...Relationship Advice Dear Jamie Thank you for writing me with regard to the issue of whether to stick with a long-distance relationship. According to your letter, you have been with your boyfriend for two years and the last year you were in a long-distance relationship. Due to your graduation program, you might have to be in a long-distance relationship for two more years. Thus, you are struggling with the idea that whether to stick with the relationship or not. From my point of view, I suggest you keep your relationship and make more effort to maintain it. To support this idea, I will explain the reason for the maintenance and include some advice for you. The reason why I suggest you keep the relation bases on the lecture note of the sexualities and relationships course. According to the note, whether a long-distance relationship will work depends on: how long the separation is; how established the relationship already is; how serious the relationship is; expectations of each other; strengths/ weaknesses of each other; past experiences with long-distance (Long-Distance Relationship Lecture Notes, 03/20/2013). What I am going to talk about are the time of separation, the previous establishment of the relationship, how serious the relationship is and your expectations, which are relevant to your letter. Firstly, in your letter, you told me that you would have a two-year graduation program but you haven’t told me what your boyfriend’s future plan is. As the note showed, the long-distance...
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...WS, 913558430 SXS/PSY 320, Fall 2013 Long Distance Relationship and Marriage The article “Heartache That Taught Me Long Distance Love Is Always Doomed” is about a British writer who was suffering the pain of the long distance relationship and marriage. She met and fell in love with Mickael who worked at the hotel where she stayed over on her business trip in Nice. They bonded each other after their first time conversation about the books and culture. Later on they started hanging out and felt for each other. However, neither of them dared to admit their feelings. After returning back to her 13 years mysterious marriage, she found out that her feeling for Mickael was stronger and stronger. In spite of 600 miles away, they fell in love each other. They spent their time by sharing their feelings for each other, their rough daily life and interest through Google chat, video chat, text and email. She went back and forth to Nice and London every two months to write her novel and see him. Mickael also took a long weekend off from his job to spend his time with her. At first she was thrilled about counting the days to see him with passionate love. In the meantime, she had to end up living together with her husband due to the long court process after filing for divorce with him. However the relationship with Mickael was closer than the couples who were living together. As the time goes by, although she became more independent than before, she was getting tired of being alone and...
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...given fact that digital communication brings us closer together. I also agree to the authors views concerning this argument. Wortham suggests that technology is very important to sustain relationships. She goes on to use herself as an example where she describes a day with her boyfriend where they get to experience so much like laughter and relaxing meals, all from using mobile applications. She is being able to maintain her relationships despite being 3000 miles apart from her boyfriend. “Last Sunday, I spent a lazy afternoon with my boyfriend. We chatted while I made brunch, discussed the books we were reading, laughed at some pictures and then settled down with dinner, before bidding each other good night. We did all of this despite living more than 3,000 miles apart, thanks to smartphone applications and services that helped to collapse time and space" (Wortham 393). The way the author describes her moments with her boyfriend a reader could think this is all happening, only to find out that this is all happening through the phone. It just shows how distance is not a barrier when it comes to the author and her boyfriend and it also shows how close they are. The author also explains that using phone applications has helped her not only to maintain but to also improve relationships with long distance boyfriend and her friends, family and coworkers. This statement is true because without these smartphone applications it would be very hard to converse with friends and family. We are...
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...McEntee Brew Wilson-Battles English 11011 28 October 2014 Long Distance Relationships Work Being in long distance relationships can be very tough and there is quite a bit of negativity around the general idea of them. Some stereotypical things people might say about long distance relationships are: “Long distance relationships never turn out well” or “There is no hope for couples in long distance relationships.” Long distance relationships have been stereotyped negatively because it was much harder to sustain them in the past. One reason long distance relationships were harder to sustain is that the only forms of technology available were letters and phone calls. Letters took quite a bit of time to move from person to person and long distance phone calls were very expensive to make. These limited communications were impractical in a sense that the communications between couples were insignificant and didn’t help the relationship. Although technology isn’t the only thing that can make or break a long distance relationship, it can help dramatically. Engaging in a long distance relationship means that being able to see each other isn’t very easy and doesn’t happen very often. People in long distance relationships go weeks, months, even years without seeing their significant other. They must rely on alternate forms of communication other than face-to-face interaction. Usually people in long distance relationships are separated geographically by mileage between them. One reason...
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...of life towards these does not equal amongst us. Power Distance is interpet as the degree to which the less formidable members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is spread out unequally. In the society it is with low power distance, the individuals who try hard to equalize the distribution of power and will normally demand justification for not equal of power. In Taiwan has an moderately high score of 58 on this measurement which indicates that it is a hierarchical society. This implies that people accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and...
