...are forced to forget their past and become great military commanders. In the story, Ender’s Game, the battle school is in an extremely futuristic space station that is in the Age of Peace and War. To begin with, the novel must be placed in the future. For example, the knowledge of the people in this story is incredible. Evidence of alien life, space stations creating its own gravity, and children at the age of eleven becoming military commanders are all examples of the expanding knowledge at the time. For instance, “They had been doing it only seven months when one of the west coast nets sent Demosthenes a message. An offer in a column for a pretty good newsnet… “I can’t do a column,” said Valentine. “I don’t even have a monthly period yet.” This quote explains that the children, Valentine and Peter, have become so smart they have succeeded in changing the ideas and beliefs of commoners and received a job opportunity under the ages of 14. Their society is malleable and the wisdom these children already have, where they can see that in their society, is unreal. Another description of the era and time of this novel is the Age of Peace and War. The society is controlled and run by the military. It is a known fact that all around the world children are introduced to the military society around infancy. For example, “The trigger was obvious - he had had toy guns, as all children had, almost since infancy.” This quote was stated by Ender as he learned the controls of the laser gun used...
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...With the recent events that took place, JetBlue had no strategy dealing with the delays caused by weather related issues. JetBlue needs to reemphasize its strategic planning dealing with delay causing situations. For JetBlue to a successful company, it needs to reevaluate its emergency preparedness plans. The Bill of Rights that was released after the events that occurred on Valentine’s Day is only a partial solution to the big problem. We know that Congress passed the law where passengers cannot sit on the tarmac for more than 3 hours, so that whole issue with having the passengers sit on the tarmac for 5 hours was totally unacceptable. Customer satisfaction is one of the primary bases of JetBlue airlines and for any airlines for that matter. They should take more emphasis in this area for sure. No passenger wants to wait on an idle plane for more than an hour, and loosing passengers’ baggage because JetBlue did not have a computerized system in place for recording and tracking lost bags. The reservation system defiantly needs to be updated. The reservation system was not expanded enough to meet the extreme customer call volume. Since most of their agents work from home, the system that they used also needed to be updated to handle the call volume. That should be a priority for the airlines. There were other issues that needed to be addressed and taken care of. There seems to be a lot of different applications that run different components of the systems that JetBlue uses...
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...romantic holiday. For Brazil's Dia de São Valentim, see Dia dos Namorados. For uses of Valentine, see Valentine. For other uses, see Valentine's Day (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Saint Valentine's Day Antique Valentine 1909 01.jpg Antique Valentine's card Also called Valentine's Day Feast of Saint Valentine Observed by People in many countries; Anglican Communion (see calendar), Eastern Orthodox Church (see calendar), Lutheran Church (see calendar) Type Cultural, Christian, commercial Significance Feast day of Saint Valentine; the celebration of Love and affection Observances Sending greeting cards and gifts, dating, church services Date February 14 (fixed by the Catholic Church); July 7 (fixed by the Orthodox Church) Frequency annual Shrine of St. Valentine in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland Saint Valentine of Terni and his disciples Saint Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine,[1] is observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a holiday in most of them. St. Valentine's Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Several martyrdom stories were invented for the various Valentines that belonged to February 14, and added to later martyrologies.[2] A popular hagiographical account of Saint Valentine of Rome states that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were...
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...University Chinese food now holds a popular place among the entire population of the world. You can find a Chinese restaurant in every major city, especially in the United States and in many smaller areas of the world as well. Chinese food, when authentic is probably the healthiest food in the world. Some restaurants, especially American Chinese cuisine, which are not authentic, prepare their menu with highly saturated fats or with meats that contain unhealthy amounts of animal fat. These Chinese restaurants are not recommended and they are both neither authentic nor healthy. Good Chinese food however, is prepared and cooked with poly-unsaturated oils. Authentic Chinese food does not require the use of milk-fat ingredients such as cream, butter or cheese. Meat is used, but not in abundance, which makes it easy for those who love authentic Chinese food to avoid high levels of animal fat. Many believe that authentic Chinese food is really the ideal diet. There are several Chinese restaurants around Boston University, but they are not traditional Chinese food. They are all assimilated by the western diet culture. But our Shandong restaurant is a traditional Chinese restaurant and it located around Boston University. W.I.I. (What it is…) The Shandong restaurant is a partnership based venture aimed at promoting a healthy and traditional Chinese Shandong style eatery. The aim of this restaurant is to provide a health promoting alternative to the westernization of Chinese restaurant...
