...describe through the cross cultural context of who I am, as a cultural being and to identify through terms and understanding the concept. This is a form of analysis and to go through the process of questionnaire and self study by observation. The self study paper will demonstrate as a cultural being how one fits in society, culture, and views of self; also to be aware of self and to compare with different theories to give a better understanding of Cross Cultural Psychology and to better understand the personality, from where one comes from. Self Study As a Cultural Being The concept of this paper is to demonstrate what is behind Cross Cultural Psychology, and how it’s being used, meanwhile to identify one-self...
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...Naod Tekeste English 110C The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete Proving nature's laws wrong it learned to walk without having feet Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared! Analysis Tupac Shakur was a rapper from California, known for his socially-conscious songs that concern violence, racism, and hardship. Outside of the booth, the rapper was characterized for his vocalness on those issues, as well as his personal conflicts with other artists. While Tupac Shakur is most notably known as a rapper, his poetry is also critically acclaimed. “The Rose That Grew from Concrete”, from his 1999 posthumous book of the same name, is his most widely known poem. In the poem, Shakur describes a rose growing from a block of concrete, despite the odds against it. In the end, he praises the rose as an entity of its own. However, when reading this poem, a question comes to mind: is it a short, clever story of an actual rose growing from concrete, or a symbolic representation of Shakur himself? When reading into it further, it seems to be the latter. The opening lines read, “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?” (1-2) The rose that Shakur alludes to is meant to represent himself. This is something that could be assumed easily, but what is the crack in the concrete...
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...Table of Contents 1 Overview Of Singapore 3 1.1 Highlight Of Singapore Economy 3 2 Economic Indicator Analysis Of Singapore Economy 4 2.1 GDP 4 2.1.1 GDP(Gross Domestic Product) 5 2.1.2 GDP Growth Rate: 6 2.1.3 GDP Per Capita 7 2.2 Labour 8 2.2.1 Unemployment Rate: 9 2.2.2 Employed Person 10 10 2.3 Price 10 2.3.1 CPI(Consumer Price Index): 11 2.3.2 Inflation Rate: 12 2.3.3 GDP Deflator 13 3 References 14 * OVERVIEW OF SINGAPORE Singapore is a highly developed trade-oriented market economy. It has been ranked as the most open in the world, least corrupt, most pro-business, with low tax rates. Singapore is a wealthy country with a medium-sized economy, located in East Asia. Singapore has the world’s 35th largest economy by nominal GDP. It is a high-income economy with a gross national income of $47,210 per capita (statistics of 2013). It provides the world’s most business-friendly regulatory environment for local entrepreneurs and is ranked among the world’s most competitive economies. In the decades after independence, Singapore rapidly developed from a low income country to a high income country. GDP grew with an average of 7.7% since independence; in the first 25 years growth topped 9.2%. Per capita GDP over the same periods grew by 5.4% and 7.2%. Rapid industrialization took momentum in the 1960s and, by the end of the decade; manufacturing had become the lead sector of the country’s economic growth. By the early 1970s...
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... Narrative I have always had an interest in finding out how all things electrical work. From a very young age I started to fix things electrical around the house and started hooking up house and car stereos and recievers. Once I got my first computer I st had to know how it worked. So I took it apart and ending up trashing it. But that fine day my interest in circuits and circuit boards grew. As I grew older and he computers became more advanced, I knew things could short out more and I had to learn how o fix these things. So I started to study and look into the details of these electronics and how they worked. I wanted to know how these things worked and if something went wrong could I fix it. Most importantly I could get a better understanding of why the circuit fired. It was a lot of fun figuring out and fixing the problem myself. When listening to music that had a little too much wattage hook up to it, or the sub woofers was too much wattage and had fried all the speaker channels. I had to order new channels and fuses, the fuses where easy to install but taking everything apart to get to the channels on this kind of old school reciever was a little difficult. BRIDGE What I would like to learn more about is the fault point of an electrical circuit in different items. And what are the symptoms of the failure? I know that if you over-clock a computers processor to much it will overheat and fry. I followed up on research as I grew older and realized...