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...people are no longer that close to their extended family members, because to the distance and time pressure. But they still try their best to make up and maintain the relationship. In the modern society, people are more independent than old times. Firstly, people now don not have to live together. In old time, big families are the major trend. People live with their grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles. And more important, they normally grow up in the same city, town or even village. The physical distance and large time spent with each family members can build a solid relationship between family members, both direct family and extended family. In old novels, we can always find the description of author’s happy childhood, with his cousins and sisters. Now things have been changed. The world is flat and big. Modern transportations make it possible to travel from one place to the other in a very short time. Big family members always separate to different places in the country. Some are engineers in California, some are dentists in New York. People are chasing their dreams and the physical long distance makes it not possible to contact very frequently as before. They can make a call or face time once a week but the emotion feeling will not be the same as face to face talking. The importance between family members decreases correspondingly. In the second place, people do not have time to maintain the relations between extended family members frequently as they are very busy...
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...Week 5 Case Study Questions #1.) Relationships are dictated by the use of power of one or both individuals. What are the various forms of power and which type of power does Coach Johnson have with his team? Power means many different things to different people. For some, power is seen as corrupt. For others, the more power they have, the more successful they feel. For even others, power is of no interest at all. John French and Bertram Raven identified the five bases of power in the early 1960’s through a study they had conducted on power in leadership roles. The study showed how different types of power affected one’s ability and success in a leadership role. The five bases of power are divided in two categories: Formal Power Coercive power is conveyed through fear of losing one’s job, being demoted, receiving a poor performance review, having prime projects taken away, etc. This power is gotten through threatening others. For example, the VP of Sales who threatens sales folks to meet their goals or get replaced. Reward power is conveyed through rewarding individuals for compliance with one’s wishes. This may be done through giving bonuses, raises, a promotion, and extra time off from work, etc. For example, the supervisor who provides employees comp time when they meet an objective she sets for a project. Legitimate power comes from having a position of power in an organization, such as being the boss or a key member of a leadership team. This power comes when employees...
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...Traditional and Digital Relationships in Society According to the US Census Bureau, the census conducted in 2011 showed that 75.6 percent of all US households owned at least one or more computers, compared to the 1984 census statistic of 8.2 percent when every household was asked for the first time about computer ownership. These same facts are repeated when analyzing internet access. In the 2011 census 71.7 percent of all US households maintain an internet access account unlike the 18 percent of the 1997 census. With all the computer and internet usage around the world it creates changes to the traditional interpersonal relationships by turning them into a digital manifested relationship. Prior to the early 1900s almost all relationships were of a traditional fundamentalist thinking. Then during the industrial revolution with the invention of the telegraph and railroads relationships could grow farther apart but still remain in contact due to the distances and time required. The contact would still have to be choreographed to remain in contact. As technology sped up with the invention of the telephone and the internet so did the aspect of interpersonal relationships. What was limited one day was free the next with the ability to be able to keep people inter connected. Traditional relationships are constantly being adapted by technology and human needs, allowing for them to keep pace and adapt to the digital world. Basically in a traditional relationship requires 2 or more people...
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...People act in different ways depending on how they were raised-according to their culture in other words. This also means that their use of verbal and non-verbal communication is affected by their culture which is the different ways in which people behaves, acts or think towards themselves, families and other people in society or simply a set of values and assumptions that are shared by people. It needs not said that the use of non-verbal ways of communicating are directly linked to ones culture hence the conclusion non-verbal communication is culturally bound and culture biased. Non verbal-communication, which involves all external stimuli other than the use of the written or spoken Sword, involves among other things the use of colour, use of space, touching, gift giving and time in conveying a message. The use of colour in communicating is widely used nowadays but its use started a long time ago. For instance, we grew up with the notion that the red colour means danger and that black is associated with darkness. Colours nowadays are used by manufacturers of says pesticides to warn users of the effectiveness of the poison. In communication by colour, colour tells us about people and their culture. They use red to denote a dangerous chemical. At funerals moaners wear black conveying a message of the unpleasant and disheartening death of a loved one. White is associated with purity hence its use at weddings with the bride wearing a wide gown to send the message of her purity and...
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...Hofstede's six basic cultural dimensions • Power distance (PDI), or the degree to which members of a national culture automatically accept a hierarchical or unequal distribution of power in organizations and the society; This dimension expresses the degree to which the less powerful members of a society accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. The fundamental issue here is how a society handles inequalities among people. People in societies exhibiting a large degree of power distance accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further justification. In societies with low power distance, people strive to equalize the distribution of power and demand justification for inequalities of power • Individualism-collectivism (IDV), or the degree to which individuals in a given national culture perceive themselves as separate from others and free from group pressure to conform; The high side of this dimension, called Individualism, can be defined as a preference for a loosely-knit social framework in which individuals are expected to take care of themselves and their immediate families only. Its opposite, Collectivism, represents a preference for a tightly-knit framework in society in which individuals can expect their relatives or members of a particular in-group to look after them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. A society's position on this dimension is reflected in whether people’s self-image is defined in terms of...
