A study on Leisure reading habits and interests among secondary school students in Sri Lanka P.H.A.S ABEYRATHNA FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIEINLE ANL iNi OKMATION TECHNOLOci 3 UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA KUALA LUMPUR 2004 P serpu takaan Uniyersi t Mal aya iii 5 2 2 II I ABSTRACT This is an exploratory study of the leisure reading habits and interests among secondary school students and their use of the school library facilities. Using simple random sampling‚ three hundred male and
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One disadvantage is the concept of this low cost lightweight laptop has a lack of awareness of how the laptop would educate children and market problem. OLPC’s mission is to help children for learning and developing knowledge throughout the low cost laptop and it calls an education project (LOPC mission). The point is that OLPC needs to educate foreign countries and their governments of education about the feature of this laptop works‚ and most importantly‚ what are the key essential techniques of
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Josh Nersissian Mrs. Kolus English‚ Pd. 3 11 September 2012 Native American Mascots Redskins‚ Braves‚ Indians‚ and Chiefs; they’re just mascot names not racist remarks. People find using these names as team mascots derogatory and insulting. Others don’t mind it‚ they think of it as tradition and don’t want the names removed. On the contrary‚ Native American Mascots being used in sports teams is considered disrespect to several. This should not be an issue because they do not ridicule
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The Country of the Blind‚ H. G. Wells TITLE WRITER DATE OF PUBLICATION ⇒ 1904 SETTINGS ⇒ place Equador time doesn’t say CHARACTERS ⇒ major Nunez‚ a mountaineer Yacob‚ a villager minor Medina-Saroté‚ Yacob’s daughter PLOT While attempting to summit the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl‚ a mountain in Ecuador‚ Nunez falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent‚ he finds a valley cut off from the rest of the world. He has discovered the fabled Country of
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Keeping Tradition Alive: Native Hawaiian Storytelling Stories are ageless they encompass centuries of ancient wisdom. They ignite imagination‚ spark the old and create new memories for multiple generations. Stories are used to record and pass down history‚ legacy and tradition. In order to keep alive the identity of any given people stories are passed on through many forms‚ they stamp a seal of existence. Stories are used to teach‚ the lessons‚ values‚ and the beliefs of the society they speak about
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superiority would have devastating effects for Native Americans (Nichols‚ p.30). Similar to Europeans‚ all Native American tribes had specific cultures that defined their way of life. As Europeans continued to encroach on Native lands‚ cultures collided‚ and misunderstandings fueled ignorant biases which would eventually result in
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essay. Tourism industry is playing a important part in different countries in term of social economy.Firstly‚a host countries will benefit in term of currency exchange rate thus has a positive impact on the locals whether directly or indirectly.Increase of the tourist arrival also will create thousands of job and business opportunity for the local peoples. Some countries now days spend quite a lot of money to promote their country as the holiday destination and become on of the main GDP income.
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Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Two English Learning Visual Advertisements It was not until the advent of “new media age”‚ which by definition involves prevailing digital-mediated communication modes and substantial usage of multiple semiotic resources combined in the realization of discourses‚ did the mainstream preference of monomodality unprecedentedly challenged (Kress & Van Leeuwen‚ 2001). Language‚ as one of the semiotic resources‚ is by no means the only carrier to realize discourses.
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one from their own country. They believe that if they can get a bachelor or higher degree certification of foreign universities‚ it will be more convenient for them to find a good job. Considering the advantages‚ it’s easy to see why many people dream of studying abroad‚ but studying abroad also presents several notable disadvantages such as home-sickness that leads to high stress level‚ spending too much money‚ and studying in a second language. Travelling to a new foreign country means being apart
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generates social apartheid‚ encourages racism and ethnic strife‚ undermines the rights of women and often precipitates countries into destructive confrontations between nationalities. Since the 1990s‚ it has extended its grip to all major regions of the World including North America‚ Western Europe‚ the countries of the former Soviet block and the "Newly Industrialized Countries" (NICs) of South East Asia and the Far East. This Worldwide crisis is more devastating than the Great Depression of the
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