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Threepeat and the Oxford English Dictionary

it is to be presumed. And, in the end, if the goal of the creators of the dictionary is to present an accurate picture and depicti...

Minority Students and Higher Accountability In Standardized Reading Tests

doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and How Satire is Used

be a way of discreetly getting his message across while solidifying his professional literary reputation.5 His greatest satirical...

Why English Should Not Be the U.S. Official Language

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

The Culture of the Beowulf Poem

faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...

Meaning and Rules in Teaching ESL

128). This individual clearly is quite capable, and sensitive to the nuances of language. Fu and Townsend (1998) quote ano...

Case Study on CIF Contract and International Contract Requirements

also be seen as the natural forum. Where there is a dispute jurisdiction will become an important issue. Even where this is stat...

Different English Law Areas and Court Jurisdiction

laid down by legislation only. Land law appears complex in the way it is put together and the number of different courts or tribun...

Contract Law Case and the Internet

not on receipt. Looking at the level of the income we need to look at the exchange rate at the end of February, as the payment for...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice According to Dorothy Van Ghent

surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...

An Analysis of Dr. Georgi Lozanov's Integrated Learning Techniques

element and understand the theory behind it. Dr. Lazanov developed this process in the 1970s (Lazanov and Gateva, 1988). ...

Experience and Ideas According to John Locke

(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

Bilingual Education Argument

is embraced by American schools to varying degrees. Still, the subject usually attracts heated debates. Bilingual education is t...

United Kingdom Shipping Laws and Ownership Risk Positions

The move to non accompanied goods was also one that has created increased complexities with reference to the contract of sale and ...

Production and the Acquisition of English as a Second Language

inherent in the human brain (Archangeli, 1997). Native speakers of a language learn their mother tongue as toddlers because they a...

Businesses and International Law

the seeking of an injunction and force compliance with the law (August, 2000). There is also the potential for action to be bro...

Does the World Respect English Insolvency Law?

the different corporate culture within the UK when compared to other European countries, such as Germany, where there is a more so...

Greece and Insurable Interest

FOB are given uniform definition and the responsibilities of each party, such as insurance, are clearly outlined (Incoterms, 2004)...

Faulty Goods and Unfair Contract Exclusions Cases of English Contract Law

section 2 (2) states that this cannot be excluded apart form where it is reasonable to do so. Section 2 (23) also states that were...

English Tort Law and the Fault Principle

London Electricity Board (1965) cannot be seen as having an intention to create harm. This leads to the presence of fault through...

Three Questions of British Commercial Law

A three part English law paper addressing three specific questions relating to insolvency law, agency, and contract law. The auth...

Class Rights Variation and Corporate Control

example, preference shareholders will still usually have the rights to attend meetings, even where voting rights are not held. Thi...

Reflective Learning Document on Safety and Health Policy Formation Information

party where contact may result in exposure of a risk. For a small company with no employees the lessons of the health...

English Language Teaching Methods Critically Compared

speak English as a native language; rather, the extent to which focused training serves to mold an effective ESL instructor is bot...

Rights of Third Parties, Privity, and English Contract Law

a contract we can see that this was allowed under Dutton v Poole (1677) 2 Lev 211 (Flannigan, 1987). This is also referred to by D...

Partial Debt Payment and the Role of Promissory Estoppel

to this, for example, in Pinnels Case (1602) 5 Co Rep 117a it was found that where the payment of part of a debt was at the credit...

Land Theft and Adverse Possession

for the occupant of the land that they have a possession that "becomes impregnable, giving him a title that is superior to all oth...

Caribbean English Speaking Nations, Trade, and the Global Economy

it as developmentally deficient. The dilemma the English speaking Caribbean nations find themselves in is just one more nic...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...