! Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag for the 1978 San Francisco's Gay Freedom Celebration. In the original eight-color version, pink stood for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony and violet for the soul.! First unveiled on 12/5/98 the bisexual pride flag was designed by Michael Page. This rectangular flag ...

I even made use of military marches as a means of speeding up their jumping, climbing and running." The problem has been treated by many writers since Seguin, but few of their studies do more than paraphrase the sentences just quoted, although they often then attempted to solve several very different problems at one and the same time. The first of these concerns the interest taken by mental def...

Writing assistance systems, from simple spelling checkers to more complex grammar and readability analyzers, can be helpful aids to nonnative writers of English. However, many writing assistance systems have two disadvantages. First, they are not designed to encourage skills learning and independence in their users; instead, users may begin to use the system as a crutch. Second, they use a “one...

BACKGROUND Many papers in biomedical journals are drafted not by the named authors, but by professional medical writers working under the direction of those authors, usually funded by pharmaceutical companies. Although this practice can improve both the quality and speed of publications, it has attracted controversy as a result of concerns about the inappropriate influence of pharmaceutical com...

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Research in the language patterns that experienced writers use has now reached the point of providing useful suggestions for helping basic writing students achieve rapid and effective growth in writing. Shaughnessy, Hunt, Christensen, Williams, and the sentence combiners are among the many composition researchers and instructors who have observed that written English is different from spoken En...

the patient’s story, and enjoy the interaction with patients and families. They are also part of the full gamut of life experiences and events, often in dramatic fashion. Smithers noted that “opportunities for the close observation of the great variety of men and women under conditions of stress, suffering, relief and bereavement has been theirs; indeed they have seen more of the triumph of the...

In the article, starting point of study is changes in semantic aspects work by Russian emigrant writers first wave. These bring conceptually significant topics to pages their works, thus highlighting scale global catastrophe. It argued that, under these conditions, an objective pattern a change genre preferences, particular, writers’ turn memoir genres as most relevant context emigration, which...

abstract the ancient history and culture of iran has been a main field of research for many writers in the contemporary times. among these writers is hushang golshiri. in many of his works, in fifth innocent and shazdeh ehtejab (prince ehtejab) in particular, he has paid great attention to history. the main question of the present study is to discuss how golshiri has dealt with story and myth i...