ERIC DIGEST ® EDO-FL-00-01 APRIL 2000 Promoting a Language Proficient Society: What You Can Do KATHLEEN M. MARCOS AND JOY KREEFT PEYTON‚ ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE ON LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS Interest in and support for language study has been strengthened in the United States in recent years by the growing recognition that proficiency in more than one language benefits both individual learners and society. For the individual language learner‚ research has found a positive link between second
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With the advanced of technology in current Japan‚ the role of religion has change dramatically‚ it is not only a simply faith in Japanese heart but also a consuetude carry out in daily life. However‚ it is not easy for people to know all changes of religion from ancient time to nowadays. This paper endeavor to sort out the main changes of traditional religion to new religion and new new religion base on the convention‚ spirit‚ role of ancestor and the place of Japan. To do this‚ I will first briefly
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Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score at day 4 included baseline score‚ percentage of time spent at less than 30° on study day 1‚ and score on the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II‚ explaining 81% of the variability (F=7.31‚ P=.003). Literature Search 3 • Conclusions Subjects spent the majority of the time at backrest elevations less than 30°. Only the combination of early‚ low backrest elevation and severity of illness affected the incidence of ventilator-associated
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Religion has always played a major role in human society. From Hinduism‚ Buddhism‚ Confucianism and Daoism‚ these 4 religions have something in common. They all tell a person how to live and make an ordered society. Confucianism is a Chinese religion based off of a famous philosopher-teacher named Confucius. He had taught that harmony resulted when people accepted their place in society. Throughout this essay expressions of Indian and Chinese religion and how they’re ordered societies had been
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Religion and Education Since the beginning of mankind‚ every civilization shows evidence of some sort of the religion and education institutions. These institutions are essential to organized human society. From teaching your grandson to assemble a tomahawk to worshipping the Greek god of war‚ people show religion and education in many different ways. What does it mean to be religious? It means almost everything because religions deal with the whole of human life and death. For centuries
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Knoxville Children’s Theatre: Mulan Disney’s Mulan was recently shown at the Knoxville Children’s Theatre. Mulan is the story of a young Chinese girl‚ Fa Mulan‚ who is coming of age at a time when the Han Dynasty of China is in great peril. The Huns are invading Han China. Due to this invasion‚ each Chinese family is ordered to send a male to fight in the army. In the Fa family‚ there is only one male‚ Zhou‚ Mulan’s aging father and this is where the story begins. To prevent her father from having
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Critically assess the argument that religion necessarily acts as a conservative force in society. Although religion varies from culture to culture – some are very religious while others are more secularised – Functionalist sociologists still see religion as an institution that fulfils a need in society. Functionalists believe that religion acts as an important part of secondary socialisation; it teaches individuals about norms and values. For example‚ it teaches children about right and wrong
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The Egyptian Religion The Egyptians had a very influential religion that can be analyzed using the five elements of religion. The characteristics of the Ancient Egyptian’s religion can be divided into the five elements of religion: authority‚ faith‚ rituals‚ moral code‚ and concept of the deity. First‚ the authority of the Egyptian religion. The main authority of the Egyptian religion was the Pharaoh‚ he had divine right over the people and was considered a god. Also‚ he could change the religion
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GENERAL TYPES OF LITERATURE Literature can generally be divided into two types: prose and poetry. Prose consists of those written within the common flow of conversation in sentences and paragraphs‚ while poetry refers to those expressions in verse‚ with measure and rhyme‚ line and stanza and has a more melodious tone. I. Prose There are many types of prose. These include novels‚ biographies‚ short stories‚ contemporary dramas‚ legends‚ fables‚ essays‚ anecdotes‚ news and speeches. 1
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What is Literature? What is literature? Nowadays‚ literature seems to be slowly depleting. Much of this generation’s youth are what we now call‚ illiterate. The advancements of technologies gradually helped the adolescents to become lazier. For example‚ text messaging. I know text messaging is a fun and easy way to communicate with your friends‚ but the amount of laziness teenagers put into it is completely ridicule. Spelling “u” instead of “you” is one example. Another example--by far is the
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