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Cross-Cultural Variation of Politeness Orientation & Speech Act Perception

Cross-Cultural Variation of Politeness Orientation & Speech Act Perception

... food, the English favour gift-giving. The observed cross cultural differences in the complexity of verbal expressions for thanking and the kind of repayment gifts versus food) suggest that English ...

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A Remarkable Birthday Gift

A Remarkable Birthday Gift

... has been treated for HIV infection since childhood, with photos announcing the birth of her healthy infant boy — on my birthday. With 525 600 minutes, how indeed do we measure a year? Could it be as the late lyricist and ...

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Narratives and the gift of the future

Narratives and the gift of the future

... In Anwar’s narrative, there was a gap between “it ain’t gonna get you through anything” and “everyone needs education,” which disrupted the links between these parts of the argument, already only vaguely tied together by ...

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An Extravagant Gift From a Grateful Patient

An Extravagant Gift From a Grateful Patient

... a gift, it is important to weigh the patient’s disease course. A gift given at the end of an illness may have a different meaning than a gift given in the context of ongoing ...a gift to ...

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People with disabilities as a gift and a challenge for the church

People with disabilities as a gift and a challenge for the church

... Disability is not desired by humans. It is some kind of a lack that is perceived as suffering. Disability is a very important feature of a person who suffers from it that strongly influences his or her whole life. ...

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Gift, she said

Gift, she said

... The gift and exchange economies also produce two different kinds of ...the gift logic produces other-oriented subjectivities governed by the principle of ...a Gift’, Eila Estola finds this ...

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Teaching Federal Income Taxation Using Socioeconomics

Teaching Federal Income Taxation Using Socioeconomics

... money rather than by giving it away. For example, a taxpayer in the 39.6% bracket who gives $10,000 to Texas Wesleyan University School of Law will save at most $3960 in taxes because of the charitable deduction. The ...

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Lindsey Collen’s narrative gift: a challenge to the commodification of African literature

Lindsey Collen’s narrative gift: a challenge to the commodification of African literature

... Postcolonial Writers 3). This is clear also from Hawkins’ description of her career to date. However, what will be explored here is Collen’s assertion that she considers her narratives as gifts (a claim made in the ...

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Symbolic Exchange and the Gift: Louis-Marie Chauvet and Jacques Derrida in Dialogue

Symbolic Exchange and the Gift: Louis-Marie Chauvet and Jacques Derrida in Dialogue

... the gift is the fact that Chauvet is content to speak of the gift even within the context of some exchange ...the gift any hint of reciprocity or ...of gift exchange—as opposed to the sign and ...

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Gift Ratios in Laboratory Experiments

Gift Ratios in Laboratory Experiments

... Originator’s both decisions are nominal or rather boolean – it is either a gift or not. In av- erage, originators gift in 36.6% of samples. We calculate Kappa [32,33] to measure the inter-rater agreement ...

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Higher Education as a Gift and as a Commons

Higher Education as a Gift and as a Commons

... a gift and not a commodity: “Works of art exist simultaneously in two ‘economies’, a market economy and a gift ...no gift there is no ...no gift there is no education. How- ever the ...

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The gift of prophecy in the New Covenant.

The gift of prophecy in the New Covenant.

... But the conversion of Cornelius’ household changed all that, and Luke underlines that it was the coming of the Spirit that made the Jews realise that their theology needed to change. In Acts 10, Peter received a vision ...

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Problems and Materials in Federal Estate And Gift Taxation. By Ralph S. Rice.

Problems and Materials in Federal Estate And Gift Taxation. By Ralph S. Rice.

... Professor Rice's volume is somewhat unusual for a law school coursebook in two ways. First, it is a planning-oriented problem method coursebook not easily adapted t[r] ...

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Atheism and the gift of death

Atheism and the gift of death

... intelligible or rational. He typically urges us to be attentive to the nuances between different cases and to take contextual factors into account. 17 In this light, I think we should be more cautious than Beardsmore ...

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Baudrillard, Žižek, and the Seduction of Christ

Baudrillard, Žižek, and the Seduction of Christ

... Christ’s suffering like Baudrillard’s gift is also “meaningless, not an act of meaningful exchange.” (Žižek 2003: 125) The paradox is that Christ’s death necessarily takes the form of a sacrifice but only to the ...

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The Gift and the Centipede

The Gift and the Centipede

... initial gift induces reciprocal returns and a permanent exchange within a ...a gift stabilizes social relations between individuals and ...the Gift is understood as a universal pattern (see Hann, ...

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“Green Tea: A Medicinal Gift from Nature” by Amol S. Deshmukh, Poonam S. Wakchaure, Pravin R. Dighe, India.

“Green Tea: A Medicinal Gift from Nature” by Amol S. Deshmukh, Poonam S. Wakchaure, Pravin R. Dighe, India.

... Parkinson’s Disease: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders, characterized by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra of the basal ...

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Gift Vouchers and Expiry Dates: When the Gift Stops Giving

Gift Vouchers and Expiry Dates: When the Gift Stops Giving

... to s 8, a contract of sale may be of existing goods, owned or possessed by the seller, or future ...a gift voucher offering either a good or a service would appear to fall within the s 3 definitions ...

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Gift exchange at the court of Charles the Bold

Gift exchange at the court of Charles the Bold

... essay’s purposes is to investigate this claim, but my larger concern is to make sense of the pat- terns of gift-giving evidenced by the available sources. As we shall see, in 1468, the year cho- sen for close ...

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Ethical considerations for HIV cure-related research at the end of life

Ethical considerations for HIV cure-related research at the end of life

... Last Gift study participants to under- stand why they decide to participate in EOL HIV cure-related research and take on additional risks and burdens for the benefit of others ...Last Gift participants de- ...

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