Blurred Lines: the most controversial song of the decade Another student union has banned Robin Thicke’s party track. How did it become such a lightning rod for moral outrage and censorship? This week‚ University College London student union (UCLU) took the unusual step of banning a single song‚ Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It joins around 20 other UK student unions to do so. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade:
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1. How did Buddhism‚ Christianity and Islam spread across the world‚ and why are they practiced so far away from their origins? With many differences between all three of these religions‚ they all had one major thing in common; missionaries. The use of missionaries promoted the rapid spread of Buddhism‚ Christianity and Islam all across the world. Also these three religions are known as religions in motion. This implies that the religions are constantly evolving. The religions are able to adapt
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Since Hong Kong became a colony and ruled by the British Empire for 99 years before handover to China‚ the official language has been changed to English. English became the normal language in Hong Kong‚ its uses in a wide range in public infrastructure‚ including the mass media‚ the civil service and the entertainment career. A data showed that the number of people who speak a reasonable command of English rose from 6.6 percent in 1983 to around 33.7 percent in 1993(Bacon-Shone and Bolton‚ 1998)
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The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were
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VALUE LINE PUBLISHING‚ OCTOBER 2002 Teaching Note This case follows the performance-review and financial-statement-forecasting decisions of a Value Line analyst for the retail-building-supply industry in October 2002. The case contrasts the strong operating performance of Home Depot with the strong stock-market performance of Lowe’s. Students examine a financial-ratio analysis for Home Depot that acts as a template to generate a comparable ratio analysis for Lowe’s. The students’ ratio
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| |Unit / PCs |QUESTIONS | |QCF642-1.2 |Describe the different methods of communicating with line management‚ colleagues and customers. | | | | | |
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The spread of food and industrial crops a. Indian plants traveled to other lands of the empire b. Staple crops: sugarcane‚ rice‚ new varieties of sorghum and wheat c. Vegetables: spinach‚ artichokes‚ eggplants d. Fruits: oranges‚ lemons‚ limes‚ bananas
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Walk the Line Release Date: 11/18/05 Running Length: 134 mins Rating: PG-13 (Profanity‚ drugs) Cast: Joaquin Phoenix‚ Reese Witherspoon‚ Ginnifer Goodwin‚ Robert Patrick‚ Dallas Roberts‚ Dan John Miller‚ Larry Bagby‚ Shelby Lynne Director: James Mangold Producers: James Keach‚ Cathy Konrad Screenplay: Gill Dennis & James Mangold Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael Music: Johnny Cash‚ T Bone Burnett Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatre: Empire Theatres Date: 12/12/05 Time: 7:15 P.M.
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How Disease is Spread by Vectors In medical science or biology‚ a vector refers to an agent (microbes‚ animals or person) that does not cause disease by itself but helps in transmitting the pathogens that cause disease from one host to another. In this sense‚ the host could be humans‚ animals or plants. These vectors have contributed to the epidemic of so many diseases. Different diseases are transmitted by different vectors but some ailments share common vectors. For instance female anopheles
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