...Different Culture Makes Different Idioms From so many years of English studying,it is not so difficult for us to point out that there exists great difference between Chinese and English idioms,which can be sourced back to the matter of different language and culture.Language is the most principle means for inter-cultural communication.For one thing,language is a part of culture and plays an important role in it.For another,as a mirror of culture, language is strongly influenced and shaped by culture;Meanwhile ,it reflects culture.Idioms,a part of language ,are the essence of culture in every country.Using language in such communication ,we often come across some idioms with distinctive cultural characteristics,so it is a very important and complicated thing for us to understand and use idioms correctly. Idioms include metaphorical phrase,slang,colloquialism,proverb and so on.As an essential part of the language and culture of a society,idioms are characterized by their concise expressions,rich and vivid ,involving geography,history,religious belief,living conventions and so on.They usually highly specialized in meaning and closely tied to distinctive cultural features and cultural attitudes.It is believed that idioms are the most culturally loaded element in any language’s vocabulary.Undoubtedly they are often hard to understand and harder to use correctly for a foreigner.English and Chinese idioms,closely related to their own culture,convey different cultural features and...
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...“What makes you different?” “What makes you stand out in a crowd?” “What makes you different from the other applicants?” This question has been the bane of my existence. I keep getting asked this question and it took a while to figure out the answer within myself. I was adopted from South Korea and grew up in a small, rural, northern New Jersey community. I didn’t learn I was different right away. My awareness began later. Middle school was hard and I remember wishing that I was like everybody else. Being Asian in a primarily white populated community was not an issue until other kids in my class pointed it out. It’s hard to describe how that feels. Humiliating. Embarrassing. Some days I would wish that I was just somewhere else. I struggled in my early teen years, not accepting who I was, becoming closed off, pulling away from my friends and family, and most of all, hating myself. I know it’s not something you can change, but my middle school self didn’t exactly grasp this concept. The constant ridiculing, whether it was to my face or in my imagination, made...
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...Govt-2301-WS3 What makes us so different? Understanding Political Ideology through Partisanship People today think that it doesn’t matter how you vote, the outcome will always be the same because the Democratic and GOP parties are run by corporations. Some think that in order to break away from the special interests and influences, there should be a strong third party and that party with a different platform is the Libertarian Party. Historically the main two parties were not much different. In the beginning both parties believed that “men (not big government) was to rule them” (The Fundamental Differences Between Republican and Democrats). There was a mutual desire for individual freedom. Currently it seems that their fundamental beliefs have changed. The Democratic Party wants to increase government involvement in the lives of the American public, whereas the Republicans would like to see decreased national government and have each state govern themselves (The Fundamental Differences Between Republican and Democrats). The Libertarians seem to want to get back to what the founding fathers envisioned. Each party has very strong convictions on the topics that confront America today. The hottest topic facing the nation is Same Sex Marriage. Since the beginning the Democrats have defended Civil Rights and supported the expansion of opportunities for all. They fight to end all forms of discrimination, but this is an uphill battle. “We support marriage equality...
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...Discuss several areas in which HR can affect organizational culture positively or negatively. HR affects organizational culture by developing and implementing different policies and procedures in areas like, hiring practices, management relations, compensation, and employee conduct and behavior. When the HR departments make decisions they can have a significant positive and negative implication for the cultural quality of the organization. As company executives move up the ladder in the organization they get farther away from the “front lines” they don’t have a strong understanding of the culture. It is up to the HR department to educate the top on what is going on with the culture, so that there is a better understanding. Developing compensation is both a positive and can be a negative to an organization. This is because, the incentive program for sales staff can provide an opportunity to increase their compensation when there is greater productivity. The down side is the sales staff is competing with each other and could lead to deterioration of the team and lower morale. When hiring if the HR department doesn’t pay close attention to the characteristics of the employee they may be hiring an employee that won’t fit in with the corporate culture. To ensure proper behavior the HR department must develop a code of conduct. If a code of conduct isn’t strong or if there isn’t one at all employees will see it as given lip service by human resources could lead to a culture of...
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...How do we assess whether a city is global? What other criteria could be used? This essay seeks to identify criteria’s and different aspects to assess what makes a city global. Firstly, it will outline and explain the concept of globalisation and a global city, showing evidence from the use of academic sources and giving examples if necessary. It shall then continue to examine and focus on a specific global destination, discussing different types of aspects to show what criteria’s make up a global city. Globalisation is a very complex process in which national economies have become more and more integrated and inter dependant towards each other. Global cities are all able to be categorized using a number of different types of methods even though they all share a common ground (Sassen, 1991). There are a number of different types of criteria’s available that make up a global city. These aspects are used in different types of ways to examine whether a city can be considered, identified or revealed as being a global destination. In regards to this, Frieddman (1986) states that global cities are significant destinations that have specific characteristics or functions in terms of economics, political, cultural and connectivity in the global economic system. Global cities, which can also be referred to as Alpha cities or World cities, play a significant role in regards to the country’s economic status. They have become well known as the centre of the world’s global economy. Global...
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...of these companies have a different purpose in the world, but they all provide goods to the consumer, either in the form of food, drink, or a multitude of other items. Every employee within each company has a function that will help the company meet their long-term goals, but to also further their reputation for the future. Each employee has a job, and that job create the daily success for each company. Wal-Mart and their employees have many different jobs ranging from cashiers, stocker, produce or deli clerks, bakery, management, and many other jobs. With such a wide variety of jobs with this business it is very important for the company to have a solid operating system. The operating system that Wal-Mart primarily uses seems to be a mass production system which means which means they have an operating system that uses automated machines and standard procedures that make the work routine and makes large numbers of standardized product. A standardized product means they have many products that are identical to one another, and this comes from getting them from suppliers that keep their cost low. The advantage in a mass production system is that it achieves high productivity, low operating cost, which turns into low product prices. Each employee has to have different set of skills that help them complete their jobs, and these skills have to be taught and learned in different ways. This means each department in the store has to be organized in different ways as well because you...
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...In this essay I will discuss the disadvantages and advantages of conducting a structure of team-based, I will also speak about different ways organizations can do to increase efficiency and increase productivity, and finally the different types of teams. Today organizations have chosen to make a system of team-based structures, which has meant a big change in society and the way in which organizations develop. Working with teams makes the work-system more comfortable and more flexible and also helps the workers in order to demonstrate their talents and to share their views and opinions more freely, creating a positive environment, which creates greater effectiveness. When an organization decides to bring a team-based structure, not only has a positive impact on the organization, also it makes workers share opinions and give ideas. When you perform a team-based structure, more ideas are generated, coordinate logistics and better atmosphere among workers is created. To make a coordinated team, we need to have a leader who knows how to efficiently coordinate and lead the team's goals. For a team to be effective, it must be provided good coordination which may facilitate motivation and participation of workers. In an organization you can find different types of team-based structures, depending on the sector and each situation an organization can perform five types of equipment: problem solving teams, cross-functional teams, self-managed work teams,multi team and virtual teams...
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...Features | Bad Features | Loading the clip | The movie trailer load quickly if the trailer in downloaded, the viewer does not have to wait for long. The file size (1,842KB) is appropriate. | The trailer takes time to load if watching it on the internet and this could be a problem for some viewers if they do not have the time. | Compatibility | The file can be played with different media players defending on which media player the viewer is using, however this only works if the trailer is downloaded. | The file needs to be downloaded before it can be used to play with other media players this could cause problem for some viewers if they do not use the same media player as the one used on the web. | Different Components | Different sound effects are used which makes the trailer interesting; it also uses flashing images to change the emotions of the viewer. | | Picture Quality | All pictures have a good quality and appropriate colour schemes. Different sort of lighting is used for different sorts of scene, this makes it interesting. | At some points of the trailer, the lighting is not appropriate which makes it hard to see the background clearly. | Special...
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...Task 1 (U3 P1) In the assignment I am going to describe how marketing techniques such as branding, relationship marketing and growth matrix are being used by Kellogg’s and diesel. There are so many different types of methods that are being used in marketing to make your business becoming more successful. The first one is branding, branding is a very important part of marketing because this tells the consumers who owns what and helps them to identify which one they want and which one is better, most of the brands will have certain things which makes them noticeable, it could be anything like Logo, design or the slogan. For example if there is a giant K on the cereals then most of the people will know its Kellogg’s special. Kellogg’s and diesel takes branding very seriously because branding sometimes can be the importance between the successes of the business or not. Out of the two companies I think Kellogg’s take’s branding much more important than diesel because consumers recognise Kellogg’s by their logo most of the times for example when you go shopping in the supermarket for some cereals and the ones with the colour and the way it’s written on the box you will know that it’s Kellogg’s, they designed their logo very simple and eye catching. On the other hand diesel also focus on brand just as much as Kellogg’s consumers will know it’s diesel when they see it because it very noticeable they use red back ground with white letters is not very creativity because they just use...
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...Theme Essay “Raymond's Run” written by Toni Cade Bambara is about a girl nicknamed Squeaky that is having problems about how she can’t make friends. She is different from everyone else because of a family problem. In the story” All American Slurp” Lin is a girl that lived in a different country and she had a different way of living and when she moves to a different country she finds out that what she learned was not what the others did. Lin faces a problem just like Squeaky where she is different from most people and not many people like having friends that are different . The problem that Squeaky is facing is that nobody likes her and they don’t want towanna be friends with her because she is competitive with everyone she meets and that...
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...would be hitting print as we speak. Unfortunately it is not that simple to slap a universal definition to this word, or any word rather. The author of Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert, attempts to define the word. With several factors being put into play such as the measuring of happiness, different memories and different feelings can vary Gilbert’s definition from mine. Writing a book with 263 pages based on the topic of happiness, Gilbert shows us his own definition of the word relatively early, “Happiness, then, is the you-know-what-I-mean feeling” (35). Do I even have to explain his quote? Because according to Gilbert we already “know what he means”. On the serious note, Gilbert is trying to make a point that it is extremely difficult to describe this word. He goes on to say that if we were to try and describe this word, we would most likely ditch the idea of using a definition and try and describe it by pointing out examples of what makes us happy. Well then if you go down that route, you are already looking at millions of different possibilities of what makes people happy. You can see why it is so difficult for Gilbert because everyone in this world is made completely different from one another. Their own definition of happiness or feeling of happiness can range from person to person. The struggle begins when everyone has their own definition of happiness. The result of them having their own definition of this word occurs since everyone has their own unique life...
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...Have Different Behavior and Value China is a developing country. After China was established, it experienced Cultural Revolution, Open Door Policy, and Economic Reforms. Chinese people were impressed as fossil by foreigners before thirty years, but the condition has changed by these years. With pushing the Open Door Policy into effect, Chinese people’s mind are opened either. They do not be old-fashioned any more. They welcome and accept new stuff coming into China. They have their own opinion and speech rather than fossil. In contemporary, Chinese can show their real reaction except against the Party. Their behavior and value are different with the development of China. Some people are influenced by West Culture. They looks fashion and brave to show up their opinion. People live in cities obtain more new and advanced stuff than people live in suburban areas. Also, they can get better education. In other words, urbanized areas are richer than suburbs. Therefore, more and more people like to immigrant to cities. Because of the diversification of population in cities, more and more different value and behaviors disappear. In these two movies, Cell Phone and Betelnut, present people’s different behavior and value in different background and period, respectively. Characters in movies just represent a part of people’s behaviors and value. No matter what these value and behaviors are right or not, they are constructive of this society in China. However, every people has different behaviors...
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...about others thus we can make sure everybody do the works they have advantages on it. Make sure that we develop the strongest ability to our team work. Secondly, we separate the question to each person and allocate different tasks by different aspects, such as researching, creating, editing and leading. Team members can chose the tasks which they are confidence with then work on it. Finally, we would like to gather together and have a discussion about the whole assignment, distributed some commits that other people missing and make the answers more satisfactory. 2.1 What are the common goals your group has agreed upon? We try to achieve the maxim advantages of Team Corporation. We hope to know more about each other by the end of the corporation. Despite there are differences between us, we may have conflicts but that may even generate some better ideas for us. We also want to contribute as much as we can to this team work and hope we can get the high level mark. We want to figure out every issue we've got and discuss about them. Everybody has different understanding about each question, so we can answer them from different aspects, open our mind widely and collect different views. That can make the final result more comprehensive. 2.2 Given your other demands and constraints, what mark are you aiming for on your team assignments in this class? Because all members from our team are females and we are all come from the same country. So that makes our group a bit too “close”...
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...advancements have been received with different reactions. These advancements are what have led to the invention of Google. Google, which is an information site, has made academic life very easy. It is now easier to access information of different times within a short period. However, the effect of Google has led to a lot of controversies. Is Google really making us stupid or clever. This question requires a lot of insight and analysis in order to answer it. Some people say that Google makes us to be stupid while others are of the contrasting idea. Each side has given substantial evidence supporting their idea. Nevertheless, Google is of much benefit rather than making us stupid. Some professions argue that it has its own disadvantages and hence makes us stupid. One of this is that Google makes people lazy and hence stupid. Google provides all the required information to people and thus an individual is only required to press and find the answer (Sparrow et al, 2011). This is seen to...
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...effect; make the relationship between things evident; provide and or how Relate cause and effect; make the relationship between things evident; provide and or how Extract Extract Choose relevant and/or appropriate details Choose relevant and/or appropriate details Extrapolate Extrapolate Infer from what is known Infer from what is known Identify Identify Recognise and name Recognise and name Justify Justify Support an argument or conclusion Support an argument or conclusion Outline Outline Sketch in general terms; indicate the main features of Sketch in general terms; indicate the main features of Putting together various elements to make a whole Putting together various elements to make a whole Synthesize Synthesize Distinguish Distinguish Recognise or note/indicate as being as being distinct or different from; to note differences between Recognise or note/indicate as being as being distinct or different from; to note differences between Evaluate Evaluate Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of Examine Examine Inquire into Inquire into Classify Classify Arrange or include in classes/categories Arrange or include in classes/categories Compare Compare Show how things are similar or different Show how things are similar or different Contrast Contrast Show how things are different or opposite Show how things are different or opposite Make a judgement...
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