The Spoilage
The Spoilage

Author: Dorothy S. Thomas

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-06-11

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780520014183

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a half years. No more blatant violation of civil rights has ever been decreed by an American president, yet so strong were the currents of bigotry and war time hysteria that effective political opposition was impossible. However, a group of University of California social scientists, sensing the enormity of the outrage, organized in 1942 to record and analyze the causes, legal and social consequences, and long-term effects of the detention program. The Spoilage, one of a series of books which resulted, analyzes the experiences of that part of the detained group-some 18,000 in total-whose response was to renounce America as a homeland; it shows the steps by which these "disloyal" citizens were inexorably pushed toward the disaster of denationalization. Essentially the result of years of research by participant observers of Japanese ancestry, it is a factual record of enduring value to the student of America's troubled ethnic relations.

The One That Divides
The One That Divides

Author: Chanakya Grover

Publisher:

Published: 2016-12-24

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781520230511

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

--Every word unsaid--Every feeling unexpressed--Every step not taken--Every idea forsaken--Is a possibility walking away----ABOUT THE AUTHOR----I'm the loser they warn you about--A good-for-nothing lump of protoplasm--Who just eats and shits--And makes you wanna shout----I'm the loser they tell you not to become--Lest you find yourself--Amongst the lowest of society's scum----I'm the loser they tell you not to love--Lest you find yourself--Trying to free your neck--From my hand pressing down from above----I'm the loser they tell you not to marry--Lest you find yourself crushed--Under the weight that was never yours to carry----I'm the loser they want to keep chained--Cause I listen to no one--I don't care if it is something ordained----I'm the loser they want dead--But they keep me alive--I would believe they do it for me--If only I was that naive

Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English
Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English

Author: Marcus Callies

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9027254311

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners' use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.

The MS-DOS Encyclopedia
The MS-DOS Encyclopedia

Author: Ray Duncan

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 1610

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This newly updated and expanded volume contains detailed, thorough and accurate information on MS-DOS written for advanced-level programmers of all environments. Contains an index and appendixes.