...Tommy Tunnell Foreign Languages in School Texas school districts require students to have at least 2 years of foreign languages in order to earn a diploma. With modern translation technology and the fact that English is spoken almost everywhere on Earth, this is outdated, unnecessary, and the time spent on learning a language could be spent on more important topics such as math and science. In sci-fi movies and television shows, we often see characters speaking into a small device in their hand and having it translate what they say into an alien language. The United States Military has had a translator like this for some time, and now with voice recognition technology and the existence of Google Translate, it is now available for everyone. The Google Translate app on smart phones allows one to speak a phrase or sentence into the phone and translate it into over 65 languages in a matter of seconds. When you can speak a phrase and translate it into another language so conveniently, learning another language seems like a waste of time. English is spoken everywhere there is language. It is easily the most widely spoken language on Earth with many street signs and billboards and posters all over Europe being written in English alongside or under their native language. Many international business owners also make an effort to learn English in order to associate with other businesses. It is the language of Earth. If we grow up speaking it, it’s really just an advantage. With...
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...The French Revolution, which lasted from 1789-1814, is considered to be a major turning point in world history. The revolution led to major changes in France and other nations around the world. I will discuss the political, economic, and social causes of the French Revolution, I will also discuss how the revolution affected the people of France and it’s impact on the world outside of France. A political cause for the French Revolution was the control of speech and press under King Louis XVI, according to Document A “ he controlled the expression of thought by a strict censorship of speech and press.” An economic cause for the revolution would be the amount of taxes the Third Estate was forced to pay, as seen in Document B the Third Estate paid all taxes and in Document A it states “He (King Louis XVI) levied taxes and spent the people’s money as he saw fit.” The social cause for the revolution is shown clearly on the first two graphs in Document....
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...In 1787, Napoleon and the people of France began to fight what would later be known as “The French Revolution”, it was Napoleon’s rise to power that brought victory. Yet, years later they were back under a monarch, and a revolution started again. Napoleon’s revolution not only brought forth the idea of a revolution, but proof that revolting against a monarch was possible. Looking a Source 1, the first you notice is the flag. The bleu, blanc, et rouge of the flag of France was a rallying point for the revolutionaries. It provided common ground, and something for people to associate with their home. Flags have history of representing their countries, and the French flag was no different, providing a feeling of National pride for whomever saw...
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...Joe Paquette Section 001 2/13/15 Essay 1 Prompt 1 The French and Haitian Revolutions took place 4,553 miles apart. With so many miles and not much but the vast Atlantic Ocean separating the two countries people may ask what they have in common. In a course entitled Europe and the World…” one may believe that a small colony in the new world, in the late 18th century, would have no relevance to a great kingdom like France at the time. While covering the French Revolution in lecture and simultaneously reading the book, describing the events of the Haitian Revolution, Avengers of the New World you can see many similarities between the two revolutions and how one may have affected the other. Not only does what happened in the book Avengers of the...
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...After reading the French Declaration of Rights there was a number of articles which I though were important, debatable, and that related to key principles of Enlightenment ideas. First off all these articles are important rights even though some can be seen as ambiguous. I can state every article and explain why it is important, but that would be well over a page of writing. Therefore, I will go over the articles that I see as the most important ones in the French Dec. of Rights. Even though the French didn’t establish rights to women and other groups of people my my top three most important articles are 3, 6, and 11. These articles have to do with the people and their freedom. Article 3 references to supreme power and that the people of the nation have it and not one individual has it all. Article 6 also talks about the people. Here it says that people are all seen equal in the law and that everyone has the right to hold a position in law despite their virtues and...
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...change doesn't occur revolutions can break out. The American and French revolutions had many similarities like battles, leaders, and rights. The American revolution and French revolution had very many similarities. To start off, both of the revolutions had battles. The American Revolution was about America gaining independence from the United Kingdom. Tensions from the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Sugar Act of 1764 caused the Boston Massacre. Many battles occurred but the victory of Yorktown is when America was won the war. The Storming of Bastille...
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...The French and Indian War The French and Indian War was a conflict between Britain against the French and the Native Americans. it was called the Seven Years' War in Europe, and the war was ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1763. In addition, it began because of a conflict over who owned the Ohio River Valley, the war lasted from 1754–1763, It gave Britain almost all of Canada and the land from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. France also transferred its control of the Louisiana Territory to Spain. Therefore, The French and Indian War altered the relationship between Britain and its American colonies because the war enabled Britain to be more "active" in colonial political and economic affairs by imposing regulations and levying taxes...
