...My colleague presented a case to me involving a man named “Bob”. The patient “Bob” is an only child that grew up in a religious household. His father was a warm and kind man that worked all the time. Bob only saw his father on the weekends when he was a child due to his father’s work schedule. Bob’s father died about a year ago. Bob’s mother was the disciplinarian and she was very strict. She worked as a janitor initially at his Elementary School and then she became his high school librarian. Bob seems to have a strained relationship with his mother. Bob attended college and studied psychology. He worked as a psych tech for 14 years. Bob seems cooperative at the session and admits to having no medical problems, but drinks occasionally with...
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... Bob, was an extremely wealthy man in his early forties, just won another million dollars from the state lotto. Bob was on a hot streak winning almost every ticket. Bob also like to bet on the horses. Bob has an addiction. One day bob lost, Bob was mad, He lost a lot of money on a sure fire horse.. Bob bet everything on this horse, The horse broke its leg out of the gate, Game over. Bob was broke, he had no money, just his car and nice house. Bob sold his house and his car, he bought a old ugly beater car. He again bet everything on another horse, and he lost again. Bob lives in his car, Bob is now in this fifties and still living in his car, Bob never reached out for help. Would you of helped Bob if he asked? Gambling is very addictive, there should be more publicly known programs, like AA, to help the people who have an addiction. The lotto should be harder to get tickets. More than a million adolescents are already addicted to gambling, starting at a young age (Grey). People with gambling addictions have problems, But it’s their own problems, They need to better manage their money, and not make everyone else feel bad for their mistakes. In stores and gas stations all around the united states there are machines just sitting there, filled with instant scratch off lotto tickets, All you do is put money in and pick the ticket you want. In gas stations where you have to ask the clerk to grab your ticket, have lower sales than the machines, The machines are convenient, you're...
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...and Academia Sinica in Taiwan to explore the adaptation of Mainlander Taiwanese in China. They moved from China to Taiwan in 1949 and back “home” with their descendents in 1990s. By examine the life of seventeen respondents in Dongguan/Shanghai in 2004-2005, we argue that they were in sense of double marginality despite the diversity of the sample. Whilst foreigners regarded China as a new territory to explore more economic benefits, these returnees were more likely to regarded China as a place with sense of belonging, not sense of colonising. However, they found that the real China was different from what they expected before return. They felt being excluded from Taiwan, but they also felt unwilling to participate in China due to this home disillusion. Further discussion on the adaptation of other type Taiwanese in China will be displayed in separated papers. Keyword: return migration, Taiwan, China! 1. Introduction Whilst most migration research focuses on why people move from poorer countries to richer countries and how they overcome the widely cultural gap in migration, there is little research stressing on migration either on the opposite direction or between countries with cultural proximity. The phenomenon of Taiwanese people in China1 provides us a good chance to fill in this gap. It is Ping Lin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. Email address: polpl@ccu.edu.tw 1 The official title of Taiwan today is the Republic of...
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...to International Law Does Taiwan qualify as a state under International law? Apply the factual criteria to this and elaborate on the role of recognition by other states. What does this case study contribute to the debate around the nature of International law? ------------------------------------------------- Lecturer: Natalie ------------------------------------------------- Author: Rofhiwa Ramahala ------------------------------------------------- Tutorial Group: 4 ------------------------------------------------- Due Date: 7th March 2016 Introduction Two separate statements made by two high profiled Chinese government officials in 1999 threw the question of Taiwan sovereignty into question. The first statement originated from then President of the government of the Republic of China (or “ROC”) Lee Teng-hui on Taiwan on July 10, 1999 during an interview with a reporter. In the interview he stated that the relationship between China and Taiwan is one of a “special state-to-state relationship”. While in the second statement a spokesperson of the People’s Republic of China (or “PRC”) after a severe earthquake struck Taiwan. The United Nation office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs attempted to send a disaster management team to Taiwan, however then Secretary General Kofi Annan was informed that the U.N. had to ask the government of the PRC for permission to dispatch an aid team to Taiwan. Mr. Annan thus coined the statement of “the Taiwan Province of China”. These...
