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Social Colloquialisms, 2008.
A research proposal on social labeling and its significance, with a focus on the subject of gender.
1,186 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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The paper relates that social labeling is identified as qualifying terms attached to specific constructs found within general social interactions. The paper explains that the purpose of this study is to identify those social colloquialisms that are used to identify gender within common parlance. The paper states the scope of the study, the research questions, the methods of assessment as well as the format and timetable.
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Purpose of the Study
Scope of the Study
Methods
Outline and Timetable
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"The pervasiveness of social labeling has resulted in the investigation of these words as representative of values shared throughout a specific society. Early research by Brooks-Gunn and Lewis (1979), for example, sought to identify why children between 9 to 24 months of age were more likely to associate the label "daddy" with an authority figure while the label "mommy" was more likely to be associated with a nurturing figure. The authors found that these two terms were heavily saturated within information communicated to infants and children, such as nursery rhymes, and that the children absorbed these social labels without attaching any qualifying information to these terms."
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Tex-Mex, 2004.
An examination of the colloquial dialect known as 'Tex-Mex' in the southern United States.
1,621 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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An analysis of the article by Gloria Anzaldua, ?How to Tame a Wild Tongue?. It shows how this article explores the essence of Chicano culture in America through an analysis of language. The author speaks about gender, race, and identity as functions of language. It focuses on Tex-Mex, which is described as a language of rebellion, both against standard Spanish and standard English.
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"The reason why using more than one language at a time can be so important for immigrants or children of immigrants is that it enables us to preserve our cultural heritage while at the same time fitting into the dominant culture. Anzald?a talks about assimilation as a negative act, but in many ways assimilation can be positive, as long as people make an effort to maintain some of their customs and their language. One of the reasons why Anzald?a is proud of Tex-Mex ?Spanglish? is because it reminds her of who she is. She remembers when she first discovered Chicano literature. ?When I saw poetry written in Tex-Mex for the first time, a feeling of pure joy flashed through me. I felt like we really existed as a people,? (29). The formation of Chicano culture happened largely through the use of language. ?Something momentous happened to the Chicano soul?we became aware of our reality and acquired a name and a language (Chicano Spanish) that reflected that reality,? (33)."
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Mothers and Daughters, 2007.
This paper looks at the motherly thoughts, realizations and truths in "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker and "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olson.
801 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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The paper examines two short stories, "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker and "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olson, where both viewpoint characters are the mothers of now-grown daughters who realize truths about their daughters they never saw before. The paper explains that "I Stand Here Ironing" is written in a more mainstream way, without ethnic or regional colloquialisms, while "Everyday Use" reflects, in terms of content as well as style, the distinctiveness of African- American culture. The paper analyzes both stories in terms of style and content and demonstrates the similarities of many of the key themes and realizations of the mothers within these stories.
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"In "Everyday Use", Mama is the mother of Dee, who is flashy, outspoken, confident and successful, and Maggie, who is shyer and mush less confident, but who has survived a fire and has quiet inner strength her mother has not always seen. In "I Stand Here Ironing", Emily's unnamed mother, who is ironing clothes throughout the whole story, recollects to herself how someone, perhaps a teacher or counselor from Emily's school, had once wanted to talk to her, a poor working single parent, about Emily's needing help. Then, later, the mother recalls, Emily showed a surprising gift for comedy."
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"Talking Heads", 2002.
An analysis of some of the techniques which Alan Bennett uses to convince the voices of his characters to the audience in his book "Talking Heads".
2,245 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper reviews Alan Bennett?s powerful book "Talking Heads", a compilation of many intriguing characters incorporated within six highly different monologues. It compares and contrasts the varied techniques employed by Bennett in the crafting and presentation of sustained, convincing and engaging voices for his protagonists. It looks at the use of techniques such as stereotypes, character self-denial, humour and moreover the use of powerful language, i.e. witticisms, idioms, cynicism and colloquialisms.
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"Bennett uses a variety of techniques to show the characters emotions in each monologue, some are the same and others are completely different. A change of subject is quite common. In ?Soldiering On? Muriel?s remorse and grief are shown quite sparsely but when it is shown, ?then I felt a bit choked? the subject is changed immediately, ?Anyway the tablet did the trick.? She appears extremely distraught about her husbands? death but the way she has been brought up dictates her behaviour as ?keeping up appearances?. Bennett shows Susan?s emotions in ?Bed among the lentils? with the use of frequent sarcasm towards her husband, herself and others. ?Geoffrey praying in that pausy way he does.? ?For once I got it right.? ?Fan club running around in small circles? Mrs Frobisher even went as far as to squeeze my elbow.? Susan created the feeling of being useless and unloved, and basically being in the way."
