1. Why does English have a large vocabulary compared to other languages? Please give reasons to support your argument. (1) its extensive廣泛contacts with other languages. (2) the large numbers of people all over the world use it. (3) the increasingly many purposes for which is used. 2. Do you agree that “what a word means today is what it meant in the past?” Please explain what etymology詞源學can help with today’s meaning of a word. I don’t agree because language would change gradually as the
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Bill Hanley and the Sound of Woodstock ‘69 Throughout the last century‚ quality and innovation in the realm of live sound reinforcement and arrangement has progressively developed to achieve what we now own and use. The more sleek and streamline audio equipment that has come to be did not simply appear out of thin air but was developed through the hard work and collaboration of engineers‚ electricians‚ physicists‚ and even performers and continues to do so. However‚ certain performances in
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the whole thing was a game and even sneaking them into Nazi officials’ dinner parties. They also did anything to comfort their wives‚ even while separated in the camps. In Life is Beautiful‚ Guido puts himself in danger to send messages over the loudspeaker and even plays Dora’s favorite song out the window for everyone to hear. On pages 56 and 57 of Maus‚ Spiegelman shows how Vladek gets a job repairing the roofs of the women’s camp‚ just to see his wife. He gets caught for this and even takes a beating
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duties of a school prefects School prefects generally enforce rules. 1. Prefects have been part of the British school system for decades‚ but many Americans had not heard of the concept until the advent of the Harry Potter books. School prefects are somewhat similar to the American hall monitor; students who are basically an extension of the school administration and are utilized to enforce school regulations. Prefects are usually chosen because of their maturity‚ leadership qualities and good
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The air we breathe‚ the water we drink‚ the security of creatures we drink‚ the security of creatures we share with‚ and fertility of land on which we grow our food are all deteriorating resulting in the increase of health hazards and lowering standard of health of the nation as a whole‚ In this seemingly desperate situation how to let our optimum survive is a burning question of the day. A study conducted by the World Bank in 1995 revealed that 40‚000 Indians die prematurely due to polluted air
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kept blowing them up. Because of this interaction‚ Leo Fender was led to develop many types of amplifiers and other equipment that would survive Dick’s style‚ as well as adapt to many types of sounds. Eventually‚ Fender developed a fifteen inch loudspeaker with certain specifications‚ which became the famous “15” JBL D130F model.” This unit became the complete package for Dick to play with‚ and allowed him to become the first person on earth to jump from the guitar volume scale of 4 to blasting it
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Soldier Field I have never been astounded by such marvelous architecture until I laid my eyes on Soldier Field in Chicago‚ Illinois. Soldier Field seemed like a dragon‚ just engulfing everyone who was spectating the Mexico vs Bosnia game on May 2011. When I first laid eyes on the monstrosity‚ I was very intimidated. The thought of entering this behemoth marveled me and made me even more excited to enter and watch the Mexico soccer game that I was anxiously waiting for! Chicago itself is a marvelous
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Closed Flue Pipe Experiment Abstract The wind instrument I will be researching in this experiment will be the pipe organ‚ commonly used in cathedrals and churches. Pipe organs produce sound by pushing pressurized air through a set of flue pipes. Flue pipes usually have a circular cross section and are mostly made of wood or metal. One pipe can only produce one pitch‚ so to produce a range of pitches an organ will have multiple sets of pipes called stops. Organs can have as little as 12 pipes
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I wore regular clothes‚ the type you’d wear around the house. It was a school day‚ and the loudspeaker had come on. “Juan Resendiz‚ please report to room 124” The reaction in the classroom was what you’d expect from a bunch of teenagers. As i left the room and walked down the hall‚ i could still hear the “you’re in trouble!” and laughter coming from
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INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY‚ DWARAHAT‚ DISTTALMORA‚ STATE-UTTARAKHAND‚ INDIA KEYWORDS- Algorithm‚ DFT‚ FFT‚ Signal‚ Sparse. In digital signal processing‚ any irregular signal ( such as the voltage fluctuations in the wire that connects an mp3 player to a loudspeaker )‚ can be represented in Discrete Fourier Transform(DFT)‚ as a combination of pure frequencies. It’s universal in signal processing as well as can be used for applications such as the compression of images and audio files. The DFT is so prevalent
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