Essays on Language

Saving dying languages is important due to countless reasons. One of the causes, why it is necessary to hold languages that are almost vanishing such as Kakuma in Peru, is to supply future generations the chance to hint their cultural origins and understand their past (Silver). It is also quintessential...

Ukiyo-e: A Floating World Picture Ukiyo-e is a Japanese style of literature which translates to a floating world picture. The types of art had been produced between the 17th -20th century and made from woodblock prints. The initial pictures were made in black and white. Demand for greater shades and improvements...

Complex Language and Word Formation in English Introduction It's a complex language, English. When the environment changes in all ways, so does the linguistic means of communication. For example, developments in the fashion industry result in new vocabulary. Four of the key factors that contribute to word-formation include a shift of context...

The Diary of a Madman The diary of a madman and bewitched are carefully related literary work that are used in depicting the culture, economy, and social norms in the Japanese and China societies. The roles of man in the society clearly come out in both stories. The diary of a...

Americans and Japanese in World War II Americans used a number of strategies in World War II. Now the Americans and the Japanese people are close allies despite being great enemies several decades prior. They fought a hard battle from 1941 to 1945, which the world still remembers today. The Attack on...

Tadao Ando is a well-known Japanese architect born in 1941 in Osaka, Japan. He had a twin brother, and at the age of two, their parents decided to separate them making Tadao to dwell at his grandmother’s place (Tadao Ando, 2016). He labored as a boxer and a truck driver...

“How Are Hector and Achilles The Same in The Iliad” “The Iliad” epic of Homer happens in the 9th year of a decade hostilities between the Achaeans and Trojans. This greater fight places Achilles (of Achaeans) as well as Hector (of the Trojans) in direct war because they are...

Bilingualism, or the ability to speak two languages fluently, is thought to be a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. It is believed that simply being fluent in two languages engages one's brain cells in deep cognition, which turns out to be a tool for defending oneself from dementias. It does...

Nell's vocabulary uses English, but it's warped because the only contact she had was with her mother, who was crippled on one side of her mouth. Having learned her mother's voice for the first time, the phonetics of her language were slurred and clipped, while the grammar was inspired by...

The history of United States and its immigrant communities The history of United States has been marked by the high number of immigrants from unique countries. The new entrant communities brought with themselves various languages expanding the languages spoken in America to extra than 200. Maybe to start we consider the...

The Indian Cinema is made up of all the films produced in India. The film industry in India as a whole is referred to as Bollywood Approximately 1600 Indian films are made annually on average. By 2013, Bollywood was named the leading producer of films ahead of Nollywood and Hollywood, respectively. Bollywood...

The paper compares and contrasts two factors of the story “An occurrence at Owl Creek” by Ambrose Bierce and “Guests of the Nation” by Frank O’Connor. The story with the aid of Ambrose presents a man by the mane Farquhar who is about to be hanged for his readiness to...