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...Why didn’t the French win the war against the Vietminh? The French lost their Indochinese colonies due to political, military, diplomatic, economic and socio-cultural factors. Armed struggle for the unity and total independence started in 1946 and eventually terminated with the reunification of the country’s desire years later, which constituted the most important phase of modern colonial history resulting in the loss of French power by the end of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Indochina suffered subjugation from the Chinese, the French, and the Japanese. The events of World War II, including the defeat, humiliation, and compromise of the French, galvanized the revolutionary movements. Two worlds collided, a European colonial power and an Indo-Chinese traditional society....
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...BONJOUR TRISTESSE – Une Version Le roman ‘Bonjour Tristesse’, écrit par Françoise Sagan quand elle était elle-même adolescente, a lieu pendant les années cinquante. L’action de l’histoire se déroule dans le sud de la France à la côte méditerrannéenne, en été, quand il fait vraiment chaud tous les jours. En fait la chaleur joue un rôle important dans l’histoire, d’une part érotique quand les personnages s’abandonnent aux plaisirs de l’amour, et d’autre part pour peut-être expliquer la lassitude qui sert d’excuse pour des pensées déraisonnables et des actions égoïstes. En général il s’agit de cinq personnages. Cécile, la narratrice, a dix-sept ans. Elle est fille unique de son père, qui s’appelle Raymond et qui est veuf. Cécile a passé sa jeunesse dans un couvent et à l’âge de quinze ans elle est allée à Paris avec son père afin de goûter la vie, puisque Raymond aime vivre, a plusieurs maîtresses et, en fin de compte, est libertin et homme de femmes. On va passer des grandes vacances près de Cannes dans une villa, que son père avait louée pour quelques mois, avec une de ses maîtresses, qui s’appelle Elsa. Mais cette situation idéale et insouciante est bouleversée quand une ancienne amie de son père, qui s’appelle Anne, arrive. Anne est une femme de classe, une dame plus âgée, respectable et intelligente. Sa confiance et froideur déconcertante attire la jeune Cécile qui, comme adolescent typique, est toujours à la recherche d’un sens d’identité et de comprendre qui...
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...J’habite à Slough dans le sud-est de l’Angleterre, c’est près de Londres. C’est bien parce que c’est très bruyant, J’y habite depuis sept ans cependant je pense qu’il y a trop de pollution, aussi c’est trop loin du collège. C’est une grande ville avec beaucoup d’ habitants c’est bien si on aime une ville qui est vivante. Dans ma ville, il y a un jardin public, une gare, un musée, des magasins et un pub il y a beaucoup de choses à faire les jeunes , je préfére visiter le musée parce que c’est intéressant La maison ou j’habite est belle et j’adore ma maison parce qu’elle est grande. Chez moi c’est bruyant parce que j’ai beaucoup de frères et sœurs c’est chouette! Au rez-de –chaussée il y a une entrée, une grande cuisine et un salon qui est moderne, au premier étage il y a quatre chambres, la salle de bains, les toilettes et la douche. Il y a aussi ma chambre dans ma chambre j’ai un grand lit, une armoire, un poste de télévision et un ordinateur j’adore ma chambre parce qu’elle est très jolie D’habitude j’écoute de la musique et je fais mes devoirs je déteste ça c’est trop fatigant. Le weekend dernier mon ami Marwa est restée chez moi et on a regardé une comédie c’était très drôle. Ce soir je dois ranger ma chambre c’est très ennuyeux, j’habite trop loin du collège et des magasins. il y a beaucoup de bus mais je n’aime pas les transports publics parce que c’est très bruyant....
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...scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller, "the writers of the period were keenly aware of the miseries and ills of our earthly existence". A representative quote is "I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself." He opposed the conquest of the New World, deploring the suffering it brought upon the natives. Citing the case of Martin Guerre as an example, he believes that humans cannot attain certainty. His skepticism is best expressed in the long essay "An Apology for Raymond Sebond" (Book 2, Chapter 12) which has frequently been published separately. We cannot trust our reasoning because thoughts just occur to us: we don't truly control them. We do not have good reasons to consider ourselves superior to the animals. He is highly skeptical of confessions obtained under torture, pointing out that such confessions can be made up by the suspect just to escape the torture he is subjected to. In the middle of the section normally entitled "Man's Knowledge Cannot Make Him Good," he wrote that his motto was "What do I know?". The essay on Sebond ostensibly defended Christianity. However, Montaigne eloquently employed many references and quotes from classical Greek and Roman, i.e. non-Christian authors, especially the atomist Lucretius. Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked the strong feelings of romantic love as being detrimental to freedom. One of his quotations is "Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get...
