German Loanwords The German language has provided English with a huge inventory of words‚ many of them pertaining to music‚ science‚ and politics‚ thanks to the influence of German-speaking people on those areas of human endeavor. Here are some of the more useful German terms borrowed into English. 1. Achtung (“attention”): an imperative announcement used to obtain someone’s attention 2. Angst (“anxiety”): a feeling of apprehension 3. Blitz (“lightning”): used only literally in German‚ but in
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I. INTRODUCTION Philippine democracy and politics has long been a troubled environment. With the recent developments regarding the Napoles case‚ it has only reaffirmed the fact that there are a lot of failures within this system. Aside from this latest scandal‚ democracy in the nation has been plagued long before the Pork Barrel story. Issues regarding nepotism‚ lack of transparency‚ participation of the masses‚ and so on have been present for the longest time. Being a Management student‚ I am
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of immigrants. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 52 (1) 23-42. Doi: 10.1177/0022146510395027 Vedder‚ P.‚ Berry‚ J.‚ Sabatier‚ C.‚ & Sam‚ D. (2008). The intergenerational transmission of values in national and immigrant families: The role of Zeitgeist. (finish reference) Halli‚ S. S.‚ & Vedanand. (2008). The problem of second-generation decline: perspectives on integration in Canada. Springer Science 8:277-287. Doi: 10.1007/s12134-007-0022-z
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FNAR 002- Art Appreciation and History: East & West Final Group Project: Art Deco Movement‚ Influence on Visual Arts Prepared for: Emi EU Prepared by: CHEN Zhen John Michael CHAYKOWSKY MOK Wen Kai SHIH Pek Kuang WANG Hao Run Date: 12 November 2009 Table of Contents 01 BACKGROUND 1 Art Deco Definition 1 History 1 Materials and design 1 02 Influence and Sources 2 Sources – Ancient Egypt 3 Ancient Mexico 3 Africa 4 Avant-Garde
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Spelling Bee - List of Words (with meanings in brackets) A Agreeable (to your liking) Appearance (outward show) Apprehensive (Worried) acquiesce (to agree) appurtenance (an accompanying part or feature of something) (sketchily indicate something) aristocratic (upper class) attenuation (decrease) (Overconfident) audacious ascendancy (power) adumbrate Abstinence (Self-restraint) Accoutrements (accessories) Acetaminophen (pain-killer) Aesthetic
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Ask anyone on the street: "what is Romanticism?" and you will certainly receive some kind of reply. Everyone claims to know the meaning of the word romantic. The word conveys notions of sentiment and sentimentality‚ a visionary or idealistic lack of reality. It connotes fantasy and fiction. It has been associated with different times and with distant places: the island of Bali‚ the world of the Arabian Nights‚ the age of the troubadours and even Manhattan. Advertising links it with the effects of
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Analyse how communications theory can help understanding of the role of new media Introduction New media are fast evolving channels of new ways to communicate. It is trendy‚ often misunderstood‚ and has been used very successfully and very unsuccessfully by users from individuals to big corporations. It can be seen as a threat to journalism‚ as evidenced by the ongoing disagreement between Rupert Murdoch and Google regarding access to news articles for free (Bunz‚ 2009)‚ or as a powerful political
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Perpetual Quest for Identity and Commitment in Nissim Ezekiel Poetry Dr.Ratan Bhattacharjee About the writer: (Dr.Ratan Bhattacharjee is at present the Chairperson of the Post Graduate Dept. of English and is also associated with teaching in the PG Dept of English of Rabindra Bharati Univesity ‚ both in regular and distance.He is the Executive member in the International Advisory Board of International Theeodore Dreiser Society‚ USA. (http://uncw.edu/dreiser/) His articles and poems are
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Shift of US Maritime Priorities from Atlantic to Asia Pacific Region Implication for Pakistan INTRODUCTION It is important to note at the outset of this brief presentation on the key security challenges facing the United States in Asia‚ the implications of these challenges for the defense sector‚ and the prospects for regional cooperation‚ that President Obama’s remarkable November 2011 visit across the region should not obscure how much the United States continues to be also engaged elsewhere
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Reflections on the history of management thought William B. Wolf Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ New York‚ USA The purpose of this article is to share with the reader some interesting data related to developments in the history of management thought. The central theme is that history is an elusive phenomenon and‚ in the process of recording it‚ many of the significant causal forces are lost or little understood. At the outset it seems in order to put what follows into a setting…without such
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