...that snuffs out the idea of individualism. The viewer can identify this by the lack of color used to portray the populus, as well as every hallway and corridor being filled with TV screens and sound systems playing the same brainwashing message on repeat. The viewer of this advertisement is given a sense of unease by the emotionless and colorless faces of the people, and this creates a fear in the reader that if we keep mindlessly consuming technology, this could be the future of the...
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...What exactly is the American dream? For many individuals the so-called American dream might vary. In “two kind” by Amy Tan the mother whom is a Chinese immigrant wishes that her first generation American daughter accomplish everything she couldn’t and even wishes that her daughter becomes a prodigy. This hope to acquire the American dream bring tension in the mother and daughter relationship and she in between these two kind of dreams her mothers dream for her and her own dreams. Also, this writing emphasizes the relationship of an immigrant mother and her Chinese American daughter and the tension cause of the American culture that clashes with mother Chinese culture and leads into miscommunication. Also, what might seem like the mother want...
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...DREAMS, YOUTH, PASSION Dreams, youth, and passion are three essential elements in life. Unrealized dreams are just illusions. You got to carry them out, make them come true. Two years ago, our life mentor in school asked our class, “How well do you know yourself from your interests to your capabilities and your dreams?” I was staring blankly at her. I really didn’t know what to answer. She randomly called for students to share their answers. I can’t even imagine if I was called on that day. How much do I know myself? How deep do I even know about me? Basically, I’m the youngest and the only daughter to an architect husband and an accountant wife. I have an older brother. I’m seventeen years old, a college sophomore taking up BFA Advertising Arts. Apart from these things, what else do I know? I’ve always thought that I was way too different from all the other girls of my age. I lack femininity and I don’t wear makeup and stylish clothes like them. Let’s just say that I have my own style. Beyond fashion and style, there’s something that really sets me apart from them- dependence. Most ladies are dependent on guys. They are constantly searching for gentlemen who would actually take care of them. I am way too far to being like that. Considering the fact that I grew up in an environment dominated by females, I think I’ve become more independent than the others. On the bright side, I can run errands around just like what men can do. On the other hand, I tend to scare...
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...Vocations trying to stop Equality from flourishing into a genius. The Council of Vocations tried to crush Equality's hopes and dreams by making him a street sweeper like many others before him. They were using what Howard Roark was saying when he gave his speech about "The Soul of a Collectivist", but it failed due to one condition. Some people rise the most when set under the worst conditions you can put them in and Equality was one of those people. This also applies to 1940's German leader Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was put in some of the worst conditions at a young age. He started out as a young artist with no job, no home, and no food. He later fought in WWI where he was discharged and went into politics. He used his charming and manipulative personality to cease power from the German government and became the most powerful man in Germany. The Soviet Union's leader Joseph Stalin was similar to his rise in power, but follows Howard Roark's ideals by fighting his way to the top and would do anything for the power to control millions. Once Stalin retained that power he made sure to keep it by demoralizing his citizen by depriving them from food, clean water, and shelter. His citizens went to revolt, but Stalin held his ground by murdering hundred of thousands of his people to keep his power. Howard Roark's speech is flawed by showing not people can be broken or...
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...Assess the value of the left and right realist approaches to crime Realist approaches to crime don’t believe that crime is a social construction; instead they see it as a real problem to be tackled. Realist approaches are divided into right realists and left realists. Right realists tend to take a ‘get tough’ approach and use both biological and social explanations; they share the New Right or neo-conservative political outlook. Left realists are left-wing reformists who believe crime can be solved through social policy rather than through revolution. Both left realists and right realists argue that there has been a significant rise in the crime rate- especially in street crime burglary and assault. They are also concerned about the widespread fear of crime and about the impact on its victims and argue that other theories have failed to offer realistic solutions to the problem of crime and they propose what they regard as practical policies to reduce it. Left Realists believe that crime should be taken seriously and accuse other sociologists for not doing so. They believe that traditional Marxists gave concentrated on crimes of the powerful, such as corporate crime. Left realists agree that this is important, but they argue that it neglects working-class crime and its effects. They also believe that neo-Marxists romanticise working-class criminals as latter-day Robin Hoods, stealing from the rich as an act of political resistance to capitalism. Left Realists note that in fact...
