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language to whom and when. In J. B. Pride, & J. Holmes, Sociolinguistics: Selected readings. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 15-32 Fridland, V. 2003. “Network strength and the realization of the southern vowel shift among African-Americans in Memphis, Tennessee.” American Speech, 78, 3-30. Garcia, M. 2003. “Recent research on language maintenance.” Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 23:…

Wildlife hunting is an important scene in American history, and had a profound impact. Animal protection activities late 19th and early 20th century is the consequences of the killing of animals caused by reflection, after the social attitude towards a shift in wildlife, animal protection, but still…

how they have started, their brief history, how they’ve changed, and how westerns have influenced them as a genre. How it started. Westerns have been around in novels before film in books such as “The Lone Ranger” The American Film institute describes films as "set in the American West that embody the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier."…

Four engineers from Microsoft Direct X team had an idea. They deconstructed a Dell Laptop and made a prototype the Direct X box (the original name for the Xbox). They shortened the name to Xbox and officially reviled the console at a game developers conference March 10, 2001. It was released November 15, 2001 in North America, Japan February 22, 2002, Australia March 14, 2002 and to Europe March 14, 2002. 2 Planning for the Xbox 360 began in February 2003. During that month 400 developers were…

embraced hardcore pay-per-view programming and has launched the hard porn channels, Spice and Vivid. In the beginning the shift proved beneficial to Playboy as in 2001 the TV production had higher margins (26%) than the magazine ones (2%) and the television business made up 45% of the revenues (Business Week, 2002). Thus, Playboy decided to expand even further and start producing its own reality shows. The most successful of those is ‘The Girls Next Door’ that is broadcasted on E! cable channel…

How could World War III be different if mind reading was a possibility? This was a possibility that the U.S. had previously experimented with. MK Ultra was an illegal experiment conducted between 1953–1964 by the Central Intelligence Agency. The goal of the MK Ultra experiments was to obtain the ability to control and read people's minds. The CIA used several different methods to control people's minds. MK Ultra was an experiment done on people from different backgrounds, knowingly and…

Geographic Areas: The population is mostly rural, concentrated in the rice growing areas of the central, northeastern, and northern regions. However, as Thailand continues to industrialize, its urban population - 31.1% of total population, principally in the Bangkok area is continually growing. iv. Migration rates and patterns: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 populations (2006 EST.) v. Ethnic groups: Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11% III. ECONOMIC STATISTICS AND ACTIVITY: 1 Thai Baht = 0.0273059164…

Just like the world we live in today, detective fiction is a male dominated genre. Detectives are usually white males who solve dangerous crimes such as murder. If women are involved, they are usually characterized as damsels in distress or femme fatales. It is a man’s world; therefore, it is the sole responsibility of men to be the protectors. For centuries, we have lived in a patriarchal society and this mindset has influenced this genre significantly. Men are deemed better detectives because…

How does the work of Banksy illustrate the changing role of graffiti street art in a global society? Abstract Previously art used to be categorized by a small number of people, housed in homes of the rich or in museums sponsored by governments. Street art, in the past, was a vehicle by which the artist communicated his name by tagging, his message from his culture and his own viewpoint. The messages were often about their own environment. In the era of globalization and travel however, the…

grounds for future damnation. But when combined in extremes, one begins to become at risk for a very complicated- and sometimes deadly -future. Originating from former FBI officer Robert Ressler in the 1970’s, the term ‘serial killer’ has become a renowned and feared word in not only American culture, but also world-wide. To begin to understand serial killers, we must first understand the differences between them and mass murderers.…