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- 3261: English Phonetic Interference
- ... native language deteriorates2. As the second language becomes more frequently relied on than the first, several aspects of the second language will affect the first, which is why many emigre Russians will speak Russian with American accents or with English intonation. In this project, I wanted to test emigre Russians in America on their spelling and test the interference of English phonetic rules on Russian spelling. Preliminary Work This phenomenon captured ... being a more complex selection, including words that the older Russians in my group should not have used on an everyday basis3. The Diktant Takers and Selected Procedure I selected 6 Russians and 6 advanced American students of Russian for my experiment. Four of the Russians were heritage speakers, and two had emigrated to America at 14, having studied English in school for 4 years. The Americans had been studying Russian ... All of the Russian subjects, save one young man, claimed that their English was better than their Russian, due to their higher education in America (all of them studied in average of 3 years in American high schools, and also universities). The young man in exception had been in America for 6 years and claimed to use his Russian much more frequently than his English. All students were taught English ...
- 3262: Societies Greatest Writer
- ... Cross ambulance driver in Italy" (Schafer 2 of 6). He was discharged from service because he was injured by a shrapnel explosion near the front lines. During his recovery he met his first love, an American nurse who cared for him. She later left him for and older man. When he recovered he returned to the United States and wrote of death and depression. This may possibly be because of his ... a profound effect on his writings. The book For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of Hemingway's most provocative books. The story opens in a small Spanish peasant town with the appearance of an American collage instructor named Robert Jordan. He has come to Spain to fight for the Loyalists in the Civil War. His mission is to blow up a bridge that is supplying the enemy. Throughout the book ... a one-rule-fits- all approach will severely limit our view of what authors have already done or are likely to do." (Mud... 3 of 5) Hemingway contributed a new and unheard of style in American Literature. His ingenious use of narratives from different of view impacted writers for years to come. "Hemingway has won his reputation as an artist of the first rank by operating within limits that would ...
- 3263: George Orwells 1984
- ... proles are the only people to live as they always have and to have freedom of speech and expression. Because of the situation that the proles are in, there is virtually no chance of a revolution occurring, since any possibility of a revolt lies with the proles, who are too uneducated and simple to understand the state that the world is in. Oceania is currently at war with Eurasia and allies ... Worship Eastasia, respectively, not totalitarian Oceania. Orwell's division of the super-states is more like that found in the Cold War than that of the 80's. There is no real possibility of a revolution occurring in Nineteen Eighty-Four, although this is not the case in the real world. There were many riots during the 80's, such as the protests at Tiannamen Square and the youth riots in ... it. (Orwell) Many of the ideas in Nineteen Eighty-Four were based on circumstances of the past which have repeated themselves, such as the use of secret police (used by the Jacobins during the French Revolution and Hitler during World War II, as well as many others.) (Orwell) Since certain aspects of history have repeated themselves before, such as the use of the secret police, I think he felt that ...
- 3264: Tripmaster Monkey
- ... really means shit shoveler for the Divine Horse Stables, he quits Heaven and returns to the Monkey Kingdom. This is the role Wittman sees the Chinese stuck with: happy to have a role in the American community, but sickeningly disappointed when they find out how small and degrading that role really is. When he returns to the department store, he impulsively mates a toy monkey with a Barbie doll, reflecting his opinion of Mattel (64). This moment also allows Kingston to foreshadow with irony Wittman s later relationship with Ta_a. Their relationship illustrates his insecurities about not being American enough unless he is dating a white woman insecurity exacerbated by Nanci, his ideal Asian woman, who rejects him. Wittman a fifth generation native Californian, is concerned to the point of paranoia about the lack ... stereotype. He doesn t want to see Hop Sung or Charlie Chan again (310). The problem, he says, is that Chinese faces, and noises are signifiers that do not fit into the context of the American sensibility ye (318). Them must be made to fit: We need to be shown and loved continuously until we re not inscrutable anymore. Wait a minute. Let me try that again. We re not ...
- 3265: Thomas Paine: Propaganda and Persuasion
- ... several editions of his pamphlets titled The Crisis, Paine used several propaganda and persuasion techniques including over generalization, either/or fallacy, bandwagon appeal, parallelism, analogy, repetition, anecdote, and loaded language. During the winter of 1776, American soldiers fighting in the Revolutionary War under the command of George Washington had little food, insufficient shelter, and many were deserting. The reading of The Crisis to these troops had a profound effect upon their ... a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. The third and final use of propaganda in Paine's The Crisis was the bandwagon appeal. To truly be an admired American, Tom thought that one had to support and fight for freedom for all. This was exemplified when he said, The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of ... for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a housebreaker has as good a pretense as he... The third example of persuasion used was repetition. He continually claimed God's assistance for the American cause when he expressed, ...God almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave the unsupported to perish... and Neither have I so much of the infidel in me as to ...
