‘Correct’ or ‘proper’ English is something that is highly regarded, not only today, but has been throughout history. However, the notion of there being a ‘correct’ way of performing English, whether spoken or written, is a myth. This article will explore the reasons why language can never be ‘right’ and how the belief in this idea continues to affect English. The prescriptivist attitude itself – a view that suggests grammar should be a strict set of rules (Yule, 2017) –...
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Sometimes, when a child keeps nagging at us, we find ourselves standing in front of a big decision. Sometimes, the decision of our life. Because we have small children the decision is hard. We think how will they behave to each other, would they not hurt each other (as I'm sure by now you already read all the horror stories where cats hurt a child or a child hurt a cat). On the other hand, we also read all the...
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As a health care professional, a paramedics role is focused in medical emergency situations. Paramedics are usually the first on scene and generally in an ambulance, however they are also based in specialist mobile units, as well as emergency response vehicles. Paramedics’ work is unscheduled care which includes minor and major injury, illnesses etc. They are the first to administer care to a patient. A paramedic’s role requires advanced levels of care, they work with high-tech equipment in attending to...
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“There is a difference in knowing you are black and in understanding what it means to be black in America. Before I was ten I knew what it was to step off the sidewalk to let a white man pass.” – Margaret Walker The issue of the abuse of power in high positions is something that happens frequently in everyday life. It can happen in the work place, it happens in politics and it happens with the police. Although racism...
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This paper will be discussing how semiotics in musical videos affects audience emotions. Visual resources are nowadays very popular in the music industry because they add more meaning to artists work. Thanks to the technological revolution this great advance has been produced and since then, the artists use the visual media as a form of communication, so they use visual resources as an added feature. In mass communication, the written culture has been step by step superseded by an audio-visual...
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The integrity of civil servant is always questioned by the society, so it raises public awareness of misconduct and abuse of power during delivery services, especially in the uniform department such as the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP). For that reason one case study on integrity among Royal Malaysian Police (RMP): An Ethical Perspective had been done by Haniza Hanim Mustaffa Bakri, Jamaliah Said and Zulyanti Abd Karim (2015). The objective of this study to evaluate the present level of integrity...
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Despite the reality that a number of businessmen in business have a strong effect on their communities, little attention has been given to the dimension of family's influence on entrepreneurial growth. Most entrepreneurs are indivisibly associated with their families and often rely on their families to follow their attempts at entrepreneurship. Family members have personalities that are widely exchanged within themselves, their bond of confidence is often reciprocal and they also have the opportunity to explore the ideas they have...
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Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry essentially revolves around the combination of precise language, vivid imagery and the intertwining of the poems with her life. These features of her writing make it appealing to the reader and aids us in deeply understanding her troubled but interesting childhood. Through Bishop’s use of skillful language and vivid imagery , in my opinion, she is able to create an atmosphere which helps to confront the harsh realities of life. The poems I believe best illustrate this...
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The Origin Baseball was known as one of the greatest pastimes for Americans since its emergence in the early 1840s. Americans from different races and economic backgrounds attended the various league games to spectate and socialize with others. Conversely, things were not always so great for the players, especially when it came to fair compensation. Many players were lowballed or stuck playing with one team for the duration of their career because the owners implemented the reserve clause in players’...
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In Christopher Marlowe’s Christian play Doctor Faustus, sin is a very notable feature in regards to the theme of the play. This play revolves around the topic of temptation and repenting following one’s decision to sin. The main character Faustus, is tempted by Lucifer to give him his soul in return for ultimate power and knowledge. Throughout the play, Faustus is constantly struggling with asking for forgiveness or continuing to move forward with his sins. There are multiple times in...
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Evil is among the world under this God described to be omnipotent, all knowing and all good within monotheistic religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity). A all perfect God that still allows evil to crawl the very corners of our world and allows suffering, but why? This will be tackled in the sense of free will in defense of this God and explain the reason behind evil’s very existence through religious exclusivism of Christianity. Free will is going to be defined...
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Today's content is all about dialects and accents, and what makes them totally unique to one another. This is a subject that many people struggle with, so we want to show you how to make full sense of it. A 'dialect' and an 'accent' is something that we all use every day to help form a normal part of our communication. An accent is usually a little easier to detect and understand than the other, (a dialect.) We're going to...
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Introduction Every parent has a big role in the life of their kids. Their parenting is one of the guidelines of their children to live as a good person from their young age, adulthood and till their maturity. All parents are using different techniques or strategies on how they will guide, teach and discipline their young ones. In our essay, we will tackle the effects of having good parenting. Parenting will always have positive outcomes if it is effective and...
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All people love to do things that can help them to forget their frustations or stress. Hobby will always be part of our everday life, because it gives us pleasure and fun when we get bored or when we are in time of waiting. As we always have spare time everyday , hobby can be done on that particular time, as long as you enjoy and have fun. In our essay today, we will tackle the similarities and contrast of...
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I chose to write my paper on Descartes Cartesian Project. I thought his thinking process was very interesting and also very confusing at the same time. Although he left a mess behind, he is known as the “father of modern philosophy.” One of those reasons is of course because of his Cartesian method. Descartes Cartesian method had four steps: (1) accept as true only what is undoubtable, (2) divide every question into manageable parts, (3) begin with the simplest issues...
