The Role of Translators-Interpreters in Contemporary Society in the US and in Europe: Luxury or Necessity? Dr. Eduardo González University of Nebraska at Kearney Judging by appearances, the US has everything it needs in terms of meeting present-day requirements for language services in all spheres of modern life. There are immigrants from everywhere, millions of bilingual or polyglot people, excellent universities and colleges and so forth. However, the results as to having qualified translators
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3904251 Executive Summary: This report was developing to open wholly owned subsidiary in Vietnam. To provide a complete analysis to make sure information, this report will explore the summary of the business environment as the economy, legal systems, and cultural issues, as well as the government of Vietnam. This report aims to present to the board of the new business environment, and provide robust justification of how appropriate it in Vietnam, and the evidence to support Vietnam's decision
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parental influence on adolescent academic achievement in American and Asian societies (Taiwan, China, & Japan) A lot of attention has been paid to the roles parents play in influencing adolescent academic achievement. The purpose of this project is to compare differences in parental influence on adolescent academic achievement between American and Asian societies. The Asian countries focus on Taiwan, China, and Japan. The project also offers some explanations for why Asian adolescent students outdistance
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CAVUMC05_124-157hr 10/10/07 1:41 PM Page 124 c h a p t e r 5 The Cultural Environment of International Business Learning Objectives In this chapter, you will learn about: 1. The challenge of crossing cultural boundaries 2. The meaning of culture: foundation concepts 3. Why culture matters in international business 4. National, professional, and corporate culture 5. Interpretations of culture 6. Key dimensions of culture 7. Language as a key dimension of culture 8. Culture and
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South Carolina Social Studies Academic Standards Mick Zais, Ph.D. State Superintendent of Education South Carolina Department of Education Columbia, South Carolina State Board Approved Document – August 18, 2011 Contents Acknowledgments.......................................................................................................................... iii Introduction ...................................................................................................................
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tradition and very slow to change its views, it will take a savvy, experienced investor with a team of managers willing to take on the task of creating a successful partnership with a country whose past has been riveted with corruption and a caste system that tends to hold its citizens back from improvement. A Multi National Corporation (MNC), with the right resources, will be able to benefit from the positive attributes of the developing country while at the same time contributing to the reduction
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leaders and government are promoting lifelong learning and retraining to increase older workforce employability. 2 The workers of today are better educated. What is the implication of this trend for the human resource manager in a company? Better education has led to an occupational shift in the workforce. The number of people in the higher occupation groups has increased over the last decade. This resulted in an increase in occupation types for professional and manager while a decrease in occupation
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Quick Study 1 1. Q: Define culture. How does ethnocentricity distort one’s view of other cultures? ANSWER: Culture is a set of values, beliefs, rules, and institutions held by a specific group of people. Ethnocentricity distorts one’s view of other cultures by believing that one’s own culture is superior to the culture of others, tending to make people to neglect important cultural differences. 2. Q: What is cultural literacy? Why should businesspeople understand other cultures
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ideas. The basic theme of the book is that what matters most in why some nations fail – and others succeed, for the book is as much about success as failure – are not – as earlier authors have argued - economic policies, geography, culture, or value systems – but rather institutions, more precisely the political institutions that determine economic institutions. Acemoglu and Robinson theorize that political institutions can be divided into two kinds - “extractive” institutions in which a “small” group
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roles (changing or static?) B. Education 1. The role of education in society a. Primary education (quality, levels of development, etc.)- High quality, mostly all public b. Secondary education (quality, levels of development, etc.)- High quality, students tend to start going to private c. Higher education (quality, levels of development, etc.)- High quality, students mostly attend private university 2. Literacy rates- 99%: Men=99.9% Women=99.7% C. Political system 1. Political structure- Constitutional
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