how sword and sandal films clouded my vision

... modes "High" and "low" are therefore less relevant as a description of a whole people, and more useful to describe and understand particular situations and environments 1.2.2 High and low context ... watched the films and discussed with her Vietnamese and American colleagues and friends who have already seen them + The author believes that the study of the American and Vietnamese films made ... Silence/Pauses and time-fillers exist in all social interactions in any culture They are used to show respect, anger, hostility, disinterest, or any other emotions However, when and how to use time-fillers...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:20

... Amit Das Gupta and Mona and Cesar Pastor for their hospitality during my trips to Berlin, and my friends in Bavaria and elsewhere for their support ‘at a distance’ My Dutch colleagues and friends: ... stimulation, and helpful comments and suggestions all along My thanks also goes to my thesis supervisors, Michiel de Vries, Kees van Kersbergen, and Bob Lieshout for their support, encouragement, and ... insights, new information, and experience across time and place’ and ‘is about the mobilization of ideas and expertise to identify problems and propose solutions’ (Hemerijck and Schludi 2000: 131)...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 20:20

... Matt Minney, and Dee Ruger My family loves and supports me through teaching, travel, preoccupation, and exhaustion James, Julia, Brooks, and Shelley forgive my absences and indulge my passion for ... Learning How Teachers and School Leaders Can Take Charge Douglas B Reeves Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Alexandria,Virginia USA Association for Supervision and Curriculum ... the time and invest the energy to challenge me with their provocative insights and demands for practical solutions, I have been forced to reexamine my assumptions, admit my mistakes, and eat more...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 19:20

... internet news users), national events (73%), health and medicine (66%), business and the economy (64%), international events (62%), and science and technology (60%) Asked what subjects they would ... transformation and the ways in which news serves a variety of practical and civic needs in people’s lives It focuses on those who receive and react to news and asks questions that are rarely asked about how ... combination of online and offline sources on a typical day, and the internet is now the third most popular news platform, behind local television news and national television news While 61% of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... argument and grammar and, along with my dad, for always putting education first And most of all, thanks to C.C for supporting me when I felt discouraged and for encouraging me in my interests and ... They and others, including popular texts such as Wired magazine, have demonstrated how the computer user navigates information and how the roles of work and play, producer and consumer, viewer and ... hopeless-feeling graduate students vi I would like to thank my family and friends for reading sections of my dissertation and giving feedback and for understanding that it can be hard sometimes having no...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... thought, and Apple executives still think, that Google and the Android community cheated to create their success They think that Google executives stole Apple’s software to build Android, and that Android’s ... movies and TV shows essentially care about only two things: How much is their project going to cost? And how many people are going to see it? No two companies have more reach than Apple and Google ... connected to the Internet as we watching television, and more and more of our access to the Internet comes through smartphones and tablets Think about how much time you spend staring at your phone...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 10:40

... is getting stronger and the Chinese language is getting more and more popular  In our project, we interviewed two native speakers of English, Jeffery and Greg, and found out how they have been ... dependent on others and did not study enough on his own, such as vocabulary and grammar He enjoys being alone, and solving problems on his own, which helps him have good study skills and ways to learn ... can make Comparing First and Second Language Learning  Q1: Do you recall how you’ve learned your native language, or have you noticed how a child learns to speak, read, and write his/her native...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 10:01

... rousingly oratorical Type and image, composition and arrangement, color and hue—choices that designers make all the time—can make a huge difference in how we The designer is unknown and the poster was ... the engine The right balance of “good” and posters cannot achieve It is surprising, commanding, “appropriate” design is required, and this cannot be and demanding all at once predetermined with ... Designing commands is not, however, the exclusive province Oceania, and a faux omniscient leader, but too many real of graphic designers In fact, when words are used to influence governments—past and present—have...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:27

... are concerned with how classes and objects are composed to form large structures Different categories Adapter Bridge Composite Decorator Façade Flyweight Proxy Scenario Outlets and Plugs Outlets ... on the Adapter instance and Adapter delegates request to Adaptee Clients request Adapter delegate Adaptee Adaptability Use the adapter when Want to use an existing class and its interface doesn’t ... Introduces only one object and no additional pointer indirection is needed to get the adaptee Object Adapter Lets a single adapter work with a group of adaptees such as a base class and all its sub classes...

