Topic: Family expectations have positive and negative influences on individuals. Alice Pung’s Growing up Asian in Australia shows family expectations have positive and negative influence on individuals. It is normal for most families to want to see their children happy‚ healthy and successful. Not all parents‚ however‚ agree on the order of these three things and not all parents place the same amount of pressure on their children to conform to their expectations. In fact‚ some parents believe it
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kinds is valuable for the nutrients supplied. Everybody needs Vitamin and Mineral content that fruit contributes to be healthy. Because vitamin C can’t be stored in the body‚ a daily source of vitamin C is needed. Eating oranges‚ grapefruit‚ or mandarins will supply enough vitamin C for the day. The bright yellow and orange colour of any fruit indicates a rich source of vitamin A. Iron is the most important mineral available from fruit. Some of the greatest minerals in fruits are right under the
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intonation patterns? Well‚ intonation refers to the pitch patterns we Americans use when we talk. There are many intonation patterns in American English. These patterns are important because they convey meaning. While some tonal languages such as Mandarin‚ Cantonese and Vietnamese use changes in pitch to differentiate between words‚ English uses pitch or intonation patterns over phrases and sentences to convey larger chunks of meaning. The two most commonly used sentence intonation patterns used
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someone from some other country. English is used in most of the countries especially in the United States of America‚ United Kingdom‚ Australia and New Zealand. English today is probably the Third largest language by number of native speakers after mandarin Chinese and Spanish. However when combining native and non native speakers it is probably the most commonly spoken language in the world. Many books are printed in English because most of the people living in English speaking countries understand
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Onjus - Squeezed Out "Onjus is to 100% fruit drinks what Cadbury’s is to chocolates and Fevicol to adhesives." In May 1997‚ Onjus‚ a 100% orange juice was launched by Enkay Texofood Ltd. (ETL)1 in the niche market of fruit juices and virtually created a new product category. By 1999‚ Onjus gained a 19% share (Refer Table II) in the tetra-pack fruit beverages market (Refer Exhibits I and II). However‚ the success of Onjus seemed to be short lived. In 1999‚ the Director General of Investigation
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By: Chia Ching Mei (Mayy) “Music is an ineffective tool for communication across cultures.” What is culture? Culture is defined as the characteristics of a particular group of people‚ defined by everything from language‚ religion‚ cuisine‚ social habits‚ inventions‚ traditions‚ technology‚ beliefs‚ music and arts (Kim Ann). In my opinion‚ music is an effective tool for communication across cultures. Why music is an effective tool for communication across cultures? Music is a universal language and
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May 2012 ARTICLE PREVIEW To read the full article: Sign in or Register for free. HBR Subscribers activate your free archive access » http://hbr.org/2012/05/global-business-speaks-english/ar/1 Global Business Speaks English by Tsedal Neeley Ready or not‚ English is now the global language of business. More and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language—Airbus‚ Daimler-Chrysler‚ Fast Retailing‚ Nokia‚ Renault‚ Samsung‚ SAP‚ Technicolor‚ and Microsoft in
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History vocab. Pd.6 by Brian Briggs Loess- an unstratified usually buff to yellowish brown loamy deposit found in North America‚ Europe‚ and Asia and believed to be chiefly deposited by the wind Dike- Bank‚ usually of earth‚ constructed to control or confine water. Dikes were purely defensive at first but later became a means to acquire polders (tracts of land reclaimed from a body of water through the construction of offshore dikes roughly parallel to the shoreline). After a dike is built‚
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Compare and Contrast - China and Korea Most American people can’t recognize the differences and similarities between China and Korea. When I came to the U.S‚ many people guessed my nationality‚ but most of them gave me a wrong answer. Because of the racial mixture between the two distinctive groups‚ people can confuse a Korean for a Chinese. Many Americans think that Asians are Chinese because China is well known as the biggest Asian country and has the highest population in the world. Both China
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2011. My working experience at Lucky Star Garment Manufactory Limited improved my leadership skills‚ communication skills and ability to work in a team environment. I have fluent spoken and written English. I also have fluent spoken and written Mandarin‚ and can therefore work in mainland China. Currently I am studying a B.A. in Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ graduating in 2011. Subjects which I am studying that are relevant to the post of Management Trainee include Operations
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