Chapter 11 Questions 1. What are interaction scenes? Explain how the scene can differ from one culture to another. Interaction scenes are made up of the recurring‚ repetitive topics that people talk about in social conversations. There are important differences in the ways the conversations of people from other cultures are organized and sequenced‚ including the types of topics discussed and the amount of time given to each one. Example #1 (Type of Topic) : in Hong Kong conversations among
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. How was the transatlantic trade organized? Who participated and who profited? The transatlantic trade began as the first global age started; it was a period of global unification and urbanization. The transatlantic trade was organized between the peoples of Europe‚ Africa‚ Asia‚ and North and South America. Different regions called for different empires from each continent. The ottoman Turks in Europe and Western Asia‚ the Ming dynasty in China‚ the Aztecs and Inca in the Americas‚ Mali and Songhai
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What is central tendency? Explain three important measures of central tendency? • Measures of central tendency are scores that represent the center of the distribution. Three of the most common measures of central tendency are: – • Mean Median Mode – – The Mean The mean is the arithmetic average of the scores. – Mean is the average of the scores in a distribution _ X = _________ i N Σ Xi Mean Example Exam Scores 75 91 82 78 72 94 68 88
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commentaries and criticisms‚ and touch on such controversial topics such as: the social hierarchy‚ social mobility‚ gender constructs/constraints‚ etc. Of her novels‚ Austen’s Persuasion is (arguably) the most blatant example of criticism for the aristocracy/social stratification. Set during the Napoleonic War‚ Persuasion portrays the tensions of a society in transition as a new class rises to social power: the returning troops. During their service members of the military were given the chance to
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Net Neutrality: The War over How Content Providers and Users Will Pay for Speed and Routes of Internet Traffic. Brent Hendricks Capella University Online Abstract This paper will discuss the growing debate/battle over what has been deemed net neutrality which will be called NN thought the rest of the paper. It pertains to the opposing sides which consist of the advocates of keeping the internet a free of government regulation and corporate
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A central vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a central vowel is that the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel. The central vowels identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are: * close central unrounded vowel [ɨ] * close central rounded vowel [ʉ] * close-mid central unrounded vowel [ɘ] * close-mid central rounded vowel [ɵ] * mid central vowel [ə] * open-mid central unrounded vowel
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ana Chacon Professor Kay Decasper ENC 1101_48 18 April 2016 Persuasion Jane Austen’s Persuasion showed the way society worked in the 1800’s. Women of high society were to marry men of the same social status in those times. The personalities of the families of the elite were either snobby‚ dramatic‚ or in some cases generous at times. The upper-class families seemed to have it easier than people of less fortunate homes. Jane Austen takes us back in time to an era of manners and how people
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Benefits of Humor in Persuasion Humor has many benefits for communication and persuasion. Communication through humor is an important way to make stories more memorable‚ characters more compelling‚ and causes more accessible. Understanding and appreciating humor is a unique part of being human‚ and making people smile and laugh is a learnable skill. To truly understand the nature of humor empowers the individual to communicate strategically – to create messages that are “stickier‚” or more memorable
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Central Campus The Dome that rests atop Beardshear Hall was almost never a part of Iowa States’ architectural wonders as it was removed from the original budget due to a lack of funding. Beardshear Hall has a very rich history that dates back to over a century ago. Beardshear Hall has been an integral part on campus even before it was fully completed‚ housing multiple programs‚ which were eventually transferred to other buildings‚ as more administrative space was needed. The story of Beardsheer
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Jane Austen’s book Persuasion is a classical literature. At the time it was published in 1816‚ Persuasion was a well known and loved novel in England. Throughout the book Jane Austen shows a theme of women inequality. This happened back then and still occurs even today. In her book‚ Austen shows how women were treated by men. Women “found themselves in positions of almost total dependency on their husbands” according to Marylynn Salmon from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Women
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