When I was growing up in India‚ I spoke Sindhi (my mother tongue) at home and Hindi with friends but it was mandatory to speak in English at school. It is very common for people in India and many other countries to speak more than one language. Such a multi lingual situation where two languages or language varieties coexist in a society and each has a clear range of functions is known as diglossia. The pioneering scholar of diglossia‚ Charles A. Ferguson‚ summarised diglossia as: a relatively stable
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The movie Out of the Past directed by Jacques Tourneur fits within the traditions of film noir because it has some similar themes associated with it‚ such as doomed love. Robert Mitchum plays the doomed‚ double-crossed ‚ ex-private eye as Jeff Markham. The femme fatale is played by Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat‚ who is trying to escape her future. Kirk Douglas as Whit Sterling plays the ruthless gangster czar in the film. The formal cinematic elements in the movie are used to vividly describe the movie
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forestation - the need of today In the early periods of civilizations‚ large parts of our country were covered with forests. The increase of the population of our country has led to the shrinking of forest area. The forests which purify air have been cut down and new cities and industries have been established in their place. The cutting of the forests causes what is called "The Green House Effect". It results in the heating of the earth’s surface or global warming which has serious consequences
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http://www.fnf.org.ph/talakayan/liberal_topic.php?id=240 Filipino vs. English as the medium of instruction The English vs. Filipino debate is once again a hot topic. A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the government?s policy of using English as the medium of instruction in our schools. According to those who filed the petition‚ the push for the use of English in our classrooms will only lead to further deterioration of what?s already been described as a rather inferior
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Motion in a Viscous Medium Aim The aim of this experiment is to measure the terminal velocity of spherical beads falling under gravity in a liquid determine‚ and hence determine its viscosity using Stoke’s law. Introduction When a stationary solid object is complete or partially immersed in a fluid‚ it experiences an upthrust or buoyant force. According to Archimedes’ principle‚ this buoyant force B is given by where ρ is the density of the fluid‚ Vs is the immersed volume of the
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something he never has‚ which is the urge of desire and want. The scene begins with a medium shot of Ms. Pascal locking up her bake shop for the night. The camera is housed inside the bake shop with the the viewer looking out of the windows while the camera tracks right following Ms. Pascal. This shot helps to reveal the bright colors of her shop‚ which comes in to play later on. The next series of shots consist of a medium long shot of Harold jogging over to
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L’Âge d’or (The Golden Age) was Luis Buñuel’s second film and was released in 1930. The patrons of this film were a French couple who got impressed by Buñuel’s first film: Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) (Sánchez Vidal ‚ cited by Stone‚ 2013). The film has a critical reception‚ which censures the selfish of middle upper class. Corresponding‚ it is a surrealist film and focused upon inner and outer realities at the same time (Radall‚ 1976:4). I am going to analyze the sequence from the mid-way
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Introduction: Economic growth is the percentage increase in total output of the economy at constant prices. In another way‚ Economic Growth is defined as the way that the real income of an economy increases over time. Such increases mean that real incomes have improved and so probably have living standards. Thus the raising of the standard of living is closely tied to Economic growth. This generally signifies that the economy is wealthier and producing more‚ individuals are better off‚ and that
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until the end; his supervisor only has one close-up shot‚ while the camera spins around him‚ it is when he is explaining the new changes in CIA’s operation‚ and for the rest of the scene‚ the camera captures Jack O’Donnell through medium/close-up shots‚ finishing with a medium shot of him breaking a cup on his table. The camera is handheld on Mendez’ shots‚ creating a more personal‚ and emotional perception of the character‚ while the zoom highlights his reactions and creates tension to the scene as
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there has been a great development in the technology for knowledge and learning. From the origination of the computer to the creation of the Internet‚ a shift has been seen in the use of print to electronic text. Marshall Macluhan’s statement “the medium is the message” relates directly to the perception of the new technology and how the message is changed due to the new media. Ted Nelson’s dream of hypertext in the mid-1960s was largely influential. These electronic writing technologies in the digital
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