Martel’s international literary reputation was sealed with the publication of Life of Pi‚ a runaway bestseller that went on to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize (awarded each year to the best English-language novel written by a Commonwealth or Irish author) and had since been translated into thirty languages. Fox 2000 pictures bought the screen rights to Martel’s novel‚ and a feature film is expected in 2008. Life of Pi is set against the tumultuous period of Indian history known as the Emergency. In
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The Alphas of the Next generation by: Andre Tjahyana Prologue “As we look ahead into the next century‚ leaders will be those who empower others‚ Bill Gates”. In this 21st century‚ the world is changing. Globalization has revolutionized both the way we do things and whom do we do it with. Hence‚ needless to say‚ the way to lead and the kind of leader needed. Technological savvy New technologies empowered by the third industrial revolution‚ redesign the way we do things. Meetings are
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Every discourse is made up of a given number of components and presents its own characteristic. A discourse can only by serious and constructive if these components and these characteristics come together. The Islamic discourse is therefore the most genuine and truthful expression and translations of the characteristics of the Islamic society‚ and the civilizational identity of the Islamic world. A discourse cannot be Islamic unless it reflected the Islamic Ummah’s identity‚ defended its interests
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assessment. In developing the mental tests‚ the psychologists subscribed to the position that one could be quite intelligent‚ but illiterate or not proficient in the English language. Based on this reasoning‚ two major tests were developed‚ the Army Alpha for literate groups‚ and the Army Beta for illiterates‚ low literates or non-English speaking (Yerkes‚ 1921). Both tests were based on the theoretical position that intelligence was an inherited trait‚ and the assumption was made that native intelligence
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Spoken Discourse Assignment Introduction In this paper‚ the aim is to apply different methods of discourse analysis to a selected extract of transcribed language to establish who holds the power during the interaction. In a normal interview situation‚ the interviewer will control the topic change of the interaction and ask the questions and the interviewee will respond. One of the aims is to establish whether this is the case‚ and to see if this remains constant throughout the extract. The initial
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Information on the accident Piper Alpha accident happened in the 6th of July in 1988. In this accident 167 men died including 165 out of 226 workers of the platform and 2 members of the rescue crew. The series of explosions that started at 10.00 pm destroyed the platform in less than one and a half hour. It happened on the production deck which consisted of four modules. Module A - oil is piped up from the sea Module B – Process oil and gas Module C - Process oil and gas Module D – Power
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receptors‚ a1‚ a2‚ B1 and B2. The sympathetic nervous system triggers the secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine. Epinephrine is a hormone and norepinephrine functions as a hormone and neurotransmitter. First we will take a look at the Alpha 1 receptors. These Alpha 1 receptors cause vasoconstriction of vascular smooth muscles. They are located on the post synaptic membranes of effector organs‚ such as on gastral and urinary sphincters. Some are located on the dilator muscle of the iris causing the
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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS To truly understand what discourse analysis is‚ it is important to first understand what discourse is. There are three ways in which we can describe discourse; each of which are of equal importance: Firstly‚ discourse can be described as language beyond the level of the sentence. By this we mean that it is a type of language that extends past features such as sounds (phonetics)‚ structures (syntax) and the parts that make up words (morphology). The second description
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BAÜ FBE Dergisi Cilt:9‚ Sayı:1‚ 3-18 Temmuz 2007 Type and typology in architectural discourse Yasemin Đ. GÜNEY* Balıkesir University Faculty of Architecture and Engineering‚ Department of Architecture Çağış BALIKESĐR Abstract Typology is the comparative study of physical or other characteristics of the built environment into distinct types. In this paper‚ the historical transformation of type and typology concepts since the Enlightenment has been examined in three developing stages based
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What is a discourse? Describe two competing discourses of childhood and suggest the ways that they can have an impact on children’s lives. The concept of discourse is the key to understanding a social constructionist approach to childhood. A discourse is an independent set of interrelated ideas held by a particular ideology or worldview. The social constructionist approach tries to describe the different ways in which knowledge of children and childhoods are constructed. Different discourses of childhood
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