CUSTOMS & COURTESIES Today I SGT Strain let my military bearing slip‚ I was not confident or sure in myself on customs and courtesies and when it is proper time to call the room to “at ease”. With my lack of knowledge in this area I did not set a good example for the subordinate on duty with me at the staff duty desk. As a NCO I need to make sure I set the right example for all junior soldiers. To make sure this never happened again I began to research FM 7-21.13 The Soldiers Guide Chapter 4
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Customs and Courtesies As soldiers we are taught to live the seven Army values defining the basics of what a soldier is all about. One of those being respect. Relying on the golden rule‚ “How we consider others reflects upon each of us‚ both personally and as a professional organization.” I believe this is an extremely important value to live by each and every day. As a soldier I pledged to treat others with dignity and respect while expecting others to do the same. Respect is what allows us to
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US Army Customs and Courtesies A custom is a social norm stemming from tradition and enforced as an unwritten law. A courtesy is a respectful behavior often linked to a custom. A military courtesy is such behavior extended to a person or thing that honors them in some way. Military customs and courtesies define the profession of arms. When you display military customs and courtesies in various situations‚ you demonstrate to yourself and others your commitment to duty‚ honor‚ and country. And
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Customs and Trade Much of the history of international relations and trade concerns efforts to promote free trade among nations. The 17th century saw the growth of restrictive policies that later came to be known as mercantilism. The mercantilists held that economic policy should be nationalistic and should aim at securing the wealth and power of the state. Governments were led to impose price and wage controls‚ promote exports of finished goods and imports of raw materials‚ and prohibit the exports
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The Padaung Custom In the wild mountainous regions of Burma (known as Myanmar there)‚ there lives a Padaung tribe‚ where the Padaung women are known by wearing brass rings around their necks for life. The name “Padaung” is derived from the Karen words pa‚ meaning to have round‚ and daung‚ meaning brass. The rings are added on every two to three years starting from a very young age until a certain age of twenty and above. The rings holds the neck stiffly that it restrict any movements of the
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Wise Words for the Workplace There are no facts‚ only opinions. Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves. Just because you’ve fixed a problem that doesn’t mean you’ve fixed the problem. Just because it works that doesn’t meant it’s right. Never mistake activity for progress. Whom you bad-mouth today will be your boss tomorrow. They will remember how poorly the job was done long after they’ve forgotten how quickly it was done. If you hang around long enough you’ll get somewhere
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Outline I. Introduction Thesis statement: The Customs Union for Russia‚ Kazakhstan‚ and Belarus is a purposeful union‚ which serves to meet several aims. II. Body A. In the light of common aspiration to the WTO accession‚ it is worth of examining why preference of states was given to multilateral over preferential trade. B. The idea of the multilateral cooperation and creation of a common economic space‚ elimination of borders and regional integration is not new in the post-Soviet
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2002 Customs & Excise Act Cap.472 LAWS OF KENYA The Customs and Excise Act CHAPTER 472 First Booklet This booklet contains the Act and subsidiary legislation made there under‚ or a note thereof‚ but excludes the First‚ Second‚ Third‚ Fourth and Fifth Schedules to the Act which set out the rates of import duty‚ suspended duty‚ export duty and excise duty and‚ in the case of the Third Schedule‚ exemptions from duty. These Schedules are published in a separate booklet. (Revised Edition 2000 (1996))
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Chapter One A General Introduction to Folk Customs 1. Folk customs: a definition Folk customs‚ or folk ways‚ comprise the part of cultural life that people of a country or nation have created‚ practiced and transmitted in their endeavors to satisfy their needs at various stages of their history and society. Deep-rooted in the cultural life of a community‚ folk customs are passed down from generation to generation in a temporal dimension and spread from one place to another in a spatial dimension
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Funeral custom world wide Death: the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Death is a very painful and emotional time‚ yet one that may be filled with hope and mercy and is base off of the world ’s religious traditions and of philosophical enquiry. Belief in some kind of afterlife or rebirth has been a central aspect of most‚ if not all‚ religious traditions and as a result of that over time there has been different type of
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