Essays on Slang

It is not a secret that learning process is hard. For mostly everyone it requires a lot of effort, power, concentration, persistence and of course motivation. Without knowing why we are learning this or that subject, without having any interest to it the result is not going to be fast and of course not successful. Planning a lesson a teacher should think about it as lesson is not just a process of giving knowledge it is also a tight combination with inspiration and motivation processes. So being a teacher of English or any other subject what should we remember ...

Hip-hop is a music genre popular among the youth and teenagers around the world. The genre has experienced significant changes from its inception to what it is currently. Besides, rock music, Hip-hop advocates lifestyles that are louder and daring than the modest or ordinary lifestyles. Additionally,Dalton (77) shows that the genre also has influenced how its fans relate and identify with each other, advocates the use of slang language. the Hip-Hop music is characterized by turntablism also known as Disk Jockeying, rapping, graffiti, dances such as the famous breakdance. The genre was started in the 1970’s in ...

Indian Perspective

Indian Perspective

Introduction

Globalization has opened the gates of several countries, and workforce of a global organization is made up of people from different countries, with different language and cultures. Thousands of Indians employed in the corporate sector end up working in the United States of America. This trend is expected to rise as globalization opens the gates of American shores for many Indians to relocate to America to build their career and earn attractive financial packages. The movement of people from India to the United States of America can be a huge cultural shock for people as there is ...

As a person from Saudi Arabia, I never learned English. Recently, however, I graduated from the English Language Program (ELP), which was part of the curriculum at the University of Dammam. Learning the English language was one of my dreams, and I felt so fortunate and grateful for the opportunity to finally learn English. Not only is learning English important for academic achievement, but it fulfilled a personal goal of mine, one that I will never forget. The school arranged an excellent event, and my parents flew to North Florida to attend my graduation ceremony. It filled me with ...

The concepts of loanwords and globalization support the idea that English is absorbing words from other languages and incorporating them into its own. The present day world has increasingly become interconnected through what is known as globalization. According to Odegova and Zabulionite (475), “this interconnection, “has spelled the need for people to adopt words used by different languages.” For instance, Spanish words such as “tortilla” and “Desperado” are now common among the English speaking people. This discourse might be viewed in a negative light. However, as a matter of fact, the loanwords evidence the degree to which culture is ...

Argumentative Essay on Banning Slang Language

Argumentative Essay on Banning Slang Language

Introduction

What is slang language? Does it have any negative influence to the users? Should teachers and lecturers allow slang language in schools both in writing and speaking? These are some of the questions many people ask on the issues to do with slang language. Slang is a language that use informal phrases and word either in writing or speaking (Bucher & Schorling, 2002). Dr. Rob Drummond is a senior Lecturer in Linguistic at Manchester Metropolitan University and argued that instead of banning slang language, it should be celebrated (2016). However, his line of expressing ...

Art of oratory is one of the most valuable skills, which helps to convey your position beautifully and competently to a wide range of listeners. Not many people have the innate ability for such performances. Those who have mastered the secrets of oratorical skills have the potential to become an interesting personality and achieve overwhelming success in almost any field (business, politics, art, etc.) A real orator must possess a number of qualities that make him an ace of public speaking. Firstly, he needs to be erudite in order to pick the right words for processing his thoughts at ...

Sociolinguistics is one of the most interesting aspects of linguistics in a society. This is perhaps because it is the study of linguistics that takes on a broader perspective on linguistics. By assessing the impact that the society has on the linguistics of a certain group of people, sociolinguistics is able to draw significant conclusions regarding the use of language in a community, and the social variables that determine this use of language such as religion, socioeconomic status, regional dialects, speech communities and age, just to name a few (Coupland, Sarangi and Candlin 32). Through the analysis of these ...

Rap has entered the history of American art over a century ago. The people who have laid the foundations for rap as we know it today were the two big ethnical groups of the American society: African Americans and people from the Caribbean Islands. Folk artists of the mentioned origins were telling rhymed stories with the accompaniment of rhythmic music (drums and sparse instrumentation). This music already existed years before hip-hop was developed and became popular. Rapping is actually reading or chanting of rhythmic lyrics that were designed to set a beat. Many specialists are of the opinion that ...

