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An English-medium education system is one that uses English as the primary medium of instruction —particularly where English is not the mother tongue of students. Initially this is associated with the expansion of English from its homeland in England and the lowlands of Scotland and its spread to the rest of Great Britain and Ireland ...
Understanding Media. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which the author proposes that the media, not the content that they carry, should be the focus of study. He suggests that the medium affects the society in which it plays a role mainly by the characteristics of the medium rather than the content.
The Metz speech, in its shorter form, was originally recorded on video and was translated to the French audience by an interpreter. Dick’s speech lays out his typical, yet arcane thoughts on the philosophy of space and time, alternate universes, and the simulation argument. Declaring that "We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and ...
During a separate interview with the BBC, however, the judge had a slightly more, erm, praiseful tone when discussing Raygun’s routine.Ahem: “Breaking is all about originality and bringing ...
The New York Review was founded by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, together with publisher A. Whitney Ellsworth [5] and writer Elizabeth Hardwick.They were backed and encouraged by Epstein's husband, Jason Epstein, a vice president at Random House and editor of Vintage Books, and Hardwick's husband, poet Robert Lowell.
Rhetorical question. A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information. [ 1] In many cases it may be intended to start a discourse, as a means of displaying or emphasizing the speaker's or author's opinion on a topic. A simple example is the question "Can't you do anything right?"
Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) [1] [2] is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017).
Health effects of sunlight exposure. Exposing skin to the ultraviolet radiation in sunlight has both positive and negative health effects. On the positive side, exposure allows for the synthesis of vitamin D 3. Vitamin D has been suggested as having a wide range of positive health effects, which include strengthening bones [ 1] and possibly ...