...the canyons of Studio 5 several weeks ago, the cast of ABC’s hit series “Modern Family” was busy filming an episode. As crew members huddled around the monitors, Cam, the portly, gay Mr. Dad portrayed by Eric Stonestreet, learned some bad news. His partner, Mitchell, had failed to mail out invitations to a fund-raiser in their home that night. Cam had ordered the crab cakes and rented the harps, but he had no guests. “Get me Mitchell!” Cam shouted to his nephew, Luke. What followed was a high-tech version of “Who’s on First?” Luke doesn’t know Mitchell’s number. Cam grabs the phone and presses speed dial. Mitchell lets the call go to voice mail. Luke doesn’t know how to press redial. Cam snatches the receiver and gets twisted in his headset. We’ve had five back-and-forths in 10 seconds and still nobody has managed to communicate. Shakespeare used mistaken identities to flummox his lovers. “Modern Family” uses dropped Skype connections. In the last two years, “Modern Family” has ridden timely premises like this to surging viewership and six Emmys, including outstanding comedy series. In a rare concurrence, the darling of the critics is one of the highest rated comedies on television, and is the 20th rated show over all this season. This unusual success for a family comedy raises questions: What aspects of contemporary life has it tapped into? What does “Modern Family” say about modern families? From the beginning, the creators Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd...
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...Angie Quintero 4/09/2013 p. 7 La hermosura de Sofia Vergara nacio en Barranquilla, Colombia el 10 de Julio de 1974 a sus 41 años, La revista ASKMen.com la considera una de las mujeres más sensuales del mundo. Gracias a su trabajo en la serie televisiva Modern Family, es considerada una de las mejores actrices cómicas de la televisión estadounidense. Es la actriz de televisión mejor pagada en la televisión estadounidense. En el año 2013, la revista Forbes da a conocer las cien mujeres más poderosas del mundo, donde Sofía Vergara se ubica en el puesto 32. En cuanto a su vida personal es madre de u hijo Manolo González-Ripoll Vergara de 21 años , con el a compartido todo su crecimiento desde que salio de su natal Colombia. Con Manolo su hijo, a hecho muchos proyectos de los cuales a tenido excelente resulatado economico. Sofia Vergara is happily engaged to the charming Nick Loeb and they might be bucking tradition by having him take her name. Sofia Vergara está felizmente comprometida con el encantador Nick Loeb y podría continuar la tradición haciéndole tomar su nombre. Agregando mas donde ya tiene suerte. Antes de su gran fama, Confesó para la revista Self Magazine que a los 13 años consideró seriamente que cuando cumplia 18 años iba a someterse a una cirugía de reducción de senos, lamentando, “No importa lo que me ponga, me veo como una estríper.” Sofía Vergara fue descubierta por un cazatalentos en una playa del Caribe colombiano y contratada como...
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...Differences of Family Values in Chinese and American Cultures ABSTRACT This paper aims to make a contrastive study on family values in Chinese and American cultures from the three parts: the attitude to the family members and their relationships, marriage and family education. As the pace of the global economy integration accelerates, cross-cultural communication between China and America is becoming more and more frequent and important，and the research can undoubtedly help Chinese people and American people to further understand with each other and their family values and to avoid the unnecessary conflict caused by the misunderstanding and mistakes in cross-cultural communication. Key words: the differences of family values, filial piety, marriage, family education Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Literature Review 2 3 The Definitions of Family, Values and Family Values 3 3.1 The Definition of Family 3 3.2 The Definition of Values 3 3.2.1 The Decisive Values in Chinese Culture: Collectivism 3 3.2.2 The Decisive Values in American Culture: Individualism 4 3.3 The Definition of Family Values 4 3.4 The Meaning of Family to Chinese and Americans 5 4 Differences Between Chinese and Americans Family Values 5 4.1 The Attitude to the Family Members and Their Relationships 6 4.1.1 The Attitude to the Family Members and Their...
