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Our world today and yesterday experiences various forms of religious violence in one way or the other. Religion is an important phenomenal in which identity of individuals and groups are based on (Juergensmeyer 2003, 5). Threat to this identity is one of the causes of religious violence and terrorism (Juergensmeyer 2003, 7). The conventional belief around religion is that it should be a safe abode where we can hide ourselves when we pass through challenges of life (Juergensmeyer 2003, 5).…

Bruce Dawe’s poem “homecoming” contrasts this idea and shows a lack of identity for the deceased soldiers. Repeated use of the pronoun “they’re” hints at the impersonal relationship between the bodies and their handlers. Repetition of the suffix “-ing” in “bringing”, “zipping”, “picking”, “tagging” and “giving”, describe the actions of the body processors, creating irony. Those verbs imply life and vitality in contrast to the cold lifeless bodies they are handling each day. Dawe successfully…

As time passes, societies and language evolve with the emergence of subcultural identities, new terminology, and inventive ways of utilizing the language. Making it easier for societies to adapt to the new ways of using their language. As subcultures become directed towards Japanese youth, the language will continue to change it’s representation in society through a cultural shift and usage of honorific, neologisms, emoticons, and coded words. While polite and honorific language hasn’t changed…

Discovering the Importance of Literacy As I read the prompt, I struggled to think about a time when literacy became important to me. The word “literacy” to me is just being able to read, write, and speak. As I stared at my blank computer screen, waiting for an idea to come up, I remembered that I have a unique trait about me that other people in my area do not have: I am bilingual, but my first language is Tagalog, not Spanish. Most people believe that Tagalog is the same language as Spanish…

Sociology comes from the Latin stem “socio” meaning “member friend or all” and stems from the Greek suffix "-logy" which means "study of,”. This gives us our main difference between a sociopath and a psychopath There are many types of sociopaths being that some were born this was and others were created due to other mental dis abilities AE: dementia…

definition of the matter, the make of psychology, and the similarities between psychology and science. According to Jessica DeFrost’s study on Greek and Latin roots from Michigan State University, the root word “psych” means mind and soul. Where as the suffix “ology”, as said by the Medical Dictionary from Farlex, means…

it at a certain point of the novel. Why would anyone waste their time reading a novel about suicide? Tomorrow, there will be new jobs on the hunting sites. I made a book the day before, and I probably will receive a book about prefix, root and suffix in the library. I will learn other new words; everyday is a new day. Don’t worry, the grass is always greener on the other side. Someone said,”When Jesus closes a door, he will open a window somewhere.” Today it’s freezing, but it’s just 11…

In today’s society, the invention of the internet has a profound effect in transitioning the English Language from a written language to a primarily typed language. Consequently, people heavily rely on autocorrect to fix their orthographical and grammatical mistakes because they have grown accustomed to it (autocorrect). This would suggest that they forget or do not bother to remember the correct spellings of words and rules of grammar. In the English grammar book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, the…

Native Americans: The Iroquois The Iroquois got their name from one of their enemies the Algonquin, called them the Iroqu (Irinakhoiw) which translate to the "rattlesnakes." Then the French added the suffix "-ois" to it, so the name became Iroquois. The Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois League was a northern American confederacy or alliance composed of five tribes in the seventh century. The Iroquois Confederation was known as the strongest confederation of the indigenous people.…

The word fatal came about in the English language in the Middle English period, circa 1347. Originally the adjectival form of fate, it initially meant “allotted or decreed by fate or destiny; destined, fated” (OED, 2015). Up until the early 16th century, circa 1518, its various definitions continued to revolve around the idea of “destiny”, portraying the largely stagnant semantic change lasting for almost two centuries. Its initial borrowing likely came as a result of the Norman Conquest of…