Friday, October 29, 2010

Analyzing an argument.

Jameson Swan. ( October 28, 2010). Baseball is no longer America's pastime. Daily Titan.





The article is about the value of baseball in American life today. the author of the article tries to show that people are more uniterested in going to the stadium to wacth baseball game. He claims for reason: the spectators cannot afoord the rising price of tickects (form $27 in 2007 to $44.68 recently in the LA Dolgers stadium), parking and others assets. In addition the desappointment caused by athletes who take drugs is the second reason that keep away some fans. the author uses statistics to show the comparison between the former years and the recent season. The premise is people wach their game at home. The argument is that the price is encreasing, and athletes are desappointing. conclusion baseball is losing its popularity. This argument is true.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Hall, J(2010). "HOW TO SPEAK AMERICAN.". Newsweek 156, Retrieved from Academic search Premier database.

The article is about the diversity of english in the U.S. The author's experience as chief editor of dictionary of American Regional English has taught him that regional english still persists. Human creativity, immigrants, and local dialects impact on english. This article may give me the motivation to reseach english dialects in the USA. Also establish the differeence between the standard american english and dialects.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

research paper

I have always been interested in studying languages.I am a bilingual student in english and french. i also studied spanish for a while. I always questioned myself about the fact that people speak one language around the world but differently, so i would like to know more about it. I will reseach the reason of regionalism; the geographical effect on language. My first qestion is: why the difference? how the diference is conceived, and how people assess the value of the variation of one language?
i have learn that all languages have the same value, but i sill notice that languages change, give birth to others, according to how people speak them, so i woul like to find out if one original language has the same value as those which result to his variation.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Advice

I have noticed that people who give advice a little more , are those who rarely follow others advice. I know tat it is not conventional wisdom, but almost all people i know behave like the same. Personally i am not against, contrarily , i listen evrytime from anyone. When i was younger i have a strong cofidence in my patents. i let them know everything i do, i ask them their opinin before i do an action. most of them were very helpful. What happened at the end is that they expected me to do what they want without considering my ambitions ,and it start to burden me. i am not a teenager anymore, i have to independantly take my decisions. i always listen to people opinion forn my best friend specially, but the bottom line is that it is about what i think.

The last time i recieved an advice about something very important to me was about my studies. After my graduation, all people wanted me study, or international affairs , but i didn't. I would like to study languages and become a translator or an interpretor, i also like communications. Honestly they tried to convince me and evrytime i felt persuaded; however my best friend was here to support me, and it helps me stand on my feet. she assures me that i have always been succful in class because of languages, she was my classmate all this time; my family and strangers have no idea what my potentials are, so it depend on me. i am studying languages and i am glad today.