Diacritic Essays

  • Earliest Memories Of My Education

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    I came from a country which has some similarities and differences from the United States in the education system. One of my government top priority is literacy; which means being able to read. My governments encouraged people to be able to read with some different ways. Literacy is the education key. I can read two languages, English and Arabic. My journey started when I was five and half with Arabic learning then I started English learning when I was 11 or 12. In Introduction to College Writing

  • “How is English similar and Different from Other Languages?”

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    It has been said that English is one of the hardest languages to learn: therefore it must be different from other languages. This paper explores the similarities and differences between English and other well-known languages. Philology is the study of languages and language families. While no one knows the exact number of languages in the world, philologists estimate there are between 6,000 and 7,000 living languages in the world today. Out of this number of languages, there are about 100families

  • Four Views of The Sick Rose

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    Four Views of The Sick Rose Four Works Cited   By analyzing more information from different authors, I was able to draw a greater amount contrast from the authors.   I had a better feel for what they were trying to convey when they wrote their critical essays in their books.  Whatever the case, it was easier to judge "The Sick Rose" by having more sources to reflect upon. Michael Riffaterre centers his analysis of "The Sick Rose" in "The Self-sufficient Text" by "using internal evidence only

  • Analysis Of The Film 'Tangled'

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    “Flower gleam and glow. Let your powers shine. Make the clock reverse. Bring back what once was mine. Heal what has been hurt. Change the fates' design. Save what has been lost. Bring back what once was mine.” (Tangled, 2010) The following is one of Disney’s most memorable film quotes derived from the 2010 film entitled “Tangled”. Over the ages, Disney’s animation creations have enchanted and captivated audiences through memorable quotes and cleverly thought-out songs all whilst relaying and remaining

  • Hieu Thao: The Powerful Word In Vietnamese Culture

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    Hieu thao: The Powerful Word in Vietnamese Culture In Vietnamese culture, hieu thao, translated as filial piety in English, is the root of all virtue. According to Dr. Hashimoto's definition in The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing, filial piety in the traditional family systems in Asia is generally understood as the "fulfillment of family obligations" that children must do towards their parents (Historical Roots). Actually, this theory has been spiritual rope binding children and their parents

  • Varying Interpetations of William Blake's The Sick Rose

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    the flower and drain until the host will die and that what most of the critics agrees on. This can be relating to today’s life by how the society is getting corrupting and killing the society. Works Cites Riffaterre, Michael “The self-sufficient”. Diacritics (1973): 39-45 Nathan, Cervo “The explicator”. The paradiso (New York Mentor; 1970):338 Berger, Harry “Caterpillage”; the Sick Rose, 7-9

  • Employment Discrimination Against Black Felons: The New Jim Crow Era

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    In today’s world, we treat criminals and offenders that are out of prison in a similar manner to how people were treated in the Jim Crow era. One example of the new Jim Crow Era is Sonya Jennings. Sonya is a felon as well as an African American mother. She was given an eight years probation after being arrested for possession of narcotics. Since Sonya is now tagged as a felon, she does not have the right to vote, she cannot receive public welfare, and she faces job discrimination (Alexander). The

  • Sumerian Language

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    This language was used 5000 years ago to 2500 years ago, and it was mostly used as a literary language for English, and an official language by other languages. It is the oldest written language that has ever existed which developed in 3100 BC in southern Mesopotamia, and became well known during the 3rd millennium BC, beginning with the Jemdet Nasr (Uruk III) period from the 31st to 30th centuries BC. The chronology omits the Late Sumerian phase and regard all writings written after 2000 BC as “Post-Sumerian”

  • Aristophanes and the Feminist Message of Lysistrata

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    (1982): 193. JSTOR. Web. 7 Dec. 2013. . Shaw, Michael. "The Female Intruder: Women in Fifth-Century Drama." Classical Philology 70.4 (1975): 255+. JSTOR. Web. 8 Dec. 2013. . Slater, Philip E. "Sex and State in Ancient Greece." Ed. Helene P. Foley. Diacritics 5.4 (1975): 31-36. JSTOR. Web. 9 Dec. 2013. .

