“WHO’S THERE?” Differences in the Features of Telephone and Face-to-Face Conferences Dorothea Halbe University of Trier A significant part of the work in business settings, especially in multinational projects, is done through talking over the phone in conference calls. The differences in the setting in comparison with face-to-face meetings create a new dynamic of talk and turn taking because of the lack of body language. This article analyzes a number of the differences between these two types
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7. Berlin Wall What made people fight for change and press the German/German wall to fall down in 1989? How did it effect the lives of West and East Germans? Are East Germans more free now? How would you explain the reasons for the phenomen of "Ostalgia" (people longing back to the former DDR) that is nowadays living in Eastern Germany? Why did I choose this topic? I think it is very interesting that after twenty years there are still so many problems with East Germany. Why there still is
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end of the cold war. Reagan spoke to people everywhere, proclaiming independence and freedom from communism.” D. Smith “After all he was the one that finally people to understand how important taking down the Berlin Wall was.” What are your thoughts on supply side economics? D. Smith “That it didn't work out so well. His original plan was that by putting in to place certain tax breaks for the wealthy they would use that money to expand businesses,
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Jordan Caro Rod Henley History of Rock Music 29 October 2012 Irving Berlin and Tin Pan Alley Irving Berlin and Tin Pan Alley. If you’re not a student of music or an avid fan of its history, these names may seem superfluous. However without these key figures in music history, we may very well not have the compilations of sounds that we take for granted in our everyday lives. The creation of genres such as blues, jazz, country, and even rock ’n ’roll can trace their lineages back to these groups
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Air Berlin: 1. Company profile: Air Berlin Plc is a full service airline based in Berlin Germany. The carrier operates domestic and European flights with scheduled and charter services. 2. Income Statement: 3. Stock Chart: Key Statistics for Air Berlin: Current P/E Ratio (ttm) | - | Estimated P/E(12/2012) | - | Relative P/E vs. | - | Earnings Per Share (EUR) (ttm) | - | Est. EPS (EUR) (12/2012) | -1.1110 | Est. PEG Ratio | - | Market Cap (M EUR) | 0.00 | Shares
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In our teaching of Shakespearean film adaptation to undergraduates, one of the issues that frequently arises in class discussions is the question of how the visuality of the cinematic medium is constructed in tension against the verbal nature of Shakespeare's dialogue. The tension between the visual and verbal dimensions of filming Shakespeare is created on two levels: firstly, where the poetry of Shakespeare, functioning as word pictures that stimulate and enhance the imagination of the spectator
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Economic difficulties should be addressed with an increase of labour standards by 10 percent, but this and among other things resulted in the popular uprising of 17th June 1953. Until August 13, 1961, when the beginning of the construction of the Berlin Wall and the reinforcement of the border fortification on the inner German
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Lives in Fences Fences are built to keep life in order, on track and simple. Such as “The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that separated West Berlin from East Berlin throughout much of the cold war.” The Berlin Wall was built up to keep two sides separated from conflict, but eventually the two sides overcame that. The Berlin wall was once necessary, but as time went by and the world evolved, so did the people and eventually came down. There will always be fences built up in our lives, but
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City on a Hill Speeches John Winthrop in particular has been quoted as a source of inspiration by U.S. presidents from John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. John Winthrop crossed the ocean from England to New England aboard the Arabella in early 1630s. His passengers were primarily Puritans who had fled England in search of religious freedom. John Winthrop's directive provided inspiration and caution to the passengers, and his determination was seen through John F. Kennedy’s and Ronald Reagan’s eyes
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Germany embarked “on a nationbuilding process, integrating two radically different and inherently unequal geographical entities into one political, economic, and cultural system”. This was prompted by the new government’s sole focus on making a bid for Berlin to host the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. The city started to change physically as construction began in areas like Potsdamer Platz. East Berliners felt they could not influence the process at hand and must simply adapt to the current environment created
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