The Internet and its impact on developing countries: examples from China and India T. Kanti Srikantaiah Dominican University‚ River Forest‚ Illinois‚ USA and The Internet and its impact on China and India 199 Received February 1998 Revised March 1998 Dong Xiaoying Peking University‚ Beijing‚ China Introduction In the new information climate many countries are relying on electronic access to information through the Internet‚ which is revolutionising information management and information
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development of children‚ varying from culture to culture. Although imperative‚ the mother and daughter relationship can be trivial. Many women writers have exercised their knowledge and shared their feelings in their works to depict the importance and influence of mothers upon daughters. Jamaica Kincaid‚ Maxine Hong Kingston‚ and Kiana Davenport are only three of the many women writers who have included mother and daughter themes in their texts. These writers explore the journeys of women in
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Possible answers for Six Step Analysis of Freedom Writers exposed 1. List all the different examples of belonging evident in the text: The students are clearly identified as belonging to an ethnic group‚ based on colour‚ race and ethnicity‚ e.g. the Cambodians‚ the Latinos‚ the African Americans and the ‘whites’. They also identify themselves as being gang members and belonging to the gang‚ including having territory and ‘protecting your own’. The majority of the students live in an area
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“The Writer” by Richard Wilbur uses many types of sound patterns‚ figurative language‚ and tone to create the theme of the poem as well as connect with the reader. The Speaker is a father who is having a flashback in relation to the clicks of his daughter’s typewriter clicks. The typewriter clicks are being compared to the Starling bird trying to fly‚ sporadically batting it’s wings. The sound patterns in this poem are slightly difficult to understand but they make all the difference. The sounds
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Comparing Freedom Writers and The Outsiders Taking place in Long Beach California‚ Richard Lagravense directed an amazing movie titled “Freedom Writers.” Freedom Writers came out in 2007 and has inspired many teenagers all over the world. Not only do I consider this to be one of my favorite movies‚ but many others do too. Freedom Writers was a movie with many interesting characters. Hilary Swank stars as Erin Gruwell (Mrs. G)‚ a high school teacher who realizes that teaching is her passion
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As a writer I have many strengths but also many weaknesses. The strengths I have with writing is using good vocabulary and having a good argument. My biggest weaknesses are getting my ideas on the paper and procrastinating. Analyzing these strengths and weaknesses could prove beneficial to my writing. The strengths I have are using good vocabulary and having a good argument. Using vocabulary is very important in a paper. In my projects I tend to use good vocabulary to improve how the paper is read
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Guild (SAG); Teamsters Local 399; and Writers Guild of America (WGA) (amptp.org). On November 5‚ 2007 the Writer’s Guild of America East and the Writer’s Guild of America West initiated a strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (Cieply‚ 2007). The strike lasted 100 days and ended on February 12‚ 2008. The strike put the economy in Los Angeles under severe strain with losses estimated as high as $2.1 billion. The strike resulted from the regular renegotiation of standard
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“The Writer” by Richard Wilber and “A&P” by John Updike is power. Both address the theme of power differently. In the poem the father allows his daughter to hold her own power‚ and does not attempt to take it from her. Whereas in the short story‚ the manager Lengel is the one holding all of the power‚ until Sammy fights to gain his own power. Both pieces show power and empowerment in different ways‚ but still address the overarching theme of who holds truly holds the power/ In “The Writer” by Richard
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Freedom Writers Gang violence in Los Angeles was at its prime in 1992 right after the infamous Rodney King incident and Los Angeles riots that locked down the city for three days. (Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots‚ http://www.citivu.com/ktla/sc-ch1.html) Teenagers in the rough neighborhoods of California thought that they were destined to become gang members with their respective races‚ to fight a battle that their ancestors started. During this time period‚ teenage gang members felt that
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“Decisions & Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer” Berkenkotter & Murray Summary * Berkenkotter’s research was designed to test the idea that researchers can study writing in a “laboratory” environment (as Perl did‚ and as Berkenkotter herself did in earlier research) * She studies Murray‚ a “publishing” writer‚ in both a lab & a natural setting‚ & makes startling discoveries about his differing abilities in eachallows her to make important claims about
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