Which reasons support the claim that the study of a foreign language should be required for high school graduation? check all that apply.

a) knowledge of languages and cultures enhances students’ global knowledge.
b) a wide range of course selections students discover their passions.
c) specific course requirements ignore an individual’s strengths and weaknesses.
d) learning foreign verbs is unimportant to a future engineer.
e) decoding foreign languages promotes greater understanding of english

The correct answer is A, B and D.

Knowing a foreign language and its culture enhances students' global knowledge as it makes them more open minded about different countries and the different people living in them. Having learned a foreign language, many students may want to visit a particular country where the language is spoken, which is the best way to become more knowledgeable and tolerant towards others.

Some students may not know that they have linguistics talents till a foreign language course is offered to them, this is why many advocate learning a language as an obligation and not as a choice at school.

Decoding foreign languages and learning about their grammars helps students understand their own mother language better, this is done by analyzing and comparing grammatical and stylistic structures in both given languages.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

answer: a

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