Argumentative Essay: We learn more outside than in schools

Here is an example of argumentative essay where I speak against the given topic. 

The topic is: We learn more at school than outside – Do you agree? Why?

Educational institutions pose as a great place to gather and disperse knowledge but they are not enough. A student who belongs to an educational institution, namely school, attends the classes to learn undoubtedly. However, when it comes to practicality, bookish knowledge is not self-sufficient. A person has to venture beyond the realms of pages in order to gather a more fruitful lesson. We learn more from the outside than schools mainly because schools are stricter, has certain unnecessary boundaries and presence of authoritative figure which can be intimidating.

Schools are definitely an important source of knowledge but the mere existence of strict rules within the premise can disrupt that process of learning. There is a high chance that the student may get lost in all those rules and regulations and lose the primary focus which is getting proper education. When the schools add trivial policies like trimming hair up to a certain length for boys or compulsory braids for girls – which has nothing to do with the intake of knowledge or discipline – they instill unnecessary anxiety within the learners. This deviates them from actually focusing on the education. All these rules take away the fun of gathering knowledge.

Top 5 chat up lines for guys to use on girls

Social media has become the latest site for people to practice and implement the art of courtship. And what best way is there to befriend a potential new love interest other than starting a conversation with a chat-up line? Yes, mark our words as we introduce chat-up line as the new hip and trendy word, soon replacing the traditional pick-up line. Here are the top 5 chat-up lines ready to impress the girl you are crushing on.

• Is “this” heaven? Because, I can clearly see an angel in my inbox.

Nothing beats a good old-fashioned flirtation with religious undertones. Simply insert any social media platform in your dialogue and aim for a religious girl and you will have the perfect concoction to a lasting conversation. This line is sure to perk up the interest of any girl because clearly, who doesn’t want to be spoiled a little and being called an angel is nothing short of a good start.

• There has to be something wrong with my friend-list, it doesn’t have you as my friend.

It may not strike as a very good chat-up line but hey! No girl likes a creep. Be a man and work your up into her comfort zone. It’s a safe bet. Start with a healthy friendship with just the right amount of flirting. Smaller steps can lead to bigger destinations.

Are atheists immoral?

No, atheists are not immoral by default. They are like every other human being on the planet, dependent on their surrounding and upbringing as some sort of guideline. To understand this clearly, we have to know where morality stems from, whether or not it is subjective or objective, whether what is immoral here is immoral all over the world. Once we answer these questions, we can easily see how atheists are not necessarily immoral, if not, more moral than the theists.

Morality is subjective. It is sole dependent on the person committing an act, not the act itself. We live in a society which I call a land of collective subjective morality. The society we live in dictates what is moral for that land. However, with the advancement of social media and World Wide Web, the world has shrunken into a broad global village. A person living in Ireland can easily discuss issues about morality with someone living in Pakistan. The discussion of these matters can be collectively discussed throughout the world. Hence, we can decide what is moral and what is immoral with each other through social media and come to a very logical and sane conclusion. For example, we all agree that murder is wrong irrespective of place and time. And we also agree that self-defense is not murder. We learn this through trial and error, through extensive discussion and experience.

Plenty by Isobel Dixon: Analysis

Plenty" by Isobel Dixon is a poem which explores the vivid childhood memories and experiences of the poet.Dixon describes, in this poem, her youth when she and her sisters could not afford the things they so greedily stole behind their mother's back; finally comparing it to her prosperous present. Plenty is based on Dixon's chaotic youth with her sisters. It explores the themes of chaos, restriction, and realization.

The poet starts by telling us that they used to run 'riot' and this was more than the mother could cope with. We are not told whether the behavior was meant to annoy the mother or it was just a normal prank played and enjoyed by children. The situation in stanza is not a pleasant one as the poet gives us a grim picture of the situation they had to cope with. Water was a rare commodity and because of that they could not afford the luxury of filling the 'old enamel a tub' which we are told was 'age-stained' and rusty. The reason for that is given in stanza two where the poet explains that there was persistent drought and dams were dry and 'windmills stalled.'

Bottleneck Processing

Sometimes children drop down certain words in the beginning of their language acquisition stage. It becomes very difficult for them to find the right word and combine it with another keeping in mind all the syntactic and semantic rules that they have acquired.As a result, their circuits get overloaded and they can’t produce or include certain words which they wanted. This process of dropping down certain words is called Bottleneck Processing.

It is observed from various experiments that they have a tendency to frequently drop the Subjects of the utterances almost 60% more than the Verbs or the Objects in a S-V-O structured sentence. 4% to 14% of the time, they drop the Objects and they rarely miss the Verbs. They rarely drop the Verbs because Verbs are Action Words and children usually communicate to express their needs. The longer the utterance is, the more they drop certain words. Generally, they drop functional words like Determiners, Conjunctions and Prepositions more than content words like Nouns, Verbs and so on.

For example, a child may utter “want ball” instead of the grammatically correct and adult-like sentence “I want the ball” due to Bottleneck Processing. In this case, we can see that the Subject “I” and the Determiner “the” is caught in the bottleneck.Even though this occurs, they are still able to communicate successfully and over time, they overcome this problem.

