...Although the whole world has been affected by global recession, China’s economy still grows in a rapid rate compared with other countries’. Furthermore, the expansion of China’s retail market has attracted world’s largest retailers, Walmart and Carrefour, to pile in. The expansion strategies of the two global retailers seem to play a crucial role in the competition in China. Thus both similarities and differences of strategies are worth considering and will be respectively analyzed in the essay. One of the most significant similarities of Walmart and Carrefour’s strategies is that both of them learn about the diversity of regions and customers. Ed Chan, the Walmart China’s CEO, pointed out that not only income level, but also customer preferences were affected by the regional diversity (McKinsey Quarterly, 2009). It suggests that from coastal area to inland regions, the economy is less developed and the income level is accordingly lower. As a result, customer preferences vary from the eastern to the western part of China (McKinsey Quarterly, 2009). Similarly, Carrefour treats coastal and inland customers respectively to adapt to region differences in China. For instance, live fish is displayed to customers in fresh area but frozen fish is sold to people in vast regions according to the diversity of their preferences (Child, 2006). Another similarity is that in addition to coastal cities, both retailers have expanded into inland regions and smaller cities which are less prosperous...
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...splendid but transient life. The opinion also resembles to the sentence in Professor Huang’s book-“No matter how long we lived in the world, the life for us is limited.” As for the similarities in mentality, I firmly believe that two different people may have something in common. Not only limited to the “mentally speaking, we all seek emotional pleasure and avoid pain”, different people may feel the same thing from each other, and these two people are so-called soul mate. I still remember the movie Mary and Max, which exactly describes a pair of soul mate sharing common thoughts in spite of the difference of age. There are also many examples in couples and friends, though they may have a big age gap. Actually, the differences among people may much more than those similarities. Twins can be different in many aspects, let alone those people of different nationalities. The most obvious difference is appearance. Despite twins are really alike, they are still not identical in appearance. The elder sister may have a mole on her palm while her sis doesn’t have one. Those women who pursue beauty may ask their cosmetic surgeons to do the face-lifting in the light of the photo of a pretty celebrity, but as we have seen, they can never be exactly alike in appearance. People are also different in characteristics. The husband can be impulsive, active...
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...his life to stay on a positive path. Wes attends Valley Forge Military School for high school and junior college. He later attends Johns Hopkins University. Along with being an honored veteran, Wes becomes a Rhodes Scholar with the help of his mentors. The other Wes grows up in West Baltimore as well and struggles throughout his early life with drug dealing. His alcoholic father is never present and that contributes to some of the bad decisions he makes. Today, Wes is serving a life sentence in prison for a murder during a robbery. The author stresses the similarities between his life and that of his counterpart. He also stresses the fact that he could have ended up like the other Wes Moore. The problem arises when he considers the differences of family they have around them two. It is apparent that Author Wes Moore was greatly influenced by his family to make the person that he is today. If it were not for Wes's mother, Joy, Author Wes could have ended up like the other Wes. Author Wes...
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...have good chemistry with other people or like to do things on your own, these sports aren’t for you. In both sports it is crucial that you trust your teammates. Other similarities are that soccer and hockey can be played in a stadium or outside in street form, they can both be played year round, they are both played worldwide, and are a sport in the olympics. Another similarity between hockHockey and soccer are two very fun sports. If you were to ask most people about them they would say how different they are, this is true however, they have many similarities that many may not know of. Hockey is a fast paced hard hitting game where as soccer is a slower low contact sport, but they both are played with teammates. Hockey and soccer are similar in some ways, one of those similarities is they are both team sports. In...
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...remains extremely impossible to remain fearless about the future. A lot of effort and courage remains a great requirement for having a purpose driven life because it’s not always easy. Life seems unpredictable in most cases and, as a result, all young people approach the future as blind nomads. In life, most people tend to believe that they will remain the same as they seem now in the next decade. Regardless of the age of an individual, they always tend to act in a way that suggests that history shaped them to the people they become. One thing remains certain, personalities and values keep changing. I will experience a lot of differences in 2025 as compared to now 2015. In a decade all human beings experience great changes in terms of their personality and their lives. A COMPARISON OF RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN A DECADE There exists a great difference in the relationship status of an individual between a lifespan of 2015 and 2025.I am a single 38-year-old man currently studying and working. I am looking forward to studying network administration, marrying and having children. I wish to become an entrepreneur in the future and open my networking firm. The future seems so near when I have a lot of activities in the plan. Currently, in my case there seems a less sense of responsibility on my part as I do not have a family. In the next decade, I would be tasked with more responsibilities as a result of the family. My children and wife will need care and all that will increase my...
