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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results for 'tag:Whom tag:Regards' matching tags 'Whom' and 'Regards'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aWhom+tag%3aRegards&amp;tag=Whom,Regards&amp;orTags=0</link><description>Search results for 'tag:Whom tag:Regards' matching tags 'Whom' and 'Regards'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3125.9045)</generator><item><title>a very short letter-have to send it today....please help</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortLetterSend/ghpdx/post.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:04:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:539917</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;br /&gt;Hi:) I am wondering if you could check&amp;nbsp;my e-mail to the recruitment officer with whom I spoke last week. I gave him my CV and he sent it to the potential employer. I would like to know what decision they made. Therefore, I wrote an informal e-mail to the recruitment ofiicer. I&amp;#39;ll be pleased if you could help me to improve it. Thank you:)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Dear John,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried to catch you in the office today but unfortunately you were out.&amp;nbsp;I am just wondering whether you are still considering me as a candidate for the position of Data Entry Clerk. I yes, I would like to confirm that I am still available and able to start immediately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regards,</description></item><item><title>Motivation letter for a Ph.D.</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MotivationLetterForAPhD/ghdmk/post.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:45:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:536598</guid><dc:creator>djoe</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Hi everyone,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have written a draft for a motivation letter, which i&amp;#39;ll include in a Ph.D. application.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because, at the moment, I don&amp;#39;t have acces to someone from whom I can get feed back, I&amp;#39;ll post it here, and hopefuly someone will be able to read it and comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you in advance to whom might read it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To whom it may concern,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Application for the *** Ph.D. Program&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The present letter will explain the reasons why I&amp;#39;m applying to a Ph.D.&lt;br /&gt;degree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By enrolling on the undergraduate course on Systems and Informatics &lt;br /&gt;Engineering at the *** University, I came in contact with different &lt;br /&gt;paradigms, technics and methodologies for software development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the early years of my studies at the university I was a student of &lt;br /&gt;Professor *** which introduced &lt;br /&gt;me to the basis of Formal Methods for software development and verification.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon I discovered the interest for Formal Methods, and&lt;br /&gt;got involved in the Grand Challenge in Computer Science initiative.&lt;br /&gt;This experience gave me a taste of what research in Formal Methods is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before terminating the under-graduation I entered another challenge like &lt;br /&gt;project, forming a team of students like my self for the *** &lt;br /&gt;contest, under the category of Software Design.&lt;br /&gt;We made it through to the *** finals with a project for a &lt;br /&gt;distributed environment where mobile devices could be used to increment the&lt;br /&gt;contents already available on social data sources like Wikipedia, and others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enrolling in the MSc on Informatics at *** was a natural choice in order to &lt;br /&gt;keep working with, and in, Formal Methods,&lt;br /&gt;allowing me to continue the research in the context of the Grand Challenge.&lt;br /&gt;My thesis subject is ***, which includes&lt;br /&gt;building formal models of a informal specification and it&amp;#39;s correction&lt;br /&gt;verification.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Professor ***&amp;#39;s supervision I have done research on the&lt;br /&gt;possibility to use different tools for different aspects of the formal &lt;br /&gt;development and verification of software.&lt;br /&gt;Which lead to a paper submitted and, presented by me, on the *** &lt;br /&gt;Workshop at the *** symposium.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The contact with researchers from all over the world made me want to keep&lt;br /&gt;doing research on Formal Methods, and push the Grand Challenge initiative&lt;br /&gt;further with my contribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2007 I was invited to join a development team, as a junior developer, to &lt;br /&gt;design and build an information system for the &amp;quot;*** *** ***&amp;quot; (***).&lt;br /&gt;From November/2007 to May/2008 I worked at the *** facilities together with&lt;br /&gt;domain experts to design and build the software system, while maintaining the&lt;br /&gt;research related with my MSc studies at the university.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that through Formal Methods one can achieve true engineering &lt;br /&gt;concepts for software correction by construction, and that, due to the &lt;br /&gt;overwhelming expansion of software applications, not only critical systems&lt;br /&gt;should be proven safe and correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nowadays software is embedded in almost every system we use, and in most &lt;br /&gt;cases,&lt;br /&gt;the producers os these artifacts not only don&amp;#39;t provide warranty, but will &lt;br /&gt;relieve themselves from any obligation with disclaimer notices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Formalizing software development, as other engineering driven development &lt;br /&gt;communities have done in the past, will give it scientific grounds to hold on,&lt;br /&gt;and probably increase its quality.&lt;p&gt;Kind Regards,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: To Whom It May Concern</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ToWhomItMayConcern/gzkkw/post.htm#528759</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:15:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:528759</guid><dc:creator>Osee</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Clive,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I usually start my letter by &amp;quot;Dear Madam or Sir.&amp;quot; I have noticed many times that natives started letters by &amp;quot;Dear Sir or Madam.&amp;quot; I do not understand this because I thougth it is against both the &amp;quot;lady first&amp;quot; thing and the fact letter M preceding letter S.