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  • Cultural Differences Between Polish and Russians in Doing Business

    Cultural Differences Between Polish and Russians in Doing Business

    1. Introduction Culture consists of patterns of behavior and beliefs which characterize a group of people at a given point in time. The behavior may relate to religious practices, rituals, food choices etc. [ Bidney, 1994]. Within the health system, cultural awareness is an understanding of the likely impact of these behaviors and beliefs, on health, illness, care and hospitalization. In the global economy effective intercultural communication is a "must". Business success is now build

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: regina
  • Economics - Macro Exam Notes

    Economics - Macro Exam Notes

    Economics 212 Section A Midterm Exam October 24, 2000 Question One (20 marks) Jennifer's preferences for hot sandwiches and cold sandwiches can be represented by U(h,c) = c4h. Prices of hot sandwiches and cold sandwiches are represented by ph and pc. Jennifer's weekly lunch income is m. A) (5 marks) Find Jennifer's weekly demand for hot sandwiches. Answer: MRS=- MUc/MUh=-4h/c. (2 marks) Optimality condition: MRS=- pc/ph. --> -4h/c=pc/ph. (1 mark) Substituting this expression into the

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Max
  • Issues in Religion and Culture	buddhist Temple

    Issues in Religion and Culture buddhist Temple

    Issues in Religion and Culture Buddhist Temple How to be a Perfect Stranger Being a “perfect stranger” can be more difficult than it sounds when it comes to attending a worship service that is different than your own. There is also a lot of necessary research that is involved in order to be the “perfect stranger”. This past week I had the opportunity to visit the Samarpan Hindu Temple in Philadelphia, where I became

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Janna
  • Challenge of Cultural Relativism

    Challenge of Cultural Relativism

    2.1 How Different Cultures Have Different Moral Codes • Observed fact: different cultures have different moral codes o different things taboos and obligatory o even opposing things as the Darius anecdote illustrates  among the Greeks  one is morally obliged to cremate the dead  one is morally forbidden to eat them  among the Callatians  one is morally obliged to eat the dead  one is morally forbidden to burn them 2.2

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Jack
  • The History and Culture of Buddhism in Korea

    The History and Culture of Buddhism in Korea

    Place of Publication: Dongguk University Press Seoul, Korea 1993. <br> <br>I. Introduction: <br> Buddhism is the root of Korean culture despite periods of rise and decline in popularity. Buddhism combined with Confucianism is the combined practice of the Korean culture today. Buddhism was used to satisfy personal needs and Confucianism was used to satisfy political needs, all needs were met by intergrading the two philosophies. The combination of the two practices has knitted the Korean

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Bred
  • How Do Shakespeare’s Sonnets Feed off the World Around Him?

    How Do Shakespeare’s Sonnets Feed off the World Around Him?

    How do Shakespeare’s sonnets feed off the world around him? Just as the earth laughs in flowers, it can be suggested that Shakespeare laughed in sonnets. For the historical themes and references, the raw emotion and prominent autobiographical trials and tribulations are absorbed in every word of the published 154 sonnets. Whether they are directed at the ‘young man’ or ‘dark lady’ it can be agreed that as an audience we are subjected to a

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Introduction Taking risks in making business decisions has been a key to success for many American corporations. Steve Kafka, an American of Czech origin, realized this fact when he became a franchisor for Chicago Style Pizza and decided to expand his business into the Czech Republic. The first risk Steve took was becoming a franchisor, in that he had to overcome many difficulties, and he anticipates that he

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Jessica
  • World War II

    World War II

    World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict that began on 7 July 1937, in Asia and 1 September 1939, in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving the majority of the world's countries and every inhabited continent. Virtually all countries that participated in World War I were involved in World War II. It was the most extensive and expensive apocalyptic armed conflict in the history of the World. Attributed in varying

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Brave New World

    Brave New World

    Future Predictions…Anyone? Although many similarities exist between Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, they are more divergent than alike.  A Brave New World is a novel about the struggle of Bernard Marx, who rejects the tenants of his society when he discovers that he is not truly happy. 1984 is the story of Winston who finds forbidden love within the hypocrisy of his society. In both cases, the main characters are

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Causes of World War one

    Causes of World War one

    The long-term origins to World War One start back in 1870 with the Franco-Prussian War. In the Franco-Prussian war France lost to Germany which lead to the two countries never being in an alliance with one another. Once the war was over it lead to the forming of the triple Alliance which was one of the main alliances during the first world war. The Triple alliance was made up of the countries - Germany, Austo-Hungery

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Max
  • Lost Voices - How European Immigrants and Especially British Colonialization Damaged Aboriginal Culture.

    Lost Voices - How European Immigrants and Especially British Colonialization Damaged Aboriginal Culture.

    Aboriginals have inhabited the region of "Canada" as far back as historical records exist. From the first contact, Europeans have had a negative impact on Aboriginals. Disease and loss of land contributed to the rapidly declining number of Native peoples prior to the development of Canada. As opposed to the French influence, the English colonial culture was especially destructive. Aboriginals achieved some benefits by allying with the French. During New France times, the French lived

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Discuss the Characters We Hear but Do Not See Why Are They Significant in Terms of the Themes of the Play and in Comparison with Willy?

    Discuss the Characters We Hear but Do Not See Why Are They Significant in Terms of the Themes of the Play and in Comparison with Willy?

