East Meets West: Toward a Universal Ethic of Virtue for Global Business Some Western cultures operate upon an individualistic rights-centered morality‚ while Eastern cultures favor a more community-centered ethic of virtue (Wong 1984). There is no universal ethic. In particular‚ it is recognized that the Western thinker Aristotle and his virtue ethic strongly resembles that of the Eastern thinker Confucius. This similarity suggests that a universal virtue ethic may already exist in the form of
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Research into language learning strategies over the past 30 years has provided many insights into how good language learners use these strategies to facilitate their language learning process. Much of this research has indicated that the use of language learning strategies facilitates mastery of a second language. The impact of cultural background upon the choice of language learning strategies‚ has not received widespread attention from language learning strategy researchers‚ particularly in
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To what extent does Othello meet the criteria of a tragic hero? The characteristics of a tragic hero are explained in Aristotle’s theory. Aristotle said that a tragic hero must go through four stages. These are Peripateia‚ which is an utter and complete downfall from a very high status such as a king‚ prince etc… to catastrophe and misery. Hamartia‚ which is a fatal or tragic flaw in the hero. Anagnorisis‚ which is recognition of the hero’s mistakes‚ and Catharsis‚ which is when the audience is
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Summary Ke Ju Liu Sep 27‚ 2014 In the essay “Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation”‚ Carl R. Rogers‚ a famous psychotherapist‚ explains the importance of fully understanding people and looking at things in their perspective. He points out that the interrupt in communication arises mainly from our instinct to judge or to evaluate our opponents’ opinion‚ as well as from our emotional response. The way to overcome the barriers is to listen with understanding‚ which means “to see the expressed
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Summary of Godzilla’s Footprint In Godzilla’s Footprint‚ author Steve Ryfle begins by stating that the film Godzilla was not released to the Unites States until 2004‚ fifty years after the original release in Japan. Ryfle goes on to quote critics that were flabbergasted by the contrast of two films - the original Japanese film with its primitive special effects and recollection of the horrific aftermath of the atomic bombings‚ versus the re-cut‚ copy and pasted version showed to the United states
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Summary: “ Teacher‚ the tape is too fast!”. Extensive listening in ELT. The research is discussing about extensive listening for ineffective listeners instead of using listen strategies that places a heavy burden on teachers and students. Firstly‚ the author talks about listening problems of EFL learners. Listening is the most difficult skill for them. The reason is that they are not able to catch the sounds or the words and miss the gist or important details of the spoken text
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every nation there are people who are atheists or support the religious beliefs of another religious group that can be not so big as the main one; however‚ it is also of great importance for realizing the country and people on the whole (Sen 1). In summary‚ Sen states that as every person has his/her own traits of character‚ persuasions‚ beliefs‚ and personal history‚ it is not reasonable to explain people’’s actions only from the point of view of civilizations (2). Disseminating such approach among
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The Taming of the Shrew Act 1 scene 1 Summary Lucentio goes to Padua for university with his manservant Tranio. On their way‚ they stand aside to witness a family problem in Baptista’s house. Gremio and Hortensio who have fallen in love with Baptista’s younger daughter – Bianca tried to propose marriage to her. However‚ Baptista decrees that no one can marry her until his older daughter Katherina‚ who is the “shrew”‚ has a husband. Therefore‚ Gremio and Hortensio decide to forget the rivalry first
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3.4 Describe how to adapt communication to meet different communication needs. When in placement it may be necessary to adapt the way in which we communicate with adults or children as they might have a few difficulties. When communicating with people in the school whether its the adults‚ children or parents we need to think about the following.. - Is english their second language? - Do they have a hearing impairment or deaf? - Do they have a disability? - Are they special education
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