English Essay Examples

Maria W. Stewart gave a very powerful lecture in Boston in 1832. In 1832 it may of been hard to associate the atributes of educator and writer with an African American however an African American educator and writer is exactly was Ms. Stewart was. Her desperate and emotional tone conveys her position on equality beween…

The main task of this paper is two-fold; first, it outlines the structure of the legal profession in the United Kingdom, more specifically England and Wales, and second, it seeks to articulate substantive criticisms on whether the profession [the legal profession, that is] should be fused into one which stands in direct opposition with maintaining…

India has two national languages for central administrative purposes: Hindi and English. Hindi is the national, official, and main link language of India. English is an associate official language. The Indian Constitution also officially approves twenty-two regional languages for official purposes. Dozens of distinctly different regional languages are spoken in India, which share many characteristics…

It’s hard to believe that my amazing journey in English is coming to an end. The journey has been so much more enjoyable than I initially expected. I have tried to avoid taking English  numerous times because reading and writing have not been my strong points. Each time I attempted to take this course, I…

In the extracts Crow by Louis Nowra and The Hours by Michael Cunningham they create many ideas such as racial inequality and responsibility about society and home life through the use of narrative conventions such as emotive language, point of view and symbolism. In Crow, Nowra uses the narrative convention of emotive language to convey…

For this assignment, I chose to use a well-known passage, Philippians 4:12-13. Read this passage in King James Version, New King James Version, English Standard Version, Holman Christian Standard Bible, and the Amplified Version. Each translation rendered these two verses well and there was not a large difference between the five translations. In the KAVA…

Introduction  The practice of translation dates back some two thousand years and ever since has existed until present days. It is generally believed that translation plays a key role in the universalisation of human knowledge. It helps improve international understanding, socio-cultural awareness, professional communicative activities, implementation of technologies, and so much more. Many well-known translators…

Can English be dethroned? Roland J. -L. Breton, geolinguist and emeritus professor at the University of Paris VIII. Major languages other than English are spoken by over half the people on the planet. What can be done to give them more clout in international bodies? Back in 1919, U. S. President Woodrow Wilson managed to…

English is a crucial language in today’s world, with approximately 375 million people speaking it as their first language and an additional 375 million as their second. The British Council states that about one-quarter of the global population has some level of proficiency in English, and there is an increasing demand for English skills among…

Language processing considerations have often been used to explain aspects of language structure and evolution. According to Bates and MacWhinney, this view “is a kind of linguistic Darwinism, an argument that languages look the way they do for functional or adaptive reasons”. However, as in adaptationist accounts of biological structures and evolution, this approach can…