...as distance. He explains it that companies inadequately take advantage from wrong method when deciding on international expansion as CPA ( country portfolio analysis). The CPA is related with national GDP ( gross domestic product), welthness of the people and tendency of people for consuming. However this tendency pass over “the costs and risks of doing business in the market.” In the article, these costs are grouping as four main title: cultural distance, administrative distance, geographic distance and economic distance. Ghemawat created a schema which is called The CAGE Distance Framework. Cultural distance consists of different languages,race,religions and social norms. Administrative distance comprises of lack of colonial ties, shared monetary or political association, political contrast, government policies and organizational powerlessness. Physical position, absence of common frontier and sea access, greatness of country, weaknesses of communication and transportation networks and different climates are parts of the geographic distance. Economic distance includes income, cost and quality differences. Arranging a company’s CPA for a company compounding distance induces a absolutely different conclusion of a the growth potential of the country. Ghemawat created a unique system and descriptor the CAGE Distance Framework for valuation the international expansion chances for...
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...The Hard Reality of Global Expansion” discusses the reasons and rationale that drive companies to over-estimate profit potential in foreign markets. Ghemawat analyzes the failures of different companies’ (News Corp, Tricon Restaurants, etc..) foreign expansion endeavors to determine what these failures had in common. From his analysis, Ghemawat concludes that these failures share one common attribute: a failure to account for distance. As Ghemawat describes it, companies erroneously utilize an antiquated and incorrect modality when deciding on foreign expansion: the country portfolio analysis (CPA). The CPA focuses on national GDP, levels of consumer wealth, and people’s propensity to consume but ignores “the costs and risks of doing business in the market.” These costs are grouped into a category classified as “distance” which itself is sub-divided into four dimensions: cultural distance, administrative distance, geographic distance, and economic distance [CAGE]. Ghemawat proceeds to list factors that influence distance and industries that are affected by the specific dimension. These results are framed in an artificially created schematic: the CAGE Distance Framework. Important attributes contributing towards cultural distance include different languages, different ethnicities, different religions, and different social norms. Important attributes contributing towards administrative distance include absence of colonial ties, absence of shared monetary or political association...
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...Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” introduced a murder case in a small village. There are two groups of main characters. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale represent ethical women, with copassion for the unfortunate. County Attorney and Sheriff represent the judicial officers who seek for judicial fairness. The two groups’ conflict, therefore, represents the conflict of judicial fairness and ethical concerns in the real world. County attorney and Sheriff are characterized as official officers from the government. Their job is to catch the criminal and seek the evidence to prove that the criminal is guilty. However, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are more focused on the feelings and motives of the law-breaker (Minnie). In the novel, Mr. Henderson and Mr. Peters threw all of their attention into searching for, and analyzing, the evidence. They did not worry about, for example, the messy state of the kitchen, “County Attorney: (Looking around) I guess we’ll go upstairs first --- and then out to the barn and around there. [To the Sheriff] You’re….nothing that would point to any motive” (Trifles, p.1043). His obvious concern is solely as to whether there is any evidence that could be collected. He didn’t think about how a good house-wife could allow the kitchen to reach a state of mess like this. When Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are talking about frozen fruit, County Attorney said: “Well, can you beat the woman! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves.” (Trifles, P.1043). County...
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...The earthen walls shake. My feathers rattle against the cage as another blast startles me. The inevitable screams follow; the wretched sound of men killing men. All that keeps this pigeon sane in this fetid cesspit of death is the inextinguishable thought of home. Home. A dovecot high above the city, surrounded by the bountiful streets of urban London. A loft, filled with the warm, earthy aroma of oats and the soft, inviting coos of my brethren. A place of safety, comfort and companionship, broken only by the occasional excursion with one of the humans that frequented the loft. We had a unique connection with home. No matter where we were in the world, no matter how far or how foreign the lands were, we could always find our way back. Its call, a physical manifestation of our attachment to the place, was a quality the humans found useful. Every once in a while we were coerced into temporary captivity, taken on a weeklong journey, only to be sent home upon arrival with a missive attached to one leg. But this journey has lasted much longer than a week. I was taken first across the Channel, then to hell. For the past two months I have looked on as humans spit fire and death at one another, listened as the incessant explosions tore limbs from bodies and stained the air with shrieks of pain, and now, finally, watched as the humans who accompany me are gradually whittled down, besieged as I am, by bars and bullets of cold iron and hard steel. But most of all I have endured the unbearable...
