to Text Linguists as well as Discourse Analysis and the majority of them are of different research traditions, and even though they may share the same primary beliefs.

After seeing my parents work so hard, I have realized that hard work though is difficult to do but produces fruitful results. The habit of taking challenges and then working hard to meet them has been ingrained in me since childhood and due to this reason I took up five AP classes which are extremely challenging.

As a means of providing this exposure, the Holland Career Codes were used as the focus of six classroom workstations to help the students to determine the differences in job environments and what works best for them. During the activity, it was obvious that many of these students had not previously explored a variety of career choice, but were rather set on one career which was usually not a good choice for them due to cultural barriers.

I am an 18-year-old female. I was elected to serve on the Hereford Jr. Board of Directors. My key responsibility was to be an ambassador for the Hereford breed. In order to educate and inform the youth, I have been entrusted with the task of being a leader for organizing youth education program events.

The English language and grammar has adopted unique and distinct approach soon after these sequential developments. The understanding and learning of English is therefore challenge for the L2 learners; at first the learner has to understand the fundamental vocabulary of the language and then has to essentially learn and apply the revised vocabulary to get along with the latest English literature and reviews.

A language is that tool that assists human beings in expressing themselves. The way a particular language has come up depends on its history, the culture that complements it and various factors like the functional use that first triggered the need to coin certain words or principles of use for spoken and written purposes.