Essays on Language Learning Page 25

October 5, 2012 The Great Fear of France 1989 In 1989, a great horror struck France that would come to play a major part in the French Revolution. The peasants in the rural areas in France became very frightened and armed themselves in response to many rumors of plots. Rural unrest had been present in…

Analogy             An analogy is a rhetorical device as an aid for explanation.  It is usually used to explain something abstract and complex by comparing it to something concrete and simple to make it understandable to the audience.  In this particular case, Jeffrey Overstreet makes use of an analysis in his article where he likens…

Dialect Variation in Tamil Tamil is one of the ancient languages of the world with records inthe language dating back over two millennia. Its origins are notprecisely known, but it developed and flourished in India as a language with a rich literature. With an estimated 30,000inscriptions, Tamil has the largest number of inscriptions in South…

The Great Silent Majority: A Loud and Effective Rhetoric One of the greatest highlights of President Nixon’s policy during his term, as the country’s Chief Executive, was his keen disapproval of the continued hostilities in Vietnam. Even before he assumed the office, he was adamant in the campaign for a quick and practical resolution to…

In the short autobiography narrative “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan she discusses the grounds why she was passionate on going a author. It is no surprise. that her vision in the work of fiction it is outstanding throughout her battles with the English linguistic communication as a Chinese immature miss born in an immigrant…

Transcendentalist Rhetoric in Henry David Thoreau’s Resistance to Civil GovernmentHenry David Thoreau’s writings are manifestoes of the Transcendentalist philosophy, which tackle various subjects from politics to economy or the environment. His essay, Resistance to Civil Government or Civil Disobedience as it is also known, reviews the American government and political life during the nineteenth century….

Introduction             Theme for English B is a poem written by Langston Hughes about a lone African-American college student tasked to write a one page paper about anything, as long as it is from the student. Racism is the theme of this poem, about how a 22 year old college student sees the racism happening…

Old Spice is a well-known brand that specializes in men’s hygiene products. They have created a series of amusing and captivating advertisements to promote their line of men’s body wash. The main objective of these advertisements is to convince the target audience to buy the featured product. A study conducted at Obafemi Awolowo University in…

Language itself is a complex system and it is dependent to us culturally, socially and personally. Learning a language involves many things such as pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar… The aim of this study is to discuss the noun phrases in English and Vietnamese and their influence in teaching and learning English in Vietnamese situation. I hope…

Transportation today is much different from the way it was fifty years ago. At that time, people who wanted to buy an automobile had a small variety to choose from. Nowadays, there are so many choice that it could take months to look at all the cars on the market. Often a buyer must first…