THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION Department of Social Sciences GED 1015 Animal Rights: Science‚ Sentience and Speciesism Semester two‚ 2012/13 Time of lecture: Monday (9:30am to 11:20am) Venue: B4-LP-07 Instructor: Dr. Francis MOK (莫家棟) Email: fktmok@ied.edu.hk Office: D4-1/F-01 I. Course descriptions: In this course‚ we aim at providing students the conceptual tools and resources by which they can investigate and reflect on the relationship between human
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ENG4U February 28‚ 2014 Barriers to Success Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited for having said “do not go where the path may lead‚ go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” This means an individual who creates their own trail‚ will essentially produce their own success. However‚ success is not only a destination‚ success is also a rather difficult journey‚ littered with barriers and obstacles along the way. The obstacles encountered throughout the journey of success are major deterrents
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Communication Barrier between Local and International Student in Malaysia. The increasing number of international student in Malaysia brings many benefits to the country as well to the local students. However‚ there are many problems that faced by these international students in this country. One of them is communication barrier between the local students. Communication barrier always bring difficulty to them when interacting with the local students in the campus. This includes both verbal and non-verbal
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(interpersonal communication) The author’s main purpose for writing the article is to inform the reader the importance of listening: Professional and relationship benefits. The author’s informing us that it is crucial to have listening skills and it can benefit our relationship and professional lives. I have found it to be true that for excellent communication skills‚ listening is a plus. In order to learn and understand other’s one must be able to listen and relate. The author’s‚ tone informs given
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Communication Barriers Stephen Dallas Communication Barriers "So the whole war is because we can’t talk to each other‚" Orson Scott Card. Ineffective communication is a major risk when working in health care. Both speaker and listener need to be in agreement about the message transmitted between each other. There are many factors that influence the way we communicate‚ and the intended message may not be understood. A person’s gender‚ sexual orientation‚ race and ethnicity‚ age‚ culture‚ language
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Eliminating Barriers to Cross-Cultural Communication through Curricular Interventions By David Dankwa-Apawu (Lecturer) Ghana Institute of Journalism P.O. Box GP 667 Accra‚ Ghana +233208704133 +233302228336 dvdankwa@yahoo.co.uk 1 ABSTRACT With the world fast becoming a global village‚ communicating across cultures has become an inevitable reality. On one hand‚ cross-cultural communication or intercultural communication presents a fine opportunity to foster global peace and prosperity
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part to present.It held in our own class.We were altogether 7 people including Dr. Isobel. All were ready to present.My turn was last.I was just waiting my turn.I was focusing on other presentation because if my preparation is wrong or right.After listening some of them I think it is OK. All present very well. After all finished their topic now its turn of me.I got little bit nervous whether i can present well or not.I choose my topic In vetro fertilization‚which is very interesting.I have done definition
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Over the course of the semester I have learned and grown remarkably in my listening and leaderships skills. EDPS 315 has been an extremely beneficial course over the semester and one of the most important classes that I have taken thus far in my educational career. Going into the course I did not think that it would have made this much of an impact on my life but I have seen myself grown as a person more in this class than any of my other courses. Unlike my other classes that are specifically directed
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Eliminating Barriers within Communities of the United States Healthcare access is the ability for an individual to obtain needed medical services. This is important in order to attain health equity and to increase everyone’s quality of life (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ 2014). Unfortunately‚ many people in the U.S have no health insurance and due to this lack health care access. In 2012 15.4% of Americans lack health insurance (Pear‚ 2013). Among the many without health insurance
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4. BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES Barriers is anything to do with the interference of the message being receive or understood by the other person who is the receiving the message (www.wikipedia.org‚ 27 Mar 2013). Barriers is one of the reason why misunderstanding or communication breakdowns. It’s very important to understand and to be aware of the barriers and of the common barriers in the business world is a cultural barrier. Cultural barriers are “the same category of words
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