A poet relates to the world by constructing their identity through their performance in public spaces. At Outspoken Live‚ poet Lisa Luxx performed ‘He Sounds Just Like Me’‚ a moving poem about her being adopted by a British family and her longing for the “absent root” in which she came from Syria. The audiences’ mood changes when Luxx says “[Syria]…is followed by silence”. This eerily captures the atmosphere in the venue. The silent audience shows their awareness of the conflict in Syria‚ brought
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ON Assessing Vocabulary Learning and Teaching Ahmed Qadoury Abed Assistant Lecturer University of Wassit College of Education‚ Department of English Abstract Vocabulary knowledge is fundamental; students cannot understand a text without knowing what most of the words means. Lack of adequate vocabulary knowledge is already an obvious and serious obstacle for many students. Teachers and students are in need to new techniques in this issue. The reasons behind students ’ low performance in learning
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behind Qatar’s successful bid defeated four other countries that wanted the honours of staging the 2022 world cup the countries being: Australia‚ Southern Korea‚ Japan and the USA. Qatar‚ with a population of 1.69 million people will be the first Arabic country to have the privileges of hosting the World Cup. Consequently‚ Qatar is the smallest nation‚ by population and by area to have been given the chance to host the huge competition. The Qatar bid was stated as the only country to be representing
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help him‚ and that’s where he learned about the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. He recognized that arithmetic with Hindu-Arabic numerals is simpler and more efficient that with Roman numerals and so he traveled throughout the Mediterranean world to study under the leading Arab mathematicians of the time. Leonardo returned from his travels around 1200 and in 1202‚ age 32‚ he published Liber Abaci. Through the Liber Abaci he introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe. Liber Abaci is a book that Leonardo
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Abstract: Mikhail Noaima was a man of letter and a prolific writer. He revolutionized the Arabic criticism by his articles published in “ Al-Fonun” journal which later published in the shape of book “Al-Girbal” in Egypt . In the book‚ he coined his famous view point regarding criticism by saying that everyone has his own sieve to distinguished which literary work is good and which is not up to the mark. Thus he gave maximum freedom to a critic to evaluate the literary works. He pointed out that as
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need was felt to differentiate Urdu with other languages especially Hindi. It became a Hindi-Urdu controversy and as a result Khari Boli and Devanagari became the identity of Indians while Urdu and Persian of Muslims. In this context‚ Persian and Arabic words replaced with Sanskrit served the purpose of differentiating Hindi from Urdu. Urdu emerged as a distinct language after 1193 AD - the time of the
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used by the society. Like for example‚ I speak English and Arabic and find it quite difficult to go back and forth with the languages. Sometimes I will translate words from English to Arabic‚ but once I say them they come out wrong. Patterns in a language can play a major role in how we think. We have to use our thoughts of switching from one language to the other. Sometimes I find it hard to put my thoughts from English to Arabic. I have to sit and think about what words would fit to sound
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represents a decrease of 24.7% from its contribution of 65.7% to the GDP in 1957. Nigeria has a wide range of climatic conditions that augurs well for cultivating a variety of food and cash crops. The food crops include cassava‚ yams‚ corn‚ Coco-yams. Cow-peas‚ beans‚ sweet potatoes‚ millet‚ plantain‚ bananas‚ rice‚ sorghum as well as variety of fruits and vegetables. The leading cash
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Emergence of English as a world language The need for a global link language Prof. Anil Sarwal[1] The primary means of communication among the peoples of the world is language. According to a well known linguist‚ Frank Palmer[1]‚ the difference between human beings and animals is poorly described by the label homo sapiens (man with wisdom). He questions what do we mean by wisdom? Anthropologists describe man as a tool maker‚ but even apes are known to be able to make primitive tools. In fact
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Introduction: My first day of school felt so strange as if I was banished to Mars. Or at least to some very far away place full of strangers where nobody speaks my language. Because indeed‚ nobody spoke my language on my first day of school. I was 6 years old and lost among people whom I couldn’t even talk to. How could this happen? I spent all of my childhood in Hungary‚ but it still felt like we just moved to another country right before me starting school. Although no such thing happened
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