...s 1. cement your understanding of 2. a capsule summary of 3. tackle 抓住，解决 4. at the fitting time of 在合适/恰当的时间 5. Dignitaries present included… 包括…在内的高官出席 6. Its radiance will dispel any last remaining clouds of dampness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media in this country 7. Denote 指明 8. Facilitate sth. 方便 9. Retard 延迟，阻止 retard growth 10. Bottom line 账本底线，首要之事 11. Precede 在…之前 12. Amplify 扩大，放大 13. By contrast, 恰恰相反 14. Be tied to 束缚于 15. Dominant 主要的，占优势的 16. Gain insight into 17. Elaborate 详细的，复杂的，精美的 18. Scrutinize and test仔细检查 19. Fallible 可能犯错的 20. Even out (使)平等，平均 21. Cancel out 消除抵消 22. Deliberate 故意的 23. Bear in mind that 24. In the vicinity of 临近 25. Embody sth. 代表，包含 26. Case sensitive 区分大小写 27. On the verge of 在…的边缘 28. A capsule summery 一个精简的总结 29. heart-warming 30. undununderscore 强调 31. more than just dollars-and-cents terms 32. In a world that is being reshaped by relentless advance of technology, what stands out are acts of compassion and connection that remind us what it means to be human. 33. It is imperative that 势在必行的 34. Make strides to do sth. 大跨步 35. In the unfolding future of 36. The lure for 有对…的吸引力 37. Gauge 估计，测量 38. Clear-cut 清楚的 39. Head sth. 引领 40. Be confronted with 41. Turn around 逆转 42. Be brought on broad to do 43. In an attempt to do 44. Re-orient ...
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...beings. The only reason why some of the members of the tribe are being a danger to the modern people is that they feel threaten. It’s saddening that slowly the tribes are disappearing and that some people just forget about them like they never existed. Well honestly, they are not the only ones that will be gone but the beautiful surroundings that they are also trying to preserve. Like the forest in Brazil, it is the Surui Indian tribe who are protecting this from the illegal loggers. Their lives are being threatened and they have no one protecting them from it except with their beliefs. It’s really a relief that they have Almir Suri who is part of their tribe and is really trying to fight for the tribe’s survival. Even though he had study in a nice university outside their place, he hasn’t forgotten where he came from and is still ready to help them grow more. Also, I think Almir is trying to show the world that he can also put up with the abilities of the modern people, that even though he started from being a member of a tribe whose life is just simple yet civilized, he knows what the overall people...
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...What Every MBA Student in the World Needs to Know Sandeep Krishnamurthy http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep 1 Management ≠ analysis. What you are learning in school is analysis. You are being taught tools and techniques. Analysis is just one of the ingredients in the recipe. You may have the best analysis in the room. However, if your analysis is not heard and taken seriously, it is of no value. Too often, talented people with the best answers sit in the back of the room while hacks run the show. If you enjoy the view from the back, getting an MBA will not change anything. A MBA degree only works if you are willing to transform yourself. Are you? 2 Einstein would have been a terrible manager. There is a huge misconception among students that being smart is the way to be successful. Let me break this to you. It is not about being smart. There are many smart people who are absolutely incompetent managers. Not to mention the fact that many smart people are first-rate jerks. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying you have to be dumb to succeed. What I am saying is that you do not have to be a Mensan to make it to the top. All you need is average intelligence. But, you need other qualities. 3 Bill Clinton would have been an excellent manager. The man had his faults. But, he could communicate like few others. Bad managers are, frequently, terrible communicators. They have good ideas. They simply don’t know how to get them across. You cannot lead, motivate or sell if you cannot...
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...Book Review: Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office What is this book about? In the book Nice Guy Can Get the Corner Office, the author challenged the adage “Nice guys finish last.” He believed that a guy can be nice and successful at business at the same time. The subtitle would tell us better about what’s in this book: "Eight Strategies for Winning in Business without Being a Jerk." The author defines “nice” as a constructive and consciously chosen approach to relationships that is founded on: * Attempting to optimize outcomes for both others and ourselves * Striving to balance assertiveness with cooperation to achieve a spirit of collaboration * Honoring the value and strength of others and ourselves * Seeking optimal outcomes for everyone involved by emphasizing truthfulness and authenticity * Opening confronting challenges and disagreements and embracing the innovation-promoting benefits of constructive idea conflict The author also defines “success in business” as need are fulfilled—individual’s need as well as the needs of others. The authors surveyed more than 350 nice guys and found out that most of them are “too nice”. And these overly nice guys are always struggling between “eager to please others” (being too nice) and “fulfill their own needs (being successful in business).” This book gives eight strategies to help those overly nice guys balance being nice and being a jerk when achieving success. These eight strategies consists of eight rights...