- 3266: Schizophrenia
- ... States alone (Keefe 20). Since this disease is so devastating the majority of people that suffer from it either live on the streets or in mental institutions. In fact, forty percent of the beds in American mental hospitals are occupied by patients with schizophrenia (Hamilton 145). According to Hamilton the overall chances of a person to develop the disease is one in a hundred (145). There are three distinct types of ... to the brain decreases to the point where coma occurs. 1933 a German physician named Manfred Sakel induced insulin comain some schizophrenics concluding that it helped relieve their syptoms (Stone 66). Happy to the news, American doctors rushed to induce insulin coma into severe schizophrenics, and most died as a result (stone 67). Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is another example of a widely used therapy with little evidence of its usefullness ... pulses of electricity that are passed through the brain. Unfortunately it works for severe depression but not schizophrenia. Probably the most outrageous therapy, if you want to call it that, was the frontal lobotomy. The American psychiatrist Soloman H. Snyder has called it "barbaric" and "diabolical" (Anderson 20). A frontal lobotomy is the surgical removal of parts of the frontal lobes. Developed in 1935 by doctor Egas Moniz of Potrugal, ...
- 3267: About Gettysburg
- ... In order to control these routes the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia invaded Pennsylvania in 1863. The confrontation at Gettysburg became one of the most decisive as well as one of the bloodiest battles of American history. Almost a third of the Union army in the Battle of Gettysburg was from Pennsylvania. Important Men Mr. Meade (see picture One) was born in Cadiz, Spain, on the thirty-first of December 1815 ... Union On July 1 he tested their right, the following day an attack led by General Longstreet on the left and the last day General Pickett led on of the most well-known charges in American history that attacked the Union center. Only 5,000 of his original force of 15,000 charging survived the repulse. Lee watched the survivors return and confessed, "It is all my fault." Gettysburg, a military ... same week that Vicksburg fell to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Gettysburg put the Confederates on the defensive in the east. Mr. Hancock was born in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, on February 14, 1824. He was an American soldier for the Union during the Civil War. As a general in the Civil War, Mr. Hancock was excellent as a brigade and following that a corps commander, he was the one that made ...
- 3268: Thornton Wilder
- ... son's works greatly. Wilder also had a sister, Isabel, who was to become a distinguished novelist in her own right. Wilder's early education began in Hong Kong, where his father was serving as American consul general in Shanghai (Goldstone 11). He was then schooled at Berkeley, California; Chefoo, China; and Ojai, California before completing high school back at Berkeley in 1915. He studied the classics at Oberlin College and Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919 (Unger 356). Wilder spent a year as a resident of the American Academy at Rome, where he began writing The Cabala. Back in the United States he taught French at Lawrenceville High School in New Jersey from 1921-1928 and began doing graduate work at Princeton, where ... of distant peoples (Unger 374). He has always seen his occupation as a profession (Wilder 4), and surely no playwright or author seems more surely to have been born to the vocation of writer. BIBLIOGRAPHY American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Ed. Leonard Unger. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. Goldstone, Richard H. Thornton Wilder: An Intimate Portrait. New York: E.P Dutton & Co., Inc., 1975. Masters of ...
- 3269: Mexico
- Mexico During World War II Mexico had very good business relations with the United States. They provided a lot of raw materials, which were necessary to support American military needs. In that time the U.S. had an agreement with Mexico specifying that the country would export its resources only to the Allies. After WW II Mexico restricted imports in an attempt to ... Switzerland, Spain and others are taking advantage of Mexico's new business opportunities. NAFTA; the opening of markets In December 1992, Presidents Salinas and Bush and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada signed the North American Free Trade Agreement -NAFTA-. The Mexican Legislature ratified NAFTA in 1993 and the treaty went into effect on January 1 1994, creating the largest free-trade zone in the world. All barriers to trade such ... Indeed, NAFTA didn't only have commercial consequences but also political ones. A negative impact of NAFTA: the division of Mexico NAFTA has created an economic disparity between the northern and southern portions of Mexico. American manufacturers have favored putting up factories near the US-Mexican border since the products manufactured in their facilities have to be shipped to the US and therefore have to be near the boundary. This ...
- 3270: The Choice
- ... what they do best and in the end the consumers benefit. Now, the question is why do so many companies support quotas and tariffs? I believe it has a lot to do with how the American companies operate, for short-term profit. Long term planning today to an American company seems to be what will next quarters profit be and to satisfy the shareholders. With this type of mentality it is no surprise that many companies support quotas and tariffs, it is in their ... a whole. The story began in the heavenly court where a young English economist named Dave Ricardo. He believed the United States is about to embark on a policy of protectionism that could destroy the American economy. His mission was to help put America on the path of free trade and prosperity. But, he was granted one day to fulfill his task. Meanwhile, in a small town in Illinois there ...
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