Question:
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(CNN) -- The chief prosecutor in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius accused him on Monday of "tailoring" his version of how he killed his girlfriend, as the grueling cross-examination of the track star went into a second week. 

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel has accused the athlete of hiding the truth about the death of Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot last year through a closed toilet door in his luxury home in Pretoria, South Africa. 

His questions have sought to undermine Pistorius' reliability and credibility and to portray the Olympic and Paralympic athlete as someone who was inventing his version of events to suit his story. 

Nel, known in South African legal circles for his bulldog-like approach to questioning, has gone through minute detail regarding the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, repeatedly challenging the double amputee over his actions that night. 

On Monday, in yet another intense scrutiny of his story, the prosecutor again tried to exhaustively highlight apparent inconsistencies between Pistorius' bail application and his testimony in court to show he is "tailoring his evidence" to suit the defense case. 

"I am going to point out to you how improbable your version is," Nel told the runner, who sat immobile, staring ahead at the judge as he answered questions. 

The prosecution's argument is that Pistorius shot Steenkamp intentionally after a heated argument. Pistorius does not deny shooting her but insists that he mistook her for an intruder. 

"I did not fire at Reeva," Pistorius told the court, his voice breaking, causing a second brief adjournment in the day's proceedings so he could gather himself. 
1. Who is on trial for murder?
2. who was he accused of killling?
3. who was she to him?
4. what was his profession?
5. Did he tell the truth about how he killed her?
6. who did?
7. who is he?
8. how did oscar kill his girlfriend?
9. was he an olympian?
10. was he a paralympian?
11. where is Nel from?
12. what animal was he compared to?
13. what day did the killing occur?
14. what year?
15. how many limbs did oscar have removed?
16. who did Oscar say he thought he was shooting?
17. Did his voice break?
18. was it the first adjournment?
19. was it a long one?
20. what city was reeva shot in?

Numbered answers:
1. Oscar Pistorius
2. Reeva Steenkamp
3. his girlfriend
4. track star
5. accused the athlete of hiding the truth
6. Gerrie Nel
7. chief prosecutor
8. shot last year through a closed toilet door
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. South African
12. bulldog
13. Valentine's Day
14. 2013
15. two
16. an intruder
17. Yes
18. No
19. No
20. Pretoria


Question:
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CHAPTER 9 

P. Henry.--But do you use me thus, Ned; must I marry your sister? Poins.--May the wench have no worse fortune, but I never said so. 

--K. Henry IV 

Arthur met the new-comer, exclaiming, 'Ha! Fotheringham, you have not brought me the amber mouth-piece I desired John to tell you of.' 

'Not I. I don't bring Turks' fashion into Christian countries. You ought to learn better manners now you are head of a family.' 

Theodora entered, holding her head somewhat high, but there was a decided heightening of the glow on her cheek as Mr. Fotheringham shook hands with her. Lord Martindale gave him an affectionate welcome, and Lady Martindale, though frigid at first, grew interested as she asked about his journey. 

The arriving guests met him with exclamations of gladness, as if he was an honour to the neighbourhood; and John had seldom looked more cheerful and more gratified than in watching his reception. 

At length came the names for which Violet was watching; and the presence of Lady Elizabeth gave her a sense of motherly protection, as she was greeted with as much warmth as was possible for shy people in the midst of a large party. Emma eagerly presented her two friends to each other, and certainly they were a great contrast. Miss Marstone was sallow, with thin sharply-cut features, her eyes peered out from spectacles, her hair was disposed in the plainest manner, as well as her dress, which was anything but suited to a large dinner-party. Violet's first impulse was to be afraid of her, but to admire Emma for being attracted by worth through so much formidable singularity. 
1. Who was giving motherly protection?
2. Who was holding their head high?
3. Why were the guests glad?
4. Who were Emma's 2 friends?
5. who did not want to wear Turks fashion?
6. Was he also the newcomer?
7. Who was frigid toward Theodora?
8. What or who was Violet watching?
9. who was was considered the head of the family?
10. who had sharply cut features?

Numbered answers:
1. Lady Elizabeth
2. Theodora
3. He was an honour to the neighbourhood
4. Violet and Miss Marstone.
5. Fotheringham.
6. Fotheringham.
7. Lady Martindale.
8. Lady Elizabeth
9. Arthur.
10. Miss Marstone.


Question:
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Semiotics (also called semiotic studies); is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication. It is not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology which is a subset of semiotics This includes the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. 

The semiotic tradition explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. As different from linguistics, however, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems. 

Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions; for example, the Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco proposed that every cultural phenomenon may be studied as communication. Some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science, however. They examine areas belonging also to the life sciences—such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take "signs" or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics (including zoosemiotics). 

The term derives from the Greek σημειωτικός "sēmeiōtikos", "observant of signs", (from σημεῖον "sēmeion", "a sign, a mark",) and it was first used in English prior to 1676 by Henry Stubbes (spelt "semeiotics") in a very precise sense to denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs. John Locke used the term "sem(e)iotike" in book four, chapter 21 of "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1690). Here he explains how science may be divided into three parts:
1. What is the other name of Semiotics?
2. What does it study?
3. Does it get mixed up with a tradition?
4. With what?
5. What tradition it belongs to?
6. Does it fall under some other category?
7. of what?
8. What does it explore?
9. Is it same as linguistics?
10. Do they have anything in common?
11. What?
12. How the term came about?
13. What does it mean?
14. In what language?
15. What is the root word?
16. What does it mean?
17. Who first used it in English?
18. How did he spell it?
19. Which year?
20. Who else used it around that time?


Numbered answers:
1. semiotic studies
2. meaning-making
3. yes
4. semiology
5. Saussurean
6. yes
7. semiotics
8. study of signs and symbols
9. no
10. yes
11. non-linguistic sign systems
12. from sēmeiōtikos
13. observant of signs
14. Greek
15. sēmeion
16. a sign, a mark
17. Henry Stubbes
18. semeiotics
19. prior to 1676
20. John Locke