Deborah Tannen’s “Who Does the Talking Here” first appeared in the July 15‚ 2007 edition of the Washington Post. Tannen is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and an author of many scholarly articles and books on subjects in her field. Tannen states that recent studies to determine who talks more‚ men or women‚ have not been helpful in determining that. She argues that these studies are focusing on the word count instead of how these words are being used and in which situation most
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time of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. The Amish religion is said to have come from the Anabaptists. The Anabaptists were known to re-baptize adults who had been a part of the Protestant or Catholic Church. The Amish religion was founded by Jakob Ammann‚ who was a follower of the Mennonite congregation. In 1693‚ Ammann decided to leave the church due to a disagreement regarding beliefs. This was the start of the Amish religion. He and his followers settled in Switzerland and south of the Rhine
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(1683–1764)‚ whose very first printed piece (1706) was in this form. The last unmeasured preludes for harpsichord date from the 1710s. The development of the prelude in 17th century Germany led to a sectional form similar to keyboard toccatas by Johann Jakob Froberger or Girolamo Frescobaldi. Preludes by northern German composers such as Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637–1707) and Nikolaus Bruhns (c.1665–1697) combined sections of free improvised passages with parts in strict contrapuntal writing (usually brief
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English scientist Robert Hooke in 1665 first described cells from his observations of cork slices. Hooke first used the word “cell”. • Dutch amateur scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered microscopic animals in water • German scientists Schleiden and Schwann in 1830’s were first to say that all organisms are made of one or more cells. • German biologist Virchow in 1858 stated that all cells come from the division of pre-existing cells. • Cells are the building blocks of life. The Cell
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concluding that a distorted protein called a prion was responsible for Mad Cow Disease‚ noted the long incubation period made it difficult to distinguish (Bryant). Another name for Mad Cow Disease is the new variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD)‚ similar to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease‚ which is a deadly brain illness that strikes about one per million per year (USDA) due to genetic or unknown causes while the vCJD
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the decline of the memory‚ or other cognitive or sensorial skills that reduce a person’s ability to perform day by day activities. This term refers to Alzheimer disease‚ Vascular dementia‚ Dementia with Lewy bodies‚ Parkinson’s disease‚ Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease‚ Huntington’s disease in the same time. What causes this range of diseases varies from bad connections between synapses‚ bad vascularisation of the brain‚ abnormal aggregations of proteins in the cortex‚ degeneration of the nerve cell that
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will also inform if their followers or the students are interested in the program or activities that the school prepared. Like Mickiewicz stated‚ a social networking refers to the act of building networks of people. According to usability expert Jakob Nielsen (2011) whose user-experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group today with easy-to-use social networking tools now fully entrenched and very popular inside corporate intranets a trend that took off last year a resultant new trend has emerged
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rejecting many conveniences of modern technology in order to preserve their identity. The Amish focus on agricultural work and live off the land and almost all Amish members are born into the community. he Amish church originates in Switzerland when Jakob Ammann lead a division between Swiss Anabaptist groups in the 18th century. The followers of Ammann became known as the Amish. Many Amish migrated to the USA in the early 18th century to escape persecution. They initially settled in Pennsylvania. Other
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Case Study - Spyder Active Sports 1. How‚ if at all‚ does the value of Spyder depend upon its ownership structure? What are the (other) primary determinants of value? Current ownership structure CHB 37‚9 % Jacob 25‚4 % Shimokubo 25‚4 % Employees 11‚3 % SUM 100‚00 % New investors would influence the company policy and operation. If the change would have positive or negative effect is not known now. Other values of determination are: Advertisement‚ brand marketing‚ competition
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Olympics DBQ There are many different factors that have shaped the modern Olympic movement from 1892 to 2002. It was originally revived so people of different races could interact with other people without conflict. They wanted to have a temporary time of international peace. This idea is expressed in Document 1. The author‚ Pierre de Coubertin‚ explains how the athletes are exported into other lands without any hostility. The author is credible because he is also the founder of the modern Olympic
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