American Culture INT 110-01 Final Exam Questions December 15‚ 2012 History and Geography are the most important factors that shape a given society’s culture; In Lebanon‚ religions are of great influence on the adopted values and assumptions; some will be discussed in the following to make the point about how history and geography have interfered to shape the Lebanese society as such‚ and then a comparison with the American values and their historical backgrounds will follow; -Family:
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INTRODUCTION It is evident that today’s modern societies faces a main challenge regarding multifaceted conflicts. Especially‚ over the past two years‚ the hybrid threat construct has found some traction. It appears in official government reports and has been cited by the US defense secretary in articles and speeches. Hybrid Warfare may introduce some terminological clouds of confusion. It is founded on a broad characterization of hybrid conflict‚ as a conflict that has both regular and irregular
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Champs sports is a business that was acquired in the 1980s by the Woolworth Corporation‚ it sold athletic merchandise. One of the advantages is that there is no branch for Champs in Lebanon. The alternative of champs in Lebanon is Footlocker but there are only two branches and it is not even located in Beirut making it harder for people to reach. Moreover‚ their selling price is so expensive ranging between 200$ and 300$ which makes people wavering from buying them‚ and since Al Shayya Group owns
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Introduction Five U.S. companies in September 2009 joined together and formed the partnership for Lebanon (PFL) and the bequest of then President George Bush. These five companies include: Cisco Systems‚ Intel Corporation‚ Ghafari Inc.‚ Occidental Petroleum‚ and Microsoft. The intent was for these companies to “help in the relief and reconstruction efforts in Lebanon” (Jamali‚ 2011). Soon thereafter‚ these companies concluded that to achieve the objective that five specific issues needed to be
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Cross Cultural Perspectives Paper Ethics and Social Responsibility Ethics Cross Cultural Perspectives Paper The Microsoft Corporation is a fortune 500 company that ranked # 35 on the fortune 500 list in 2013 (Fortune 500‚ 2013) and is one of the largest business corporations in the world. It was founded in 1975 by two guys named Paul Allen and Bill Gates‚ the business developed very rapidly as the years went by and reached a marker of 89‚000 employees‚ with a revenue of $62 billion dollars and
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Table of Contents: * Outline_______ ___________________________________________3 * Introduction_______________________________________________4 * Objectives____ ____________________________________________ 5 * SWOT Analysis_____________________________________________6 * Marketing Mix______________________________________________7 * Conclusions ________________________________________________8 * Bibliography _______________________________________________9
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also carried out attacks that attach the word terrorists to their organizations. They both have a similar enemy in Israel because Israel has occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip where Hamas is based. On the other hand‚ Hezbollah is based in Lebanon where Israel does not occupy any land‚ but has invaded the country to try to stop Hezbollah. Israel is the main reason claimed by these groups that attacks are taking place and that is why they are labeled as terrorist groups. A religious difference
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one of them promise the other to live together . This agreement recognized by government official that happens inside a court house. In the Middle East there’s no country that allows civil marriage without a religious marriage before. Recently in Lebanon we heard a lot about legalizing the civil marriage. It’s a very complicated issue if‚ for instance‚ a Christian man wants to marry a Druze woman. In most cases they solve this problem by travelling to the closest country that allows civil marriage
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the cars. The reasons behind these accidents differ from the distraction of drives themselves‚ malfunction in the car‚ or recklessness of who is driving. These reasons and much more are mainly the causes of car accidents in Lebanon. One of the reasons of car accidents in Lebanon is weather condition. In winter‚ the atmosphere changes in which most of the time it might be raining. Roads become slippery‚ especially highways as drivers intend to increase the velocity of there cars and race through and
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Description of Country Syria is a country located in the Middle East‚ bordering the Mediterranean Sea‚ between Lebanon and Turkey. The modern nation of Syria did not exist until the 20th century‚ although the idea of Syria has been in existence since at least the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The name “Syria”‚ was first used by the Greeks‚ historically identifying the region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean lying between Egypt and Asia Minor. Greater Syria‚ the larger region (called
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