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    2054 x 1448 x 20 mm Location: Tate Cultural And Historical Contexts: 1. I think it reflects the time because it was the beginning of pop art and Marilyn monroe was famous and lots of people around that time were doing lots of pop art of famous models and actresses. Many Artist were also doing pop art that were comic style and one of those artists are Roy Lichenstein. 2. I think that it reflects the culture because New York artists had been doing lots of Pop art and Andy Warhol had done the soup

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    illness and its treatment? a. In my culture we are very religious so if I were to become ill I will take whatever medication that my doctor prescribes and I will pray to God and believe that he will heal me. Sometimes medications don’t work so I put my faith in God and expect him to heal me and if he doesn’t I believe that it is his will‚ it wasn’t meant to be. 2. How does Biomedicine in the United States reflect the majority culture? a. In the majority culture in the U.S‚ many ahead to Biomedical

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    Examine some of the ways in which Marxists explain crime. (12 marks) Ttraditional Marxists see crime as inevitable in capitalist society because it breeds poverty‚ ccompetition and greed. All classes commit crime‚ but because the ruling class control the state‚ they make and enforce laws in their own interests‚ criminalising the working class while escaping punishment for their corporate crimes. Traditional Marxism is criticised for ignoring non-class inequalities that affect crime and for determinism

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    Intercultural Communication Studies XVII: 2 2008 War and Peace of Languages and Cultures? Svetlana Ter-Minasova‚ Moscow State University Ter-Minasova The future of mankind depends largely on its ability to communicate. Technical progress provides mankind with an ever-increasing variety of more and more powerful devices and forms of communication: tele-conferences‚ multi-media bridges‚ His or Her Majesty – the Internet! However‚ “the human factor” presents a number of problems hampering

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    what extent does one’s culture inform the way one views other and the world? The way one views others and the world could be an comparison of culture or individual‚and how their outlooks conflict with the way they : interpret and‚ or evaluate others cultures such as their own. People live their lives‚ which people live differently ‚ and know what they like and want . For example I may not like to eat coconut ‚ however the next person may not like it at all. Some cultures‚ eat animals raw ‚ however

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    Discuss the ways in which the language used shows the closeness of the relationships between participants. In this essay‚ I am going to explore how the language used shows the closeness of the relationships between the participants‚ and how their friendship is shown. In the friendship context‚ speech is more relaxed and casual and there is more use of dialect and colloquialisms than if it were a formal situation. There is also the use of words and phrases which could only be understood in this context

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    An Analysis of the Untranslatability of Language and Culture A case in A Dream of Red Mansions By 杜微 Duwei A term paper Submitted to the Foreign Language and Literature Department Baoji University of Arts and Sciences Class:6 Grade:2011 Term paper advisor: Student’s signature: Date: An Analysis of the Untranslatability of Language and Culture A case in A Dream of Red Mansions 目录 Ⅰ.Introduction The purpose of translation determines that the

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    Language is a crucial unit that constitutes and builds a nation’s culture and so identity‚ it is not a mere tool that serves to communicate one’s needs in a social order; but rather a complex system of signs that embraces the whole cultural frame of a certain community. Our identities emerge from our cultural transactions and interchanges‚ and these latter cannot be possible without the mediation of a communicative system i.e. language. Language operates in order to construct meanings and understandings

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    12.IB Does language shape culture? Most questions of whether and how language shapes thought start with the simple observation that languages differ from one another. And a lot! Just look at the way people talk‚ they might say. Certainly‚ speakers of different languages must attend to strikingly different aspects of the world just so they can use their language properly. The word order can be completely different among languages. And also there are tenses in some languages that we do not

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    11­19­2014      Language‚ Gender and Culture  Power relates to language‚ gender‚ and culture. Power is shown through the way we  speak to others‚ the way different genders relate to each other‚ and the way are raised within our  cultures. The use of language‚ gender‚ and culture is used in various ways that allows us to  communicate with society in representation of who we are and what we stand for. Although it  isn’t shown in the same way‚ power relates to language‚ gender and culture because it involves 

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