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?Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha?, 2002.
A review of Paddy Doyle's novel ?Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha?.
2,377 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper examines Roddy Doyle?s novel, "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha", a powerful and compelling story of life in 1960s Ireland through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Paddy. It looks at how the book is purposely written almost entirely in dialogue, creating a fantastic range of slang, vulgarisms and colloquialisms. It analyzes how within the book, Doyle explores and deals with many issues, including Paddy and his hatred for his brother, peer group pressure and his mother and father's rocky and deteriorating marriage as well as many other themes. These include the loss of childhood innocence, the family, the marvellous nature of a child?s imagination, the harshness of life and the cruelty of children.
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"The first techniques which one could mention, is the obvious slow change of the tone within the book. Doyle creates, for the first 200 pages of so, the dominant tone of happiness, delight and childish mischief. ?I had a book on my head. I had to get up the stairs without it falling off. If it fell off I would die.? Nothing is particularly serious, Paddy continues to harass his brother and play with his peers, and has yet to understand the seriousness of his mother and fathers continuous quarrelling. However Doyle cleverly changes the tone, towards the end of the novel, through Paddy?s dialogue, not only to show that Paddy is growing up, as he most definitely is, but also to create a tone more serious, anxious and tense. ?They were fighting all the time now. They said nothing but it was a fight?The silences were worst, waiting it to start again, or louder.? "
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Langston Hughes, 2006.
This paper reviews several poems and essays by Langston Hughes, who wrote poetry, essays, novels, plays and children's books and is considered the most important African-American writer of his time.
2,125 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper explains that Langston Hughes employs the techniques of humor, imagery and rhythm to emphasize his points, proving himself to be a master at identifying with his African-American heritage. The author points out that Hughes often used jazz as an inspiration for his literary works by utilizing colloquial African-American dialects in a rhythmic pattern that echoes jazz as seen in his poem "The Weary Blues", which earned Hughes a first prize for poetry in 1925. The paper analyzes several of his poem---"The Weary Blues", "Song for a Dark Girl", "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Freedom Train" and "The Negro Artist" and "The Racial Mountain" and essays---"Temptation", "There Ought to be a Law" and "The Fun of Being Black".
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"In contrast to the serious nature of the African American plight, Jesse B. Simple allows Hughes to express his affirmation of the African American experience through humor. Maya Angelou states that Hughes' essays "helped us poke fun at the unjust, thereby weakening the power of injustice." Through humorous conversations with a fictional man, Hughes was able to comment on serious racial issues with a certain amount of ease. For instance, in his essay, "Temptation," Simple discusses the probability of Adam and Eve being black instead of white. He says, "If they had started out black, this world might not be in the fix it is today. Eve might not have paid that serpent no attention. I never did know a Negro yet that liked a snake" (Hughes 177). Through his unique sense of humor, Hughes proves his point that African Americans are just as capable as--even more capable than anyone else--of making a decision regarding their own fate."
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'Bastard Pop', 2006.
A discussion regarding the musical genre of 'Bastard Pop' and why 'keepin' it real' isn't the only way to make real music.
2,383 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper takes a look at the genre of music known as 'Bastard Pop'. According to the paper, 'Bastard Pop' is not a formal musical categorization, but rather a common, colloquial term for music that is the result of a fusion of different musical styles or elements, often using several different types of songs that are combined into one, new song or style.
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Definition
Is it Stealing?
Recent History
Artists and Critics Sound Off on Bastard Pop
The Grey Album: Is it art?
Conclusion
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"In the 1990s, the phenomenon of downloadable music made the ability to fuse and combine genres even more accesible to everyday computer users and listeners, even young persons with only a PC in their bedrooms. Disc jockeys and then ordinary listeners could develop mixing techniques that turned first the record player, then the home computer into an instrument. Such technology-driven creativity gave birth to first such musical genres as disco, then to hip-hop and finally house and techno. "These innovations not only radically changed their immediate cultural and social contexts, but also served as templates for a variety of other musical practices around the world, so much so that contemporary popular music would be unthinkable without them." (Wehelive, 2004) Popular music, the argument goes, depends upon copying, and without such self-referential techniques, modern music would be much poorer."
