El sendero torcido al español [The Twisted Path to Spanish]: The Development of Bilingual Teachers’ Spanish-Language Proficiency John A. Sutterby‚ Javier Ayala‚ and Sandra Murillo University of Texas at Brownsville Abstract This paper describes the development of Spanish-language proficiency in bilingual preservice teachers at a university on the Texas–Mexico border. A survey with open-ended questions was administered to preservice teachers in bilingual and English as a Second Language certification
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POST FORDISM During 1970s and 1980s Fordism system started being challenged by new kind of work organisation Fordism principles- fragmented work‚ dedicated machinery‚ serial‚ rather than parallel task‚ task sequencing create enormous economic off scale but have one crucial weakness namely inflexibility. During 1970-80s‚ the mass market which stabilised the Fordist system was breaking up. Sabel argued that this had come about because of a number of global changes‚ but the chief factor is the changing
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America’s neighbor Cuba offered a unique range of crops and business possibilities. Originally Cuba was under the Spanish rule‚ and evidence supports the claim that many cubans did not want to be under the spanish rule for several reasons. This eventually lead to some cubans migrating from Cuba to Florida and other parts of the United States. Cuba struggled to gain independence from the Spanish. In 1890’s The United States prepared it’s navy and sent a battleship by the name of USS Maine to Havana Cuba
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When observing the Northwood Cinema Grill‚ I decided to observe two servers on Friday and one server on Saturday‚ so I could see if any of their patterns overlapped and to watch their interactions with their customers. Going into this observation I was interested in what qualities make an effective server and how the customers responded to those qualities. I observed the Northwood Cinema Grill from noon to 12:30 on Friday. The weather Friday was very cold and windy. I reached the front of the
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Effects of the Spanish Civil War From 1936 and 1939‚ the Spanish Civil War had taken place. As a consequence‚ about 500‚000 people died‚ and the Nationalist had taken power with Francisco Franco as the new Spanish leader. The 17th of July of 1936‚ war had erupted in Spain rising tensions between the Republicans and the Nationalists‚ leading to military conflicts through out Spanish territory. Consequently‚ foreign aid had been provided to both sides‚ including countries such as Germany‚ and the
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Bollywood‚ the greatest dream factory on the Indian subcontinent‚ is the most productive film industry in the world. It makes up to eight hundreds films a year‚ twice as many as Hollywood‚ and about fourteen million Indian people go to the cinema everyday. Films are made so fast that sometimes actors on set shoot scenes for four different films at a time‚ using the same backgrounds and the same storylines. III. What makes Bollywood films unusual ? Like any film industry
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1) EVOLUTION OF FILM In 1873‚ Leland Stanford‚ a former California Governor needed help in winning a bet that he had made with a friend. Stanford was convinced that horse in gallop had all four feet off the ground and was bent on proving it. Since it was impossible to prove such a thing by merely watching a horse race‚ he employed the services of Eadweard Muybridge‚ who was a well-known photographer. Muybridge worked on the problem for four years and finally came up with a solution in
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within the environment we live in. Film has indeed been dedicated to telling the tale of man since it was born in 1895. The film Blood Diamond endeavours to tell to the world the story of post colonial Africa to highlight as it were the challenges that bedevil Africa. Many critics have complained that the world cinema is unfair to Africa because more often than not it portrays Africa negatively. On eighth December 2006 Blood Diamond added to the list of films about Africa done by non-Africans. When
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Originality and Repetition in Contemporary Cinema It seems that the innovation of Contemporary Cinema has come to a stand still. Audiences are becoming more and more difficult to please‚ as films endure the comments of "seen that!" or "that’s been done before!" leaving filmmakers struggling to break away from the rigid structure of genre to produce somethings fresh and new for contemporary audiences. Hollywood‚ in particular‚ is being seen as producing films that are "commercial‚ aimed at a mass
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Jan 11 2004 Hyderbad‚ India Sex and violence in films is no child’s play. Actress Raveena Tandon realised that to her discomfort at the inaugural function of the 13th International Children’s Film Festival recently. There were reportedly a lot of red faces in Hyderabad when some children sang and danced to the tune of raunchy film numbers during the opening festivities. While both Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and Union I&B Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad expressed
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