loyalty to Britain and the Empire. However‚ for Australia‚ war brought the distinct possibility of breaking such formalities between countries‚ and in the Pacific no battle would test Australia’s relationship with Britain more than Singapore. The Allied defeat at Singapore in 1942 changed the relations between Australia and Britain to a substantial extent‚ in an era when Britain’s imperialistic rule of Australia was still present. The repercussions of the result of this battle signified an historic
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was caused by UMNO’s policies. The spotlight of this statement is the correspondance of the seperation of Singapore from Malaysia‚ due to the policies carried out by the United Malay National Organisation. During this post-war period‚ although Singapore was already a part of Malaysia‚ their relationship was uncertain due to the political tension and differences in ideology between Singapore and the Malayan states at that time. It has been reviewed that Source A and B talks about the policies of UMNO
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TOURISM “…tourism should be defined conceptually as those aspects of leisure-time behaviour and their consequences which occur as a result of temporary trips away from the home environment and which are motivated exclusively by a concern for recreation matters.” (Heeley‚ 1980) 2. “…tourist as someone travelling for any purpose except commuting to and from work…” [ (Hunt & Layne‚ 1991) ] 3. “…Tourism appears to be becoming an acceptable term to singularly describe the activity of people
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Task 3: Travel and Tourism‚ how it contributes to the UK Economy The importance of the UK tourism industry to the UK economy is often busy‚ yet it is the UK’s fifth largest industry and contributes £115bn to the UK economy. It has also been one of the rapidly growing sectors of the British economy over the past 20 years and employs around 2.6m people – around 8% of the total UK workforce. Inbound tourism Inbound tourism contributes to the UK economy as 29.8
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Culture and tourism 1. Culture and Tourism 1.1 Definition Culture comprises of “the beliefs‚ behaviors‚ objects‚ and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society” (1). Through culture‚ people discover their true identity‚ adapt to social norms and play a vital part in contributing to the society. Therefore‚ culture consists of several aspects of the society such as language‚ values‚ customs‚ norms‚ and so on. On the other hand‚ tourism consists of the practice
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“Global Economic crisis: Impact on IT Industry in India.” Abstract: Globalization has ensured that none of the economies of the world stays insulated from the global economic crisis. But there was a general belief that the emerging economies could remain largely apart from the global economic meltdown and provide an alternative engine of growth to the world economy. The effect of the crisis on the Indian economy was not significant in the beginning. The argument soon proved unfounded as the global
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1.0 Introduction The presence and use of borrowed words and discourse particles in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE) have been widely studied by linguists (e.g. Lim‚ 2007; & Deterding‚ 2007). It is also widely accepted‚ both amongst scholarly literature and within the general population‚ that CSE (its lexicon/syntax/etc.) is predominantly Chinese- or Malay-based and that Tamil has only had minimal influences (Leimgruber‚ 2009). However‚ little thought has been given‚ by the general population
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Introduction: Tourism means the principle of traveling for pleasure. Many people are in the habit of traveling over different countries in order to see the places of their respective interests like the structures of sculptural beauty‚ attractive spots of nature and so on. So‚ we find a lot of foreign tourists in different countries. The travels of the foreign tourist bring a lot of money to the countries where they travel. Hence‚ tourism has become a source of income for the countries to which
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brief overview of the Malays in Singapore and thereafter the progress that they have made as an ethnic group and their gender equality. In pre-colonial Singapore‚ the Malays are the indigenous people living on the island. It is also essential to lend credit to Sang Nila Utama who renamed the island of Temasek to ‘Singapura’ which consists of a combination of two Malay words; Singa meaning ‘lion’ and ‘pura’ meaning temple. As the British came and established Singapore as a trading port‚ large numbers
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Gujarat Main article: Tourism in Gujarat [pic] [pic] The Palitana temple complex consists of more than 863 temples located on theShatrunjaya hills‚ exquisitely carved in marble. Gujarat‚ the seventh largest state in India‚ located in the western part of India with a coastline of 1600 km (longest in India). It is the tenth most popular state in the country for tourists with annual footfall of 18.9 million tourists.[8] Gujarat offers scenic beauty from Great Rann of Kutch to the hills of Saputara
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