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...are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” Woodrow “I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.”- Will smith Throughout my time in the Communication department I have learned many things. However, I feel that one of the biggest impacts I have had within my ungraduated career is the certificate program Conflict Analysis and Resolution. I chose the first quote due to the skills we acquired throughout the program. When I first heard about the program I thought to myself its only 12 credits how hard can this be? Little did I know then, just how much these twelve credits would change my view of life? I feel like my purpose in life is to help others, and how you ask I do not know that quite yet but I am hoping to get that situated before I embark on my next journey in life. The second quote applies to my journey in many ways as well. But all in all I owe it to our great professor Dr. Shailor who as times slips in a little politics and catholic faith. I see how open he is and...
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...COMMUNICATION INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS Goal for the interaction: My goals for the interaction was to create and build a therapeutic relationship with the client. I hoped to use multiple communication techniques such as the use of open ended questions and general leads. Description of the environment: The interaction first took place in the cafeteria of the home during breakfast. We were both seated at a table and there was plenty of background noise as there were multiple people eating and having conversations. Later on the interaction moved to the client’s room because it was quiet and there was almost no background noise. The client sat on the edge of here bed while I sat on a chair beside the bed. Student’s Communication (including non-verbal) Students Thoughts and Feelings Client’s Communication (including non-verbal) Analysis of Interaction “Hi, how are you, my names Justin I’m a nursing student from lakehead is it okay if I talk to you today?” • I was seated next to the client leaning slightly forward and maintaining eye contact to let her know I was interested. At this point within the interaction I was slightly nervous because I had not been introduced to anyone the clients before while the rest of the students had. The client understood my purpose for being there which allowed me to act with more confidence. “Yes you can, it’s good to see more males getting into nursing” • Client turned chair towards me to engage in conversation and ensure eye contact During...
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...are not born as criminals at first; they are all born as innocent babies; they start life as we all do: as a blank sheet of paper, ready to be filled with scripts of life. Here in this story, Perry Smith is not only a villain, he is also a victim. The series of failure in the development of little Perry has begun—at least—from his parents. After his father decided to have contraband alcohol business for living, Perry’s mother began to get drunk, and other bad things started to follow. They quarreled often, and I guess peace and love have slowly evaporated from their home and family, replaced by violence. Perry was a child with sensitive and tender heart who should be taken in special care; he needed love, affection and tenderness much more than anybody else with different personalities. These violent episodes in the family, unfortunately, happened on the very important phase of Perry’s early development. After that, his parents separated, and Perry must enter several institutions, and there he did not get any better treatment either. And that because people failed to understand Perry’s needs. If only they gave him love, acceptance and support, I believe it is not too late to bring him to the right path. But, it never happened, and with all the violence he got, he got worse. As a result, Perry grew up as a man with hatred and grudge deep inside him. In the surface he might be a feminine man who loved poetry and cared about others (he really provided comfort for his victims-to-be...
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...Analysis of «To Kill a Mockingbird» written by Harper Lee The story under consideration is called « To Kill a Mockingbird» written by Harper Lee. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. Harper Lee grew up in the small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville. Lee published her first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, in 1960 after a two-year period of revising and rewriting under the guidance of her editor, Tay Hohoff, of the J. B. Lippincott Company. To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize despite mixed critical reviews. The novel was highly popular, selling more than fifteen million copies. Though in composing the novel she delved into her own experiences as a child in Monroeville, Lee intended that the book impart the sense of any small town in the Deep South, as well as the universal characteristics of human beings. The book was made into a successful movie in 1962. The text under analysis belongs to the group of fictional texts. The literary trend is realism. The style prevailed in the extract is oratorical. Its main function is persuasion of the audience. The main problem raised by the author is an issue of justice. The message of Hapter Lee is that in the face of court each and every human should be treated honestly, no matter what his social status, education or colour of skin is. In the novel the scene is laid in a small American town in Alabama. The given extract depicts a trial of Tom Robinson, a Negro, who is in the criminal dock on a capital...
