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Marriage as a Culturally Complex Phenomenon
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The paper "Marriage as a Culturally Complex Phenomenon" tells that in certain parts of the world, such as India and Saudi Arabia, marriage is more than just sexual or relational bondage between two individuals.... Viewed from the macro perspective of kinship, marriage is not just limited to sexuality but to the complex relationships between families, people and other cultural arrangements.... Keesing and Strathern 1998) In certain parts of the world such as India and Saudi Arabia, marriage is more than just a sexual or relational bondage between two individuals....
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Progressive Islam and Environmental
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This identity led the Malay to be backward compared to the chinese and Indians.... However, the Muslim extremism culture has been very hard to do away with.... This worked in some societies; however in some extremists' Muslim culture these modernizations have been resisted.... However, due to the nature of the Islamic culture these changes have been somehow slow.... This clearly shows how adopting conservative Islam culture can work against development....
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The Early Forms of Birth Control
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Just comparing the difference in attitudes towards life in women in developing nations who bear the weight of repressive cultures which allow uneducated husbands to determine the number of children they bear and women from developed as well as developing nations in which women are in charge of the number of children they bear and when they do, shows how the issue of constant childbirth can affect a woman's psyche.... The american government actively discouraged the distribution of any information regarding matters to do with controlling pregnancy or spacing the numbers of children that a woman had....
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Prospects for mobility
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This approach finds its roots from the expectation of assimilations that, at some point, immigrants will indistinguishably become american.... Nevertheless, their socioeconomic status attainment levels are equal to those of non-Latinos whites and extremely higher with regards to those of the american adult citizens.... Given the fact that Mexican's second generations are achieving an upward mobility with reference to their parents, they still lag behind in the american population mean....
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The Likelihood of Success for Lenovo Group Ltd on its Acquisition of IBM
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According to IBM Press Release (2004), members sitting in Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), which is attached to the Treasury Department, were concerned that Lenovo workers might be used by their chinese counterpart to conduct industrial espionage (Maney, 2005).... According to the CFIUS report, the members were worried that chinese security intelligences may use IBM facility located in North Carolina to launch industrial espionage against U....
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Problems in Total Quality in Workplace
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Total Quality refers to the attitude, culture and organization of a business entity striving to provide its customers with services and products satisfying their needs.... losely related to this would be the problem of organizational culture.... The organizational culture emanates from within people and would be put together to reward their common capacities, giving the group an identity and continuity.... culture could balance contrasting contributions, operating as a self steering system which learns from feedback (Arumugam & Mojtahedzadeh, 2011)....
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Analysis of Japanese Festivities
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A few of this festival are connected to the early chinese festivals but some have changed and been adopted as Japanese festivals.... This matsuri is a yearly event that is observed in the month of July according to the western Julian calendar or August according to chinese lunar calendar depending on the location.... his holiday revolves around renewal and hopes for good fortunes between the Japanese....
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Reagans Tax Diminutions
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They did not favor everyone; this is shown in dissimilar american incomes.... The Soviet Union consequently bombed an american aircraft, and the country faced attacks from Iran and Lebanon.... Because of this, many american military groups felt the need to defend their country.... These attacks angered Reagan, so he arranged for american planes to bombard sites in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.... Reagan enhanced the gap between the underprivileged and the rich....
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Australian Convict History: Convict Labour
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the difference in terms of intensity is that conditions were marginally improved, convicts were examined first in relation to their ability to withstand the process and females were offered place in officers' cabin at night.... The ultimate goal of this paper is to describe and contrast the differences between convict experiences on board a transport in the early and later phases of the convict era.... Vincent in 1820 affirm certain continued experiences between the two divides and certain differences....
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Arabic Version of The Da Vinci Code
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culture plays a key role in good translation.... culture specific terms have to be dealt with clearly, i.... How should a translator deal with culture-specific terms (Cultural and Religious Words) With A Commentary of the Arabic Version of The Da Vinci Table of Contents: ... The strong relation between language-culture-translation ... culture plays a key role in good translation.... culture specific terms have to be dealt with clearly, i....
