...Culture may have its sources in different aspects of human life, as: language, nationality, education, profession, group, religion, family, social class, corporate culture. All these elements influence every member of a society and thus, culture is learnt and transmitted to others. Differences between people within any given nation or culture are much greater than differences between groups. Polish people and British, although have a lot of common in terms of historical inheritance, they vary in many aspects of social life and these differences naturally affect the behaviour and culture. Much of the differences in culture have to do with superstitions. Many of today’s traditions and superstitions date back thousands of years. It is surprising how many of these were originally to ward off evil spirits, as well to enhance good luck, fertility and prosperity. For example, bielief that black cat crossing your path can affect your luck goes far back in time. In Poland, it is considered unlucky to see the black cat crossing the road and it is probably because of the fact that the black cat was supposed to be a witch in disguise, or some kind of spy or helper for her. It may therefore have been imagined to possess the same magical abilty to cause harm. Conversly, in England the black cat is considered to be something lucky. There is a story about King Charles the first of England who owned a black cat and whom he valued very much. He treasured the cat so much that he had...
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...1 Poglish in England, the United States, and Poland By Frederic W. Widlak, Ph.D. Profesor Nadzwyczajny Department of Organizational and Managerial Psychology Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu--National-Louis University Nowy Sącz, Poland Paper presented at the March 4, 2015 Conference "Culture-Tradition-Language" at Zespół Szkół Ekonomicznych in Nowy Sącz, Poland Abstract Poglish is a dialect that results from combining language elements from Polish and English. It is most commonly heard among people whose first language is Polish, but encounter the need to use English for practical situations in an English-speaking country, or to describe things using English words in Poland because there is no easily translatable equivalent term in Polish. The Poglish examples in this presentation will include those personally experienced by the author when listening to Polish immigrants in Chicago, some accounts of this dialect currently used by Polish immigrants in England, and the incorporation of English words or modifications of English words into the Polish lexicon in Poland. The implications of the use of Poglish on Polish immigrant traditions and the culture of presentday Poland are discussed. Introduction “Poglish”, also called “Polglish” or “Ponglish”, combines the words “Polish” and “English” to indicate a mixing of Polish- and English-language elements within a single speech production. It often occurs where native Polish speakers living in an English-speaking country...
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...You must include a title page and format all papers using APA format. Please review APA resources for help with this as all papers will require it in your program. Thanks. All formal papers must be double-spaced and paragraphs indented Polarity Paper Polarities and polarity management We have all encountered stubborn problems that never seem to go away. These situations are not really problems waiting to be solved, but instead dilemmas in need of management. We all face dilemmas in our personal and professional lives. These are ongoing, unsolvable issues and unfortunately are unavoidable. According to Johnson (1998), Polarity Management is an insightful way to understand and succeed in mastering some of life’s most complex situations. Polarity management is a method of dealing with complex situations by looking at all aspects of the situation. Seidler (2009) describes polarity management as a model that helps us deal with all dilemmas in life. This approach facilitates the consideration of all perspectives to a situation, thereby avoiding the one right-answer approach. The most comprehensive decisions seek the advantages of all alternatives to a situation. When encountering a challenging condition, we must first determine if it is a problem we can solve, or an ongoing polarity/dilemma that must be managed. Johnson (1998) suggests two questions for determining whether an issue is a problem or polarity: 1. Is the issue an ongoing challenge? 2. Is...
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...THE POWER LINE POLES If you were in the position of Gordon Yarrow how would you deal with the bid exceptions requested? If I was Mr. Yarrow, I would request Henry Nelson Co. that several pre-award meetings are held to discuss the exceptions made with the goal of setting final agreements on these exceptions prior contracting the services. I would also make sure that these discussions are recorded as minutes of the meetings so that the document(s) can become an integral part of Henry Nelson’s quote and eventually included in the contract agreement. With regards to each of the exceptions requested (Exhibit 2), my comments are: • Exception 1: To handle this exception, Moren should request Henry Nelson and for that matter all bidders, to include in their quote a Jobsite delivery. Although most of the companies in the US are more familiar with the UCC transportation terms, Moren should request that the latest version of Incoterms (developed by the ICC) should be used as the applicable transportation terms of the contract. By enforcing the use of Incoterms, Moren may even specify that the quoted terms should be DDP-Jobsite which would indicate Henry Nelson and all other bidders that the supplier “must” carry the responsibility and risk of delivering the equipment to the jobsite by the requested date. With this in mind, Henry Nelson and other bidders should include as part of their cost estimate the costs for using DDP-Jobsite delivery terms. This way, the sales price to Moren is...
