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Essays 1981 - 2010

Organizational Behavior: Southwest Airlines

policy to be honest with its employees, that "through effective people management, the company had created the right type of cultu...

The Role of a Primary School Teacher

intends" (Kyriacou, 1998). The curriculum for the main part of determined by the government, with targets such the literacy and a ...

Matrix Structures for Business

how to structure the company depends on many factors including the value and culture of the firm and the attitude of the senior ma...

Spain: “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway

people. In the United States there is no such thing as a real bullfight, or the bull runs that take place in Spain. It seems, when...

Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

Organizational Misbehaviour

profile employees, but this is not the case, some employers are able to motivate employees gaining high levels of loyalty and comm...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Mysticism in Island by Aldous Huxley

anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

Cultural Dimension of International Business by Gary Ferraro

business. The topic of cultural competence is rather overwhelming as there are thousands of cultures throughout the world. Ferraro...

Ramayana and King Arthur Myths

the Protector, one of the three great gods of the Indian pantheon, and Sita is the avatar of Lakshmi, goddess of wealth and prosp...

Cubicle Anonymity and Office Space

climax of the film. The history of the cubicle is that these partitions were once heralded as an innovation and, today, they rem...

Pakistani Lesbian 'Joy' Interviewed in an Example of Cultural Diversity

felt separated from the American culture at times, even though I was born American. Joys view about homosexuality, though, goes a...

China and Starbucks

to others by pouring them tea. That is a sign of regret and submission" (Chinese tea culture, 2006). Finally, a newly-married coup...

Historical Changes and British Racial Discourses

races interact in that culture. These races include blacks, Asiatics, Hispanics, and Arabics to name just a few. British...

Lesser Developed Countries and Economic Development

no collective voice. It is them that we must be concerned about. If we are to effect positive change in these countries...

Japanese Anime

aspect, leading to a genre with may sub genres all of which are able to reflect some aspect of Japanese culture and as such the cu...

Chinese Cinematic Art

Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...

Teacher Supervision and Effective School Principals

Developing annual budgets and coordinating the use of other resources (Peterson and Kelley, 2001, p. 8). 5. Organizing efforts to ...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

Mary Pipher's The Middle of Everywhere and Reflections of Refugees

formal education" (Pipher 334). As Pipher points out refugees (and other immigrants) are often doctors, professors, engineers, etc...

Leadership Case Study Analysis

The value is that the more people know each other, the less likely they are to try to sabotage each other or to create cliques. 2...

Jewish Burial And Mourning Customs

This also explains why autopsies of Jewish people are not allowed (Chabad.org, 2005). Besides the fact that this type of procedure...

Accommodating Cultural Differences In Esl Classroom

styles of cognitive learning by offering both individual and group work to students. For instance, some of the assignments would b...

Shanghai and the Jazz Age

p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprie...

Self Discovery Hindered by Social Limitations

Should parents bend over backward to meet their childs every need, and make sure that they get ahead in life, or should they dista...

Cultural Variations Between Islam and America

Texts of the Worlds Religions" presents Islam as a religion which stresses that an individuals submission to Allah is what is most...

Human Diversity and its Workplace Challenges

exploiter, but the truth is that the men on the street corner have every reason to be there: some are just getting home from the ...

The Role of Globalization in the Modern Consumer Society

globalization. Increasing technology has also resulted in an expansion of the influences of industrial countries, including the U...

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Cultural Development

about three or four percent of the population with either Buddhist, Daoist or Muslim at one or two percent ("China," 2005). Japa...

Nursing and Cultural Diversity

a strategic factor in a broader movement toward social transformation that stresses social equity (Downey 249). This transformatio...