PART A- INTRODUCTION Sheraton is Starwood’s ’flagship’ brand‚ providing luxury hotel and resort accommodation. The origins of Sheraton date back to 1937 when the company’s founders‚ Ernest Henderson and Robert Moore‚ acquired their first hotel in Springfield‚ Massachusetts. Sheraton is Part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide‚ Inc. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide‚ Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with 1‚169 properties in nearly 100 countries and 171
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1 Three Waves of Variation Study: The emergence of meaning in the study of variation Penelope Eckert Stanford University Abstract The treatment of social meaning in variation has come in three waves of analytic practice. The first wave of variation studies established broad correlations between linguistic variables and the macro-sociological categories of socioeconomic class‚ sex class‚ ethnicity and age. The second wave employed ethnographic methods to explore the local categories and configurations
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Becoming Interculturally Competent through Education and Training LANGUAGES FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION Series Editors: Michael Byram‚ University of Durham‚ UK and Alison Phipps‚ University of Glasgow‚ UK The overall aim of this series is to publish books which will ultimately inform learning and teaching‚ but whose primary focus is on the analysis of intercultural relationships‚ whether in textual form or in people’s experience. There will also be books which deal directly
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Political Thinking POL200Y1 September-17-2008 Thucydides as historian and theorist Athens and Sparta were the superpower of Greece Athens and Sparta led victory for Greece against Persian Athens are sea power and Sparta is on land After that Athens began to take power/empire over Greece He didn’t record exactly what happened but recreated them - moments He included his large/general judgements about human nature About human nature Democracy as a form of political regime
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| | ⅜ Articles The Realist Tradition in American Public Opinion Daniel W. Drezner For more than half a century‚ realist scholars of international relations have maintained that their world view is inimical to the American public. For a variety of reasons—inchoate attitudes‚ national history‚ American exceptionalism—realists assert that the U.S. government pursues realist policies in spite and not because of public opinion. Indeed‚ most IR scholars share this “anti-realist assumption
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Journal of Consumer Research‚ Inc. Moral Habitus and Status Negotiation in a Marginalized Working-Class Neighborhood Author(s): Bige Saatcioglu and Julie L. Ozanne Source: Journal of Consumer Research‚ Vol. 40‚ No. 4 (December 2013)‚ pp. 692-710 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/671794 . Accessed: 26/02/2015 00:38 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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1 The Birth of Civilization Mohenjo-Daro Figure. Scholars believe this limestone statue from about 2500 B.C.E. depicts a king or a priest from Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus valley in present-day Pakistan. Does this figure seem to emphasize the features of a particular person or the attributes of a particular role? Hear the Audio for Chapter 1 at www.myhistorylab.com CRAIMC01_xxxii-031hr2.qxp 2/17/11 3:22 PM Page xxxii EARLY HUMANS AND THEIR CULTURE page 1 WHY IS “culture” considered a defining
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Desiring Transportation 1NC A. Transportation infrastructure striates space by channeling mobility through government-approved conduits of desire. This excludes minorities from the planning process and allows for the segregation of entire communities in the name of efficiency. Cresswell 2012 (Tim‚ Department of Geography Royal Holloway‚ University of London‚ “Constellations of Mobility‚” www.dtesis.univr.it/documenti/Avviso/all/all181066.pdf.) Mobility is channelled. It moves along routes
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KOREAN FANCY: CONSUMER DESIRES‚ NATIONAL IDENTITY‚ AND CULTURAL CIRCULATION IN MILLENNIAL BHUTAN Draft—not for circulation‚ duplication‚ or citation I. INTRODUCTION Bhutan is a small country located on the southern slopes of the Himalayan mountain range between the very large countries of China (more specifically‚ its Tibet Autonomous Region) and India. It enjoys a certain amount of celebrity in the world’s press as a polity based on "Gross National Happiness" (GNH)‚ as an exclusive
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New Product Diffusion Models in Marketing: A Review and Directions for Research Author(s): Vijay Mahajan‚ Eitan Muller‚ Frank M. Bass Source: The Journal of Marketing‚ Vol. 54‚ No. 1 (Jan.‚ 1990)‚ pp. 1-26 Published by: American Marketing Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1252170 . Accessed: 15/02/2011 01:06 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR
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