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If we were time travelers, would we be able to understand our ancestors? Would we even be speaking the same language? Important questions about the definition of a language arise when temporal shifts come into play. Where is the line between a new language, and simply a dialect? Were Shakespeare and Chaucer writing in different languages? Does Barack Obama use a different dialect than George Washington did? The deciding factor of whether a language has evolved past the point of dialectical variation

where classes exist in the form of struggle for dominance or control over profits. Marx as a conflict theorist argued that the economy defines and dominates the societal structural change. He explained that social change and structure is a form of historical materialism that in the history come in two groups: the oppressor and the oppressed. Marx stated that the society is built on the exploitation of the oppressed. The struggle between the classes was what brought about the industrial revolution. This

Karl Marx emphasized conflict in the society due to consumerism, religion, intersectionality. He saw this conflict and determined that hidden structures can benefit him and others by using the term of ideology which can rely on true or false consciousness. Marx was a unique sociologist who expressed his own ideas in various ways. Applying to Marx’s Theory towards slavery, it showed how the society use to be and how it impacted the slaves to be part of their culture to manifest the society.

role. Moreover, changes in the productive forces are more powerful cause of revolution. In conclusion, Engels takes an historical materialist approach. He indicates that the capitalist mode of production is fundamentally contradictory and from this he traces a series of social and economic conflicts that follow inevitably from this basic contradiction by establishing Historical

Studying capitalism is an already difficult subject to focus on by itself. However, what makes this subject more complex is looking at it through a historical approach. Nevertheless, it is important to study historical materialism in order to fully understand contemporary social structures. The modes of production, as well as class relations, tie together as they are both important in what Engels was trying to discuss in his paper. He also discusses the alienation of individuals as well as supply

Q:What.are.the.motivation.and.mechanisms.of.chain.shifts,and.what.kinds.of.evidence.can.we.use.to.study.them? Chain.shifts.(870/1000) Definition.(206/100) According to Labov (2010:140), chain shifts is a series of sound changes, affecting group of phonemes, which are causally linked in way that preserve the number of distinctions. Chain shift is a balance system, and the phonemes within are interrelated. This means that in order to maximized the difference among phonemes, a change in one part will

inconsistencies and how it has impact the overall development of the world. The notion of historical materialism is addressed when further analyzing the overall context of capitalism. According to Engels, he argues that historical materialism “starts from the principle that production, and with production the exchange of its products, is the basis of every social order…” (Engels, 1959: 292). In simpler terms, historical materialism is a system of production and exchange which have always been the driving

Birmingham-1963, the author, Christopher Paul Curtis, wrote a story about a family that is living in this time. The author mostly focused on telling us a story of the Watson family and not really any historical events. I really would've liked it if the book gave more information on civil rights and not just have one historical event happen at the end of the book. Adding some more facts and history would have made the book more interesting. All in all, the book The Watsons Go

Fever is a wonderful historical fiction by Laurie Halse Anderson. She has written many historical novels and Fever is one of her greatest works. This story took place in Philadelphia in 1793, when yellow fever just began to strike and kill thousands of people . Matilda Cook “little Mattie” is a daughter of a coffee shop owner. She’s a fourteen- year- old girl who works for her widowed mother. She works with a girl named Polly and a kitchen cook Eliza, a woman from the Free African Society. Mattie

Genocide is an action that is not unique to any one set of specific circumstances. It knows no bounds of time or location. From thousands or years ago to present day and on every civilized continent, the eradication of entire groups of people has occurred. The current definition of genocide was established by the United Nations in 1948: “(a) Killing members of [a] group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life