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    ‘In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art’. Discuss ways of approaching a text by referring to Susan Sontag’s ‘Against Interpretation’. There are many ways of approaching a text and interpretation is the most important and controversial way to explore a text. A hermeneutics and an erotics of art‚ which are the types of interpretation‚ will be explored in this essay to discuss ways of approaching a text. Besides‚ ‘Against Interpretation’ will be a main reference in this essay. ‘In

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    Centre‚ Chitral Institute for Educational Development March 2012 Is it the way to teach language the way we teach language? English language teaching in rural Pakistan Ali Nawab Aga Khan University‚ Professional Development Centre‚ Chitral Follow this and additional works at: http://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_ied_pdcc Recommended Citation Nawab‚ A. (2012). Is it the way to teach language the way we teach language? English language teaching in rural Pakistan. Academic Research International

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    Ryan Archer Eddy Period 1 6 May 2010 Do We Live In the 18th Century? There are a few German scholars who believe that a 300 year time period was just written in the history books‚ without actually existing. The gap in history has been coined the Phantom Time Theory or Phantom Time Hypothesis. Although it is not a very widely accepted theory‚ there is a fair amount of evidence to back it up. Time itself has very many definitions‚ the historical records of the time don’t coincide‚ and astronomy

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    Now and Then

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    Now and Then Now a days‚ children got it made they have so many different things to do in their pastime that their parents are just losing control. When I was a child‚ I had to do things differently then I see children having to do today‚ some of the activities that I see them participate in I did not have the option to. Today children are too relaxed and have no real form of structure they depend totally on the world around them. They depend on technology and friends‚ and not enough on their own

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    The Way We Say What We Say In his book The Stuff of Thought (2007)‚ Steven Pinker states that all humans‚ universally‚ must be careful in the choice of their words in order to convey a specific message while keeping up a particular relationship between the speaker and the listener. In the simplest form‚ people do this for basic politeness. Whether it is asking for someone to pass the salt or asking somebody to donate to a specific cause‚ people phrase their desires in a way to not offend the listener

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    Human nature is an easily susceptible phenomenon. Susan B. Pfefferès Life as We Knew It‚ distinctly demonstrates this in all of the characters personalities in her novel‚ as they are attacked by the upcoming dilemma of the Moon being struck by a meteor‚ propelling it closer to Earth. Foremost‚ the theme is developed through Reverend Marshall’s deceitful actions stemming from selfishness‚ the several inhumane breakdowns Miranda’s mom Laura faces‚ and the barbaric characteristics of the civilians in

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    Now we have a safari! Minutes later we see another rhinos. This time it’s a couple with a brat. We spend another quarter on just staring and photoing. Magda and her zoom lens are inestimable. We’re approached by a car and asked if we saw something interesting. We share the elephants and rhinos placement and get in return an info‚ that they passed the places with lions and cheetah and it’s quite close. I check it with the map we photographed in the camp (the one above) and it seems it’s marked

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    Police officers who participated in using excessive force‚ many times did not face any consequences‚ and when they did‚ their charges were very minimal. In his article titled‚ “Must We Live With Police Brutality‚” David Jones uses insight from the Chairman of the Public Safety Committee‚ Sheldon Leffler. Leffler states‚ that “’the department has perpetuated a police culture in which officers may be emboldened to conduct themselves in

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    Lies have been around for as long as people have been. We all lie‚ whether it is to protect someone we love of to cover up something we don’t want others to know about‚ it is still lying‚ and we all do it everyday. Lying has become the new normal for our modern society‚ so much so‚ that some of us have lost our morals completely. It is just so much easier and quicker to just lie to someone than to tell the truth‚ and now you can never tell who is lying to you or who is telling the truth. People use

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    Now and Then Interview “Times sure have changed” is a quote that comes to mind when thinking of the different between being an adolescent today compared to being an adolescent sixty years ago. To find out more about the differences I was able to speak with a male‚ currently age 82‚ and a female age 18. I am familiar with both of these individuals one‚ a close friend of the family‚ and my cousin’s daughter was able to answer some questions for me also. These two people both grew up in the United

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