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...Executive Summary To: John Carter, Vice President of Supply From: Gordon Yarrow, Supervisor of Materials Purchasing Subject: Pole Manufacture Issue: As you know it is my responsibility to recommend viable suppliers to manufacture the new tubular poles to a functional engineering design. With help from the consulting engineering group functional specifications for the poles, cross arms, and hardware had been furnished. We considered various other options to conclude this assignment, as follows: * Issuing RFQ’s to potential suppliers * Hiring an external consultant * Continue to use current supplier Although these were viable, we feel that the RFQ process will provide the best strategic solution for Moren, while also achieving a much better long-term solution. I look forward to receiving your approval of this recommendation, so that it can proceed immediately. Respectfully, Gordon Yarrow, Supervisor of Materials Purchasing Situational Analysis: Item | So What ? | Timeline: With a 3 year timeline for the project choosing viable supplier is of upmost importance | Deciding to start with half the project first allows Moren to assess the project | Exceptions: This is something that Moren needs to consider should any problems arise during the project | This will help to maintain that the project stays on time and does not encounter any project creep as well determine if the exceptions should or shouldn’t be accepted | Suppliers: Awarding...
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...Introduction Communication styles and business norms vary from country to country. When a company tries to globalize their business and break into a foreign market, the firm must take many precautions in order to adhere to the country’s many social and cultural rules. In order to succeed in any foreign industry, extensive research is required, possibly in the form of an ethnographic study. Biznes (Business) Consulting will give a presentation to the board of a Canadian construction company who is considering expansion into the Polish market. The report is designed to give the Canadian construction company a detailed assessment of the differing communication styles and business norms in Poland compared to those in the Canadian market. To begin this assessment of the Polish communication styles and examination of working norms, Biznes Consulting group will analyze how to conduct a business meeting in Poland. This will include the basic “do’s and don’ts”, business etiquette, time frames and dress or attire. Next a complete external and internal analysis will be presented. A STEEP analysis will be studied and human resource management for Poland will be discussed in detail. Following the external and internal analyses, an interpretation of the cultural norms in Canada vs Poland will be examined in the form of a cultural comparison. The cultural comparison is significant in determining family closeness, trust issues, motivation behind employees, issues related to leadership...
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...Polish MP, lives as a migrant in London on £100 a week in an attempt to see why so many Poles prefer Britain to their homeland A Polish MP is living as a migrant in London, looking for a job and a flat and surviving on £100 a week in an attempt to see why so many Poles prefer Britain to their homeland. Following in the footsteps of hundreds of thousands of his compatriots, Artur Debski arrived at the weekend on a low-cost airline, with only a vague offer of a roof over his head “from a Serbian girl in Newham” he met via Facebook. Mr Debski told The Telegraph before leaving home: “I don’t know what I’m going to do there. I’m 45 years old and my English isn’t great. I’ll have to work with my hands, in a kitchen, perhaps, or in a shop.” He aims to find out what attracts so many Poles to Britain despite the fact that their country has one of the EU’s most successful economies. Since the central European country joined the EU in 2004, more than a million Polish nationals are thought to have moved to Britain. Around 70 per cent of younger members of the population consider emigrating, surveys suggest. “It’s dangerous for Poland that so many of our young people are thinking about leaving,” said Mr Debski, an MP from Your Movement, a liberal opposition party. “I want to see why the systems in Britain are working and why they’re not in Poland. I want to see why people in Britain are happy and we Poles are not. “We need to tell Poland and our government what works in the UK, and bring...
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...Polarity Management What are Polarities? Polarities can be seen as competing pairs that function best when each are presented to balance with each other. By definition a “problem” is an issue which requires a solution. The goal of a problem is to find a fix to the current situation and move forward to a new reality without being required to ever look back. However, a “polarity” is an issue that needs to be addressed, but the “solution” is not one that can survive independently and will actually still require support from the original issue (Welp, M., 2009). What is Polarity Management? Polarity management involves moving from focusing on one pole as the problem and the other as the solution (either/or thinking), to valuing both poles (both/and thinking). Good polarity management gets the best of both poles while avoiding the limits of either (Welp, M., 2009). In short, polarities are ongoing dilemmas in which opposite points of view are interdependent of each other. Some common Polarities are: ● Individual and Team ● Autocratic and participatory ● Planning and action ● Centralized and Decentralized ● Stability and Change ● Cost and quality ● Task and Process ● Long term and short term According to the polarity management website, Polarity Management allows leaders and organizations to identify interdependent pairs and plan for using the best of both, while avoiding their downsides. The question, for example, is NOT whether...