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...discussing the concept of fighting poison by using poison, and the section discussing the choice of amputation or gangrene. Rather than throw up his hands in despair and say, "Life's not fair that I must choose between amputation and gangrene," he analyzes the benefits and trade-offs. All this I knew before reading his Autobiographical Notes, but while I read them I was suddenly struck with a very powerful revelation. I realized that I liked his writings because I found in him the same philosophy I have adopted. I immediately wondered if there was a connection between our philosophies and the fact that we were both minorities. I'm curious as to how much of the similarities in our philosophies can be attributed to being minorities, and how many differences can be explained by the fact that we are from two different minorities and those that can be explained by the fact that he wrote and lived generations removed from myself. There are three main similarities between our philosophies that I would like to discuss, although the three are likely closely related. The first is that even bad situations...
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...some similarities, but there are some differences between the disorders. This essay will go into depth of antisocial disorder, and borderline personality disorder. While explaining the two disorders, there will be a similarities discussion and a differences discussion. All in all, antisocial disorder and borderline personality disorder are very different disorders. To begin, antisocial personality disorder includes behaviors that show no respect people and their rights as a person (Antisocial Personality Disorder, n.d.). People with antisocial personality disorder tend to steal, lie, no regard for laws, and no...
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...The loud clunk of swords was all you could hear from the mile away. Brutal screams are deafening as a small family watches from a distance. Although samurai and knights seem very different, they were mostly alike. Their armour and format in which they did tasks/practices was also indistinguishable from each other. Many individuals think that samurai and knights were very different, but this is simply not accurate. Two crucial similarities between the knights and samurai was that they made alluring paintings and poetry, along with promises that they arranged before their death. First of all, both samurai and knights made the beautiful poetry and splendid artwork that people today may see in museums currently. As located in Document F, Samurai Death Poem, is about how one samurai discussed how short a lifespan really is. Also found in the same document, A Knight’s Death, it talks about how they wish they could have more time on Earth. They both have made different points in their poetry, but they came up with the same message. Both samurai and knights wanted to send a signal through the paintings that they created. A majority of the art was about life and landscapes. Art was an escape away from the battlefield, they could just simply...
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...This article main presents how three kinds of skills namely teambuilding, communication and delegation, the author learned via military leadership is applicable to the People’s Health Clinic (PHC). It has been manifested that there is more similarities than differences for the application of these three skills in any organization according to the experience of the author. In case of either military or PHC, it is has proved that building a team with personal difference as well as complementary capabilities should be placed with enough importance for it is crucial to complete a mission or a task. In this article, the author produced evidences for how to build a team and the good returns brought by such practices. With three positions set in this article, the PHC succeeded in hiring the qualified people, which can create a team to hold people together and then work for the organization to serve the community. Based on this team, more extensive activities can be facilitated by PHC, proving the significance of building a team. According to the interception of the author, effective communication can be identified as members’ capability of understanding the role and corresponding capability in achieving the mission. Furthermore, the meaning of effective communication has been extended to people’s capability to affect communities to understand that people are doing. In order to apply the explanation of such skill learned in military to the PHC, the author presented how they worked around...
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...development. Both games were originally designed for the Sony PlayStation as an exclusive PlayStation only game, but with the growing popularity and the opportunity for cross plat forming, both developers Eidos and Naughty Dog have expanded the fan-base by making these games available on the PC as well as the PlayStation. Other similarities are that these two games are in a classification of Action-Adventure/Puzzle Game both games have a wide range of hidden treasures that have to be found in order to progress through the game or to unlock bonus material within the game, such as a different outfit for the main character or a new weapon for use in the game. With all of the similarities that these games have there are just as many if not more differences. Tomb Raider was developed by Eidos, and the main character is a female named Laura Croft. Uncharted was developed by Naughty Dog, and the main character is a male...
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...Topic: Compare the baker in “Small Good Thing” to Abner Snopes in “Barn Burning.” In what ways are the two men similar? What effect do they have on the people around them? Thesis: That both the baker and Abner Snopes have little in common, yet their actions on others is complete opposites. First off is Abner Snopes from “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner. Abner is described as a terrifying figure, with what is described as a “harsh, level stare.(1190). Abners’ use of emotional and physical violence has an impact on his son, which leads them to participate in barn burning. (1194) Abner, to me feels like a bad guy. We know he is a racist man and uses fear to entice people into doing what he wants. Although Abner is a very mysterious and vague...
