Reading for General Studies)‚ 2001. EFFECTS OF CULTURE-CONTACT ON THE CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN LIFE INTRODUCTION This Chapter attempts the review of various definitions of Culture. It also tries to bring out the common characteristics of culture in various definitions‚ which include being dynamic and transmittable from generation to generation. Factors that can influence culture in a particular society and how people can come into contact with the culture of another society are also highlighted
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define this type of oppression‚ I reference this section from Mary Louise Pratt’s "Art’s of the Contact Zone": "....in order to lay out some thoughts about writing and literacy in what I LIKE TO CALL CONTACT ZONES. I use this term to refer to social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power..." Using this idea of the contact zone puts Jacobs’ efforts in a new light. Jacobs undertook her endeavor with the understanding
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My topic is about whether or not contact sports should be banned. Contact sports are sports in which the players come into some sort of bodily contact with one another‚ for example football. Most people say that it should not be banned and a few say it should be. On one website‚ 75% of people said it should not be banned and the other 25% of people said it should be. Some people think that contact sports are very dangerous‚ which to some extent is true‚ so they think it should be banned. Others say
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Are we alone in the universe? Or‚ given the vast numbers of stars and planets‚ is the universe teeming with intelligent life? How would the first contact impact human society? How would it affect religion? Would a creative God have made the universe to bring forth innumerable species of intelligent life? Or would such a God have made human beings‚ on this ordinary planet circling an ordinary star in an ordinary galaxy‚ to be unique? Some religions teach that what God does right here is special
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significantly higher. Many lawyers use eye movement and eye blinks in order to trap a person on the stand or get a lead for which questions to ask. In today’s society‚ the eyes are usually the first thing others notice. THerefore‚ making good eye contact with the person you are speaking to is extremely improtant. From childhood‚ Americans are tought to look directly at the person talkin in order to show respect‚ interest‚ and attention. When the listener looks away‚ they are most likely to be confused
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Kyle Waters Routes‚ Regards‚ and Relations: The Nature of Interregional Contact The courses certain travelers took‚ what details were paid attention to based on where observers came from‚ and the overall relationships between peoples connected by the Silk Road and maritime trade led to a huge system of interregional contact. All these details built up a huge trade system called the Silk Road‚ a road that‚ along with over-sea travel‚ led to the creation of an Afro-Eurasian world-system. This
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configurations have been demonstrated as rectifiers‚ memories or transistors‚ in reality it is very difficult to build the stable electrical device based on one or few molecules. A major obstacle is to obtain reliable junctions between the electrical contacts and a single or a few molecules. The surface metallic molecules can either be chemisorbed or physisorbed‚ resulting from van der Waals force. The electrical properties of the molecules can be determined by testbeds‚ scanning tunneling microscopy
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September 10th‚ 1994 was my first day of 6th grade. This was also the first day that I came in contact with the Deaf world. During recess‚ my friend Elizabeth brought out a new girl by the name of Megan Leschly. She was deaf‚ and her interpreter‚ Ms. Rosener‚ did not go out to recess to help her communicate. This was the day I started to learn sign language. From 6th grade to 8th grade Megan went to public school with me and all of our group of friends. We celebrated everything together
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Powerful Non-verbal Language－Eye Contact Language is more than just words. According to Albert Mehrabian’s 7%- 38%- 55% communication rule‚ 55% of communication is attributable to non-verbal behaviors‚ 38% of communication is attributable to voice‚ and only 7% of communication is attributable to the words used. The non-verbal behaviors include the body language‚ the eye contact‚ the facial expressions‚ and so on. Among all these kinds of communication signals‚ eye contact holds a quite important position
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Should girls be allowed to play in boy’s contact sport team? There is a reason why there are separate teams for boys and girls. Contact sport is something that people should take in mind and prepare the right rules that will make the sport fun and safe. These contact sports such as soccer‚ football‚ rugby or NFL are the type of sport that injuries occur most in. Girls should definitely not be allowed to play in boy’s contact sport teams because the girls may get hurt‚ boys might get distracted
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