lacrosse. After waiting on line‚ visitors do not walk in the museum‚ they walk into the museum. Jenna has a sweet tooth; she doesn’t have a preoccupation ondark chocolate‚ she has a preoccupation withdark chocolate. You might think that beingraised in an English-speaking home would suffice to prepare one to use idioms correctly in speaking and in writing. However‚ idiom errors are so rampant (television is a predominant culprit)‚ and faulty English assaults the ear so frequently that even the best students
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1. Disadvantage 1. It destroys your social life and interactions with humans if you do not maintain the balance. 2. It may effect to the destruction of your eye sight due to radiation. 3. It may cause pimples and wrinkles. 4. It may damage your studies and life. 5. Too much time in front of monitor may adverse effect your eye sight and can also make you fat. 6. The way it distracts and can deviate our thoughts and activities towards unproductive activities. 7. It could cause violation
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HAVE YOU READ A NEWSPAPER? ABSTRACT Have you ever wondered; why we find the lead story in the farthest upper-right hand column? Like most people‚ we try to keep up with the news by watching it on television. That is how 65% of us get 100% of our news – from the 24-odd-minute television news broadcast. What television news bring is primarily a front-page headline service only. To get all one needs to know‚ one has to amplify these headlines with a complete account of the news from a well-edited
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Would You Have Quit? If I was a soldier in the American Continental Army during the Valley Forge time period‚ I would probably have quit the war. The reason that I would want to quit is i wouldn’t want to fight in a war‚ at all. I don’t think that fighting and killing is the answer to a country’s problems. However‚ if i was in the war then I would have quit because times were hard for the soldiers and for the people who were supporting the war‚ the Americans were losing the war‚ and they were
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You are what you say The essay‚ " you are what you say " is written by Robin Lakoff‚ a Professor of Linguistics at University of California. She has explicated her view on how English language has functioned to revile and debase women‚ why women are thought to be juvenile‚ dependent and frivolous species. Certain views which makes fair sex less thriving than men. The subject is of great interest as it illustrates that women only say what they mean‚ but what they say is inferred by men in a pejorative
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What you would do before‚ during and after an earthquake? Earthquake is a natural phenomenon that happens all over the world. It causes a lot of horrible losses and sometimes even human losses. It shivers even when we talk about it‚ it’s like been played with‚ you can think only about one thing that your life is about to end. So what you would do before‚ during and after the earthquake if you knew that it might happen in a week?! At the beginning you must know how to be prepared is a good question
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What is the definition of a contract? An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified. Describe the various types of contracts. 1) Bilateral and Unilateral 2) Express and Implied 3) Executory and Executed What elements does a contract need to be enforceable? 1) Agreement 2) Legality 3) Consideration 4) Capacity What elements would constitute a discharge of a contract? 1) Material breach 2) Minor breach 3) Anticipatory breach
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During the Post-Classical Era three major religions spread rapidly. Those religions were Buddhism‚ Christianity‚ and Islam. Islam was the most aggressive about spreading. Christianity spread through works of missionaries and governments. Buddhism was slowly spread through China‚ but rapidly spread through Japan and Korea. All three of these religions were spread through the post-classical era and have also remained the three major religions since then. During the post-classical period‚ bodhisattvas
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Error Analysis of the Written English Essays of Primary School Students in Malaysia: A Case Study Abstract Participants that were involved are Standard Six students who are studying at a primary school in Malaysia. All of the participants come from non-English speaking background and hardly communicate in English outside the school. The instrument used for this study was participants’ written essays and Corder’s methodology for Error Analysis was implemented. All of the errors in
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After barely changing at all for decades‚ the startup funding business is now in what could‚ at least by comparison‚ be called turmoil. At Y Combinator we’ve seen dramatic changes in the funding environment for startups. Fortunately one of them is much higher valuations. The trends we’ve been seeing are probably not YC-specific. I wish I could say they were‚ but the main cause is probably just that we see trends first—partly because the startups we fund are very plugged into the Valley and are
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