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    Practice essay. Essay question: why did Orwell choose to write about animals rather than humans? By writing about animals instead of humans it enables the audience to think more critically about their own political leaders and to see the way which the maintain power. Quote: napoleon sprung forward with a cry ‘death to humanity’. If Orwell decided to write about humans rather than animals the whole entire book would be taken completely out of context to how he visualised and produced his book as

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    Why did Stalin rather than Trotsky emerge as leader of the USSR in 1929? A power struggle for control of the Bolshevik party began after Lenin’s death in 1924. Among the contenders for the role‚ two of the most powerful names in this struggle were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Ultimately‚ Stalin was able to secure power and vote out Trotsky by being politically skilful and cunning however most importantly he was lucky. First of all‚ Stalin was lucky. Trotsky remained ill for most of the power

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    Cars have been in use since the year 1870. Since then the number of cars on the roads has increased many times over. Cars now seem to have made our live easier and more convenient. Nevertheless‚ in my opinion‚ more cars give us much more problems than their benefits.First of all‚ people must work much harder in order to afford a car. This also means that they have to earn a considerable amount of money. The prices of new cars are so high that they usually need to take a credit to buy one. Moreover

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    Social Systems

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    by modular social systems. These major social systems include the political system‚ the public administration (civil service)‚ the armed forces‚ the legal system‚ the economy‚ religion‚ education‚ the health service and the mass media. So‚ while a traditional society is like a pyramid of top-down authority‚ a modern society is more like a mosaic held together by the cement of mutual inter-dependence. A further contrast is that traditional societies consist of a single‚ unified system with a single

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    Outline and illustrate the turn-taking system as described in Conversation Analysis Introduction to Discourse Student Number: 12022165 Academic year 2012/2013 TABLE OF CONTENT 1 INTRODUCITON 2 TURN-TAKING 3 STRUCTURE OF THE TURN-TAKING SYSTEM 3.1 Techniques for selecting the next speaker 4 OPENING AND CLOSING OF THE CONVERSATION 4.1 Openings 4.1.1 Topic 4.2 Closings 5 CONCLUSION INTRODUCITON In conversation people seem to follow a certain rule of communication which

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    children can have a safe environment to play in. If‚ however‚ you live in a tower block‚ then the children may have to play outside on the pavement. There are‚ of course‚ negative aspects to living in houses. The greatest of these is that they tend to be more expensive to purchase and to maintain. Indeed‚ a large majority of people choose to live in apartments because they cannot afford the mortgage to buy a house. Another possible problem is that there are fewer houses in cities than the countryside

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    argument to show why slavery should not exist. Hammond argued that the word slavery was never

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    village‚ some 85 kms south of Madras‚ April 23‚ 2004. Now‚ the beverages of the $31 billion multinational are back on the shopping lists of Indian consumers‚ and Coca-Cola India is reaping the rewards. At the end of last year‚ its sales volume grew more than 30% and it turned a profit for the first time since it returned to the country in 1993 after a 16-year hiatus‚ according to Atul Singh‚ who was appointed the firm’s Delhi-based president and CEO of Coca-Cola India and southwest Asia in 2005. Much of

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    The very first theory that came to my mind regarding the driving routes observation was a Broadbent Filter Model Theory. This is one of the models of selective attention‚ the attention used to focus on incoming stimuli. The information is processed and attended only after it is passed on through a selective filter into a limited-capacity channel. While I was driving‚ in the case of both normal and altered routes‚ I have experienced the selective attention emphasized by this theory. In other words

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    students may wonder why it was ever invented‚ if it was really ever necessary to invent it and if the world would be better off without it. With the small experiments that follow‚ we hope to make peace between these students and the study of Electrochemistry. These fun and simple experiments can teach the fundamental concepts of Electrochemistry without asking much of the student. As you will see‚ many of these demonstrations are easily adapted to various configurations and each can be done independently

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