Kongo language Essays

  • Urbanization and Ethnic Diversity in Congo

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    Bantu originated from Nigeria and Cameroon and migrated to Southern Africa 2,000 years ago. In present day Congo, non-Bantu tribes account for only 3% of the population. The Bantu include 74 peoples belonging to different ethnic groups such as the Kongo, the Teke, the Mbochi and the Sangha. The Bakongo live in the south from Brazzaville to Pointe-Noire on the Atlantic coast. The Bakongo include the Lari around Brazzaville, the Vili near Pointe-Noire, the Yombe in the Mayombe Range, the Babembe, the

  • Changes In The Poisonwood Bible

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    In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Poisonwood Bible, a Christian family, the Prices, are forced to go to the Congo in the village of Kilanga due to the religious minded, power-hungry father, Nathan Price. Nathan, who insisted that he and his family be the family that goes on the missionary trip despite the state of the Congo, felt that he would be able to convert its people over to christianity. The family, consisting of Nathan, the father, Orleanna, the mother, and Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May

  • African Minkisi and American Culture

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    from was once known as the kingdom of Kongo, when Europeans started settling and trading with the BaKongo people. Kongo was a well-known state throughout much of the world by the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The BaKongo, however, had probably long used minkisi before ethnographers and anthropologists ever recorded them. Minkisi are complex items that are used to heal and to harm people, and there is no equivalent term for nkisi in any European language. A seventeenth century Dutch geographer

  • The Colombian Exchange and Christianity in 1450 and 1750

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    Research Question: Between 1450 and 1750, how did the advancement and development of Christianity influence and impact different cultures? Dom Henrique of Portugal (1450 CE) - Dom Henrique of Portugal is also known as Henry the Navigator. Prince Henry was involved with the expansion of Portuguese rule in the Pacific Islands. His main reasons for his voyages were to explore Africa, expand trade, and expand Christianity. This is important because Prince Henry’s goals and achievements are what inspired

  • Similarities Between Vodou And The Haitian Revolution

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    of Roman Catholicism within its belief system. Vodou was creolized and forged by Dahomean, Kongo, Yoruba, and other African ethnic group descendents. These African ethnic groups had been enslaved and brought to modern-day Haiti, then called Saint Domingue, and were christianized by missionaries of Roman Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries. The word “Vodou” means spirit or deity within the Fon language of the African Kingdom Dahomey, of where most early practitioners originated from. Vodou’s

  • Education In Angola Essay

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    Education in Angola The issue presented here, deals with education in Angola before, during and after independence. In addressing the issue of education in Angola, either starting from a historical perspective or analyzing it from a sociological perspective, feels almost "obliged" to dwell in the colonial period to be the benchmark in the emergence of education in Angola, as well as many other African countries during the European colonial presence, since education developed by Africans before the

  • Pidgins and Creoles

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    Pidgins and Creoles A pidgin language is not the native language of anyone but is used as an auxiliary or supplemental language between two mutually unintelligible speech communities. It is essentially a simplified language derived from two or more languages - a contact language developed and used by people who do not share a common language in a given geographical area. It is characterized by limited vocabulary with a simple grammar enough to satisfy basic communication needs. Since they

  • The Sale of Indian Textiles in Canada

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    Canada's official languages and there are many other languages spoken freely by diverse racial groups on Canadian soil. Many different religions are also practiced freely and peacefully in Canada. India has a population of 986.6 million people. This country holds 15 % of the world's entire population. Within this country, a variety of cultures and traditions can be found. Christianity, Hinduism as well as the Muslim religion are all practiced freely in India. With 18 official languages and over 900 dialects

  • Conduit Metaphor

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    manipulation of objects"; memory acts as storage. So, ideas or objects can be retrieved from the memory. Taking this into consideration he came up with the theory of conduit metaphor which he described ideas as objects that can be put into words; language was described by a Reddy as a container, and thus you send ideas in words over a conduit (a channel of communication) to someone else who then extracts the ideas from the words. So, it is implied that understanding of an idea or concept is achieved

  • Considering Dysarthria: A Speech Disorder 'On the Margins'

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    The goal of this paper is to portray dysarthria, a language impairment, as a disorder that is "on the margins" of the category of speech disorders. The argumentation will be that since dysarthria shares common underlying neurological causes with motor diseases rather than with other language impairments, it is set apart from other language impairments and evidence for the overlap of the motor modality with the language modality. Language is arguably one if not the most complex functions produced

