Borovets – a Bulgarian ski resort Question 1: Both texts appear to the reader as if they are not describing the same place ( Borovets ski resort) in the same country ( Bulgaria). To start with the titles of each text, the first one does not give so much information about the ski resort but, mention the country name. The expression “Charter flight” tells a little bit about the conveyed message of the text. However the title of the second text comes in one word, the name of ski resort, and it
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The Pulse of Europe 2009: 20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Pew Research Center) End of Communism Cheered but Now with More Reservations Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, publics of former Iron Curtain countries generally look back approvingly at the collapse of communism. Majorities of people in most former Soviet republics and Eastern European countries endorse the emergence of multiparty systems and a free market economy. However, the initial widespread enthusiasm
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This article was downloaded by: [University of Southampton Highfield] On: 15 March 2013, At: 09:07 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Post-Communist Economies Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cpce20 Debt sustainability in the EU New Member States: empirical evidence from a panel
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Who is a part of NATO? NATO is an Alliance that consists of 29 independent member countries. Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherland, Norway,Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. What is the main purpose of the NATO? In response to this, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed. NATO is a formal alliance between
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process in the beginning of the movie when Thurman and Frank Dixon asked him questions and he always gave an irrelevant answer. At the beginning, he could only use body gestures to communicate. However, North American is low-context culture while Bulgaria I suppose belongs to high context culture. Americans would feel it difficult to decode Bulgarian’s encoding, while language barrier makes Bulgarian’s fail in encoding information expected from Americans. This is apparently a communication difficulty
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American University in Bulgaria Evgeni Iordanov, Ralitsa Domuschieva, Ivan Djelebov EMBA Cohort 14 Case facilitation: Innovations at Mozilla corporation Prof Lucia Miree HR Class Executive Summary of the team case facilitation Main topics in the case: Assessment process, Compensation model, Onboarding program, learning, and development at Mozilla Corporation. Key challenges: After long period without having structured and clear vision about the HR processes, in Mozilla
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skills a condition for enjoying the right of free moment and instead insists that this is a fundamental right to be enjoyed indiscriminately by everybody. Thus, there are speculations that a major motive for poor and unemployed citizens of Romania and Bulgaria aim at potentially claiming several welfare benefits provided by the government. These include benefits regarding housing, unemployment, looking-for-work funds, health-care benefits etc. James Joshua, Director of Conservative Grassroots, said that
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preserved many aspects of the empire's culture and art for centuries afterward. A number of states contemporary with the Byzantine Empire were culturally influenced by it, without actually being part of it (the "Byzantine commonwealth"), such as Bulgaria, Serbia, and the Rus, as well as some non-Orthodox states the Republic of Venice and Kingdom of Sicily, which had close ties to the Byzantine Empire despite being in other respects part of western European culture. Art produced by Eastern Orthodox
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Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti BULLETIN Vol. LXII No. 4/2010 103-110 Economic Sciences Series LUKOIL’s Market Strategy in Central and Eastern Europe Mihaela Oprea Ciopi Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti, Bd. Bucureşti 39, Ploieşti, Romania e-mail: mciopi@yahoo.com Abstract The economic environment has undergone significant development over the past 20 years marked, in particular, by the globalization of the economy and increased competitiveness. The large oil corporations
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north-south line and that only Soviet troops would liberate eastern Europe (basic shape of postwar Europe was emerging already) When the Big Three met again in February 1945 at Yalta on the Black Sea in southern Russia, the Red Army had occupied Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, part of Yugoslavia, and much of Czechoslovakia while the American-British forces had yet to cross the Rhine into Germany; on the other hand, United States was far from defeating Japan After Yalta Germany was to be divided into
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