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Regards, Osee 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/englishforums/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Clive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;Hi Forbes,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;d be reluctant to just say to English learners that it&amp;#39;s for writing a letter to someone whose identity you don&amp;#39;t know. With a definition that simple, I&amp;#39;d prefer to say that you should write &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&amp;#39;Dear Sir or Madam&amp;#39;&lt;/font&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Best wishes, Clive&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;</description></item><item><title>Review Experience letter (reference letter)</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ReviewExperienceLetterReference-Letter/gvnhg/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:28:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:524660</guid><dc:creator>wickedweapon</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please review my experience letter (reference letter) and kindly give suggestiuons on how I can improve it.Feel free to make changes yourself if required in order to make it better.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span&gt;TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is to certify that&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;--&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;s/o&lt;u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;has been working as a Software Engineer at&lt;u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/u&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; from&lt;u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;to&lt;u&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;During his service he was responsible for the engineering diverse; web and desktop based projects involving the usage of various latest and cutting-edge technologies, such as Visual Studio.NET, VC#.NET,VB.NEt, ASP.NET, XML, SQL Server , Crystal Reports.NET,Windows Services,Web Services, just to name a few.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;He was a part of large scale projects in which he grasped knowledge of designing and developing CRM Applications. His skills were also proved as a Software Support Engineer in projects.His contribution in&amp;nbsp;a client facing position has been much appreciated.&amp;nbsp;He has a satisfactory exposure to SDLC.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;He successfully worked on the following projects:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;Project description and Clients&amp;#39; List&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;As a Software Engineer he has been responsible for the following&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span&gt;MR.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;has been sincere, hard working, responsible, intelligent and competent asset of the company. His quick learning, creative and problem solving skills under pressure are commendable. He approaches his work in a professional manner and is well regarded by his colleagues.He is well-presented and able to work both independently and as part of a team.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span&gt;I believe that __ will make a valuable addition to any organization that he may join. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;Best regards,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;Author&amp;#39;s Info&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestRegardsRegardsYoursSincerely-Correct/10/gvwwb/Post.htm#523227</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:51:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:523227</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Yours sincerely and Yours faithfully&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In the UK, traditional valedictions have been mainly replaced by &amp;quot;Yours sincerely&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Yours faithfully&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Do not paste and copy lengthy material without citing references-- MM)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a id="I_have_the_honour_to_remain.2C_Madam.2C_Your_Majesty.27s_most_humble_and_obedient_servant" name="I_have_the_honour_to_remain.2C_Madam.2C_Your_Majesty.27s_most_humble_and_obedient_servant"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;I personally feel that Kind Regards or Best Regards sounds cold and distant.&amp;nbsp; Yours Truely.....or anything starting out with YOURS is to personal. A simple Thank You is warm, professional, and friendly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Petyon/ HR Manager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Could anyone lookthrough my Illustration Essay? "The Impossible Peace"</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CouldAnyoneLookthroughIllustration-EssayImpossiblePeace/gvrkm/post.htm#520960</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 16:18:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:520960</guid><dc:creator>Chibi</dc:creator><description>&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffffff;"&gt;Sorry, there&amp;#39;s a problem with the former posted entry!&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffffff;"&gt;There Is&lt;/font&gt; No &amp;quot;Together&amp;quot; In Jerusalem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;For Jews and Muslims, Jerusalem has been a city of hope and loss. It has been their homeland but also their battlefield. Its history has been filled with great joy but also with tragedy. In Hebrew, the name &amp;quot;Jerusalem&amp;quot; literally means a &amp;quot;city of peace&amp;quot; Ironically, &lt;span&gt;people there have not seem such thing for a long time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;people there have not seem to live in harmony for ages)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; There have been numbers of peace plans to settle this conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians but &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;not even one has succeeded&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;everything has failed to succeed)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;; &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;occasionally, they have even worsened the situ&lt;/font&gt;ation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(U should write this clause as a separated sentence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;. One of the most well-known solutions is the Oslo Accord, the first official agreement signed by the leaders of both sides. It was first seen as &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;the)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; hope &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;to the end of the conflict&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(âto end the conflictâ is better)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;that&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;so that)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; they would live peacefully &amp;nbsp;together in a bi-national state. &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;Yet&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; However â in written language, it is better not to start a sentence with Yet/ But)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;, some groups did not accept it and launched a series of suicide bombings. This accord is now viewed to have brought more hatred and violation to the area. Nevertheless, there are still many attempts. It seems that they could live together peacefully since &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;they are similar in many ways regarding their religions and ancestor&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;(&lt;/font&gt;try another expression &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; better)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; However, after carefully &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;examined&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(examining)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;current situations and history, &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;one&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(U mean who?