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...remains extremely impossible to remain fearless about the future. A lot of effort and courage remains a great requirement for having a purpose driven life because it’s not always easy. Life seems unpredictable in most cases and, as a result, all young people approach the future as blind nomads. In life, most people tend to believe that they will remain the same as they seem now in the next decade. Regardless of the age of an individual, they always tend to act in a way that suggests that history shaped them to the people they become. One thing remains certain, personalities and values keep changing. I will experience a lot of differences in 2025 as compared to now 2015. In a decade all human beings experience great changes in terms of their personality and their lives. A COMPARISON OF RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN A DECADE There exists a great difference in the relationship status of an individual between a lifespan of 2015 and 2025.I am a single 38-year-old man currently studying and working. I am looking forward to studying network administration, marrying and having children. I wish to become an entrepreneur in the future and open my networking firm. The future seems so near when I have a lot of activities in the plan. Currently, in my case there seems a less sense of responsibility on my part as I do not have a family. In the next decade, I would be tasked with more responsibilities as a result of the family. My children and wife will need care and all that will increase my...
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...equally, may be about two similar things that have crucial differences (two pesticides with different effects on the environment) or two similar things that have crucial differences, yet turn out to have surprising commonalities (two politicians with vastly different world views who voice unexpectedly similar perspectives on sexual harassment). In the "lens" (or "keyhole") comparison, in which you weight A less heavily than B, you use A as a lens through which to view B. Just as looking through a pair of glasses changes the way you see an object, using A as a framework for understanding B changes the way you see B. Lens comparisons are useful for illuminating, critiquing, or challenging the stability of a thing that, before the analysis, seemed perfectly understood. Often, lens comparisons take time into account: earlier texts, events, or historical figures may illuminate later ones, and vice versa. Faced with a daunting list of seemingly unrelated similarities and differences, you may feel confused about how to construct a paper that isn't just a mechanical exercise in which you first state all the features that A and B have in common, and then state all the ways in which A and B are different. Predictably, the thesis of such a paper is usually an assertion that A and B are very similar yet not so similar after all. To write a good compare-and-contrast paper, you must take your raw data—the similarities and differences you've observed—and make them cohere into a meaningful...
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...Britain population rise, the issues about differences and similarities between experiences of students in the two countries have been receiving increasing attention. Owing to the cultural differences between China and UK, the students in both have multitude of distinctions in experiences. Specifically, there are two main parts to analyze this topic, which is study experience and activity experience. From some researches about international students’ differences, the two groups regard to two particular education systems. Chinese students are constantly labeled “obedient” by students from other countries when they cooperate with each other in some programs. However, it cannot be denied that some similarities indeed existing when they study a new method like foreign language. When it comes to study experience, most students in UK are curious about why Chinese students always prepare exams and tests by rote. In particular, the most direct way of learning in China is listening and memorizing to teachers’ instructions. The common reason is most Chinese teachers do not like to be interrupted by questions during their speech. Moreover, some teachers even encourage students to be extremely quiet and few discussions in the class. Therefore, Chinese teachers get honorable respects from students and teachers believe that keep quite is essential to get a high score. In contrast, students in UK present more aggressive in the class. The crucial reason is teachers in UK concentrated on fostering...
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...about how to raise a child properly. There are usually noticeable differences when seeing parenting of a child by watching another family with a different ethnicity. However, a clear difference between which factors the parents think are the most crucial for a child’s upbringing shows when comparing between two completely dissimilar cultures, in depth within the family walls. The big question is which way of upbringing a child is the most correct way, both ethically and progressively. In this article ‘’Why Chinese Mothers are Superior’’ by Amy Chua, she points out the major differences between the Western and Chinese world of parenting. In the article, Amy Chua mentions the focus that has been set on Chinese mothers about their inhumane ways of upbringing a child. ‘’There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests’’. She uses the opportunity in this article to get the western people’s attention by her very provocative title choice, which is smart because it allows her to set things in perspective for the western readers, now that she has their attention. Amy kind of starts a debate by comparing these two different parenting cultures, she tries to explain it from her viewpoint, reducing the bad view on Chinese parenting method and a chance of achieving solidarity. Amy states that there are three major differences between Chinese and Western parental mind-sets. Chinese parents are...
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