Nga* Faculty of English‚ Hanoi University of Education‚ 136 Xuan Thuy Street‚ Cau Giay‚ Hanoi‚ Vietnam Received 15 March 2008 Abstract. This article writes on the factors which make a language become ‘global language’ and discusses about how English achieves that status. The impacts of Engish as a global language on Vietnamese learners‚ science‚ business‚ technology‚ education are analysed. With the development of technology‚ media‚ science‚ education etc. English will help students broaden knowledge
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The Revisionist Western In the late Sixties and early seventies‚ there was a revisionist movement in Hollywood. This revision of genre’s included the western genre. In this essay‚ I will analyze the differences between the classic Western‚ and the revisionist westerns. The movies which are considered to be revisionist westerns that I will be reviewing are the following: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid‚ McCabe and Mrs. Miller‚ Unforgiven‚ and Dead Man; Two of which were created during the movement
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Muslims in Western Media In July 12‚ 2008 publication of the New York Times‚ it was reported that the President of Sri Lanka was killed in a suicide attack. The religion of the suicide bomber was never reported. The very same newspaper (on November 5‚ 2009)‚ reported that how a Muslim attacker attacked the US Base and killed US army soldiers. This discrimination against the Muslims and Islam is nothing but the fruit of Western Media’s propaganda against the Muslims and Islam. In Western countries
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Anthropology as a Western Discipline Ambrose Bierce‚ the esteemed American satirist of the early 1900’s‚ defined in his Devil’s Dictionary the word “Aboriginies” as “n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize” (1). The overtly “western” view aptly captured by Bierce in his description exemplifies the field of anthropology and the methods it employed for quite some time—starting from the period of Antiquity until
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Case 7-1: Case Study Paper On: Great Western Bank I. PROBLEM STATEMENT: The Great Western Bank of San Diego placed an order of 12 special purpose accounting machines with the Data Max Corporation of Cincinnati‚ OH. Great Western Bank and Data Max‚ both agreed to a firm-fixed price of $9‚500 per unit and FOB the shipping point. The purchasing manager of the bank designated a particular carrier (yellow freight) and Data Max returned the signed acknowledgement without making
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“All Quiet on the Western Front” is a novel told by a nineteen-year-old by the name of Paul Bäumer. This novel is taken place in about 1914 until about 1918 during WWI. These men left everything behind including jobs‚ parents‚ wives‚ children‚ and dreams they hoped to eventually achieve. During this life journey the men take‚ they will begin to lose those who are close to them. Along with Paul were three others who had joined with him‚ Albert Kropp‚ Müller‚ and Leer. As well as four of their
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The western blot analyze what proteins and how much of the protein are in a gel. A western blot is very sensitive to proteins with histidine or HIS tags. Anything that contains histidine will show up in the gel. The western blot is evidence to whether or not if IL-8 is in the gel. The importances of the western blot is to show how well the proteins reacts to a disease. The first step for a western blot is to run an unstained PAGE gel. Western blot uses gel electrophoresis or electrical to arrange
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Western Union This essay is about a company that has been growing for more than 160 years. They started its history as a telegraph and wire services company. Western Union is a company that was founded in the United States of America as New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in 1851. They offer an array of financial services‚ including money transfer‚ prepaid services‚ and services for businesses. They serve customers online‚ by phone and from 510‚000 Agent Locations worldwide
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The Playboy of the Western World gains its title from the scene in which Christy can’t be beaten in play at any of the village sports‚ hence he becomes the "playboy." The phrase "of the Western World" leads the way into Synge’s theme of Irish mythmaking‚ then still especially noticeable in unsophisticated peasant groups. With the inclusion of this phrase‚ the myth of the playboy encompasses the whole world. Mythmaking deviates from reality‚ as is made clear by the stretch of the title: Irish village
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More like rolling hills than snow-covered mountains‚ the Western Ghats - stretching some 1‚600km from the north of Mumbai to the southern tip of India - is a biodiversity hotspot that contains a large proportion of the country’s plant and animal species; many of which are only found here and nowhere else in the world. As gandhiji said-“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs‚ but not every man’s greed.” The Western Ghats were once covered in dense forests. Today‚ a large part of the
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