background preloader

Vanricher

Facebook Twitter

Elden Richer

Estudante Letras Licenciatura Inglês

Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language. English Resources. English Resources. The Scarlet Letter. PressBox: Joe Pa Statue Should Stand As Scarlet Letter. Joe Pa Statue Should Stand As Scarlet Letter Posted on July 13, 2012 By Stan "The Fan" Charles Eight months ago, the administration at Pennslyvania State University empowered a panel headed by ex-FBI chief Louis Freeh to investigate how those in charge of Penn State and its athletic program handled the scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

PressBox: Joe Pa Statue Should Stand As Scarlet Letter

Administrators wanted an honest and unfettered report, in the hopes that it would create transparency for the future of athletics in Happy Valley, Pa. Instead, what they got was yet another punch to the gut, as Freeh wrote in his report, "The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized.

" PressBox: Joe Pa Statue Should Stand As Scarlet Letter. Visual Dictionary Online. Noam chomsky. The Secret World of Arrietty. Old English. History of the English Language. Old English Translator - Old English Grammar. When reading the comments people make about this site probably the most common is that some users have no understanding of Old English Grammar and the most common question is, for nouns, what does Nominative, Accusative, Genitive and Dative mean?

Old English Translator - Old English Grammar

The following is an attempt to explain in simple terms what these words mean. There are many books written on this subject and they provide a much greater depth of accuracy and understanding than I can here. Having said that, here goes: Overview of the History of the English Language. Timelines: English Pilot Project. C666_Lesson_plan covers and inners_FINAL_web only.pdf. Words and phrases: frequency, genres, collocates, concordances, synonyms, and WordNet. Online Education: Explore 2014's Best Colleges & Resources.

Anglais. Languages - Learn French - Crosswords. Sites Officiels. Materials for Exploring American Culture. Landscape and Property - Jane Austen Centre. 13 Reasons You Wouldn't Want To Live In Jane Austen's England. Emergence of Civilization and Fall into Patriarchal Dominion. Christine Fielder & Chris King Paleolithic Origins There are two sexually polarized theories of human cultural origins, both of which have failed to stand the test of empirical evidence.

Emergence of Civilization and Fall into Patriarchal Dominion

The first is 'man the hunter' (Washburn R729, Morris R486) suggesting that male strength and hunting prowess led both to male dominance, and intelligence and culture, through skills of hunting, such as tool-making. Languages & Linguistics. Linguistic. John McWhorter. Linguist John McWhorter thinks about language in relation to race, politics and our shared cultural history.

John McWhorter

Why you should listen John McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, teaching linguistics, Western Civilization and music history. John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!! ESL materials. ESP CLASSES. Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba. Grammar. Lessons - Copperplate/Engrossers Script. Lessons in Calligraphy and Penmanship Copperplate/Engrossers Script Welcome to the IAMPETH Lessons pages.

Lessons - Copperplate/Engrossers Script

Here you will find a wealth of material for learning calligraphy and penmanship. Cursive handwriting, Ornamental Penmanship, Copperplate, Spencerian script - we have lessons on these and much more. If you find these materials useful, and would like to support the organization that makes this site possible, please consider joining IAMPETH or making a donation. Documents marked with an * are Adobe PDF documents (download free Adobe Reader) Copperplate/Engrosser's Script Example Lessons in Engraver's Script, W.A.

Guidelines used in the video clips below, Dr. Fundamentals of Script in the Copperplate Style Video The Fundamental Oval Form, Dr. Tips on Engrossers Script, Dr. ~~ Video Series ~~ How to Write Copperplate, with Hamid Reza Ebrahimi Needle Stitch Script Example Needle Stitch Script, Dr. Learn English. Oxford Dictionaries. THE BRITISH LIBRARY - The world's knowledge. Helping language learners become language researchers: wordandphrase.info (part 1) What is wordandphrase.info?

Helping language learners become language researchers: wordandphrase.info (part 1)

Wordandphrase.info is a brilliant website. Essentially, it is a user-friendly interface for analysing a corpus. (For those of you who haven’t come across this term as yet, a corpus is a collection of texts stored electronically.) ESL: English as a Second Language Resources for Teachers and Students. ESOL Nexus. LearnEnglishTeens. Untitled. Nterestingly, we must go to Russia to begin the story of where the Celts came from.

untitled

There is in Russia today, just east of the Ural Mountains on the Tobol River a town and an Oblast (Russian for province) known as Kurgan. The town and the term is Russian for tumulus, the distinctive mound-grave of the nomadic culture to whom the name Kurgan was given. Specialisms - British Council - LearnEnglish - Professionals. British Council. Find Synonyms and Antonyms of Words at Thesaurus.com.

History. England. Counties of Scotland. The Kurgan Origins. The Kurgan peoples received their name from archeologists who defined and identified them by the type of burial mounds found in their cultures.

The Kurgan Origins

These mounds were called ÎkurgsÌ. The reason why they play an important role in the history of the dance (and in the inner wisdom experienced within and carried through the dance) is because they were the first cultures identified as being fundamentally, per se, patriarchal. By this we mean that they were patrifocal, that they identified the primary as being male deity and that there was a certain type of hierarchy present. Support. Watch this video using Windows Media Player Technical issues English Timeline requires Flash Player 10.

Support

This can be downloaded from Adobe. To download fact sheets about the items in the timeline, your computer will need Adobe Reader installed. This can be downloaded from Adobe. History of England. History - British History in depth: Ages of English Timeline. Word of the Week - Dictionary of Old English. Functional Skills English. Sistémico Funcional. Functional Grammar: Course homepage. ... SFG Page ... Introduction Systemic linguistics (or systemics) is a theory of language centred on the notion of language function.

... SFG Page ...

In contrast with the structural approaches to language description, systemics places the functions of language as primary, as a "fundamental property of language itself" (Halliday & Hasan 1985: 17), seeking to understand what it is that language does and how it accomplishes it. More generally, systemics looks at how language acts upon and is constrained by the social context in which it functions. Systemics grew out of the work of J.R. Firth, but it was through his student, M.A.K. Beam me up, Scottie! Investigacoes-24N2_Fabio-Alexandre-Silva-Bezerra. Systemic functional linguistics.

Lingvistikk. Applied Linguistics.