By Frederik Balfour Guanxi. It’s the first word any businessperson learns upon arriving in China. Loosely translated‚ guanxi means "connections" and‚ as any China veteran will tell you‚ it is the key to everything: securing a business license‚ landing a distribution deal‚ even finding that coveted colonial villa in Shanghai. Fortunes have been made and lost based on whether the seeker has good or bad guanxi‚ and in most cases a positive outcome has meant knowing the right government official‚ a relationship
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of people always use five fundamental taste elements when they’re cooking. For Vietnamese people‚ salt is used as the connection between the worlds of the living and the dead. Cooking and eating play an extremely important role in Vietnamese culture. The word ăn (eat) is included in a great number of proverbs and has a large range of semantic extensions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_cuisine#Cultural_importance Vietnamese cuisine is reflective of the Vietnamese lifestyle from the
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Com/155 Week 2 DQ’s DQ 1 For this Discussion Question‚ you must have completed your non-graded activities before completing this DQ. Please answer using at least 150 words‚ multiple paragraphs‚ and correct sentence structure‚ spelling‚ and capitalization: This week‚ we discussed verb usage by focusing on subject–verb agreement and verb tenses. Based on the grammar apply section of MyWritingLab‚ what lessons have you learned that will change the way you write in the future? DQ 2
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Foreign Destination Research Project Laura Telutki HTT/200 February 9‚ 2014 Ed Gaeraths Foreign Destination Research Project When I was a young girl‚ I fantasized about becoming a stewardess so that I could travel the world and visit exotic places. Unfortunately‚ in order to be a stewardess‚ one of the many qualifications years ago‚ was that you had to be at least 5’8” tall and I was only 5’5”. My dream of becoming a stewardess was shattered; however‚ it did not stop me from wanting to travel
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Personal Responsibility GEN/200 26 July‚ 2013 Personal Responsibility Heading back to school after all these years‚ I found myself reflecting on the many attempts through the years to finally finish a degree. Day Personal responsibility is an essential element in every aspect of one’s life. What exactly does personal responsibility mean; the answer is most likely different for everyone. Chuck Gallozzi may have summed it up best when he stated‚ “Responsibility
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teaching‚ we are not only taught the Mother Tongue but also we are taught the culture of that nation. Cultural and language are closely related‚ inseparable. Language is a mean of culture transportation and culture contained in language. It has been said and written that language is the crystallization of national culture‚ through language and texts‚ culture values are handed down. In the future‚ thanks to language‚ culture will have chances to have development. The transformation and development of
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DBF 107 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I PUAN HASLINA BT HASSAN GROUP ASSIGNMENT NAME MATRIC NO 1. Faris Aina Nabila Ismail 142013108 2. Nurul Aisha Niaz Ali Abdullah 142012913 3. Nur Adriana Amran 142013284 4. Nur Azlina Isam 142012902 5. Hemalatha A/P Vasu 142012834 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Introduction CHAPTER 2 Company Background CHAPTER 3 Annual Report CHAPTER 4 Assumptions CHAPTER 5 Conclusion
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This file of COM 340 Week 5 Final Paper comprises: Planning Proposal Outline Communications - General Communications Focus of the Final Paper This paper should be an objective evaluation of a situation or a problem you or someone you know has experienced here at the University or a suggestion for a change to a university process or a procedure that could improve a service the university provides to its students. You will be required to do some research to complete this paper
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Positive Effects of Culture Shock Positive Effects of Culture Shock Thesis Statement: There are many positive effects of culture shock‚ such as meeting new people‚ knowing about personality and increasing the knowledge. Body: 1. Meeting new people a. Public places b. Help to know about new country and culture 2. Knowing about personality a. Be independent b. Own abilities 3. Increasing the knowledge a. New culture‚ history b. Second language
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Juveniles and Crimes Brandi Haney CJS/200 Sean Wallace March 3‚ 2013 Juveniles and Crimes Information Juveniles commit a lot of crimes and much of it is because of influences and or surrounded lifestyles. Majority of the crimes committed by juveniles are violent crimes but the main ones involve drug abuse and simple assault. Juveniles account for 17 percent of all arrest according to the FBI and 15 percent of those arrest were due to violent crimes. ( Juvenile Crime‚ 2001 2003) Overall
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