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...desirable neighbors. It is a fact that all of us have our own difficulties and nothing is more meaningful than a hand given to us in time of need. For instance, when you are busy organizing a get-together with all members in your family but the fact that you have forgotten to purchase one of the most important ingredients threatens to ruin your main dish. However, you can easily have the neighbors to travel to the market and buy it for you. That’s an accurate picture of a helpful neighbor who you should be grateful to. Furthermore, a kind neighbor from my point of view would have the quality of sympathy. Having someone to care about you and share their feelings with you is necessary when you are experiencing a tough time in life . For example, a nice neighbor to a widow who has just lost her husband in a terrible accident must help her to overcome with grief. There may be cases where there are children whose their parents got dirvoced. In such cases, a good neighbor is required to treat them equally to other kids instead of gossiping anything about them. In addition to helpfulness and sympathy, a neighbor who possess a sense of integrity would be perfect. I can endure the fact that there are some two-faced people who always steal my properties such as water, electricity supply and even illegaly use my wireless internet connection. To sum up, my portrait of an obliging neighbor must be a caring, sympathetic and trustworthy...
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...protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves”. (1 Corinthians 13:1) Love is something wonderful. Love decides everything in this world. It doesn‘t have any conditions or boundaries. We don’t know exactly what love is and where it comes from. But one thing is sure: we are nothing without love! There are times when we feel shy and timid, when we are afraid of expressing the love we feel. Being afraid of embarrassing the other person or ourselves we hesitate to say the actual words “I love you”. One can say “I love you” in many ways: by means of nice presents and little notes, smiles and sometimes tears. Sometimes we show our love when we are quiet and do not say a word, at the other times – we speak loud to express it. Sometimes we show our love by impulsiveness. Many times we have to show our love when we forgive someone. The problem with our world is that people don’t learn to listen to each other. They hear the words, but they don’t listen to the actions that accompany the words and do not mind the expression on the face. We have to listen to see love in and around...
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...Useful Debating Phrases (in not quite as small print) (1) 1st Proposition opening, definition, teamline, own arguments (3) 2nd Proposition rebuttal of 1st Opp., rebuild own case, own arguments (5) 3rd Proposition general rebuttal, rebuild own case (8) Proposition Reply (1st or 2nd speaker) biased summary (2) 1st Opposition accepting definition / redefinition, teamline, rebuttal of 1st Proposition, own arguments (4) 2nd Opposition rebuttal of 2nd Prop., rebuild own case, own arguments (6) 3rd Opposition general rebuttal, rebuild own case (7) Opposition Reply (1st or 2nd speaker) biased summary opening the debate: ● [some nice opening, e.g. quote] on the fact that ... ● Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to ● And our third speaker, ..., will do the this debate. rebuttal. ● Welcome from this side of the rebutting arguments, rebuilding your case: house... ● But before I come to my own ● The motion for debate today is: ... arguments, let us first have a look at defining the motion: what ... has said. ● Now we as today's ● I will continue our case in a minute, proposition/opposition strongly but before that there are some things believe that this is true/not true, but about the ... speech that need to be before we come to our actual addressed. argumentation, let us first define ● The first prop/opposition speaker has some important terms in this debate. told us ...; on the contrary ... ● We believe that what is meant by ... is ● He/She also said that ...; but in fact...
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...AUTHOR: _John Muir____ [pic] 1. Most important paragraph (PAGE & KEY WORDS OR DIRECT QUOTES W/CITATION REQUIRED) and why? I believe the most important paragraph is on page 56, “the whole landscape showed design, like man’s noblest sculptures” (Muir 56) shows how the land was so perfect and detailed as how a sculpture is but was created by mother nature hands instead of another man’s work. 2. Most important sentence (CORRECT MLA CITATION REQUIRED) and why? I believe the most important sentence is, “beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever” (Muir 56). This quote shows how the beauty of the landscape has been created and still continues to grow in an endless beauty. This paragraph is an important sentence that show how important the landscape was to John Muir and how others would see the land if they were standing where John Muir was in the moment. 3. Most important word (CORRECT MLA CITATION REQUIRED) and why? The word that I think was most important is “divine” (Muir 59), because it is a word pertaining to god or devoted to God. This word is used many times and to say something is pertaining to God means it has great value and is very important along with very special. 4. What surprised you the most? What surprised me the most is how John Muir creates visions to my eyes with his choice of sentences and words. 5. What makes the character(s) believable (dress, accent, actions, etc...
