Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Leipzig (Insitut f r Anglistik), course: Psycholinguistics, language: English, abstract: "Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot." If Star Wars is an important step in the history of film, Master Yoda's way of speaking is one in the establishment of linguistic awareness beyond linguistic circles. His way of speaking has become a cult over the years and his quotations are widely known, not only among Star Wars fans. Even somebody who has not seen any of the six episodes (so did the author of this paper) is very likely to know to whom sentences like the above-mentioned quotation refer. This is due to the fact that Master Yoda, to whom the sentence can be attributed, has a very unique way of speaking; the syntactic structure underlying his utterances is of a high recognition value.
Das vorliegende Buch wendet sich vor allem an private Anleger und Unternehmer aus dem Mittelstand, die sich einen Überblick verschaffen wollen, ob die Ausrichtung auf ?Venture Capital? bzw. ?Private Equity? eine erfolgversprechende Strategie von heute und morgen darstellen kann.Durch Veränderungen in der Unternehmensfinanzierung, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit ?Basel II?, haben vor allem mittelständische Unternehmen und innovative Start-ups zunehmend Schwierigkeiten, ihre Finanzierung sicherzustellen: Zeitlich begrenzt investiertes Eigenkapital von Anlegern kann eine Alternative sein. ?Private Equity? für etablierte Unternehmen und ?Venture Capital? für neu gegründete junge Unternehmen sind sowohl flexible Finanzierungsinstrumente aus der Sicht kapitalsuchender Unternehmen als auch interessante Anlagen bzw. Investitionsmöglichkeiten für renditesuchende Kapitalanleger. Investoren in ?Venture Capital? bzw. ?Private Equity? können damit zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen: Renditestarke Anlagen realisieren
Power. Passion. Betrayal.Claudia has a privileged life. Niece of Rome's favoured warrior, she lives in luxury, surrounded by her family and tended by slaves. Gifted with second sight, her dreams tell her many things, from which gladiator will win the battle in the Coliseum to the secret enemies who plot against the Emperor. When Claudia falls deeply in love with a charismatic soldier known as Pilate, she determines to win his heart, whatever the cost. But Rome is built on powerful, treacherous alliances, and while Pilate's star continues to rise, shame and tragedy stalk Claudia's family. As a circle of betrayal and despair threatens to encompass her, Claudia realises her fate and future happiness is inextricably bound with a man who appears in her dreams, a man who wears a crown of thorns, a man she knows her husband must not condemn to death...'[Claudia] makes the female experience of past millennia exotic yet universal' USA TODAY'Breathes fresh air into the historical genre . . . A story of opulence, greed, lust and the power of women' South Wales Argus