  • Translation: Problems with Non equivalence at Word Level

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    process may seem easy to them who don't have to deal regularly with it, but after a little exercise anyone could realize the amount of problems rize even just from the translation of a single word. In fact languages are not a list of tags that simply name the categories of the world; each language organizes the world in a different way and the meaning and value of the words varies in relation to their cultural and social system. The procedure we are going to examine here is the equivalence in translation

  • Aphasia- Speech Disorders

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    √ This week we went over speech disorders. Aphasia falls under the speech disorders category. There are two types of aphasia: Broca’s and Wernicke’s (Heilman, 2002, p. 11). √ There are many language symptoms of Broca’s aphasia. The difference between naming objects and using grammatical terms is a trademark of Broca’s apahsia. Mr. Ford was a patient that experienced this type of aphasia. This type of aphasia includes patterns of speech that mostly are made up of content words. Also people with this

  • Speech Errors as Presented in the Literature of Linguistics

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    window to investigate speech production and arrangement of language elements in the brain. Gary S. Dell and Peter A. Reich (1980) said that one of the best way to find out how a system is constructed is if that system breaks. Speech errors as a linguistic phenomenon has been the topic of many linguistic researches. It can be investigated as an evidence for linguistic change as well. Bussmann and Hadumod (1996) in the Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics defines speech errors as " (Latin: lapsus

  • Tina Rosenberg´s Everyone Speaks Text Message

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    situations of Guinea, one individual transmits a message through those reading to be enlightened by these events and persuade those who wish to keep languages intact and structure secured by informing of educational aid through technology. Through Tina Rosenberg, she will brief the readers over the conflicts in Africa as well as bring up the language system of N’Ko that is benefiting the education system throughout the land. Within the article, “Everyone Speaks Text Message,” by Tina Rosenberg, the

  • The Impact of Speech Sound Disorders on the Development of Early Literacy Skills

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    early literacy skills. This topic is particularly valuable to parents and teachers of language learners because working with individuals who manifest persistent speech errors and language difficulties may have a difficult time developing literacy skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. A Speech Sound Disorder occurs when language errors continue past a certain age. This may require that a language teacher intervene with explicit and adapted remedial speech or literacy instruction. To

  • Tip of the Tongue Essay

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    affects tip-of-the-tongue states and feeling-of-knowing judgments. Memory & Cognition, 36(1), 9--19. White, K., Abrams, L., & Frame, E. (2013). Semantic category moderates phonological priming of proper name retrieval during tip-of-the-tongue states. Language And Cognitive Processes, 28(4), 561--576. Yarmey, A. (1973). I recognize your face but I can’t remember your name: Further evidence on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Memory & Cognition, 1(3), 287--290.

  • Hypokinetic Dysarthria

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    of paper ... ...thria in parkinson‚’s disease. Retrieved from http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/521623 McHenry, M. A. (2003). The effect of pacing strategies on the variability of speech movement sequences in dysarthria. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46, 702- 710. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/055) Van Nuffelen, G., De Bodt, M., Vanderwegen, J., Van de Heyning, P., & Wuyts, F. (2010). Effect of rate control on speech production and intelligibility in dysarthria. Folia

  • Developing My Personal Literacy Skills

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    March 22nd , 2011, from The Australian Curriculum: http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Literacy/Introduction/Introduction Lindsfors, J.D. (1991). Children’s Language and Learning (2nd ed.). Needham, MA: Pearson Education. O’Neill,S., Gish, A. (2008). Teaching English as a second language. South Melbourne, VIC: Oxford University Press. Winch, G., Johnston, R., March, P., Ljungdahl, L., & Holliday, M. (2010). Literacy: Reading, writing and children’s literature (4th

  • Analysis of the Encomium of Helen

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    systematic way in his attempt to save Helen from the accusations of her community, as everyone was blaming her to have caused war and suffering to her community. He uses a highly persuasive language to convince his audience that she was not 100% guilty although, he accepts that she was not ignorant. His language is rich in the use of metaphors and similes which as he speaks with much finality to convince the audience. Gorgius had a well structured flow of ideas; he began by winning the audience of

  • Language And Culture Essay

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    11-12-2013 Language and Culture Nothing distinguishes the human race from the rest of the species clearly more than owning the language and culture; Using language attributes unique to our species, we can connect any something notify minds. This ability enables us to learn from the lessons of previous generations and added to them; we live the values that you have gained in the past , as well as trial and error, to improve our lives . Has developed a combination of culture and language invincible