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    Three alike and different groups. All from Canada. Make, eat, live, build, hunt and breath part Canadian. These three groups live in different parts of Canada. They share different stories, eat different foods, everything but some that they have in common. The Inuit, Haida and Iroquois. The Inuit, Haida and Iroquois have tools/weapons, artwork making, the interruption of people and trade/currency the same/alike. Some differences they have are their myths/beliefs (religion), business with food and

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    Most countries in today’s world have adopted English as their secondary language. The language itself dominates every other language spoken. The United States is one of few countries to not have an official language. In America today, roughly 75 percent of the population speak English. The English language should be adopted as the United States official language as it is its founding language, plays a role in the safety of the citizens, and will aid in the progression of the economy. The United

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    Through this program, I can spread the joy of language learning as well as gain teaching experience and cultural knowledge. People often tell me I am mature for my age; my mother always jokes that I must have been born at forty. I suppose it comes with the territory. Like many, I grew up in a single parent household, an outcome of which includes growing up to become strongly independent. I started to take college courses during my Junior year of high school, as well as taking

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    Copper Sun Summary #2 To continue the summary of Copper Sun we start off in the fourth chapter. After Amari wakes up from her (bad) injuries. We find out during her three days of being bedridden Mrs.Derby visited her everyday. She apologies for the way her husband treated Amari. To Amari suprises Polly is furious as to what has happened. Afterwards Polly continues to tell Amari what has been going on during her departure. This includes not being called to bed with Clay,Mrs.Derby close to her due

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    bilingual-”speaking two languages”. She is from Dominican Republic. The bilingual sestina is about the feeling you have when there are two languages in your head and words won’t translate fast enough. The two-languages & two-cultures are ultimately mixed together and changes on both sides. The stanza line that says -“Gladys, I summon you back with your given nombre”…reflects a lonely, longing feeling. The author doesn’t understand English Languages as well as the Spanish Languages. She yearns for that

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    schools speak a language other than English at home. The shifts in America’s immigration policies in recent years have led to unprecedented growth of immigrant populations representing diverse ethnicities (Correll, 2016). The Census Bureau (2012) added, the foreign-born population in the United States currently numbers approximately 40 million, with over one-third of this immigrant population entering the country since 2000 (Correll, 2016). The number of people who speak a language other than English

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    The English language has changed drastically from the time it was first spoken to the present day due to vast technological advances. The invention of printing changed the way English was written and spoken. The language was also influenced by many other foreign languages. The English language can be described as a mash-up of many other languages mixed together. In the 5th Century A.D., Germanic Tribes invaded Britain. There were three tribes and they were called the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.

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    In the poem, “Don’t Give In Chicanita” by Gloria Anzaldua, the author uses tone and diction to depict the otherization of a group of Mexican people, by the Gringos, or white men. Through the Mexican people’s otherization, they do not rise up. Instead, they lie in wait, knowing they will outlast their oppressors. Ultimately, this suggests that one must persevere in response to otherization in order to survive it. In this poem, Anzaldua makes excellent use of tone to convey the theme. Anzaldua describes

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    Being a native speaker of two languages is great, but not without its practical difficulties…This is most present in the poem “Bilingual Blues,” by Gustavo Firmat in 1995. Gustavo was originally born in Cuba then moved to America when he was 11 years old. He earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in two American Universities, and now is a teacher at Columbia University in the Humanities. Becoming a bilingual speaker himself, he wrote a compound of English and Spanish literature. Bilingual speakers

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    Dialects of OE Four main dialects were spoken in Anglo-Saxon England: Kentish The speech of the Jutes that was mainly used in present-day Kent. Few works written in this dialect remain. West Saxon It was spoken in the region south of the Thames (southern and southwestern England). This area was mainly settled by West Saxons, so this dialect soon became known as Wessex. Most of the OE corpus is written in this dialect and the reason for this is the fact that this kingdom became the leading political

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