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Characteristics of Oxford English Dictionary and Cobuild Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principle historical dictionary of the English language published by Oxford University Press. The Oxford English Dictionary was first used unofficially on the covers of the series, and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in ten bound volumes . The first electronic version of the dictionary was made available in 1988. The online version has been available since 2000, and by April 2014 was receiving over two million visits per month. The dictionary has a total vocabulary of 414,825 and citations of 1,827,306, and the total number of pages in 12 distribution volumes, which began to be called the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The pride of this dictionary is not in terms of vocabulary. There are often dictionaries that accommodate about 400,000 vocabulary words. It is the number of quotes that tell us the true value of this dictionary. The purpose of this dictionary is to
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Analysing Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the Era of Realism and Naturalism;   By 1875, American writers were moving toward realism in literature. The time span from 1870 to 1910 is called the Era of Realism and Naturalism in American Literature. In the era, there were two major movements that came into existence and flourished in American Literature that are called Realism and Naturalism. Before this era, American had been looking at the world through the optimistic filters of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. As a result of a big change because of the frontier and the Civil War, Americans started giving preference to writing and thinking about reality instead of imagined or fantastic ideas. Realism is a manner and method of composition by which the author describes normal, average life, in an accurate, truthful way. The movement focused on casual characters and daily life events and situations. For example, a realist story like Stephen Crane was ordinary and was

Enlightenment, Western History

  “ Enlightenment ”                 The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement that dominated Europe during the 18th century, was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy and advocated such ideals as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state. At first, it emerged out of a European intellectual and scholarly movement known as Renaissance Humanism but later, it took over British and America into its shadow and today’s era, almost every country is influenced by the movement, or some of the movement. It is somehow the opposite of romanticism because some aspects of both philosophies are in contrast. The Enlightenment thinkers believed that human intelligence could be understood through nature and be enhanced by reasoning . They were sure that men can improve themselves through reasoning . That strongly denied the belief of puritans that man is full of sin or a sinful failure

#12 IELTS Writing Task 2 "Some people think it is better to bring children up in large cities"

Some people think it is better to bring children up in large cities. While others argue that it is better to raise children in the countryside. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. Ans: People's Opinion differs as to either the children grow up in the countryside or in developed cities. While there are some strong arguments for children stayed in suburb areas. 1, myself believe that it is fruitful to move and get mature in big towns for children's overall career, lifestyle, and educational development. Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime. Read full essay,,,  To begin with, there are several reasons why people argue that stayed in the countryside for children is better. Undoubtedly, in the village area, the environment is clean from numerous bacterial infection and pollutants. Fresh and clean air for inhaling is available all the time. which helps children to be fit and fine from physical and mental aspects as compa

#11 IELTS Writing Task 2 "Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime"

Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime. Others argue that the circumstances of an individual crime, and motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment. Discuss both views and give your opinion. Fixing the punishment for every sort of wrongdoings is a controversial issue for many decades. There is a bundle of arguments which are supporting both of points. First of all, firming the trail for each sort of crime must have some hampering effects in a society. Individual know if he does any sort of crime, he will be penalized with a fixed punishment. For example, if a fine is fixed for every criminal from a jury, without any jail punishment, the maximum bad rich people will convict crimes on daily basis and make themselves clean from crime by giving that fixed fine. This punishment method may help the economy but this will also lead to social instability and violate the society as a whole. De

#10 IELTS Writing Task 2 "In many countries, people no longer wear their national costumes"

In many countries, people no longer wear their national costumes. They are forgetting their history and traditions. More people should be encouraged to wear their national costumes every day.  To what extent do you agree or disagree with the given statement? In today's societies, the residents do not wear their national costumes. Most people prefer wearing their dresses which one made in their country but not considered their traditional dresses. Some people do not approve of this by saying that this way people are forgetting their history and traditions. But I think that this is a part of modernization and development. We should look forward. By pushing murderers with the death  penalty, society is also guilty,,,  Click here to read Nevertheless, each of the countries has its costumes and national dresses in which some are comfortable and other are difficult to handle. A dress that is being worn daily as a routine is called a comfortable dress, to my point of view. For exa

#09 IELTS Writing Task 2 "By punishing murderers with death penalty, society is also guilty"

By sanctioning murderers with capital punishment, the community is also blameworthy of committing murder. Thus, life in lockup is an excellent punishment for murderers. To what degree do you go in favour with this statement? I strongly support the death penalty for murderers. In present-day's communities, the life is very brutal, especially in my country. There are many demented people doing misdeeds and there is nothing to stop them. We interviewed some captured wrongdoers who said, "I was just killing him but I realized that if I did so, I would get the judicial murder. So I left him". Undoubtedly, the capital punishment saves lives and gives a positive difference to a community. According to The Dawn report which was published in December 2017, the crime rates in Karachi was very high when the capital punishment was banned, as the government removed this ban, the crime rates dip down about 80% as a whole.  This report clearly depicts the significance of the death