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...Amazon case study analysis ---- Jiachuang Sun 1. Review of Amazon’s strategy between 2007 and 2009 Strategic analysis Profiling the business: ➢ Mission: Amazon’s mission is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible price[1]. ➢ Product/service analysis: Since the establishment of Amazon, new products has been kept adding into the original book category and Amazon has moved further to provide service. There are three product categories in Amazon, media category, electronic and general merchandise category and other category like Amazon web service and Amazon Enterprise Solution. This means you can buy almost everything from Amazon. ➢ Sales and gross profit analysis: The net sales growth of Amazon in year 2007 and 2008 was in average 30% and the total sales in 2008 was $19166m. In the same time, the gross profit grew from $3353m in 2007 to $4270 in 2008. Actually, both the sales and profits grew quickly since 2001 and they seemed to grow at a quicker way. External environment analysis ➢ Opportunities and threats: • Opportunities: to further improve the speed of delivery; international expansion in emerging markets such as China and India; extension of brands into new areas; through acquisitions and partnership to consolidate Amazon’s technological capability...
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...An Evaluation of Business and Financial Performance of the Dhaka Bank Limited 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2007 ANALYSIS, FINDINGS and RECOMMENDATIONS 1.1 Company Profile Background of Dhaka Bank Limited (DBL): DBL is a scheduled bank that was incorporated under the Companies Act 1994, started its operation on July 1995 with a target to play a vital role on the socio-economic development of the country. Aiming at offering commercial banking service to the customers’ door around the country, DBL established 20 branches up-to this year. This organization achieved customers’ confidence immediately after its establishment. At the end of year 2007 the equity ownership of DBL was as follows: Ownership Structure Sponsors Institutional Investors General Public Foreign Chart 1.1: Ownership Structure Source: Dhaka Bank Annual Report 2007 (A) Mission Statement To be the premier financial institution in the country providing high quality products and services backed by latest technology and a team of highly motivated personnel to deliver excellence in Banking. An Evaluation of Business and Financial Performance of the Dhaka Bank Limited 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2007 Slogan Excellence in Banking Objectives • • • • • Be one of the best banks of Bangladesh. Achieve excellence in customer service next to none and superior to all competitors. Cater to all differentiated segments of Retail and Wholesale Customers. Be a high quality distributor of product and services. Use state-of...
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...What Every MBA Student in the World Needs to Know Sandeep Krishnamurthy http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep 1 Management ≠ analysis. What you are learning in school is analysis. You are being taught tools and techniques. Analysis is just one of the ingredients in the recipe. You may have the best analysis in the room. However, if your analysis is not heard and taken seriously, it is of no value. Too often, talented people with the best answers sit in the back of the room while hacks run the show. If you enjoy the view from the back, getting an MBA will not change anything. A MBA degree only works if you are willing to transform yourself. Are you? 2 Einstein would have been a terrible manager. There is a huge misconception among students that being smart is the way to be successful. Let me break this to you. It is not about being smart. There are many smart people who are absolutely incompetent managers. Not to mention the fact that many smart people are first-rate jerks. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying you have to be dumb to succeed. What I am saying is that you do not have to be a Mensan to make it to the top. All you need is average intelligence. But, you need other qualities. 3 Bill Clinton would have been an excellent manager. The man had his faults. But, he could communicate like few others. Bad managers are, frequently, terrible communicators. They have good ideas. They simply don’t know how to get them across. You cannot lead, motivate or sell if you cannot...
