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    Below are the different types of share capital of a company:- Preference Shares‚ Ordinary Shares‚ Deferred Shares‚ Redeemable Shares and Share Warrants to Bearer. Preference Shares are shares which normally entitle the shareholders a priority to receive a fixed rate of dividend out of the profits of the Company (current year only) per annum. Different classes of preference shares may exist. Preference shares are usually cumulative and non-participating. They cannot participate to further

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    Iconicity: Historical Change in American Sign Language (Language 51‚ 1975) by Nancy Frishberg. First we will summarise Frishbergs article and explain her objectives. In the second part we will elaborate over four different words and their reduction of iconicity over the years. The article explicitly describes the changes up till 1975 and the changes after this era as in the ASL dictionary of 1981 will have no effect on our description although may be named. Most researchers of sign languages share the

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    immigrants and their coming generations since they have different cultures and different views. In the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ the main character Gogol struggles with his cultural identity due to the ideological difference between him and his parents on the concept of name. According to Bengali naming traditions‚ everyone has two names‚ a pet name and a good name. The good name is for the public to use‚ the pet name is for family and friends to use in private places‚ it is also “a persistent

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    The importance of cultural competency when working with diverse populations in health care can affect a patients or clients overall health in a positive or negative way and also affect reputation of the doctor and the staff. In the article Cultural Competency: Values‚ Traditions and Effective Practices‚ by Carol Brannon she defines Cultural competency‚ as “the ability to understand and respond effectively to the cultural and linguistic needs of patients or clients”(p.2). Brannon also explains how

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    Simone’ Sanders Phil 1301 Henley Historical Criticism and Langston Hughes In reviewing two of Langston Hughes’ poems‚ Ballad of the Landlord and Ruby Brown‚ the literary theory that would be most appropriate to use to develop an analysis of these poems would be Historical criticism. Historical criticism by definition studies the historical factors (social‚ cultural‚ etc.) that influenced the writer‚ as well as‚ his/her work of literature. This particular style of evaluating works of literature

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    the file system. For security reason a file or directory has assigned permissions to use them and every user in the UNIX system is assigned set of permission while creating user account. Before going to discuss the file permission‚ let’s discuss the user account types in the UNIX. There are three types of user accounts on a UNIX system that are root account‚ system account and normal user account. Root account: It is a super account in UNIX system and created when the Operating System installed

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    Although Kazakhs in many instances take pride in that they have homogeneous customs and traditions across all regions of Kazakhstan‚ through talks and discussions with people from different regions one can identify that there are not so evident variances in patterns of celebrations and general attitudes for different traditions of people from different parts of Kazakhstan. The specific to regions attitudes towards tois‚ big familial celebrations and festivals‚ such as weddings‚ jubilees‚ as well

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    November 2011 Historical Roots of Vietnam’s Education System Vietnam is a country rich with culture and traditions. Since the colonial periods when Vietnam was ruled by China for nearly one thousand years‚ Vietnamese people promoted learning and engraved the idea into every child at a very young age that intellectuals in the society such as educators were all superior to parents and are only inferior to the king. Unfortunately‚ when the French forcibly colonized Vietnam and used French as the dominant

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    Reflection Paper “Language Barrier” Communication traditionally plays an extremely important part in the life of people. Nowadays‚ the importance of effective communication has increase consistently due to the progress of technologies and rapid development of international cooperation. The issue of language barriers is particularly critical during intercultural service encounters. Intercultural service encounters‚ where the customer and the service provider are from different cultures‚ is very

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    and behavior that depends upon man’s capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.” People learn about cultural traditions through interaction rather than through the memorization of a text. There are many ways that a culture can be shared among people without them being fluent in it such as through food‚ customs‚ clothing‚ language‚ beliefs‚ and behaviors. Superstition is “to be an irrational but usually deep-seated belief in the magical effects of a particular

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