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Motorcycle Club Activities And The Response By Law Enforcement
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Bike lust: Harleys, women, and american society.... The MCs are powerful with a strong organized culture in which the hierarchy and the military style authority with which they operate provides both security for the members and a strict code of behaviors with violent consequences when violated.... Biker culture According to Nichols (2010) “Any time society breeds a nation of sheep – when people grow to lazy or meek or subservient to power – a few wolves emerge to attack these weaknesses and keep the human herd strong” (p....
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Is College Worth Dear Price of Getting Admitted
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Afterwards, the difference between incomes goes on such that the average graduate makes over $800,000 more than the high school peer by age of retirement (Daly, Bengali, 2014). ... Technology entrepreneur, MBA, entrepreneur and academician Vivek Wadhawa says that, “american kids usually party (of course in college).... This “employment gap” existing between high school and college graduates is the biggest in America's history....
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Banking Sector Current Condition in China
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They define the credit "gap" as the difference between credit, as a percentage of GDP, and its long-term trend.... This development led to strong competition in banking, insurance, and industries owned by chinese and of superpower foreign companies that are great at leveraging in market conditions.... An american's Guide to Doing Business in China, USA: Adam's Media, pp.... Dichotomy in chinese banking system ………………………………………....
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Traveling Abroad - Tourism Cultures and Attractions
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It is clear from the paper that according to an international survey conducted by the Cable News Network in 2013, Bolivia has been ranked as one of the most unfriendly and unwelcoming countries in terms of entertaining foreign tourists (Cha, 2013).... ... .... ... ... Certainly, traveling abroad is not that simple as it appears in the media promotions made by the travel agencies....
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The Moral and Social Accord of a Community
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The growth in the culture has tolerated the inclusion of a varied set of values that harbor passive resilience within the system.... culture & Agriculture, ... utnam (1995) places the example in a declined civil society within the american system over the past decades into a less functional system.... Geographies of Resilient Social Networks: The Role of African american ... american Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials....
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International HRM Strategy
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The top management believes that expatriate managers can implement the American business working culture effectively towards development.... The second cross- culture issue included in the case study involves working extra hours.... The expatriate managers implement regulations based on money and manufacturing as stated by the american office....
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Dangers of Obesity
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One of the biggest ironies of modern life is that the more that present-day Western culture has become obsessed with thinness (Swami 6), the more that obesity and being overweight became a national health issue in the United States (Craig 48).... Now, obesity afflicts american children too, with one in every three children considered as obese (Caprio et al....
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Cultural Diversity and Sensitivity in Communication: Circumcision among the Luo Cultural Group in Kenya
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There is a relationship between male circumcision and HIV/AIDS infection.... There is a relationship between male circumcision and HIV/AIDS infection.... This paper will focus on the Luo, its belief in male circumcision and the relationship between male circumcision and HIV/AIDS infection....
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Causality and Inferences: Structuring the Well-formed Hypothesis
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In this part, it will be analyzed whether there is difference between CEOs golf handicap based on company sector. ... 5% Confidence Interval of the difference ... 5% Confidence Interval of the difference ... 5% Confidence Interval of the difference ... 5% Confidence Interval of the difference ... The essay checks whether there is an association between region and survivor.... Further, Bryan calculated the mean golf handicap of the CEOs running these companies for each of the three groups; and checked whether the differences between these means are sufficiently great....
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Impact of Nationalism
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It provides a shared sense of culture, values, achievements and ideals.... It provides a shared sense of culture, values, achievements and ideals.... They share a common heritage and culture and have a common desire to have their own state for present and future.... The american Revolution against the Great Britain was based on the ideology of freedom from British Taxation.... developing common transportation measures and economic nationalism by developing common economic monetary plan called american System in the early days (Richard Allen Sauers)....
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Rene Descartes in Philosophy - the Distinction between Mind and Body
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he sixth meditation deals with the existence of material things and the difference between mind and body.... The paper "Rene Descartes in Philosophy - the Distinction between Mind and Body" discusses that Descartes described the human body as working like a machine.... Descartes Meditations Descartes Meditations This essay will attempt to examine one of the greatest legacies of Rene Descartes inPhilosophy, the distinction between mind and body....
