Perfectopia
Perfectopia

Author: León Hernández

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-05-02

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 8461690834

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Sam is an active and restless young man fighting with his girlfriend, Silvia, for a better, more equal and more just world. However, their struggle is shortened after a tragic outcome during the protest against their government. From that moment on, events rush across Europe causing an economic and social collapse. The old continent is immersed in the greatest conflict experienced since World War II. Nevertheless, Europe is able to rise from its ashes in such a powerful way that it will end up impacting the rest of the planet . Unlike other novels or stories which show a dark and dystopian future, Perfectopia offers a future full of hope, where mankind has overcome most of its current challenges, imposing on themselves a change of mentality and developing a future that now will be worthwhile for our children to inherit. Perfectopia does not only tell us the great future that awaits us, but also, what steps should the humans take to achieve their desired future. Welcome to Perfectopia.

Perfectopía
Perfectopía

Author: León Hernández

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-05-02

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 8461682165

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Sam es un joven activo e inquieto que lucha junto a su novia, Silvia, por un mundo mejor, mas igualitario, mas justo. Sin embargo, su lucha se trunca tras un fatal desenlace durante la manifestacion de protesta contra su Gobierno. A partir de ese momento, los acontecimientos se precipitan en toda Europa provocando un colapso economico y social. El viejo continente se sumerge en el mayor conflicto vivido desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A pesar de todo, Europa consigue resurgir de sus cenizas de una forma tan poderosa que acabara impactando al resto del planeta. A diferencia de otras novelas o historias que presentan un futuro oscuro y distopico, Perfectopia apuesta por un futuro lleno de esperanza, donde el ser humano ha conseguido superar la mayor parte de sus retos actuales, cambiando su forma de pensar y de actuar, imponiendose a si mismo un cambio de mentalidad y desarrollando un futuro que, ahora si, sera digno de heredar por nuestros hijos. Bienvenidos a Perfectopia.

Philippine English
Philippine English

Author: MA. Lourdes S. Bautista

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2008-11-01

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 9622099475

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An overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.

Filipino English and Taglish
Filipino English and Taglish

Author: Roger M. Thompson

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-10-16

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9027296073

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English competes with Tagalog and Taglish, a mixture of English and Tagalog, for the affections of Filipinos. To understand the competing ideologies that underlie this switching between languages, this book looks at the language situation from multiple perspectives. Part A reviews the social and political forces that have propelled English through its life cycle in the Philippines from the 1898 arrival of Admiral Dewey to the 1998 election of Joseph Estrada. Part B looks at the social support for English in Metro Manila and the provinces with a focus on English teachers and their personal and public use of English. Part C examines the language of television sport broadcasts, commercials, interviews, sitcoms, and movies, and the language of newspapers from various linguistic, sociolinguistic, and sociocultural perspectives. The results put into perspective the short-lived language revolution that took place at the turn of the twenty-first century.

The Politics of English
The Politics of English

Author: Lionel Wee

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9027272131

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This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts also means that the social, political and cultural ramifications of the spread of English into Asia will have to be understood in relation to the challenges facing specific societies. The chapters in the book collectively illustrate this diversity by focusing on countries from South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific. Each country has two contributions devoted to it: one paper provides an overview of the country’s language policy and its positioning of English, and another provides a critical discussion of creative expressions involving the use of English. Taken together, the papers in the volume detail the most recent developments concerning the politics of English in Asia.