Harmful effects and implications of accent discrimination Harmful effects on ESL learners As concluded by Munro (2003)‚ accent discrimination has played a negative effect on many situations. Some of the most common cases include discrimination in hiring process‚ in employment‚ and even resulting in harassments. As a harmful result‚ second language users are facing negative forces that may cause them to question beyond the issue. One example is these learners start questioning their own characteristics
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Watching Every child loves to spend countless hours in front of the TV watching cartoons‚ and various TV programs. What a lot of parents don’t realize is that although watching TV keeps a child occupied and quiet‚ long periods of TV watching can be harmful to the child in three major ways I would like to discuss. Children that spend hours in front of a TV are more likely to be overweight. Watching TV does not require a lot of movement. It requires sitting and the more a child sits the less active
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TomTom Overview As TomTom‚ one of the largest producers of satellite navigation devices in the world‚ entered 2010 it faced stiff competition from its traditional rivals such as Garmin and from new competition from cell phones. Although its sales reached an all time high of €1.74 billion in 2007 by 2008 sales had slipped to €1.67 billion. That year the company posted a loss of €872 million. The decline in sales continued with 2009 sales slipping to €1.48 billion‚ although the company managed to
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LENIN Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century‚ who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917‚ and was the architect and first head of the USSR. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well-educated family. He excelled at school and went on to study law. At university‚ he was exposed to radical thinking‚ and his views were also influenced by the execution of his elder brother
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because of it? Well I have. More than 100‚000 US deaths are caused by excessive alcohol drinking each year. Alcohol is a huge fetter to people and I believe that everyone should be abstinent from it. Alcohol is harmful to the body‚ teens abuse it and drink underage‚ and it has harmful effects on children. Every year‚ more money is spent promoting alcohol than any other product. Perhaps through its elaborate and creative marketing‚ the most basic‚ yet important fact about alcohol is often overlooked:
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1113-41 30 Jan 2012 Examining Cell Phone Effects Kailla Schlimm’s article “The Effect of Cell Phones in Modern Society” addresses issues on how cell phones have altered modern day society. Schlimm’s article is mainly targeted towards children and teenagers. She begins by expressing the main point that some people rely on their cell phones for everything and gives reason of why this may be and list examples. Schlimm then extends her argument and tells how cell phones are used and what they are used
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Harmful Effects of Participation Trophies Studies reported to Evan Grossman of Men’s Journal have shown that the generation of people reaching adulthood now are considered a bunch of “self-obsessed‚ irresponsible‚ and unmotivated generation of false achievers.” What could have caused this? A huge cause of this is what is known as the “self-esteem movement” according to Evan Grossman of Men’s Journal. Kids are given rewards and trophies for participation and maybe even just showing up to simply build
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Steort’s main idea was of the overwhelming power of the American sugar industry lobbyists‚ and how harmful the effects are on our society. In 1998‚ the "sugar tax" cost American consumers about $1.9 billion per year‚ and between 7‚500 and 10‚000 jobs were lost from 1997 and 2003 as a result of high sugar prices. Sugar accounts for 1% of U.S. farms‚ but contributes 17% of all campaign contributions from the agricultural sector. This demonstrates the sugar industry’s power in lobbying. The U.S. sugar
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The predicting of dominant design in MP3 player Yuri Lee‚ Industrial design‚ Chonbuk National Univ. Jong-Youl Yang‚ Industrial design‚ Chonbuk National Univ Abstract This research has the purpose that forecasts MP3 design which can dominates the market by trend analysis. For the purpose of this study‚ we practiced trend analysis of MP3 player. We decided on design factors and levels of the factors after collecting 227 MP3 products released from 2001 from 2007 now‚ and practiced trend analysis
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Geert Hofstede defined that culture is "collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from another". (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012a) Human culture derives from people’s background‚ education‚ gender and so on. Therefore‚ different people have various cultures. Culture can influence employees’ relationship in workplaces. (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012b) Geert Hofstede studied this question for more than six years‚ and found six groups of national cultural dimensions. The first
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