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...Chapter 3: Language and Communication er symbol 2. Words have Multiple Meanings---in two ways we can distinguish A. Denotative---a Literal meaning of a word that can be found in the dictionary. B Connotative---Subjective meaning of a word based on our attitudes and experiences. 3.Thought Informs Language---how does it do this? By a theory called cognitive language A specific system of symbols that we use to describe people, things abd situations in our mind. It is related to your thoughts, attitudes, co-culture and the society in which you live. 4. Language is Ruled by Grammar--- 2 Types of Rules: SYNTACTIC---These are rules that govern where words come in a sentence. Example----subject---verb---noun SEMANTIC---These are rules that govern the meaning of words and guidelines on how to interpret them. • If we didn’t agree on the meaning of words---communication would be impossible. Examples: Pin—pen are our Dear—deer Where---wear fly---insect fly (a plane) Right---write Back---back Pale---pale 5. Language is Bound by Context---These are the words that govern meaning and word choice according to context and social custom. Example----would you jump up laughing or screaming while a church service is in progress? Would you tell someone you want to see others or take a break from the relationship on an amusement park ride? 5 FUNCTIONS...
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...grammar and hole words instead of abbreviation. There are also many subordinate clauses and it is complete sentences. Basketball (spoken language): In this text they use short sentences, it is like they are talking to a friend - Daily life vocabulary, "incorrect" grammar. Few subordinate clauses and unfinished sentences with a lot of repetitions. The word "and" -> listings, is one of the most used words in spoken language. There are also many contractions (e.g. it´s). Task 14: In your essay you need to use written language. You use to many contractions e.g. It´s, try to use it is instead. “ But Jesus in heaven there sure are issues”, try not to write like you are talking to a friend. But I think that it is good that you use some fairly long clauses and sentence, and you are not using the word ”and” to often. Task 18: There is one passive sentence in the first letter, and there is zero in the last. I think that it is a harsh tone, he use in both letters. I just think that this should be a conversation, instead of written a letter. A letter is un personal, no matter how bad he´s teaching was, he deserves a conversation and not a letter, So I don’t think he should send any of these two letters. Task 19: To William Butcher, headmaster Of course you will get my resignation immediately. I have been glad for working here, and I think that it is sad that some parents are getting me fired, because they think that I am a bad teacher. It would be nice if you had told...
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...CHAPTER 1 HISTORY OF LANGUAGE Language is a set of symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. It is one of the most important innovations of men. Language can be used in different ways for different purposes. But mostly, its primary use is for communication. Language was considered to have a “life cycle” and to develop according to evolutionary laws. In addition, it was believed that language, like the human animal, has a “genealogical tree” –that is, that each language can be traced back to a common ancestor.” Ethnologue organization, the most extensive catalog of the world’s languages, presented a detailed classified list which currently includes 6,809 distinct languages. Although there are many languages, these are not uniformly distributed around the world. Some places are more diverse in terms of distribution of languages. According to Stephen Anderson (YEAR) of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), out of Ethnologue’s 6,809, for instance, only 230 are spoken in Europe, while 2,197 are spoken in Asia. Among these 2,197 languages in Asia, 171 are spoken in the Philippines. Associated with language are the different systems of writing in the past. Hieroglyphics and cuneiform are some of them. But here in our country, alibata is the primitive form of writing. It is also known as baybayin which literally means “to spell.” It is used even before the Spaniards conquered our country. There are many languages which influenced our official...
