Victoria Justice

Victoria Justice (birth name Victoria Dawn Justice), an American actress, singer and model.

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• Date of Birth: February 19, 1993
• Placer of Birth: Hollywood, Florida, U.S.A.
• Nickname: Vicky
• Father: Zack Justice
• Mother: Serene Justice
• Siblings: A younger sister named Madison Reed

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The Innate Theory

The Innate theory is a prevailing perspective on first language (L1) acquisition. It was proposed by the famous 20th century American linguist Noam Chomsky. The theory postulates that human beings have the general ability to acquire language and that this ability comes from a Language Acquisition Device or LAD. The LAD is genetically set in the brain and consists of Universal Grammar or UG. UG contains language universals or specific grammatical rules and principles that are common to all human languages. But this concept of innateness is not the sole innovation of Chomsky. His innateness hypothesis is related to the concept of Plato’s and Descartes’ innateness ideas. Even the idea of a Universal Grammar is related to the works of the ancient Greeks and Romans, the speculative woks of those medieval Modistae Grammarians, and the prescriptive approaches of the 17th century Port-Royal Grammarians.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth is a seminal 20th century English poet. His poetic experiment helped to create a new tradition in poetry. It is believed that the Lyrical Ballads, which he published in collaboration with S.T. Coleridge, marked the beginning of English Romanticism. Wordsworth's poetry is noted for its vivid descriptions of nature revealing the delight and comfort he enjoyed from the beauties of nature.

William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District of northwestern England on April 7, 1770 and died on April 28, 1850.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) is a prominent 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is chiefly noted for his treatment of sin, punishment, and salvation through allegorical settings. Most of his major works are engendered by a sense of guilt about the erroneous activity by his ancestors in the notorious Salem Witch Trials in 1962. Although, he wrote during the golden age of transcendentalism, Hawthorne was completely anti-transcendentalist by temperament.

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