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...Polarity Management: Autocratic vs. Participatory Management You’ve heard the term polar opposites it is used to describe objects, situations, or even people that are very different. North and South poles; yin and yang, dark and light are just a few of the hundreds of phrases used to illustrate polar opposites and their distinct differences. The term polar opposites are often used to brand or categorize things we like or good things versus things we don’t like or bad things. Polarities are persistent issues that are inevitable and unsolvable. The issues or conflicts seem very diverse, but operate at the same time. Sometimes a manager will experience a “damned if I do, damned if I don’t feeling, that is when you have a polarity. Polarity management has been around since early 1975 and continues to be a challenge to companies today. Polarities consist of two interdependent opposites that have two or more answers (Johnson, 1998). Polarities are two issues or conflicts on two far reaching ends of the spectrum, which have no reasonable solution. Each spectrum or pole has advantages as well as disadvantages (Noll, 2002). It is very important to recognize instances of polarity in management situations. If one pole is underlined or a solution is developed it leaves the other pole unresolved thus starting a vicious cycle. The value in comprehending polarities is the understanding they cannot be solved, but only be managed (Noll, 2002). Once this key element is realized it becomes...
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...Narration Around 2 a.m. something woke Charles Hanson up. He lay in the dark listening. Something felt wrong. Outside, crickets sang, tree-frogs chirruped. Across the distant forest floated two muffled hoots from a barred owl. It was too quiet. At home in New Jersey, the nights are filled with the busy, comforting sounds of traffic. You always have the comforting knowledge that other people are all around you. And light: At home he can read in bed by the glow of the streetlight. It was too quiet. And much too dark. Even starlight failed to penetrate the 80-foot canopy of trees the camper was parked beneath. It was the darkest dark he had ever seen. He felt for the flashlight beside his bunk. It was gone. He found where his pants were hanging and, as he felt the pockets for a box of matches, something rustled in the leaves right outside the window, inches from his face. He heard his wife, Wanda, hold her breath; she was awake, too. Then, whatever, was outside in the darkness also breathed, and the huge silence of the night seemed to come inside the camper, stifling them. It was then he decided to pack up and move to a motel. Comments on narration: • Normally chronological (though sometimes uses flashbacks) • A sequential presentation of the events that add up to a story. • A narrative differs from a mere listing of events. Narration usually contains characters, a setting, a conflict, and a resolution. Time and place and person...
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...The Republic of Poland Communication Styles Biznes Consulting report on the communication norms in Poland for a Canadian construction company contemplating entering the foreign industry. 2009 Biznes Consulting 12/1/2009 The Republic of Poland Communication Styles Biznes Consulting report on the communication norms in Poland for a Canadian construction company contemplating entering the foreign industry. 2009 Biznes Consulting 12/1/2009 Introduction Communication styles and business norms vary from country to country. When a company tries to globalize their business and break into a foreign market, the firm must take many precautions in order to adhere to the country’s many social and cultural rules. In order to succeed in any foreign industry, extensive research is required, possibly in the form of an ethnographic study. Biznes (Business) Consulting will give a presentation to the board of a Canadian construction company who is considering expansion into the Polish market. The report is designed to give the Canadian construction company a detailed assessment of the differing communication styles and business norms in Poland compared to those in the Canadian market. To begin this assessment of the Polish communication styles and examination of working norms, Biznes Consulting group will analyze how to conduct a business meeting in...
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...Some Applications of the Residue Theorem∗ Supplementary Lecture Notes MATH 322, Complex Analysis Winter 2005 Pawel Hitczenko Department of Mathematics Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. email: phitczenko@math.drexel.edu ∗I would like to thank Frederick Akalin for pointing out a couple of typos. 1 1 Introduction These notes supplement a freely downloadable book Complex Analysis by George Cain (henceforth referred to as Cain’s notes), that I served as a primary text for an undergraduate level course in complex analysis. Throughout these notes I will make occasional references to results stated in these notes. The aim of my notes is to provide a few examples of applications of the residue theorem. The main goal is to illustrate how this theorem can be used to evaluate various types of integrals of real valued functions of real variable. Following Sec. 10.1 of Cain’s notes, let us recall that if C is a simple, closed contour and f is analytic within the region bounded by C except for finitely many points z0 , z1 , . . . , zk then k f (z)dz = 2πi C j=0 Resz=zj f (z), where Resz=a f (z) is the residue of f at a. 2 2.1 Evaluation of Real-Valued Integrals. Definite integrals involving trigonometric functions 2π We begin by briefly discussing integrals of the form F (sin at, cos bt)dt. 0 (1) Our method is easily adaptable for integrals over a different range, for example between 0 and π or between ±π. Given the form of an integrand...