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...relationship between the alien colonial state and the overwhelmingly larger Chinese population. What made this so? -"laissez-faire and non-interventionism", reducing the potenital of conflict. -traditional political apathy of Chinese -Hong Kong does not fit classical patterns of colonialism -theorize the importance of "segmentation" by race or ethnicity He argues that it is dangerous to overlook the colonial aspects of the Chinese community, and article traces the historical roots between the Hong Kong bourgeosie and the colonial government was not a conquest state, but still retaining the characteristics of a colonized entity. It has a very moderate stance. -Some Chinese may have even credited Britain's of Hong Kong not to them, but to the local Chinese; Hanjian; local Chinese refused to cooperate -Tankas and Loo Aqui (provided the British with fuel and merchant supplies, also courted by other chinese officials and dominated the opium monopoly) -free port attracvted a "great influx of natives" -moved from Macau to Hong Kong Tam Achoy, (Cantonese), had dealings with British before Why were they willing to help the British? LAND REFORM --> they used land to build up the elite MONOPOLIES-->British paranoid with what the Chinese were "selling" Chinese markets run by monopolies Chinese contractors, landowners, merchants did not expansion was "imposed" upon a passive Chinese population ME: These were people who went to Hong Kong themselves, and...
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...In my opinion, the main reason that Turkish government doesn’t recognize Laz Language as a minority language is because the government is concerned about that multi-language usage would lay a threat on the current Turkish authority. According to the radio, Turkish is the only official language and also the only language that allowed to be taught in schools. Since language, for the most of the time is largely associated with culture, not letting the younger generation to carry on the culture that is different from the standard nowadays’ Turkish culture, in the government’s believe, would help the stabilize the current political situation. Tangwang, which uses mostly Mandarin words and morphemes with Dongxiang grammar, is one of the endangered languages in China. Over the years, the local government has done a series of actions to protect this endangered language. Although the language used in school is Mandarin, the government still encourages that parents talk to their children in Tangwang language at home. Every year, the government will hold Tangwang Festival that not only attracts the tourists but also spread this endangered culture. In China, since the dominant culture is Han culture and the major/official language used is Mandarin, it is very hard for younger generations to get interested for their local ancient culture. In my opinion, the government should offer benefit to motivate younger generations, including lower college entrance exam grade required if choose...
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...9/22/2011 MACC 424: WSJ Diary Project China Studies Foreign IPOs 09/21/2011 I. Summary China’s government is considering new regulations to govern a corporate structure, the so called VIE which is known as variable interest entity, that has enabled a wave of Chinese firms to list overseas by circumventing rules against foreign investment in sectors such as the Internet. Under this special structure, Chinese legal entities hold the sensitive permits and licenses required to do business in China while the offshore holding companies in which foreigners buy shares contract with those onshore entities, which are often controlled by the holding companies’ top executives, to get revenue from fees and royalties. Since the China’s domestic exchanges are dominated by state firms thus any move to clamp down on future use of the VIE structure could leave privately owned companies in many industries with limited options for going public especially the Internet industries. It turns out that Chinese officials is decided to set up extensive controls on the Internet, after social-networking sites and other web-based tools are common and essential in people’s normal life II. My Reaction As we all know, most Internet companies in China take VIE structure to make themselves successfully listed overseas, such as Sina, Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba. If VIE structure is illegal, it is devastating to the all the partners or any stakeholders in these overseas listing companies, as...
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...we have ten people here include me, and 80% have ever used Baidu, right? What’s more, we can see 100% Chinese have used Baidu, and 100% people outside China never heard of Baidu. So the results can really tell us some successful parts of this company, and some parts of it still need to improve. OK, let’s go back to the beginning, the following eight minutes I will introduce an excellent company Baidu for you. I’ve divided my presentation into three main parts. The first one is the introduction of Baidu, the second part is analyzing why the company is so successful, and the third part is the future of Baidu. I’m sure if you listen to me carefully you will find something interesting. NAME Baidu is the largest Chinese language search engine. The name of Baidu was inspired by a poem, written more than 800 years ago during an old Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a beauty with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. The poem is …hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood." Baidu, whose literal meaning is “hundreds of times”, represents a persistent search for the ideal. Sounds really romantic. MISSION Just like the poem said, the mission of this company is to provide the best way for people to find information online, including Chinese language web pages, news, images. In addition to serving individual Internet search users, Baidu also...