Importance of Online Communication in Business

Abstract Globalization has compelled many businesses to realize the importance of communication within the workplace as well as outside the business. Communication plays an eminent role in the business success. The modern business environment has changed the traditional communication trend. Now, businesses have shifted towards the internet. Communication effectiveness is depended on numerous factors such as Clarity of the message; the medium used for transferring information like the internet, email correspondence; Eliminating any distortion that hinders effective communication; and the receiver ability to decode the message. Email correspondence is different from the verbal conversations so the words must be ...

Music has a key role in speech and communication since it may be used as a way to pass information to a group of people that may not be understood by some others. Rap is one of the most used genres in giving information to a set of people mostly the teenagers. The young generation is a group that is mostly attracted to rap music; hence, the artists use it to pass information to the teens that the older people may not fully understand. The songs influence the way the teens communicate because they bring new vocabularies and understanding. ...

Soccer player Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima played for the national team of Brazil and some European football clubs. His professional career lasted nearly twenty years. Ronaldo was born on the 18th of September, 1976, in Itagual in Brazil. His parents divorced when Ronaldo was eleven years old and soon afterwards he gave up school to start a soccer career. ("Ronaldo Biography") Without a doubt, Ronaldo is one of the perfect players of all times. He is called the Phenomenon because of his incredible ability to score goals. He had his own unique attacking style but he also helped ...

Introduction

Social classes in Britain currently are not based on the amount of wealth that someone has accumulated unlike in the previous centuries. One can be rich but considers oneself poor or is taken by the community as of a lower class. On the other hand, the poor can be deemed to belong to the upper class. However, it depends on the understandability of the English culture like behavior patterns, beliefs, and customs as well as the proficiency of the English language. Britain and particularly England has a highly class sensitive culture and the practical ways in which the people ...

Social media is an awesome way to market any business online. There are various social media methods and instruments that one can choose. They include Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and twitter. There are many reasons why using social media as a marketing platform is a great idea. First, one gets to know their target group up close and personal. Interacting with the customer base on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter helps a company know its target group. Reading the potential customers posts on Facebook and tweets helps the company strategize on ways to attract such potential customer. Secondly, a company can ...

The communication or interaction is always a two way process. The listeners and speaker and then again the listener/s and speakers, this is the process of conversation. In our communication process, we use 55% non-verbal communication, 38% of tone of voice and the contribution of actual verbal communication is just 7%. Hence the tone of voice, pitch, stress pattern are the important attribute to make the conversation effective and fruitful. The non-verbal communication is no doubt important but the intonation and stress pattern in conversation is also required to study. The intonation is very important in communication. There are ...

Question 1

Technically, a lexicographer is a person who writes compiles and edits dictionaries. According to a comprehensive dictionary of English language, lexicographer is "a harmless drudge who compiles lists of words." (Kaye 129). Therefore, the creators of the Urban Dictionary qualifies to be called the lexicographers. The creators or the authors of this dictionary are required to provide the correct spelling of the word they are creating, example sentence and its definition. With this light, the creators must make appropriate decisions regarding the authentic or proper form of language. Consequently, these self-appointed creators both standardize and record the language used ...

Sarah Palin: A corrupt soufflé by Cal Thomas and It’s settled: Palin unfit for office by Richard Cohen, are two articles that explains political career of Sarah Palin as the vice president nominee under the Republican Party in 2008 Presidential election and governor of Alaska.

In the analysis, cal Thomas articulates that, although Sarah Palin had remained a vocal politician and a famous leader in America, she was ill advised to resign as the governor of Alaska, and accept her nomination as the first female vice president nominee under the Republican Party because she was immature politically. The author relates ...

In her essay, Jo Goodwin Parker describes the situation of an unnamed poor woman, the single mother of three children, using first person narration. The woman’s extreme poverty and her desperate situation are described in great detail in order for the audience to be able to understand it. The essay was written for the American public, and specifically, for middle and high class citizens, who have no idea what poverty is, and who despise poor people believing that they are unwilling to change their situation. In addition, they ignore people who ask for help, and they care little ...

