shuddered‚ and making the eyes and cheeks of the bighearted maiden objects of horror to the lover" (Macaulay). Imagine walking down the busiest street in 1700s London‚ and you only saw a dozen people. In every window‚ bodies swelling with bumps were everywhere. Dead‚ ravaged bodies were tossed aside. No one could escape smallpox’s destruction. During the 1700s in Europe‚ 400‚000 more were left dead with each passing year. The lucky survivors became deaf‚ blind‚ scarred‚
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Postmodernism has been described as a new version of Western cultural imperialism. Discuss the relationship between postmodernism and ’postcolonialism’. Postmodern theory been applauded as liberating‚ even democratising‚ in its rejection of absolutism and in its refusal to accept the dictates of hierarchy and certainty. It calls for the abandonment of the modernist qualities of objective truth‚ centralized knowledge‚ totalising explanations and determinacy . Rather‚ postmodern theory advocates
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Reaction Paper: The Deteriorating Relationship between China and Philippines The South China Sea is the world’s largest sea. According to the Guinness Book of Records‚ it covers 1‚148‚500 square miles. In the last 2‚500 years mariners for Malaysia‚ China and Indonesia navigated the South China Sea to trade sandalwood‚ silk‚ tea and spices. Today it carries roughly a third of the world’s shipping and accounts for a tenth of the world’s fish catch. China‚ Vietnam‚ Taiwan‚ Malaysia‚ Indonesia
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contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Politeness a theoretical approach 3 3. the concept of limao 4 4. Request strategies 4 4.1. Request strategies in Chinese 4 4.2. Request strategies in English 5 5. Forms of address 6 5.1. Forms of address in Chinese 6 5.2. Forms of address in English 7 6. Chinese: Politeness across social groups 8 7. Conclusion 9 References 11 1. Introduction In many parts of this world‚ former existing borders are removed and people move closer
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Hags The word Hag comes from the old English word for Haegtesse‚ meaning witch. Traditional Hags would live at the edge of a village and shunned all company. This is thought to have been partly because of their hideous appearance. A typical Hag will have the appearance of an old woman with dark eyes‚ filthy unkempt hair and be adorned in dirty rags. Hags live in isolation from other Hags. A village would never have had more than one Hag living there at any one time. A Hag is often called
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Spanish and English have a similar alphabet‚ but the phonologies of the two languages have several differences. For this reason‚ some Spanish learners get in trouble in English pronunciation. For example‚ as Gorman and Kester (n.d.) stated‚ Spanish and English share several consonantal phonemes including the stop sounds /p/‚ /t/‚ /k/‚ /b/‚ /d/‚ /g/‚ the nasals /m/‚ /n/‚ the fricatives /s/‚ /f/‚ the liquid /l/‚ the glide /w/‚ /j/‚ and the glottal /h/. Despite these common phonetic symbols‚ it is
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During the 1600s in early Minnesota‚ the Native Americans of the Dakota Tribe and the European settlers exchanged in a numerous amount of trading different things. Some of the trades were equal and some were better for one of the single groups. The trading the two groups did with one another came across many different varieties. There were trading of consumer goods‚ exchanging of belief systems‚ and swapping of agriculture possessions. One of the common consumer goods back during the 1600s that was
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During the 1700s the Europeans traveled to Aotearoa‚ the land of the long white cloud‚ and met the Māori who then traded and taught them their ways. The Europeans arrived in 1769 when captain Cook arrived in New Zealand and spoke to the Māori. This essay will argue that the arrival of the Europeans had a negative effect. The Māori population almost halved because of the Europeans. When the Europeans first arrived in 1769 they carried diseases which they thought were merely common colds‚ but when
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from French fur trappers and other explorers from other countries. Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to lead a team of explorers to the Pacific Ocean with the goals of mapping and learning about the area‚ creating relations with the Indians of those parts‚ and finding an all-water route to the Pacific Ocean. The expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark was a journey full of bumps and struggles‚ but it would eventually lead to great opportunities and discoveries for the United
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Answer to Question 2: A Contrast Of Question Between English And Vietnamese Question is one of the types of sentence used with the high probability in the process of learning‚ teaching a language as well as in daily communication. We use it very often and naturally in our daily life because it is the most useful sentence to make a request for information. In reality‚ we sometimes make a question in order not to get information but we just use the question to greet someone for instance. However
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