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CHALLENGE 2
Search the Internet for the following facts and information. Write your answers in the table below.
1.What is the context of "embedded journalist"? When was it first used? Who created the term?
2. _______________ is the only pope honored by Turkey a Muslim nation. His statue stands at center of a city square of ______________.
3. Who designed the tallest building in Hong Kong?
4. In September 11, 2001, two commercial airplanes commandeered by terrorist crashed and destroyed the World Trade Center in New York. Is this the first time that an airplane crashed into a skyscraper in New York?
5.__________ is the tallest building in the world. It is located in ____________. The construction started in ________ and was finished_________.
6.What is the meaning of tundra? Why is the Bush administration so interested with exploring and exploiting the tundra?
7. Draw in a diagram form the metamorphosis of an "urban legend"

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Answer
URL
Search Engine
Search Technique
1.
Embedded journalism refers to news reporters being attached to military units involved in armed conflicts. It first came to be used in the media coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/What_is_the_context_of_embedded_journalist,_when_was_it_first_used_and_who_created_the_term
Google
Phrase searching
2.
Pope Benedict XV's statute stands in the courtyard of St Esprit Cathedral, Instanbul Turkey.
http://www.answers.com/Q/Who_is_the_only_pope_honored_by_Turkey_a_Muslim_nation
Answers.com
Phrase searching
3.
The International Commerce Centre’s Architect       Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (design)
Belt Collins & Associates (landscape)
Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.
Developer       Sun Hung Kai Properties
Structural engineer     Arup
Main contractor           Sanfield Building Contractors Limited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Commerce_Centre
Google
Pseudo-Boolean Logic
4.
NO
Google
Phrase Searching
5.
The Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج   خليفة‎, Arabic for "Khalifa Tower"; pronounced English: /ˈbɜːrdʒ kəˈliːfə/), known as the Burj Dubai before its inauguration in 2010, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft) and a roof height (excluding antenna) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure in the world since its topping out in late 2008.[4][9]
Construction of the Burj Khalifa began in 2004, with the exterior completed five years later in 2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa
Google
Phrase searching
6.
Tundra is a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen. Bush administration so interested with exploring and exploiting the tundra because their administration is looking for oil resources.
https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=tundra+meaning&oq=tundra&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.3200j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
http://religion.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Why_is_the_bush_administration_so_interested_with_exploring_and_exploiting_tundra_Rephrase_question
Google
Phrase searching









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