The name-giving of Athens It is well-known that Athens was the most powerful and glorious town of ancient Greece. Its residents managed to develop a wonderful civilization that is admired till today. It is also known that the city got its name from Athena‚ the goddess of wisdom and courage. But how did Athens have its name? Here is a charming little story about the origin of the city’s name. The dispute of the gods Cecrops‚ a strange creature‚ half-man half-snake‚ was the founder of a city which
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The Grammar - Translation Method[1] Introduction As the names of some of its leading exponents suggest (Johann Seidenstucker‚ Karl Plotz‚ H. S. Ollendorf‚ and Johann Meidinger)‚ Grammar translation was the offspring of German scholarship[2]‚ the object of which according to one of its less charitable critics‚ was "to know everything about something rather than the thing itself" (W. H. D. llouse‚ quoted In Kelly 1969: 53). Grammar Translation was in fact first known in the United States
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Tree Plantations Introduction For over 10‚000 years‚ man has been the greatest factor affecting biodiversity through habitat destruction and fragmentation‚ overexploitation and pollution. With an ever increasing population and human activities‚ man is consuming more and more natural resources by increasing the use of energy‚ fuel‚ and production of consumer products that are not necessarily needed. Man is very egotistic and believes that he owns everything that he has discovered; using most
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time for tree plantation. Bangladesh is a lower riparian country. So‚ Upper levels are the best suitable places to plant trees. Sea beaches and low lying unused lands can be used for tree plantation. There are many roads and highways in our country. We can plant trees on the both sides of these roads and highways. Again in the villages there are many proper places which can be used for tree plantation. The sides and areas that are lying unused can be used too. Our role to make the tree plantation
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& SWAGPro TSL 3083 Teaching Grammar in Primary School Descriptive grammar Descriptive grammar refers to the structure of a language as it is actually used by speakers and writers of the native speaker. Descriptive grammars describe how people use spoken and written language and the knowledge that they use to decide whether something is grammatically correct. Specialists in descriptive grammar (linguists) study the rules or patterns that underlie our use of words‚ phrases
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Trees and Graphs Pat Hanrahan Tree Drawing Page 1 Why Trees? Hierarchies File systems and web sites Organization charts Categorical classifications Similiarity and clustering Branching processes Genealogy and lineages Phylogenetic trees Decision processes Indices or search trees Decision trees Tournaments Two Major Visual Representations Connection: Node / Link Diagrams Containment / Enclosure F6 G6 H6 J36 U8 B10 C30 L7 M7 V12 O4 P4 Q4 R4 S4 T4 W8 Page
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acquisition. Two of the techniques that are popularly used are: Grammar Translation Method and Direct Method of Learning Vocabulary. Hypothesis Critically comparing both the methods‚ it can be stated that neither of these are dominant over another because they are appropriate for a specific type of students where Grammar Translation Method is appropriate for primary
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What is a Tree Ring? Trees are organisms in the plant kingdom that appear to be so simple to us but are very complex in their habitat. The tree trunk is the biggest stem and the trunk possesses many branches which again have stems on them. Leaves are found on almost all the branches and stems of trees. Leaves are present on the top of the tree while the roots found at the bottom take the nutrients from the ground. All plants including the trees have a central medullary region or Pith region made
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TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS GRAMMAR? WHAT IS GRAMMAR? There are two definitions of grammar according to the Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms: • The systematic study and description of a language. • A set of rules and examples dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language‚ usually intended as an aid to the learning of that language. IMPORTANT IDEAS • • • • • 1. Grammar is broad. 2. Grammar has no clear boundaries. 3. The KS3 Framework for English
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“A Poison Tree” Poetry Analysis “A Poison Tree”‚ by William Blake is a poem of four stanzas‚ with a rhyme scheme of aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff-gg-hh‚ and in which the poet examines the negative effects of unresolved anger. Blake cleverly presents this idea by way of an extended metaphor in order to make the point that if you let anger fester and build up‚ deplorable actions may occur. Blake also employs allusions and tone to help convey this theme. An extended metaphor is a literary device that compares
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