Author : S. Preece
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230245366
An in-depth study of a group of multilingual students from widening participation backgrounds on a first-year undergraduate academic writing programme. The book explores ways in which identity positions emerge in the spoken interaction, with a particular focus on gender.
Author : Robert Verkaik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786073846
‘The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones’s Chavs.’ –Andrew Marr, Sunday Times ‘In his fascinating, enraging polemic, Verkaik touches on one of the strangest aspects of the elite schools and their product’s domination of public life for two and a half centuries: the acquiescence of everyone else.’ –Observer In Britain today, the government, judiciary and military are all led by an elite who attended private school. Under their watch, our society has become increasingly divided and the gap between rich and poor is now greater than ever before. Is this the country we want to live in? If we care about inequality, we have to talk about public schools. Robert Verkaik issues a searing indictment of the system originally intended to educate the most underprivileged Britons, and outlines how, through meaningful reform, we can finally make society fairer for all.
Author : Hugh Kellett
Publisher : Quiller Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846893971
The Dictionary of Posh serves as an essential guide to the (ab)use of many English words by the decidedly upmarket and the resultant - and endangered - language they speak: Posh
Author : Lucy Jackson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312377984
Through the emotionally complex lives of a group of teenagers and the adults who hope to control them--from their private school's headmistress to mothers both loving and distant--this poignant novel is gently satirical yet deeply felt as it reveals a rarefied world.
Author : Laura Wade
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350235784
In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule - and on getting totally "chatueaued". Members of The Riot Club, an elite student dining society, the fraternity starts to fray when they discover they're a guinea-fowl short and the prostitute they've hired is suddenly banished. An apparent spoof on Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club, whose past members include Boris Johnson, George Osborne and David Cameron, Posh is a satirical play about power, politics and privilege, and how these elements interact within British institutions. The play is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Henry Bell. Posh premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2010 and two years later opened in the West End. It was nominated for Best New Play at both the Evening Standard Awards and for the Theatregoers' Choice Awards. It was subsequently made into a film called The Riot Club (2014), starring Sam Claflin, Max Irons and Douglas Booth.
Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author : Alexander P. M. van den Bosch
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0244012172
This to say about this new book, 'Stay..' a collection of Stanford Psy. (in Rea4) papers.. to this, the foundation of Nell Co. (corporation). We see, have The Beauty of it.., Soccer-mom, Barba papa (in the Bronx), The UK/Dutch Debate &, Thatcher on that.., Luther & Stanford Psy., Kuhn, Nasa (Rea4 &..), Full FULL responsib. In US & NL.., SEX in the US & US-Senate .. (Rea3..), Childhood INSTRUCT., Yelling to the boss .., The smaller return, The Parrot-Show (about true posh as well..), The why of these papers to .. the author, Stop That.. in Stnfrd. Psy., Assault Directives, People that really care in FULL Stanford. A semmio tansio gremmi (in Swiss)
Author : Ben Crystal
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1447276663
Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, while she says bahth. You say potayto. I say potahto And- -wait a second, no one says potahto. No one's ever said potahto. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of Received Pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father David travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English. Everyone has an accent, though many of us think we don't. We all have our likes and dislikes about the way other people speak, and everyone has something to say about 'correct' pronunciation. But how did all these accents come about, and why do people feel so strongly about them? Are regional accents dying out as English becomes a global language? And most importantly of all: what went wrong in Birmingham? Witty, authoritative and jam-packed full of fascinating facts, You Say Potato is a celebration of the myriad ways in which the English language is spoken - and how our accents, in so many ways, speak louder than words.
Author : Steve Pitt
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1770703462
Short-listed for the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award, 2010 It is 1900, and 14-year-old Bertie McCross is a newspaper boy in downtown Toronto. Berties family has fallen on hard times and can use every penny he brings home from hawking newspapers on the frigid streets. However, in order to do that Bertie has to keep out of the clutches of the Kelly Gang, a family of slightly older Cabbagetown toughs who are shaking down "newsies." On Christmas Eve, Bertie is almost cornered by the Kellys but is saved by Tommy Fry and Milwaukee Ed, who introduce Bertie to the thrills of iceboat racing on Lake Ontario. Soon Bertie is swept up in the fast and dangerous sport and meets a whole crew of new friends, including Isobel, a girl from a wealthy family with a mansion on Jarvis Street. The continued pursuit by the Kelly Gang, a plunge into freezing harbour water, and the clash of classes all lead up to a spine-tingling race to end all races.
Author : Martin Robinson
Publisher : Crown House Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2013-06-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 178135085X
From Ancient Greece to the present day, Trivium 21c explores whether a contemporary trivium (Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric) can unite progressive and traditionalist institutions, teachers, politicians and parents in the common pursuit of providing a great education for our children in the 21st century. Education policy and practice is a battleground. Traditionalists argue for the teaching of a privileged type of hard knowledge and deride soft skills. Progressives deride learning about great works of the past preferring '21c skills' (21st century skills) such as creativity and critical thinking. Whilst looking for a school for his daughter, the author became frustrated by schools' inability to value knowledge, as well as creativity, foster discipline alongside free-thinking, and value citizenship alongside independent learning. Drawing from his work as a creative teacher, Robinson finds inspiration in the Arts and the need to nurture learners with the ability to deal with the uncertainties of our age. Named one of Book Authority's best education books of all time.
