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    Over the years, the television and the entertainment it brings along has been one of man’s many inventions which has embellished living rooms around the world. As the television, advanced in luminosity, resolution and clarity, so has the want for its presence increased in people’s lives. Programming on the big screen has brought laughter, tears, terror and even education to the modern world. One of such terror, is the fascination with evil, bloodshed and portrayal of doom on the big screen. It is

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    During The Ming Dynasty

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    during Ming Dynasty was inherited from the Yuan Dynasty. Painting, music, drama, and poetry also flourished during this era. The Qing period brought, even more, growth to the arts and culture. Poetry was highly appreciated by educated men, but most writings of that time actually came from women. Some of the most well-known Chinese pieces of literature were written during the Qing dynasty rule. The Ming dynasty experienced one of the greatest economic expansions in its history. It was under the

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    demonstrate the wealth of industry in Spain. The painting dates to 1585, a time in which labor systems such as the encomienda system were used. Animals such as llamas were also used in the production and transfer of raw materials which is also highlighted in the painting. Audiences can infer that that is what is most likely being depicted here . In document six, Antonio Vazquez, a Spanish priest, directs his writing towards traders, merchants, and government officials in order to explain the production

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    human rela-tionships, well-structured social hierarchy, and strong behavioural norms (Kim et al., 1998, p. 512). In a high context (HC) culture, internal meaning is usually embedded deep in the information, so not everything is explicitly stated in writing or when spo-ken. In an HC culture, the listener is expected to be able to read “between the lines”, to understand the unsaid, thanks to his or her background knowledge. Hall (1976, p. 91) emphasised that “a high-context communication or message is

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    The only permanent thing in the world is change. Even educational systems change. Philippine educational system has undergone numerous modifications since its very beginning. In Pre-Spanish time, education was informal and there was no room for studying. Boys were taught how to look for food and their needs by their father and girls were taught how to do household chores by their mother. They used their own alphabet called Alibata to read and write. It was composed of 17 symbols which represents

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    Executive summary A volcanic eruption happened on Mount Ontake which caused over 50 tourist dead in centre Japan on September 27,2014. Mount Ontake located on the Japanese island of Honshu about 100 kilometers northeast of Nagoya and about 200 km southwest of Tokyo. This report discusses the impact of the Mt Ontake volcanic eruption in tourism industry and made some suggestion for the following recovery of Reconstruction process. Introduction This report discusses the impact of the Mt Ontake volcanic

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    1 ETHICS 1.1 Defining ethical behaviour Ethics is a philosophical term derived from the Greek word "ethos" meaning character or custom (Sims, 1992). Ethical behaviour is behaviour that is morally accepted as good and right, as opposed to bad and wrong (Wood, Zeffane, Fromholtz & Fitzgerald, 2006). An ethical dilemma requires a person to make a choice between competing sets of principles based on how morally good and right as opposed to how bad and wrong they are (Wood et al., 2006). While striving

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    Taiwan beginning in 1683 and ending in 1895. In this work she presents and defends the crucial role of travel writing in the Qing Empire moving past seeing Taiwan as a “ball of mud” without worth to incorporating the island into the Chinese empire. The majority of the book is a summarization of the history of Taiwan after it was conquered by China, as well as the way in which travel writing was used in developing the Chinese’ early beliefs about Taiwan. Despite having captured Taiwan the Xangqi Emperor

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    ancient shrine 1. Amaterasu is a sun goddess 2. Ise shrine inspired by design of early granaries in which were important during the early agrarian times, three main structures design dating to before introduction of Buddhism 3. Mortise-and-tenon system in which the wallboards are fitted into slots in the pillars, two freestanding posts at each end that support weight of the ridgepole or the beam of the roof’s crest 4. Columns are of cypress trees, golden color to contrast with white gravel

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    Researchers Henderson and Zimbardo argue that one explanation of the cultural difference between Japanese and Israelis lies in the way each culture deals with attributing credit for success and blame for failure. (2005, p. 20). “In Japan, an individual’s performance success is credited externally to parents, grandparents, teachers and others, while failure is entirely blamed on the person. Therefore the Japanese learn not to take risks in public and rely instead on group-shared decisions.” (Henderson

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