Background The role of English in Thailand is very important as it is in many other developing countries. New technology and the adoption of the internet have resulted in a major transition in terms of business‚ education‚ science‚ and technological progress‚ all of which demand high proficiency in English. With the economic downturn in Thailand recently‚ a large number of Thai companies have embraced cooperation regionally and internationally. Mergers‚ associations‚ and takeovers are common
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Samira Lendenmann The Cuban Missile Crisis 1. What did Castro do that so upset the Americans? The Americans felt that Castro was a communist due to his belief in social justice in a well planned economy and his reforms which included the nationalization of US economic interest. 2. Why were they so convinced he was a communist? The USA saw every leader which had a strong belief in socialism and the rights of the people‚ as well as having visionaries of nationalism as a
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AIM: TO FIND OUT THE RELATION BETWEEN THE GROWTH RATE OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY A ND SUSTAINED SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT INTRODUCTION: No upper limit can be fixed for the growth rate of a country. An upper limit can be thought of only in the sense that depending upon the availability of resources and other determinants of economic growth at a point of time a country cannot manage to grow faster than a certain rate. But there can be a lower limit of rate of growth. If the growth rate of GDP is below
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Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Threat of New Entry There are many companies manufacturing and selling office products at an international level. New entrants can find it easy to enter and establish their position in the market by basing their strategy on low cost. The market offers growth opportunities to new entrants as well indicating low entry barriers for the firms wanting to enter into the area of office products. Therefore it can be stated that Staples Inc is operating in an industry where
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was an outstanding clash of the goals and ideals of three leaders; Kennedy of the United States‚ Khrushchev of the USSR‚ and Castro of Cuba. Both the U.S. and the USSR the most powerful coutnries in the world with very differing governmental beliefs that caused both nations "to construe the other as inevitably hostile and‚ indeed‚ evil. (p. 7) Cuba‚ a country that had entirely adapted communist beliefs once under the rule of Castro‚ served as a major ’front’ in the Cold War
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is stagnant‚ non-improving condition of their economy. Did Japan learn anything from the previous lost decade‚ or did the steps taken to avoid another lost decade were too weak? What was the problem? We will try to look into the situation of both crisis and highlight some major problems that contributed to this economic downturn. During 1990s the major opinion claimed that the recession was caused by the crash of aggregate demand associated with land and stock price. The government took a series
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Jimmy Carter and the Iranian Hostage Crisis Since 1908‚ the United States have repositioned their foreign interests towards the Middle East for the abundance of Petroleum within the region. Attracting the west‚ Britain and the United States have maintained a dominating role in Iran for their rich supply of oil. In 1953‚ Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized the Iranian oil fields. The United States responded by implementing a coup d’état in Iran‚ overthrowing Mossadegh‚ and placing “Shah”
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International market segmentation is the dividing of market into segments‚ this allow marketers to effectively determine whether business can thrive in a particular area. Segmentation is based on four factor namely geographical‚ psychographic‚ demographic and lastly behavioral segmentation. Geographical segmentation refers to grouping markets geographically such as nations‚ states or cities. Psychographic segmentation is the dividing of buyers into groups based on lifestyle or social class/status
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Azham Md. Ali Due to the outbreak of financial scandals involving Bursa Malaysia listed companies Transmile and Megan Media‚ it may be argued that 2007 was a “challenging” year for the auditing profession in Malaysia. The “ripple” effect of the scandals caused turbulence in the auditing industry which spilled over to 2008 when the auditing profession was once again in the limelight‚ in the case of Oilcorp Berhad. he negative publicity connected with these financial scandals could very easily damage
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The Cuban missile crisis was a defining event of the Cold War‚ and the study and analysis of how it was managed and resolved quickly became a staple of graduate courses dealing with American diplomacy. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy has been credited with a preponderant voice among the President’s advisers in devising a solution to the crisis that avoided war with the USSR; but this essay‚ drawing on meeting transcripts and other contemporary documentation‚ argues that his role was more nuanced
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