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  • Cultural Values

    Cultural Values

    Society is built upon values and beliefs of what people feel are important. Values within the American culture can be quite different. My values and beliefs originated from my God fearing parents. Being raised, disciplined, and loved by my parents helped me to develop my personal value system. As a young child, my thoughts, my ideas, and my behavior were immature. When there was a family gathering or family outing, I would run around, touch

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Max
  • The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Nancy Kelley University of Phoenix MBA 501: Forces Influencing Business in the 21st Century A. Lutz February 2007 Globalization and overseas business expansion has brought about the need for in-depth understanding of culture differentiation. When conducting or contemplating cross cultural business ventures, it is important to understand the culture before communicating one’s desires. This paper will focus on the cross cultural challenges of doing business overseas, with special

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    Essay Length: 1,152 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Jollibee Foods Corporation: International Expansion

    Jollibee Foods Corporation: International Expansion

    Jollibee Foods Corporation: International Expansion 1.1. What sources of competitive advantage was it able to develop against McDonald's in its home market? Firstly, Jollibee was the first mover in the sector of burgers in Philippines, shaping customer preferences and expectations, instead of McDonald's or KFC. Secondly, Jollibee was young, and very small in comparison of McDonald's whose force worldwide is standardization. The burger company serves millions of exactly identical sandwich each year in dozen of

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Corporal Punishment: Helping or Hurting Your Child?

    Corporal Punishment: Helping or Hurting Your Child?

    Corporal Punishment: Helping or Hurting Your Child? Child abuse! Spankings! Discipline! Beating! People have different thoughts when they hear the words corporal punishment. There is a fine line between corporal punishment, disciplining your child out of love, and child abuse, beating your child out of anger. I believe that physical discipline is needed when children continuously misbehave, as long as parents and authorities don’t cross the line. Three reasons I believe corporal punishment is an

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    Essay Length: 580 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Brazilian Culture

    Brazilian Culture

    Culture Brazilian culture is a Latin American culture of a very diverse nature. It's main influence comes from Portuguese, due to colonial ties with the Portuguese empire that spread the Portuguese language, legal system and other cultural inheritances. Other important influences came from African and Amerindian people creating a diverse multicultural and multiethnic society. Religion in Brazil is very diverse, about ninety percent of Brazilians declare some sort of religious affiliation. Roman Catholics make up

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Corporate Social Resposibility

    Corporate Social Resposibility

    The concept of a corporate board's "fiduciary duty" has been expanding to include social, environmental and human rights issues that some boards may be ill prepared to oversee. It is very difficult for boards to concern about the new corporate social responsibility and address to their agenda. In the article of “The Socially Responsible Board”, authors Aron Cramer and Matthew Hirschland give an overview and examples of business that develop structures to face the challenge

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    Essay Length: 381 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Service Culture and Relationship Management Courses

    Service Culture and Relationship Management Courses

    Service Culture and Relationship Management Courses An Overview Purpose Of This Overview To put Socitm Learning’s 5 offerings in the areas of service culture and relationship management in context to enable potential customers to select the most appropriate type of solution to meet their needs. It also aims to give a feel for the cost of various options. Lead Tutor And Facilitator All of these courses are run for Socitm by Mike Sayers of

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    Essay Length: 318 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Vika
  • Cultrual Cultural Deprivation the Hispanic Challenge

    Cultrual Cultural Deprivation the Hispanic Challenge

    Cultural Deprivation: The Hispanic Challenge Why do some groups not succeed in academic settings? One theory brought up in “Understanding inequality” suggests that the gap in the socioeconomic status drives the inequalities in the school system. The low and working class have less time and income to intervene with schooling. This means they have less time to meet with teachers, hire tutors, and provide continuous transportation. Therefore the lower class can’t possibly compete with the

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    Essay Length: 707 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mike
  • Monitoring and Assessment in Early Years

    Monitoring and Assessment in Early Years

    Child Study and Classroom Based Observation Should We Make Time To Watch and Listen? Introduction The traditional place for assessment within teaching is at the end of a topic or significant time period when the teacher wishes to know how much information students have retained. This form of assessment often takes the form of a written test that is designed to give students a grade or level. Many researchers, however, believe that teaching and learning

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    Essay Length: 421 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Meaning of Culture

    The Meaning of Culture

    Culture is a term which is brandished with little regard to its actual meaning, likely due to the fact that there are hundreds of definitions trying to capture the essence of culture. One such definition, provided in a social psychology textbook, states that culture is ‘the enduring behaviours, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next’ (Myers & Spencer, 12). While this is

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Corporal Punishment

    Corporal Punishment

    "The fundamental need of American education is to find ways of engaging today's children in the thrill of learning. Fear of pain has no place in that process." - The Christian Science Monitor. Because Ms. Peсa and I are in compliance with this statement, we have decided to bring to the attention of the community, the corporal punishment of Sinton High School. There are many effective ways of properly punishing a disobedient student, but

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mike
  • Cultural Issues

    Cultural Issues

    Cultural Issues of Gender, Gender Roles, and Their Treatment of Men and Women The purpose of this paper is to compare Japanese and Middle Eastern Arab- Muslim cultures concerning the issue of gender, gender roles, and the treatment of women and men throughout history. Muslim women and men, in the Middle East, definitely differ from Japanese men and women, particularly in current issues of marriage, workforce, education, family, and social living. Although they may have