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...How to improve maize milling machine efficiency? This is a general question. Maize milling machine efficiency can be affected by maize milling machine operation, its technology level, the raw grain and so on. With social development, people lay more and more emphasis on food nutrition. Maize nutrition also causes our attention. Meanwhile, maize milling machine usage is more and more widely and the market has increasing demands for maize milling machine. We should abide by the operation rules to ensure the normal running. 1. When the maize flour yield is abnormal, we can draw out the screw shaft, check the cage bar and screw shaft abrasion. Change the wearing parts in time. Each lubrication part should prevent dust and other impurities. Each year, we should check the engine oil quality of the reduction gearbox once. If there has any degenerative oil, we should change all of the engine oil. 2. No quality, no production value. No quality, no market. No quality, no profits. No quality, no life. Therefore, we should try our best to improve quality, yield, safety, and reduce energy consumption. 3. To make MAIZE MILLING MACHINE usage more effective, we should operate maize milling machine according to the equipment operating instruction. Keep regular maintenance on the equipment. Avoid any error in production caused by incorrect operation. It’s better to have the professional maize milling machine engineers on scene to guide for you how to detect and maintain if you...
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...Trifles: A Moral Justification for Murder The one act play “Trifles” depicts the views and passions of both men and women during the late-nineteenth century regarding the role of a woman. The characters in the play are the County Attorney, the Sheriff, and Mr. Hale, who are accompanied by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters into the Wright’s home to investigate the murder of Mr. Wright. The men feel that the women are only concerning themselves with little things and make several condescending comments throughout the play displaying their views. While the men search for clues upstairs and in the outside barn yard, it is the women who cleverly piece together several clues leading to Mrs. Wright’s guilt in the murder mystery. But, because of the shocking evidence found by the women, they become sympathetic towards Mrs. Wright and decide to conceal their findings from the authorities. The women feel that the mental and emotional abuse Mrs. Wright received from her husband was justification for the crime in which she committed. Although murder is usually looked upon as an indefensible crime of selfishness, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters actions were morally validated because of Mr. Wright’s own selfish and tyrannical actions; which left Mrs. Wright with no other alternative but to murder him in order to reclaim her liberty. From the beginning of the play, when Mr. Hale explains to the other men that he was visiting the Wright’s home in hopes of convincing John Wright to pitch in on a party line...
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...couple of things that lead the women to conclude what they did. First was the fact that they knew she was mistreated by her husband, this in their mind was the motive. That caused them to begin believing that she had killed him to escape. Next they found a messed up quilt that made them question Minnie’s mental stability. The final straw was finding the broken bird cage and strangled bird. Mr. Wright was strangled the exact same way as the bird, thus they concluded she had killed him. 4. What do the men discover? Why do they conclude “Nothing Here but kitchen things”? What do the women discover? The men do not discover anything about the crime. All they discover is a messy kitchen and broken jars. I think they believe that women were not capable of doing anything important, but to only worry about “trifles”. Thus they could not even discover a motive for the murder. The women however looked at the crime with a much less biased eye. Thus they discovered almost everything about the crime. 7. Discuss the symbolism of the broken cage and the dead canary. The cage and bird are very symbolic in this play. The cage can symbolize many things, one of which is how broken Minnie is....
