...Book Review of Kissing the Rain Kissing the rain by Kevin Brooks is not only an intriguing and different read, but it also has an element of cynicism and unpredictability to it. The theme of the story is that sometimes in life the harshest of actions are necessary for survival. This is consistent with real life; however the story uses a very extreme example of this. The specific example Kevin Brooks’ uses will almost never be used by anyone in reality; although the idea itself may be used by people quite often. Overall, Kevin Brooks wrote a great book that most people will probably enjoy reading. “I coulda thrown him off the bridge. Yeh, see how SMART he is then… see how smart he is with a 20-ton truck on his head-BOOF!! AAAHHH!! HOONKKK!! KERSPPLATT!! How’s THAT feel Mr. Clever Bastad? D’YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I’M SAYING? EH? HOW D’YOU FEEL NOW? Yeh, I coulda done that.” (pg. 181) Michael Nelson is one of the angriest teenagers you will ever meet as you can see from the quote above, but you cannot blame him for being so angry. All the kids at school pick on him because he is very overweight. To Michael however it is just like rain; it falls on him, but it does not matter because he can escape to his dry place, the bridge. The bridge is where Michael goes to get away from it all and just think, but he soon becomes the unexpected witness in a murder case and the rain only falls down harder. At first, being a witness in a murder case is great for Michael; everyone is interested...
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...Introduction Palatalization is one of the biggest concerns in the Russian phonology. Palatalization is an articulation of a consonant in which the blade of the tongue moves toward the hard palate. For example, when the non-palatalized lateral approximant [l] sound of ‘лак’(‘lacquer’) is pronounced, the tip of the tongue presses up near the teeth and the central part of the tongue is low in the mouth. On the contrary, when the palatalized [l] in ‘лямка’ (‘sling’)is pronounced, the tip of thetongue presses up behind the upper teeth, and the blade and the central part of the tongue are raised towards the hard palate. There are several types of articulation observed in Russian, including velar palatalization, affricate palatalization, iotation and surface palatalization. The current paper focuses on the status of regressive palatalization in modern Russian Palatalization in Russian The articulation of almost every consonant in Russian comes in two forms, it can be either palatalized or non-palatalized. In Russian phonological works non-palatalized consonants are informally referred to as hard and palatalized are referred to as soft. Palatalization is similar but not identical for sounds of different places of articulation. Though there are these minor differences, all palatalized consonants influence vowels in the same way. When a given articulation occurs in both palatalized and non-palatalized forms, that articulation can be said to be paired , or mutable , for palatalization...
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