Even though slavery significantly limited the ability of Africans Americans to exercise their cultural traditions, a values, beliefs and beliefs subsisted and with time have fused rudiments of European American philosophy. African American have been subjected to various instances of racial prejudice on the basis of their culture. In fact, there are certain facades of African American culture, which have emerged and been made protuberant as a result of slavery. These façades include their dressing codes and language. Cohorts of hardships levied on the African American society shaped unique language patterns. The slave masters always intentionally mixed individuals who ...

According to the article by Curt Cagle, the internet has many benefits, which are apparent and obvious to the user. However, the internet has many disadvantages as well. Some of them are obvious and some are not so easily seen. One of the advantages of the internet according to the author is that social media can and does improve some critical skills to the users. On the other hand, teens, who are the ones that use social media to the greatest extent, have registered health issues coming from over using computers. Staring at the computer or the whole day ...

Abstract

Although various studies in genres of writing have not been considering Medical Case Reports, as a genre, there are emerging evidences that more and more healthcare organizations are adopting them as their preferred medical texts. Their abilities to present unique and rare conditions that concern an individual patient, in his/ her context, but at low costs, have seen them being considered as the most scientific texts of studies. Therefore, this study has carried out oral interviews to medical students and medical professionals, and analyzed various written medical case reports from two medical journals to reveal their features as a genre in ...

The Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is a stone slab carved from granodiorite, an igneous rock resembling granite. It acquired its name from the area where it was found in the in 1798. The British Museum estimates it originated during the lifetime of King Ptolemy V, around 196 B.C. Etched with Egyptian hieroglyphs, it displays a Greek translation of the king’s Memphis Decree issued at Memphis (British Museum 2014). Three scripts appear on the stele. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs comprise the upper text, Demotic script occupies the middle portion, and the text finishes in Ancient Greek. The text is essentially the same, translated ...

Introduction

Simply put, popular culture also known as pop culture refers to perspectives, attitudes, ideas, images, phenomena and memes that are contained in the cultural mainstream. The advent of pop culture was most pronounced in the Western culture of the 20 the century. The same is also being accentuated in the global mainstream that has become prominent in the 20th and 21st century. Popular culture has therefore suffused mass media and is readily manifested in the day-to-day lives within the society. In most cases, popular culture may betray the perspectives or representations of race and race relations in a particular society ...

The influence that hip-hop has made on modern world, society and culture is extremely strong. Nowadays hip-hop is already considered to be not just a genre of music - it is a culture itself; for plenty of hip-hop fans it becomes the style of life, a complex of ideas and concepts, a way of self-expression and communication between people. It has reflected in many spheres of today’s life and such impact is explained by the origin of the hip-hop – it is the style of streets, hence – the phenomenon of independent thinking. The influence of hip-hop on today’s communication – both oral and ...

Module Code and Title

Critically evaluate the statement “The growth in internet use has affected cultures around the world, leading to a westernized, homogenous world culture.” Internet and World Culture The internet and the increasing pace of connectivity has been one of the greatest impacts of technology on our times. In the space of a couple of decades, the world has come much closer together, and connectivity and exchange of ideas has flourished faster than ever before. This increasing impact has led to a significant amount of cross-cultural exchange of ideas across countries, geographies and continents. The exchange of ideas has created a common ...

Introduction

Medical Case Reports (MCRs) are medical recounts of a pathological condition about a single patient (Helan, 2012). Authors of the medical case reports, who are doctors, tend to experience unusual, unique or interesting medical aspects in patients' pathology about diagnosis, treatment and adverse reaction to the treatment. Therefore, they are purported to write medical case reports which represent unique or rear patient conditions that can influence new studies and hence increased medical knowledge. Although the medical case reports have for a long time been regarded as much inferior compared to medical research articles, they are becoming recognised as just equally important. Since ...

- Introduction - How you should prepare before you come to the U.S. - Learn the basics of the English language in your country to avoid difficulties. - Collect some information about the city. - What should you do when arriving to the U.S? - Enter an ESL program to improve your skills. - Be outgoing and get involved with other international people who also learn the language. - Interact with native speakers and practice the language. - Assign a conversation partner. - Attend a university lectures and see to adapt to ...

