midterm January 30‚ 2005 Know Thyself For the great philosopher Socrates‚ asking questions and seeking answers to all of life’s questions was a life long pursuit. Socrates believed that the whole point of life was to examine and question it. He believed that the unexamined life is not worth living. The command Know Thyself’ reflects Socrates mission and lifelong endeavor in many aspects. For Socrates believed that if you didn’t know yourself‚ or seek to know yourself‚ then you knew nothing
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The Misunderstanding of a Mistaken Mind. The psychological state of any human being is extremely complex and may never be fully understood. Two minds may overlap and have some similarities‚ but for the most part‚ every person’s mind is different‚ affected by their society’s discourse and their environment. The movie Paranoid Park‚ by Gus Van Sant exemplifies the accurate embodiment that real life has to offer. In the movie‚ the main character Alex must confront real life problems and surpass
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The key to effective intercultural communication is adopting a position of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism is the belief that each culture is of equal value‚ and none should be superior than the other. Many people in the world are Ethnocentric‚ this means that they believe that they have a better culture than someone else‚ due to what they have seen or heard. Technology plays a huge role towards ethnocentric people‚ as they usually have only seen one side of the culture. Journalists nowadays
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Peace Corps Memo: Successful Intercultural Communication As a Peace Corps Volunteer it is essential to learn the Intercultural Communicative Competence‚ a composite of abilities fundamental to perform and interact effectively with other cultures (Fantini‚ 2005). When we asked our previous Peace Corps volunteers on how they first felt about interacting with others from different cultures‚ they replied that they have fears of miscommunication and judgment (Dupraw & Axner‚ 1997). In order to communicate
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Avoid these two start-up pitch „fatal errors‟ Writing on the Business Insider War Room‚ Tim Berry‚ president and founder of Palo Alto Software and a co-founder of Borland International‚ observes that there‟s plenty of good advice available on how to make a pitch‚ but a dearth of information on how not to pitch. In particular‚ he warns start-ups about “two fatal errors I‟m seeing pretty frequently these days”: 1. It’s not about you. Understand the pitch as a medium. It‟s about what investors want
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point: Hofstede should have broadened his research and thereby not only using the IBM subsidiaries but also other large corporations‚ in order to gather more precise information. Keywords: “mental programming”‚ “software of the mind”‚ a “common component” of a wider culture which contains both global and sub-national constituents. A small number of respondents. Narrowness of the population surveyed. National uniformity Yugoslavia example High vs low context countries In my opinion‚ you can’t
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Summary of Intercultural Communication Chapter 1: Defining Culture and Identities Aboriginals are the native people of Australia. Co-culture/subculture is a group that exists within a culture. Usually based on social class‚ ethnicity or geographic region. Cultural identity are people who identify themselves with a culture. Cultural studies is an approach that attempts to develop an ideal personification of the culture. This ideal is used to explain the actions of individuals
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Exam preparation: ESC2 Intercultural management The exam questions will be based on all the information covered in lectures since the beginning of this class on October 3rd. You will particularly need to demonstrate precise knowledge of the cultural dimensions and theories studied in class including precise definitions and meanings of: i. The Hofstede and Trompenaars dimensions ii. Proxemics iii. Chronemics iv. Highand low context cultures There will be 3 sections Section 1. 15 multiple
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How to Avoid Plagiarism Plagiarism is a growing problem in universities (Matheson & Starr 2013) and becoming too common in the scientific world (Ober et al. 2012). Hence it is important for students as well as researchers to know how to avoid plagiarism. Before discussing the ways to avoid plagiarism‚ this paper discusses the definition‚ the types and reasons for plagiarism. “Copying’ or “borrowing” someone else’s words or ideas may perhaps be the more inoffensive way of explaining plagiarism
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Brief Summary: The book‚ To Know a Fly by Vincent G. Dethier‚ is about a scientist who fell in love with the fly. Professor Dethier isn’t like most scientists who are idolized for their accomplishments and rejected for the lack of ability to communicate with society. He was known for being an outstanding researcher‚ and he also had the wonderful gift of communication. The fact that he was fascinated by the knowledge that could be obtained from such a simple species‚ such as the fly‚ also made him
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