The Change in Reading Style In the article “Literacy Debate: Online‚ R U Really Reading?‚” Motoko Rich (2008) writes about the differences between online reading and printed books presenting various opinions and studies regarding the relative impacts and benefits. According to Rich‚ web critics argue that the decreasing scores in teenagers’ standardized reading tests are due to the significant amount of hours young people spend on the Internet. The Internet‚ as some say‚ is damaging the readers’
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R. Cole Harris’ “The Simplification of Europe Overseas”‚ featured in the December 1977 volume of Annals of the Association of American Geographers‚ offers a comparative assessment of those peoples who settled in early Canada‚ South Africa‚ and New England. Specifically‚ Harris explores the implications of land access as a driver for social change. To that end‚ the author contrasts Louis Hartz previous assertion that the simplification of European settlers occurred at the point of departure by arguing
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Bezuglaya Anastasiya 1ATM. Analysis of Doctor in the House written by R. Gordon. Before analyzing this story‚ it is important to mention that Richard Gordon used to be a practicing doctor before he started his career as a writer. His stories are based on personal experience‚ what makes them more striking. The story is highly emotional and ironical first person narration which tells about medical students’ experience of passing their final examinations. The text is clearly divided into three parts
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Now‚ the VOA Special English program‚ AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) We present the short story "The Lady‚ or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. (MUSIC) STORYTELLER: Long ago‚ in the very olden time‚ there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer. One of the king’s ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice. Crime was punished‚ or innocence was decided‚ by the result of chance. When a person
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Alstyne‚ R. W. V. (1949). THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY. Current History‚ 16‚ 321-326. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.vortex3.uco.edu. Richard W. Van Alstyne is the author of this article but he also went but the name Richard Warner. Warner has his PHD in history from Stanford University and was a professor for seventeen years at Chico State University and taught for twenty years at the University of Southern California. The warrants presented in this article are that in order to be at peace
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Software Reliability Engineering: A Roadmap Michael R. Lyu Michael R. Lyu received the Ph.D. in computer science from University of California‚ Los Angeles in 1988. He is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory‚ Bellcore‚ and Bell Labs; and taught at the University of Iowa. He has participated in more than 30 industrial projects‚ published over 250 papers‚ and helped to develop many commercial
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Referred to as the “darling of Madison Avenue” who capitalised on Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory to develop a new marketing technique to understand the new brand of consumer culture that developed in the post-WWI era‚ Lawrence R. Samuel’s Freud on Madison Avenue recognises Ernest Dichter’s idea of “Motivation Research” as the key marketing strategy to understand the changing commercial consumption patterns and advertising methods from the 1930s till today. In his book‚ Samuel comprehensively
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References: Brooksbank‚ R.W. (1990)‚ This is Successful Marketing!‚ Horton Publishing‚ Bradford. Doyle‚ P. (1983)‚ “Marketing Management”‚ unpublished paper‚ Bradford University Management Centre. Chaganti‚ R. and Chaganti‚ R. (1983)‚ “A Profile of the Profitable and Not So Profitable Small Business”‚ Journal of Small Business‚ pp. 43-51. Cavanagh‚ R.E. and Clifford D.K. (1986)‚ The Winning Performance‚ Sidgwick and Jackson‚ London. Hanson‚ F. (1972)‚ “Backwards
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Over the last few decades our world has seen a migration or a swift transition‚ if you will‚ from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. The book‚ The Great Transition‚ by Lester R. Brown‚ is an account of that very change our world has seen with respect to the global energy revolution. The book details the shift in philosophy different countries have embraced over the years‚ going from the conventional oil‚ nuclear power and coal to the less conventional and more exciting renewable energies
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Critically acclaimed author Stephen R. Brown in his work titled “Scurvy: How a Surgeon‚ a Mariner and a Gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail.” Brown offers his readers a factual and historically accurate account of life at sea during the age of sail; however‚ one could easily mistake parts of this book for a work of fiction. Brown achieves this rare balance by employing techniques normally reserved for a work of fiction. By paying particular attention to the underlying
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