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;has to admit that they will never &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;co-exist&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(word choice?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; peacefully in this common area. &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;It is due to their beliefs that Jerusalem&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;belongs only to them and no one else.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(I think the use of pronounce is not clear here. âTheyâ &amp;amp; âtheirâ mean who: Jews or Muslims?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; Furthermore, they hate each other so much that they will never want to live together.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The first reason &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;why&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;two-state solution is &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;impossible&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;(&lt;/font&gt;be impossible to do sth)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; is &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;because&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; that)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;they believe&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(omit this word)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;all areas of Jerusalem belong to only their people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;. From the Jewish perspective, they have all the rights over this land due to God&amp;#39;s will as well as their long close connection to it. According to the Bible, four thousands years ago, God promised that he will give Abraham, father of all the Jews, and his children the land of Canaan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;or what is&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(omit)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; now the capital of the State of Israel. Since then, Jewish people have been waiting for that day &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;to come&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(omit)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;. The word &amp;quot;Jerusalem&amp;quot; is repeatedly mentioned several times in their daily prayers as well as in many special occasions, for instance, the Passover(Spiro, 2000). In addition, this area had once been under the reign of Jewish kings who had ruled for hundreds of years and built the first Jewish temple in this area. This temple has been &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;the focus of&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(I guess a problem with word choice here)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; Jewish people around the world. They regard it as &amp;quot;the house of the Lord&amp;quot;(Bible in Spiro, 2000) and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;direction&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(word choice, again?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;in which they say their prayers to. If there is a place on earth that all Jews are willing to sacrifice their lives for, it would be this very place. A Jewish mayor once stated that this land represents, &amp;quot;the purist expression of all that Jews prayed for, dreamed of, cried for, and died for&amp;quot;(Pipes, 2001).&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Conversely, from the Palestinian perspective, they are blessed people who deserve the rights &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;over to&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; this holy place, not the cursed Jews. In the Koran, Jerusalem is said to be blessed. It was where Prophet Muhammed was taken up to heaven and met other Prophets(Spiro, 2000). The significance of it had been emphasized several times by Prophet Muhammed himself through his teachings. He stated that it is where a single act of worship is equal to a thousand, and whoever die there or near by would directly go to heaven(Soufan, n.d.). These have made it one of the three holiest place in Islam. Furthermore, in the Koran, while Muslims are regarded to be the most prestigious group of people, Jews are the opposite, &amp;quot;cursed and condemned&amp;quot;(Abbadi, n.d.). Thus, as it is required in Muslim faith, it is their duty to protect a religious site from being contaminated by those corrupted people and bring the holy place back to the right owners.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;The second reason two-state solution is impossible is because of the prolonged aversion that&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;they will never agree to live with their enemies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; In the last eight years, approximately 5,000 Palestinians have been killed &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;with&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; and)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; more than 33,000 have been injured(Palestine Red Crescent, 2008). &lt;span&gt;The causes were mostly due to shootings as well as tear gas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(try another expression here)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; Many of the others have been forced to leave their home making approximately 4.4 millions Palestine refugees around the world now(United Nations, 2008). Owing to the loss of ones they love and the harshness of dispersing, hatred has developed. Their &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;expression&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(word choice?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; of hatred has been from incitement of violation to suicide bombings. Terribly, &lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span&gt;those &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;who carried &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;those&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; horrors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(repetition should not be occur)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;were of all ages including young children. In school textbooks, Israel is described to be &amp;amp;#8220;a country of gangs, born in crime&amp;quot;(Israel Ministry, 2001) with Jews who are &amp;quot;arrogant and sly traitors&amp;quot;(Israel Ministry, 2001). These are what all children in Palestinian school have been educated, or to be more accurate, &amp;quot;brainwashed.