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Marked and unmarked terms are very useful when analysing the representation of gender in texts as words which are marked are those which are ascribed less prestige than the standard form of a word. Gender...

A spit is a depositional landform that is a long, narrow beach of sand or shingle attached to the mainland at one end, and possibly across an estuary. The landform is formed by longshore ...

In bar 7 Vaughn Williams uses a rising phrase to reflect the text 'shining'. This could be to reflect how the sun rises as it shines in the same way the musical phrase does. This is followed by the phrase...

When T cells bind to viral antigens presented by macrophages they undergo mitosis to form 4 distinct cell variants:
Memory T cells- remain in the blood stream to initiate a faster immune response upo...

Water has strong intermolecular hydrogen bonds that hold the water molecules close together, making it very dense. As water freezes, the hydrogen bonds move further apart as it forms a hexagonal lattice. ...