This study explored how political elites can contribute to power enactment through using language. It started with a theoretical overview of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and then presented a corpus consisting of speeches of eight political elites, namely, Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, Martin Luther King, Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Winston Churchill, J.F. Kennedy and Adolph Hitler. This stud...

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educational methods have always been one of the most important subjects for human societies. among iranian scientific and literary figures there are some, who have been closely involved with the process and the goal of educational ideas. thus, it is necessary that their ideas be taken into account by methodologists for educational and training systems. we will take a look at the opinions of far...

User Interface (UI) is that subset of a software system that interacts with the user of the system. Being a software system in itself, UI possesses certain attributes or non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as usability, reliability, simplicity, unambiguity, etc. However, recently, adaptability is emerging as an important characteristic for UI systems. Briefly, adaptability is the ability of...

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The concept of significant digits is often used in connection with rounding. Rounding to n significant digits is a more general-purpose technique than rounding to n decimal places, since it handles numbers of different scales in a uniform way. For example, the population of a city might only be known to the nearest thousand and be stated as 52,000, while the population of a country might only b...

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