Vocabulary Units 1-7: English Words and Phrases

Unit 1:

at (@), attachment, blog, cursor, folder, hard drive, hashtag (#), icon, link, password, web browser, window, attach, click, close, cut, delete, download, drag, email, enter, install, open, paste, post, press, save, search, send, share, type, alarmed / alarming, amazed / amazing, amused / amusing, annoyed / annoying, astonished / astonishing, bored / boring, confused / confusing, disgusted / disgusting, embarrassed / embarrassing, entertained / entertaining, excited / exciting, frightened

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Satire and Feminism in Literature: Swift and Wollstonecraft

A Modest Proposal

Essay by Jonathan Swift
Clergyman and political writer Jonathan Swift used his pen to expose injustice in society.
pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, (born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin), Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729).
“A Modest Proposal” is a grimly ironic letter
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Diversity of India: Coorg, Assam, and Maxwell’s Otter

Q2. How do Coorg’s location, people and natural features add to the diversity of India?

Ans: Coorg is beautifully located and described as a piece of heaven that must have drifted from the kingdom of God. It has rolling hillsides with a pollution-free river and forests teeming with wildlife. Here nature exists in its pristine glory, which adds to the diversity of India. Further, it has coffee and spice plantations, quite different from the rest of India. The local people, the Kodavus, are a martial

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English Grammar Practice and Exercises

Yesterday we bought candies for you

  • We didn’t buy yesterday candies for you.
  • Did we buy yesterday candies for you?

Did you go to the zoo?

  • You didn’t go to the zoo.
  • You went go to the zoo.

We were at the office.

  • We woren’t at the office
  • Were we at the office?

They stayed two days in Scotland.

  • They didn’t stay two days in Scotland
  • Did they stay two days in Scotland?

Was there a black cat in the garden?

  • There was a black cat in the garden
  • The wasn’t a black cat in the garden.

You didn’t phone this morning.

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The Hate U Give: Analysis of Chapter 10 and Themes of Black Identity

Analysis: Chapter 10

The police stop at the beginning of Chapter Ten illustrates how Khalil’s murder traumatized Starr. The flashbacks and panic are classic signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental condition commonly associated with soldiers returning from war. Starr’s PTSD symbolizes the long-term effects of violence on the emotional well-being of black children. That Starr has a condition associated with war means that police and gang violence turn black neighbourhoods into

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What happened to a good man with his son

The action is located around England, in the county of Hertfordshire. Mr. Bingley has rented the house of Netherfield Park and his family come from the north of England. The Bennet family lives in the town of Longbourn, and Meryton is the closest town. Mr Darcy came from Derbyshire.

Mrs Bennet: Her main worry was marry one of his daughters to the rich boy who had come to the county. She was interested in having good relation with him, so she asked his husband to visit him. Mr Bennet was very materialistic,

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