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...“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows that I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.” (Bronte, Location 3229 Kindle Edition) Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre displays a struggle with society and individualism as well as a journey of a character who longs to belong somewhere, to someone. Bronte unravels a young character who is cast from a home where she was isolated from love and sends her out into the world for her discover society and herself. Her life as a child was filled with resentment from her aunt and on the views of Christianity. As a young adult, she faces conflicts of wanting to fill the void in her heart and the need to be loved with the fear of losing her volition. Through the character Jane, Bronte shows us how the morality of this time period weighs on the decisions of the heroine. The novel opens with our heroine living with the Reeds at Gates head. Bronte shows the transition of the character Jane, going from a passive and genderless childhood to a more turbulent stage of puberty (Showalter, 118). Living at Gates head, she was repelled from everyone in the house. Her aunt would not accept her even though she promised to care for the child. Jane was left as an outsider from John and the other children since she was told she was an unworthy individual. During this stage in...
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...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 Relationships in China 6 4.1.2 The Attitude to the Family Members and Their Relationships in America 7 4.2 The Concept of Marriage 7 4.2.1 Chinese Concept of Marriage 8 4.2.2 American Concept of Marriage 8 4.3 The Concept of Education 9 4.3.1 Chinese Concept of Education 10 4.3.2 American Concept of Education 11 4.4 The...
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...Eighteen months after starting this column, business leadership still hasn't reached perfection. Haven't they been reading? Why is good leadership still so rare? Maybe it's because we use a whacked-out definition of leadership. "Leader" has become code for "rich guy with an impressive title who orders others around." But leading by giving orders left and right with no accountability doesn't work. We're living in a world of low loyalty, high mobility, and extreme uncertainty. "Push" leadership will push people right out the door. We need leaders who inspire others to follow, who engender loyalty. We need leaders who practice "pull" leadership. Pull leaders don't give orders; they create social systems that inspire people to join They do it using principles that many people in official leadership positions wouldn't follow if their lives depended on it. Pull leaders take responsibility for the success of their organization and their people Responsibility isn't given; it's taken. The loss of faith in American business starting earlier this decade has been driven by a batch of CEOs who have chosen not to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions, even when the responsibility was required by law. Pull leaders take responsibility voluntarily, even when it's optional. You want to change how your company does business, but you're too junior to have an effect? So what! A corporate trainer saw students struggle with the company's product, so he wrote up the shortcomings...
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...psychology aims at developing knowledge and research method which they continue to build up and treat with psychological issues. Psychology is the science discipline to understand behaviours of a person. The goal is to understand people by establishing general principles and researching cases. The four goals of psychology are description, explanation, prediction and influence. Description is identifying behaviours. Explanation is the reason for mental behaviour. Prediction is offering hypothesis about sets of conditions produces manner of behaving and mental processes. Influence is using the results of research to solve practical problems that involves behaviour. The specialised meanings in psychology are behaviourism, functionalism, individualism, ethnocentrism, introspection and pragmatism. Determinism is the argument that the person doesn’t have much control over actions and controlled by factors such as genes or the way they are bought up. Humans always act according to their best interest. Behaviourism is branch of psychology and it focuses exclusively on behaviour excluding emotions and memories. Functionalism refers to general philosophy that considers mental life and behaviour in terms of adaption to a person’s environment. It...
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...“ Common Themes Found in Kate Chopin's Short Stories Kimberley J. Dorsey Stevenson University English 152, Writing About Literature 152-OME1 Charlotte Wulf November 14, 2010 Abstract Many of Kate Chopin’s short stories share the common themes of female oppression. The females in her stories are trying to find a way to escape their oppression and have a sense freedom and individuality. They either commit adultery or fantasize about it as a way to explore their feminine sexuality and obtain a sense of freedom. Common Themes Found in Kate Chopin's Short Stories Kate Chopin, an American novelist and short story writer. Born in 1851 and died in 1904 (cerebral hemorrhage). Chopin lived in Louisiana during her marriage to a Louisiana businessman and began writing after her husband’s death; being left to raise six children alone. Many of her stories are based on her knowledge of Creole and Cajun life during the time she lived there. She is best known for her novel “The Awakening,” considered Chopin’s masterpiece was subject to harsh criticism at the time criticism for its frank approach to sexual themes (Toth, 1988-1999, p. 1). Her attitude seen throughout her writing’s are about a woman’s place as being in the home and her purpose in life is to nurture her husband and children. Being against oppression Chopin chose to write about these issues through fiction, expressing...
