...For the first time in American history, a national group was being restricted from entering the United States. In 1882, the U.S. Congress officially passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. This act suspended the entry of Chinese immigrants to the United States for ten years (Kwong, Miscevic 101). The west coast cheered in happiness; their efforts were coming closer to a solution. However, anti-Chinese agitators were still not fully pleased because the Chinese Exclusion Act was to only temporarily stop the immigration of the Chinese; the anti-Chinese supporters wanted full extermination of any Chinese presence in the United States. Anti-Chinese reformers only worked further to diminish any of the Chinese left in America. Discrimination and segregation...
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...Riordan Corporate Compliance Plan Susan Holmes, Marcia Kelly, Peter Flores, Ronald Cox, Celeste Mellett, and Orlinda Watson, LAW/531 April 9, 2012 Instructor Name: Thane Messinger Understanding the position companies must take to protect the interests of investors and employees, the organization must have compliance plan in place. The compliance plan must address every possible liability that can bring financial and physical harm to the company. The organization must work with each department to understand the risks involved with each job. Knowing the risks and working to help the employees understand what those risks are and will help keep the employee minimizing risks of the organization. The compliance plan helps list the goals Riordan Manufacturing established to ensure the employees know the correct steps to comply with the laws and regulations. Legal Risk Exposure and Responses Traditionally, Riordan Manufacturing Company legal counsel interacts primarily with executive management and the board of directors to report on existing, pending, and probable litigation. Although this responsibility continues to be critical, it is imperative that there be an increased presence of legal counsel to the internal organization. It is important for counsel to act as an internal company consultant to help reduce legal risks. Activities include circulating existing legal risks status data, consulting internal management, acting as a sounding board for staff to...
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...“Three Mistakes” Beiqi Deng Business Law Camden Country College Dr. Dennis Hurley 12/01/2009 posted in Money & Taxes Three Dumb Mistakes Foreign Companies Do In China A month ago, Apple sold only 5,000 iPhones in its China debut, as against 65,000 in much smaller Korea. It is too early to declare the iPhone a failure in the country, but the launch missed expectations by a mile. Apple follows a long roster of businesses like eBay that have made the dumb mistake of not taking into account local Chinese consumer preferences, as I wrote in “HowApple and IPhone Blew It In China.” Apple should have taken a cue from the German carmaker BMW. BMW localizes for Chinese consumers. The average Chinese buyer of luxury cars such as BMW, Mercedes and Bentley is 40 years old, much younger than in other markets. He has a chauffeur for weekdays but hits the freeways himself on weekends. BMW accommodated local habits by extending the backseat legroom in its Series 5 line by several inches. It also created its first social media site, MyBMWClub.cn, to appeal to younger owners. Using an understanding of local consumers in developing its strategies has worked for the company. In 2009 through October...
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...productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . The University of Chicago Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to American Journal of Sociology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 203.101.161.82 on Sun, 29 Sep 2013 06:25:22 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Lawyers, Political Embeddedness, and Institutional Continuity in China’s Transition from Socialism1 Ethan Michelson Indiana University, Bloomington This article uses the case of Chinese lawyers, their professional troubles, and their coping strategies to build on and develop the concept of political embeddedness. Data from a first-of-its-kind 25-city survey suggest that political embeddedness, defined broadly as bureaucratic, instrumental, or affective ties to the state and its actors, helps Chinese lawyers survive their everyday difficulties, such as routine administrative interference, official rent seeking, and police harassment and intimidation. The article draws the ironic conclusion that legal practice in China reveals at least as much...
