...Congress are handling our economy and our foreign policy. This might provide insight as to how the election may go in November of 2014. Method: To investigate these research questions and hypotheses, an online survey was created using “Survey Monkey” .A convenient sample of 30 people were asked to complete the survey online (See Appendix A for the survey). RESULTS Table 1:Q1 (President and the economy) | Mean | SD | N | Men | 6.62 | 0.65 | 13 | Women | 5.53 | 2.03 | 17 | Total | 6.07 | 1.34 | 30 | Table 2:Q2 (President and foreign policy) | Mean | SD | N | Men | 5.94 | 1.41 | 13 | Women | 6.85 | 1.89 | 17 | Total | 6.39 | 1.65 | 30 | Table 3:Q3 (congress and the economy) | Mean | SD | N | Men | 6.77 | 1.46 | 13 | Women | 4.94 | 1.89 | 17 | Total | 5.55 | 1.68 | 30 | Table 4:Q4 (Congress and foreign policy) | Mean | SD | N | Men | 6.77 | 1.42 | 13 | Women | 5.71 | 2.26 | 17 | Total | 6.24 | 1.84 | 30 | Table 5:Q1 (President and the economy) | Mean | SD | N | Dem | 6.25 | 1.73 | 16 | Rep | 5.71 | 1.59 | 14 | Total | 5.98 | 1.66 | 30 | Table 6:Q2 (President and foreign policy) | Mean | SD | N | Dem | 6.69 | 1.78 | 16 | Rep | 5.93 | 1.64 | 14 | Total | 6.31 | 1.71 | 30 | Table 7:Q3 (Congress and the economy) | Mean | SD | N | Dem | 5.50 | 1.93 | 16 | Rep | 5.43 | 1.70 | 14 | Total | 5.46 | 1.82 | 30 | Table 8:Q4 (President and the foreign policy) | Mean | SD | N | Dem | 6.06...
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...Amnesty International’s annual online reports on South Africa singled out attacks and ill treatment of asylumseekers and suspected illegal immigrants as a major source of concern. The 2001 report also recounts reports of abuses of undocumented migrants and asylum-seekers. These included unlawfully prolonged detentions, poor conditions and beatings of detainees by guards at Lindela Repatriation Centre, assaults by police officers involved in the arrest of suspected illegal immigrants, and arbitrary and verbally abusive conduct towards asylum-seekers by Department of Home Affairs officials (Amnesty International, 2001). Xenophobia is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as ‘fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of what is strange or foreign’ (Mish, 1997). The literal meaning of the word suggests that xenophobic people would dislike all foreigners equally, as it is their ‘foreignness’ that makes them objectionable. However, the patterns that emerge of the targets involved in incidents that are attributed to xenophobia, as well as empirical research investigating xenophobia, suggest that this is not the case. Particular groups of foreigners are targeted, and the ethnic origins of...
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............................................. 26 6.0 References............................................................................ 28 . ABSTRACT This study is based upon research previously that have been investigates and studied. Therefore the previous study will be main reference and it will state on literatures review, and then will be discussed in this study. The literature supporting issue suggest that women often have great success in performing their expatriates’ assignments than men and the literature not supporting issue will discuss about advantages over male side rather than women in expatriates assignments. These both literature issues will be discuss and compare on details in perspectives expatriate gender between male and female. The previous study have found, suggest that women often have great success in performing their foreign assignments, certain have stated that women and men performance expatriates equally same and also certain found that men will be much better perform expatriate task rather than female expatriates manager. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Business firms are increasingly becoming aware that the key to success in the marketplace rests with their ability to mobilize and utilize their human resource talent in formulating and implementing new global business strategies. To achieve that, many medium-sized...
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...Military draft is a system for selecting young men for compulsory military service, administered in the United States by the Selective Service System. At present, the United States relies on a volunteer military and does not have a draft, though young men are required by law to register with the Selective Service. This policy was eliminated in 1973 and most American were happy to have it gone because they did not have to fear the military draft. There are current arguments though that wish to bring back this policy and think it would benefit the country. The military draft is seen as a bad thing because it tears apart families, but some believe it brings the world closer to peace and settlement. A military draft brings men into the service through the selective service. The men are assign specific places among the military based on their skill level. The military draft helps improve the skills of the men, which would help in the workforce. The military draft improves foreign policy with all nations. It also improves our countries safety. It also helps us in times of a crisis. So as a citizen being drafted with a basic skill level. A draftee is bound to gain more knowledge and build on their skill levels. This makes the draft helpful to the U.S. as a country and to its citizens....
