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    Mohenjodaro

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    |[pic] Mohenjo-daro (Urdu: موئن جودڑو‚ Sindhi: موئن جو دڙو‚ English: Mound of the dead) was a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 BC and is located in the Sindh Province of Pakistan. This ancient five thousand year old city is the largest of Indus Valley and is widely recognized as one of the most important early cities of South Asia and the Indus Valley Civilization. Mohenjo Daro was one of the world’s first cities and contemporaneous with ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations

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    We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either "have it" or you don’t. But to Schoenfeld‚ it’s not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds... In the book “Outliers”‚ Malcolm Gladwell

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    conforms to the rules of the language and culture in the TL community. In general‚ this procedure is used as an effective way to deal with culturally-bound words/expressions‚ metaphors and images in translation. That is‚ the translator resorts to rewriting the SLT according to the characteristics of the TLT. Monia Bayar (2007)[16] argues that adaptation is based on three main procedures: cultural substitution‚ paraphrase and omission. Cultural substitution refers to the case where the translator

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    Psychological Criticism    In  the book The Queen of Air and Darkness‚ we are introduced to a castle in Orkney‚ a  medieval  kingdom  in  Ireland.  There  lived  Queen   Morgause  with  her  four  sons‚  Gawaine‚  Gaheris‚  Gareth‚  and  Agravaine.  Morgause  and her sons  have an odd relationship with each  other.  Morgause  is  an  evil  witch  and  one  of  Arthur’s  half­sisters.  The  Orkney  children’s  destructive   behavior  increases  throughout  the  book  and  this  is  mostly  because 

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    how Aboriginal people are viewed presently in the Canadian society. The struggles‚ injustices‚ prejudice‚ and discrimination that have plagued Aboriginal peoples for more than three centuries are still grim realities today. Although the idea of rewriting history is an honorable one it is also an impossible one‚ but trying to rectify it isn’t. In the film “Box of treasures” (1893)‚ we learn about the creation of U’Mista Cultural Centre and how this is a great example of how Natives can begin to rebuild

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    movie tells the story of king Leonidas and his 300 men fighting a fierce battle against the Persian army that came to invade Greece. However‚ like any other Hollywood movie that is based on an actual historical event‚ this movie is no exception from rewriting some of the historical facts. After a brief comparison between the real Battel of Thermopylae and the movie 300‚ one can identify some changes in the movie. Although the movie did a great job recreating this great historical event‚ there was still

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    Italian libretto written by Lorenzo de Ponte. It premiered May 1‚ 1786 at the Burg Theater in Vienna. It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais’s play and brought it to Da Ponte‚ who was able to turn it into a libretto in just six weeks‚ rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original’s political references that were opposed by the aristocracy. However‚ they managed to still get away with creating an opera that went against the social norms by formulating a play that centered

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    In all seriousness‚ my writing is garbage‚ but it some what improved the slightest bit because I had a professor who actually knows how to teach a English class and not give little hints on telling us if our paper was trash. Instead‚ we were told straight if it was a good paper or not and it has probably helped me improve the most. In High School‚ I was always told that my papers were “good‚” thankfully I finally had a Professor who can give it to me straight and tell us how we can improve our writing

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    sociology notes

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    Sociology notes Quiz answers for quiz 2 Cognitive dissidence George Zimmer on “true love” The social structure-education religion‚ politics 6 basic human emotions Altruism-selfless behavior Socialization is a learning process that we all go thru Feral children grow up with no socialization Gender is learned and sex is biological George Herbert mead- imitation ‚play‚ and game are the 3 stage of the development Social groups- are made up of individuals who share something from physical

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    Literary Translation

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    http://www.translationdirectory.com/article301.htm Literary Translation: Recent Theoretical Developments By Sachin Ketkar Lecturer in English SB Garda College‚ Navsari www.geocities.com/sachinketkar sachinketkar@yahoo.com Literary studies have always‚ explicitly or implicitly‚ presupposed a certain notion of `literariness ’ with which it has been able to delimit its domain‚ specify‚ and sanction its methodologies and approaches to its subject. This notion of `literariness ’ is crucial

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