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"There is a growing trend worldwide among consumers to prefer 'natural products' like raw milk due to their alleged health benefits. It is argued that the heat applied to milk during the treatment process destroys its nutritional quality and health benefits."

"The view is held that a basic communicative model for text analysis is essential for translating. It should be a top-down approach, i.e. starting from the whole text working down to the smallest element."

"Teachers can implement suitable support strategies identified in this study in their teaching methods and initiate programmes at their schools to support competent behaviour of learners with ADHD."

"What similarities and differences can be pointed out between the court proceedings in the Reynard epic and aspects of the modern South African legal system?"

"While reading YAL the reader is confronted with implicit social, political and cultural norms, power structures, stereotypes and sexism which form part of their world and could have an influence in forming their identity and gender roles."

"Murray defended the credibility of the biblical miracle narratives, whereas the modernists rejected it. This debate is interesting because of its implications not only for the nature of miracles but also for the nature of belief in miracles as well as the nature of religious belief in general."

"If belief in witchcraft were to lose its extenuating effect also, this would imply that the South African criminal justice system does not accommodate such a belief in any way, shape or form, which seems somewhat careless and ill-considered in an African context, where belief in witchcraft shows no sign of disappearing in the foreseeable future."

"Turning to possible solutions to this epidemic of violence, the participants agreed that education is an important vehicle, although some also referred to more severe punishment and a change in the social culture."

"Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a thinker whose thinking is still haunting and troubling us. In this contribution the focus is not only on his international career, but his thinking is also contextualised with reference to the Afrikaans and South African world."

"As one of the most important flagships of the torture porn genre, and despite its very low critical appreciation, the Saw film franchise still managed to garner huge amounts of income at the box office, showing the divergence between critical and popular opinion."

"If the Real can be consciously used in this genre as a way to prompt certain responses of fear or disgust from viewers, does this not mean that the Real becomes nothing more than a codified element of horror films which is subsequently exploited as a genre commodity?"

"Teachers should raise intellectual discussions and debates with the learners on these matters in the controlled classroom environment. The therapeutic value hidden in this type of youth literature is enhanced by discussing the causes and consequences of, and possible solutions to, such matters."

"The court appears to recognise only one type of promotion, namely competitive promotion, where the internal candidate must compete with persons from outside the workplace for what would be a promotion for him or her."

"Fashion marks a particular character as being part of a particular culture or historical period, or creates a particular persona who adheres to the dictums of a particular peer group when it comes to the choice of clothes."

"Changes in school curricula are taking place across the world to meet international and national demands, to meet social needs, and to comply with socio-political, socio-economic and technological changes. School curricula are not neutral, seeing that they develop in certain socio-political and socio-economic periods."

"Therefore, place is not only a physical manifestation, but an intricate part of what it means to be human – the physical environment cannot be separated from the affective side of being human."

"In relation to the applicability of administrative law principles, the South African courts have always been willing to review not only the actions of public bodies but also the decisions of private entities. Judicial review was often limited to the rules of natural justice, particularly in the context of religious institutions."

"The author concludes that the drama is both contemporary and timeless: Louw’s ideas about power and powerlessness are as much applicable to the present South African political scene (and that of the world) as it was to the political circumstances of his own era."

"Children's appreciation for reading is influenced by their attitude towards reading. By paying attention to readers' attitude toward reading, reading motivators can determine what the learners enjoy reading."

"Given the emphasis on using multimodal teaching for both language teaching and learning, subtitles can be a highly beneficial component of foreign language learning."