is appropriate for me to seize this opportunity to speak a couple of words on the need to expand Technical Education in the country. In Sri Lanka‚ technical education began in the 1890s with the establishment of the Colombo Technical College‚ which‚ as Government Department‚ functioned to cater to certain requirements of such Government Departments as Public Works‚ Railways and Irrigation. Technical Education‚ because of this limited focus‚ did not expand in the colonial period; it was after independence
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Notes for the Teachers One Language – Many Voices Joseph Conrad: An Outpost of Progress INfO-BOx Cultural and historical background The colonization of Central Africa did not set in until the very end of the 19th century‚ when ‘the scramble for Africa’ – the race of European powers to divide the continent among themselves – got under way: In 1870 European countries owned only 10% of Africa‚ by 1900 it was 90%. For a long time access to the huge territories in the Congo River basin was
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: By Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks wrote a collection of narratives titled‚ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat‚ we see the suffering of those with neurological diseases‚ their attempts to cope with these diseases and the conclusions that Sacks makes on their conditions. Sacks is the physician in these narrative stories that tell about his studies of the person behind neurological deficits. Sacks’ interests are not only in the disease itself but also in the
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Dr. Chappell ENG 106W 19 March 2013 Colonialism and Irony in “An Outpost of Progress” “An Outpost of Progress” is a story of irony and colonialism in Africa in the nineteenth century‚ written by Joseph Conrad. In this Story two European men‚ named Kayerts and Carlier‚ are deployed to a trading outpost in a remote part of the African jungle. They take part ivory trading in hopes of making themselves and the company they work for wealthier. Trading outposts in the late nineteenth century were
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Technical Writing Guidelines September 1‚ 2004 Copyright © 2004 by The Natchez Group Inc.‚ dba TechProse. All rights reserved. The information disclosed herein is proprietary information owned by The Natchez Group Inc.‚ dba TechProse (“TechProse”). This information shall be used solely and exclusively by University of Berkeley Extension students as part of their course and reference material for Technical Communication 1. The information herein shall be used by or disclosed to others
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biological species‚ but is instead founded upon the capacity to understand the objective values of the world. So‚ as the traditional values of the world are shunned‚ as they die‚ humanity will die as well. In Lewis’s book‚ The Abolition of Man‚ the permeation of moral relativism into the minds of the youth is the threat to humanity. In order to defend the importance of the doctrine of objective value‚ or the Tao‚ Lewis utilizes appeals to the reader’s sentiments and reason to break apart the credibility
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autocratic power to make radical changes in the economy. He also thought that it was possible to combine Western technology with Russian autocracy to sustain the tsar’s government through economic advance. As we can see‚ his work was greatly focused on the economy. During the 1890’s there was a period referred to as ‘the great spurt’ due to the enormous growth of industry in the country. To achieve this growth‚ Witte had to put into practice several policies. He realised that due to Russia’s backwardness
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Week 4 HIS 135 02/16/2013 1960’s Diary Entries Witness to the assassination of Malcolm X Malcolm X was a Muslim that became one of the greatest men that influential African Americans. One afternoon‚ on February 21‚ 1965 Malcolm X loss his life by the Nation of Islam. The questions surrounding the death of this puzzling and fearless man still trouble us. The Files
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Most Important Thing that a Man Has Ever Done in his Long History Honourable members of the examination board‚ the speech submitted to your consideration is devoted to the problem of space exploration on the basis of the pamphlet From Stonehenge to Tranquility Base by Ray Bradbury. In my speech I’m to dwell upon the following points: firstly I comment on the leitmotif of the essay that space travel is the single most important thing that man has ever done in his long history‚ after that I
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