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...Sentence patterns for basic Chinese conversations: zhe4 | this | na4 | that | mei3 | each/every | na3 | which? | yi1 | one | liang3 | a couple | shi2 | ten | Can I (enter, buy)? | wǒ néng bù néng (jìn qu, mǎi) | Can you (help me, sell)? | nǐ néng bù néng (bāngmáng, mài)? | Do you have (an airplane ticket)? | <nǐ> yǒu (zhāng jīpiào) ma? | How much does (this; measure word) cost? | (zhèi {ge, tiáo, běn} ) yào duōshao qián? | I am (Indian) | wǒ shì (Yìndù rén) | I am not( American, Native American) * | wǒ bú shì (Měiguórén, Yìndì'ānrén ) | I have ( passport, 2 pieces of luggage) | wǒ yǒu (hùzhào, liǎng jiàn xíngli) | I do not have (Chinese visa, two photos) | wǒ méi yǒu (qiānzhèng, liǎng zhāng zhàopiàn) | I lost my (passport, money purse, id papers) | wǒde (hùzhào,qiánbāo, shēnfèn zhèngmíng) diū le. | I need (to see a doctor, go to the airport) | wǒ yào (kànbìng, qù jīchǎng) | I do not need (to go to the airport, a taxi) | wǒ bú yào (qù jīchǎng, chūzū qìchē) | I would like to/ think I want to (go to hotel, go to hospital) | wǒ xiǎng (qù jiǔdiàn/lǚguǎn,qù yīyuàn) | I would not like to (rest, eat food) | Wǒ bùxiǎng (xiūxí /chīfàn) * | I will stay in (Beijing) for (four days, a week) | Wǒ yào zài (Běijīng) dāi (sī tiān, Yīgè xīngqí) | Is there a (restaurant, market) closeby? | fùjìn yǒu (fànguǎn,chāoshì) ma? | Please give me ( a receipt, room keys) | qǐng gěi wǒ (fāpiào, fángjiān yàoshi) | Please help me (register, call my...
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...Siblings Disguised as Rivals: Kindred Relationship Between Confucianism and Legalism Legalism is linked to laws while Confucianism is married to morals. The two are often contrasted with each other in regards to their different means of achieving harmony in society. Legalism, as its name suggests, is very much concerned with achieving order in society through laws. To elaborate, strict rules are supplemented with rewards and punishments—people were given heavy incentives to obey the laws and even heavier penalties for disregarding them (Ebrey Textbook, 36). To the contrary, Confucianism is rooted in the ideal that a just society is in need of a moral ruler who will influence his people to also be moral (Ebrey Textbook, 30). In the midst of analyzing the contrasts between these two schools of thought, however, what we often fail to realize is the similarity underneath. Although the differences between Legalism and Confucianism may seem convincing, upon further analysis, we see that their emergent contradictions is transcended by their parallel, underlying views of the despicable nature of self-conceit, the admirability of humility, and the importance of a minister's allegiance to his superior. There is little question that modesty is a Confucian virtue, and the idea of not exhibiting excessive pride is also present in the Legalistic school of thought. To begin, in Selections From Han Feizi, the Legalistic author denounces society for “having it backwards” by honoring those...
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...and early twenty century. There was resistance against immigrants and World War I, definitely did not help due to both the social and economical issues that arose with increase of immigration, the Canadian government became involved in limiting immigration, based on their racist belief of white supremacy and other factors. The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 is one of the documented law mirror the measures taken by Parliament of Canada banning most forms of Chinese Immigration of Canada. During the year between 1880- 1925 great tension aroused in Canadian because if immigration. Those tension mainly due to racism and unsatisfied workers that felt that immigrants were taking over the Canadian work environments and policies led to increasingly stricter government regulations on immigration. During the late 19 Century the some 15,000 laborers were brought from China to do construction work on the Canadian Pacific Railway, though they were only paid a third or a half less than their coworkers. Chinese immigration was heavily controlled by the Chinese Immigration Act of 1985, which imposed a hefty Head Tax on all immigrants from China. All Chinese immigrations coming to Canada were forced to pay a fifty-dollar fee to enter the country. In 1903, the amount was raised to five hundred dollars, a substantial amount of money at that time. Crown in...
