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    Managing Across Borders

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    References: Austen‚ I. and Bajaj‚ V.‚ 2006‚ 25th March.‚“A Continental Shift‚” New York Times‚ Available at http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/31/technology/mehta_alcatel.fortune/ (Accessed 21st January 2011) Business Monitor International‚ 2010 December‚ “Alcatel-Lucent slowly raising profile in Africa and middle

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    Living With Strangers

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    Living With Strangers There are many different societies and cultures in the world and they all have different unspoken rules and routines. There are things that are acceptable in one culture and not in another. In “Living With Strangers” an essay written by Siri Hustvedt in 2002‚ Siri explains some of these untold rules. Siri describes how she used to live in Minnesota and how much contact people made with each other in Minnesota‚ in contrast to New York. She talks about how the people from Minnesota

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    Actually there are lots of differences between living in countryside and living in a city. Sometimes certain differences between them can be a medicine to those people who are fed up from the daily routines of city life‚ therefore looking for a little retreat and shelter. Minor locales house people rather quite and naive than trying to catch up -who often fail- with the unimaginable rapidity of the metropolises and getting behind the time. People living in cities deal with such lush‚ distant‚ but sometimes

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    MAKING A LIVING Anthropology: Chapter 16 Cultural Anthropology: Chapter 8 Physical Anthropology and Archaeology: Not Present CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Know what an adaptive strategy is. In addition you should know how Cohen uses adaptive strategies to classify different societies. 2. Understand what foraging entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in foraging societies. 3. Understand what horticulture entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly

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    Literary Standards

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    There are generally considered to be seven standards a piece of literature should abide to in order to be considered ’literary’. If a piece of writing is considered ’literary’ this usually suggests that it is a scholarly article or classical writing that is extremely well written and is very informative. Literary writing can be intellectual and contain a lot of cleverly hidden meanings which ensure the writing can be enjoyed and studied on many different levels and often still enjoyed many years

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    Standards of Beauty: A Look at How Conformity Establishes Identity How do you define beauty? Is it something that is acquired? Or is it a privilege that is bestowed on certain individuals? The society within The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ establishes a certain standard to which its members must conform to. This conformity is also present in Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style. His novel serves as a reflection of today’s society with the presence of mass media and their guidelines

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    Living with Strangers

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    Engelsk A - 2. Delprøve Text B: Living With Strangers In the essay living With strangers‚ written by Siri Hustvedt in 2002‚ she speaks of her experience of moving from the small town in Minnesota to the big New York City. All cultures and societies have unspoken rules and etiquettes that an outsider simply will not understand. It’s this observation that has inspired author Siri Husvedt to write her essay. Living With Strangers does not follow a chronological style‚ it’s switches between different

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    The Slave Across the Street Introduction The Slave Across the Street‚ written by Theresa Flores and published by Ampelon Publishing in 2010‚ tells the story of the authors struggles as young trafficking victim in her suburban town. The title of the book connotes a close proximity between a possible slave and the reader; and in fact the story demonstrates how close anyone can be to a victim of trafficking—even in place everyone would consider safe. The table of connects effectively breaks down

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    Explain why GDP is not a perfect measure of economic well being of a nation. By definition the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is a measure of the income and expenditures of an economy. Also‚ it can be defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. Base on GDP definition and base on many economist points of view regarding to the definition of well being. I understand that GDP is not a perfect measure of economic well being

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    Standard deviation can be difficult to interpret as a single number on its own. Basically‚ a small standard deviation means that the values in a statistical data set are close to the mean of the data set‚ on average‚ and a large standard deviation means that the values in the data set are farther away from the mean‚ on average. The standard deviation measures how concentrated the data are around the mean; the more concentrated‚ the smaller the standard deviation. A small standard deviation can

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