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    IIR026 DEEP op yo rP os t insight GLOBAL MARKETING tC Tailoring Your Strategy to Fit the Culture Do No W IESEinsight By MARIEKE DE MOOIJ hen a company goes global‚ it often doesn’t realize that its strategy is a product of its own culture. Culture influences every aspect of a company’s strategy‚ whether at the corporate level or the product/ brand level. For this reason‚ companies cannot simply convert a national strategy into a global strategy without first understanding the various

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    article “Jim Jones‚” these members belonged to a cult known as the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones‚ who was responsible for ordering the members to suicide. According to an article “Why Do People Join Cults?” by Adrian Furnham‚ Ph.D.‚ a cult is a group with “powerful and exclusive dedication and devotion to an explicit person or creed‚” with a goal to “reprogramming the way people see the world” (Furnham). In summary‚ a cult‚ as explained in “Cult Influence & Persuasion Tactics” by Kelton Rhoads

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    A couple of years ago‚ I had invited my best friend Jenene‚ to attend an Indian wedding. I thought it might be fun for her to experience the different foods‚ clothing‚ personalities‚ and religious beliefs that were particular to my culture. Later on that evening she had pulled me to the side and told me that the culture that she was raised in was completely different from mine. She was raised in New York all of her life and she had never experienced such a distinct culture. At that time I told

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    Explain how Stalin developed the cult of personality in the 1930s. Stalin became leader of Russia in 1927. He needed to achieve the support of the Russian people and he managed to do this by using his intellect and power. He used propaganda and mass media. He also cleverly rewrote history‚ making it look as if he had a bigger part in the October revolution than he actually did. He also managed to make his relationship with Lenin look much closer than they were. He cunningly told Trotsky the wrong

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    America. About 750‚000 died‚ but one nation was saved. The war was a time for change in many ways. One big change was the way women were a part of the community. Before the war‚ women were to stay at home and be a part of what historians call “the Cult of True Womanhood.” At this time‚ “true women” devoted their lives to cooking‚ cleaning‚ and taking care of the house for their husband and children. As the war began‚ women started drifting away from their domestic jobs‚ started working on the front

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    Priscilla Solis History 108 CRN 25469 A Women’s Journey Despite the growth of industry‚ urban centers‚ and immigration‚ America in the 19th century was still very rural. The “Cult of Domesticity” first named and identified in the early part of the century‚ the beliefs embodied in this “cult” gave women a central role in the family. Women’s god given role‚ it stated was a wife and mother. Pulling against these “beliefs” was the sense of urgency‚ movement‚ and progress in the industrial and political

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    sexual revolution was sweeping the nation and sex was becoming a more permissive topic of discussion. Many movies released around this time‚ capitalized on this and included sexual themes. Blue Velvet is no exception to this. Blue Velvet is a 1986 cult-classic mystery film the title of which coming from a song of the same name. The film follows a college student named Jeffrey who returns home after his father suffers from a stroke. While walking home form visiting his father in the hospital‚ Jeffrey

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    For centuries‚ scholars from different fields attempt to interpret and establish their theories concerning the relationship between the Mystery cults of Late Antiquity and early Christianity. Several scholars appear to unelaborate illustrate the differences and the similarities of those two religious paths‚ while others adhere to either the one or the other side of the coin. One should keep in mind‚ though‚ that all those written theories stand chances of being flawed‚ no matter how influential

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    Students at the Yaba College of Technology this morning shut down the institution to protest a vicious attack on one of the students by an unnamed assailant identified simply as a member of a cult group. The stabbing attack took place last night. learnt that the college’s students began their protests around 10 p.m. on Wednesday.The whole campus erupted with students spilling out to take over every area of the campus in condemnation of the attack‚” one of the students told our correspondent. He

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    can we learn from this article? Primarily this article delves into detail about certain court cases involving high tolerance sects‚ referred to as “cults” and ex-members attempting to sue said cult for various different reasons. The most detailed cases described by the author are of cases in which the plaintiff is accusing the so-called cult of brainwashing the person into joining; seen in cases such as George v. ISKCON (International Society of Krishna Conciousness) as well as Molko and Leal

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