Report on the Cultural Adaptation on the PG Students in Middlesex University Executive Summary: When new students attend university in a new culture from their own culture‚ behaviors and expectations change. According to Zhou at el (2008)‚ traditionally researchers thought that culture shock was only about medical conditions. Historical theory has changed to contemporary theory of acculturation. This theory contains of cultural learning‚ stress and coping and social identification. We found
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Prep schools Prep school or preparation schools. Is a school for young kids‚ down to the age of 7-8 years. It is a school where you send your kids‚ so they get smarter or learn to be independent. There are typical some strict rules about seeing their parents. It is often 3 weeks or longer. It is a private owned school where the students also live‚ but I some cases there are also day students. Private schools are in many occasions‚ for the rich. Because of the low teaching level in state schools
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increased from time to time there is a wide gap between the two sexes. Moreover‚ the dismissal rates of female students are greater than males. The major factors that caused female students to be dismissed from the university include harassment‚ homesickness‚ lack of assertiveness training‚ teachers gender insensitivity‚ absence of special support program‚ poor time management‚ anxiety‚ financial problems lack of proper guidance‚ and counseling service and department placement without interest. BACKGROUND
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Seven years ago I was a member of a group composed of 17 international students for whom English is a second language. The purpose of this group was to improve language proficiency in order to reach specific academic and personal goals. A second purpose was to introduce participants to the lifestyles‚ attitudes‚ customs and traditions which are characteristic of Americans. In addition to learning about life in the United States‚ students also attempted to analyze it. Why is the divorce rate so high
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America) was poverty‚ misery‚ and lack of resources. Those who boarded on those ships were looking for a better life (the “push”). During the passage‚ immigrants-to-be experienced hunger‚ thirst‚ fear and a great percentage of them also experienced homesickness. Those people probably were not aware of the difficulties that they were going to face on the way to the New World and some of them even regretted leaving home. When arriving in Philadelphia‚ those who had the money to pay for their freight were
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Todd Taravella 11/2/11 Mr. Olson Eng D29: Craft of Language Love is Vast It is amazing how poems can be so different yet so similar. When talking about a thing like love‚ it becomes less difficult to understand knowing how complicated the subject is. “Love” by Eavan Boland talks about how Eavan and her husband had been through some turbulent times. They veered apart in their love that used to be so intense and Eavan about how much she misses that. How much that man‚ her husband‚ meant
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to them shortly) SLIDE 4 4 sections – tech support‚ inbound sales‚ software development‚ billing and admin BEFORE GURUS – Too many reports with inconsistent format‚ too many words without quantifiable numbers‚ Australian General Manager had homesickness GURUS: measured every single staff performance in Sri Lanka in real time – unwelcome to employees. Displayed public results. ’0’ meeting all of job goals‚ ’1’ not meeting all of job goals. Why GURUS was decommissioned..... a) Customer satisfaction
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be filled with uncertainty instead. Is this path the right one for me? Will I like my roommate and classes? Moving thousands of miles away from home around people I have never seen before is scary for me. Also‚ I worry about how uncertainty and homesickness will affect me. Will I be depressed or at least show symptoms of depression? Will the stress of my courses and college life get the better of me? Will depression hold me back from
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Stephanie Crum Mrs. Swihart Period 7 16 January 2015 Paradise of the Blind Supervised Essay In the novel Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong‚ the author uses diction from the perspective of Hang to set the foundation of the novel as well as to establish the essential element of Hang’s journey through time and space in relation to her family. Motifs are vital in the novel to draw attention to certain aspects in order to bring out the emotional experiences of Hang’s journey along with her interactions
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Dvorak’s “American” phase‚ which created his Ninth Symphony "From the New World‚" the String Quartet #12‚ the cantata The American Flag‚ and the String Quintet in Eb. His first performance was the premiere of Te Deum‚ produced in Carnegie Hall. Homesickness in Dvorak’s soul‚ however‚ collided with financial advantage and high artistic purpose. Taking summer vacations to the Czech-speaking community of Spill Ville‚ Iowa‚ helped a little‚ but his desire to return to Prague grew. Wishing to return home
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