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...world, conducting controlled experiments, and interpreting the results rationally to discover the workings of the universe. Of his many published works, he is best remembered for his Essays (collected from 1597 until after his death), brief meditations noted for their wit and insight. Francis Bacon “Of Studies In his classic essay, “Of Studies,” Francis Bacon explains how and why study—knowledge—is important. Along with Michel de Montaigne, who published his first essays less than twenty years before Francis Bacon published his first collection in 1597. Bacon is considered the father of the English essay (with Montaigne the father of the French essay). Bacon’s essays differ from Montaigne’s in being more compact and more formal. Where Montaigne conceived of the essays as an opportunity to explore a subject through mental association and a casual ramble of the mind, Bacon envisioned the essay as an opportunity to offer advice. The title of his essay collection: “Essays or Counsels: Civil and Moral,” suggests that didactic intent. In “Of Studies,” Bacon lays out the value of knowledge in practical terms. Bacon considers to what use studies might be put. He is less interested in their theoretical promise than in their practical utility—a proclivity more English, perhaps, than French. Bacon’s writing in “Of Studies” is direct and pointed....
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... 1. Write English Essay - Free Essay Writing Samples Online Adwww.curriki.org/writing-essays 1. Get Samples for Teachers & Students * Support Child Education * Register With Us * Open Educational Resource ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Search Results 1. www.scribendi.com a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. 2. anything resembling such a composition: a picture essay. Essay | Define Essay at Dictionary.com dictionary.reference.com/browse/essay More about Essay Feedback Essay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/?title=Essay Essays are generally scholarly pieces of writing giving the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of an article, a pamphlet and a short story. Michel de Montaigne - Five paragraph essay - Application essay - Introduction Writing Tips: Essay Builder - WritingDEN www2.actden.com/writ_Den/tips/essay/index.htm Explores the parts and provides step-by-step directions for writing essays. Essay | Define Essay at Dictionary.com dictionary.reference.com/browse/essay a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. 2. anything resembling such a composition: a picture essay. Images for essayReport images More images for essay Essay Structure | - Harvard...
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...Essay on ”me talk pretty one day” The essay “me talk pretty one day” is an essay written by David Sedaris and published in 2005. It is a expository text about David’s, the author’s, own experiences with learning French in a foreign country and the essay deals with themes such as the attitude towards leaning a foreign language but also that you have to understand the language, before you can speak it. In the essay, the writer David Sedaris shares his experiences with learning French at an international school in France. His first encounter with the strict and yet quite sarcastic French teacher tears down his walls of self-esteem and belief in himself throughout most of the time he spends in the class, because he and his other classmates can not speak the language fluently. In time he becomes more and more frightened that he might say something wrong and he even stop taking any contact with people because he dread anything that requires speaking the language. The students in the class are not fluent in French either and their halting sentences sound like “Sometimes me cry alone at night” (p.8, line 109) and “[…] someday you talk pretty” (p.8 line 109-110.) The author understands his fellow students, although they do not speak fluent French, but when his French teacher talks in class he does not understand half of what she is saying, for instance: “Even a fiuscreza ticiwelmun knows that a typewriter is feminine” – (p.7, line 71-71) This tells us exactly how the students...
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...Essay The word essay comes from the French: essayer = to try. An essay puts a thesis on trial – a bit like a science ‘experiment’ puts a hypothesis on trial. An essay is a self-directed academic exercise. Unlike a report or a research project, which both of which summarize information or proceedings, an essay is an inquiry in itself; the understadning gained is authentic and new to the student. Generating the Essay The Essay Question An essay begins with a question – a thesis question. Sometimes that question is given; sometimes the student generates the question. The answer to the question is the thesis. The thesis is the ‘hypothesis’ you will set out to ‘prove’ Main Entry: prove Pronunciation: 'prüv Function: verb Inflected form(s): proved; proved or prov•en /'prü-v&n, Britain also 'prO-/; prov•ing _ Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French prover, pruver, from Latin probare to test, prove, from probus good, honest, from pro- for, in favor + -bus (akin to Old English bEon to be) -- more at _ HYPERLINK transitive verb 1 archaic : to learn or find out by experience 2 a : to test the truth, validity, or genuineness of b : to test the worth or quality of; specifically : to compare against a standard -- sometimes used with up or out c : to check the correctness of (as an arithmetic result) 3 a : to establish the existence, truth, or validity of (as by evidence or logic) b : to demonstrate as having a particular quality or worth 4 : to show...
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