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Social Media is an end of face-to-face conversation:

  Social Media is an end of face-to-face conversation:     There were sweet sound old days. When people had a great connection among their souls. And, that great connection was established beyond the existence of a cyber-world. The proximity was the cause of socialization. But, since we, as people, have entered into a world of rapid connectivity. We have defied that great connection among the souls which was once the defining purpose of our existence.   Where has that connection gone? That connection is being lost into shadowy scepticalthe  emergenc of cyber-world. Now, people hardly have any connection whatsoever, the among themselves. As, there may be hundreds of acquaintances from other far away corners of the world. But, people hardly know their neighbours faraway. This is the unfortunate misery! It is an era of online chatting, online fidgeting and online dating. So, how would that connection among people build through mutual conversation and phys...

Semantics, Pragmatics and Speech pathology

                                                    Essay 1.       Semantics and pragmatics are theoretical fields. However, they may have practical applications. Discuss which areas of semantics and pragmatics you think are particularly relevant for speech pathology and explain why you think so. Your discussion need not be limited to areas of semantics/pragmatics discussed in class. Note that if you choose to discuss lexical semantics, you should not discuss access to lexemes or their meanings, but rather relations between and among lexemes.     Semantics is a theoretical field which deals with the study of denotative meanings. Which means that meaning of certain lexical entities in their literal s...

Feminism: How are women portrayed: Miramar and A woman is no man

     Feminism: How are women portrayed:     Miramar  and  A woman is no man   Introduction: Feminism has been for long a socio-political movement which was inspired by the pretext of subjugation of women. And the campaign was meant to bring women into the realm of power. Feminism discouraged the control of men over women’s bodies and souls. Women were bound to be as free as their fellow men. The novel Mirmar is based on a story of a young girl Mirmar, who finds herself in a pensionary. The story is about a struggle of a woman who finds herself in a dark, gloomy world of men. Who sees her as an object. The story portrays a poor beautiful woman with an attractive body struggling inside a patriarchal world. She is often threatened, tried to be raped and proposed to, which she rejects. The body of a woman is portrayed as the only source to gain power in a man-centric world. For: the character of Mariana, a faded beauty, inspires no attraction on ...

Literary Analysis of a poem.

                                                          Literary Analysis:   The poem is written in free verse. The poet has used various metaphors and imagery to paint a picture of beauty. The poet uses the metaphor of “gently moving bamboo” to paint a picture of the beautiful and flexible body of the beloved”. The beloved eyes are full of peace. Poet has used imagery which appeals senses of sight. The first stanza conveys the idea that the beloved is far distanced and resides only in desire. So, she is beyond the reach of her lover. Thus, the first stanza presents a theme of desire as well as distance. There is a warm desire for bamboo-like arms of the beloved, which appeals to the lover. While at the same time, ...

Solved Literature Questions: Hope Against Hope

   Solved Literature Questions: Hope Against Hope Q:  List three different ways that the author reveals the protagonist and his or her life to the reader. Consider the elements of fiction. (You may want to go back to the first two modules and review.) Be specific. Include BOTH your thoughts AND specific examples from the text. Include both chapter name and page numbers. Write at least three FULL sentences for each AND include an example for each. (The example is not part of the three sentences.)     1-        The story's protagonist is Arnold Spirit Jr., a cartoonist. The author describes that his character uses images to explain the world. Since he believes that pictures speak more than words in any language. As Arnold says:  "I draw because words are too unpredictable . . . I draw because words are too limited." (Ch=1 p.9)     2-        The novel has the basic theme of "hope and Joy" as...

Phonology related work

  Essay: Phonetics and Phonology     Malak’s attempt at the first stage is bound to fail because Malak had used to gather the data about the phonemes only. And it is not sufficient to help her with speech recognition. Because knowledge of phonology which incorporates a specific combination of speech sounds in speech context, is “absent”. Moreover, The second scheme, which helps Malak in getting the lexical information, would also fail because it also does not incorporate entire phonological information like Stress patterns within words and its variation between words at the sentence level.   These are the phonemes that are part of the code: / m/, /aɪ/, /g/, /ɹ/, /æ/, /n/, /d/, /f/, /ɑ/, /ð/, /ə/, /v/, /l/, /t/, /p/, /n/, /k/, and /s/. But, how these phonemes would be brought together to formulate the utterance will be problematic. Since speech sound production is not the only aspect of language production. And it requires knowledge of lexical as well as phonological ...