Discussing the Use of Idioms in the English Language

INTRODUCTION When we hear phrases like, “it is raining cats and dogs,” “a knight in shining armor,” and “once in a blue moon.” These phrases, or idioms, are not necessarily “self explanatory” and yet we seem to know what they mean, or at least we think we do (Oxford Royale Academy 2014). In order, respectively, they are saying that it is raining heavily, someone came to my rescue, and the last are things that happen very rarely. However, the understanding of these phrases is not innate. You may understand them, I may understand them but to someone who is unfamiliar ...

Question 1

Nonverbal communication refers to communication that includes the use of facial expressions, change in the pitch and tone of the voice, the use of different gestures that are displayed through the body language and the difference in the distance between the conversing parties. The mentioned nonverbal cues give the individuals communicating the additional information and cues that cannot be provided in the verbal communication. Additionally, nonverbal communication enables the individuals communicating to modify or reinforce their message especially in what they have sad in words, convey the information about their emotional state, provide feedback and regulate the flow of ...

The existence of humanity is directly influenced by the ability of out interaction through communication. From this standpoint, communication is a mandatory factor in human existence. Our ability to communicate increases our abilities to develop numerous social circles and interactions. The society has increasingly developed numerous ways that people may communicate. These mechanisms are aimed at overcoming barriers that may arise during the communication process. Regardless of these efforts, communication can be easily distorted depending on the form of message, the receiver and the recipient and the mode of communication used (Hunt & Colander, 2008). Both linguistics and the social ...

There are various features that describe the flappers form the 1920’s. Before the Roaring Twenties, women were wearing long dresses that covered their legs and arms. Women also had long hair, and women were not allowed to vote or go against the conventional behaviors in society. When the 1920’s came, things changed tremendously. In fact, the 19th Amendments that was passed in the 1920 marked the beginning of these changes. The 19th Amendments gave women the right to vote. It was during this moment that most women began to attend schools and college education. During the ...

Cartoons seem innocent in their attempt to make children laugh. In many cases they also seek to teach a lesson. The lesson can be something as simple as the importance of sharing or being honest. It can also teach something serious like looking both ways before crossing the street. The less obvious lessons are more subtle and often more lasting in the psyche of the juvenile audience. It happens more often when the cartoons characters are human beings instead of animals or puppets. Human cartoon characters cause children of all ages to absorb significant details about race, gender and culture. ...

Introduction

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a derivative of English spoken primarily by African Americans in the United States. Even though named African American, this dialect cannot be defined racially since it is not necessary that only African Americans speak this. There are many Americans who are not black yet speak this tongue intrinsically (Patrick 2007). In a few instances, some people use only certain vocabulary of this version of English, thereby making it difficult to define the actual speakers of this dialect (Sidnell 2008). Issues arise due to the differences in this dialect with that which is commonly spoken. ...

Integration of Arts in Cultures

Introduction Art health/fitness is very essential in a person’s life not only in the classroom. Art and fitness help in reducing health risks related to lifestyle. In the contemporary society, most children suffer from lifestyle diseases that could easily be prevent by various health and fitness resources. This thesis attempts to analysis the various activities and resources that are useful in art, health/fitness in the classroom setting for grades k- 8 students. Activities such as fitness and exercises help the mind to be alert and active for the students (Virgilio, 1997). It is worth noting that that benefits ...

Abstract

This paper is on the topic of Language variation and social identity in relation to the world of social media. In the first section of the paper will discuss the morphological analysis of some new words in the English language and the compounding of these words. The second section will discuss the how social media helps in creating social identity of the language speakers.

Introduction

Diverse demographics like Age or gender demonstrate significant variation in the use of language, especially in case of informal contexts like social media. Any language spoken between group people of has different ways of referring ...

Question one

David Mills interviewed Elvis Mitchell at Timothy Greenfield-Sandets. Elvis has remarkable posts ranging from a multimedia commentator, hosting a weekly radio show in Loss Angles. In addition, Elvis have been a film critic for the New York time for some time. According to David Mills, who interviewed him, Elvis is said to be one of the happiest people he has ever met. Elvis grew up at the neighborhood of Detroit, a place described by Elvis Presley to be a ‘ghitto' this word suggest that the place appeared as a slum. His parents worked in the informal sector, and he describes that they were poor. According ...

