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    (Aristophanes). This is a direct correlation of how a woman was thought of in Ancient Greece. In its simplest terms‚ the Lysistrata is a tale that centers around an Athenian woman named Lysistrata and her comrades who have taken control of the Acropolis in Athens. They are protesting against the endless wars that men are fighting and refuse their husbands sex unless they cease their battles. This revolutionary due to the views of women at the time and how little dominance women had. The woman faced a

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    How does the Catherine Tate sketch use language? Catherine Tate uses a wide variety of linguistic techniques and lexis throughout the comedy sketch with the Prime minister. The effects these techniques have on the audience are focused as they effectively engage the audience whilst being humorous and tactile. The tenor used is strong and inappropriate. Our expectations of a girl participating in work experience with the Prime Minister are somewhat obedient and well mannered‚ yet the complete

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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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    People throughout history have a way of using language in different formats to express or prove a point in books‚ speeches‚ or newspapers. There are ways it is used for the good‚ like Susan B. Anthony fighting for women’s rights; and for the bad‚ like Adolf Hitler discriminating against Judaism in his speeches while chancellor of Germany. In the allegory “Animal Farm” by George Orwell‚ the characters’ use language in a powerful way‚ whether it’s positive or negative‚ to allude to the reign of communism

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    How does George Orwell convey his thoughts and feelings to the reader? George Orwell conveys his thoughts and feelings to the reader in many numbers of ways. One way in which he does this‚ is with his use of language in the third paragraph. Although the third paragraph is very short‚ it is clear to see what George Orwell’s feelings are about the Elephant. ‘It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him’ shows the reader that Orwell did not want to shoot the Elephant as he would feel like

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    formative phase of a development‚ the leader of any kind must live by example. Nowadays‚ more than ever‚ real leadership is very important in all aspects of life. In the following project I will discuss what exactly is authentic leadership and what does it mean to be an authentic leader. Leadership is necessary in every household‚ every neighborhood‚ every community‚ state‚ and country. In many occasions we can see lack of good leadership‚ or on the contrary a great examples of exceptional leadership

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    think“ Discuss the way language affects your view of the world Humans communicate with one another using a many languages‚ each differing from the next in many ways. Do the languages we speak shape the way we see the world‚ the way we think‚ and the way we live our lives? Do people who speak different languages think differently simply because they speak different languages? Does learning new languages change the way you think? The idea that the language we use influence the way that

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    CONTENTS 1. Introduction ...1–7 1. Definition. 2. Sub-divisions of Theory of Machines. 3. .undamental Units. 4. Derived Units. 5. Systems of Units. 6. C.G.S. Units. 7. ..P.S. Units. 8. M.K.S. Units 9. International System of Units (S.I. Units). 10. Metre. 11. Kilogram. 12. Second. 13. Presentation of Units and their Values. 14. Rules for S.I. Units. 15. .orce. 16. Resultant .orce. 17. Scalars and Vectors. 18. Representation of Vector Quantities. 19. Addition of Vectors. 20. Subtraction

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    and change with time‚ the language also changes as well which is why the phrases and expressions used back then have some different meanings in present day. For example‚ the phrase‚ "Good riddance‚" can be interpreted as an expression to be rid of someone or something. Some expressions from Shakespeare’s plays might have meant something different in the past because language is susceptible to change. After researching this phrase‚ the meaning and origin of this expression

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    Luca 12.IB Does language shape culture? Most questions of whether and how language shapes thought start with the simple observation that languages differ from one another. And a lot! Just look at the way people talk‚ they might say. Certainly‚ speakers of different languages must attend to strikingly different aspects of the world just so they can use their language properly. The word order can be completely different among languages. And also there are tenses in some languages that we do not

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