George Orwell – The Freedom of the Press (alternate preface) This book was first thought of‚ so far as the central idea goes‚ in 1937‚ but was not written down until about the end of 1943. By the time when it came to be written it was obvious that there would be great difficulty in getting it published (in spite of the present book shortage which ensures that anything describable as a book will ’sell ’)‚ and in the event it was refused by four publishers. Only one of these had any ideological
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Do Artists Benefit from Online Music Sharing? Author(s): Ram D. Gopal‚ Sudip Bhattacharjee‚ G. Lawrence Sanders Source: The Journal of Business‚ Vol. 79‚ No. 3 (May 2006)‚ pp. 1503-1533 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/500683 . Accessed: 26/06/2011 07:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms
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Reading and approaches to reading strategies. I am an ardent reader who reads for hours as a hobby. Most times while reading‚ I would subconsciously scan ‚skim‚ mind map and take notes ‚ just for the pleasure of it without really knowing that these are very important concepts in Metacognitive awareness of reading strategies. After listening to the presentation and reading through the article by Kouider Mokhtari and Carla Areichard‚I realized that metacognition provides personal insights into a person’s
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BOOKS AND READING Topical Vocabulary 1. Categorisation: Children’s and adult’s books; travel books and biography; romantic and historical novels; thrillers; detective stories; science fiction/fantasy; non-fiction; pulp fiction. absorbing; adult; amusing; controversial; dense; depressing; delightful; dirty; disturbing; dull; fascinating; gripping; moralistic; obscene; outrageous; profound; whimsical; unputdownable
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are turned down and lesbian and gay employees are passed over for promotion or even fired by employers who view homosexuality as somehow detrimental to job performance or harmful to the company’s public profile. Such discrimination frequently results from the personal biases of individual decision makers. It is rarely written into company policy and thus is difficult to trace. However‚ in January 1991‚ Cracker Barrel Old Country Store‚ Inc.‚ a chain of family restaurants‚ became the first and only major
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terms‚ reading is not different from other learned human abilities such as driving‚ cooking‚ playing golf‚ or riding a bicycle: the more you do it‚ the more fluent and skillful you become. Usually‚ teachers are concerned with the developing in their students the ability to read‚ but how much attention do teachers pay to develop a habit or love of reading in their students? There are some questioned raised from time to time in my class. “Teacher‚ what does it mean?”‚ “I can understand nothing from the
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Because both my parents came from China‚ I took Chinese. But I cannot read or write Chinese and barely speak it. I love my North American citizenship. I don’t’ mind being called a "banana‚" yellow on the outside and white on the inside. I’m proud I’m a banana. After all‚ in Canada and the United States‚ native Indians are "apples" (red outside‚ white inside); blacks are "Oreo cookies" (black and white); and Chinese are "bananas." These metaphors assume‚ both rightly and wrongly‚ that the culture
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the world even after the emergence of electronic media and the internet. The newspaper does play a very important role in the working of any democracy. Our Constitution too great us the Right to Freedom of Expression which is manifested‚ in free press in our country. In a democracy‚ newspapers are the best way of educating people politically and socially. They play a decisive role not only in updating the public but also in formulating a well-balanced public opining. The public reads about the current
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week four. I think this week was easier for me than others because of the simplicity behind the terms. The statements of cash flows include operating activities‚ investing activities and financing activities. Operating activities include cash flow from business operations‚ things like sales. Investing activities includes assets‚ and financing activities include stockholders equity. We learned about direct and indirect cash flows this week. Indirect cash flows are the most commonly used by business
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW A. Reading Comprehension 1. The Definition of Reading Comprehension There are many experts who give the definition of reading. One of them is Aebersold and Field. They say: “...‚ reading is what happens when people look at a text and assign meaning to the written symbols in that text‚ further‚ the text and the reader are the two physical entities necessary for the reading process to begin (1997: 15).” It means that when someone sees written symbols in
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