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    how is organic architecture and/or organicism defined‚ and how does this terminology vary from example to example‚ changing meaning from the nineteenth into the twentieth century? Organicism: The doctrine that everything in nature has an organic basis or is part of an organic whole. Every object that takes up space and has mass is known as matter. A pen is made up of matter‚ as is a tree and even humans. In the same vein‚ a skyscraper is made up of matter; so can we argue that in its truest

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    Idioms and Their Meaning

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    IDIOMS |Group of words with a meaning of its own that is different from the meanings of each individual word in the group (for example‚ | |‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ means ‘It’s raining heavily’ and kick the bucket means ‘to die’); also a style of expression in | |writing‚ speech‚ or music that is typical of a particular period‚ place‚ or person (for example‚ ‘a piece of music composed in | |the modern idiom’).

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    Semantics and Meaning

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    the meanings of words and sentences. The triangle of meaning: 1- The thing: refers to the element outside the mind and outsidie the language. 2- The word: symbol which refers to the thing. 3- The meaning: it is a concept or reference .it is the image‚ attributes or abstract entity. The lines of relationship among the trio elements may take different directions: 1-thingmeaningword==we see a thing then we remember its meaning and then its word. 2-meaningwordthing==you recall a meaning then

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    Denotative Meaning: Conceptual meaning is also called logical or cognitive meaning. It is the basic propositional meaning which corresponds to the primary dictionary definition. Such a meaning is stylistically neutral and objective as opposed to other kinds of associative meanings. Conceptual Meanings are the essential or core meaning while other six types are the peripheral. It is peripheral in as sense that it is non-essential. They are stylistically marked and subjective kind of meanings. Leech

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    the meaning of life

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    teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something moulded.” The meaning of life has a no specific definition; it depends on how each individual give meaning to their lives. It is a natural thing for an individual to curiously know about their life since their birth till death. Moreover‚ human beings are also curious to find out why they were put in this earth that is why babies keep touching everything in order to experience all their surroundings from the very beginning

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    Context in Communication

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    confident to communicate with customer base on their experience or skills as well as they can consider what their strength may be and what they need to improve. Moreover‚ self-concept can be shaped and maintained by the others react and respond; for example‚ when the manager often provide good comment to encourage the abilities of staffs so they will think the comment fit to their image of who they are and they will improve their knowledge as much as they would like to be. (Verderber‚ Verderber‚ Sellnow

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    happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life” (Albert Camus). Life is about living to your fullest abilities; why waste our time looking for the meaning of each breath we take? Each person is a part of life. Each life has a world of its own. I believe that the meaning of life‚ defined by Victor E. Frankl‚ is to find meaning in our own life. Each and every person on this planet has a meaning to his own life‚ and is a unique and independent individual. And so

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    Colours Meaning?

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    The meaning of colors can vary depending on culture and circumstances. Each color has many aspects to it but you can easily learn the language of color by understanding a few simple concepts which I will teach you here. Color is a form of non verbal communication. It is not a static energy and its meaning can change from one day to the next with any individual. For example‚ a person may choose to wear the color red one day and this may indicate they are ready to take action‚ or they may be passionate

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    CULTURAL MEANING The meaning humans give to actions‚ concepts and behaviours is dependent on the cultural milieu and is conditioned to a great extent by the underlying meaning systems‚ values and frames of meaning he/she inherites from the society in general. Socialization plays a direct role in that process. Education‚ effects of peers and the intellectual atmosphere all contribute to what is called cultural meaning or systems of meaning. Cultural meaning conditions our perception and determines

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    Eddie’s change of character. Alfieri is an outsider‚ his view is ’from the bridge’; he comments on Eddies’ progress as a storyteller‚ "I could have finished the whole story that afternoon...I could see every step coming." (p50) This is what Alfieri says after Eddie comes to see him. He is the narrator and is quite similar to the chorus in a Greek Tragedy. Characters also make ’bridges’ or connections between other characters. For example‚ throughout the first act we see that Beatrice is the bridge

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