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Admission Essay: Scientific Medical Translation.
This paper is an admission essay to an advanced program for scientific and medical translation.
1,185 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 40.95
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The paper explains that the author?s university degree thesis focused on technical and scientific matters and utilized a wide vocabulary from the medical and biological disciplines, which enabled the applicant to gain a strong grounding and preparation for technical vocabulary and an understanding medical and scientific matters. The author points out that her work for a company translating agricultural, scientific, and medical texts highlighted the delicate balance between subjectivity and objectivity in the art of translating another?s words and thoughts into another language and cultural system of ideas. The paper stresses that medical and scientific words often have a different meaning in the technical lexicon of the profession or a discipline than they do in more colloquial usage; therefore, the most gratifying aspect of her work was having a part in making the often difficult and frightening world of medicine and the sciences comprehensible.
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"I obtained my university degree this summer, in July of 2004. I received a degree in translation and interpreting, the ?Mediazione Linguistica? (Final Mark 105/110) from la Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici Gregorio VII, Rome. Previously, in July 2000 I received my Diploma di Liceo Linguistico (95/100), Liceo Linguistico N.S. della Mercede in Rome as well. Thus, my education has revolved around this diverse and exciting European city, filled with the languages of many foreign-speaking individuals, tourists and professionals."
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The Stupa and Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka, 2008.
An analysis of the ongoing significance of stupas in everyday popular Sri Lankan Buddhism.
2,318 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper analyzes Sri Lanka as a foremost country of Theravada Buddhism with several very important and many more local stupas found in most parts of an officially Buddhist country. It specifically discusses the ongoing importance of stupas in everyday popular Sri Lankan Buddhism and describes the more colloquial meaning and popularity of stupas of different descriptions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Stupas as Architecture
Popular Buddhism and the Stupa
Symbolism and Stupas
Concluding Discussion
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"One sees that the stupa has terrific and varied significance in Sri Lanka's Theravada Buddhism whether in formal observances as can involve festival times or traveling to very important sites or what occurs locally involving what may be a very small district stupa, perhaps situated near a temple or upon a hill. In the upcountry areas of Sri Lanka, stupas may dot hillsides and with each, however small, having particular importance to someone or to residents of a particular village, rather like the roadside crucifixes or other religious statues one expects to see in Roman Catholic countries and implying the same sense of daily awareness and frequent related observance. There is the same contrast too between Christians viewing art as merely representing a saint or the divine, as opposed to persons who can actively worship an image or attach special powers to it. The smallest of white stupas can remind the Buddhist of how he or she is to live, develop the self, of the example of the Buddha's mind, the helpfulness of veneration. Preparing this paper has been a good exercise in seeing the different levels on which Asian religious phenomena need to be assessed, the understanding of an educated monk in Sri Lanka or a Buddhist historian of antiquities obviously rather different from the homespun understanding of a person who may be a very devout Buddhist citizen. In this sense the stupa offers different kinds of symbolism that can unite diverse members of a philosophical tradition."
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Poet Richard Bell, 2006.
This paper discusses the work of contemporary poet Marvin Bell, the author of numerous books on poetry, winner of many prestigious awards and the first Poet Laureate of Iowa.
1,455 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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This paper explains that the poetry of Marvin Bell questions existential aspects of life, which are often taken for granted such as relationships, nature and the concepts of who and what a person is. The author points out that a central characteristic of Bell's work is the use of comparatively simple and colloquial forms of speech and word usage including nature imagery, which refers to everyday sights and sounds. The paper relates that, in his work, Bell stresses his need to "express the inexpressible" as the process he uses in his writings.
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"What the poem does is it make us realize the mystery of self in that self cannot be defined or capture in a concrete sense but rather is "beyond words", and is essentially inexpressible. An analysis of the poem reveals that the identity of nature cannot be categorized or captured; just as much as human identity is continually moving and changing. It is this sense of mystery and the sense of the depth of complexity of the self and nature which lies at the heart of much of Bell's poetry."
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Tarski?s T Schema, 2004.
This is an analysis of Alfred Tarski?s T schema and how it defines languages as true or false.
2,514 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 76.95
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This paper explores the theory of Alfred Tarski, which he published in 1936 called "Wahrheitsbegriff". It explains how he investigates the schema of colloquial language and formal language to prove whether such language usage is true in its context and logic or not. It discusses how theorists challenged Tarski's controversial equation, which he presents as his T schema for proving statements/ sentences true. It also states that most theorists disagree with this T schema "p" is true if p.