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...Arimount has been in the hygiene market for 20 years with an average return on investment. They would like to top the market share with this innovative product. Deodorant market has emerged two “giants" mostly Unilever and Procter & Gamble (P & G), Romano. These brands dominate the market with products such as deodorant Romano (Classic, Gallant), Dove deodorant spray, deodorant Rexona. However, all beauty products from deodorant is directed at an audience mostly women. Consumers do not distinguish the products for women, so men often use deodorant for women. They did not have the notion deodorant own choice. In Vietnam, women typically played a decisive role in the purchase of beauty products. Market deodorant for men is only exclusively Romano. This is a "piece of cake" color Arimount open to exploitation. 1. Macro Environment: 1.1 Demographics: Percentage of years with roughly 50 % of Vietnam's population, however beauty products for men deodorant popular only 2%. 1.2 Economy: Vietnam 's economy is on the rise, the total gross Domestic product GDP despite the change but stable amplitude (the statistics show Furniture Vietnam 's GDP Increased Continuously from 2000 to 2007, Reaching then the 8.44 % decline in 2008 and 2009 at 6.31 % is 5:32 %, in 2010 has Increased by 6.78 %, followed by two years in 2011 and 2012 and continued to decline in the 5.89 % and 5:03 %. 2012 GDP growth rate lowest in many years, but it Emphasized "unusual" for the period 2007...
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...American democracy was simply an outcome “of the experiences of the American people in dealing with the West”. It was not “carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth… It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.” Therefore, anyone from a European country was provided the freedom to travel over to America and the opportunity to work to make a name for themselves. Nature served as an equalizer. As the foreign man came to the country, they did not hold the knowledge of what was to come; therefore, no one was at a disadvantage. The uncertainty of Nature itself helped Nature serve as an equalizer to the new and foreign men. Thus, they were fed into the wilderness as foreigners and spit back out as...
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...................................................................... 3 Foreigners are prejudiced against women expatriate managers ..................................................... 4 Differences between men and women ............................................................................................ 4 Multinational companies should encourage women expatriates .................................................... 5 What can women do in order to be promoted to international positions? ...................................... 5 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................... 5 List of References ........................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction Every organization seeks to have the most effective human resources system and as the world becomes more and more globalized, businesses are increasingly seeking to staff overseas positions by employing more expatriates. Expatriate is relating to a person living outside their native country: as in our case, expatriate workers. The big question for employers is whether to choose women or men multinationals? However, companies do choose men more...
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...Black Hawk Down: Battle of Mogadishu “War was ugly and evil, for sure, but it was still the way things got done on most of the planet.” (Bowden 1999) Mark Bowden’s book, Black Hawk Down, is a great novel. This book portrays the struggles and triumphs of the men who fought over in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993. In this book, we are able to see firsthand experiences of the men of the U.S. Rangers and Delta Force. Their main objective is to capture a Somali drug lord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid. However, things take a turn for the worst throughout the book, and the reader gets to see what it’s like to fight a modern battle. I choose this book because I love learning about military events that have happened in our nation’s existence. Military novels allow me to get a feel for what it’s like to fight and defend our country. I feel like more military events need to be taught in school to help people understand the sacrifices that our armed forces take every day. Overall, Black Hawk Down is a great novel that gives great insight to the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. The book is broken up into five main parts. First, it starts out with the initial assault from the U.S. Rangers and Delta Force. In this chapter, we learn about the entire plot to go into the city of Mogadishu and retrieve someone of importance to the U.S. in regards to the drug cartel. Everything is going great until one of the Rangers falls out of the helicopter and get severely hurt. This mishap causes the entire mission to...
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...How does someone learn a foreign language well? Why is it important to learn a language? Now, as everyone knows, English is the most widely spoken language, so almost all of the people in the world want and intend to learn it, but just mastering a language is not enough to live in modern society. So many people also learn other rare foreign languages, such as Japanese. If people want to master the language of Japanese, they should know the characteristics of the Japanese language, the relation between language and culture, and learn some methods to learn Japanese well. Frist of all, we have to know the function of the language. There are five main characteristics about Japanese. First of all, Japanese is an SOV language subject, object and verb. The second one is ellipsis. It is possible that sentences can omit its subjects, transitive verbs, and third person pronouns in Japanese. Polite and honorific expressions are the third one. Its abundance in grammar’s and vocabulary’s means for make a distinction between diffident levels of politeness and civil in Japanese and are well known in the world. Forth is passiveness. Intransitive verbs can be used in passive sentences in Japanese. Verbs are just charged their forms of verbs and put in the end of sentences. Fifth is a unique one that they have their own women’s language. The difference between first person and second person is used by men and women, which is the most common words that distinguish men and women’s language. As...
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...Americans were not Americans, they were British. Before Americans governed themselves, they were governed by a distant a British King. Before America was an independent state, it was a dependent colony. Before Americans claimed equal rights, they were subject to British rights. What brought about these transformations? It was all changed by one speech in 1776, The Declaration of Independence. It was important to the colonies, because the British were not controlling them anymore. They did not have to follow the British rule. The Declaration of Independence is the most powerful document ever written, because it helped the United States and foreign countries, led to independence, and men were created equal....
