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    today’s world and those whose contributions have endured through the ages. Some‚ though they lived centuries ago‚ are still alive in popular culture; music and poetry by the Roman Catholic abbess Hildegard can be heard in contemporary recordings‚ and Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji‚ one of the greatest works of Japanese literature‚ continues to inspire new translations. Many women overcame the oppression of their surroundings through determination and ingenuity; Harriet Tubman‚ for example‚ escaped

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    Japanese-Canadians following post World War II suffered through the continued effects of the interment camps and were victims of racism. Hiromi Goto’s use of different form and structure throughout her book “Chorus of Mushrooms” emphasizes multicultural differences and applies deeper meaning to the context. Form is used to exemplify important parts of the story by bringing the focus into them. The author uses the bolded words “Mukashi‚ mukashi‚ omukashi” (Goto 18) before everyone of Obachans (Naoe)

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    west of the City. [Her] lady left [the girl] there only because [her lady] had no one else to look after [the girl] properly” (84). Yūgao so eagerly seeks Genji partly because Genji is the dew essential to her daughter’s wellbeing. Opening: In Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji‚ though depicted as a shy and reserved lover by her former lover Tō no Chūjō‚ Yūgao exhibits a complicated personality in her encounter with Genji. She is not only a blind lover bewitched by Genji‚ but also a responsible

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    which was his own castle. Hannibal’s uncle picked him up at the orphanage to take him and Mischa to Paris‚ France‚ but unfortunately Mischa was nowhere to be found. Hannibal‚ never spoke to anyone‚ until one day someone disrespected his aunt‚ Lady Murasaki. That was the day his first words came out. After that he would speak to everyone. One day Hannibal meets the butcher‚ the person who disrespected his aunt‚ and kills him with a sword that his aunt had from her father’s samurai. Hannibal took on

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    in the Heian period had relatively large impacts to the style of the poetry of the time. Great works arose that carried the influences such as the ones in the collection of the “Ink Dark Moon.” Compiled by the women poets Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu of the Court‚ the “Ink Dark Moon” are poems that echoed the condition of the time‚ which translated mainly into ideas of loneliness and fragility. Literary imagery of dew and spiderwebs‚ as well as bubbles‚ appearing in poems represents the brittleness

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    هذه النسخة بصيغة html للملف http://www.accentsasia.org/1-2/kato.pdf . يقوم G o o g l e تلقائياً بإنشاء نسخ بصيغة html للوثائق التي يصادفها خلال البحث في الإنترنت، بحيث يمكن عرضها في متصحفات الانترنت. Page 1 Volume 1 Number 2 October 2006 Accents Asia 1 Citation Kato‚ A. (2006). Error analysis of high school student essays. Accents Asia [Online]‚ 1 (2)‚ 1-13. Available: http://www.accentsasia.org/1-2/kato.pdf Error Analysis of High School Student Essays Asako Kato Fudooka Seiwa High School

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    Chapter 13: The Expansive Realm of Islam Chapter Outline I A prophet and his world A Muhammad and his message 1 Arabian peninsula was mostly desert a Nomadic Bedouin people organized in family and clan groups b Important in long-distance trade networks between China/India and Persia/Byzantium 2 Muhammad’s early life a Muhammad ibn Abdullah born to a Mecca merchant family‚ 570 C.E. b Difficult early life‚ married a wealthy widow‚ Khadija‚ in 595 c Became a merchant at age thirty and was exposed to

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    Imp:- Role of Women in Modern World Looking back at history pages of ancient times‚ we find that women were treated with respect in the Indian society. In the Vedic age women were educated. However‚ as society became orthodox‚ there was change in their status. They were confined to the four walls of kitchen and occupied in rearing children. Men became bread earners. The roles of men and women were thus separated. But now the social scene has considerably changed. Women all over the world are

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    Classical Japan An Introduction 1. Japan was highly influenced by which culture during its classical period? The Japanese were highly influenced by China. 2. What centuries did Japan’s classical period span? Japan’s classical period spanned from the 6th to the 12th Century. 3. What is a pattern that often recurs in Japanese history? The Japanese borrow from different areas‚ in this case‚ it is China. 4. The classical period gave birth to a refined court culture‚ in which many of the prominent

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    1. Commercial cities that served as meeting points between distant cultures are called: a. way stations. b. warehouses. c. entrepôts. d. shipping centers. e. nodes. 2. Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt: a. did not need to provide protection for merchants as most trade came by land rather than by sea. b. established a commercial law apart from religion so that all people could participate in trade. c. had Muslim and Jewish trading firms that worked as close partners in

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