Cosmopolitans and locals "If there were only locals in the world‚ world culture would be no more than the sum of its separate parts". Hannerz 1990:249 Ulf Hannerz (1990) argues that the world culture is created through the increasing interconnectedness of varied local cultures where people connect in different ways. He uses Robert Merton’s cosmopolitan-local distinctions in a global context‚ to describe how people identify themselves with the global or not. The term `cosmopolitan’ is often used
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Intercultural Contact Essay Introduction I have chosen the movie “Crash” seen in class as the subject of my intercultural contact essay (Haggis‚ 2004). Following a brief summary of movie‚ I will discuss the terms learned from intercultural communication course at George Mason University and apply them to various scenes in the movie‚ highlighting the cultural insensitivity characters portray towards members within their ethnic community and those who come from a different ethnic background. Brief
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technologies through the internet and computers. Just a few decades ago‚ people would have never thought that an international business meeting would be as simple as few clicks of a mouse and a video-call. Now‚ international trading‚ as well as many other tasks‚ is becoming a reality. However‚ the only thing that might restrain a deal between a start-up American business and a possible Chinese investor is an acute language barrier. To keep the machine that is the global market well-oiled and functioning
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Ch.1 1. John‚ who has just completed his first finance course‚ is unsure whether he should take a course in business analysis and valuation using financial statements since he believes that financial analysis adds little value‚ given the efficiency of capital markets. Explain to John when financial analysis can add value‚ even if capital markets are efficient. The efficient market hypothesis states that security prices reflect all available information‚ as if such information could be costlessly
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: IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies case study report Should Business Move to the cloud? 1. What business benefits do cloud computing services provide? What problems do they solve? A: The tiny internet start-up companies and smaller companies are benefited do cloud computing‚ due to tight budgets have prevented many enterprises from making IT investments‚ such as new hardware or the latest version of business-critical software. The cloud computing has become a way for enterprises
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radioactive. Everyone around the world will have their own opinion about the bombing on Hiroshima especially between the American’s and Japanese. I believe someone’s opinion makes an importance based off the generation he or she is from because American’s might’ve agreed to the bombing when it occurred because it was their generation when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese so it was a form of deadlier retaliation because their people such as loved ones were victims. Therefore
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LOCAL LITERATURE Chazper San Miguel mentioned in his article entitled “Internet café Tips for Investors in the Philippines”‚ that: “Every internet café must realize that it is better to compete with your competitors by improving one’s services‚ computers‚ environment etc… rather than lowering your rental fee because that will only result in price war wherein everybody loses”. (2006) The proper attitude that each i-cafe must have that one must compete wisely‚ see the bigger picture that will
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In 1886‚ Papaya was changed into ’Muñoz’ to honor Don Francisco Muñoz‚ the province’s alcalde mayor‚ and the community’s first appointed gobernadorcillo. Muñoz was annexed as a barrio of San Juan de Guimba municipality. Settlers trickled in from Bulacan and the Ilocos Region. In 1911‚ Factoria (now San Isidro town)‚ the provincial capital‚ was totally flooded. Muñoz was then considered a possible new capital of the province. At about the same time‚ the people of Barrios Muñoz and San Antonio
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LESSONS LEARNT The study of history and the eventual collapse of Lehman Brothers‚ will help us learn some mistakes made by Lehman Brothers. This might enable us to be very keen in future. We should be watchful not to repeat because it may lead to other problems such as global crisis. If we are keen we might understand that this was the largest failure of an investment bank since Drixel Burnham Lambert collapsed amid fraud allegations 18 years pror. Managerial oversight and accountability Claims
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Essay #2 Arts of the Contact Zone During a recent English Literature class we were asked to read and learn about the Arts of the Contact Zone by Mary Louise Pratt. This essay opened up a whole new concept for me. The new term “Contact Zone” appeared and Pratt defined it as “social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power‚ such as colonialism‚ slavery‚ or the aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the
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