... English. Although many Americans tend to scorn any careless variation of the Standard English, flexibility of the language is, perhaps, a main reason for its survival. In 1905, a Danish scholar and great authority on English, Otto Jespersen, wrote: English is like an English park, which is laid out seemingly without any definite plan, and which you are allowed to walk everywhere according to your own fancy without having a fear a stern keeper enforcing rigorous regulations. (MacNeil 141) This freedom has created the English we speak today. Although a little behind the times, Oxford changes the rules ...

... Brett loved to play football all his life. In fifth grade he decided which position he wanted to play when he went out for wide receiver and landed on the football after a catch and lost his breath. He told his father, the coach for his team, “I don’t want to play wide receiver no more.” Ever since that day he has been a quarterback after his dad put him as one, and scored 4 touchdowns. As a teenager Brett grew up about the same as anyone else. Since he grew up in a totally football enclosed family, with his brother playing football in college and his father being a coach, he lov ...

... to cost the store more money. Also, it would give the managers one extra key on their already big key chain that they really have no use for. Since they are open every second of the year, they never need to lock the doors between shifts. When one person's shift is over then the next person will come in and take over. It's not like most stores where at night when the store closes they lock the doors and go home. Then, in the morning whoever is going to be opening comes in and unlocks the store and gets it ready for the first customers of the day. This situation would never happen at a store that is open all ...

... and alien abduction. The Crucible brought to life the depressingly, amazing story of the Salem witch trials. Even better it showed how a sensible group of people could take an ordinary situation and give it an extreme explanation. When young girls of the village began to act strangely, the explanation that witches were to blame was quick to be accepted. "I knew it! Goody Osburn were midwife to me three times…My babies always shriveled in her hands" (47). Soon people of high status are being accused. It's as if no one is safe from the crazy explanation that has stemmed from a very ordinary situation. Rebe ...

... all possible. This paper will show that despite aging process will eventually take its toll, people have the mental power to turn it into a fulfilling experience. Aging means change, a process which is inevitable. The real problem is that people tend to see it in a negative way. They feel threatened by aging and tend ‘slow’ down their lives since they aged. This type of negative thinking does not have any future. People tend to give up on their daily exercise and they sometimes forget about their healthy eating. In their mind, a light went off, meaning their prime is over, it is time to switch to a more laid ...

... to view the world from their own perspective (http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Pearl_Street/Dictionary/contents/P/piaget’s_stages.html). Throughout early childhood, children’s preoperational cognitive development is observed. Egocentrism -- being unaware of any perspectives other then their own -- is often seen is children ranging from two to six or seven years. Piaget’s three mountain problem illustrates this phenomenon clearly; that is, children who looked at three mountain peaks, designated by different colors, could not pick a picture representing the three peaks from a doll’s point of ...

... persuade the reader to side with her opinion. Parker uses good persuasive techniques by showing that not everything you read in the media about child development is true or factual. Parker also shows that she is not one-sided on the issue and gives a personal comment about the opposing viewpoint. I feel the author proved her point that parents are being ridiculous in how they are raising their child these days. In the first few paragraphs, author attracts the attention of the reader and explains the main point of the article. The author begins the article saying that she “Pity[s] today’s parents who want to do ...

... this you must ask, "why should I care about how I live if my parents don’t care about how they live?" Juveniles would rather stay away from a place that they don’t care to live in which leaves them bumming from other people for housing. When moving from place to place many different things can be encountered such as drugs, or abuses such as physical, sexual, or mental. A juvenile without a stable place to live will almost inevitably become delinquent. Use of drugs or alcohol can also cause problems in the home. Either of these items being abused in the home will immediately cause it to be unstab ...

... and competition from other firms. For example Sony have released the smallest minidisc in the world which creates competition and also covers the consumers wants/needs. Improving the operational processes, developing new ones and developing new/improved products are part of the research and development commercial function. R&D should be looking at two areas, which are to: A) Take as much care for the environment as possible. B) Make use of materials in the most efficient way. By doing this they must calculate their costs and make sure they can do the above without getting into debts from the costs they pro ...

... sus amigos reunidos en su casa, sino al lector mismo, que el nos va contar una historia de mucha emocion, “una historia de amor y de desgracia�(4). Y comienza a relatar una historia que acontecio a fines del ano 1863, “ano desgraciado en que...ocupo el ejercito frances a Mexico�(4). Al llamarlo un “ano desgraciado�, es evidente que el siente una emocion negativa sobre ese conflicto y a la vez crea en la novela un sentimiento pesimista hacia los invasores extranjeros y lo que estos hicieron en Mexico en esa epoca. El narrador exalta un gran sentimiento de carino hacia Mexico por medio de su dec ...