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...say. Believe it or not, though, it wasn’t always like that. In the essay “Time and Distance Overcome” (2008) Eula Biss tells the story of how the phone initially struggled in America, but finally succeeded and become a normal thing in every household. She uses ethos in the first paragraph by showing that she knows history and what went on at the time. This increases her credibility. She then quickly moves on to logos, as she, in the second paragraph, tries to argue as to why the telephone as a concept at the time would have seemed completely ridiculous. As she writes: “The idea on which the telephone depended - the idea that every home in the country could be connected with a vast network of wires suspended from poles set an average of one hundred feet apart - seemed far more unlikely than the idea that the human voice could be transmitted through wire”. She quickly tries to establish her pathos: “Even now it is an impossible idea, that we are all connected, all of us”. By using the phrase “all of us” she makes the reader feel more comfortable and involved, which in turn makes the reader more interested in the text. The structure of the text is coherent, and the theme is presented early on (that the world was not waiting for the telephone). The sentences are a mix of long and short ones, and complex, paratactic and hypotactic sentences are mixed all together. The language is mostly colloquial, with some adjectives and adverbs. There are no sound effects like examples...
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...Last Month Priorities: * To launch Tipper mini filter in the market. * To fabricate & install 10 arches of Tipper mini filter in the market. * To fabricate & install 240 DB of Tipper in the market. * To complete shop painting of Super cup in the Cuttack market. * To start up shop painting of Super Cup in the rest of the pipeline market. YTD ON SHOP STATUS-2012-13 | BRAND | AREA | DISCRIPTION OF WORK | Tgt. For the year (OB+ Additional) | TGT-FOR -JULY-12 | JULY-12-Ach | YTD ACH | REMARKS | FSFB | ORISSA | DB FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION | | | | | | FSFB | ORISSA | GS FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION | | | | | | FSFB | ORISSA | ACP CUSTOMIZATION | | | | | | FSFB | ORISSA | DURGA PUJA ARCHES | | | | | | FSFB | ORISSA | NEW IDENTITY COUNTERS | | | | | | FSFB | ORISSA | NEW IDENTITY BACK WALL | | | | | | FSFB | ORISSA | NEW IDENTITY TRANSLITE | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | | 10 | 10 | FSFB, RW AND CAV | ORISSA | JOINT VISIBILITY RACK | | | | | | FSFB | ORISSA | GS CHANGEOVER | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | | FSFB | ORISSA | BRAND SHOP | | | | | | FSFB | ORISSA | SEMI BRAND SHOP CONVERSION | | | | | | RWFLAKE SPL | ORISSA | SEMI BRAND SHOP FABRICATION | | | | | | RWFLAKE SPL | ORISSA | DB FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION | | | | | | RWFLAKE SPL | ORISSA | GS CHANGEOVER | | | | | | RWFLAKE SPL | ORISSA | GS FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION | | | | | | RWFLAKE SPL | ORISSA...
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...need in your life are the ones who prove they need you in theirs.” I admit I have trust issues. I don’t want to get out of my comfort zone. And I do not have many friends, because I know I don’t need a lot of humans in my life to make everything better. I am very specific about friends and foes. I label them. I may have told you two silly secrets but that doesn’t mean I trust you. I tell you that I like your shirt, but that doesn’t mean I like you as a person. Rarely do I let people into my life. But here’s the story: I woke up one day and I felt so sure that I wanted him in my life that I would like to keep him there, to add him to my list of exceptions. For him, I will move mountains. I will travel from the North Pole to the South Pole just to see his face first thing in the morning. He came into my life and, cheesy as it may sound, I was blown away. He is interested in the things I love. I would complain about life’s little unimportant things and he would argue with me, but I like it :). I like it when we debate and then laugh over the silliest things after. I am in love with the world because of him. Of, how great he is! I want to have this man for my own. Unfortunately, I can’t. Because somewhere out there, DOTA misses him :D We have been together for almost a year now, pretending to exist as normal lovers. Today, we are holding on. But the time will come when we will have to let go. I have to. He has to. Someday he will be a living...
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