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...Part I Colonial SocietY,1492-1783 what evidence colony in 1622and wrote a report of the conditions he saw there. failings were as much or perhaps even more to blame did h; provide that human document' than natural causes for the sufferings of the colonists? The second report, is a letter written by indentured servant Richard dated a year after Butler's exploitation of Frethorne to his parents in England, in which he reveals that the was well under way by 1623' human labor in Virginia winthrop of the As you read the third document, written by Governor John note the differences in what Breen termed operative Massachusetts Bay Colony, in Virginia' Comvalues between the stated goals for that colony and conditions journey to America in 1630, winthrop's statement clearly exposed during his forth the pressed the religious motives of the Puritan adventurers and set communal effort take precedence over individual amideologlcal objective that what did winthrop mean by his declaration that "we shall be as a city bition. upon a Hill"? quite different, characcircumstances had done much to modify the original, and and within a generation of the founding of Virginia and Massachusetts, time that their ters of the two colonies. The Virginia colonists ultimately realized quickly would not find fulfillment; eventually, the expandreams of getting rich nonethesion of agrlculture furthered the development of a more stable-but Massachusetts also represented a success story, less prosperous-society...
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...Group 3 PGPIM DOING BUSINESS IN USA Doing business in the United States of America By Group 3 PGPIM 2011-13 September 22, 2011 Page | 1 Group 3 PGPIM DOING BUSINESS IN USA Doing business in the United States of America Overview The United States, a nation founded on the fundamental belief in equality, is today a multicultural mosaic of over 290 million people of varying race and cultural heritage. American culture portrays a strong sense of regional and ethnic identity, which is represented by a number of subcultures and influenced by the country’s vast geographical and regional differences. America’s influence on business culture across the globe is unmistakable. Understanding the cultural assumptions, values and artefacts are paramount to doing sustainable profitable business in the United states. Page | 2 Group 3 PGPIM DOING BUSINESS IN USA Introduction and starting point problem “Systemlessness is the ultimate American folly” Peter Lawrence, 1996 It is very often complained that Americans have no culture. This is partially true; seen from a European or an Asian point of view, American culture is a little more than 200 years old. The superficiality of American culture seems to be at stake here, and the implicit assumption of those who formulate this criticism seems to be that depth of culture is what allows the intensity of responsibilities. Thus the criticism about the superficiality of American culture is essentially a complaint...
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...4) Education is an aspect of socialisation which involves the acquisition of knowledge and learning of skills. It shapes our beliefs and moral values through a systematic formal transmission. Education is said to be an integral function of society, as it provides a contributory characteristic which helps to maintain and adapt society and it’s values Before the 1960’s, education was taught through a system known as the ‘Tripartite’ system. This involved all children at the age of eleven undertaking an exam in order to ascertain individual ability in order to separate the children into streams of ability and assign them to what was believed to be the most appropriate school. Those demonstrating exceptional ability went to Grammar schools, which were designed to prepare them for professional occupations. Those of lesser ability moved to Secondary modern schools which focused on providing pupils with the skills necessary to prepare the students for more manual and unqualified jobs. A third sector was introduced called a Technical college. This was primarily based on teaching the children purely manual skills which in turn would be used for manual labour. This system frequently served to reinforce social inequality because it was largely middle class children who went to Grammar school, while the working classes were frequently restricted to either Secondary Modern’s or technical schools. The difference being that middle class families provided their children with advantageous primary...
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...Memphis, a large city located on the southwestern side of Tennessee, is known as the home of the Blues, Graceland, and, unfortunately, as a major crime center in the US. The mental images of famous music artists and fevered tourists swarming to see well-known attractions clash with others, of gang violence, broken down buildings, and a meth lab shootout. Extensive images of diversity possible are shown by the fact that an area so greatly connected to revolutions in musical history is as equally seen as a center of theft, murder, and drug trafficking in stereotypical Memphis. Although several forces have stepped in and attempted to control the crime that terrorizes Memphians –and the occasional tourist- these forces still cause devastation...
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...In Japanese culture employees can contribute regardless of status. Furthermore informal meetings are seen as occasions to build personal relationships and should contain no direct business discussions. Since Japan has one of the most indirect languages, and many messages are metaphorical it is important to refrain from saying terms such as “No” and “You”; these terms can be seen as rude and should be placed with appropriate terms. Instead of saying “You”, refer to contact by their last name and title (i.e. “sir” or “madam”). Lastly an important tool that can be used to analyze the intercultural differences between Canada and Japan is Hofstede‘s 5D Model. This analytical tool breaks each culture into five parts, Power Distance (PDI), Individualism (IDV), Masculinity (MAS) Uncertainty Avoidance (UAI) and Long-term Orientation (LTO). Culture is a something that is different...
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