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English to Arabic Political Discourse Translating

the recent Gulf War in determining improvements in systems and the functions of translations is an important aspect of this study....

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

UK Company Law and Insecure Transactions

In eleven pages English law is applied to an examination of transactional company insecurity with various cases and acts included ...

Jamestown Colonists and the Problems They Faced

extensive privileges including extensive land holdings in the new world and the right to colonize the Americas. In return, the co...

Economist Thomas Robert Malthus

apparently felt no compunction about basing their theories on data gained from locales with which they were entirely unfamiliar-a ...

Impact of Having a Deaf Sibling

In fifteen pages the impact of having a deaf sibling on siblings who have developed normally is evaluated emotionally and psycholo...

The Controversy Surrounding the Move Towards Making English the Official Language of the United States

This ten page paper analyzes the English Only move that is gaining strength in the U.S. This paper presents a converse view of th...

'Official' Language of the U.S.

In five pages this paper argues against English becoming the official language of the United States in a consideration of the impo...

Essay Writing Problems for International Pupils

In five pages this argumentative essay considers 3 reasons why essay writing is often disliked by international pupils such as Eng...

India and the English Language

to the English, it was felt perhaps, by many other less powerful classes, that also learning the language and adhering to the Brit...

English Law Regarding Contract Law

If this were an acceptance this would have to be an "unqualified expression of assent to the terms proposed by the offerer" (McKen...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Literature Review on Paralinguistic Features of English Language Skills

will come to being able to communicate effectively" (Gassin, 1990, 437). Like Adams, Gassin (1990) also believed that the achieve...

England's Common Law, Tudor Developments, and Magna Carta's Impact

different legal systems in operation (Barker and Padfield, 1996). Therefore, law at this stage was fragmented and diverse. ...

Rural America and English as a Second Language

as an anecdote in this article is one located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts oft...

A History of the Dictionary

in that language, and the world was well on its way toward the development of dictionaries as we know them today. In 1603, Robert...

Global Language English?

partnerships, English became a political language. The expansion of American business interests in the Third World further suppor...

Narrative Voice in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

Contract Law Case and the Internet

not on receipt. Looking at the level of the income we need to look at the exchange rate at the end of February, as the payment for...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and How Satire is Used

be a way of discreetly getting his message across while solidifying his professional literary reputation.5 His greatest satirical...

Why English Should Not Be the U.S. Official Language

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

The Culture of the Beowulf Poem

faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...

Meaning and Rules in Teaching ESL

128). This individual clearly is quite capable, and sensitive to the nuances of language. Fu and Townsend (1998) quote ano...

Differing Views on Native American Distinctions

the historical record to present well-documented evidence that Native Americans did indeed have not only an opinion but an express...

Developments in the English Language in the Middle Ages

not known, although the effects still influence the way we use language nowadays. It was a huge change in the way that English vow...

Threepeat and the Oxford English Dictionary

it is to be presumed. And, in the end, if the goal of the creators of the dictionary is to present an accurate picture and depicti...

Minority Students and Higher Accountability In Standardized Reading Tests

doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...

Oxford English Dictionary Should Include the 'Wigger' Word

"N" word, which incidentally does appear in the dictionary. To an extent, there is a mystique about urban culture and a true emb...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice According to Dorothy Van Ghent

surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...

Comparison of Scientific Revolution of 1500 and the Industrial Revolution of 1750

In five pages an English emphasis in a comparison of these two revolutions is featured. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...