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...หลักสูตรวิชาศึกษาทั่วไป (หลักสูตรปรับปรุง พ.ศ. 2552) จุดมุงหมาย เพื่อใหนักศึกษามหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตรมีความรู มีทัศนะกวางขวางรอบตัว สามารถเขาใจถึงสถานภาพของ ตัวบุคคล ที่เกี่ยวของสัมพันธกับสภาพแวดลอมทางธรรมชาติ สภาพแวดลอมทางสังคมและวัฒนธรรมและเพื่อให นักศึกษาสามารถตระหนักถึงความสัมพันธเกี่ยวโยงของวิทยาการทั้งหลาย ทั้งในทางสาขาวิทยาศาสตร สังคมศาสตร มนุษยศาสตร และภาษา ทั้งนี้ เพื่อใหเปนปจจัยเสริมสรางทางปญญา ความคิด คุณธรรม และวิจารณญาณสวนบุคคล อันจะเปนคุณประโยชนแกนักศึกษาทั้งในดานของการศึกษาในระดับสูงขึ้นไป และในดานของการนําไปประยุกตใช กับการดํารงชีวิตใหมีคุณภาพและประสิทธิภาพมากยิ่งขึ้น โครงสรางของหลักสูตรวิชาศึกษาทั่วไป พ.ศ. 2552 นักศึกษาตองศึกษาวิชาในหลักสูตรวิชาศึกษาทั่วไปรวมแลวไมนอยกวา 30 หนวยกิต ตามโครงสรางและ องคประกอบของหลักสูตรวิชาศึกษาทั่วไปซึ่งแบงเปน 2 สวน คือ สวนที่ 1 เปนหลักสูตรกลางของมหาวิทยาลัยที่กําหนดใหนักศึกษาทุกคนตองเรียนจํานวน 21 หนวยกิต ดังตอไปนี้ - หมวดมนุษยศาสตร บังคับ 1 วิชา 3 หนวยกิต - หมวดสังคมศาสตร บังคับ 1 วิชา 3 หนวยกิต - หมวดวิทยาศาสตรและคณิตศาสตร 2 วิชา 6 หนวยกิต วิทยาศาสตร บังคับ 1 วิชา 3 หนวยกิต คณิตศาสตรหรือคอมพิวเตอร บังคับเลือก 1 วิชา 3 หนวยกิต - หมวดภาษา 3 วิชา 9 หนวยกิต ภาษาไทย บังคับ 1 วิชา 3 หนวยกิต ภาษาตางประเทศ บังคับ 1 ภาษา 2 วิชา 6 หนวยกิต สวนที่ 2 เปนหลักสูตรของคณะ จํานวนไมนอยกวา 9 หนวยกิต รายละเอียดโปรดดูขอกําหนดหลักสูตรสวนนี้ของแตละคณะ รายวิชาในหลักสูตรวิชาศึกษาทั่วไปสวนที่ 1 1 วิชา - หมวดมนุษยศาสตร บังคับ มธ.110 สหวิทยาการมนุษยศาสตร - หมวดสังคมศาสตร บังคับ 1 วิชา...
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...Alibaba Reaction paper Hary Gilles Business 101-002 Victor Hugo (02/26/1802 – 05/22/1885), recognized as the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century and as also the greatest French poet, once said: “One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. .... Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come. “ If there is a quote that can best describe “Alibaba” the company, it is this one previously mentioned. As we will try to demonstrate in this paper, Jack Ma has proven to everybody that he is a great leader, a great motivator, an intelligent marketer, and above all, a great visionary. In this business, he started as an ordinary man by building websites for Chinese companies with the help of friends in the US, and in 1995, he founded China’s Yellow pages, widely believed to be China’s first Internet-based company. From 1998 to 1999, he then became the head of an information technology company established by “China Electronic Commerce Center”. In 1999, he founded Alibaba which presently has over 79 million members – hundreds of millions of users and merchants. Businesses using ALIBABA are counted by the millions, from more than 240 countries and territories. In September 2014, the world has witnessed what has become the largest listing in the U.S. history of the stock market. This company has raised $25 billion for its IPO (Initial Public Offering), overtaking VISA’s $19.7 billion 2008 IPO. How did the company...
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...Confirming Pages CONTENTS PREFACE xv PART 1 CHAPTER 1 GLOBAL MARKETING ENVIRONMENTS 1 Understanding Global Markets and Marketing 2 markets are becoming global 2 globalization: the world is becoming smaller 3 globalization and global marketing 4 Globalization: Opportunity or Threat? The Global Marketing Approach 6 6 global marketing and global markets 7 the cage distance framework 7 domestic and global marketing compared 8 Geographic or Spatial Distance 10 Psychic/Cultural Distance 12 The EPRG Framework 13 Developing Global Marketing Strategy 14 The Standardization versus Localization–Adaptation School 14 Levitt and the Globalization of Marketing 16 Standardization versus Mass Customization 17 Managing the Firm’s Value Chain 18 Global Value Chain Configuration 19 Integrating the Firm’s Competitive Strategy 20 Global Competition 20 a global marketing management framework Global Marketing Performance 22 Global Vision—The World Is My Oyster CASE 1-1 CASE 1-2 CHAPTER 2 21 23 A Tortuous Road Ahead for Proton of Malaysia 26 Dabur—Developing Values in an Emerging Economy Through Value Chain and Product Line 31 Assessing the Global Marketing Environment—The Global Economy and Technology 36 the global economy 37 Economic Growth and World Trade 37 Who Are the United States’ Major Customers? 38 High Tech Products Lead World Trade 40 Characteristics of High Technology Markets 42 Technology and Global...