&amp;quot; Not to mention the impacts from family and society in which those children have been raised. Thus, hatred has been &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;deepening&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(deepened)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; in all Palestinian hearts both of this generation and the coming generation. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;In responding to Palestinian violence, Israel has established a military force and checkpoints to limit the number of Palestinians coming to Israel. The primary objective was to prevent terrorists. However, the presence of humiliation during the search, suffering from long waits at checkpoints, and soldiers&amp;#39; attacks on innocent civilians, has only brought more hatred among them(The Nation, 2008, p. 9A).&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;It is ironic that a supposed city of peace is actually the most &lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;contentious&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;(&lt;/font&gt;word choice)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;city on earth. Numerous peace plans have been made but then were collapsed. The hatred between Israelis and Palestinians has been strongly expressed though violation, and each has clearly stated that they are the only group whom Jerusalem belongs to. This contention has accumulated over a long period of time and it is getting worse. It is useless to force them to live together. No such plans have ever worked and will never work. At least they have given it a try, nevertheless. There is always a light in the dark, I believe. When the darkness disappears, the light would shine. Even though I have concluded that the Jews and Palestinians will never &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00;"&gt;co-exist&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; together in Jerusalem, I always wish that I have been wrong. Let the light shine and the city of peace becomes real.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;* If I were u, I will express like: &lt;i&gt;Firstly, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;two-state solution fail to succee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;d because &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;they believ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;e that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;all areas of Jerusalem belong to only their people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Could anyone lookthrough my Illustration Essay? "The Impossible Peace"</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CouldAnyoneLookthroughIllustration-EssayImpossiblePeace/gvrkj/post.htm#520957</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 16:07:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:520957</guid><dc:creator>Chibi</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I have no ideas about the content or the organization of focused points. I just have some suggestions on word choices, expressions and grammar. The highlighted lines include possible problems and the red words are my suggestions to improve the writing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hope that it&amp;#39;ll be useful!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;There Is No &amp;quot;Together&amp;quot; In Jerusalem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;For Jews and Muslims, Jerusalem has been a city of hope and loss. It has been their homeland but also their battlefield. Its history has been filled with great joy but also with tragedy. In Hebrew, the name &amp;quot;Jerusalem&amp;quot; literally means a &amp;quot;city of peace&amp;quot; Ironically, &lt;span&gt;people there have not seem such thing for a long time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; people there have not seem to live in harmony for ages)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; There have been numbers of peace plans to settle this conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians but &lt;span&gt;not even one has succeeded&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; everything has failed to succeed)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;; &lt;span&gt;occasionally, they have even worsened the situation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(U should write this clause as a separated sentence &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; be clearer)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;. One of the most well-known solutions is the Oslo Accord, the first official agreement signed by the leaders of both sides. It was first seen as &lt;span&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; the)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; hope &lt;span&gt;to the end of the conflict&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(âto end the conflictâ is better)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; so that)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; they would live peacefully &amp;nbsp;together in a bi-national state. &lt;span&gt;Yet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; However â in written language, it is better not to start a sentence with Yet/ But)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;, some groups did not accept it and launched a series of suicide bombings. This accord is now viewed to have brought more hatred and violation to the area. Nevertheless, there are still many attempts. It seems that they could live together peacefully since &lt;span&gt;they are similar in many ways regarding their religions and ancestor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(try another expression &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; better)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; However, after carefully &lt;span&gt;examined&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(examining)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;current situations and history, &lt;span&gt;one&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(U mean who?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;has to admit that they will never &lt;span&gt;co-exist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(word choice?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; peacefully in this common area. &lt;span&gt;It is due to their beliefs that Jerusalem belongs only to them and no one else.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(I think the use of pronounce is not clear here. âTheyâ &amp;amp; âtheirâ mean who: Jews or Muslims?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; Furthermore, they hate each other so much that they will never want to live together.