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...Executive Summary: Our group decided to work with Walt Disney Company for operating a theme park in Taiwan. After doing some research on Taiwan local culture and environment it really helps us to know more about this “Treasure Island” which is the place that we decided to operate business. At first of course we were doing some research about our partner Walt Disney Company. As we know this huge company does have an intention to consider Taiwan as viable location to import their company product for long time ago. Taiwan’s island population concentration of 641.24 km2, which is only second to Bangladesh’s 1,101.2 km2, would cause great desire to have the Disneyland and Resorts, especially in the southern part of Taiwan which is where all the good beaches reside. For the Geographical setting of Taiwan, we found that it have both advantage and drawback for us when operating a theme park business here. Advantage is Taiwan is a small island which means the entire Taiwanese or tourist that came to Taiwan may easily come to visit our theme park, unlike Japan or United States; tourist might not easily or have no time to visit every single place in those big countries. But on the other hands, we also might not able to find an suitable huge place to held theme park in such a small island, especially these place already have plenty of theme park as well. For aware this challenge, we have a good strategy to resolve it, that is take over or work with one of the local theme park, the...
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...Taiwan in US Policy Clare Fan Taiwan Relations Act Speaking of Taiwan in U.S. policy, the most important thing will be "Taiwan Relations Act." "Taiwan Relations Act" has been in effect for 33 years. United States established formal diplomatic relations with China. 10. "Taiwan Relations Act" is to regulate the Taiwan-US bilateral "non-diplomatic relations”, and is an important legal basis for the U.S. executive and legislative departments to handle Taiwan affairs. than international treaties. As a United States domestic law, it rank higher It authorizes the U.S. government to continue the In 1979, the In order to reduce the act’s impact on Taiwan, U.S. signed "Taiwan Relations Act" in the same year on April communication on economic, social and cultural aspects among the American people and the people of Taiwan. It also affirms that it is the U.S.’ important goal to protect and promote the human rights of the people of Taiwan. In the "Taiwan Relations Act" Section II, subsection 1 states that, the main purposes of the formulation of the Act is “to help maintain peace, security, and stability in the Western Pacific; and to promote the foreign policy of the United States by authorizing the continuation of commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan.” After more than 30 years, most of these goals have been achieved. The law has played a very important role in maintaining the security of the Western Pacific....
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...Globalization Seminar, Spring, 2015 Starting a Business in Taiwan (April 17, 2015) Speaker: Elias Ek (CEO and Founder@Enspyre) Epilogue I think this seminar is really good for our international classmates who want to start their business in Taiwan. I feel Elias shared what would be the potential obstacles you might face when international students would like to open their own business and other hand, he also encourage us to do it whatever you like it. I like this kind of attitude: if you are doing something you really likes, you shall not give up easily until you try everything you could. In this seminar, Elias shares his past entrepreneur experience and I could feel his passion about helping young entrepreneur from what he did in past years. (Consecutively invite government officers to exchange idea to let both sides know how to make entrepreneur resource better and better in Taiwan. I could strongly feel what a real entrepreneur it is from what Elias said, he thinks we should work 24 hours a day, or it really wastes of his time. I fully agree this and like this argument because if you are doing something you really enjoy, you will not think you are working even though it is not working hour. Instead, you will fully of energy to support you finish what you want to do. From the feedback Elias answers our questions, I could feel Elias must put lots of resource and time to figure out what is the best business operation model for Enspyre through lots of failure...
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...A Trip to Taiwan Hello, my name is Tiffany Smith. I am a transfer student from Mississippi Valley State University. I am classified as a junior and my major is Speech. I have always had an interest in foreign cultures. In high school, I studied Spanish for two semesters and it was an enriching experience. I have learned many aspects of Spanish culture consisting of language, food, clothing and history. Learning Spanish has been beneficial to me in numerous ways. First it has enabled me to converse with a different culture. Secondly it has prepared me for situations where I may need to know Spanish. And finally it has enabled me to assist people of Spanish culture. For example my occupation is very diverse and requires employees to be bilingual. My ability to speak Spanish allows me to assist customers. Learning Spanish has also helped me to appreciate Spanish culture. I am currently studying my second language which is Chinese. I have recently completed my first semester of Chinese and I am proud to say that I received a final grade of and A. I am very interested in Chinese culture and it has always been my dream at travel to an Asian country. I love everything about Chinese culture from the food, fashion, language, history, movies, different styles of fighting, healing methods and celebrations. Throughout the years through books and television I have admired Asian countries. I think Asian countries are very beautiful and artistic. I find Asian architecture amazing. I...
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...your entire report. Case Overview Introduction to the case. You can talk about the issues the company is facing. Why LP Model? Talk about how LP Model is related to this case. Recommendations What do you recommend for the company to do? Formulation Decisions That Need To Be Made What decisions to you need to make exactly? Decision Variables What are the decision variables? Define them. Overall Objective What does the company want? You include the objective function here Constraints What constraints does the company have? List out each constraint individually, before stating the constraint functions. Summary of the LP Model Basically just summarise the objective function and constraints functions into one chunk here. Solution You can include the excel spreadsheet and reports in the appendix instead of the main report if you want. Spreadsheet Model Excel spreadsheet with all the formulas stated. Optimal Solution Include the values for the variables. Answer Report Sensitivity Report Reports Analysis This part is probably the most important part of the entire report. Analyse the reports. Some questions for you to think about: 1. 2. What is the optimal solution? 3. 4. 5. Is there more than 1 optimal...
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...Health Care Systems of China (Taiwan) and the United States Health Care Systems of Taiwan and the United States Health care is one of the most essential foundations for any citizenship in any country since whether it is effective or not, it definitely affects the standard of living and the life expectancy of a country. According to Johnson and Stoskopf (2009), "A health system as described by the World Health Organization (WHO) is the sum total of all the organizations, institutions, and resources whose primary purpose is to improve health," (p. 3). Therefore, to positively improve a nation, having an effective health care system is crucial. Being recognized as one of the powerful countries in the world, the United States has a great shape of health care programs; however, sometimes it is inaccessible to some of the citizens. On the contrary, as a small country, Taiwan is famous for its health care system although there are still defective parts existing in the current system. To compare the differences of health care systems in Taiwan and the United States, we can observe the three major aspects: ownership, cost, and quality. First of all, Taiwan and the United States have different types of ownership in the health care systems. Thus, Taiwan owns a single-payer system, which is run by the government, forcing everyone to join it and pay. Because of this policy, the coverage of health care is close to 99 percent (Underwood, 2009). In this country, the government-run system covers...
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...popular countries are Thailand and Taiwan. It is pertinent to know what is going on in these countries before expanding a business into them. This includes things like environmental regulations and their wage and working hour regulations. These things are important because a company wants to expand they want to ensure that they will still be held in a respectable manner by other business because they are doing things that are considered to be ethical. Thailand’s environmental regulations are constricting more and more every day. Thailand has the eighth largest petrochemical hub in the world, this has stopped production in order for the amount of harm that this does to Thailand’s’ environment to be calculated (Watcharasakwet & Hookway, 2010). There are also many companies such as Ford Motor Company that are now wondering what they should do because of their plants that are in Thailand. Ford is also unsure of what to do because they are planning on building a new plant but are unsure if they will due to the new environmental regulations. The strict regulations on the environment are currently hurting Thailand economically then what it is being helped in the environmental aspect (Watcharasakwet & Hookway, 2010). Taiwan is a different situation than Thailand. Thailand was shocked when production of large companies and their economic giants came to a halt in order to measure the amount of damage that is being done to the environment. Taiwan slowly, since 1987, has implemented...
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...The Problem of Taiwan The future of Taiwan may provide the Prime Minister with a most testing challenge, writes Hamish McDonald. When, three weeks from now, China celebrates the lunar new year and enters the Year of the Monkey, its leaders will see plenty of mischief already afoot in two of the country's fringe territories. In Taiwan, President Chen Shui-bian's plan to hold a referendum simultaneously with his re-election bid on March 20 is a dangerous tweak at the Beijing dragon's nose, even though the plebiscite only asks the island's 23 million people their predictable opinion about the Chinese ballistic missiles aimed at them. In Hong Kong, the heightened political awareness shown in last July's half-million-strong march against a new security law will almost certainly carry through into elections for the territory's Legislative Council in August, and will increase pressure for constitutional reform to let the successor to Chinese-appointed "chief executive" Tung Chee-hwa be chosen by popular vote when his term ends in 2007. Both developments call for determined diplomacy by the many foreign countries with a strong interest in supporting democratic trends in these two Chinese outposts, in the face of intense hostility by Beijing to any outside "interference" in what it asserts to be purely domestic issues. No country would be more awkwardly caught in the middle of conflicting security and economic interests than Australia if the simmering Taiwan dispute actually...
