The Power of Culture to Change Lives Why culture should be at the heart of efforts to tackle some of the key challenges facing the international community www.britishcouncil.org The British Council has prepared this publication ahead of the world’s first summit of Culture Ministers – The Edinburgh International Culture Summit – to stimulate debate about the role of culture in government‚ and the contribution it can make to tackling key international challenges. CONTENTS Foreword Reassessing the
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To: Matt Richtel From: Brianna Canty CC: Social Science Writing Guild Date: September 26‚ 2014 Re: You Can’t Take It With You‚ But You Still Want More Memo Introduction The suffix –aholic indicates that the person this term is being used to describe is one who feels compulsively the need to do something or is addicted to something‚ and workaholics are on the rise. Workaholism is associated with overearning‚ the tendency to forgo leisure and work beyond one’s needs‚ and recently research has been
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JULY‚ 03‚ 2013 Manila‚ Philippines – Divers from the National Museum and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) have discovered a ship loaded with artifacts that sank during the Spanish period off Culasi Point in Roxas City. Lieutenant Commander Algier Ricafrente‚ PCG Public Affairs chief‚ said that National Museum research divers Bobby Orillaneda and Ligaya Lacsina and French divers from the Far Eastern Foundation for Nautical Archeology sought the assistance of the PCG in the ongoing search of the
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“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚” tells a story about a Hmong child Lia Lee‚ who suffers her first epileptic seizure at three months of age. Her treatment becomes difficult to go through because of her parents‚ Nao Kao and Foua‚ inability to speak English. They cannot speak to the doctors and many problems follow because of it. It started when Lia was three months old when her sister had slammed the front door. Quickly after‚ “Lia’s eyes rolled up‚ her arms jerked over her head‚ and she
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Do you believe the media or the Internet is/are responsible for real-life violence? How many times‚ while watching television‚ have you seen a dead body or someone being killed? Countless‚ because violence makes money. It sells! However does this mean that the media is to blame for the growing number of violent crimes in our country? I don’t think so! Many of today’s television shows would be taken off the air if there wasn’t some sort of violence on them. Take the show “Grey’s Anatomy” for
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Are You Sure You Want to Pick That Up? According to some neurologists and researchers‚ society should be asking itself this question every time they answer a call or hold a cell phone up to their head. Nowadays‚ cell phones are becoming an essential tool for modern life‚ whether it is the businessperson whose phone keeps him connected to his office and clients or the teenager who has a cell phone for recreational purposes. Cell phones present their users with the opportunity to contact their
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our law system is. I never realized the District Attorney had screeners that get to pick and choose what cases will get tried‚ and if they don’t take the case that person gets off easy. I believe if you break the law you should get tried and get the punishment you deserve‚ no matter what. The reason I believe everyone deserves to be punished for their action is because my sister recently was a victim of what the cops said was a class three sexual assault. He was eighteen and my sister is only thirteen
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The Manunggul jar is cultural treasure found in the early 1960’s in Manunggul Cave‚ Lipuun Point‚ Palawan which is classified as a secondary burial jar‚ which means that only the bones of the corpse are placed inside. It has an elaborate design consisting of scrolls and curves on the top cover and is painted with hematite - a type of mineral that produces red coloring once subjected to heat. However‚ the most remarkable part of the jar is its lid which features two souls sailing to the
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Topic: If you could be attractive and stupid or intelligent and ugly. Which one would you prefer? Why? A person of high intelligence will get successes effortlessly no matter how he looks; therefore‚ I’d rather become an intelligent ugly girl than become a beautiful stupid one. A smart person with unattractive appearance; in my opinion‚ has much motivation to step forward as well as has been treated with much more respect from other people. In fact‚ an ugly person can also change to a beautiful
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biometric sensors‚ the various nuances and complexities of an interaction can be captured for subsequent analysis. TCD will contribute the expertise in the area of speech synthesis and social interaction‚ as well as providing an ideal environment within which to robustly test the tools developed for multimodal input recognition‚ multimodal fusion‚ fission and
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