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...The study of Chinese Canadian women looked at why there is a higher cervical cancer incidence and lower screening test rates that the general Canadian population. British Columbia has a high population of Chinese immigrants that have twice the incidence of cervical cancer than the white women population (Hislop et al, 2003). This study discusses the Cervical Cancer Screening Program (CCSP) that was first established in British Columbia. Although the program has been effective, there continues to be more than 1.3 million women that have not been recently screened (Hislop et al, 2003). The importance of the study was trying to determine facilitators and barriers among the Chinese population and use the information to improve the program and continue education about Pap testing that is culturally and linguistically appropriate for the Chinese community (Hislop et al, 2003). The Precede-Proceed model was used to determine predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors by comparing women who had never had a pap test in relation to women who had, but not within the last 2 years. The Precede-Proceed model was the conceptual framework used for development and analysis of the survey questionnaire and interviews. There are 10 steps in the model. The first five deal with defining and analyzing the problem and establishing the objectives and the last 5 involve implementation/ follow-up and evaluation (Hislop et al, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, 2003, 2011). First...
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...Financial Management Introduction A long-term investment, which includes stocks, bonds, real estate, and cash, is an account on a company’s asset side of the balance sheet that represents an investment the company intends to hold on to for more than a year (Definition, 2013). The US firm, Acme, wants to focus on investing in markets in China. There are many factors to consider when doing business in any foreign country, China is no different. The first bit of information to look at is the back ground of China. China, whose capital and focal point is Beijing, with over 4,000 years of verifiable history, is believed to have the oldest continuous civilization. The official language of China, which is derived from a Mandarin dialect, is Chinese. China is a Communist country that promotes atheism and a constitution that guarantees freedom of religion (China Introduction, 2013). Culture The second bit of information to look at is the appearance, behaviors, manners, and communications that China businessmen expect to see. The appearance of businessmen and women should be taken into account when doing business in China. The businessman should wear a conservative suit with subtle colors; the businesswoman should avoid high heels, short sleeved blouses, and revealing clothing. Jeans are acceptable for men and women, however they are...
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...At this moment, I am working in Allphones in Perth. My boss, Mrs Zhang, is a Chinese woman who has another shop in Adelaide and she always stays there. Therefore, her brother, Mr. Zhang, is taking responsible for the shop in Perth. About two weeks ago, I went to the shop and tried to find a position there. Mr. Zhang made an appointment with me and asked me lots of questions, such as my English level, the experience of being a salesperson, and my previous job and so on. I could clearly felt that he was satisfied with me. At that night, he gave me a call and told me that he has talked to Mrs. Zhang about recruiting me and she agreed that. Still in that call, he also told me that the salary for me is 10 dollars per hour and I could start training immediately. Even I felt it is quite low, I agreed to work there, because I thought that it is better to gain some money than nothing and that would be the salary during the period of training. As the first job I got in Perth, I really felt passion about it. It seems that it is really a hard job. Since our shop locates in the heart of Perth, there are lots of people coming to our shop every day. During the first week, I worked four days from 10am to 5.30pm, which made me very tired, but I still felt happy since I could get money from this job. One day, one of my colleagues asked Mr. Zhang to pay the salary, so did I. Mr. Zhang looked at me for five seconds and told me that there is no salary during the training and I could get 10...
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...(2008) 1152–1166 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Clinical Psychology Review Gambling among the Chinese: A comprehensive review Jasmine M.Y. Loo a,⁎, Namrata Raylu a,b, Tian Po S. Oei a a b School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia Drug, Alcohol, and Gambling Service, Hornsby Hospital, Hornsby, NSW 2077, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Despite being a significant issue, there has been a lack of systematic reviews on gambling and problem gambling (PG) among the Chinese. Thus, this paper attempts to fill this theoretical gap. A literature search of social sciences databases (from 1840 to now) yielded 25 articles with a total sample of 12,848 Chinese community participants and 3397 clinical participants. The major findings were: (1) Social gambling is widespread among Chinese communities as it is a preferred form of entertainment. (2) Prevalence estimates for PG have increased over the years and currently ranged from 2.5% to 4.0%. (3) Chinese problem gamblers consistently have difficulty admitting their issue and seeking professional help for fear of losing respect. (4) Theories, assessments, and interventions developed in the West are currently used to explain and treat PG among the Chinese. There is an urgent need for theory-based interventions specifically tailored for Chinese problem gamblers. (5) Cultural differences exist in patterns of gambling when compared with Western samples; however...
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