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...Report on 7-eleven in Taiwan: Adaptation of convenience stores to new market environments Submitted by: Karan pratap-1226114116 Naseer khan-1226114117 Lalit Akhil pillala-1226114119 Sai surya raghava-1226114120 Malavika issar-1226114121 Summary:- The case portrays the expansion of 7-Eleven to Taiwan and the adaptation of the store format by its local franchisee to a new market environment. The core issue in this case is the balance between standardization and localization in business-format franchising across national borders. Keeping only the store logo and the convenience concept that was well-established in the United States, the local franchisee of 7-Eleven in Taiwan re-formatted almost all aspects of the store chain, including its positioning, location, layout, product offerings, etc. In addition, 7-Eleven in Taiwan introduced a wide variety of new services to handle daily chores for its customers, ranging from e-commerce (train or movie tickets), e-payment, mobile communications, and pickup/delivery to taxi services. The local franchisee, President Chain Store Corp. (PCSC), seemed to have struck the right balance between standardization and localization that allowed it to use service differentiation to gain competitive advantages over its rivals. In about three decades, it grew from zero to nearly 5,000 stores in Taiwan with over 50 per cent of the market while expanding its reach to China and Thailand. 7-Eleven Taiwan Case Study Analysis 7-Eleven...
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...and 45 satellite camps. The Germans isolated all the camps and sub-camps from the outside world and surrounded them with barbed wire fencing. All contact with the outside world was forbidden. Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi's camps and the most streamlined mass killing center ever created. At least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz, around 90 percent of them Jewish; approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp. The construction of 4 large gas chambers and crematoria began in Birkenau in 1942. They went into operation between March 22 and June 25-26, 1943. The gas chambers at crematoria II and III, like the undressing rooms, were located underground, while those at crematoria IV and V stood at ground level. About 2 thousand people at a time could be put to death in each of them. All Jews classified because of their age or physical condition as unfit for labor were subject to immediate extermination directly after their arrival in the camp, without being registered or assigned a number. Character and Traits | Courage; Type; Page # | Cowardice; Page # | Scout: Adventurous, intelligent, confident, tough | When Atticus decides to stand alone outside the jail to defend Tom Robinson against the lynch mob, one of the men “nearly yanked Jem of his feet”. Consequently, Scout defends her brother by kicking the man which causes him to fall back in pain. | Dill and Jem hatch a plan to peep into a window with the loose shutter at the Radley house in order...
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...1- What are the major challenges of working in a country with a different culture (give examples from the case)? There are four main challenges for Sealed Air when they expanded their business into Taiwan. i. The first challenge is culture differences. At the beginning of the case. When Paul Huang was in the training course he was too quiet. He didn’t even want to participate the group presentation. Furthermore, he didn’t like the meal provided, he would rather than eating just candy bars. ii. The second challenge is different government styles. By the time when Sealed Air enters Taiwan, the government sought to maintain its “Chineseness.” One of the most important things for this “Chineseness” is Confucianism, and to be modest is very important for Confucianism. Therefore, Taiwanese government might be too modest for a US company by the time. iii. The third challenge would be the distance of the two countries. The time difference of the two countries is 12 hours. It is difficult for the two locations to communicate without considering the others time. iv. The fourth challenge is the unstable economy in Taiwan. At time of 1984, Taiwan was one of Asia’s booming new economies. Beside the great opportunities were created, there are also a lot of uncertainties the country has to face, because Taiwan is experiencing a lot of new things that it has never experienced. 2- How can a company successfully manage these challenges and even possibly turn them...
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