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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Most societies, whether developed or on the verge of development are distinguished by some magnitude of male dominance. Invariably, patriarchy is embedded in the fabric of most cultures. Throughout history, men have had greater power in both the public and private spheres. To maintain this power, men have created boundaries and limitations for w...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study African art has been in contention with the growing challenges and influences imposed on it by western perspectives on modern art over the years. Among other factors, these challenges are sometimes associated with the ideal indigenous creative communication pattern and its adaptation to this burgeoning global art phenomenon without characterising a ...Continue Reading »
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» Chapter One INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The English language is a medium of international communication which mediates a whole range of cultural and cross cultural concepts. The international dimension of the use of the language is not only becoming difficult to ignore but offers the language teaching a potentially more significant role than traditional ethnocentric views of the langu...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This study is a creative and Relevance Theoretic reading of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. Language as a complex phenomenon allows for a measure of innovation and creativity and that is why even with its limited resources, man can create limitless words and sequence of words to represent the ideas, thoughts, imaginations and relationships he int...Continue Reading »
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» Chapter One Introduction 1.1 The Background of the Study Chinua Achebe as a writer sees tensions, dislocations, failures, conflicts, aberrations, developments and achievements in his society as the focal point of his artistic vision. Anthills of the Savannah is an embodiment of this awareness as the novel revolves around the crumbling hopes of nation building in a post independent African country....Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a disease in the early 1980s. With about five years, it became clear that a new epidemic of unprecedented proportions was spreading throughout the world. Destruction of the immune system, the main characteristics of the disease, caused patients to die from a range of opportunistic infections. Some peopl...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The idea of the supernatural exists in every traditional society all over the world. The ancient Greeks saw man as being a victim of the supernatural. It is however in the oral tradition that the supernatural has its strongest hold. Geoffrey Parrinder in his text African Traditional Religion says; “To Africans, the spiritual world is so real and near, its forces inte...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The notion of loanwords remains inescapable in many studies about languages of the world. As a very crucial source of language change, borrowing or lending is a process of lexical change. It entails adding new items to a language or dialect by taking them from another language or dialect directly or indirectly. Speakers of different languages al...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The English language is not indigenous to Nigeria. Yet, it is studied and used in Nigeria more actively than most of the indigenous languages. The English language is Nigeria’s second language but many parents prefer their children speaking English to their indigenous languages. In some primary schools, English is used as the medium of com...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This study, which is in five chapters, sought to determine the marked thematisation strategies in Obu Udeozo’s poetry. The background to the study examined the meaning and nature of poetry, the language question in African creative writing generally and in poetry in particular. Four research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The Hallidayan 1970 theory of thematis...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract The twenty first century African novel has been dominated by the younger generation of African female writers who are delving into tabooed areas like homosexuality, prostitution, incest, trafficking in women and minors, and issues that border on transnationality. Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street belongs to this generation. The novel captures the illicit business in huma...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study People engage in verbally mediated interactions under specific social conditions that both constrain and enable their abilities to relate to one another and to the world. These conditions are commonly treated in the literature under the rubric of context, a term that covers phenomena as varied as the immediate interpersonal setting, face to face int...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study The achievement of the organizational goal can only be made possible by co ordinate efforts. In the early days of primitive commercial activities. Little attention was given to, motivation which affected the performance and productivity of the employees. This led the two factor propounded by Fedrick Herzberg. He pointed out the good feedings; otherw...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION An accurate sales forecast helps you produce, store and ship your products more effectively. That’s why the computerized Sales Forecasting System, CSFS is the backbone to good customer service and operations planning. C.S.F.S. allows you to accurately predict future product sales based on past historical information and your future marketing plan. Computerized Sales ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Water is an essential substance in human life as it is used for various purposes sucg as drunking washing cooking. Human noroviruses cause the most gastrointestinal illness in all regions of the world, with the vast majority thought to be acquired via person to person and then by food (Ahmed et al., 2014) given the predominance of genogroup II s...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION An accurate sales analysis helps you produce, store and ship your products more effectively. That’s why the computerized Sales Analysis System, CSAS is the backbone to good customer service and operations planning. CSAS. allows you to accurately predict future product sales based on past historical information and your future marketing plan. Computerized Sales Analys...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION A quantity control system in production management qualitative technique with strong financial implications having direct relationships with production, marketing, purchasing and financial politics . Also, it is a system used in the management of stocks held by any organization as it concern addition to, storage and removals from the trading stock with appropriate reco...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The concept of `Self Help Groups` (SHG) has been given various definitions by different authors. Ghadoliya (2008) remarked that SHG is an instrument of economic empowerment. SHG is a small voluntarily association of poor people, preferably from the same socio economic the background that come together for the purpose of solving their common problem...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Language is the most remarkable tool that man has invented, which has been used to ensure survival, express ideas and emotions, tell stories, remember the past and negotiate with one another. It is a feature of every human society and culture. Azikiwe, (1998) opines that language is a human characteristic that distinguishes man from the lower animal...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, and this combination forms ideas into thoughts. Language is also described as a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group co operates. Brown (2001) defines language as an interaction, and interpersonal activi...Continue Reading »
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