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    Essay Length: 2,075 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Victor
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper As defined by Webster's 1913 Dictionary, "Ethics is a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions". Ethics are standards of behavior that tell us how human beings ought to act in the many situations in which they find themselves. On the other hand, the word value has many meanings and may be

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    Essay Length: 754 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Dimensions of Culture Values and Communication

    Dimensions of Culture Values and Communication

    Running head: Dimensions of Culture, Values, and Communication Dimensions of Culture, Values, and Communication Bob Dussault University of Phoenix Abstract The author will examine culture, values and communication by exploring his own experiences. Experiences reviewed are feeling at odds with a cultural norm, perceptions regarding a group that are excluded from the dominant culture, and situations where being categorized as a cultural outsider might provide benefit. Dimensions of Culture, Values, and Communication Communication, as defined

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • American Culture of Pop Music

    American Culture of Pop Music

    I.Invasion of American Popular Music After World War I, American popular music -- blues, jazz, and Tin Pan Alley songs -- swept Britain, much as British music invaded the United States in the 1960s. American songs such as "Chicago" and "Manhattan" were consistently among the most popular tunes in Britain in the 1920s. As a result of the invasion of American popular music, Britain was influenced by such culture. The Beatles and other British rock

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Sociological History of Boston Massachusetts as It Relates to Work and Culture

    The Sociological History of Boston Massachusetts as It Relates to Work and Culture

    Boston is both the capital of and the largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is considered the unofficial capital of the New England area, and one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most expensive places in the country to live. Its citizens are known as “Bostonians” and their city is home to the nations first school, first college, and has been called “The Athens of America” for its great intellectual and cultural influence and

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture

    Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture

    Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture Through language, bias has proliferated in our culture against both women and men. Language expresses aspects of culture both explicitly and implicitly. Gender expectations, behaviors, and cultural norms, are determined through language. A divide between the sexes has developed which includes language usages, intention, and understandings. This has created obstructions to communication between the genders. When anthropological linguists look at a language, he/she takes into consideration the “world

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Tommy
  • How Popular Culture Affects Race

    How Popular Culture Affects Race

    HOW POPULAR CULTURE AFFECTS RACE The popular culture particularly visual media affects our opions and attitude towards race and racial minorities group. our assumptions about race and racial minorities are both successeded and reflected in the streotypes presented by the visual media. i strongly believe in the George Gebners scientific examintaiton of televison that how we perceive ourselves and how we view those around us are affected by what we see on television. Visual

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • Ways in Which Race and Ethnicity Relate to Culture

    Ways in Which Race and Ethnicity Relate to Culture

    Ways in Which Race & Ethnicity Relate to Culture ----------------------------------- Examining the ideas and beliefs within ones own cultural context is central to the study of Anthropology. Issues of Race and Ethnicity dominate the academic discourses of various disciplines including the field of Anthropology. Race and Ethnicity are controversial terms that are defined and used by people in many different ways. This essay shall explore the ways in which Anthropologists make a distinction between

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    Essay Length: 1,689 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Jessica
  • “just a Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth”

    “just a Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth”

    Within the broad, yet ever increasing issue of “tween” culture are many causes that are co-related. These sources form the foundation as to why children are becoming more and more desensitized to what once would have been considered a “moral standard” for their age sector. In this particular journal article taken from “Signs”, Gayle Wald focuses on the cultural construction of female youth with a spotlight on the music industry. She introduces her readers to

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: regina
  • Postmodern Review of Niebuhrs Christ and Culture

    Postmodern Review of Niebuhrs Christ and Culture

    Christ and Culture, authored by H. Richard Niebuhr in 1951, is a book which discusses how a Church or a Christian is to interact with ones culture. Niebuhr systematically answers this question by placing the church into the following five categories they have utilized through history to answer this question: "Christ against culture," "the Christ of culture," "Christ above culture (Christ synthesizing with culture)," "Christ and culture in paradox," and "Christ the transformer of culture."

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Cultural Narcissist

    The Cultural Narcissist

    The Cultural Narcissist "The new narcissist is haunted not by guilt but by anxiety. He seeks not to inflict his own certainties on others but to find a meaning in life. Liberated from the superstitions of the past, he doubts even the reality of his own existence. Superficially relaxed and tolerant, he finds little use for dogmas of racial and ethnic purity but at the same time forfeits the security of group loyalties and regards

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • How Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as Well

    How Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as Well

    How Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as Well By Thomas King Knowing the author, the story has something to do with native people. Corporal Colin Sterling is probably a non-racist police officer, surrounded by racist police officers or citizens. I think Corporal Sterling will save the world figuratively, not literally. I came pretty close. The story had everything and anything to do with natives. It started

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Janna
  • Cell Phone in Today Culture

    Cell Phone in Today Culture

    Ring, Ring Your Freedom Away Mobile phone also known as a cell phone to some people has come along way. Starting out as a bulky, undependable phone of the past; where only the business man and the wealthy can afford this piece of expensive technology. To the present day low cost personal item with everything you need on the go. However the way cell phones are being used nowadays is so distracting that we can't

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Assess Utilitarianism

    Assess Utilitarianism

    Utilitarianism, a form of consequentialism, is a philosophy that advocates mass pleasure for the majority. Although some utilitarian theories seek to maximise pleasurable consequences, (Hedonistic Utilitarianism, Act Utilitarianism), others seek to encourage rules that are seen as “right” (Rule Utilitarianism). However, all types of utilitarianism are defined by the principle of utility - “…the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people”. Two proprietors of utilitarianism are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill,

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Mike