Hofstede cultural dimensions High Power Distance First of all‚ Power distance is the one of the important part in Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. Power distance means that “ beliefs about the appropriate distribution of power in society. Which power distance level included high power distance and low power distance”. (Steers‚ et al.‚ 2010‚ p.56). In Asia‚ normally many countries are representatives of the high power distance. Of course it also comprise Laos. In Laos‚ that high power distance
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We Are Our Environment’s Keepers God made everything in this world very good as reflected in the book of Genesis 1:31. Beautiful trees‚ colorful birds‚ fragrant flowers‚ sparkling springs‚ and clear blue skies. We live on such a wonderful place that offers beauty‚ pleasure and abundance. The earth deserves to be treated with the highest of respects. Sadly‚ we have a problem of destroying the environment by polluting and depleting our natural resources. Nowadays‚ as much as our environment is
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Jeffrey Reiman explains that democracy does not guarantee that the public officials will do what the public demands them to do; in fact power is used accordingly to the judgment of the individual who withholds the power. Dunham and Alpert make it clear that “the public has the right to spell out the criteria by which the judgments should be made‚ and to insist both competence and good faith in the application of those criteria” (p. 5). