http://www.kit.nl/various/quiz/quiz_introduction.htm KIT’s Cultural Awareness Quiz – 5 case study questions http://www.economist.com/countries/ News & Events in different countries. http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/intercultural-business-communication/tool.php?culture1=6&culture2=8 information about how people treat one another in society in terms of: power‚ individualism‚ masculinity‚ rule-orientation http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/etiquette/doing-business-in.html cultural guides to
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DBQ Essay: Christian Muslim View of Merchant During the Post-Classical Era merchants played a key role in the foundations of societies. In its origins‚ Christianity viewed merchants negatively‚ whereas Islam saw the profession more positively‚ reflected in their religious documents; the two religions changed their views by 1500‚ Christianity becoming more positive and Islam negative‚ displayed in the authoritative opinions and actions of merchants. Religious documents in each religion reflect
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Headgears as a way of expressing liberty by the Muslims women 1. INTRODUCTION The contemporary situation of Muslim women is different all around the world is Islam. It cannot be clearly defined as good or bad. This is not just the result of the division of society between rich and poor‚ as in the rich Gulf countries‚ women have less freedom than in a poor village in Syria. Nevertheless‚ the position of Muslim´s women in the world‚ raises many controversy‚ often based on cultural prejudices
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INDEPENDENCE DAY "At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new…India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru (on Indian Independence Day‚ 1947) “Every year‚ we celebrate our Independence Day with great fervour as well as joy and justifiably so‚ as it commemorates that day‚ when after many years of subjugation‚ our country gained its freedom.
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Filipinos would spend their Holy Week in solitude and in prayer. They would pray all day and all night‚ recite different readings and reflect on their lives and on the life and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ. This would reflect the devotion of these people to their religion and tradition. In the present times‚ the traditional people I was referring to earlier are already a scarce in the society. Typical Filipinos‚ including Roman Catholic’s‚ would spend their Holy Week vacationing‚ frolicking
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advantages and disadvantages of film documentaries which can help someone learn about pretty much any topic they want to. Some documentaries are based on scientific concrete facts while others are based on opinion and feelings like the documentary Young Muslim and French. One of the advantages of the documentary format is that unlike a book or article a documentary gives someone a visual image that can help to reinforce what the documentary is talking about. For example if talking about math one could
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In the book the Holy Household Lyndal Ropers main argument is that the urban reformation was a religious ideology and a social movement that is understood to be in the terms of gender. The reformation was not ultimately affected by gender‚ but was at the core of the reformation. Granting many historians have contended the reformation was a movement‚ in which it raised the status of women‚ and claiming to be the spiritual soil from which progressive feminism drew its strength‚ Roper argues this is
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plays a role in our own identity formation. We must look at the everyday groups we fall into such as male‚ female‚ heterosexual‚ bisexual‚ homosexual‚ freshman‚ sophomore‚ senior student‚ working class‚ upper middle class‚ white‚ black‚ Christian‚ Muslim‚ young‚ old‚ foreign‚ American or many others. These levels closely intertwine to form identity‚ at the conscious or sub-conscious level‚ with or without our agreement. I agree with Okazawa-Rey and Gwyn Kirk (2006) in their book titled Women ’s Lives
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religion was present inmodern Spanish soil from 711 until 1492 under the rule of the Arabs and Moors of al-Andalus.Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of the people of three great monotheistic religions: Muslims‚Christians‚ and Jews.For more than three centuries in Medieval Spain‚ Muslims‚ Jews and Christians lived together and prospered in a thriving multicultural civilization. Here‚ remarkable individuals of different faiths made lasting contributions in such areas as poetry‚ art‚ architecture
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The holy grail for hair color. Dean Christal speaks in a language of chemistry‚ that most wouldn’t understand. The part that anyone could understand is that‚ the most world famous chemist from the polymer field of chemistry‚ with countless awards and patents to his name‚ has created a new molecule that can link broken bonds in the hair shaft back together. All the while‚ never being in the hair industry‚ he has created the most innovative and thought after hair product. One simple molecule. One simple
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