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...job because the pay was bad, so then the blacks would come in and they were willing to do the job even if they didn’t get paid a lot. “After a brief postwar depression, the economy greatly expanded and northern industries were booming. Immigration laws kept the flow of eastern and southern European immigrants to a mere trickle, thereby forcing the industrialists to tap the industrial reserve of Negroes for unskilled labor” (Wilson 68). In The Mississippi Chinese the Chinese had hostility with the upper class whites. The big problem for the upper class whites was that they felt like if they let one minority into their group, the other minorities would want the same thing and would start making a scene. They think of themselves as exclusive and special and they don’t want anyone else to get the idea that they can be too. “The upper class is more exclusive and more defensive about its position and considers endogamy essential to its continued dominance. Furthermore, its members cannot admit to powerlessness and must occasionally demonstrate their influence when incidents which threaten the etiquette code arise. Hence the upper class is far more discriminatory” (Loewen 129) he then continues on to say “Their actions against the Chinese…were partly based on their exclusiveness, their endogamy, and their social distinctions” (Loewen 131) Some of the forms...
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...examines the history of the theory and the scientific ideas on which it is based. It also examines some of the evidence proving the Big Bang and addresses some of the more common arguments against it. | Contents The Search for Creation 3 The Big Bang Theory 3 Supporting Observations 4 Objections 5 Conclusion 5 References 7 The Search for Creation Man seems, by nature, to be a curious creature. We are always looking for explanations for natural phenomena. We have attributed the sound of thunder and lightning in the sky to Thor. When crops died and people were struck ill, ancient man (and modern in some cases) knew the obvious cause was spells cast by witches. We even have myths about the creation of the world; from the Chinese Phan Ku who "emerged from an egg and proceeded to create the world by using a chisel" (Singh, 2004, p. 4) to the Judeo-Christian story of the seven day creation. These creation stories were our first attempts to explain not only our origins but the origins of everything. These stories satisfied many, especially in a time when the ability to test their validity was very limited, but as we have advanced so has our ability to analyze the universe around us and come up with testable ideas to explain the origin of the universe and its evolution. Since, as the saying goes, "great science is built on the shoulders of giants" I could attribute the beginnings of our scientific quest for the beginning to Geek philosophers who first began question...
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...the Chinese farmer in the 1930s. These farmers had very little land, and their lives depended on the land for income, work, and sustenance. The Chinese government decided to build roads and fortresses to be built by the peasents, during the 1930s, for “national defense” and these would be going through most of the peasant farming lands instead of the higher ups (The Fourth Day of Drafting Workers for Road Construction, Tianyu, 98). For the farmers they became stuck in their social status and could do nothing to prevent the building of the roads because they were for national defense and issued through the government, “this is construction for ‘national defense,’ in preparation for fighting the XX [Japanese] people. Therefore, who could say anything about it?” (The Fourth Day of Drafting Workers for Road Construction, Tianyu, 98). These farmers became constrained in their status and lost their identity because the building of these defenses diminishing whatever they had. Most workers could not bear the loss of their fields to the road and fortress construction, “If you’re going to build the wall of a fortress on this piece of land, then you’ll be cutting the heart out of me…I wont be able to live any longer. None of us will be able to live any longer.” (The Last Day, Yehong, 110). The social status of the Chinese farmer did not allow them to exercise their rights, and if these farmers did try and fight back against the established higher ups they were punished. One Chinese worker...
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...Chapter 1: Introduction Executive Summary Associate will start a new pharmaceutical company in November 2003 at Singapore. The new company names as Body Health Care Private Limited Company (BHC). The main reason associate selects Singapore because this country has very large market potential. According to a research report from the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2000, Singaporeans on average consume around US$200 million of pharmaceuticals each year.1 The aims of associate are to provide health food products to the consumers, which are health consciousness and offer more choices for the same line of the products. At the start up BHC will only concentrate on selling two core products. There are liquid spirulina and propolis. Re-Vita Manufacturing Company Incorporation manufactures, pack, and supply both products Re-Vita Mfg. Co. Inc. has been in producing nutritional products for more than 15 years. It is a well-established company based in United State. Both BHC core products received approval from FDA from United State through Re-Vita Mfg. Co. Inc. It enhances the safety of using these products. In addition, in the current Singapore market only BHC core products print with the sentence “May be kept within the reach of children”. This print out endorses the quality of the products. BHC believes high quality products come with reasonable prices. BHC will distribute products through retailers. Good relationship with retailers will help BHC products to entry...
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...Xi'an Gaoxin Tangnan High School Higher Education Institutions: Xi'an University of Finance & Econom 08/2009 - 05/2010 Issued to: HOURS 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 QPTS 45.00 84.00 QPTS 3.00 9.00 12.00 9.00 12.00 GPA 3.000 2.800 U N O F F I C I A L Test Scores: -------------------------------------------------------Transfer Credit Applied to 2011 Fall Semester Xi'an University of Finance & Econom 08/2009 - 05/2010 XICN001 FUNDAMENTALS OF COLLEGE C 3.00 NEEDEVAL XICN002 ADVANCED MATHS 1 (ECONOMI 3.00 MA 1--XICN003 INTRODUCTION TO LAW OF EC 3.00 ECO 4--XICN004 MORAL CULTIVATION AND BAS 3.00 GEED2--XICN005 PE (1) 1.00 KHP 1--XICN006 MICRO-ECONOMICS 3.00 ECO 201 XICN007 COLLEGE CHINESE 2.00 GEED1--XICN008 ADVANCED MATHS 2 (ECONOMI 3.00 MA 123 XICN009 MANAGEMENT 3.00 MGT 301 XICN010 MACRO-ECONOMICS 2.00 ECO 202 XICN011 PRINCIPLE OF MARXISM 3.00 GEED2--XICN012 DATABASE APPLICATION 2.00 NEEDEVAL XICN013 PE (2) 1.00 KHP 1--XICN014 OUTLINE OF CHINESE MODERN 2.00 GEED2--Total 34.00 2011 Fall Semester Program: College of Business and Economics Bachelor of Science in Accounting Major: Pre-Accounting CRS NUM COURSE TITLE GRADE STA 210 INTRO TO STATISTICAL A REASONING CIS 110 COMP AND COM I B GLY 110 ENDANGERED PLANET INTR TO C ENVRNMNTL GEOL BIO 102 HUMAN ECOLOGY B ACC 201 FINANCIAL...
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...LAM YOW THIM and CHEN ZONGGUI School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Received 2 December 2002; accepted 29 May 2003 China has been developing at an amazing speed since it carried out reform and open-door policy in 1978. Construction industry is playing a leading role in the rapid Chinese economic development. At the same time, China has also worked hard to encourage overseas investors to expand their investment in the construction industry. With its development over the years, China has established a legal system for governing construction activities. To participate in such a major market in the world, it is important to understand the legal system governing it and the impact of China’s joining the World Trade Organization. The Chinese construction laws and practice are still very different from the international norm. If foreign participants are to make a success out of doing business in China, they must understand the Chinese way of life. Particularly, they must prepare to adapt to an environment where new rules are created as circumstances and situations change. Keywords: Construction laws, legal system, construction industry, China, foreign investment, foreign designers and contractors, World Trade Organization (WTO) Introduction China has been developing at an amazing speed since it carried out reform and open-door policy in 1978. The rapid economic development in China has resulted in many construction activities...
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...Foreign Companies Want to Build Factories in China United Nations data of the total foreign direct investment in 2013 shows that China attracted $ 101 billion for continuing topped the list of developing countries. Why so many foreign companies want to build factories in China. I think it has three reasons to explain this question. I will use the example of Apple to show these three reasons. First of all, China as one of the cheap labor export base all over the world, attracting a large number of foreign companies to invest in production in China. American market investment company ConvergEx Group conducted a global minimum wage ranking in August 2013. From this ranking, Australia is $ 16.88 per hour topped the list. The United States is at an intermediate position. China is $ 0.8 per hour on the 17th in this list. The group is also based on the existing minimum wage, calculated that people in countries that are listed in the number of minutes of work to buy a Big Mac hamburger. Among them, the Chinese people need to work on average about 183 minutes to buy a Big Mac price of $ 2.61, which is located in the middle and lower purchase levels. The first decade of 1978 after China started economic reforms aimed at foreign direct investment in China's main business is to establish an export base in China. While this Chinese "reform and opening" initially helpful, but such investments often only have a very low value. For example, in 2009 a study found that, despite the world's...
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