General information about Japanese * Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan‚ it has been spoken outside. * Before and during World War II‚ when Japan occupied Korea‚ Taiwan‚ parts of China‚ the Philippines‚ and various Pacific islands‚ locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire. * As a result‚ many elderly people in these countries can still speak Japanese. * More than the 1.2 million of the United States sometimes employ Japanese as
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Michelle Almanza Dow Intro to Poetry 9 April 2013 Romantic Love Love can be defined in various ways. Especially in American culture‚ where love is used to describe the affection or infatuation of many different things or people. There is no real classification of the type of love for things; it is just plain love. But‚ usually when the word love comes up‚ most people associate it with romantic love; love that is shared between couples in a relationship. Yet‚ still there are many different
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New Forms‚ New Colors‚ New Logic: Writing Music in the Romantic Era Music has always been an essential part of the arts‚ with classical music in particular holding a special place. And like most of the arts‚ classical music exemplifies and affects the general worldview of a given period in history. Because of this‚ Western classical music is typically divided into four periods- Baroque‚ Classical‚ Romantic‚ and Contemporary- with each period differing from the others greatly in sound‚ mood‚ and
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Techniques for Teaching Reading to Adults Learners AUTHOR Dr Shamim Ali is a Professor in the Department of English & Functional Courses‚at National University of Modern Languages. She teaches English as Foreign/Second Language to Adult Learners at Foundation‚Certificate and Diploma Level.She earned her Doctoral Degree in EnglishLinguistics. Her interests include‚ Language Teaching‚ Teaching Language through Literature‚Adult language learning Bilingualism‚DiscourseAnalysis
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Hermann Ebbinghaus was born in Barmen‚ Germany on January 24‚ 1850. Ebbinghaus’ father was a rich merchant‚ and he encouraged Hermann to go to a University. At age 17‚ Ebbinghaus started his education at the University of Bonn studying history and philosophy‚ later he studied at the Universities of Berlin and Halle. He stopped his studies and served for the Prussian army in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. After the War he continued and finished his doctoral degree in Philosophy at the University
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Devastator torpedo bombers from Hornet (VT-8) and Enterprise (VT-6). Attacking at low level‚ they failed to score a hit and suffered heavy casualties. Battle of Midway - Aftermath: On the night of June 4th‚ both sides retired to plan their next move. By 02:55‚ Yamamoto ordered his fleet to return to base. In the following days‚ American aircraft sunk the cruiser Mikuma‚ while the Japanese submarine I-168 torpedoed and sank the disabled Yorktown. The defeat at Midway broke the back of the Japanese carrier fleet
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scream melancholy despair. “The Raven” is written in trochaic octameter. The first and third lines have sixteen syllables each. That makes eight pairs of syllables. The emphasis in these pairs is usually placed on the first syllable. (Once / u / pon / a / mid / night / drea / ry / while / I / pon / dered / weak / and / wea/ ry). It also makes use of internal rhyming‚every eight syllables rhyme (Dreary‚ Weary). In the fourth line‚ the rhyme from the third line is used to rhyme again in the middle
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Major Turning Points of World War II World War II was a tragic event in history that still affects lives to this day. A global war killing millions and injuring even more‚ World War II was like no other. The Battle of Moscow‚ the invasion of France and bombing of Japan‚ and the attack on Pearl Harbor marked a gigantic turning point in global history. In 1941‚ Hitler and his Generals gambled everything they had on the German military’s ability to defeat Russia before the winter. The invading German
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Pearl Harbour The attack on Pearl Harbour began on the morning of the 7th of December‚ 1941. It was set to be a surprise military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the naval base of the United States of America in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbour. The attack ended with the United States joining World War II. A war between the United States of America and Japan had become a possibility since the 1920’s with both countries having a plan if one should happen. The possibility grew massively when Japan
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