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    English Language and Literature An MA Research Proposal in Anglo American Studies Field of Study: British civilization and literature. Title: “The Other” Name of the student: Haddad Amel Name of the supervisor: Bennani Soumia The outline Introduction Chapter One: The Other in literature Chapter Two: the pre-civil right movement Other Chapter Three: Otherness in to kill a Mockingbird

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    Ego is that feeling which has both positive and negative effects. The positive effect is that if a person has ego and is challenged for any work then he/she tries hard to get the work done and tries hard to win the challenge. For example‚ a person has ego and he is challenged in a competition then he works very hard to win the competition. And if the competition is a legal one then it may help the individual a little. But there are other aspects of ego. Misunderstandings are occurred because

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    Can music contribute to anything worth? Famous music composer‚ Ludwig van Beethoven once rightly quoted “Music is a higher revelation than philosophy”. Indeed‚ music has higher magnitude than just being a mere form of entertainment- it plays a significant role in our society be it politics or religion or even academics. So important is music’s value that it has been recorded throughout history of mankind in numerous ancient writings including the sacred Hindu scripture‚ Veda. Thus it

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    How can cultural experiences shape‚ impact or influence out perception of the world?” Being exposed to other cultures and experiences opens our mind to understanding other ways of living. If you are exposed to something different from yours‚ your perception would change by the way your thought process is about certain groups of people. Many things affect our point of view of the world positively and negatively‚ thought I think most of the time it does it negatively. In today’s world we see

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    CAN FUEL CELLS CONTRIBUTE to FUTURE POWER CRISIS? Yong Ting Hui University Tunku Abdul Rahman‚ Faculty of Engineering and Science UTAR Complex Jalan Genting Kelang 53300 Setapak Kuala Lumpur. tinghui@1utar.my Abstract— Our current rate of non-renewable energy usage will lead to power crisis in the future. Power crisis is a state where the demand for power energy increases and the price of power energy rises. Therefore‚ civilization will be forced to research and develop alternative energy

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    Question 1: Describe factors the guide decision making and explain how overconfidence‚ belief perseverance and framing can affect judgement. When we make decisions we do so usually using concepts which are mental groupings of similar things (Myers & Dewall‚ 2004‚ p. 357). We draw our concepts from prototypes which are out best mental representation of something within a grouping. When I am at work‚ and a guest would like a room key‚ instead of asking the guest all of the names on the arrivals to

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    Joseph Kerman‚ in his 1985 book Musicology‚ stated that musicology had "come to mean the study of the history of Western music in the high-art tradition…musicology is perceived as dealing essentially with the factual‚ the documentary‚ the verifiable‚ the analysable‚ the positivistic." Richard Middleton defines musicology as "the scientific study of music." Nicholas Cook‚ in his article What is Musicology?‚ claims that musicology "is all about the knowledge that underlies the enjoyment of music

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    Literature review on the factors that contribute to medication errors Introduction Medication management is a fundamental component of nursing‚ so should be managed with caution however medication errors do still occur within the healthcare system till this day. Medication errors have been identified as the second most common type of patient safety error in the United Kingdom by National Patient Safety Agency with 59‚802 reported incidents occurring in 2007. The medication management process

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    Part A Otherness is described as an individual or group of people that are different than the social normal role in society or within a community. Otherness can be classified in terms of gender‚ race‚ sexual preference‚ ethnicity‚ nationality etc. Otherness is the quality of being different or distinct from what is known as socially acceptable to society. Those who are considered others‚ by virtue of the difference from the dominant groups‚ can have power taken away because of their place in their

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    The theme of otherness is a harsh‚ yet sad reality that is the main focus in Z.Z Packer’s “Brownies.” Through the isolation of races‚ as well as Laurel and her Brownie troop‚ the overall experience of “otherness” is affected. This main focus of the isolation of race between the two Brownie troops are exemplified during the story through the help of the narrator‚ Laurel. While reading Z.Z Packer’s “Brownies‚” it is noted that the Brownie troop and troop 909 both represent different groups of “others”

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