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Military National and International Security Studies
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The soft power entails the use of policies, culture, institutions and values in order to attain its interests through co-option and attraction.... This "National military strategy of the united nations" strategy contains the american security plans that will be undertaken by the state to ensure that the interests of the nation are met.... The strategy contains the american security plans that will be undertaken by the state to ensure that the interests of the nation are met....
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Impact of Feminist Criminology on the Study of Sex-Specific Crimes
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77) further states that because of the double standard regarding sex and gender during this period that women in Northern European and american cultures could not commit rape.... 68) further states that a 1975 book by Freda Adler titled Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the Female Criminal "argued that there is very little actual difference between the potential propensity for criminality between men and women and previous variations in actual criminal involvement can be explained by sex-role differences"....
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International business management
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Organizations fear that introducing any product or operating their business activities in a different culture with unusual traditions may risk their reputation and this could have an adverse affect on their potential growth.... Differences between Domestic and International Strategy: Factors Domestic Conditions Global Conditions culture Homogeneous Heterogeneous Currency Standard and uniform Different currencies and exchange rates Economy Stable and consistent Uncertain economical conditions Government Stable Unstable and uncertain Labor Easy availability of skilled workers Hard to find the skilled labors....
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How Does the Problem of Money and Campaign Financing in American Political System Affect Business
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"How Does the Problem of Money and Campaign Financing in american Political System Affect Business" paper states that besides campaign contributions, the illustration underscores how money becomes pivotal in influencing policy-making through lobbying in Congress.... 150) The incredible amount is partly due to the changed process of the american political system wherein primaries have become the chief means by which candidates get nominated and parties have shrunk in importance in the nominating process....
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Can You Motivate the Unmotivated: Male University Students in Saudi Arabia
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The elements of language learning as a subject include the understanding of lexical terms, vocabulary and grammatical rules; whereas it is also socially bound requiring the language learner to integrate several elements of the culture of the second language (Gardner, 1979 and Williams, 1994).... Always censuring the use of L1 in the classroom also sends the message that the language itself, and not just language, but the L1 culture as well, is not acceptable....
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Visiblity Optimization for Categorical Data
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the difference between the p and the θp is measured in single scale.... It is calculated as the difference between the color of the pixel and the mean color of the surround.... The color difference formula is applied to select the optimal difference between colors in order to meet this objective.... This helps to distinguish between each variable in a visual presentation.... For a pixel p Є D where D is the data display space, the mean single scale difference Sp between its centre and the mean of the surround is; ...
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Three Letters to the Editor
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He then pushes for the development of renewable energy, which could be realized through american ingenuity.... ix this with about a dozen leaks that Keystone I has had in a single year, extremely high refining costs, and a route that puts american food and water supplies at increased risk, and it's hard to find a reason to like Keystone XL. ... But instead of seizing the opportunity to improve american energy security and reduce the 17-plus percent unemployment rate in the construction trades, his dissembling is pushing Canada into the arms of the Chinese. ...
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Evolution of Revolution
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It is at the police station where battle ensued with Marlon Brancho is an american screen and stage actor of the film the wild ones.... n addition, Easy Rider is an american road movie acted in 1969 by Peter Fonda.... On the context, it depicts two bikers traveling through american southwest and south to New Orleans to attend a Mardi Gras.... They leave for Mexico where they bought drugs intending to sell it at the american border....
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Adolescent voilence
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Although they did not find a significant difference between offending groups, they did find evidence to suggest that there is a difference between those adolescents who commit crime and those who do not.... When looking at ethnicity as a contributing or mediating factor to adolescent violence, this research showed similar rates of deviance for both Caucasian and African american adolescents (Vazsonyi & Pickering, 2003).... One diagnosis that may help to explain the development of violent behavior is antisocial personality disorder (american Psychiatric Association, 2006)....
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The Importance of Teacher Training and Development in Low-Income Countries
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Teachers need to be knowledgeable on all of the major topics surrounding human life and they should be in a position to teach people with different characteristics, personality, culture, interests and learning abilities.... The definition of social pedagogy also changes over time and culture.... These are the reform and its implementation, physical barriers, divergent culture and power and agency.... The nature of reform and its implementation includes the school culture and teachers' understanding of learner-centred education....
