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    composers of all time. His life was marked by great struggles‚ from being harshly pushed by his father to learn music to struggling against going deaf in his later years. Although his music is over 200 years old‚ it still has significant impact today on german culture. It is believed that Beethoven was born in the church of St Remigius‚ Bonn. His birthday was never documented but is believed to be the 16th of December‚ 1770. His father pushed him brutally to learn music‚ with accounts of Beethoven

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    14-16 January 31‚ 2004 The Process of Globalization – The Process of Anglicising German Culture and Language? Fig. 1. Hans-Jürgen Bahr. Umgeben von Anglizismen. February 2002. Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Research Paper 3 Preface 3 Businesses – The American Lifestyle in Germany 4 The English Influence in Politics 5 The "Germarican" Media 6 "Denglish" – The German Youth Language 7 Conclusion 8 Works Cited 9 Rough Draft 11 Peer Editing Sheets 17 Topic 19 Working Title

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    in a divided aluminum tray. In the 1960s the Swanson Company removed the name “TV Dinner” from the packaging and in 1986 the Campbell Soup Company changed the aluminum trays with plastic microwave-safe trays. To represent the impact that these trays had on American culture a representative aluminum tray was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution in 1987. Swanson even found a place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame receiving their star in 1999.

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    the way commodity fetishism is impacting on contemporary society and culture. “Commodities are defined as things that are bought and sold in a social system of exchange.” (Sturken & Cartwright‚ 2009‚ p. 279 )”The concept of commodity culture is intricately allied with the idea that we construct our identities through the consumer products that inhabit our lives” (Sturken & Cartwright 2009‚ p. 279) The idea of a commodity culture has been described by media theorist Stuart Ewen as a commodity self

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    In the article "Questioning Constitutionality of Vernacular Schools Is Not Seditious"‚ the author‚ Faidhur Rahman Abdul Hadi‚ deals with the issue whether UMNO Petaling Jaya Division Deputy Head‚ Mohamad Azli’s act of questioning the constitutionality of vernacular schools is seditious as claimed by the MCA Religious Harmony Bureau Chairman‚ Datuk Ti Lian Ker. The thesis statement of this article is that questioning the constitutionality of vernacular schools is not seditious. The author argued that

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    LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Language is a typically human phenomenon. In moving from the ’natural being’ of animal existence to the ’cultural being’ of human existence‚ language plays the decisive role. Language gives a sense of identity to an individual as well as a social group and‚ in the process‚ creates multiple identities. The maintenance‚ merger‚ clash and change in identities based on and reflected in the language change has prompted linguists‚ philosophers‚ psychologists

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    The architecture which is driven by the local environment‚ its requirements and materials and which represents a long local tradition is known as Vernacular architecture. Kath-Khuni is a type of timber reinforced stone masonry also locally known in koti banal which basically uses the locally available wood and stone for construction. Moreover the word Kath originated from Sanskrit word kashtth which means wood and kunj or khuni originated from the word kona which means corner. This implies that the

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    Hoang thu ha A feature of British culture: the modern royal family and its impacts SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS (TEFL) SUPERVISOR: Ms. NGUYeN THi THuY HaNG‚ M.A. Hanoi‚ March 2012 ACCEPTANCE PAGE I hereby state that I : Hoang Thu Ha from A3/K35‚ being a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts accept the

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    suggested that the two most important musical developments in the 20th Century are the domains of the ’electro-acoustic’ and the ’vernacular’. To what extent is his assumption correct? This piece will demonstrate an understanding of the developments in 20th century music‚ with a detailed view on the path and expansion of electro-acoustic technology and of the vernacular. This will also be highlighting the theoretical ideas that made these large developments possible and the technological innovations

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    The Role of Local Culture and Context in English Language Teaching -Mabindra Regmi The Relation between Language and Culture The structuralists portrayed language as an entity that could be segmented and through learning these segments‚ the totality would also be learnt. This method has been tested‚ challenged and in many cases discarded in the world of linguistics. The conception‚ propagation and inevitable discontinuation of ever new methods has prompted Sowden to express “there has indeed been

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