Rough Draft for The Shallows Essay In Nicholas Carr’s book‚ “The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing to our Brains‚” he makes the powerful point that in order to assume technology’s power‚ especially intellectual technology‚ we must pay a particularly high price. Carr states this idea in one quote from his book‚ “The price we pay to assume technologies power is alienation. The toll can be particularly high with our intellectual technologies. the tools of the mind amplify and in turn numb the
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Asian Social Science May‚ 2008 Formation of Cultural Competitive Force When Doing Business in China Maohua Sun School of Mathematics and Computer Science‚ Nanjing Normal University Nanjing 210097‚ China Tel: 86-25-8528-2055 E-mail: dongxiaobo@163.com Abstract With the globalization of world business‚ China has become an appealing market for foreign investors. The problem of cross-cultural management arises as the cooperation between China and its culturally different Western partners
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Doing More with Less: A Philosophical View of Dr. Michael Apple La Vonda D. Loney Texas A&M University-Commerce Doing More with Less: A Philosophical View of Dr. Michael Apple “Money does not cure school problems” (Fowler‚ 2009‚ p.71). This sentiment was shared during a speech in 1988 by William Bennett whom served the country as the Secretary of Education under the Reagan Administration. After studying the state of education in the United States‚ he believed that there was no link between
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easily and managers will have to understand and appreciate these cultural oddities’ if they wish to run a successful business. Let us take China and France as examples of two very different countries that may have cross-cultural problems while doing business. First we will give a general overview of the two countries and then discuss some management practices that may vary between these eastern and western cultures. General Overview: France  Geographical location: Western Europe
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DOING THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN A POVERTY AND OPPRESSED CONTEXT: A PHILIPPINE SCENARIO In February 2005‚ the author interviewed 27 theological educators from three different Protestant-Evangelical seminaries in the Philippines regarding the role of theological education in addressing the problem of poverty and oppression. Partial but important conclusions appear in this short article. The first section of this article speaks about the present situation of theological education in
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Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson‚ Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The Eight principles of Doing Business with Collaboration in The Earth. Benefit Uniqueness Strategy Innovation Necessity Execution Success Sustainability By Ralph S. Collymore The Eight Principles of Doing Business with Collaboration.in the Earth By Ralph Collymore Doing business with collaboration in the earth is presented here to be done through using the Word of God as the primary
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The main focus made be by Nicholas Carr in his work‚ What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‚ is that technology has its downfalls. In more detail‚ Carr explains how technology is evolving and how it keeps getting worse. In the article‚ Carr goes into detail how technology specifically affects people when they read. The passage quotes‚ “Now my consideration starts to drift after a page or two. I get fidgety‚ lose thread‚ begin looking for something else to do” (Carr para. 2) Carr is referring to
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Name : Theresia Theodora Bengan Ola Student #. : 101214140 Doing Teleclass is The Most Practical Way of Teaching and Learning Process In this modern era we know some terms which are quiet popular in education circle. They are traditional classroom and non-traditional classroom. Traditional classroom here is when teacher is directly teaching his or her students by facing face while non-traditional classroom is the opposite. In the non-traditional classroom‚ teachers can indirectly face their
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Internet; Beneficial or Detrimental? The general argument made by Nicholas Carr in his work‚ “From The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‚” is that technology is dangerous to the brain‚ conditioning the body that they need more technology‚ and less of anything else. More Specifically‚ Carr states that‚ “I used to find it easy to immerse myself in a book or a lengthy article...Now my consideration starts to drift after a page or two” (Carr par. 2). In this passage‚ Carr is suggesting
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Phạm Thị Xuân HươngStudent Code: 12CD660221 Advantages of learning English Instruction The English is one of the most widely spoken language in the world. For a long time‚ English has been considered a foreign language in Vietnam. It has been taught not only in large cities but also in rural areas. So why is English taught and why do we have to learn it? It isn’t only a subject at school. It is a language and has many advantages in many field such as business‚ employment opportunities‚ travel
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