Abstract

The paper shall introduce the issue of racialism in the world as well as defining racialism. In the paper, various challenges that stakeholders who are campaigning against racialism and especially in the United States among the blacks and the whites shall be discussed. Among the reasons discussed in the paper are failures of the blacks to do away with the history of slavery, the blacks believing on the notion of police brutality and profiling, the black referring to themselves as niggers as well dressing in a suspicious way. In addition, white failure to accept the culture and practises of the ...

“Day of the Oprichnik” was written by the modern Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin. He is an outstanding representative of Russian postmodernism, conceptualist, the brightest prose writer and playwright. It is difficult to remain indifferent to his novels. One of his unique works is "Day of the Oprichnik", where the author describes Russia in 2028. The novel was written in 2006, and many critics consider that it is the best Sorokin′s work. The novel is devoted to Grigory Lukyanovich Skuratov-Belsky, nicknamed Malyuta. He was a famous oprichnik of Ivan the Terrible, and one who was not executed, as the ...

Art and culture for a long time over the years has been expressed through forms such as music, lifestyles, beliefs, dressing among many other things that determine our day to day lives. Art and entertainment since time in memorial has formed part of our culture that has cut across many generations of different people from different places in the place world. With the increased globalization and innovations in the contemporary world, it has resulted to new forms of art and entertainment that have had a great influence and impact on a bigger number of the people, both old and young not only ...

Introduction

This paper has discussed the relationship between slangs and the society The paper is based on the argument that people use slangs in order to demonstrate their membership with a particular class or a culture. Slang can be defined as the information language, which is created for a specific purpose. However, slang is not used by all people in a society (Moore, Bindler & Pandich, 2010). Slang is made by people, themselves. Once slang becomes a trend, it is also introduced to other societies. In the modern society, slang is used to express ideas and feelings. It is also used to make a conversation more interesting ...

Introduction

Popular culture is defined as the wide-ranging perspectives, attitudes, ideas, images and several other phenomena within the mainstream or rather scope of a given culture particularly the western culture (Storey 4). Subsequent to the industrial revolution, people had a lot of free time and this prompted the emergence of entertainment customs that include the mass media, additionally, this impelled advertisements ensuing the high supply and demand of goods, this in essence is perceived to have fuelled the emergence of pop culture (Fedorak 50). In history, pop culture and particularly pop music has been influential in a number of ways, additionally, pop culture ...

The purpose of the proposed study is to look into the issues concerning communication that arise due to the increasing use of mobile phones in society. communication among children, specifically the role of mobile technology in threatening to change the future generation’s patterns of communication. The prevalent use of mobile phones among children presents positive but also negative influences on this population. The continuous development of technology is a potential threat on disrupting and changing communication patterns in our interconnected world.

Refined Literature Review

The information technology revolution and an extraordinary increase in knowledge have led to the development of a new era ...

Introduction

A general notion that transcends through generations connotes that the source of an egalitarian society, in Australia, is in people’s refusal to accept malevolent classifications that tend to showcase some people as being superior to others. Nonetheless, this fight has been fruitful and Australia is an egalitarian society.

Australia the Fiercely Egalitarian Society

Argy (2005) starts by addressing issues that are currently threatening the egalitarian attitude in Australia noting that decreased mobility, rather than unequal income gap is a potential danger to the egalitarian society. Argy (2005) goes ahead to define an egalitarian society as a society that takes care of the poor among them ...

With people of a professional group, it is often difficult and sometimes even impossible to communicate effectively and accurately using normal everyday language. They use jargons to primarily to convey their ideas and their technical utterances among themselves. A jargon is a form of a specialized or technical language which acts as shorthand between groups of like-minded people especially professionals. This is a form of communication that aims to eliminate the need for lengthy explanations since the parties to this communication already comprehend what the terms mean (Tyagi,Kavita&Padma 112). Jargons exist in almost all forms of occupations ranging from a cobbler to a brain ...

