... Japan and to export copper, silk, gold, camphor, porcelain, bronze, and rare woods The American ship Franklin arrived at Batavia in 1799 and Captain James Devereux of Salem learned that a charter ... astronomers." A signal honor it was at a time when no love was lost between British and American seafarers who had so recently fought each other afloat And so Amasa Delano embarked as a lieutenant of ... British East India Company This Massachusetts created a sensation Her departure was a national event She embodied the dreams of Captain Randall and of the Samuel Shaw who had gone as supercargo in...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20
... constitutional balances and administrative arrangements are many years behind the actual practices of the government at Washington, and that we are farther than most of us realize from the times and ... exactly accurate, the House has as many leaders as there are subjects of legislation; for there are as many Standing Committees as there are leading classes of legislation, and in the consideration ... Military Affairs, on Naval Affairs, on Mines and Mining, on Education and Labor, on Patents, and on a score of other branches of legislative concern; but careful and differential as is the topical...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20
Hate on the Internet: A Response Guide for Educators and Families pptx
... Partners Against Hate Hate on the Internet: A Response Guide for Educators and Families represents a collaborative effort of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), National Chair, Barbara Balser and ... 15 The National Alliance Web site features transcripts from a weekly anti-Semitic radio broadcast, online access to many articles from the group’s National Vanguard magazine, and a catalog of ... site addresses were accurate and provided material that was, in the judgment of Partners Against Hate staff, appropriate for all audiences Partners Against Hate is not responsible for future changes...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
Title: A History of American Christianity pptx
... that year a company of Walloons, or French-speaking Hollanders, was planted near Albany, and later arrivals were settled on the Delaware, on Long Island, and on Manhattan At length, in 1626, came ... Christianity of Spain the Spain of Isabella and Ximenes, of Loyola and Francis Xavier and St Theresa, the Spain also of Torquemada and St Peter Arbues and the zealous and orthodox Duke of Alva FOOTNOTES: ... and a staple of export With Dale was associated as chaplain Alexander Whitaker, son of the author of the Calvinistic Lambeth Articles, and brother of a Separatist preacher of London What was his...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20
A reprint from American Scientist the magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society doc
... with altitude (Figure 3), radioactive materials spread over large areas Large particles settle locally, whereas small particles and gases may travel around the world Rainfall can cause localized ... day after the onset of fallout Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan The Semipalatinsk Test Site, in northeastern Kazakhstan near the geographical center of the Eurasian continent, was the Soviet equivalent ... Leukemia in Utah and radioactive fallout from the Nevada Test Site a case-control study Journal of the American Medical Association 264:585–591 VanMiddlesworth, L 1956 Radioactivity in thyroid glands...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
THE PATH TO PROSPERITY A BLUEPRINT FOR AMERICAN RENEWAL pdf
... so that the military has adequate funds to accommodate higher-‐than-‐anticipated fuel prices, to maintain training and readiness, and to keep faith with America’s soldiers, ... a loan guarantee for $535 million in the fall of 2009, even after repeated warnings from federal financial analysts about the firm’s financial shakiness Meanwhile, advocates ... participate, an unbreakable link between performance and reward, full accountability for risk, avoidance of moral hazard, and a sense of responsibility that ensures that...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20
Grammar for teachers a guide to american english for native and non native speakers
... the case of Latin or Sanskrit Thus many argue that changes in language are an indicator of the viability and vitality, of that language While American English has no equivalent academy acting as ... Grammar for Teachers Andrea DeCapua Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers Author Andrea DeCapua, Ed.D College of New Rochelle ... to accept change than others 16 What is Grammar? (continued) r r Standard American English Only languages that no longer have native speakers not change These are referred to as “dead” languages...
Ngày tải lên: 26/05/2014, 16:36
brewing battles - a history of american beer 2008 - mittleman
... William H Mulligan, “Pabst Brewing Company,” in Jack S Blocker, David M Fahey, and Ian R Tyrrell, eds., Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ... this era Temperance agitation began in New England around 1813 and reached its ante-bellum heyday between 1846 and 1855 The War of 1812 and a trade embargo had caused economic and social problems ... content than lager Porter is a dark brown ale with a large amount of black or chocolate malt Alt is the German word for old; alt beer is an ale which is aged cold Weis means wheat in German and weiss...
Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 11:35
Báo cáo hóa học: "A survey of American neurologists about brain death: understanding of the conceptual basis and diagnostic tests for brain death" pdf
... ARJ: ari.joffe@albertahealthservices.ca NRA: Natalie.anton@albertahealthservices.ca JPD: Jon.duff@albertahealthservices.ca AdC: allan.decaen@albertahealthservices.ca Abstract Background: Neurologists ... A survey of American neurologists about brain death: understanding the conceptual basis and diagnostic tests for brain death Ari R Joffe*1,2, Natalie R Anton1, Jonathan P Duff1 and Allan deCaen1 ... Hospital and University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The John Dossetor Health Ethics Center, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada *Corresponding author Email addresses: ARJ: ari.joffe@albertahealthservices.ca...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo y học: "Red blood cell transfusion in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage: a multidisciplinary North American survey" doc
... (a nonparametric approach analogous to repeated measures analysis of variance), and adjustment for multiple comparisons was made using the Bonferroni correction method Categorical data were assessed ... MR imaging of the brain year after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrage: randomized study comparing surgical with endovascular treatment Radiology 2008, 246:543-552 Kramer AH, Zygun DA: Anemia and ... is an important mechanism that may contribute to secondary brain injury This is particularly true for patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), where delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI)...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21
Cambridge.University.Press.The.American.Puritan.Elegy.A.Literary.and.Cultural.Study.Jun.2000.pdf
... labels, certainly, for a literary historian to bear Moreover, chivalry toward the dead is a familiar impulse among early Americanists, veterans of a longstanding struggle to get our period and ... took a more direct approach to verbal mourning, one that drew on Elizabethan patriotism and patronage and, later, Jacobean melancholy and popular devotional traditions This type of poem, usually ... “Lycidas” and New England’s elegies As Draper points out, that factor was social: the rise of a largely Puritan merchant class to wealth, power, and artistic patronage (Funeral Elegy ) In contrast...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00
A comparative study of criticism between american and vietnamese online newspapers
... generally inclined to display their emotions more openly than Americans and to view Americans as unemotional and cold Meanwhile, it is believed that Americans are much more direct than Asians, particularly ... many sources to appear together in the same virtual “space” That means all the journalism and media criticism that print makes possible is now available to anyone who can access a computer, vastly ... 4.1.1 Chapter 4: RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSIS Methodology Research questions This research aims at answering the following questions: - What are the ways that American and Vietnamese online newspapers...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44
Some aspects of American culture and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a number of selected short literary works
... individualism, American informality, racial discrimination, modern American women, generation gap and American people in the turbulent ages These are the features of American culture and society that arise ... United States Barack Obama who has made a history in American presidency to be the first black to hold the office African American have gained recognizable stand in American society that they ... picture of an American woman in the late 1920s Doreen Sulivan, a beautiful woman from Philadelphia, had an appearance which was a fashion of the day with a thin, sleeveless dress over a light camisole,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01
A VIETNAMESE – AMERICAN CROSS CULTURAL STUDY OF TOUCHING BEHAVIOUR
... Your acquaintance Your colleague Your boss Your subordinate Same sex Opposite sex Same sex Opposite sex Same sex Opposite sex Neutral Negative Identify what kind of touching behaviour you apply ... opposite sex acquaintance (8); same sex colleague (9); opposite sex colleague (10); boss (11); subordinate (12) Put the appropriate numbers in the table below Kissing Hugging Patting Head Face - Lips ... Eye(s) - Ear(s) - Forehead Neck Hair Shoulder Chest Back Waist Hip Buttock Hand Arm Finger Thigh Knee Shin Foot Thank you very much for your cooperation! Bản điều tra Chỳng tụi son bn iu tra ny nhm...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:08
a discourse analysis of opening and closing speeches by masters of ceremonyon reality television showsin american english versus vietnames
... Informal Language in AOSs and VOSs Based on the data, a large number of vocabularies used in AOSs are informal contractions and slangs Contraction is defined by Oxford Advanced Learner Dictionary ... prestigious American and Vietnamese websites Moreover, these TV shows are big and national broadcasted with large audience that cannot be faked Two native speakers were asked to watch the videos again ... transcribed by the author Two American native speakers were asked to watch the videos again and check the accuracy during the transcribing process - Analyzing data: The discourse features of AOSs,...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 12:41
A comparative study of insults in vietnamese and american english
... female 3.3 DATA ANALYSIS METHODS First, all the Vietnamese data and the American data were tabulated separately Second, the trends in each group of data for each social factor of age, as well as ... perceived as balantly untrue though it was apparently impolite Sarcasm may be normally used in American culture as a strategy to create solidarity, but interpreted as an aggressive insult in Vietnamese ... great care 16 - Especially, in situation (the hearer was sarcastically complimented as admirable), The utterance may be seen as a case sarcasm is connected with banter phenomenon 4.1.1.3 Similarities...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:16