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    criminals go to Shock Camps or also known as Shock Incarceration. Shock-camps were first established in Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983. Many states and counties across the United States have adopted this idea. The reason for Shock-camps was because in the 1980s the number of convicted criminals began to increase by an alarming rate and prisons began to become over crowded. Shock-camps are run like military basic training and is shorter than a prison sentence. Most programs have criminals

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    Reducing Cultural Shock J. Wittenburg October 3‚ 2012 Introduction “Corporate culture is the water in the fishbowl of any business. Employees are immersed in it‚ inundated with it‚ but unconscious of it- at least‚ until things change” (Featherly & Chang‚ 2006). Employees who move to new job locations usually experience cultural shock to some degree. Cultural shock is a feeling of confusion‚ insecurity‚ and anxiety which stem from the new environment (Newstrom

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    Cultural Shock and Adaptation Cultural shock is when a person faces many stressors through experiencing new culture‚ and it may lead to psychological crises or social dysfunction. Cultural shock mostly occurs on immigrants (e.g. students‚ business people‚ social change‚ etc). The reaction of cultural shock depends on various factors‚ the experience of other culture adaptation‚ the difference between the home culture and the new culture‚ and the psychological characteristics of the person. There

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    electric shock ranging from 15 to 450 volts. (para. 5) Prior to the experiments‚ Milgram sought predictions about the outcome from psychiatrists‚ college sophomores‚ middle-class adults‚ graduate students and faculty in behavioral sciences. All thought the teachers would refuse to obey the experimenter. The majority of the teachers would show concern once the learners began showing signs of discomfort. However‚ 60 percent of them followed the orders until the end‚ administering shocks to the learner

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    Freshman College Culture Shock at Twenty Nine Culture Shock – “A sense of confusion and uncertainty‚ sometimes with feelings of anxiety that may affect people exposed to an alien culture or environment without adequate preparation.” Though many college freshman experience culture shock‚ those feelings are not limited to the students entering higher education directly from high school. At 18 the experience of going to college can be intimidating for a number of reasons. In an article titled “College

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    Title: Solutions to Kelly’s Assignment in Japan Case Study Module Title and Number: Managing Across Borders MGT 3203 Date : January 28‚ 2013 Word Count : 1650 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Introduction 3 Culture Shock Stages Reflection…………………………..………………………….………………..3 Assessment of Clashes 5 Successful International Assignments 5 Suggestions to Remedy the Situation 6 Conclusion 7 REFERENCES 8 APPENDICES Appendix 1 10

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    and you are excited‚ and perhaps a bit anxious‚ about starting your adventure. But it’s difficult to anticipate how different life may be when you don’t exactly know what to expect. College is‚ for many people‚ a foreign culture. Phases Culture shock has three to five phases‚ depending on which source you read. Also‚ depending on factors such as how big the cultural difference is between your home and your new location‚ and how long one is away from home‚ a person may or may not experience all

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    The volunteer believed the experiment was testing whether or not using an electrical shock as punishment would cause the student to memorize the information quicker than no punishment‚ but this was not the true purpose of the experiment. The volunteer would be appointed as the teacher‚ while the student and experimenter were merely actors

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    have electric shocks. The experimental subjects were placed in front of a dial‚ which they were told would administer an increasing levels of electric shocks to the actor. They asked the subject a series of straightforward word pair questions‚ and when he got the answers wrong‚ they had to give an electric shock. The subjects were told that this was part of an experiment‚ by someone in a white coat. In one case‚ the subject was informed that the person they were administering "shocks" to had a heart

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    the short-run aggregate supply curve may be either horizontal or upward-sloping Learning Objectives Understand what factors cause shifts in the short-run and long-run aggregate supply curves Evaluate the effects of aggregate demand and supply shocks on equilibrium real output in the short run Determine the causes of short-run variations in the inflation rate Slide 11-4 Slide 11-3 1 Chapter Outline The Classical Model Equilibrium in the Labor Market Keynesian Economics and the Keynesian

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