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    6. In the book, “The Secret Language of Sisters” by Luanne Rice, Roo, the main character, is involved in a car accident that is caused by texting her sister, Tilly. A character that changed throughout the book was Tilly, after finding out that her sister was paralyzed and she caused the accident, she changed. Towards the beginning of the book, Tilly lost hope of her sister and thought she would never be able to communicate with her after the accident. In particular this part of the book states, “That

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    Indonesian Phonology and Morphology: Some Evidence of Language Change and Innovations The Roundtable Meeting, Leiden University, Leiden, 26' 28 March 2008 Bambang Kaswanti Purwo Atma Jaya Catholic University Abstract For almost half a century Indonesian cannot refrain from having to bear with the mass and rapid influx of English loanwords. Since 1970s there has been a strong pressure, initiated by Pusat Bahasa (the Language Center), for the change from Dutch-soundlike loanwords, such as tradisionil

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    The development of language and how these changes have impacted on learners’ literacy will be discussed throughout this essay, conveying factors such as the relationship between language and social processes, how language and literacy is influenced by personal, social and cultural factors also relating to the effects that barriers to learning have as well as shared contextual knowledge of language that learners’ have. Various other reasons for language change and development such as accents and dialect

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    In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, language holds huge power and it can change people. Throughout the story it makes a huge impact that affects Guy Montag and alters his relationships, especially with Clarisse. This situation shows how the community suffers because of a lack of real communication. At the start of the book, Montag is a fireman who believes his job is to burn books and keep people happy. He doesn't think about the books he is destroying. However, when he meets Clarisse, she asks him

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    I think if they were to change the time and place the book was written in it would change the audience also and how the book is viewed by different audiences.The audience would be young adults or teens they would have a different perspective to the book.The book would be written in a different mood The language in this book is old english it would change the way it’s viewed if the book was written differently.If the book was written in the 1950s.In Cuba it would change the audinece because in the

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    of her life because she no longer is doomed to become a prostitute or a servant. This one conversation changes the remainder of her life. During the class discussion everyone agreed that the “fly tracks across the page” (Allende, 2), are words on newspaper and that it saved her from a life as a prostitute or a servant (Sept, 20). Many individuals agreed that this gives her the power of language and a future which alters the remainder of the story allowing future events to take place (Class discussion

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    and emotion: and […] feeling and emotion are particular; whereas thought is general. It is easier to think in a foreign language than it is to feel in it. Therefore, no art is more stubbornly national than poetry. A people may have its language taken away from it, suppressed, and another language compelled upon the schools; but unless you teach that people to feel in a new language, you have not eradicated the old one, and it will reappear in poetry, which is a vehicle of feeling.” (T.S. Eliot, On

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    In Gwen Harwood’s poetry, the changes in an individual’s perspective and attitudes towards situations, surroundings and, therefore transformations in themselves, are brought on by external influences, usually in the form of a person or an event. These changes are either results of a dramatic realisation, as seen with shattering of a child’s hopes in The Glass Jar, or a melancholy and gradual process, where a series of not so obvious discoveries produces similar reformation. An example of the later

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    Wide varieties of technologies, from social media to the printing press, have changed the way people speak and write english. One example of a machine that had a drastic and long lasting effect on the english language was the printing press. 1476 was the year that changed everything...the year the printing press was first introduced to England. Many new ways to spread english developed. Mass production of books came into effect, as did the spreading of knowledge. More books being made

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    What is doublespeak? Is it a useful and the language should be using? Possibly people will come up with different opinions and suggestions of doublespeak. Some people will say that doublespeak is bad and people should avoid using it; for example, in Lutz’s essay, “The World of Doublespeak,” Lutz wrote about the negative aspects of doublespeak. He defines doublespeak as, “language that pretends to communicate but really doesn’t” (Lutz/P.347). In some case he is right as doublespeak can make things

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