Imported Steam Ships and Their Main Engines before the Meiji Restoration

Main Memory Storage Engines

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

Nuclear Ships and Their Safety

It is not enough to seek solutions to these problems from the standpoint of an individual technical or industrial group, or even that of a nation; the whole subject needs a detailed review at the widest international level. Shipping itself is essentially an international operation and the hazards that it may entail are seldom of a purely national or even regional character. This is particularly...

Saigō Takamori and the Samurai During the Early Meiji Restoration (1860 - 1877)

For Saigō Takamori, the end of the shogunate was at hand. For three bloody and frantic days in January, 1868, his imperial army bombarded, pounded, and scattered the forces of Shogun Tokugawa Keiki. Four years of political machination, coup d'état, civil war, and radical thought had culminated at last in sweet triumph. Saigō was understandably elated. His victory meant the end of violence and t...

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...