Essay ＃1 Money Can Bring Happiness There are people who agree with the idea that money can actually bring happiness. However‚ personally I do have some different ideas on that. I happen to read an article about a research on the relationship of the GDP and happiness index of a country. The result of the research was quite astonishing. Although the index of happiness does rise as the GDP per person grows
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July 2010‚ Volume 8‚ No.7 (Serial No.82) US-China Foreign Language‚ ISSN1539-8080‚ USA (De)constructing humour across languages and genres Sara Laviosa (English Language and Translation‚ University of Bari (Aldo Moro)‚ Bari 70125‚ Italy) Abstract: In Western societies‚ humour appears in many different communicative events‚ and is variedly expressed through words‚ pictures‚ sounds and body language. Humour is peculiar in that it is creative‚ compelling and culture-specific‚ and produces
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anonymous Critique #1- Does disaster bring positive social change? Chapter 14- The environment Word count- 513 In his argument‚ Samuel Henry Prince states that disasters bring about positive social change‚ for eg-rebuilding in New Orleans has tended to benefit the society at large. I think even putting the words “disaster” and “positive” together in the same sentence is unimaginable. I don’t think that an improvement in one’s physical surroundings can account to a better future for a given
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ABSTRACT In this paper we address the issue of pronunciation model- ing for conversational speech synthesis. We experiment with two different HMM topologies (fully connected state model and forward connected state model) for sub-phonetic model- ing to capture the deletion and insertion of sub-phonetic states during speech production process. We show that the experi- mented HMM topologies have higher log likelihood than the traditional 5-state sequential model. We also study the first and
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Do disasters really bring out the best in people? In her book ‘A Paradise Built In Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster’ Rebecca Solnit puts forward the notion that in the worse of situations‚ modern societies have shown the ability to display remarkable altruistic and selfless behavior that allowed them to overcome any obstacles. Although there may be some truth in the argument brought forward by pessimist that disasters at times do show the worse side of humans- selfishness
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Can money bring a happy life? It’s kind of ironic that many of us would never stop looking for more and more ways to make money believing that having plenty of it guarantees invariable happiness‚ lots of friends‚ comfortable life and very bright future- when there are millions out there whose lives ‚ families and future got helplessly ruined by none other than the same- money. Now we can see that everything has two sides and money‚ of course‚ has two sides- the good and the bad. When money
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Can Riots/Public Demonstrations Bring Change? A demonstration is an action by a group of people in favor of a political or other cause. It normally consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint to hear speakers. Actions such as blockades and sit-ins may also be referred to as demonstrations. Demonstrations can be violent or nonviolent. Nonviolent demonstrations can turn into violent demonstrations depending on the circumstances.
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“Disaster‚ Disaster” Oh Disaster‚ Disaster how cruel you are Oh Disaster‚ Disaster how rude you are You shake the ground beneath my feet You attack me‚ and you wake me up from my sleep I have so little time to get away from you I never though you would become my foe Oh Disaster‚ Disaster what have I done Oh Disaster‚ Disaster why did you have to come? Because of you I have nothing left Except for bricks and rocks and the smell of dust You made me cry‚ you make me scream You make me panic and entangled
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Disaster Planning Disaster Planning prevention‚ preparedness‚ response‚ recovery PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DISASTERS .................................................................................................. 2 – NATURAL DISASTERS........................................................................................................................... 2 – MAN-MADE DISASTERS ...................................................................................................................
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A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary
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