This paper presented a multimodal discourse analysis of some visual images in the political rally discourse of 2011 electioneering campaigns in Southwestern Nigeria. The data comprised purposively selected political visual artefacts from political rallies across the six Southwestern States in Nigeria (Osun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, Ogun, and Lagos). The data were analyzed using Halliday’s (1985) syste...

considering current population rate and ratio of non renewable energies in countries' annual energy diagram which lead to increase of pollutions reeked from and irreparable effects on living environment, there will be an energy and living environment crisis in close future. so there are two main approaches that should be considered in countries' future program: change of construction ...

1. Introduction and Executive Summary This paper analyses the role of the central bank in the modern world, focusing in particular on its involvement in the payments and …nancial systems. I provide an overview of the functions of central banks. I then focus on the role of the central banks in promoting an e¢ cient payments system and I disucuss their role in supervising and regulating the payme...

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to clarify the properties of road network patterns by considering the relationship between neighborhood intersections. The Relative Neighborhood Graph (RNG), which is one of the proximity graph, is used to analyze the road network patterns of major cities in the United States as a network construction model. The grid-tree proportion (GTP) index and the cros...

introduction  nowadays, landscape recounts the land components, elements and components which each alone and together have a key role in building and shaping the natural environment and consequently the natural landscape and eventually the built environment and landscape. although humans connection with its surrounding is achieved through different senses, but still more than 80% of its connect...