1 ELT METHODOLOGY STUDENTS’ GUIDE “ Let us teach and learn: the few before the many; the short before the long; the simple before the complex; the general before the particular; the nearer before the more remote; the regular before the irregular’ (Comenius‚ 1657) FOREWORD The aim of the present Students’ Guide is to provide the philology students from Brasov University who take the Methodology Practical Course‚ with some theoretical input and practical ideas for reference and support
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and the Building of the Railroad Long ago‚ people needed to get across the country. They didn’t have cars and plains‚ so they used trains. Before the trains‚ they had wagon trails‚ which were slow to use. In the 1800’s‚ workers in the USA started building a train from Nebraska to the west while California built a railroad toward the east. The work building the railroad was hard. Since not enough men in the area wanted this hard construction work‚ the railroad companies hired Chinese Immigrants
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give the approximate distance in miles that Lewis and Clark traveled from St. Louis to Ft. Clatsop near the Pacific Ocean. 1‚400.15 miles 3.Using the scale on the interactive map‚ give the approximate distance in miles that the transcontinental railroad covered from Omaha to San Francisco. 1‚429.875 miles First Paragraph I live in a well maintained place named Northville in the state of Michigan. The area is covered in neighborhoods and is a very nice small town‚ very much refined by humans
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Working in a railroad environment provides many challenges and risks. In addition to handling very dangerous hazardous materials‚ there are some other unique challenges due to the size of the operation‚ and how many miles of railroad track and rail yards that exist to be maintained. The two main risks that my employer faces are: slips‚ trips‚ and falls‚ and data security. Slips‚ trips‚ and falls has always been one of the leading contributing factors to employee injuries. Railroad liability is
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providing them with food and supplies until they could support themselves. Whites saw transportation as the key to economic growth; they knew people wanted to buy the goods‚ but inefficient transportation hindered sales. With the First Transcontinental Railroad businessmen could now reach previously remote areas of land‚ and this growth boosted opportunities for farmers in the region. People now viewed the west as a new beginning full of adventures and wealth. They climbed aboard the trains for a journey
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PROLOGUE THE train swayed and rocked as it traveled through the Raccoon woods‚ the thunder of its wheels echoed by a thundering twilight sky. Bill Nyberg rifled through the Hardy file‚ his briefcase on the floor at his feet. It had been a long day‚ and the gentle rocking of the train soothed him. It was late‚ after eight‚ but the Ecliptic Express was mostly full‚ as it often was for the dinner hour. It was a company train‚ and since the renovation—Umbrella had gone to great expense to make it classically
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was known as the first major walkout in U.S. History that started during the Panic of 1873. The railroad company in a move they thought would slow the bleeding decided that they would make up their lost profits by cutting the workers’ pay by 10% and make them work longer hours. As a result‚ the employees decided to avoid coming to work and eventually set up a blockade at the entrance to not allow any of the others to come through. In support of this act‚ several
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Hollingdale. Sect. 38). Everyone desires freedom but everyone cannot handle the responsibilities of freedom. I will compare J.S. Mill’s views on the social function of freedom with that of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s characters from both‚ the novel Notes From Underground and the excerpt; The Grand Inquisitor‚ also drawing supplementary arguments from Friedrich Nietzsche‚ while expressing my views alongside. Mill’s core assumption of man is that he is a rational being who will strive to maximize his own utility
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Statement of Problem and Hypothesis This investigation explores the effect on leaking underground storage tanks at the Getty Station (located at 1046 Boston Post Road) on contaminants located on and around Boston Post Road. In the experiment‚ the distance from the leaking storage tank will be compared to the amount of contaminant in that area‚ if any. It is predicted for this experiment that if there are leaking underground storage tanks below the Getty gasoline station‚ the nearby Boston Post Road and
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In the case Palsgraf v. The Long Island Railroad‚ 248 N.Y. 339‚ 162 N.E. 99‚ 1928 N.Y.Lexis 1269 (N.Y.)‚ Justice Cardoza denied recovery for the plaintiff. Justice Cardoza found that the railroad was not the proximate cause of Helen Palsgraf’s injuries. The concept of proximate cause is one that is less than precise. In today’s world of business can we still be sure that the reasoning used by Cardoza still applies? Has a new standard developed? In reviewing the materials in the text you should be
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