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...Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom MKT 6013 Prof. Gadd March 29. 2011 La Shawn Early The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom Summary Marketing is the application of the knowledge of human psychology to the task of persuasion." (p.99) David Kupelian. Marketing Evil is a must read for those wishing to understand the culture war that the left has declared on American institutions, values, and ethics. Kupelian, with a calm, steady and patient hand, exposes the left as master marketers’ selling an agenda of ever increasing recklessness and corruption as a designer substitute intended for classical American ordered liberty. His chapter on the three step process (desensitize, jam, and convert) devised by sodomites to sell their spectacular species of wickedness to main street America is worth the whole price of the book. Chapters detailing the rotting corruption of the liberal education establishment, showing the manifest moral bankruptcy of modern feminism, and exposing the blood thirsty, predatory nature of the pro-abortion movement give a chilling glimpse into the cynical techniques used by the left to manipulate people into waging war against their own enlightened self interests. There is a chapter written on "Media Matrix" which is nothing short of brilliant. Kuplelian pulls back the curtain and exposes the wizards pulling the levers of fraud and deceit that has masqueraded as news for the last 40+...
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...Q1. What are the different approaches to Globalization? Comment on relevance of Swadeshi movement in today’s Globalized environment. Ans. Globalization has become a ‘magic’ word used to express a change in all areas of life from economy to politics or from social politics to culture. Globalization is the growing role of external factors (economic, social and cultural) in the reproduction of all member of a country to form of a single world market(s) without barriers. 'A global shift'; that is, a world being molded, by economic and technological forces, into a shared economic and political arena. Major phase in international relations, which has been established several decades ago, but its formation was not completed by the beginning of the third millennium. However, the public attention it attracted only in 1990. Approaches towards Globalization The Indian companies are adopting the following approaches to globalization- The First Approach is the Reliance approach. Here the Indian company attains global parameters of production but its market focus is mainly domestic. E.g. Bajaj Auto, Hero Cycles, Maruti Udoy, BHEL, Mahindra & Mahindra. The Second Approach is the Sundaram Fasteners route where an Indian Company emerges as a global sub-contractor. The Chennai based Sundaram Fasteners is now a major supplier of radiator to GM. The Third Approach is the one personified by the Tata Tetley deal itself. Taking over foreign companies or investing in the foreign ventures....
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...3. Why haven’t other food service providers copied Calveta’s approach? The reason why haven’t other food service providers copied Calveta’s approach this is because Calveta use differentiation focus approach for their business and this approach make other food service difficult to copy their operation. First reason is because most of the competitors might have not started as a traditional family company. As we know Calveta Dining Services was built on Antonio Calveta’s passion for food and traditional family values. Calveta Dining Services had their own family recipes and it difficult for other food service copy Calveta’s approach. The other one, it is too expensive for competitors to imitated calveta’s approach. This is because base on Calveta’s third goal is related to the innovation, which is to provide more personalized service to bedridden residents, “At Your Service” a catering program that allowed residents to pre-order their meals for the next day. Calveta staff delivered menus each morning and returned early afternoon to collect residents’ selections, which they submitted to the kitchen via personal digital assistant (PDA). Beside that about forth goal it is regarding to the developing employees. Under Calveta human resources culture they had implementing pay-for-performance plan, wide-ranging training program, and the career progression program and among others. The Calveta’s managers also will get high compensation if they left the company. This shows that it is...
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...Dexter Downlow Professor Miteechur English Comp II February 10, 2015 American Family Values In the article, “Family Values,” Richard Rodriguez states his view on the positive affect of homosexuality on family values in America. He questions the values that the media and politicians claim Americans hold and intrigues the reader to decide whether the United States values the family at all. With the traditional family dynamic changing every day, so does the perspective of right and wrong. The media, however, is quick to defend the sanctity of the stereotypical family and chastises anything that contradicts that ideal. The things one values changes with age and are shaped through personal experience and relationships made throughout life. This individual moral development should be promoted instead of criticized. This country was founded on the idea of individual rights. However, America is always forcing it’s ideals on others. The United States would be a more unified and progressive place if its citizens embraced the idea of tolerance and valued the diversity that make the people of this country great instead of demonizing what doesn’t fit the stereotypical image of the American family. The United States is seen as the “Land of Opportunity.” People have come from all over the world to give their family a chance at the American Dream. This nation was created by people who believed in the idea of a better life for their children. But what is the American Dream and why was...
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...lifestyle, ethnicity, values, opinions and interests (and any others you may wish to use) describe the current target market(s) of your company; (2%) Target market: families/children Describe the (or one major) current target market of your company/brand /product on the bases of these segmentation tools | Company: Tip Top | Brand/ Product: | Demographics | Age: Tip Top’s target market is mainly children. This can be seen by how they designed their layout design for each product. Most of their product is very colorful and action packed, which appeals to most children. They also priced their products where even a young children could even spare the expense.Income: Tip Top’s broaden themselves by targeting families of all incomes with its reasonable prices. An average family in New Zealand in 2014 is earning apromixately $80,000 a year, which means ice cream loving families can afford a sweet treat once in awhile such as the brand Tip Top.According to a post on Dominin Post, it confirms that ice cream accounts for $1 of every $44 spent on food within New Zealand households. | Geographic | -Tip top is based in New zealand, where it is known thatNew Zealanders are among the highest per capita consumers of ice cream in the world. This could be due to the summery vibe New Zealand gives off. | Lifestyle | Family size: Depending on family sizes will effect their lifestyle. Larger families mean higher spending cost, therfore to save money some families flock towards deals...
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...Rhetorical Analysis of Heather Boushey’s “Values Begin at Home, but Who’s Home?" (In the Struggle to Balance Work and Family, Work is Winning) In Heather Boushey’s article on The American Prospect 2007 is a special report titled “Values Begin at Home, but Who’s Home?” This article reflects America’s current family values. This is an older, but effective report. Heather Boushey was formerly a Senior Economist with the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee and before that, with the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Economic Policy Institute. She has testified before the U.S. Congress and authored numerous reports and commentaries on issues affecting working families. “Heather Boushey.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 13 July 2015. Web. 29 September 2015.” In this article Boushey argues that work has been winning the work/life battle- beginning with Mothers working outside of the home. Boushey also uses her skills as a former Senior Economist, to hone in on statistical data to prove the decline in family values, since Mother’s began working outside of the home. Heather Boushey article serves a dual purpose- or kairos. Boushey wrote this article stating her negative opinion toward today’s economy and how it affects family values. First, Boushey believes that mothers leaving the home to join the workforce has a negative effect on the well-being of our families and our family values, and secondly persuading us to measure how...
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...with their idea after reading their article and analyzing their proposal. I found myself with resistance and disagreements instead. Speaking as an American, I do not believe that their ideas would benefit our country. It would cause problems and raise issues instead. Their idea would hurt America’s traditional family values, business’ hiring policies and society’s peace. Family traditional values would be in stake. Mothers who could afford to stay home and raise their children by themselves are considered blessed. The idea of using a tax break to motivate mothers to go to work, and send their children to a Day Care, which will be women who joined the work force because of the tax break, is a ridiculous idea. Why have someone else be with your children if you could do it yourself? The American children are the future leaders of America. American stay home mothers have more advantages in raising their children. They have the opportunity to monitor their children’s physical health, mental health and spiritual health. Therefore, if a stay-home mother is being motivated by a tax break to go to work and send off their children to a Day Care, the traditional values that the mother would provide will decrease. Businesses will benefit from the idea of hiring more women than men since businesses will pay less Payroll taxes. More women would be hired. However, it will cause a silent...
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...Italy. He is noticed for the passion for food and traditional family values. Calveta Dining Services is taken over by Frank Calveta upon the retirement of his father, Frank Calveta. Frank Calveta was appointed as the new CEO for the Calveta Dining Services. It seems that Frank is having difficulties in keeping the father’s goal for company which is to double the company’s revenue within five years while still maintaining the quality values and culture of company which is the backbone of the company. The main issue which been noticed is can Calveta Dining Services go beyond and achieve Frank Calveta’s goal. In addition, Frank Calveta need to maintain the culture of the company and in the same time he also must overcome the challenges of communication and organizational problems faced in Calveta Dining Services. 2. Introduction This case is mainly focusing on the expansion of Calveta Dining Services. Calveta Dining Services was established in 1972 by Antonio Calveta. He had a lot of passion for food and also traditional families were maintained ever since in his business. In June 2009, Calveta Dining Services employed 15,000 people and serve 976 Senior Living Facilities (SLF). One of the quality values of the company is to serve quality food for the Senior Living Facilities. The founder Antonio Calveta retired in 2007 after his 35 years of leadership of bringing the company with all the traditional values that he always believed and...