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The first reason &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;why&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;two-state solution is &lt;span&gt;impossible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(be impossible to do sth)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; is &lt;span&gt;because&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; that)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;they believe &lt;span&gt;that&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(omit this word)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;all areas of Jerusalem belong to only their people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;. From the Jewish perspective, they have all the rights over this land due to God&amp;#39;s will as well as their long close connection to it. According to the Bible, four thousands years ago, God promised that he will give Abraham, father of all the Jews, and his children the land of Canaan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;or what is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(omit)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; now the capital of the State of Israel. Since then, Jewish people have been waiting for that day &lt;span&gt;to come&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(omit)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;. The word &amp;quot;Jerusalem&amp;quot; is repeatedly mentioned several times in their daily prayers as well as in many special occasions, for instance, the Passover(Spiro, 2000). In addition, this area had once been under the reign of Jewish kings who had ruled for hundreds of years and built the first Jewish temple in this area. This temple has been &lt;span&gt;the focus of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(I guess a problem with word choice here)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; Jewish people around the world. They regard it as &amp;quot;the house of the Lord&amp;quot;(Bible in Spiro, 2000) and the &lt;span&gt;direction&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(word choice, again?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;in which they say their prayers to. If there is a place on earth that all Jews are willing to sacrifice their lives for, it would be this very place. A Jewish mayor once stated that this land represents, &amp;quot;the purist expression of all that Jews prayed for, dreamed of, cried for, and died for&amp;quot;(Pipes, 2001).&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Conversely, from the Palestinian perspective, they are blessed people who deserve the rights &lt;span&gt;over to&lt;/span&gt; this holy place, not the cursed Jews. In the Koran, Jerusalem is said to be blessed. It was where Prophet Muhammed was taken up to heaven and met other Prophets(Spiro, 2000). The significance of it had been emphasized several times by Prophet Muhammed himself through his teachings. He stated that it is where a single act of worship is equal to a thousand, and whoever die there or near by would directly go to heaven(Soufan, n.d.). These have made it one of the three holiest place in Islam. Furthermore, in the Koran, while Muslims are regarded to be the most prestigious group of people, Jews are the opposite, &amp;quot;cursed and condemned&amp;quot;(Abbadi, n.d.). Thus, as it is required in Muslim faith, it is their duty to protect a religious site from being contaminated by those corrupted people and bring the holy place back to the right owners.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;The second reason two-state solution is impossible is because of the prolonged aversion that they will never agree to live with their enemies.&lt;/span&gt; In the last eight years, approximately 5,000 Palestinians have been killed &lt;span&gt;with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt; and)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; more than 33,000 have been injured(Palestine Red Crescent, 2008). &lt;span&gt;The causes were mostly due to shootings as well as tear gas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(try another expression here)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; Many of the others have been forced to leave their home making approximately 4.4 millions Palestine refugees around the world now(United Nations, 2008). Owing to the loss of ones they love and the harshness of dispersing, hatred has developed. Their &lt;span&gt;expression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(word choice?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; of hatred has been from incitement of violation to suicide bombings. Terribly, &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span&gt;those &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;who carried &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;those&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; horrors&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(repetition should not be occur)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;were of all ages including young children. In school textbooks, Israel is described to be &amp;amp;#8220;a country of gangs, born in crime&amp;quot;(Israel Ministry, 2001) with Jews who are &amp;quot;arrogant and sly traitors&amp;quot;(Israel Ministry, 2001). These are what all children in Palestinian school have been educated, or to be more accurate, &amp;quot;brainwashed.&amp;quot; Not to mention the impacts from family and society in which those children have been raised. Thus, hatred has been &lt;span&gt;deepening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(deepened)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; in all Palestinian hearts both of this generation and the coming generation. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;In responding to Palestinian violence, Israel has established a military force and checkpoints to limit the number of Palestinians coming to Israel. The primary objective was to prevent terrorists. However, the presence of humiliation during the search, suffering from long waits at checkpoints, and soldiers&amp;#39; attacks on innocent civilians, has only brought more hatred among them(The Nation, 2008, p. 9A).&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;It is ironic that a supposed city of peace is actually the most &lt;span&gt;contentious&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:red;"&gt;(word choice)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;city on earth. Numerous peace plans have been made but then were collapsed. The hatred between Israelis and Palestinians has been strongly expressed though violation, and each has clearly stated that they are the only group whom Jerusalem belongs to. This contention has accumulated over a long period of time and it is getting worse. It is useless to force them to live together. No such plans have ever worked and will never work. At least they have given it a try, nevertheless. There is always a light in the dark, I believe. When the darkness disappears, the light would shine. Even though I have concluded that the Jews and Palestinians will never &lt;span&gt;co-exist&lt;/span&gt; together in Jerusalem, I always wish that I have been wrong. Let the light shine and the city of peace becomes real.