The First Campaign of Heraclius against Persia

A Campaign against Consumption

Dr. A. Ransome is the author of several wellknown books on the Causes and Prevention of Phthisis and on the open-air treatment. The present volume is a collection of papers written at various periods during a fifty years' campaign against consumption. Many of the articles deal with the subject from a public health point of view, and others are on more scientific aspects of the problem. The subj...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

False Campaign Speech and the First Amendment

Although campaign reformers may believe otherwise, it is not only the money in campaigns that is problematic. Campaign speech can also threaten the integrity of the electoral process. It can be misleading, manipulative, offensive, defamatory, and, in the case of judicial campaigns, unethical. It can distort the issues, distract the voters from making informed decisions, inhibit voter turnout, a...

The campaign against leprosy in Venezuela.

Campaigns which have long been carried on against infecti ous or contagious diseases have evolved systematically a s new knowledge has been acquired of their pathogenicity , epidemiology, immunology, etc. The use of modern antibacterial drugs again st the sources of infection, the destruction of vectors, and the immunization of susceptible per sons . are effective methods which have r eplaced f...

The Campaign against Tuberculosis in Italy