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...Elementary, who came up with the word “Frindle” to use instead of the word pen with his friends. He gets the entire school to use the word and it becomes a huge epidemic across the globe. * Mrs. Granger: an older lady, whom is Nick’s fifth grade language arts teacher. She has been a teacher for over 35 years and is very stern in her teaching ways. She loves the dictionary and has it on a podium in front of the classroom. When Nick comes up with the word “Frindle” she refuses to use it. We see later though, that she is secretly doing this because she knows that Nick’s word will become very successful. * Bud Lawrence: the towns’ entrepreneur and millionaire. He owns the Dairy Queen and the McDonalds in the town. When he hears of Nick’s word, he wants to make his small idea something larger. Nick agrees to the idea, and Bud makes “Frindle” happen and it explodes across the country. Setting * In the 1980’s era in a town called Westfield in New Hampshire. There are some occasional instances in the book where Nick and the others are at Lincoln Elementary School as well as later while Nick is in college. Plot (Brief Synopsis) * A young fifth grade boy named Nick Allen, comes up with a clever idea to create a new word. His fifth grade language arts teacher has told him that words come about through history when someone uses them enough and they catch on. Nick decides he will come up with the word “Frindle” to use instead of the word pen. Nick gets every student in...
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...Writing Tips to enhance your writing effectiveness Having facilitated several MKTG578 courses, I have noticed a consistent string of grammar, punctuation, or syntax (words incorrectly positioned in a sentence) errors that seemingly appear over and over again in my adult learners' papers. As ALL written submissions are evaluated for their graduate-level writing, it is time to grab the bull by the horns and eliminate those pesky habits that one has developed over the years! To help you get a FAST start, please review the following… and demonstrate to me your assimilation of each in your written assignment submissions and threaded discussion postings! 1. A good paragraph focuses on ONE theme of thought. The best paragraphs are those that do not exceed 6-8 lines. Paragraphs that are longer than 6-8 lines result in the human eye becoming "lost in a sea of of words." You will note this paragraph is five lines; it is much easier to read than a paragraph that would have, e.g., fourteen lines. Always ask yourself whether you are attempting to write more than necessary. 2. Notice the above paragraph. The last word is necessary. Because it stands by itself, that one word is called a "widow." Try to avoid widows when writing. 3. The best sentences are those that contain FEWER than 25 words. The longer the sentence, the more punctuation is required… and the more difficulty a person has reading AND comprehending that which you have written. On the other...
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...trying to express his feelings and describe the place and people. It is quite easy to understand what this essay is about and what author wants from reader by just reading one sentence from each paragraph. 3. There are couple examples where Percy used figurative language: One of them is “Into this soil-this dry, unforgiving soil – the larvae of the Pandora moth drops like a seed.” Another one is “Their brightly blond hair appears flattened out of gold.” I think by using figurative language Percy wants to better explain what specific place and object, which is in my opinion very effective because it makes essay look more understandable. Percy’s choice of words is great too, which entertain readers. 4. As I mentioned before Percy’s use of metaphors in his essay “Invasion” is very effective since he’s got a very nice choice of words that attract readers. Percy uses extended metaphor very effectively too. He compares to unlike things and continues it throughout few sentences. But comparing to short metaphors extended one doesn’t help him as much as short ones because of its size. 5. There were several instances where Percy used straightforward style such as in these sentences: “The last time I was there, January, I trudged into a coffee shop to warm up. Ahead of me in line stood a teenager. He was wearing sunglasses, designer aviators. His hair was...
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...Kacie Kondrotis Professor Goodwin 9/15/14 Words Don’t Mean What They Mean Steven Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard University, is the author of “Words Don’t Mean What They Mean”. He argues that there are many categories in which people transfer information and progress to settle that relation. He expresses that phrases convey meanings in the context being used and how this can help or decrease communication between humans. Pinker declares that our language is used through many different variations. From “sexual come-ons”(p.113), which note the phrase “would you like to come up and see my etchings?”(p.113) to the veiled threat that is told within a certain set of words. Pinker declares a veiled threat as if a “Mafia”(p.113) guy wants to offer protection and says, “nice store you got there. Would be a real shame if something happened to it.”(p.113) Which then leads Pinker to discuss the reality of “why don’t people just say what they mean?”(p.113) His discussions sum up to the fact that when humans speak to each other it’s because we have some sort of familiarity with them and each sentence you speak “conveys a message and continues to negotiate that relationship”(p.113). Pinker describes it most similar to “ordinary politeness”(p.113) or more clearly written as when we want the salt at dinner. If you want to seem rational and polite you would say “gimme the salt”(p.113), humans change the language to, as Pinker calls it, a “wimperative”(p.113) that creates...
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