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Where My Learning Journey Began
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This system of relations rooted in the culture and can create an idea of “male” and “female” as social order categories, to empower some (usually males) and subordinate others (women).... Critically analyzing what has been learned throughout the course, it is possible to note that the gap between de jure and de facto gender equality promotion.... t has been studied throughout the course that the gender equality should be defined as the objective of equality between women and men, which is derived from the belief in the injustice of the many forms of gender inequality....
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Hollywoods Dominance of International Cinema
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This literature review "Hollywood's Dominance of International Cinema" presents the Fordist regime of production and consumption that was able to penetrate much of american culture and society.... he Fordist regime of production and consumption was able to penetrate much of american culture and society.... The changes was accelerated by the fast growth of the baby boom culture under which most people chose to buy televisions rather than go to cinemas to find entertainment (Balio, 1990). ...
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Obesity Disorder: an Unhealthy Factor
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There are many reasons behind obesity becoming the rapidly growing disorder in the american society.... But the fact remains that the country is still unable to control the increasing statistics of obese people (american Psychological Association).... t should also be noted that the obesity disorder is not just limited to men and women but it has now taking higher toll among american youth (Mann, Tomiyama and Westling).... This means that the american government needs to take health initiatives which will give prominence to the healthy way of eating....
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Competitive Analysis
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Competitive Analysis of Coke and Pepsi Name: Institution: The soft drink industries tend to be highly concentrated, with the large number of global and multinational brands.... The high levels of innovation and product activity in the recent years has proved how large and competitive the sector is....
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Confucius and Zhuangzi Issues
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Confucius took the teachings of ancient chinese and molded them in such a way, so as to address the needs of his time.... Confucius took the teachings of the ancient chinese and moulded them in such way, so as to address the needs of his time.... Confucius also paved the way for the proper codification of the culture prevalent during his time.... The author of the essay "Confucius and Zhuangzi Issues" points out that Kong Fu-Zi, the great chinese thinker and master of philosophical thought, known to the world as Confucius, by the Latinized version of his name, gave to the world invaluable treatises on conduct, individual morality, etc....
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This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan and All-American Poem by Matthew Dickman
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The paper "This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan and All-american Poem by Matthew Dickman" states that it is necessary to stress that both This is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan and All-american Poem by Matthew Dickman are valuable because they help to understand the younger generation better.... English 14 November Compare and Contrast It is necessary to stress that both This is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan and All-american Poem by Matthew Dickman focus the readers' attention on the same issue....
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Servant Leadership
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esus is quick to point out a major difference between world greatness and kingdom greatness.... This essay considers leadership in our culture is defined by power.... In describing the Gentile and Kingdom leadership, Christ points out a major defect in the leadership in our culture.... Leadership in our culture is defined by power.... However, in our culture we seek to use leadership to amass more power and wealth....
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Responding to the Schizophrenic States on the Issue of Homosexuality
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Any medium of information that supports gay culture or portrays it in a positive manner is not allowed.... , Gay and Lesbian Asia: culture, identity, community.... An unprecedented debate among the chinese arose after the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality, prompting the Government to issue the public document titled “Homosexual Offenses: Should the Law Be Changed?... Despite the findings of a survey conducted on 690 people revealing that 89 percent said that a chinese community would not accept homosexual behaviour and an even larger proportion of 95....
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Japan Modernisation and Loss of identity
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However, the difference between modernization and Westernization, as pointed out by Jansen (1980), is that Westernization would mean that a particular native cultural aspect of the traditional East is replaced by the invading Western aspect, and the practical role of the former is taken over by the latter.... The identity crisis confronting present day Japanese people deals with how modernization has strongly affected Japanese people and how it has influenced their attitude toward their culture, as well as their identity in the background of history....
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Promotional Campaign Olympenergy the energy drink
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culture impacts how consumers perceive and use a product.... Olympenergy should tie up with LOC and be one of the official sponsors without which the drinks company will not be able to use the logo of London 2012 as per the Department of culture, Media and Sports (Fraser, 2005).... This could however, be associated with poor responsiveness, cultural differences and consumer characteristics of the chinese.... The chinese value the purpose of the product rather than the organization being an official sponsor of the Games (Rein, 2008)....
