“When e-mail shorthand or for that matter, slang appears in academic assignments”, (NY Times, 2008) Professor Sterling said, “it is an opportunity for teachers to explain that while such usages are acceptable in some contexts, they do not belong in schoolwork.” (NY Times, 2008) “As the English language
Nowadays, technology is being used to a great degree in education. In the past, students would go to libraries and work on their research. But in the present, everything has changed due to technology. Fewer children go to libraries to get a start on their work instead they use their computers or smartphones to help them finish their work. Computers and smartphones can be more convenient and fast but libraries can put children more into concentration and not get distracted easily but because of the
earliest date of 1906. Some of these films are considered to be the best films of all time within the filming industry of the world. They are also known to be produced during the time of the Australian New Wave, my chosen film movement. Throughout this essay, I will discuss in detail how the Australian New Wave was formed and what made Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and Crocodile Dundee, to an extent, a representative of Australian New Wave by discussing aspects from mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene is everything
Other negative effects of social networking various people have suggested include: encouraging poor spelling and grammar, exposing underage to online predators, allowing spread of misinformation that is perceived as fact. Students get used to using slangs such as ‘asap’ in place of ‘as soon as possible, ‘brb’ also replaces ‘be right back’ to mention just a few. The preposition ‘the’ has mostly been spelt as ‘de’, ‘wit’ is also commonly a replacement for ‘with’. These examples are unhealthy and are
an electronic device, teenagers send texts to friends; they may write abbreviation like “c u l8r” for the purpose of creating and sending their messages as quickly as possible. Unfortunately this leads to a faded boundary when the right time to use slang language and proper English. However, it has been argued upon by people for years, whether or not this impacts the literacy among teens. Therefore, the researchers believe that it may also affect the students’ writing and spelling skills because of
Introduction Propaganda remains a relatively unformed concepts despite the fact that it was defined by many scientists with different ways. This is reflected in the uncertainty and absence of agreement between several ways used to explain the phenomenon. But still some aspects of propaganda can be studied without unconditional agreement in political and other sciences. Propaganda in many cases is associated with a distortion of the truth and such expressions as ‘brainwash’, ‘lie’, ‘manipulation’