- Melbourne’s Lord Mayor‚ John So‚ and actor-comedian Anh Doh are among those featured - might be consciousness-raising‚ but feels structurally uncomfortable. Being Asian‚ of course‚ is such an umbrella term it’s probably best only served for cartography. After all‚ its area traverses from Japan to Indo-China - Pung‚ for example‚ has a Chinese-Cambodian background - to the Indian subcontinent. But the selection‚ because of its sheer diversity‚ succeeds well in cataloguing the not-so linear trajectory
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Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Canada Name Institution Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Canada Question #1 The chief aim of this paper is to contrast and compare anti-Semitism in Canada – predominantly modern Canada – with different forms of racism. For instance‚ the most popular practice of anti-Semitism in Canada is Zionism and nationalism. Most considerations of anti-Semitism in Canada and of the Jewish community more usually‚ have taken place separately from typical
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Larry Wolff. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford‚ Calif.: Stanford University Press‚ 1994. xiv + 419 pp. Maps‚ notes‚ and index. $45.00 (cloth)‚ ISBN 0-804-72314-1. Reviewed by Thomas J. Hegarty‚ University of Tampa. Published by HABSBURG (July‚ 1995) In a book based on an extraordinarily rich array of fascinating sources‚ including eighteenthcentury Western European travelers’ accounts of trips to Eastern Europe‚ maps and atlases drawn
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The narrative mawwāl is rarely sung without music accompanying it. Music is an essential element in the structure of the mawwāl as it contributes to the expression of different situations with which the mawwāl teems and reflects the general image the mawwāl portrays. Mawwāl is characterized by nonlinear musical structure where the singer/narrator is free to improvise; such improvisation occurs whenever he raises his voice. The beat of the mawwāl is said not to be evident (الموال في الغناء العربي);
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URBAN DESIGN AND CONSERVATION 1. Urban Design The term “urban design” may have been coined in the mid-1950s but 20 years later it was still largely unused outside a small circle of people concerned with the four-dimensional development of precincts of cities. It has a wide‚ almost boundary-less definition with different connotations depending on professional discipline or the particular context within which the urban environment is being assessed. It is the process of making or shaping physical
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During the sixteenth century expansion became a key theme across the face of Early Modern Europe; this caused the sixteenth century to acquire the retrospective name of the Age of Expansion or Age of Discovery. According to the historian Richard Mackenney the cause of European expansion during this period can be explained in terms of three major symptoms: overseas discovery‚ population growth and price inflation all of which are tied together in a complex multiplicity making in difficult to isolate
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Top of Form Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca‚ an early explorer and first historian of Texas‚ was born in 1490 in Jerez de la Frontera‚ in Andalusia‚ Spain a province in the south of Spain near Cadiz. In early 1527‚ Cabeza de Vaca departed Spain as a part of a royal expedition to occupy the mainland of North America. As treasurer‚ he was one of the chief officers on the Narváez expedition. The Narváez expedition is an expedition based on a famous conquistador Narváez was also included on the expedition
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2 Theorizing Alternative and Mainstream Media This chapter provides definitions of alternative and mainstream media and puts these two media categories into political context. It then explores different binary and convergent theoretical approaches to studying the alternative-mainstream media spectrum. 2.1 Defining Alternative and Mainstream Media The contemporary U.S. media market can be virtually divided into two niches – the niche of alternative media and the niche of mainstream media. Alternative
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married and had three children. He died in 1324‚ and was buried in San Lorenzo. His pioneering journey inspired Christopher Columbus[4] and many other travellers. There is a substantial literature based on his writings. Polo influenced European cartography‚leading to the introduction of fra Mauro map. The exact time and place of Marco Polo’s birth are unknown‚ and current theories are mostly conjectural. One possible place of birth is Venice’s former contrada of San Giovanni Crisostomo‚ which is
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CGE526 – PETROLEUM GEOLOGY Geology Geology is basically the science which is related to the study of the origin of the Earth including the history and its life‚ the materials that made it up‚ the structure of the materials and the processes acted upon them. It also deals with the study of the organisms that have inhabited the planet and the structure of a specific region of the Earth involving the rocks‚ soils‚ mountains‚ fossils and other features. The word geology was first known used in
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