Japanese Final Particles and Self-Expressions in Japanese Gay Males Masataka Murakami Haverford College Swarthmore College Abstract Japanese final particles are a gendered‚ optional linguistic feature that is added to a word in a sentence or to the end of a sentence to express subtle nuances commonly in the spoken language. In terms of frequency of use‚ final particles such as zo‚ ze‚ and na are strongly masculine‚ that is‚ they are used most frequently by male speakers whereas wa‚ no‚ and
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Question One a) Article 16 of the Bill of Rights protects the freedom of opinion and expression of everyone. Also according to the Article 27 of the Basic Law‚ “Hong Kong residents shall have freedom of speech‚ of the press and of publication; freedom of association‚ of assembly‚ of procession and of demonstration; and the right and freedom to form and join trade unions‚ and to strike.” This means that the freedom of Hong Kong residents in doing the above acts should not be restricted. So‚ if
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QUES: Suggest the political and artistic implication of placing the conclusion of Passage to India within the Orientalist paradigm. Ans: It might seem scandalous to reduce E.M.Forster’s A Passage To India ‚ complex and multi-faceted work considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century‚ to such a concise formula. But we humbly offer up this mantra as our homage to Forster’s novel as a passage into his Passage To India. Published in 1924‚ when the cracks in the British Empire were just
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Discuss how censorship of the media is a violation of the freedom of expression and its impact on businesses in Malaysia. Censorship is the resistor of information and ideas distributed within a society‚ or can be defined as the act of changing a message‚ including the change of deletion (complete elimination of the message)‚ between the sender and receiver. Censorship is a tool that can be used to accomplish good or evil but must be used carefully and only when truly necessary. Media censorship
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While Virginia and Massachusetts had some similarities like using crops as a money source‚ they mostly had differences. In this essay‚ I will compare and contrast the differences in government‚ religion‚ economies and the purpose of each of the two colonies. Government. Virginia had a Royal government‚ which was a monarchy. Its owner was England. They had huge land holding and in 1619‚ Virginia had the House of Burgesses. It was the first representative self-government. In Massachusetts‚ the government
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How does social media impact freedom of speech‚ privacy‚ journalism‚ politics and personal expression? Should governments restrict access to social media‚ the internet and communications? Social media is unique and extremely appealing to everyone form of social interaction‚ the first platform allowing “many to many” relations since the letters and telephone (they permit only one to one or one to many relation). According to the Clay Shirky: How social media can make history‚ (Shirky‚ C.) ‚ social
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November 17‚ 2012 Essay II‚ Word Count: 2268 An Artistic Story of New York in 1932 The purpose of this essay is to discuss the ways Stuart Davis uses the elements of art and principals of design in his painting‚ New York Mural‚ 1932. In the beginning of this essay‚ there is a description of Davis’ biological information and what was happening in New York during the years preceding the painting. It will discuss three elements of art to include: line‚ shape and color. The principals of design
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Michael Van Huis BIBL 440.J1 03.11.13 Androgynous Pauline: Queering Gender Expressions in 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 Introduction At Abilene Christian University‚ the predominating discourse towards biblical exegesis circulates around two methodologies‚ the synchronic (social-rhetorical) and diachronic (historical-critical) approaches.1 Although both methods are required for valid exegesis‚ the tendency to gloss over nontraditional hermeneutics could tentatively result in detrimental ministry‚
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Expression and Purification of Human Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Beta (PDGF-B) Rachel C. Hermina-Stewart* and Elsie I. Parés-Matos† *Industrial Biotechnology Program‚ †Department of Chemistry University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus rachel.hermina@upr.edu December 14‚ 2009 ABSTRACT. Platelet-Derived Growth Factor (PDGF) is one of many proteins that regulate cellular growth and division. The PDGF family consists mainly of five different isoforms called as PDGF-A‚ PDGF-B‚ PDGF-C and PDGF-D. Three
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TEACHING IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS TO LEARNERS OF EFL THROUGH A CORPUS BASED ON DISNEY MOVIES Irene López Rodriguez Brown University‚ USA Elena María García Moreno Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Cartagena Abstract: This paper attempts to provide a strategy for the teaching of idioms to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies. Adopting a cognitive approach‚ idioms are seen as being motivated by conceptual metaphors which tend to be grounded in our embodied experiences and which
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