Cold Salt Water by Maria C McCarthy: Analysis

The given story is about immigration and its effects on the society and prejudices towards the immigrants depicted through the interaction between a loving and concerned mother and her rebellious son. The story also has a coming-of-age theme within it where the mother narrates how she has understood that her son has grown up into an adult and wants to have his own separate identity. The whole revolves around a particular incident mentioned right from the first line with suggestions that the narrator’s son, called Kieran, has got into a terrible fight and has badly injured himself. As the story progresses, the readers get exposed to the possible causes of the fight and there is a strong implication that it has something to do with racism and immigration.

The story begins with a conversation between Kieran, the central character of the story and his mother, who acts as the narrator. This conversation tells the readers that Kieran has got himself into a terrible fight. Descriptions like “shirt splattered with blood” and “nose spread across your face” in the beginning of the story clearly suggests that the fight was pretty bad. Kieran’s character is also described neatly near the beginning. Going to “Tiffany’s”, a disco, wearing a good “Ben Sherman” shirt implies that Kieran is an active and outgoing young adult. He is no longer the little kid who “sniff the snot back up into his nose” because his father told him that “boys don’t cry”. Therefore, we can establish that Kieran is capable of making his own decisions and the fight which has taken place is done willingly. 

Biological Basis for Language and Evidences for Modularity of the Brain

Impairments or anomalies found during the processing or production of linguistic information are called language disorders. There are mainly two types of language disorders namely, acquired language disorder and developmental language disorder. Language disorders are mainly concerned with the comprehension of speech and its articulation. Some common symptoms of language disorders are delayed language development, not achieving adult-like fluency and so on. Language disorders include aphasia.

Acquired aphasia is the impairment to language resulting from brain damage. Both Broca and Wernicke found patients with language impairments after receiving some form of injury on the left side of their brains. The difference is that Broca’s patient could only produce one syllable “tan” implying that there is a part in the brain which is responsible for speech production. Meanwhile, Wernicke had a couple of patients who spoke nonsensical words fluently after receiving injury on a different part of the left hemisphere implying that there is another area within the left hemisphere responsible for speech comprehension.  This kind of influence on language is further confirmed by transcortical aphasia where injury within specific areas of the brain affect language differently. From these results, we can assume that the left hemisphere is comparatively more responsible for language acquisition. That is, the brain shows modularity.

The Creation of the Gods: Literary piece

At first, there was nothing but the Egg of Shamo in a void of nothingness. Nobody, not even Shamo himself, knew who created him or who put the Egg in the void. He did not know whether he created himself or not. He did not know how the Egg found its way where it was. But he did know that he was powerful and he could create from something as minor as a little ant to something as large as the paradise. Shamo knew he was the most powerful being in the whole of nothingness and that he was the new Creator.

Time passed. Shamo did not count whether it were days or months or decades. Time was not yet created. The God lay like that, in the confines of the Egg, maturing slowly and waiting for the moment to break out of its shell. The Eggshell glowed and glittered with all the aura of the rainbow – red, blue and gold and every other color. Shamo grew staring at the different brilliant colors, enjoying them, savoring them with his sight. He also examined the dark void around him through the translucent shell of his Egg. He knew right then and there that he had a lot of great tasks to do in the near future.

Analyzing the Code-Switching of Given Sample

Switching back and forth between languages is called code-switching. According to Mesthrie, code-switching is “switch[ing] back and forwards between languages, even during the same utterance”.

       

The given sample, which is a guidance leaflet for a clinic or a hospital, clearly shows a case of Intra-sentential code-switching, meaning that the switches between the matrix and the embedded languages take place in the same sentence. In this case, the matrix language or the frame language is Bangla because it follows the S-O-V sentence structure for Bangla and the embedded or guest language is English because it serves as a content word provider, for example, the switching takes place for noun phrases (serving patient; case sheet; ward master office; medi-specialist in-charge) and one verb (hand-over). This verb is treated as an auxiliary for Bangla, in this case.

Damer Madar: Explanation and Review

The drama – Damer Madar – roughly translated as “Breath Bender” is a Realistic Musical Drama which is heavily dependent on various instances of Symbolism and Surrealism. The drama is co-written by Sadhana Ahmed and Irin Pervin Lopa and directed by the latter. The drama was staged in Mohila Shomiti on Baily Road starring Shishir Rahman, Parvin Paru, Shuvashish Dutta Tonmoy and so on. The stage and lighting were designed and choreographed respectively by Junayed Yusuf.

Subject

The story is focused mainly on the internal conflicts of the main characters all the while representing an ancient art form on the verge of extinction, that is, the Fire Dance of Madar. The main characters include Jarina, who was an embodiment of the legendary Madar herself, her young granddaughter – Nur, who is supposed to take Jarina’s place and her unintentional love interest, the lead vocalist – Harun. Another additional important figure is Choudhurir Beta who is shown to be the villain figure, however, he is not the real antagonist.