Lunch was over and students were filing into the classroom. As soon as we got inside the atmosphere felt really uncomfortable. I looked to the second row of desks and saw Katrina‚ a long-time friend‚ digging through her desk‚ Mrs. Nakigawa‚ our homeroom teacher‚ looking over her shoulder with concern. “…but‚ it was here before P.E hour‚ I know it was. My mom reminded me to take it off before I left this morning!” It had been a minute or so since everyone had realized something was genuinely wrong
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Driving along the snowy freeway on my commute home from work‚ my mind wandered to the past week which was Christmas. It was lovely being with family and on vacation from my job. However‚ the first day back to work quickly escalated into disaster. The boss was having a lousy week and taking his anger and frustration out on everyone back to work. He pressured us all to meet ridiculous deadlines in twenty four hours or less.
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Definition of Leadership The word “leadership’ has been used in at least three different ways. Occasion¬ally it refers to a position within an organization‚ e.g.‚ “We are inviting all of the leadership to attend the seminar. ‘Leadership” has also been used to describe a personality characteristic‚ e.g.. ‘Our new supervisor doesn’t have as much leadership as our previous one.” Neither of these definitions is very useful in studying organizational behavi¬or‚ and a better definition is needed
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In 1972 the Iranian family‚ the Dumas‚ had moved to America for a brief time. In this time young Firoozeh lived in Whittier‚ California and was attending a public school there. After her short stay there she could only remember the positives from her stay‚ but she could also remember how her ancestors were treated when they first immigrated to America. When the first wave of Islamics had moved to America‚ they were not treated the best. My perception of the Dumas tells me that they might have
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Having lived in a variety of countries‚ I have developed a level of interest and compassion for various communities and environments. I often felt like an outsider when my family and I would initially move to a new city. The unique experience of being able to look into a community or society from the outside allowed myself to not only appreciate but also analyze my surroundings. Growing up in South Korea‚ California and Louisiana‚ due to my father’s work‚ allowed me to appreciate different cultures
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Gazing out of the airplane window‚ I saw the words Mei Guo— “beautiful country” in Chinese—painted on the airport terminal. My mother and I immigrated to America when I was a small child from Taishan‚ China. She aimed to remove me from a life where society would limit my options and ostracize me due to my father’s blindness from Retinitis Pigmentosa and the family’s lack of proper education. My father was willing to let go of his only child because he‚ too‚ knew it would open infinite opportunities
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During my childhood in Vietnam‚ my entire world only composed of classmates from school and friends in my hometown. People of from different country are seen as the minority in Vietnam. Because I was not exposed to varying types of people in the world‚ I had many misconceptions about the world I live in. However‚ as I moved to America‚ a teacher taught me to comprehend the importance of each culture and the struggle each has to deal with. Indeed‚ I happened to encounter the poor areas in varying
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After filing a motion against him‚ I let my lawyer do his job. Because he was a close friend he extended his normal duties and gave it all he could to help me win. Since Shaq lived in Miami‚ I had to get another lawyer to file another motion because we had to be in his jurisdiction. I flew to Miami and we sat with a mediator for 8 hours trying to come up with a solution. Shaq did not show he must of thought it was not that important to take time out of his life. Although we were there for a serious
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A few months ago‚ I packed up my mid-western life and moved to the east coast to begin a new job in a town I had never heard of with nobody to call a friend. What I left behind was my family‚ my friends‚ my favorite coffee shop‚ and my yoga studio. This studio was my safe space. It had big open windows with the best kind of morning light that fell in pockets over a beautiful‚ old‚ wooden floor. My favorite thing to do on a Saturday morning was unroll my mat on one of those sunny pockets and listen
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Trying to understand the concept of other is a complex one. It is not an easy task to pinpoint exactly what it means. In some way we are all others to someone and everyone else is also other to us. If the other is constantly changing then how do we strive to know the other. And at the same time the other cannot exist without us trying to understand ourselves. I do believe that culture is important and it helps us to understand ourselves as well as the other. I do not believe that culture is
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