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"Tarski presumes that the rule for this equation is true if p is proven false. To achieve the desired result, he put forward the condition that in the T schema if a sentence is S then p is a replica or in another word S= p. However p will have to be untrue for S to be true. In formal language he perceives that correctness means that there is no ambiguity of truthfulness or untruthfulness of the existence of a sentence/phrase. Inconsistency according to him exists when the parts of the sentence does not conform to the object of the sentence (Tarski 1944)."
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Granny Flats, 2002.
An examination of the rules and regulations regarding granny flats in California.
1,024 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses how granny flats, a colloquial term often used for accessory second dwelling units, are best described as the converted use of space in a residential home into a small apartment. It examines how in California most often this means converting part or all of a garage into an apartment or flat and how the advantages of converting the extra space into living units is often in providing a source of income for the owners of the house. It evaluates how the State of California requires that local governments allow second dwelling units in single-family districts. It looks at how granny flats mostly meet the same housing construction and safety codes of more traditional housing. It shows how they offer low-cost alternatives to apartments for those on a fixed income such as the elderly or those with disabilities who are receiving assistance. In addition they are an alternative to warehousing older generation Americans who cannot afford to live independently.
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"Ordinances vary widely from city to city in the state. Many municipalities have tried in the past to severely regulate the use of granny flats by their residents. California Court of Appeal struck down just such an attempt in Santa Monica, which had an ordinance on the books that restricted, who can live in second units in single family residential zones. The court found that the ordinance it violated both privacy and equal protection rights. The ordinance restricted occupancy to dependents and caretakers. It was approved by the City Council at the urging of residents, in spite of legal warnings from attorneys as well as City staff."
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A Discussion on Biology, 2002.
This paper defines several biological terms in an easy-to-understand manner.
2,329 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 11 sources, $ 71.95
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A discussion between family members that gives a lesson in biology and defines several aspects of biology such as vegetarianism, protein, vitamin B12, cladistics, tetrapods, and antisense technology. Because this colloquial paper is written in the style of a story being told to the lay person, the reader is able to easily understand the bioligical concepts.
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""I'm being more efficient," Sadie said. "The 10% rule of ecology says that only 10% of the available energy stored in a food can be used by the next level of the ecosystem. So plants can use only 10% of the energy sent by the sun, and we can use only 10% of the energy stored by plants when we eat them, or 1% of what comes from the sun. Eating meat cuts the percentage to one-tenth of 1%. Too inefficient. That's why I eat only plants" ("Vegetarianism"). Sadie nodded her head wisely.
"She's right, you know." David was a graduate student in molecular biology. He knew that sort of stuff backward and forward. Uncle Eldridge looked a little startled.
"I learned that in class, too," I added.
"But what about protein? How do you get enough protein?" Aunt Sally looked worried.
"There are a lot of sources of protein besides meat. The need for protein is based on getting both essential and non-essential amino acids from your food," Sadie explained. "It can be from complete protein foods, like meat or fish or chicken, that include all the amino acids. But non-complete protein foods are just called that because they don't include every amino acid. So you just have to combine them to get all the amino acids you need."
"Will you be able to get all your amino acids today without the turkey?" Mom asked.
"Probably," Sadie said. "The beans, the potatoes, the walnuts, and the corn in the cornbread probably include all the essential amino acids between them." ("Protein")."
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The Third World, 2002.
A history of the existance of what is known today as the 'Third World' and debate on whether it is a creation of the West.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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Today, approximately 75% of the world's population live in the over 100 'lesser developed countries', colloquially referred to as the Third (and fourth) World(s). Collectively, these countries consume only 20% of the world's resources, but account for 75% of all the world's arms imports. What is responsible for such an egregiously disproportionate distribution of wealth? What has prevented the Third World states from developing into prosperous states like those in the West? Despite this confusion, however, most of those versed on the issue can fundamentally agree that the Third World is, indeed, a creation of the West. It is the objective of this paper to verify this assertion by reflecting on the historical construction of what we now know as the 'Third World', and considering the relevance of the prevailing theories that can account for its existence.
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"Katherine", 2002.
A literary analysis of "Katherine" by Anya Seton, focusing on the diction used in the work.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This essay analyzes the diction of "Katherine" by Anya Seton in terms of whether the language is concrete or abstract, whether the words have interesting connotations, whether the diction is formal or colloquial and what inferences can be drawn about the speaker from the word choice of the speaker.
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