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;* If I were u, I will express like: &lt;i&gt;Firstly, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;two-state solution fail to succee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;d because &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;they believ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;e that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;all areas of Jerusalem belong to only their people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Help: I need work experience certificate model..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WorkExperienceCertificateModel/4/gvrcz/Post.htm#520817</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:34:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:520817</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Well it is good to let your employer write it for you. But i am going to present a sample of certificate for convenience. Hope it would be helpful. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EXPERIENCE CERTIFICATE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Whom It May Concern&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is my pleasure to write on behalf of Mr. __ S/O __ who has worked with __ in capacity of Assistant Manager for six months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During his work period Mr. __ remained involved in his work dedicatedly. I found him pretty active in whatever task I have provided him. He is a confident person. He is professionally sound, hard-working and devoted worker. He has the motivation to take initiative and I am gratified that he had been helpful in advancement of our organization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, I would like to reflect over his conduct during his stay with us. He has a genial temperament and can efficiently work in a team. All my staff is pleased with him and feels comfortable in teaming and coordinating with him for the realization of organizational goals and objectives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish him all the best in all his future endeavours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__&lt;br /&gt;General Manager&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*~* I hope it will help you..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Regards&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ur&amp;#39;s Friend :p&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Salman:)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Could anyone lookthrough my Illustration Essay? "The Impossible Peace"</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CouldAnyoneLookthroughIllustration-EssayImpossiblePeace/gdkzb/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 18:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:518841</guid><dc:creator>T_nattawat</dc:creator><description>&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;There Is No &amp;quot;Together&amp;quot; In Jerusalem&lt;br /&gt;	&lt;br /&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;For Jews and Muslims, Jerusalem has been a city of hope and
loss. It has been their homeland but also their battlefield. Its
history has been filled with great joy but also with tragedy. In
Hebrew, the name &amp;quot;Jerusalem&amp;quot; literally means a &amp;quot;city of peace&amp;quot;
Ironically, people there have not seem such thing for a long time.
There have been numbers of peace plans to settle this conflict between
the Israelis and Palestinians but not even one has succeeded;
occasionally, they have even worsened the situation. One of the most
well-known solutions is the Oslo Accord, the first official agreement
signed by the leaders of both sides. It was first seen as a hope to the
end of the conflict that they would live peacefully &amp;nbsp;together in a
bi-national state. Yet, some groups did not accept it and launched a
series of suicide bombings. This accord is now viewed to have brought
more hatred and violation to the area. Nevertheless, there are still
many attempts. It seems that they could live together peacefully since
they are similar in many ways regarding their religions and ancestor.
However, after carefully examined current situations and history, one
has to admit that they will never co-exist peacefully in this common
area. It is due to their beliefs that Jerusalem belongs only to them
and no one else. Furthermore, they hate each other so much that they
will never want to live together.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;
&amp;nbsp;The first reason two-state solution is impossible is because they
believe that all areas of Jerusalem belong to only their people. From
the Jewish perspective, they have all the rights over this land due to
God&amp;#39;s will as well as their long close connection to it. According to
the Bible, four thousands years ago, God promised that he will give
Abraham, father of all the Jews, and his children the land of Canaan or
what is now the capital of the State of Israel. Since then, Jewish
people have been waiting for that day to come. The word &amp;quot;Jerusalem&amp;quot; is
repeatedly mentioned several times in their daily prayers as well as in
many special occasions, for instance, the Passover(Spiro, 2000). In
addition, this area had once been under the reign of Jewish kings who
had ruled for hundreds of years and built the first Jewish temple in
this area. This temple has been the focus of Jewish people around the
world. They regard it as &amp;quot;the house of the Lord&amp;quot;(Bible in Spiro, 2000)
and the direction in which they say their prayers to. If there is a
place on earth that all Jews are willing to sacrifice their lives for,
it would be this very place. A Jewish mayor once stated that this land
represents, &amp;quot;the purist expression of all that Jews prayed for, dreamed
of, cried for, and died for&amp;quot;(Pipes, 2001).&lt;br /&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Conversely,
from the Palestinian perspective, they are blessed people who deserve
the rights over to this holy place, not the cursed Jews. In the Koran,
Jerusalem is said to be blessed. It was where Prophet Muhammed was
taken up to heaven and met other Prophets(Spiro, 2000). The
significance of it had been emphasized several times by Prophet
Muhammed himself through his teachings. He stated that it is where a
single act of worship is equal to a thousand, and whoever die there or
near by would directly go to heaven(Soufan, n.d.). These have made it
one of the three holiest place in Islam. Furthermore, in the Koran,
while Muslims are regarded to be the most prestigious group of people,
Jews are the opposite, &amp;quot;cursed and condemned&amp;quot;(Abbadi, n.d.). Thus, as
it is required in Muslim faith, it is their duty to protect a religious
site from being contaminated by those corrupted people and bring the
holy place back to the right owners.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The second reason
two-state solution is impossible is because of the prolonged aversion
that they will never agree to live with their enemies. In the last
eight years, approximately 5,000 Palestinians have been killed with
more than 33,000 have been injured(Palestine Red Crescent, 2008). The
causes were mostly due to shootings as well as tear gas. Many of the
others have been forced to leave their home making approximately 4.4
millions Palestine refugees around the world now(United Nations, 2008).
