... this alone was the evidence they used to judge your honor For this reason, oneofthe sort of paradoxes of traditional honor is that it has always involved the hiding and covering up ofone s ... think of themselves as nothing The respectable and accessible nobility of man is to be found not in the quest for or discovery ofthe good life, but in creating one s own ‘life-style,’ of which there ... Relativism Another oneofthe key elements of a traditional honor culture is the belief in the absolute superiority ofone s honor group, and that this excellence can directly be traced to the superiority...
... in the long term The history ofthe bond market in the US in the20thcentury offers an interesting illustration of these tensions Bond trading was quite active on the NYSE until the 1940s Then ... dramatically in the boom ofthe late 1920s The increase in stock trading activity raised the profits ofthe members ofthe Exchange Figure shows that seat prices (which reflect the expectation ofthe capitalized ... equities The reallocation of resources to stocks is reflected in the minutes ofthe Committee on Arrangements ofthe NYSE through the early part of 1929 In the minutes of January 3, for example, the...
... matter how the earth moves with respect to the background of distant stars, the speed of light remains the same This mystery ofthe speed of light and the existence, or nonexistence, ofthe ether was ... involved— the speed ofthe ball, the speed ofthe wheel, the precise angle at which the ball hits the wheel, and so on the laws of chance dominate the game As with life insurance, chance is another ... gradations In the case of sound, for example, the shorter the wavelength the distance between one crest and the next the higher the pitch, or frequency, ofthe sound because the shorter the distance between...
... individual lives ofthe conflict as the division between the old world ofthe 19th century and the new oneofthe 20th. 64 In An Ribheid Chiùil, an anthology ofthe poetry ofthe First World War ... Black's view ofthe20thcentury starts with the War, identifying it as the demarcation between the Highlands ofthe 19th century and the Highlands ofthe 20th, and from this he traces the multifarious ... individual memories ofthe20thcentury from across the Isle of Lewis, the centrality ofthe First World War to the lives ofthe various communities on the island, particularly the common perception...
... sea With their breasts they pushed the waters ofthe sea before them They were pushing the waters out ofthe basin ofthe sea.‖ (The new Englander, 1921) The perception of air in terms of a sea ... different their philosophies are, the characteristics of American culture are still thrown into sharp relief in the short stories ofthe20thcentury 1.4 Vietnamese short stories ofthe20thcenturyThe ... important that the language resemble what they are studying, while still maintain the sophistication of language Stories ofthe20thcentury or the beginning ofthe 21 st century are of good choice...
... TABLE OF CONTENTS iv PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale for the study Scope ofthe study Objectives ofthe study Methods ofthe study ... Components of metaphor 1.1.3 Types of metaphor 1.2 Metaphor in literature 1.3 American short stories ofthe20thcentury 1.4 Vietnamese short stories ofthe20th ... 2.3.1 The description of strong emotions 23 v 2.3.2 The creation of imagery 32 2.4 Summary ofthe chapter 36 PART THREE: CONCLUSION 38 An overview of the...
... distinguished feature of literature Therefore 30 American stories and 30 Vietnamese stories of all stages ofthe20thcentury are randomly picked out as the database for this paper Objectives ofthe study ... objectives: To explore the use and formation ofthe metaphors of water and fire in the linguistic perspective, basing on the data from American and Vietnamese short stories ofthe20thcentury To compare ... provides the theoretical background ofthe study regarding major concerns in the area of metaphor and literature, and brief information about American and Vietnamese short stories ofthe20th century...
... equivalent to the thinnest layer of skin on the outside of an onion The mantle has a total thickness of 2885 km and comprises more than 80% of earth's volume (the upper part has the composition ofthe ... later, the existence of this partially liquid layer is important to the mechanics of plate tectonics The low-velocity zone makes up part ofthe asthenosphere5 that is a relatively mobile part ofthe ... the strong similarity ofthe shapes ofthe western edge of Africa and the eastern edge of South America (the idea originally came from an American named Snider-Pelligrini in 18582) and the...