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...culture relative to other world cultures. Power distance This dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. Taiwan has an relatively high score of 58 on this dimension which indicates that it is a hierarchical society. This means that people accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further justification. Hierarchy in an organisation is seen as reflecting inherent inequalities, centralisation is popular, subordinates expect to be told what to do and the ideal boss is a benevolent autocrat. Individualism The fundamental issue addressed by this dimension is the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members. It has to do with whether people´s self-image is defined in terms of “I” or “We”. In Individualist societies people are supposed to look after themselves and their direct family only. In Collectivist societies people belong to ‘in groups’ that take care of them in exchange for loyalty. Taiwan, with a score of 17 is a collectivistic society. This is manifest in a close long-term commitment to the “member” group, be that a family, extended family or extended relationships. Loyalty in a collectivist culture is paramount and...
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...the Netherlands are quite different, but are there also similarities? And how does this affect the trade between these two countries. I am going to compare Bangladesh with the Netherlands. The Power distance deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. In Bangladesh the people accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further justification. Hierarchy in an organization is seen as reflecting inherent inequalities, centralization is popular, subordinates expect to be told what to do and the ideal boss is a benevolent autocrat. This is in contrast whit the following, what characterises the Dutch style: Being independent, hierarchy for convenience only, equal rights, superiors accessible, coaching leader, management facilitates and empowers. Power is decentralized and managers count on the experience of their team members. Employees expect to be consulted. Control is disliked and attitude towards managers are informal and on first name basis. Communication is direct and participative. The fundamental issue addressed by Individualism is the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members. It has to do with whether people´s self-image is defined...
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...Lecture 3 Kinematics Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Units of Lecture 3 Position, Distance, and Displacement, Average Speed and Velocity, Acceleration Motion with Constant Acceleration Freely Falling Objects Motion in Two Dimensions Relative Velocity Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Position, Distance, and Displacement Before describing motion, you must set up a coordinate system – define an origin and a positive direction. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Position, Distance, and Displacement The distance is the total length of travel; (Example - if you drive from your house to the grocery store and back, you have covered a distance of 8.6 mi). Displacement is the change in position. (Example - If you drive from your house to the grocery store and then to your friend’s house, your displacement is 2.1 mi and the distance you have traveled is 10.7 mi). Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Distance is the length of Displacement is the the actual path taken by an object. straight-line separation of two points in a specified direction. Distance, s is a scalar Displacement, D is a quantity (no direction) Contains magnitude only and consists of a number and a unit. Example: (20 m, 40 mi/h) vector quantity Contains magnitude AND direction, a number, unit & angle. Example: (12 m, 300; 8 km/h) Consider travel from point A to point B in diagram below: Consider travel from point...
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...Geert Hofstede™ Cultural Dimensions Source: http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_dimensions.php http://geert-hofstede.com/dimensions.html 1. Power Distance (PDI) This dimension expresses the degree to which the less powerful members of a society accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. The fundamental issue here is how a society handles inequalities among people. People in societies exhibiting a large degree of power distance accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further justification. In societies with low power distance, people strive to equalise the distribution of power and demand justification for inequalities of power. < an example of Power Distance by Geert Hofstede 2. Individualism versus collectivism (IDV) The high side of this dimension, called Individualism, can be defined as a preference for a loosely-knit social framework in which individuals are expected to take care of themselves and their immediate families only. Its opposite, Collectivism, represents a preference for a tightly-knit framework in society in which individuals can expect their relatives or members of a particular in-group to look after them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. A society's position on this dimension is reflected in whether people’s self-image is defined in terms of “I” or “we.” < 3. Masculinity versus femininity (MAS) The masculinity side of this dimension represents a preference in society for achievement...
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...of cultural distance on entry mode choice: the moderating effect of language diversity Name: Rajae El Aiachi Student number: 10202773 Teacher: Dr Johan Lindeque MSc. In Business Administration – Theories of International Management Date: 27-09-2015 Abstract (50 Words) Previous studies have shown that the choice of entry mode depends on various types of aspects, containing also cultural distance between countries (Arora and Fosfuri, 2000). However, there is not a lot of consensus among these articles. A few articles mentioned the effect of language distance on entry mode choice. Keywords: Cultural distance, entry mode choice and language distance 1. Introduction In this time of globalization a lot of companies are expanding their international business activities in overseas market. The ways in which firms are expanding their business in overseas market differ per enterprise and country. The hierarchical model of market entry modes by Pan and Tse (2000) shows that there are different choices of entry modes. Entry modes can be seen as equity-based versus non-equity based. Within equity-based modes, there is a division between equity joint ventures and wholly owned operations. Within nonequity based modes, there is a division between export and contractual agreements. Prior research demonstrated that the choice of entry modes rely upon different types of components. Especially, a lot of previous studies focused on the effect of cultural distance on entry...
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