The first two voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag focus primarily on the negative aspects of English government and society, while the third and fourth voyages to Laputa and the Houyhnhnms are more general critiques of basic human nature. ... Few elements of human social behavior - particularly the behavior of the English courts and members of European high society in the 18th century - escape Swift's criticisms. ... Instead of learning these basic skills, they spend their time planning methods of building houses from the roof downward, pondering how to pull sunbeams out of vegetables, an...

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An ethnocentric curriculum is when the school emphasizes the values of only their own culture therefore emphasis is put on white-western music, literature, language, history, religion, etc An ethnocentric curriculum does not value black, Asian or any other cultures except their own and therefore a pupil of a different ethnicity will not have the same knowledge and understanding of white-British culture as much as they may have of their own culture, however this is not recognized, hence the pupil is doomed to fail as they may not know or understand the ˜basic' English/British cultu...

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There are many aspects to adapting to a new culture, which include learning a new language, eating new foods, dressing differently, and meeting new people. ... Learning a new language is one of the most difficult tasks to accomplish when there is no one to translate. The younger a person is when they come to America, the easier it is to learn English. Many older men and women have a much more difficult time learning English, especially when they need to find a job. ...

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A blind person's need or a deaf person's need or the needs of a person with limited mobility are different (According to "Canadian literacy and learning network"). ... Many newcomers in Canada are from non-English speaking countries. ... Even if a new comer speaks English, he or she has hard time understanding the local accent or making people understand their accent (According to "Employment, language barrier, key concerns of immigrants"). ...

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English language has been adopted as the official language and has been used in educating Nigerian citizens. ... An evening news cast by PBS news hour, on an interview with a Chinese local about westernization; Hou Xiazhou a Chinese skateboarder mentions that the "The west influence us a good deal, for example those who skateboard now are all learning from the west....

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It captures the answers to the questions studied in the course of English thus far during the short story "The Lady or the Tiger" and the novels A Separate Peace and Lord of the Flies. ... I believe Simon was the key to learning the answer to the first question, "Who Are the Outsiders?" ...

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