... known as theGreat War I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless Instead of being the warm centre ofthe world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge ofthe universe ... wall Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor The ... blankly “Two of them we have framed down-stairs.” “Two what?” demanded Tom “Two studies Oneof them I call MONTAUK POINT— THE GULLS, and the other I call MONTAUK POINT— THE SEA.” The sister Catherine...
... refers to the consideration of meaning in an incongruent way at the level ofthe organization ofthe discourse The most congruent form of joining two ideas is An investigation into the role of metaphor ... two ways: randomly and by their popularity over the others As a result, we can insure the diversity of our data Thirdly, the language ofthe sonnets is ofthe 16th century which is quite near ... among the participants, including permanent and temporary relationships ofone kind or another, both the types of speech role that they are taking on in the dialogue and the whole cluster of socially...
... we depend on other people Causes The first cause ofthe problem of computer illiteracy is the lack of useful information in the course of information science The second cause is unwillingness ... The problem of computer illiteracy as a oneof main problems of business students Symptoms The main symptom ofthe computer illiteracy is an inability ... ask someone to something on computer for them, instead of learning how to it themselves The third cause is lack of access to computer The fourth cause is dissatisfactory school base The fifth...
... effect of FMN, but not of FAD or riboflavin, has been noticed earlier [36,37] Figure shows the effect ofthe FMN concentration on the reconstitution ofthe activity ofthe reduced SH Addition of about ... atmosphere The contents ofthe bottle were gently stirred at 30 °C in the dark Two controls were run also, one with 30 lM FMN instead of enzyme and the other with buffer alone After h, a sample ofthe ... enzyme is missing in HoxY ofthe SH, suggesting an exposure of part ofthe hydrophobic surface ofthe HoxH subunit It was therefore proposed that the HoxU subunit ofthe NADH-dehydrogenase module...
... all the hormones; omnipresent, pervasive, sustaining mist of life; energizing; father and mother of testosterone and estrogen, nicknamed the mother hormone,” the Zeus and Hera of hormones; robustly ... displays of status They often express agreement with a partner’s suggestions And when they have ideas of their own, they’ll put them in the form of questions, such as “I’ll be the teacher, okay?” Their ... by the fact that there was a two-to -one ratio of depression in women compared with men No one was offering any clear reasons for this discrepancy Because I had gone to college at the peak of the...
... in the brain, suggesting that the counter-regulation of another importin a isoform may compensate for the lack of a single isoform in vivo in mammals [21] Therefore, to determine whether the ... wild-type ovaries The graphs represent the impa5) ⁄ ) ⁄ wild-type ratio for the amount of each mRNA The data are expressed as the mean copies of each mRNA per the mRNA levels ofthe housekeeping ... import of at least some of these cofactors, although we cannot completely exclude the possibility that disruption of importin a5 reduces the import efficiency of ER On the other hand, mice knocked...
... instrument of monetary policy rather than any measures ofthe quantity of money And “inflation expectations” moved to the top ofthe list as the cause of inflation, as the money supply no longer played ... someone else, so all the stocks is change hands No new money goes into the economy.” Steve: “Right.” Warren: “And the people who sold the stock then have the money from the sale which is the money ... system6 as they would have known when they sold the uniforms to the U.S Army and had the money put into their checking account at the Fed If they want something other than dollars, they have to...
... semantic and phonetic information, read, thegreat god, foremost ofthe west, that he may give a good burial to the god’s father of Amun-Re, king of gods, Pawiaenadja, true of voice The arrow points ... earth the earliest Chinese writing was “oracle bone” script, inscribed on tortoise shell or ox bone during the Shang Dynasty, ca 1600 - 1000 BCE priests burned the shell or bone, then read the ... first page ofthe Beowulf manuscript The poem was composed between 680 and 800 CE, and the ms dates from the 10th or 11th c The sole copy was damaged in a fire in the late 18th c The futharc...