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All of us are so excited to take vacations neither it is on the beach, outside the country or in the mountain. Yes, holidays and vacations are awesome. Some of us choose to have a beach vacation because maybe we love to feel breeze, experience waves and see white sand. But others choose to go for a mountain vacation, maybe they want a more adventurous experience. Which is the best place to choose for having a vacation? Is it a...
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The first book of bible leads us into the creation of earth and humankind but also shows the disobedience that follows with the free will of humankind. Here is what was said in Ezekiel “You used to be a model of perfection, full of wisdom, perfect in beauty; you were in Eden, in the garden of God. All kinds of gem formed your mantle... I made you a living creature with outstretched wings, as guardian, you were on the holy...
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What do you get when you put two men in a room together who value their pride more than anything in the world , the answer to that is absolute chaos. Every situation has an alpha male just like wolf packs. In the play, “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller shows how John Proctor and Reverend Parris are similar yet different through ethos. Proctor a man of good self pride and Parris a man who has self pride but not for the...
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“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.”(Steinbeck 13) This quote by Steinback through the character George symbolizes many of the people’s lack of aspirations for a comfortable and happy life during the Great Depression. John Steinbeck portrays his character George to exemplify the difficulties that a 1930’s migrant worker had to face. Of Mice and Men takes place amongst a lifeless and difficult time not only for America, but for the entire world,...
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In life with full of uncertainties and intact prejudices, do we even wonder if our journey is under the prospect of spirituality or just religiosity? Or it doesn’t just cross our mind since we thought that it is the same? If this is the case then we are oblivious to fact that there’s an unseen veil of ignorance that hinders us from knowing and experiencing the truth about life. People are often caught up in the set of beliefs they...
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Loneliness has gradually become more prevalent today than it has in the past. Loneliness is harmful to have because of the negative health effects, how hard it is to overcome and how loneliness has no boundaries. It is time to become aware of what loneliness can do to an individual, what someone can do to destroy the feelings of loneliness and who can be affected by it. Loneliness has shown to have negative side effects to physical and mental health....
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. He grew up in a devoted, and affectionate family environment. Even though King’s parents demonstrate a positive environment, that did not shield King from racism, or discrimination. He was advanced in his knowledge; so leading him to attend Morehouse College at the young age of fifteen. King then expressed his unquestionable passion for becoming a ministry. Atof, twenty-five King completed college, while being a pastor at a Baptist Church...
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Everything in the universe is made of plenty of different types of atoms such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and so on, but plenty of them do not have life; for example, they can be clothes, machines, papers, and so on. Even though they do not have life, they are very useful for human beings’ life, so we need to be grateful to them. In addition, to create an object, physical or chemical impacts between atoms or molecules need to occur....
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It is a possibility that DNA and environmental influences, is a contributing factor in crime. It has shown in many factors in example,families with drug abuse or such as sexual abuse will soon inherit in the genes of the criminal or grow in or around the environment and watch and learn things he/she shouldn’t and become so used to that behavior that they have the need or urge in the future to have that intensity or adrenaline. Growing up around...
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Issues of identity, independence, acceptance by society, and practice of faith are not new to women. Add faith to the mix and it becomes an even more complicated subject. This paper examines the main arguments by Jasmin Zine in 'Honour and Identity: An Ethnographic Account of Muslim Girls in a Canadian Islamic School' and Anaya Mcmurray in 'Can Black Muslim Women Be Down with Hip-Hop.' Both women critically evaluate the double standards that Muslim women face with respect to their...
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In the article “Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading” by Bowman et al., (2010) the researchers, say that students are multitasking with electronics often while doing work. They conducted an experiment where college students read a passage and got an instant message before or while reading. The purpose was to see if the instant messages had an effect on reading comprehension. This article is interesting because the results from the experiment show us how...
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Athletes all across the world have or had some type of motivation during their road to success. Motivation, in my own words, is something that drives you and push you harder so you can accomplish your goal. Every athlete should have motivation. It drives you and gives build confidence in yourself, so you can perform and accomplish what you are trying to accomplish. To improve your performance you need determination and desire, and all of your other factors like intensity,...
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Have you ever imagined what it’s like to be a firefighter? The physical and mental demands it brings? With long hours of work and the need to respond quickly to rapidly changing conditions? It is unpleasant work, actually no, it is frightening. As hundreds of fire-fighters whether volunteered or paid, battle the destructive bushfires, they have lost part of their incomes, sleep and precious time with their families. Hello, my name is Steven Tran and today, I will be arguing...
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The fishing industry of South Korea had been fueled by their rapid economic growth of Gross Domestic Product(GDP) at a rate of 7% between the 1970s and the 2000s, while taking into account the nation’s 1997-1998 Economic Crisis[1]. In the 1960-1970’s, South Korea’s export of Fishery products peaked at approximately 17.5% of their total export value, being a key player in the nation's total GDP. In 2001 South Korea’s fishing industry turned for the worse as their trade balance became...
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INTRODUCTION I“Did you know that one third of the population in the United States are introverts?” (Boss 2015). That is about 110 million people! I am one of those people; I am an introvert! As such I have been misunderstood my whole life. Since kindergarten, through middle school and high school, and even today people define me as a shy person. Introversion and shyness are not the same! Some of you are introverts as well while others might not be;...
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