Golden Gate Quoteography
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Golden Gate Quoteography
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Author : Ashkum Ashwick
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-03
Golden Gate Quoteography written by Ashkum Ashwick and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-03 with categories.
Golden Gate Quoteography - 33 Captivating quotes about the magnificent bridge is a book that is one of its kind. When you read these quotes you will feel that this bridge is a living phenomenon. These quotes are poetically so rich and unique that it will make you visualize the bridge even without being on it, the princely diadem on the head of America. These quotes are from the poem - "Ah! The Golden Gate Bridge!" added at the end of the book. It tells the story of how the bridge connects so many hearts and souls across the whole world, how it is a lovely example of poetry and engineering rejoicing in its full beauty. People have different perceptions about the Golden Gate Brid≥some consider it's a place for happiness and for some a place for suicide. These quotes say it all. The speaker goes deep down into what the bridge actually is, for the ordinary man, for the architect and for a poet.Each stanza of "Ah! The Golden Gate Bridge!" is poetically built from statements about the bridge, including metaphor to convey emotional responses upon viewing it, physical descriptions of the bridge itself, and interesting facts from the bridge's history. Each stanza is a stand-alone statement that is then connected to the others by the repetition of the title as a refrain. The poem opens with a statement of connection, not only land & building to the other side but also connection between humanity. The speaker then describes a sorrowful usage of the bridge, that of death, in the next stanza. In the stanza that follows, the speaker gives the first tidbit from the story of the making of the bridge, referring to the skills of its builder. In the eighteenth stanza, the builder is mentioned by name, Joseph B. Strauss, the man who worked hard to ensure that his dream was built. Additional stanzas give more pieces of this story, including describing the tension and conflict over the decision to build it, Strauss's inspiration for designing this bridge, and a metaphor of his guidance during construction, comparing the process to a wise doctor guiding a difficult birth. In addition to these pieces of historical fact, there are several stanzas that describe the physical structure. The bridge is compared to an orange straw, two orange pens, and a pair of upraised orange hands, each stanza reminding the reader of the bridge's distinctive color. The speaker also states that it is a single suspension bridge, describes it as wearing a jacket of fog but unhooded (giving a picture of its height), and feet cemented in water. A unique metaphor compares the bridge to a giant with legs tall enough for ships to cross under, a strong chest, and a heart full of music. As a final thread in this poem, the speaker includes several stanzas about the emotional impact it has. It is a bridge that helps bring about ecstasy and get rid of burdens, a bridge that causes wonder and surprise, and a bridge that takes away one's breath upon seeing or crossing over it. The poem closes with a stanza that states this bridge is a victory of what is possible over what is impossible. It is a statement that reminds the reader dreams can be fought for, and achieved. And if a physical reminder is needed, one only has to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge, remember the story, and hope.
Semantics
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Author : James R. Hurford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-04-28
Semantics written by James R. Hurford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-04-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.
Conversation
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Author : Scott Thornbury
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-26
Conversation written by Scott Thornbury and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-26 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book provides a comprehensive account of conversation in English and its implications for the ELT classroom. After a general overview and definition of conversation it provides the reader with a systematic description of conversational English, from the vocabulary of conversation, to grammar, discourse and genre. This is followed by an informed account of the development of conversation in both first and second language acquisition. It then describes a range of methodological approaches, procedures and techniques for teaching conversation in English. On this basis, an integrated approach to the teaching of conversation is provided, along with practical classroom applications.
Presumed Guilty How The Supreme Court Empowered The Police And Subverted Civil Rights
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Author : Erwin Chemerinsky
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-24
Presumed Guilty How The Supreme Court Empowered The Police And Subverted Civil Rights written by Erwin Chemerinsky and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Law categories.
An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century. Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an officer. As eminent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky powerfully argues, this is no accident, but the horrific result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and, crucially, the courts to presume that suspects—especially people of color—are guilty before being charged. Today in the United States, much attention is focused on the enormous problems of police violence and racism in law enforcement. Too often, though, that attention fails to place the blame where it most belongs, on the courts, and specifically, on the Supreme Court. A “smoking gun” of civil rights research, Presumed Guilty presents a groundbreaking, decades-long history of judicial failure in America, revealing how the Supreme Court has enabled racist practices, including profiling and intimidation, and legitimated gross law enforcement excesses that disproportionately affect people of color. For the greater part of its existence, Chemerinsky shows, deference to and empowerment of the police have been the modi operandi of the Supreme Court. From its conception in the late eighteenth century until the Warren Court in 1953, the Supreme Court rarely ruled against the police, and then only when police conduct was truly shocking. Animating seminal cases and justices from the Court’s history, Chemerinsky—who has himself litigated cases dealing with police misconduct for decades—shows how the Court has time and again refused to impose constitutional checks on police, all the while deliberately gutting remedies Americans might use to challenge police misconduct. Finally, in an unprecedented series of landmark rulings in the mid-1950s and 1960s, the pro-defendant Warren Court imposed significant constitutional limits on policing. Yet as Chemerinsky demonstrates, the Warren Court was but a brief historical aberration, a fleeting liberal era that ultimately concluded with Nixon’s presidency and the ascendance of conservative and “originalist” justices, whose rulings—in Terry v. Ohio (1968), City of Los Angeles v. Lyons (1983), and Whren v. United States (1996), among other cases—have sanctioned stop-and-frisks, limited suits to reform police departments, and even abetted the use of lethal chokeholds. Written with a lawyer’s knowledge and experience, Presumed Guilty definitively proves that an approach to policing that continues to exalt “Dirty Harry” can be transformed only by a robust court system committed to civil rights. In the tradition of Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law, Presumed Guilty is a necessary intervention into the roiling national debates over racial inequality and reform, creating a history where none was before—and promising to transform our understanding of the systems that enable police brutality.
Just Enough English Grammar Illustrated
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Author : Gabriele Stobbe
language : en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date : 2008-01-03
Just Enough English Grammar Illustrated written by Gabriele Stobbe and has been published by McGraw Hill Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Verb! Plural noun! Adjective! See language in action and never forget a grammar point again! Through fun illustrations and colorful diagrams, you'll learn the essential points of grammar. Just Enough English Grammar Illustrated gives you visual cues to the parts of speech and their usage, so you'll know how to use them correctly when are speaking or writing in English.