good example of this would be the way that the consonant cluster ‘th’ is pronounced. A normal English speaker would pronounce the lexical term thing as ‘thing’ as opposed to the more Singlish way; ‘ting’‚ changing the place and manner of articulation from the harder to say dental‚ to the easier alveolar. They may also omit final consonants in words‚ for example the lexical term ‘about’ may be expressed as much simpler ‘abou-‘‚ completely getting rid of the stop. Both these examples help to convey the
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“It is probably better to stay at home rather than study abroad because of the difficulties a student encounters living and studying in a different culture. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?” Education is the basic requirement of life these days as it is the most important aspect as well as a necessity in moulding one’s career and lifestyle. In today’s competitive world it is almost impossible to survive if one wishes to acquire all the basic necessities and good
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Thai Higher Education: Policy &Issue 12/24/13‚ 1:26 PM This is the html version of the file http://inter.mua.go.th/main2/files/file/Plicy&Issue/OHEC%20Policy&IssueThai%20Higher%20Education%20PolicyIssue.pdf. Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web. Page 1 Thai Higher Education: Policy &Issue Differentiation and expansion of Higher Education Institutions within the higher education system Currently‚ participation to Thai higher education has almost
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In many academic and scientific investigations there are three stages of development. The first involves the identification of the subject or phenomenon under investigation. The second involves establishing a theory or hypothesis to explain the nature and characteristics of whatever is to be investigated. In the third phase the investigator seeks to apply theory to some procedure of analysis‚ perhaps in the form of a practical application of knowledge to a range of tasks. What is the "subject"
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1) Read the following two cases (Source: Cellich – Jain: Global Business Negotiations) and answer the questions after each case. You can do this either individually or with a partner. Assessment Pass/Fail. 2) Culture has a great impact on different types of negotiations. Find out the general features of business culture in your home country and how you negotiate in your own culture. Case 1 Background Brown Casual shoes‚ Inc. located in Houston‚ Texas‚ is a second-generation family-owned
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The Best of Both Worlds Do you ever wonder if your coach or your child’s coach was a good athlete and that’s why they coach so well? In most cases that’s not true. “It’s rare to find a great coach that was a great player.” One of the hardest transitions in the “athletic world” is transitioning between player and coach. This transition comes with a lot of different quality changes. Coaches tend to have more qualities than being a player. One thing that makes a team successful are the players. Good
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I am Danny‚ a Hasidic Jew. When I was younger I went through a struggle with religion and my relationship with my father. Although my father‚ a Rabbi‚ wanted me to be a Rabbi when I get older‚ I wanted to be a psychologist. I memorized large portions of the Torah‚ however I was not sure what I believed. I loved baseball‚ and my father let me practice it as long as I study the Torah every day. He didn’t care about anything but Judaism. He didn’t even talk to me. Every time I go to temple‚ my father
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There shouldn’t be any physical requirements to enter a beauty pageants because it could make young teens become obsessive with their body image and as a result they could resort to things that may harm them just to look a certain way they consider “perfect”. Some negative things that can happen from this is eating disorders‚ wanting cosmetic surgery to early and even low self esteem. Beauty pageants dates back all the way to the 1800s‚ the requirements to enter one back then was a height of at least
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It is one thing to understand that in today’s society many minority groups are educationally disadvantaged due to their race‚ ethnicity‚ geographical location‚ socioeconomic status and gender. It is quite another thing to think that schools might actually be implicated in cementing rather than disrupting this disadvantage; but in this chapter that is what we will be suggesting to you.” (Groundwater-Smith et al‚ 2009‚ p.73). 1. Develop an argument about the role of socio-cultural factors in the
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Ostroh Academy National University Department of Romance and Germanic Languages Cultural Differences in Discourse Holovchenko I. ЗA-41 Ostroh‚ 2013 CONTENTS Introduction………………………………………………………………………3 1. Cultural Gestures………………………………………………………4-5 2. Address as a Sociolinguistic Marker in the Cultural Discourse……….6-9 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………10 List of the Literature…………………………………………………………….11 Appendix……………………………………………………………………
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