Essays on Language Learning Page 43

After all, accountants, salespeople and designers all communicate in the same language. Write a few paragraphs expressing your own ideas on each of these statements. The two quoted statements invite one to assess the similarities and differences between General English and Business English courses, statement 1 stressing the differences and statement 2 the similarities. I…

Hence, often times as individuals we feel the need to compromise the way in which we communicate our ideas so that we can appeal to the views of the majority. Two authors explore how their attempt to compromise almost caused them to become detached from their roots. In “Mother Tongue,” by Amy Tan, Tan talks…

Maria and Jose Luis develop a friendship that slowly turns into a typical novella love affair. Through their relationship, both harassers are forced to confront the violence of their pasts?his at the hands of Salvadoran torturers who abducted him and murdered his fiance©, hers at the hands of a sexually abusive neighbor. Their story is…

Throughout my research there have been interesting ideas that are possessed. There are some about the different dictionaries that are used and how every definition is different in each and every book. I have also found that the word idea is used in many everyday languages and used is many different articles and poems. Finding…

This is a short paper I wrote for an Introduction to American English course at the University of Tampere in 1999. My prof asked my permission to publish it online and after a few years I noticed that my paper had started live a life of its own. It was cited around the web and…

Why do you think GE invested so aggressively in foreign expansion? Because GE tries to achieve its main goal: To be number 1 or 2 globally in every business in which it participates. Nowadays GE is not just an American company doing business abroad, but it had become a true global company. The revenues from…

Throughout Kathryn Lopez’s article “Egg Heads” . she uses many rhetorical schemes in order to promote her readers to hold with her statement. every bit good as to inform them of the injury that is done to immature women’s organic structures during in-vitro fertilisation ( IVF ) . With the usage of poignancy. ethos. and…

Kenneth Slessor’s poignant poem, ‘Beach Burial’ contemplates on the improper and unfair burial that the Australian soldiers, who were at war with the Germans during World War 2, receive as a result of the fact that they could not get back home. The main idea that the poet was trying to get across was that…

The existence of fate is a topic that has been heavily debated for many years. Is someone’s destiny really predetermined? Or is life just a series of coincidences and butterfly effects? In Virgil’s epic, The Aeneid, we follow the Trojan hero, Aeneas, through a difficult journey in an attempt to fulfill his god-given destiny. A…

Lord Chesterfield used meiosiss ( understatement ) . a academic tone. and a intimation of a condescending tone in an effort to convert his boy to follow the advice that Chesterfield provides in the missive. When reasoning his missive he warns his boy that failure is non an option due to the humiliation it will…