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    Kristine Pham H. Freshmen Lit & Composition Summer 2014 Dialectic Journal Assignment FAHRENHEIT 451 TEXT CHAPTER & PAGE RESPONSE (Question‚ Predict‚ Connect‚ Clarify‚ Reflect‚ Evaluate) "With the brass nozzle in his fists‚ with this great python spitting it ’s venomous kerosene upon the world‚ the blood pounded his head‚ and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history." Chapter

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    In Punjab‚ home cooking differs from the restaurant cooking style. At the restaurants‚ the chefs make a liberal use of desi ghee‚ butter and cream to make the food lip smacking and finger licking. On the other hand‚ at home‚ people prefer using sunflower oil or some other refined oil for cooking‚ with the basic idea of making the food low in fat content. Wheat is the staple food of Punjabis; however‚ they do enjoy eating rice on festivities and other special occasions. When it comes to food‚ each

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    Use of Customs‚ Dialect and Social Status In "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Mark Twain’s "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a short story with the lesson that what goes around comes around. In this short story‚ which first appeared in 1856 and his first successful story‚ Twain uses local customs of the time‚ dialect‚ and examples of social status in his story to create a realistic view of the region in which the story takes place. The way that the characters

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    Bazakhstan’s Language Policy Bazakhstan‚ a newly established nation‚ was placed in a dilemmatic situation upon achieving its independence on August 2012. With multiple ethnic groups‚ deciding which language or languages to standardize is crucial to the country’s stability. Bazakhstan could accommodate each ethno groups’ preference by promoting either official monolingualism or linguistic pluralism; however‚ from a third party’s point of view‚ Bazakhstan should promote monolingualism because linguistic

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    the use of southern dialect in her characters dialogue. Hurston uses the dialect to convey the personality of her characters while adding to the feeling of a story that is being told. The dialect helps the reader feel like the novel has come to life before them and they mentally attribute different surrounding backgrounds to Hurston’s characters‚ while taking in the meanings and significance behind Janie’s life story of love and experiences. Additionally‚ Hurston uses dialect to capture the beauty

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    Their eyes were Watching God Use of language and dialect               Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga‚ Alabma‚ but primarily grew up in Eatonville‚ Florida. Eatonville was the first all black town in the United States and is featured heavily in the novel. This may in fact be because Hurston considered Eatonville to be her true home and claimed a few times to be her birthplace. This is because‚ in 1901‚ according to A Crticial Companion to Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Reference to

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    Finn‚ by Mark Twain‚ the author uses dialects and‚ someone say‚ vulgar language to bring to bring forward many of the issues society faced in the time period following the Civil War. With the use of many different dialects in the novel‚ Twain is not only able to create vivid‚ realistic characters but is also able to show his beliefs concerning education‚ and family upbringing through his characters. The main character‚ Huckleberry Finn‚ has a unique dialect that is introduced to us in the opening

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    In the story‚ the diction from the author’s dialect was colloquial‚ especially using profanity and misspelled words. This identified that African Americans at that Dialect shows a lot of things in the story. In “The Lesson” we could distinguish the feeling of the characters. Moreover‚ the  “And she was always planning these boring- a** things for us to do‚ us being my cousin‚ mostly‚ who lived on the block cause we all moved North the same time and to the same apartment then spread out gradual

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    Since the very earliest times there were four dialects in OE: Nourthumbrian (1) ‚ spoken by Angles living north of the Humber. Mercian West-Saxon(2)‚ spoken by Angles between the Humber and Thames. The Mercian dialect: Translation of the Psalter (9 th c.) and hymns.The Runic texts of the Ruthwell Cross and Frank’s Casket (Runic)‚ translation of the gospels‚ Caedmon’s Humn and Bede’s Dying Song. Kentish‚ the language of the Jutes and Frisians. The West dialect is represented by the works of kind Alfred

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    Pidgin: Dialect of English Spoken on the Hawaiian Islands Pidgin is a dialect of English spoken in the Hawaiian Islands. It consists of the shortening of many words commonly used in everyday English speech. Some examples include‚ da (the)‚ odda (other)‚ Tre (meaning tree and three)‚ bra (anyone you know)‚ da kine (anything you don’t know)‚ cus (any friend)‚ and many others. Pidgin has it’s social barriers as well. It is primarily spoken in the lower class neighborhoods consisting of the Hawaiians

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