INTRODUCTION English is so widely spoken‚ it has often been referred to as a "world language"‚ the lingua franca of the modern era‚ and while it is not an official language in most countries‚ it is currently the language most often taught as a foreign language. Watching the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” could make you noticed how English native speakers differ Phonologically‚ Morphologically and Syntactically. Yet there are a lot of foreign people who really have the accent of a native English tongue
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The Roles and Images of Women in “The Good Earth” In the novel‚ The Good Earth‚ one of the images of women here is an unattractive wife who is only but a servant to his husband. This can be seen in the character of O-Lan. She was his wife and she did nothing but to serve him and his grandfather faithfully. She prepared food for them everyday. She helped Wang Lung with the field. She bore him sons. After she bore his first son alone‚ she immediately returned to Wang Lung to help him in the field
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China is said to be “the rising power” these days and that it will become the world’s center of power just like the United States used to be before 2007. It’s the world’s most populous country with a population of roughly 1.3 billion and the biggest middle income class. According to the National Bureau of Statistics‚ china has the second largest nominal GDP and as of 2012. China is the largest holder of US public debt. For the last couple years though‚ China has been investing in raising its GDP
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I believe that the author’s style was very unique. First of all‚ the structure of the novel was very weird. What I mean is that almost half of all the pages in the novel were around 1-2 pages long while the other half were 6-10 pages long. There were also Feed chatters which was what was going on in the feed. Second of all‚ the author’s word choice left me intrigued. I have never heard of words such as youch and girlf in my entire life and it surprises me that the author would use slang like this
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SUMMARY OF IAS 21 Objective of IAS 21 The objective of IAS 21 is to prescribe how to include foreign currency transactions and foreign operations in the financial statements of an entity and how to translate financial statements into a presentation currency. [IAS 21.1] The principal issues are which exchange rate(s) to use and how to report the effects of changes in exchange rates in the financial statements. [IAS 21.2] Key Definitions [IAS 21.8] Functional currency: the currency of the primary
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This movie was one of my favorite American horror/thriller. As we can see on the tagline there is a line says‚ Can you keep a secret This film centers on a couple who adopts a nine-year-old girl named Esther‚ who is hiding a dark secret behind her sweet. She apparently was born in Russia‚ she lost her first adoptive American family to a mysterious fire only she survived‚ her records in the old country cant be found‚ and bad things happen whenever she is around. The couple decided to adapt a child
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1. IGN? DeathCookieOP 2. Age? 14 3. Timezone? PST 4. Are you a donor? (Name‚ Rank) Nope 5. Do you have access to Discord/Teamspeak? Yes 6. How long have been playing on MapleCraft? Since it came out (8/5/17) 7. How active can you be per day on MapleCraft? I can come on almost every single day atleast 2-4 hrs a day (except when im on vacation) 8. How do you think you can benefit the server by being helper? I have experience of being staff on discords‚ so I know what it
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Rizal and his times‚ 19th Century Before Rizal was born‚ there’s already chaos promulgated in other countries the liberal Czar Alexander II put an action on the issue about the rising of the Russian masses which was from 1855 to 1881. Rizal’s birth was during the time of the American Civil War (1861-65) that started on April 12‚ 1861. It was said that Pres. Lincoln released his famous Emancipation Proclamation on September 22.1863 giving the freedom for the Negro Slaves. American Civil War
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SNC-Lavalin‚ a Montreal based engineering corporation‚ made huge profits on billion dollar projects in Libya. 2012 was probably the worst year in the history of the firm. Pierre Duhaime‚ the C.E.O‚ resigned in March following revelations of $56 million worth of questionable payments being made. These payments were made to undisclosed agents and Duhaime was the official who signed them off. In April‚ Riadh Ben Aissa was arrested on charges of corruption‚ fraud and money laundering. In November‚ Duhaime
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