Knowledge Cultures 3(1), 2015, pp. 24–44 ISSN (printed): 2327-5731 • e-ISSN 2375-6527 PHENOMENOLOGY OF RACIAL OPPRESSION LAUREN FREEMAN Lauren.Freeman@Louisville.edu University of Louisville ABSTRACT. This paper attempts to further understand the lived experiences of racial oppression by bringing together personal testimonies, resources from phenomenology, and empirical work on stereotype threat. Integrating these three areas provides a psychological, existential, physiological, and embodied
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Process that has changed my life The internet has greatly changed the lives of many people in my country and definitely the world over. Now people are able to do things which they could not do before the coming of the internet. The following are how the internet has influenced many people: • E-banking • E-learning • Communication through emails, social networks and Skype, for example • Ecommerce • Surfing the internet for learning • Research. This list is not exhaustive. However one process
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company, and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group is the third leading company in soft drink beverage industry. This paper presents three main competitors and focuses on competitive strategies, market strategies, and overall strength of the companies. Also, it discusses a recommendation to improve the Coca-Cola Company’s competitive position. Company Summaries Coca-Cola Company. The Coca-Cola Company is the largest beverage company in the world. The Coca-Cola Company is the leader
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CUSTOMER SERVICE ORIENTATION Definition: Customer Service Orientation is an ability to see things from both the customer’s and the organization’s viewpoint and a willingness to consider both, even when they conflict, in coming to decisions. It is the desire to help or serve others, to meet their needs. It means focusing one’s efforts on discovering and meeting the consumer or client’s needs. “Customer” includes internal and external colleagues, clients, consumers, or anyone that the person
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observe and measure, are obviously very important. Failure to appreciate and account for them can lead to embarrassing blunders, strain relationships, and drag down business performance. And the effects of culture persist even in life-and-death situations. Consider the example of Korean Air’s high incidence of plane crashes between 1970 and 2000. As an analysis of conversations recorded in the black boxes of the crashed planes revealed, the co-pilots and flight engineers in all-Korean cockpits were
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to express how grateful I am, but never the less I shall try my level best to express my gratefulness toward some people. This internship report might never have been completed without the necessary practical knowledge, assistance of many books, articles, websites, and primary data. It enhanced my knowledge on foreign trade activities as well as banking business. Thanks to all those persons, who have assisted me, providing me co‐operation, books
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1. Introduction Analysts are key financial market participants. Researchers often use analysts’ earnings forecasts as proxies for market expectations and differences in opinions. In addition, analysts’ earnings forecasts are one of the rare settings for which researchers have a large natural data set of individual analysts’ actual decisions, and for which the biases in decision making can be observed and verified ex-post. Not surprisingly, the activities of analysts have been a fertile ground
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1 { { { Management Communication in Transition This book will argue that management communication is the central skill in the global workplace of the twenty-first century. An understanding of language and its inherent powers, combined with the skill to speak, write, listen, and form interpersonal relationships, will determine whether you will succeed as a manager. At the midpoint of the twentieth century, management philosopher Peter Drucker wrote, “Managers have to learn to know language, to
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Cross-Cultural Communication Theory and Practice Barry Tomalin; Brian J. Hurn ISBN: 9780230391147 DOI: 10.1057/9780230391147 Palgrave Macmillan Please respect intellectual property rights This material is copyright and its use is restricted by our standard site license terms and conditions (see palgraveconnect.com/pc/connect/info/terms_conditions.html). If you plan to copy, distribute or share in any format, including, for the avoidance of doubt, posting on websites, you need the express prior
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OECD INSIGHTS International Trade Free, Fair and Open? Patrick Love and Ralph Lattimore ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges
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