Gwendolyn Brooks’s 1959 poem, The Pool Players: Seven at the Golden Shovel, often referred to as “We Real Cool,” describes the daily life and expectations of seven young people. They are school dropouts who spend their days doing as they please with little thought for building a future. Brooks’s poem is short, yet very effective because of her use of diction, tone, form, sound devices, and imagery. Brooks uses non-standard English as part of the diction and to establish the tone of her poem. For example, the speaker says “we real cool” instead of “we are very ...

Some people actually have multiple personalities as a result of a disorder, while others, for various reasons, create another personality. Bunbury, is an example of such a personality that Algernon Moncrieff, one of the main characters in Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of being Earnest, creates as a means of getting away from real life. Of course, Algernon is not the only one with another identity or personality, Jack Worthing, the protagonist of the play, actually living as the persona of ‘Earnest’ when he resides in London. Algernon actually comes up with a name for this act of creating an alter ego to ...

People have a high capacity to develop and use language to understand their environment and the circumstances surrounding them in their daily life. Particularly, the aspect of globalization has played a major part in the development of new languages. Mostly, the new languages arise in instances where users combine words from different cultures or use a common word to derive more than one meaning. All this is done in an effort of creating a word conscious environment. Furthermore, people have learned to acknowledge the subtleties of word meaning. To this end, this paper aims to look into the context in which the word ‘ ...

Communication is an important tool in the life of humans. One of the greatest achievements of the human race during evolution was the acquisition of the ability to communicate. Communication has also evolved over the years. The evolution of communication involves both written and spoken speeches. As man evolved the communication, skills also evolved. In spoken speech, man has developed various languages over the years. In written speech, man started with drawings in caves and eventually was able to come up with numerals and letters and created rules to govern the use of these numerals in different languages. These ...

Article Summary

In his speech, Shaub discusses the four developmental phases of the acculturation process of immigrants in America. In particular, Shaub discusses how some immigrants want to be bicultural, that is, to retain their original personality while developing an American one. Shaub further discuss how culture and religion can influence the bi-culturality of Muslims.

Cited Passage

“Imagine groups of related individuals living together in primitive conditions but still developing some kind of coherent culture. In many cases there would come a day when the tribe had to move---perhaps the food ran out or there was some natural calamity. For whatever reason groups often ...

Intercultural Communications

Interview and Analysis: Re/Constructing Cultural Perceptions Part A Introduction:

Thank you for agreeing to an interview about your perceptions of the United States. I would like to know many things like what your impressions were before you moved here and what expectations you had formed. (Samovar, 2006, p. 219) I’m interested in understanding the events or conversations in the US that have surprised you or led to a better understand of the culture. I am also curious are you able to understand situations that may be confusing to you. I have a set of basic questions and I ...

Introduction

Ineffective communication among people of different races or cultures was fundamentally based on racialism. Racialism is based on a personal or social belief that another person is less than human based on their skin color, custom, language or any other facto that discloses the fundamental character of that person. Racial discrimination has existed all through human history. In history, it has been seen to influence slavery, wars, legal codes and formation of nations. The most infamous example of racism has been slavery, especially the enslavement of Africans by the west in the belief that they were lesser humans than their ...

PART I

a) During my childhood, I used to use the Spanish word ‘cuca’ to refer to my vagina; often, I called male anatomy ‘Cuco,’ which was a slang term for the mythical ghost-monster – it’s basically the Hispanic equivalent of the boogeyman. I used this often in the context of other people’s private parts, because I knew it was not allowed for me to look at it. This was taught to me to teach me that I was not supposed to look at boy’s penises, and diminished the ‘dirtiness’ of these parts by hiding the more clinical terms from me ( ...

Introduction

Over the years, educators, psychologists, researchers and politicians have been arguing about the use Ebonics in both public and private schools especially its impacts to the African American students’ performance. The research has shown that for a long time there has been a large difference between the performance of the Caucasian and African American students in test scores as a result of the use Ebonics in schools. Due to these differences in performances, many African American students have been put in special classes where they can be helped to improve their performance in the Standard English language. The effects of Ebonics have ...