Essays Tagged: "Distinctive feature"

Instrumental History Of the Drums

ouble-skinneddrum of medieval times known as the tabor. This drum, also called a side drum, has its distinctive feature several gut or wire strings that stretch acrossthe instruments lower skin. The u ...

(1 pages) 51 0 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Blade Runner: Machine will take over

s often referred to as a futuristic Film Noir due to its visual style. Lighting is usually the most distinctive feature of Film Noir, using highly contrasted areas of light and shade. The use of stron ...

(4 pages) 90 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Significance/Function of Phonological Rules in Language

natSet Feature-addition rules are rules that add non-distinctive features to a sound. These non-distinctive features are predictable and do not affect th ... nd column. If you switch the aspiration you will not get a change in meaning, therefore it is a non-distinctive feature.A third phonological rule is the Segment Deletion Rules. These rules state that ...

(3 pages) 65 0 4.1 Jul/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Bagobo Tagabawa Beliefs

ings they obtain immunity from malignancy spirits called buso and spirits of the departed. A distinctive feature of Bagobo rituals used to be the practice of offering human sacrifices or paghua ...

(7 pages) 28 0 4.4 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Ambiguity

two possible interpretations and the reader cannot determine from the sentence which is correct. A distinctive feature, of ambiguity is that one sound makes another sound significant. However meaning ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

The Confedrate Nation

o stone, they would defend their, "peculiar institution," at all costs."Racial slavery was the most distinctive feature of southern life." Before the war slavery was being established in the South and ...

(3 pages) 13 0 0.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Anish Kapoor

ondon to study art. On a trip back to India he began to use the local pigments, which have become a distinctive feature of his work. From the mid-1980s, Kapoor used blue pigments, especially on blocks ...

(1 pages) 1868 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Images of Alexander

tuette are his sunken eyes, possessing a piercing and powerful gaze, and his hair, perhaps his most distinctive feature, falling over his face in the typical anastole. With his right foot ahead of his ... ile Alexander's statue need not commemorate his greatness in such grandeur. Perhaps the most distinctive difference between the two statues lies in the clothing, or lack thereof, in which each ...

(7 pages) 14 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Research into Autism

either themselves or those around them. The inability to read other people's minds appears to be a distinctive feature of autism. There is a great deal of empirical and anecdotal evidence to support ...

(4 pages) 85 0 3.5 Mar/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Home Depot Inc. Case Analysis

viding high quality products with low prices. Beside providing best quality products, the company's distinctive feature was that they provided knowledgeable customer services. All sales personnel were ...

(9 pages) 150 0 1.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Personnel in Technology

nce on effective technological support teams. The creation of teams like this requires a unique and distinctive feature that separate organizations with technology support teams from any other organiz ...

(4 pages) 182 0 3.7 Jan/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

CELTA - Language Analysis.

of the target language.There + is/are + not enough + noun + V1Identify any significant phonological features of the target language.Describe the meaning, write concept questions (and their answers) to ... hing context for presenting the new language.Draw a TV on the board. Get the students to elicit the features of the TV e.g. Surround sound, flat screen etc. Ask the students if they would like to have ...

(5 pages) 97 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Art Essays

Articluation

ng pronounced interchangeably. Another common issue for French speakers is word stress. Stress is a distinctive feature of English, but in French, "stress placement does not vary across words" (Trembl ...

(7 pages) 23 0 0.0 Apr/2010

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics