My Challenge Why am I learning another language‚ and how important is another language in my life? I want to be in the best place in my profession‚ and I want to make a comfortable life in the future. There are three reasons to learn another language; career‚ success‚ and money. Some people want to be in a good place in their careers. So‚ they do everything for their profession. For instance‚ my job is a computer engineer‚ and I always think about that what I need to do to get a good career!
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film ’Across the Universe’ demonstrates a time of turbulence and conflict; it is a reflection of American society‚ during the 1960’s through the eyes of the youth. The film portrays events such as: the civil rights movement‚ the war in Vietnam‚ the peace movement and the challenging of traditional values all accompanied by Beatles music. This helps to create a sense of the era and to express the feelings of the main six characters. The momentum of significant social and cultural change is what Taymor
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MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS Managers spend their days juggling projects‚ people‚ and problems. Good managers have learned how to balance them. They complete projects successfully and on time‚ guide and support their employees‚ maintain good relationships with customers‚ and solve problems quickly and decisively. Less effective managers often get bogged down and sidetracked. A good manager recognizes challenges and finds ways to solve them. Less effective managers may not even recognize
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to learn and teach English as a second language is identified mostly in disadvantaged areas where it is caused by several things; lack of facilities for example being one of them. Unqualified Teachers This is the first and mostly ignored problem. What makes this problem the most dangerous is the fact that such communities scarcely can really tell who a good English teacher is since they are all learners of the language. Whatever the teacher says‚ correct or incorrect‚ will be taken as correct by
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THE CHALLENGE OF COMMUNICATION By Karla Fernández There are 5 types of listener when it comes to communication. There is the “Take the initiative” listener‚ the “Resists Distraction” listener‚ “Controls his/her emotions” listener‚ “Asks questions and attempts to clarify” listener‚ and “Summarizes his/her understanding” listener. To understand them all I will be talking about my personal experiences with those types of listeners. The “Take the initiative” listener tries to engage a conversation
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What determines culture? Discuss and use examples. Culture is the way of thinking and doing things that are passed on from one generation to another such as language‚ norms and values of society. It is the total pattern of human behavior which creates human beings and human societies. Culture is cumulative‚ by slow accumulation over many generations; culture is the product of human societies and of the individuals who compose them. Culture holds society together. It is the way of life that people
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Love Across the Salt Desert K N Daruwla The story "Love Across the Salt Desert" is set in the village of Khavda‚ located in the Desert of Kutch‚ Gujarat‚ India. The author has used this backdrop to effectively symbolize the thirst that the two protagonists feel for one another--so the scorching sun of the desert becomes a metaphor for their parched lives which were looking for satiation. He also extends the drought prevailing in the land to be an expression of the same deprivation and with the
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“The Challenge of Affluence” This article‚ by Alice Rivlin‚ begins by delineating the questions around the sudden growth in the economy due to technological change. She describes that it was unexpected‚ yet one of the causal factors was based on the idea that computers and information technology could be a solution to unskilled laborers in the midst of a tight labor market. Furthermore‚ Revlin goes into detail about the role of fiscal policy employed by Clinton and Bush‚ and the monetary policy
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Art offers us insight into how humans interpreted the world around them‚ giving some context of what life may have been like many thousands of years ago. Philosophically speaking‚ humans pride themselves on their ability to comprehend information as well as their thirst for true knowledge. However‚ it is evident that there is more than our thirst for knowledge that defines us. Before humans developed the written word‚ they found ways to convey and record meaningful thoughts‚ which would continue
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Poverty Across the Globe Being in a situation with little or no money has many negative effects on people. Not only in poor countries‚ but many families in the United States too experience poverty. Poverty can mean many different things. Not having a good primary school or health center‚ not having access to safe drinking water‚ powerlessness and discrimination. As years go on‚ poverty will continue to worsen if nothing is done about it. There are many solutions to reduce the number of people living
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