24.919 Topics in Linguistics: Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities (MIT)
The Creole languages spoken in the Caribbean are linguistic by-products of the historical events triggered by colonization and the slave trade in Africa and the "New World". In a nutshell, these languages are the results of language acquisition in the specific social settings defined by the history of contact between African and European peoples in 17th-/18th-century Caribbean colonies.
One of the best known Creole languages, and the one with the largest community of speakers, is Haitian Creole.
Poem "And if it snowed..." by Simon Armitage (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Simon Armitage is from Huddersfield in Yorkshire. The poem is about everyday events related in the everyday speech of the working-class of this northern town, which gives it a gritty realism. I'm trying to give the impression of a Yorkshire accent.
The phrases look like cliches but they're not - their familiarity punches the message home. People do good things and bad things.
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1.3 Your past experiences Telling about your past experience, autobiography, is not just a question of ensuring that the record of the past is complete and representative. What also seems to be important is a need to tell. Giddens discusses the way in which self-identity is sustained through the constant retelling of biographical stories, drawing in new experiences, relating to other people and says that these are resources, helpful because: ‘a sense of self-identity is often securely enough held to weather m
From Fells Point to Homewood Farm: Perspectives on Slavery in Baltimore
From Fells Point to Homewood Farm: Perspectives on Slavery in Baltimore was organized at The Johns Hopkins University by Homewood Museum in cooperation with Hopkins Retrospective, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Department of History and the Program in Museums and Society at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences.
The symposium was made possible by a diversity innovation grant from the Johns Hopkins University Diversity Leadership Council and an anonymous donor.
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3.7.1 Technical considerations Handwriting Nowadays most people use a word processing package to write essays while some people may use a typewriter. However, if you don't have access to either of these you will need to hand-write your essay. Should this be the case, the ease of reading depends on the quality of your handwriting . It is only fair to your tutor to try to make your writing as legible as possible. This will take time and care. But when you have spent a long time putting an essay together,
Metode UMMI Will Slowing Growth Take a Bite out of Apple? Lecture 27 - 11/24/2010 La pédagogie de projet au cœur de l'éducation pour un développement durable (Vidéo) Dans cette vidéo, Francine Pellaud discute des intérêts et des conditions de réussite de la pédagogie de projet, dans le cadre d'une éducation à l'environnement et au développement durable. The Portable Viewers Use as Increase Factor in Productivity of Civil Construction 8.4.3 Self-limiting etches In practice, it is often possible to design microsystems in such a way that there is no need to pay great attention to knowing the precise moment when the etching has gone far enough. A good example is the etching of the movable structures in surface-micromachined electromechanical devices. Figure 41 sho 3.1 Introduction Generally, when we talk about communication between humans, we mean one person conveying information to another person. Figure 6 shows a basic model, or representation, of a communication system for getting a message from the sender to the recipient. The diagram shows the sender (User EN-9. The urban biodiversity (Vidéo) With Nathalie Machon, we will discover the urban biodiversity. She proposes a zoning of cities depending on the extent of the green areas, then she explains the ecological features specific to this environment. She concludes with an overview of the different groups of species we can observe in town. 1.3 Nick Ut's 1972 Vietnam war photograph 2.12 How likely are particular results? In real experiments, as opposed to hypothetical ones, it is very rare that scientists make a sufficiently large number of measurements to obtain a smooth continuous distribution like that shown in Figure 7d. However, it is often convenient to assume a particular mathematical form for typically distributed ISS Faculty Interview Stevan Harrell 1.1 Engendering citizenship: the notion of social citizenship Mary Langan talks with Professor Ruth Lister, Professor Fiona Williams, Helen Meekosha and Dr Madeleine Arnot about the notion of social citizenship in relation to the rights and obligations within society, with particular reference to women and disabled people. Participants in the audio programme were: Mary Langan Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at The Open University; Ruth Lister Professor of Social Policy at Lo Philosophy and Nazism [Audio] Cold War: After Stalin (1953-1956) Part 4 of 5
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Apple’s latest quarterly results reveal the gathering threat that cheaper rivals pose to its products. But experts say that slowing growth is, in part, an unavoidable byproduct of Apple’s success.
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The potential of Building Information Modeling (BIM) as booster of productivity in construction can be better explorer using
solutions of information visualization in digital environment, using tablets and smartphones. The maintenance of the project in
digital environment at the construction site has several advantages over the use of printed designs, enabling improvements in the
flow, quality and quantity of information in the enforcement phase. In BIM, this solution is further efficient, ex
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Speaker(s): Dr Joseph Cohen, Professor Simona Forti, Dr Brian Klug | Nazism pervaded every level of German society, and philosophers were not immune. While much scholarship has understandably focused on recriminations of key figures, tonight's panel reflect on some broader questions raised: Can philosophy help us understand the nature of evil? And does thinking philosophically really help us live better lives? Joseph Cohen is a Lecturer in Continental Philosophy, University College Dublin. Simon
Cold War is a twenty-four episode television documentary series about the Cold War (1945--1989). Jeremy Isaacs produced the 1998 program in a style similar to his previous series, The World at War (1973). Businessman Ted Turner created the series as a joint production between the Turner Broadcasting System and the BBC, originally broadcast on CNN in the U.S. and the BBC Two in the U.K. Kenneth Branagh. It featured interviews with leading political figures and people who witnessed and lived throu
