Article Summary “Academic Vocabulary‚ Writing and English for Academic Purposes: Perspectives from Second Language Learners” Averil Coxhead (2012) conducted a research on the use of English vocabulary in Writing and Academic purpose by involving with 14 students of English as an additional language at a New Zealand university. The research was mainly conducted through the experience obtained from background language learning and academic studies of the students by mainly based on two target
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Town Margaret Laurence describes the basis of her views on the world in her autobiographical essay “Where the World Began” to represent Canada. She states that her small prairie town constitutes the way she has formed her views. She uses the microcosm of her small town to show Canada’s growth as a country through her childhood memories ‚ the seasons of her small town‚ and where you are raised affects your perspective on the world. Just as Canada is a child of Uncle Sam and Lady Britannia‚ and is
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Celebration of World Population Day at IIPS The World Population Day was celebrated at the International Institute for Population Sciences Mumbai on 11th July 2012. A debate on ‘Abortion: Pro-life vs. Pro-choice’ was organized in the institute premises to celebrate the World Population Day. Mr. Rajan Kumar Gupt (PhD student)‚ Ms. Garima Dutta (PhD student)‚ Mr. Castor Valbum Badstue (short-term course participant)‚ Ms. Shraboni Patra (PhD student)‚ Mr. Mayank Prakash (PhD student)‚ and Ms. Kshipra
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the unique ability to evolve‚ change‚ and permutate over the course of our lives; just as we grow outwardly we must also grow inwardly. Around the world people are concerned about solutions for many social problems. Love could be the key for many of these problems‚ although‚ some people do not believe that it is possible. Problems that include world hunger and violence are some examples of social matters that love could solve. We all possess the gift to love‚ which lies in us and can be ignited
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Rhetorical Strategies in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address In Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address‚ he uses many different kinds of rhetorical strategies to unite a broken nation. During the time of the speech‚ it is four years into the Civil War and it is about to end. In this speech‚ Lincoln uses allusion‚ parallel structure‚ and diction to unify the North and the South. A rhetorical strategy that is seen throughout Lincoln’s speech is allusion. He uses God and the Bible to show that
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World Problems Famine World Problems are problems that affect not just one particular group of people in the world but a large number of several groups in the world. Famine is the biggest World Problems facing us today. Even though we as Americans have not yet seen or experienced the horrors of famine‚ other parts of the world have. We need to take action and solve this problem before it gets out of hand‚ and there are several ways to do it. Some ways are controlling the birth rate in LDC’s
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“The World Bank has undergone significant change in its purpose and membership since its inception in 1944” (world bank‚ 2003). As a result‚ there are many people criticize regarding its current governance and accountability. They are discussed that bank’s governance system is undemocratic‚ largely because borrowing countries that are impacted the most by bank projects have minimal voice in bank’s decisions about loan and projects and the selection of the bank president is unilateral. The World Bank
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In chapter 5 in "The World is Flat" Friedman discusses America and Free Trade. Friedman lays out the basic arguments for and against free trade. Friedman first introduces this topic by stating that it is an issue "that needs sorting out immediately‚" followed by his personal experience of a problem with this issue while filming the Discovery Times documentary in Bangalore. The self-identified "free-trader" mentions David Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage as the theoretical underpinning
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way of thinking about what is real and true. It is a term that describes a total way of viewing the world around you and the framework from which we view reality and make sense of life and the world. A "worldview" is a term that describes a complete way of viewing the world around you A world view is an arrangement of beliefs which we hold about the basic make-up of our world. In order to have a world view‚ one needs to be religious. A person’s basic beliefs‚ practices‚ and association are seen through
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Boundary less World – A Threat The world today is divided into 243 countries and each country has a unique identity of its own depicting its own culture‚ heritage‚ and traditions. Often people say idealistic things like “we created the borders and not God”‚ but the fact is‚ it is these borders which have helped us to live and breed in peace and harmony. If we turn back and look at the earlier times‚ what existed before was almost a boundary less world with Britain‚ Russia and USA controlling most
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