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...Do you agree with the suggestion that English foreign policy achieved relative success in the period 1509-1525? A case can be made that that the English foreign policy was a failure because of Wolsey’s mishandlings of the finance. For example in source 1 it states that ‘greatest weakness lay in the realm of finance’. This shows us that Wolsey did not know what he was doing when it came to finance which would have helped English foreign policy. Wolsey mishandling of finance would have led to less to money to help Henry invade France and therefore make on this part of his foreign policy, which was to take over France and to redeem his title as king of France , a failure because he didn’t really take over the whole off France. The whole real parts that henry had taken over of France was Tournai and Therouanne, and these were of little significant to England which supports the idea that the foreign policy was a failure. We can also infer from another source which support the idea that English foreign policy was a failure. In source 3 it says ‘if he fortunate to win it’. This is referring to Henry to taking over France, and we can clearly see that the foreign policy was a failure because only luck could have helped Henry take over France. This all indicates that foreign policy was not a success owing it to Wolsey mishandling of finance which meant that Henry would not have sufficient amount of money to take over the whole of France. Once again in source 1 we can see that Wolsey had...
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...exploitation. This exploitation in the country started with the entry of the Company in 1757. Better late than never, this exploitation was realised by 1860. The period 1875-1905 became a period of intellectual unrest and spreading national consciousness. The main reason for India’s poverty was identified as the drain of wealth to England. The nationalists undertook a vigorous agitation to get rid of this evil. They used all forms of public communication such as speeches, letters to the British newspapers, articles in journals, correspondence with officials, evidence before official commissions and committees, private correspondence etc; to communicate this message to a wider spectrum of people. It is no doubt due to the efforts of that men that we realised “the financial, political and intellectual drain” we were subjected to. They felt that what British can do is to lend India back it’s wealth to develop it’s resources.They say that drain is not only loss of wealth but also loss of capital. Drain not only cut current national savings but even diminished the existing stock of inherited national capital. They felt that drain also hindered industrial development, india’s way to economic salvation. The nationalists laid emphasis on the question ‘What was this drain due to?’ and found out the following sources of drain. Inordinate employment of europeans in indian administration, army and railways Home charges/expenses of the Indian government in...
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...INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASSESSMENT: Table of Contents I History and Introduction …………………………………………………………………….3 II Economic Overview …………………………………………………………………………..5 III Business Culture ……………………………………………………………………………….7 A. Business Ethics ……………………………………………………………………7 B. Greetings and Courtesies …………………………………………………….7 C. Meetings …………………………………………………………………………….8 D. Business Attire …………………………………………………………………….8 E. Women in Business ……………………………………………………………..8 F. Business Advisory …………………………………………………………………9 a. Politics and Graft ………………………………………………………9 b. Fraud ………………………………………………………………………..9 IV Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………………………10 V Endnotes ……………………………………………………………………………………………11 I Hisotry and Introduction The pygmy race known as the Twa were the original settlers in the Rwanda region, and they have lived there since prehistory. The Hutu tribes arrived in numbers during the 1st century A.D. During the 14th century, the Tutsi invaded from the north and successfully dominated the more numerous Hutus as well as the nomadic Twa. During the next centuries the Hutu became the agrarian providers for the warrior Tutsis, who in turn provided defense for the Hutus. This partnership lasted until the arrival in 1897 of an even more dominant tribe: the Germans. Along with Burundi, Rwanda became part of short-lived German East Africa. In 1923, the territory became a protectorate under Belgium’s...
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...Napier, 1996). According to Charles Vance and Yongsun Paik (2001), business leaders have been increasingly acknowledging the on-going global activity and the possible benefits associated with entering the global market (Linehan and Scullion, 2001). Consequently, it is more and more common for the employees of multinational corporations (MNCs) to spend time working in foreign countries on international assignments (Guthrie et al., 2003; Kollinger, 2005). For the purpose of this essay, the terms “international assignment” and “expatriate work” will be used interchangeably. Many scholars, as well as business people now realize that if a company really wants to succeed in an international or global market, the people are the difference makers (Selmer and Leung, 2003; Forster, 1999; Vance and Paik, 2001). According to Sim and Dixon (2007), a commonly held stereotype of an expat is a man working in a foreign country accompanied by a non-working wife (partner). As a matter of fact, authors such as Smith and Still; Harris or Torrington reported that majority of the international assignments really are carried out by men (as cited in Linehan and Scullion, 2001). Their claims are consistent with the work of Guthrie, Ash and Stevens (2003) who stressed that:...
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...certain areas of the world do to the differences in religion for example the Chiite vs. Sunnis, their differences come from thinking that one belief is better than that of the others. Other regions are affected because of their faith, the government, resistance against democracy, and one area is under control by a group and not the other, also because of the lack of order and organization of that area. What the common link of terrorist activities is based on the logic that they have all failed the United States foreign policy. The foreign policy agenda of the department of state is to make more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community. "Wikipedia" (2013) “ The United States House Committee on foreign affairs states a few of its jurisdictional goals which are: export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware; measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign nations and to safe guard American business abroad; international commodity agreements; international education; and protection of American citizens abroad and expatriation” (para. 2). No laws, procedures, or organizations, national or international could have prevented any attacks. The 2009 Shooting in Fort Hood Texas that resulted in 56 wounded and killed, was an act of international terrorism. Thousands of car bombings, suicide bombings, and attacks on civilians in Iraq is an example of national terrorists attacks...
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