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    1. THE CSS POINT “THE HOME OF SUCCESS” Expansion of ideas Honesty is The Best Policy Honesty is a policy that prays in the long run. There is the story of Lord Alfred Dreyfuss of France who was convicted for being a spy. He spent years in a jail far away from his native land and his countrymen hated him. Then one day the real spy got his story published and the truth came out. Lord Alfred was restored to his original status with all honours and the nation was ashamed of the way it treated him

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    Units of language on different levels are studied by traditional branches of linguistics as phonetics (that deals with speech sounds and intonation)‚ lexicology (treats the words‚ their meaning and vocabulary structure)‚ grammar (analysis forms of words)‚ syntax (analysis the function of words in a sentence). These areas of study are more or less clear-cut. Some scholars claim that stylistic is a comparatively new branch of linguistics‚ The term stylistics really came into existence not too long

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    I chose the quote‚"You cannot open a book without learning something" by the Irish proverb because I can relate it to my favorite book‚"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton which taught me lots of stuff that I did not know about. The book is about a 14 year old named Ponyboy and his two brothers Darry who is 16 and Sodapop who is 20 years old. Darry is in charge of them due to both of his parents dying in a car accident. They are all greasers in a gang and often watch over Johnny ‚who is another greaser

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    Early to Bed "Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise‚" is one of the most widely quoted proverbs from Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac. This proverb is seldom disputed however I fail to see the logic behind it. I think that he who goes to bed early misses out on a lot of things and must be antisocial. Let us just say that everybody in the world sleeps eight hours a day‚ and every one goes to bed at about eleven and gets up around seven but he who wishes to

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    you reach your destination‚ but are unable to return” (Ghanaian proverb). What are the assumptions underlying this quote? How possible is it to undo the bad we do? This proverb describes one of the significant themes in The Things They Carried. It describes the mental and emotional burden the soldiers are forced to carry throughout their lives as a result of the atrocities they committed during the Vietnamese War. This proverb is assuming that the soldiers had in fact committed crimes against

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    risk taker and thinks optimistically. The eldest brother answered‚ "The proverb says: ’In seeking great happiness small pleasures may be lost.’ And also: ‘A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” (Tolstoy‚ p.1). The first proverb means you may have to risk some things that you already have in order to be happy. This is the mind set of the youngest brother who is a risk taker when it comes to finding happiness. The second proverb says is better to be content with what you have than risk loosing everything

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    continual foundation.  An organization cannot have success without proper interaction.  The four crucial obstacles to communication a management staff for a company should concentrate on: procedure obstacles‚ individual obstacles‚ actual obstacles and semantic obstacles.    The obstruction or obstruction of regular interaction circulation internally in an organization is a procedure buffer.  The CEO or executive management staff must plainly talk most of the method down the sequence of order. A business

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    multiplication facts‚ states and capitals‚ and spelling words. Elaborate rehearsal relies on creating meaning or allows the student to make connections to information already stored in the brain. Howard Eichebaum (2003) refers to the premise that our semantic memories are born out of our

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    phonological level and produce a medium result. The third stage of the process is the deepest level of processing. Here‚ at the semantic level‚ the focus will be on the meaning of the words. In a published paper‚ Craig and Lockhart (1972) found “memory traces can be seen as records of analyses carried out for the purposes of perception and comprehension‚ and those deeper‚ more semantic‚ processing results in more durable traces” (Nyberg‚ 2002‚ p. 345). It was also assumed that more rehearsals in the shallow

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    emphasis on ‘function’. Halliday theorises that all language performs three functions simultaneously‚ which he terms ‘ideational‚ interpersonal and textual’ functions (Fowler‚ 1991: 69). The three functions are closely related and illuminate the semantic propositions and arrangement of texts. It is through the ideational function of language that meaning and experience of the world is construed and built‚ while interpersonal functions provides a means for exchanges of meanings between texts’ producer

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