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...construction set. Stands were 32 meters long weigh each 4 tons. This stadium counted 3200 places and is encircled by a cycle track of 666,66 meters in length with no lanes. The realization of this track was made according to the rate of clay in the ground. If there is an average rate of clay, the ground is moistened until become a thick mud which is spread. If there is a strong rate of clay, the ground is used such as removed from the ground and compacted with feet. If there is a low rate of clay, we add straw and droppings. For the lawn, they used the lawn of the ancient park. Before the construction of the stadium, this space was a place of hunting for the bourgeoisie, where the name of Park des Princes. Then they just added cage metallic. B/ On this picture, the first knocks of excavators. They needed to dig 8 meters in the ground, an immense pit of more than 120 meters in length for 80 meters wide to welcome the lawn. The walls of this hole are sloping of 8 meters to put the lower ring of the stadium there. After that, the phase of construction now could begin. The installation of potences required a lot of time and precision. These potences support the second ring of the stadium as the roof. For the construction of the second ring, they needed to use trammels on concrete which were fixed to potences. This structure was going to welcome the superior stands. (A trammel is a potence stocked with notches or teeth) - In the pit begin the molding...
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...Soft sounds came from outside the window in the woods, Sabo growled lightly at the sensation as he leaned up on the tree; of all times to fall even deeper into this season, it had to be now... and he felt so full with those eggs inside him, only driving his lust higher, "S-Shit... hah, I guess I couldn't h-hold through... ooh..." seeing a blue blur in the corner of your eye you turned to the window "sabo" you called positive that blue blur you saw was him you squint trying to see into the dark wooded area "where are you" you murmur. turning away from the window you go out the front door in nothing but your pj's and slippers Sabo grunted and felt that heat rise up inside him, causing him to groan a little more and lean up awkwardly on the...
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...A Woman’s Perspective Over the course of time, women have played various roles in politics and literature often mirroring the circumstances of the age and time they lived in. A few people dared go against the norm and Susan Glaspell was one of them. Set in an age where women were considered inferior to men, her stories usually challenged that perception, often having a female heroine or displaying with remarkable subtlety the necessity of a woman’s insight. In Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” because Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters look at the state of the Wright house, the dead canary, and Mr. Wright’s behavior from a different perspective from their trained husbands, they come to a quicker and more accurate understanding of the events leading up to the murder. Almost as soon as they step into the Wright home, it is obvious Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are not going see things the same way their husbands do. Straightaway, the women draw different conclusions from the state of the house than the men. The women observe the unusual state of general disarray the house is in, noting the unwashed kitchen utensils and the dirty towels. So while the men make jokes about Mrs. Wright’s skills as a housekeeper, the women deduce that there must be a reason for the general state of disarray because it is odd for a woman to leave her home in that state. This is also why they make excuses about the state of the house to their husbands. For instance Mrs. Hale says: “There’s a great...
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...The Way Things Are Done: Start with 5 monkeys locked in a cage. Hang a banana from the roof on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long the monkeys will go to the stairs and start to climb toward the banana. As soon as the first monkey touches the stairs, hose the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with the same result. All the other are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and goes to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed...
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...appearance. Yank begins a search to find himself and his place in the world. This search leads him to see how society perceives him when he becomes violent on Fifth Avenue and is imprisoned for thirty days. While there, he is confronted with the opportunity to repay society for their betrayal, but again his ideas are rejected. Yank is searching for acceptance and decides to visit the zoo to see a real ape. He sees a reflection of himself in the caged beast as both have been displaced and imprisoned. Both the ape and Yank do not belong in polity society. He thinks for a moment that he and the ape are kindred spirits of a sort and he opens the cage. He is crushed by the ape, which he had just referred to as his brother. The ape throws him into the cage and shuts the door. His last act of defiance is to die standing while gripping the bars of the cage. Even the ape feels that he does not belong. Work cited: O'Neill, Eugene."The Hairy Ape". American Literature Since the Civil War. Create edition. McGraw-Hill. 2011. Pg....
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...Всеукраїнський студентський конкурс перекладу „Художнє слово в світовій культурі” Організатори конкурсу - філологічний факультет Східноукраїнського національного університету імені Володимира Даля, кафедра теорії та практики перекладу германських і романських мов філологічного факультету. До участі в конкурсі запрошуються студенти вищих навчальних закладів. Кожен конкурсант може взяти участь у конкурсі з будь-якої номінації або за декількома номінаціями. Для участі у конкурсі подається окрема заявка за кожною з номінацій. Учасники конкурсу виконують переклад одного (на власний вибір) поетичного твору з англійської / німецької / французької / української мови. За бажанням, можна узяти участь у декількох номінаціях, або зробити переклади декількох творів у вибраній номінації. Конкурс проводиться за такими номінаціями: Номінація 1 – Кращий переклад поетичного твору з англійської мови на українську мову. Номінація 2 – Кращий переклад поетичного твору з англійської мови на російську мову. Номінація 3 – Кращий переклад поетичного твору з французької мови на українську. Номінація 4 – Кращий переклад поетичного твору з французької мови на російську мову. Номінація 5 – Кращий переклад поетичного твору з німецької мови на українську. Номінація 6 – Кращий переклад поетичного твору з німецької мови на російську мову. Номінація 7 – Кращий переклад поетичного твору з української мови на англійську. Номінація 8 – Кращий переклад поетичного твору з української...
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...2011 John Cage John Cage was an American composer born in Los Angeles on September 5, 1912. As a child he took piano lessons and then studied composition with American composer Adolph Weiss. Cage studied for a short time at Pamona College, and later at UCLA with classical composer Arthur Schoenberg. There he realized that the music he wanted to make was different from the music of his time. Cage dropped out of college in his second year and head to Europe, during the early 1930s; he lives there for just eighteen months. According to the (Biography Base) it stated that it was there in Europe that he wrote his first pieces of music, but upon hearing them he didn't like them, and he left them behind on his return to America. Upon returning to the U.S., he studied in New York with Henry Cowell, finally traveling back to the West Coast in 1934 to study under Arnold Schoenburg. He began writing in his own musical system, often using techniques similar to those of Schoenberg. In 1937 he moved to Seattle and took a job accompanying a dance company. Cage parents didn’t attend college his father earned a living being an inventor. Cage credits his father, being an inventor, and that influent is way in which he wrote music. “Cage described his mother as a woman with "a sense of society" who was "never happy." And as someone who “never enjoyed having a good time” (Nicholls 9). John Cage was a great classical composer he was articulate and original in what he does. Cage would make...
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...APPLICATION OF CAGE DISTANCE FRAMEWORK - AN ANALYSIS OF KENYA AND RUSSIA SUBMITTED BY: YULIA BEREZINA SUBMITTED TO PROF. DANIELE CERRATO MATHIAS KOSKE DAVIDE NICHETTI VANESSA ZERRATE 11TH FEB. 2015 1 Foreign investment can be particularly challenging. In order get it right, the use of tools and evaluations is critical. In this document, based on the CAGE framework, we analyze distances between Russia and Kenya, and assess how they impact business establishment and operations in the latter. One of the most important things to take into account is the culture. We noticed that the two countries have very distinct and diverse cultural dimensions. They do not have a common language i.e. Russia has Russian as it official language while Kenya has English and Swahili, or have any shared ethnicity despite Russia having 185 and Kenya 42 ethnic groups. Religious disparities are also evident in these two economies. The Russians are largely unbelievers with the Russian Orthodox being the dominant religion whereas Kenyans are largely Christians. Despite these differences, the Muslim population in both countries is significantly represented but their marginalization makes them insignificant on an investment front. Finally, the social norms and values in both countries are quite similar, with the similar concepts of family, societal upbringing and gender roles. When evaluating both countries at the administrative level we encounter that they do not share a...
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