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Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:04

... they wear the mantle of authority and command the piety and devotion of the world People buy Microsoft because it’s “the standard.” No one decreed this, but somehow it has come to be On the other ... Torvalds drives a Pontiac and lives in a respectable home with a wife and two children He works during the day at a big company and spends his evenings shopping and doing errands His life would be ... few ideas on paper My editors, David Conti, Laureen Rowland, Devi Pillai, and Adrian Zackheim, were largely responsible for this transition Kimberly Monroe suffered through my mistakes as she...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20

... buying, and have a voice in making sure those services and programs are going to be appropriate to righting our ship This report provides information on: • How taxes and fees are collected and used ... Survey Analysis: Anderson Economic Group, LLC HOW GOVERNMENTS WORK TOGETHER Governments often receive revenues from other government entities Figure on page shows how these tax dollars and other sources ... between"January"2000 "and" January"2010.2 This has lowered tax revenue and Nonfarm employment data is from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, State and Area Employment, Hour and Earnings, and the Current...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... Outlaws and horror-rock specialists, Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages as well as Dave Dee and the Bostons, The Rockin’ Berries, Johnnie Law and the MI5, Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds, Jimmy ... Robinson, Mark and Stuart Stokes, Anne Taylor, Warren Walters, Gina Way, Ted Woodings - and Inese, Jack and Harry Clayson Please put your hands together too for Rob Johnstone, Becky Candotti, Melanie ... really turned me on, and I wanted to know what it was all about This guy at school showed me a few chords, and I just went from there’ Jimmy Page(1) On 10 October 2005, Jimmy Page received Q magazine’s...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 15:26

... development of my biocentric viewpoint: from my boyhood exploring nature and my adventures with a tiny primate I ordered for $18.95 from an ad at the back of Field and Stream magazine to my genetic ... muskrats, raccoons, turtles, and birds My understanding of nature began on those journeys I rolled logs looking for salamanders and climbed trees to investigate bird nests and holes in trees As I ... Quietly taking my socks off and slipping them onto my hands, I reached inside the hole to investigate A great beating of flying feathers startled me as I felt claws and a beak sink into my fingers...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:07

... purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2004, 1:1 Outstanding and visionary articles make the difference Open Access to outstanding and visionary scientific reports appears to ... result of advances in neuroscience and biomedical engineering By prioritizing outstanding and visionary publications, JNER intends to provide a forum for ideas and concepts that could make a difference ... in the future and support our journal and the Open Access initiative Members of the editorial board and peer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptance cited in PubMed and archived on...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... (λ)S(λ)dλ , where ER (λ), EG (λ), and EB (λ) are R, G, and B primary emission functions of the color monitor device, respectively, and L(λ), M(λ), and S(λ) are spectral L, M, and S cone response functions ... test,” Optometry and Vision Science, vol 67, no 5, pp 372–376, 1990 [13] A Linksz, “Color vision tests in clinical practice,” Transactions of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, ... 1465–1476, 1992 [18] M Neitz and J Neitz, “Molecular genetics of color vision and color vision defects,” Archives of Ophthalmology, vol 118, no 5, pp 691–700, 2000 [19] A Stockman and L T Sharpe, “The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... information about the substance Figure shows the morphology of some selected samples, for showing the variation in size and shape with growth parameters Figure 2a shows spherical shaped nanoparticles ... distance between the target and substrates was kept at 10 cm and the substrate was rotated at a uniform rate during the deposition The chamber was pumped down using a cryopump and ultra high pure argon ... a gas controller (MKS Inc., Type 247 controller), as shown in Fig Ultra high purity H2 and N2 (reference gas) were fed on the test chamber and exhausted safely on the opposite side The test chamber...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol 73, no 1, pp 82–98, 1999 [2] T B Moeslund and E Granum, “A survey of computer visionbased human motion capture,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, ... clusters of colors C1 and C2 that are described by the means of their centers of mass μC1 and μC2 and their respective standard deviations σC1 and σC2 Given the height and the head appearance ... postures, and thus we adopted a model that does not contain explicitly arms and hands The 3D model used in our application is shown in Figure It is composed of two sections: a head-torso block and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... (λ)S(λ)dλ , where ER (λ), EG (λ), and EB (λ) are R, G, and B primary emission functions of the color monitor device, respectively, and L(λ), M(λ), and S(λ) are spectral L, M, and S cone response functions ... test,” Optometry and Vision Science, vol 67, no 5, pp 372–376, 1990 [13] A Linksz, “Color vision tests in clinical practice,” Transactions of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, ... 1465–1476, 1992 [18] M Neitz and J Neitz, “Molecular genetics of color vision and color vision defects,” Archives of Ophthalmology, vol 118, no 5, pp 691–700, 2000 [19] A Stockman and L T Sharpe, “The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and Silvan Chomet’s Triplets of Belleville These films seem cut from a different cloth from the classic films, and it really shows They keep my belief in real and vital animated ... How to Make Animated Films To the spirit of WALT: Long may his vision live in the hearts and minds of animators everywhere! How to Make Animated Films Tony White’s Complete ... principles of art technique and appreciation and being able to respect and replicate them to some degree through your own work At a very minimum, you should at least study and understand classic art principles...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20