Participant observation: Shan New Year’s Festival 2107 (14th‚ Dec‚ 2012 from 7.30 p.m to midnight) Reported by Thanh Thanh Phan Topic 2 General Questions: Who they are? Where they come from? Why they came here and when? When they started their business? Do they have citizenship and how? What are they doing here? What are their monthly incomes? Interviewing sellers of a consumption shop‚ cloth shop‚ CDs shop‚ food shop and their customers. ____________________________________________________________
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1980 New Year’s Day From Mount Elgon in Kitum Cave‚ a virus first appears in Mr.Monet. Mr. Monet then goes to a hospital and exposes Dr.Musoke to the deadly disease. The virus is revealed to be Marburg by Dr.Silverstein‚ who sent samples to be examined at a research lab for special diseases. Marburg first appeared in an old city‚ in central Germany. Its first appearance was from a factory who shipped green monkeys to a different places that make vaccines from the kidney cells. The source of the
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email. For example: CBS1401‚ Chan Tai Man(陳大文)‚ Assignment 1 Task: Please translate the following sentences into target languages (English or Chinese) by yourself. Ensure that your translation fully accounts for the style and content of the source text‚ whilst conforming to established target genre norms. 1. Please translate the following sentences into Chinese by using specified translation approaches. 1) Looking for a quick way to feel lousy about yourself? Then forget the idea of a healthy diet
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The New Year Festival in Vietnam and in America Introduction Although different countries in the world have different festivals and holidays‚ there is a momentous event that annually they all eagerly long for. It is the New Year festival which marks the pivotal point of a new period of time with the pure and pristine beginning for individuals. However‚ each nation has its own traditions‚ customs and values partly reflected in the celebration of the New Year festival. The ways of holding the
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New Year’s Day was originally in March before the Julian calendar took effect in 45 BC when January and February were added to the calendar.In the early Roman calendar‚ March was the beginning of the year. The name “March” originated from the Roman god of war Mars whom was seen as the guardian of agriculture. “Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates‚ and had two faces‚ one looking forward and one back. “Caesar felt that the month named after this god (“January”) would be the appropriate “door”
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The Vietnamese lunar New Year festival‚ Tet Nguyen Dan‚ is the most significant holiday taking place within the first three days of the New Year. The nearer New Year comes the more excited and enthusiastic people are. In general‚ preparation for Tet starts one week before New Year’s Day. There are three main activities in this week: shopping‚ cleaning and decorating houses‚ and "Tat Nien" parties. Shopping is the most interesting activity before Tet. There is a number of items must be bought. In
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Nirali Rawal Brenda Williams Honors English 1 June 2013 Chinese Proverb I sit there bored to death‚ waiting for my teacher to start teaching. "When will he speak?" I thought to myself. Tick tock the time went by. Five minutes later‚ he proceeded to talk about what we were going to learn that day- the concept of velocity. I continued to sit there‚ zoning out‚ uninterested on what he had to say and FINALLY the bell rang! I approached to my next class and realized the Mr
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It’s that time again‚ a new year‚ as the year approach the end‚ the Hmong New Year is celebrated by many Hmong people throughout the world in different months where Hmong people live‚ either that be in October‚ November‚ or December. But no matter what‚ where you find a large population of Hmong people‚ you know there’s going to be some sort of Hmong New Year event taking place that year. From what I remember‚ when I was little‚ my parents took me to the Soccer Tournament (another Hmong event)‚ where
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Introduction - The ‘Three Terrible Years’ The period between 1958 and 1961 is known as the Three Years of Great Chinese Famine. It is also referred to as ‘The Three Years of Natural Disasters’ or ‘The Difficult Three Year Period’ because China doesn’t want to admit the true cause of the disaster. (Branigan‚ 2013) Natural factors do play a major role in this disaster‚ but one questions whether the famine would have been this severe if it had taken place in a democracy. The economist Amartya Sen said
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MY NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION Very often we all hear about New Year resolutions and I have also tried making New Year resolutions. Basically a New Year resolution is made when one wants to correct the mistakes they have done the past year or do something in a more organized manner. I have also made resolutions before‚ but just like anybody else‚ I too break it up. But this time I am going to stick to my resolutions and make sure that I change myself. I have noted down a few resolutions that I would
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