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Introduction: Development and History of Australian English The growth and domination the English Language has seen globally is not only unprecedented, but comes as no surprise; "The spread of the English language and its culture over the world is a major event in human history"(Algeo, 2005, pp.6). As the Lingua Franca of the developing world and a third of the world’s population speaking English (Crystal, 2006), its importance, appeal and prestige cannot be undermined. Maybe it is because of its

Barbie teenage doll: a role underminer? On 9 March 1959 Barbara Millicent Roberts made her debut at the International Toy Fair in New York under her nom de plume, Barbie. Produced by Mattel Incl., Barbie candidly infringed the conventional American toy market with her exceptional adult aspect and her full blown aspirations, pandering to the enthusiastic Fifties economy and partaking with her voluptuousness of the general Yankee post war pettiness. The success she would have later reached was

what was produced before the prohibition. Many believed that legal trade monitored by the Government would be better. By1933, both state and federal Governments responded with the Twenty-First Amendment, which ended prohibition. Jazz Age On November 2nd, 1920, KDKA, the first commercial radio station, announced by Warren Harding had won the presidential election held that day. One year later, stations broadcast action from the 1921 World Series. The event seemed amazing to Americans in the early 1900’s

In 1958 Dole graduated from Duke University with a degree in political science, and she then went on to earn her master’s degree in education from Harvard in 1960 (Clift and Brazaitis 152). Shortly after that she attended Harvard Law School which had only 23 other women in her class

"John, by the grace of God king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Hazzard, and count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls barons, justiciars, sheriffs, ministers, bailiffs and all his faithful men, greeting."1 So begins the most famous legal document of the Middle Ages. The Magna Carta was a product of the power struggle between King John and his barons in the year 1215. Although it was intended to address concerns that were specific to its time

Henry VIII and His Six Wives Henry VIII married his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon, in a political marriage (much like most weddings of the time). When Catherine of Aragon had stillborn children as well as early infancy deaths to all of their children, except Mary, Henry VIII began to worry that he would not have a son to heir the thrown. He began to petition the court for an annulment, so that we could marry his mistress Ann of Boleyn. At first Catherine, was kept in

The goal of education is to learn, and in this process of learning and being educated there are some greater goals that are served. Education in Thomas More’s Utopia seems to cater to a larger goal, which is to create virtuous persons and citizens, as they are responsible for attaining a flourishing human community. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest there seems to be an underlying idea of a connection between education and a sense of social control. The idea of instilling among his subjects a sense of

Patriarchal Society and the Erasure of the Feminine Self in The Story of an Hour               Critical readings of Chopin’s works often note the tension between female characters and the society that surrounds them.  Margaret Bauer suggests that Chopin is concerned with exploring the “dynamic interrelation between women and men, women and patriarchy, even women and women” (146).  Often, critics focus on the importance of conflict in these works and the way in which Chopin uses gender constraints

1. Wal-Mart的競爭策略與核心能耐？ 我們試著以Wal-Mart的Strategic Activity System來回答： a. 藍色表示競爭策略主題(theme) b. 綠色表示策略&

1511-12 | First War with France | Unable to sustain the campaign, due to poor alliance with Ferdinand of Spain and HRE, did nothing and pulled out. Spain used invasion as distraction to seize Navarre | 1513 | Battle of Spurs | Defeated the French, captured towns Therouanne and Tournai, neither of which were much use to England, but in peace treaty signed in 1514 with Louis XII, Henry was to keep the towns | | Battle of Flodden | Scottish King James IV took advantage of Henry’s absence to invade