Owing to the loss of ones they love and the harshness of dispersing,
hatred has developed. Their expression of hatred has been from
incitement of violation to suicide bombings. Terribly, those who
carried those horrors were of all ages including young children. In
school textbooks, Israel is described to be &amp;amp;#8220;a country of
gangs, born in crime&amp;quot;(Israel Ministry, 2001) with Jews who are
&amp;quot;arrogant and sly traitors&amp;quot;(Israel Ministry, 2001). These are what all
children in Palestinian school have been educated, or to be more
accurate, &amp;quot;brainwashed.&amp;quot; Not to mention the impacts from family and
society in which those children have been raised. Thus, hatred has been
deepening in all Palestinian hearts both of this generation and the
coming generation. &lt;br /&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;In responding to Palestinian
violence, Israel has established a military force and checkpoints to
limit the number of Palestinians coming to Israel. The primary
objective was to prevent terrorists. However, the presence of
humiliation during the search, suffering from long waits at
checkpoints, and soldiers&amp;#39; attacks on innocent civilians, has only
brought more hatred among them(The Nation, 2008, p. 9A).&lt;br /&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;It is ironic that a supposed city of peace is actually the
most contentious city on earth. Numerous peace plans have been made but
then were collapsed. The hatred between Israelis and Palestinians has
been strongly expressed though violation, and each has clearly stated
that they are the only group whom Jerusalem belongs to. This contention
has accumulated over a long period of time and it is getting worse. It
is useless to force them to live together. No such plans have ever
worked and will never work. At least they have given it a try,
nevertheless. There is always a light in the dark, I believe. When the
darkness disappears, the light would shine. Even though I have
concluded that the Jews and Palestinians will never co-exist together
in Jerusalem, I always wish that I have been wrong. Let the light shine
and the city of peace becomes real.&lt;/font&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: relative clause</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RelativeClause/gclxh/post.htm#514376</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:43:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514376</guid><dc:creator>26TMNTJG2PG</dc:creator><description>&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;1. The name of the man who&amp;nbsp;Tom called uncle is Bobby Brown.&lt;br /&gt;If you rewrite &amp;quot;man &lt;u&gt;who&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;(subjective case) Tom called uncle&amp;quot;, it becomes &amp;quot;Tom called &lt;u&gt;he&lt;/u&gt; (subjective case) uncle&amp;quot;. It should be &amp;quot;Tom called &lt;u&gt;him&lt;/u&gt; (objective case) uncle&amp;quot; from the choice &amp;quot;man whom&amp;quot;; but there is no such choice.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore,&amp;nbsp;A is not correct. (For a simple guideline for the use of &amp;quot;who&amp;quot;/&amp;quot;whom&amp;quot;, kindly refer to &lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kengtpenangenglish.blogspot.com/2008/02/who-or-whom-relative-pronouns.html"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;quot;Who&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Whom&amp;quot; (relative pronouns)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Jonny is the only __ I know in the meeting.&lt;br /&gt;(A) cannot be used as per the above explanation but&amp;nbsp;(B)&amp;nbsp;is correct to some as &amp;quot;that&amp;quot; for human is a disputed usage. (For a little bit more on &amp;quot;that&amp;quot;, you can read &lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kengtpenangenglish.blogspot.com/2008/02/relative-pronoun-that.html"&gt;&lt;font&gt;The relative pronoun - that&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;Regards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>