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...talking box in one’s living room has assumed the overpowering role it plays today as a result of the weakness of society. This may seem like a negative view but a society’s strength is based on the relationships between people and when so much time is spent away from others and together with the media, the actions that take place are often times a reflection of what television presents. In President Clinton’s speech, he brings forth this very point and he acknowledges the family’s increasing weakness and calls on all people to bring back the values of the past and stop the media from playing such a huge role in our community. The overwhelming influence of the media is a constant threat to the maintenance of traditional family values and to the protection of our children’s future. Nevertheless, television cannot be changed for it is too big and powerful but compromises can be made that can strengthen society and help keep certain values protected. Over the past decades, people have less and less time in their hands due to careers, divorces and the constant struggle for success. This unfortunately, is resulting in parents spending less time with their children, which is an important responsibility that no one or nothing can replace. President Clinton said, “television… may be the third parent, but it can’t be the first or the second”(Clinton, p.173). The focus on “parental responsibility”(Clinton, p.174) is what is important and parents must ensure that their children are...
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...Calveta Dining Services, Inc. was a $2 billion, privately held firm that provided food services to almost 1000 senior living facilities (SLF’s) in the United States. Antonio Calveta, the founder of Calveta Dining retired in 2007 after 35 years of leadership and he named his eldest son Frank as the new CEO and told him to double the company’s revenues within a space of 5 years. The dilemma that Frank was facing was that even after 2 years into this job of his he did not have any credible strategies to fulfill his father’s promise or to attain aggressive growth as his father wanted. Calveta Dining Services owed its success to Antonio Calveta’s passion for food, traditional family values and the customized services they offered to the SLF residents. Frank was named CEO of the company over his other siblings including his sister Jennifer Calveta who was more suited for the job, now Frank was left with the option of expanding their business by acquiring Great South West Dining (GSD) or to enter into the hospital segment and diversify their business and at least try and come close to meeting his promise to his father. Analysis The United States Census Bureau’s survey showed that only 25% of the total SLF’s in USA had contracted to food services, this survey alone shows that there is a great potential for growth in the SLF’s segment and therefore it would have been meaningful for Frank to buy Great South West Dining but the eye popping debt figures that came before him alone are...
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..."Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination," by Daniel Bell. The modern period was a time of economic change, and it happened from 1750 to 1914. The modern period was at the same time as the industrial revolution, so during that period while there were advancements in machinery, there were also advancements in the economy. This period was a turning point for the economy and caused it to change quite a bit. It changed the economy in ways such as production rates, the way families brought in money, technological advancements, and more trade. Even though the modern period was a time of change, you could even argue that it was also a time of continuity in ways such as colonization....
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...INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale - Family is the basic social unit. Family represents people living together by ties of marriage, blood or adaptation, thus representing a single household. According to sociology, the family has the primary function of reproducing society; biologically, socially, or both. There are various structures of a family based on the relationship shared between the parent and the children. - Life and people are always changing, but the main values and bases of the concept of family should always remain present. To many people, the definition of the word family is a unity among a group of people who care and tend to each other’s needs, while forming an unbreakable bond. Therefore, family values are important and should be cherished and nurtured. - Every country has different family values such as Chinese and American. Therefore, I chose “ Chinese family values and American family values “ as my topic. 2. Aims of the study The study helps students of English as a foreign language have more knowledge about “ Family values in Chinese and American and the difference, similarities between them “. 3. Object and scope of the study - Object of the study: Family values - Scope of the study: Family values in Chinese and American 4. Methods of the study Based on some books, references on the Internet…..about family values in Chinese and American. B. DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: Chinese family values While China has increasingly...
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