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...positive queer images in exchange for queer people’s good will and support. An example is Expedia’s Find Your Understanding, an ad released on Oct 2nd, has gained more than 2.2 million views. It is a moving tale told by Artie Goldstein, a retired business owner who described his emotion and reaction while traveling to his daughter’s, Vickie’s marriage with another woman. “That startled me. I told her, this is not the dream I have for my daughter,” said Artie when his daughter first asked his permission for marrying another woman. His arrival at his daughter’s wedding and witnessing how happy his daughter is were the turning points. “ You come to terms with it and say this is the nature order of things in your life, and it is supposed to be this way,” he said. His apprehension turned into true acceptance. I decided to pick this video as my analysis not only because it has wide audience and releases in the recent period, but also because this touching story is told from the third-person perspective, the father. Through analyzing my interviewee’s interpretation of the father’s experience, I can see how different audiences respond to the media representation of non-normative sexuality differently with respect to family and culture values....
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...that phrase: “The grass is always greener on the other side”. But as a child it was a hollow statement for me. Until the day I perceived it as my philosophy of survival. This story is of my purest memories following my relentless battles. Simplistic flashbacks of virtuous kids. Full of laughter and play with nothing to be feared except for the day’s end. All before the moment where the innocence was dissolved away by the acidic misfortunes of life. [a series of sentence fragments] To illustrate, the first setting in this world was in the town called “Ocala”. It was in South-central Florida, a place where nature thrived and creatures of all walks of life roamed. The most business we had there was a prison thirty miles away, and a Wal-Mart 30 miles further down the same road. So one would say it was pretty rural. Just a quaint ole town, where the trees outnumbered the people. My best friend Samantha and I loved the fact that we had mother-nature as our playground. Spending most of our waking moments playing in the open forests, we’d sneak around concocting strategic methods on how to collect lizards and insects, then place them in small decorated cages. Once we obtained our new pets, we would examine and befriend each one, always setting them free later. However, our nights were different, pictures were taken, video games were played and even dress up was included from time to time. Videogames helped enable our mind’s imagination. So many hours were spent on games such as...
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...Futility by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Analysis; Wilfred Owen was born on March 18, 1893. He was on the Continent teaching until he visited a hospital for the wounded and then decided, in September, 1915, to return to England and enlist. "I came out in order to help these boys - directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak have they as well as a pleader can. I have done the first". His perspective on war was for the sympathy of the soldiers that lost life for their countries. He wasn’t against fighting for the country but just sympathizing for the lives lost in war. Owens’ personal say was that "My subject is war, and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity.” A misery poem filled with repercussions was one of the published poems in the lifetime of Wilfred Owen. The poem was out on the 15th of June 1918 and was written in a lyrical sonnet format, even though it was not built like one. The words used in the poem forms a clouded and pained atmosphere, arousing a frustration and cluster of emotions. The poems of Wilfred Owen focus on the representation of war, futility being one of the poems that describe the effect of war on the people that experience it from first hand. The poet concerns with the soldier lying on the cold ground as his body is graced into the sun and the feather touch of the warm beams that could give life to a ‘sown seed’ could revive this soul, thus is considered worthless...
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...that phrase: “The grass is always greener on the other side”. But as a child it was a hollow statement for me. Until the day I perceived it as my philosophy of survival. This story is of my purest memories following my relentless battles. Simplistic flashbacks of virtuous kids. Full of laughter and play with nothing to be feared except for the day’s end. All before the moment where the innocence was dissolved away by the acidic misfortunes of life. [a series of sentence fragments] To illustrate, the first setting in this world was in the town called “Ocala”. It was in South-central Florida, a place where nature thrived and creatures of all walks of life roamed. The most business we had there was a prison thirty miles away, and a Wal-Mart 30 miles further down the same road. So one would say it was pretty rural. Just a quaint ole town, where the trees outnumbered the people. My best friend Samantha and I loved the fact that we had mother-nature as our playground. Spending most of our waking moments playing in the open forests, we’d sneak around concocting strategic methods on how to collect lizards and insects, then place them in small decorated cages. Once we obtained our new pets, we would examine and befriend each one, always setting them free later. However, our nights were different, pictures were taken, video games were played and even dress up was included from time to time. Videogames helped enable our mind’s imagination. So many hours were spent on games such as...
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