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“Don’t be an idiot! Fight!” with the apparent title of ‘you must write it in...

It has been found that one poem consists of 16 letters in Tcheonzamun (the book of The Thousand Character Essay). The poem consists of 16 letters from 673rd to 688th characters from the Tcheonzamun....

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Making of the body: Childhood trauma in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child

The study probes into the historical and familial inherited trauma of being black in Toni Morrisons latest novel - God Help the Child. It illustrates how African American children, in Morrisons...

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Personal name and history: Change and continuity of naming practices among...

This paper addresses the change and continuity of Maccaa Oromo naming practices. Maccaa Oromo is one of Oromo moiety inhabits in western part of Oromia. Mainly data was collected from elder through...

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Exploration of factors impeding teacher education college students’ speaking...

This research was aimed at investigating factors which affect English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students speaking skills in Jimma teacher Education College. The subjects of the study were second...

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Looking at the changing world through a displaced and estranged artist: Kazuo...

Culture is a shared pattern of behaviour prevailing in a group or a society. It includes all the traditions, customs, beliefs and values that are transmitted from generation to generation and it can...

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Participant observation research of a Korean basketball club as a leisure and...

This study comprises a participant observation of a Korean basketball club as a leisure culture community. The study developed a theoretical discussion using the symbolic interactions of Mead. The...

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Teachers’ practices and beliefs regarding peer assessment in L2 writing...

This study aims at investigating practices and beliefs of teachers regarding the use of peer assessment in EFL writing in Jimma Seto Semro and Jiren preparatory and high schools in South Western...

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Ancient Koreans’ petition to God in Tcheonzamun: The thousand character essay...

The researchers found that the Tcheonzamun (The Thousand Character Essay) consists of 63 poems of 16 letters, while the last 63rd poem consists of 8 letters. The researchers looked at the history of...

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Tcheonzamun author’s prayer to God: “Save our lives, Lord!” (737th to 752nd...

In Korea, it is not known that Korean people wrote the Tcheonzamun (The Thousand Character Essay). Korean people firmly believe that Chinese people wrote the poem. Recently, the authors of present...

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“I will pray for you that you may become a man well developed and a woman in...

This study aims to study the meaning of Tcheonzamun (the book of The Thousand Character Essay) poem of 16 letters from 705 to 720th characters. The Chinese translation of this poem shows how to grow a...

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‘You are magnifique, Maeg’s descendants!’ (769th-784th characters)

The researchers studied the Tcheonzamun (The Thousand Character Essay) poem of 769 to 784th characters. The poem is composed of dialogues between an aged man and a young man, or between a husband and...

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Inflectional morphology in Mecha Oromo

This study provides relatively detailed descriptions of inflectional morphology in the Oromo language. It identifies occurrence patterns of morphemes and draws rules for inflections in the language....

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Language attrition in bicultural bilinguals: Evidence from Neo-Aramaic animal...

Animal-based metaphors are ubiquitous in natural languages with distinct cross-cultural implications. In this study, these conventional or dead metaphors, so to speak, are used as a tool to measure...

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Tracing the local culture in a reading book

There is a strong relationship between language and culture, both carries the DNA samples of one another, which makes it hard to imagine English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in classrooms and textbooks...

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Syntactic translation and semantic implications: The case of Fulfulde and...

It has been a general consensus that translation is an exercise of transferring a message, initially written or spoken in one language, into another language for the benefit of those who do not...

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Standing straight with the title, ‘As this miserable and fungus-like small...

The purpose of this study is to know the bi-language mask of Tcheonzamun expression; the real meaning. The researchers utilized two methods: interpretation through Korean pronunciation and utilization...

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Tcheonzamun author’s prayer to God: “Save our lives, Lord!” (737th to 752nd...

In Korea, it is not known that Korean people wrote the Tcheonzamun (The Thousand Character Essay). Korean people firmly believe that Chinese people wrote the poem. Recently, the authors of present...

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“I will pray for you that you may become a man well developed and a woman in...

This study aims to study the meaning of Tcheonzamun (the book of The Thousand Character Essay) poem of 16 letters from 705 to 720th characters. The Chinese translation of this poem shows how to grow a...

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‘You are magnifique, Maeg’s descendants!’ (769th-784th characters)

The researchers studied the Tcheonzamun (The Thousand Character Essay) poem of 769 to 784th characters. The poem is composed of dialogues between an aged man and a young man, or between a husband and...

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Inflectional morphology in Mecha Oromo

This study provides relatively detailed descriptions of inflectional morphology in the Oromo language. It identifies occurrence patterns of morphemes and draws rules for inflections in the language....

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