France); 20 % smaller than Italy. Twice the size of New York. It’s less than 1000km from the southern coast of England to the extreme north of the Scottish mainland and under 500km. The British Isles are separated from continental Europe by the English Channel with the Strait of Dover, in the east- by the North sea, in the west- by the Atlantic Ocean. The term GB was used for the 1st time in the 17th c. under the reign of king James VI of Scotland. The UK of GB merged with the kingdom of Ireland
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by a relatively small coterie of elites, as Mark Lopez has painstakingly documented,1 and became standard formulations used in official accounts of Australian national identity and citizenship. While the sting has gone out of multiculturalism and the national debate has moved on to issues of citizenship and refugee policy, multicultural formulations still inform official documents. According to this view, Australia is now made up of people of diverse cultures that should be given equal status with
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3: Culture While this Hong Kong pedestrian appears not to notice the Nike billboard behind him, featuring NBA star LeBron James wearing the Air Zoom sneaker, the Chinese people certainly did notice. The Oregon-based Nike corporation was forced to pull its “Chamber of Fear” promotion, based on a Bruce Lee movie, after an outraged public objected to the image of a U.S. athlete defeating a kung fu master. In the global marketplace, cultural differences can undermine even the most elaborate promotional
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to be defensive against the Spanish and their allies (Indians) in Florida. By 1740 colonists were looking forward to appealing the English liberty of self-government to be able to own slaves. The 18th century Great Britain was proud of its self for being advanced and being the freest nation in the world at the time. Most British people shared a common law, language, and a common enemy in France and believed that wealth, religion, and freedom was the way to go. The British Constitution is the sense
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Mohammed Al-haj Department of English Faculty of Arts& humanities Jazan University Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Abstract Translation is activity – a cultural activity at that-intended to widen the area of human understanding and communication with reference to general and specific information. The basic requirement relevant to good translation is that the translator must have a thorough knowledge of the cultures of both the source language and the target language. The translator needs not sit
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in maintaining their own cultural identity to some degree and in recent years has sought to bring it back. For the purpose of this discussion, I will be focusing on the French influence of the language, and thereby the culture of this diverse population. French as a second language for native English speakers proves and especially challenging endeavor. From my own experience, being exposed to “pigeon” French from my maternal Grandmother and Mother’s time spent living and growing up in (what
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and literature as a combined tool. ii. Wanted to build a modern archival repository of sources. iii. Focused primarily on peers and the Assamese reading audience for his writings and discourses. iv. Trained in literature and history wrote in both English and Assamese. v. Wrote both professional and popular history . vi. A perfect blend of western and Assamese practices of studying history. vii. Developed a fresh new style of story telling. viii. Widely experienced in both national and worldwide research
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A note to readers. It is suggested that you increase magnification to 125% or 150% to read the guide on screen. Click on the magnifying glass icon at bottom left of the screen and select your magnification. 8 Source-based questions Key points in Chapter 8 • Source-based questions require the incremental development of defined skills. • They include an appreciation of context, comprehension, source evaluation and ability to come to a reasoned conclusion. • Good background knowledge is needed
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Australian Education Review Second Languages and Australian Schooling Joseph Lo Bianco with Yvette Slaughter Australian Council for Educational Research First published 2009 by ACER Press Australian Council for Educational Research 19 Prospect Hill Road, Camberwell, Victoria, 3124 Copyright © 2009 Australian Council for Educational Research All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Copyright Act 1968 of Australia and subsequent amendments, no part of this publication
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I came to find that code means language; switching means alternating between. Right as I started my research, I started to notice that authors spell “code switching” in different ways. For example, they use it as two words, with a hyphen between them, or as one word. The different ways to spell code switching is a perfect example of the meaning of the word/s itself. Switching languages can mean a variety of things. As the articles I annotate below indicate, language switching can occur without notice
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