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Human Resource in UK and China
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Human Resource management includes overall organizational process, manage changes, and culture cultivation for the development and implementation of sustainability strategies (SHRM, 2011).... There is at utmost challenge in the context of HR in China due to the profound differences in the culture and also the fast socio economic shifts every now and then (Chu and Colombo, 2014). ... Even still in the communist regime, chinese labor market started its mobility in the 1980s....
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Challenges and Problems Faced by Native Arab Students in Learning English
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ust as all most other international students native Arab speakers too have problems in orienting themselves not only to English which is a foreign language, but also to assimilating to the different academic and social culture of the western countries as compared to their homelands.... For example, Arabs have a culture of networking into large, extended families and thereby they fulfil their affiliation needs.... Furthermore, by culture, Arabs revere the instructor/educator's knowledge and authority on the subject and therefore to analyse/view critically any of the educator's “published material is rarely done because of the revered respect for such material inculcated in the Arab student” (Meleis 1982, p....
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The Declining Incidences of Strikes in the United States
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There are reasons to believe that the new wave of unemployment and wage reduction for american workers clubbed with the economic recession may induce new energy into the labour class as was witnessed during the great depression of the 1930s.... The american labour class emerged from the Native Americans who were deprived of their godly havens of Mother Nature and left to toil for a living by this new civilization.... he american struggle for freedom from British power had instilled dreams of independence, dignity and equality in the minds of the workers also....
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The Social Definition of Photography
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Bourdieu was opposed to the issue of mass culture, with the argument that it personified an anti-sociological manner of reasoning.... It is, therefore, arguable that his early research on sociology of photography is a reaction to the issue of mass culture.... The Social Definition of Photography Bourdieu's early ethnographic research was carried out in Algeria and Bearn in a manner that was primary to his technique of dealing with photography....
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Building Trust between Employees in Qatar Petroleum Company
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This paper seeks to understand the extent of building trust in the organizational culture of Qatar Petroleum Company.... This paper seeks to understand the extent of building trust in the organizational culture of Qatar Petroleum Company.... This paper seeks to understand the extent of building trust in the organizational culture of Qatar Petroleum Company.... The paper "Building Trust between Employees in Qatar Petroleum Company" is an excellent example of a dissertation on human resources....
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Water Management in Yellow River
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2005 chinese Government report revealed that fifty thousand environmentally related protests occurred, most of which revolved around degradation of water.... A chinese media reported that “the pursuit of economic growth has been the priority overshadowing the vital issues of water resources and ecological balance” (Caixiong, 2007).... As a result, past chinese governments have made it a main concern to manage it accordingly.... The chinese government has been working towards managing these breakages by supporting dykes, strengthening banks as well as an attempt to maintain the integrity of the banks (Yardley, 2007b)....
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What Influences the Steel Prices on the World Market
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This study discusses the question of steel prices of the economic world.... The writer of this study would like to investigate some of the causes, effects, and remedies of this phenomenon and will attempt to make some predictions as to its future development.... ... ... ... The extent of the increase in global prices exceeds that in the domestic prices, but the trend is uni-directional....
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The U.S. energy crisis in the 1970's
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Among these were the affluent consumerist lifestyle of the american citizens, the so-called “peak oil” concept in which proven oil supplies from existing wells were declining.... ... ... in their production output (oil being a non-renewable energy source), the supply shocks caused by the Arab oil embargo, and a growing environmentalism movement which prevented exploration of possible new oil sources, together with the failure to adopt a paradigm shift in THE U....
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The Goodfellas: Bonnie and Clyde
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This is in the case where a gang group, “the mafias” exist and operate as a shadow group which is as a sworn society secret, raising the question whether the motivation behind such an elaborate description was based on the Mafia culture within America (Canby 1990).... In America today, the Bonnie and Clyde perception still exists such that the occurrence of similar events could lead to a great inspiration of a new film that reduce the killings, violence and theft perpetrated to mere entertainment and expression of culture (Silver 2013)....
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