  • Enhancing English Oral Expression through Vocabulary

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    CHAPTER II THEME: Influence of vocabulary in oral expression. Design of a teaching guide with vocabulary of the English language. THEORECTIC FRAMEWORK BACKROUND The primary function of language is communication for years we found through research, field study and survey’s that the high school students of “Dr. Jose Maria Egas” failed in oral expression due to the lack of vocabulary learning which caused poor English language communication. Communication is highly important in order to be able to

  • Yoruba People of Nigeria

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    Among the many tribes found in Africa, the Yoruba people of Nigeria are the most popular. These indigenous people were a part of Southwestern Nigeria and Benin. In addition, they’re one of the largest ethno-linguistic groups in Africa. A great percentage of Yoruba is populated by modern day Nigeria. Generally speaking, the Yoruba culture was an oral tradition, and majority of the people were native speakers of the Yoruba language. The native name of the Yoruba language is ‘Ede Yoruba’. The language

  • Theseus vs. Katniss: The Hunger Games versus Greek Mythology

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    create a pop culture phenomenon the likes of which those in Ancient greece would likely be proud. Works Cited Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic. Inc. 2009. Print. Foley. Helene. “Sex and State in Ancient Greece”. Diacritics. 5.4 (1975): 31-36. Jstor. Web. 17 Apr. 2014. Guerber, H. A. Myths of Greece and Rome. New York: American Book Company. 1921. Print. Moreaux, Dane. “Mythical Hero versus the Modern Heroine: The Female Hero in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger

  • Gruesome, Unique Twist on Classic Story

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    Gruesome, Unique Twist on Classic Story Shakespeare’s Macbeth is similar to the 1971 film dramatization of Macbeth directed by Roman Polanski since the film reinvents Macbeth’s hallucinations, horses breaking free from their stalls, and the symbol of sleep. The two versions differ in terms of the characterizations and of the witches and Lady Macbeth, the amount of violence seen by the audience, and the ending of the play. In addition, most of the film takes place in daylight while most of Shakespeare’s

  • The Waging of War

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    The Waging of War “Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital.”[1] In Foucault’s pithy explanation of a new form of warfare, in its justification, causes, and even execution, several units of logic enter a rationality of massacre. In the context of the sentence, amid a discussion

  • Al-Ahsa Dialect

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    1. INTRODUCTION. Hasawi is a variety of Arabic whose roots refer to the family of Central Semitic Languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic. The Hasawi dialect is spoken in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia, exactly in Al-Ahsa (Al-Hasaa) province. Therefore, the dialect of Al-Ahsa, or Hasawi (HD), is also known as the Eastern Arabian dialect. In fact, it is considered the dominant dialect in the area although there are other local dialects found in the same area, such as Badawi which is spoken by some

  • Caliban American Imperialism

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    Evidently, no other literary work has been revised and deconstructed as The Tempest. Shakespeare’s Caliban represents the most identifiable example of Western colonialism. From the beginning, it is evident that the events are staged at some place in the Mediterranean, which happens to the most popular water body in Europe. Moreover, the Mediterranean has served as the boundary that defined Western culture many years before even The Tempest was written. Although actions take place mainly on the island

  • A Comparative Study of Japanese and English

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    This study will explore selected phonological, typological, orthographical, morphological and syntactical features of the ‘isolate’ language, Japanese, and analyse how far these features differ from English, itself an Indo-European language, with specific emphasis placed on how accessible Japanese speakers would find learning English as a second language, and vice-versa. The Japanese language is spoken by almost the whole of the East Asian nation of Japan, comprising of up to 128 million speakers

  • amina

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    To Deconstruct Comedy Following Aristotle, writers and reviewers have elaborated on the short exposition of The Poetics taking different approaches. For Aristotle, a comedy has these features: it is the performance of a low level action which has magnitude; it is presented in a dramatic manner and is not narrated; it is presented by indicative language and different kinds of linguistic in the various parts of plot (Golden, 1984, p. 288). Regardless of these statements, Prescott (1929) suggests: Aristotle

  • Veiling the Truth: A Look at How the Hijab is used as a tool of Oppression and Resistance in Iran With Comparisons to Indonesia

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    wear one, condemning foreigners and women in society if they refuse. Although it is a tool for oppression, there was resistance the oppression. In ... ... middle of paper ... ...eiled Woman: Irigaray, Specularity, and the Islamic Veil." In Diacritics 28.1. Pp. 93-119. Brenner, Suzanne. 1996 "Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and "The Veil.”” In American Ethnologist 23.4 (1996): 673-97. El Guindi, Fadwa. 1999 Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance. UK: Berg. Oxford Najmabadi

  • Frankenstein: Reflecting Mary Shelley’s Life Experiences

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    The above quote by Bloom is an explanation of the view that all the gothic novels are interpretation of psychological and social factors and this is especially true in the case of Mary Shelley. Shelley began her novel at the age of 18 when the most prominent materials in the consciousness and unconsciousness of Shelley were concerned with the conflicts stemming from the death of her mother. Frankenstein is the outcome of Shelley’s unresolved grief for the death of her mother which was the crisis