    Discuss the characters we hear but do not see why are they significannot in terms of the themes of the play and in comparison with Willy? The first character that I would like to discuss but we never see is Willy’s father. Willy would have people believe that Willy’s dad was a great to success that he left a legacy to Willy a legacy of greatness. This cannot be so because Willy says in act

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Max
  • World War Two

    World War Two

    WORLD WAR TWO The second World War was resulted from the rise of a dictatatorship, military regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan, an event that was a result of the Great Depression that swept over the world in the early 1930s and from the conditions created by a peace agreement following World War I. After World War I, Germany was defeated, Italy was disappointed and Japan was ready to and determined to get back the

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Anna
  • Is Terrorism Taking over the World?

    Is Terrorism Taking over the World?

    IS TERRORISM TAKING OVER THE WORLD? Terrorism has become one of the most serious problems in the world today. The word terror comes from a Latin word meaning “fear”. In the dictionary, its definition is “the use of violence for political purposes”. But only one definition is accepted in the international basis which is “a symbolic activity requiring the usage of intimidation and threat for the purpose of causing impacts by the means of unnatural

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Mike
  • Positive and Negative Influences of Cinema on Popular American Culture

    Positive and Negative Influences of Cinema on Popular American Culture

    The definition of masculinity is not the exact opposite of femininity, nor is it the exact opposite of homosexuality. Masculinity is the culmination of many ideas ebbing and flowing within the social context that come together as an idea of the masses. The portrayal of virile, breadwinning, heterosexual, and until recently, white men in cinema, has clouded our perception of reality, a reality in which men are sometimes physically strong, sometimes weak, sometimes callous, sometimes

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Edward
  • Certain Clashes of Cultures

    Certain Clashes of Cultures

    We always have different opinions on how to take upon our life or perhaps how we perceive the very definition or life itself. Thus by far, I can only surmise that they way we live life and see it, is gravely affected by the way we think, and believe of it. This so called perception is called our "philosophy in life" which primarily is comprised of values and experiences. In the Hindu drama called Shakuntala

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Edward
  • World War II

    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War,[1] was a global military conflict, the joining of what had initially been two separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War; the other began in Europe in 1939 with the German invasion of Poland. This global conflict split the majority of the world's nations into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. It involved the mobilization of over

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Artur
  • Seven Management Cultures in Real Life

    Seven Management Cultures in Real Life

    Question and Answers: a) Which is/are your favorite theories? What are their major advantages or benefits? Why is that? Majid’s favorite management culture is structuralist. He said that a structuralist approach ensures quality in services offered by their enterprise. Being in consulting business it is very important to embrace best practices and industry standards. Due to Structuralist approach all his employees had a clear understanding of their roles, they had in-depth knowledge of their domain

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Janna
  • Bernard Marx - Brave New World

    Bernard Marx - Brave New World

    Bernard Marx, being a male Alpha, is the type of person who just doesn’t really fit in. While just about all people are very open about their thoughts and personal feelings, Bernard is very secretive about many of his thoughts and actions. For instance, when Lenina tries to talk to him about “having her,” his face goes pale and he insists that they discuss it in private (pg 58). He seems to be very concerned

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany by Michael Kater

    Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany by Michael Kater

    "Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany" by Michael Kater There has only been one moment in history when jazz was synonymous with popular music in the country of its origin. During the years of, and immediately prior to World War II, a subgenre of jazz commonly referred to as swing was playing on all American radio stations and attracting throngs of young people to dancehalls for live shows. But it wasn't only

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Steve
  • Cultural Relativism

    Cultural Relativism

    Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism argues that moral facts are determined by cultures and no objective standard can be used to pass judgment upon other cultures. Cultural relativism teaches us to overlook the faults of other cultures, should cultures beliefs be neglected if there is cruelty involved? Over looking the harm one culture is doing to its citizens would be immoral to many different cultures. Even today in a world that presents us with the ideology

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Janna
  • World War 2

    World War 2

    After World War I, economy shot up causing historians to call the 1920s the ‘second industrial revolution.’ The economy of the 1920’s was a key change as it brought about new mass production, mass consumption, and set the stage for the ever-looming Great Depression. The 1920’s saw a great boom in mass production which allowed for cheaper prices of technology products. This decade was marked by an enormous expansion of consumer credit, where Americans were

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Hmong Culture - Food, Eating and Cooking

    Hmong Culture - Food, Eating and Cooking

    Hmong Culture - Food, Eating and Cooking Diverse Cultures in America - Soc 240 Upper Iowa University The Hmong people are originally from rural mountainous areas in Laos and they still inhabit that country to this day. Laos is a country that is located in Southeast Asia. Hmong people are divided into clans or tribes that share the same paternal ancestry. The Hmong people inhabited all parts of Laos but all carried pretty much the

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Jessica
  • World War II

    World War II

    World War II As totalitarian sates emerged into power, the United States got involved with World War II to help control these groups and to promote democracy in the European theatre of the world. The party with the most power at the time was the Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler. This socialist party was led by a powerful dictator who broke away from the League of Nations and began to conquer vast amounts of

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Brief Timeline of Events Leading up to World War one

    Brief Timeline of Events Leading up to World War one

    Brief Timeline of Important Events 1820 March - The Missouri Compromise is negotiated allowing Maine to be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in 1821. This act will maintain a balance between free and slave states. The compromise establishes the 36 degree, 30' parallel of latitude as a dividing line between free and slave areas of the territories. 1827 The state of New York abolishes slavery. 1828

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: July

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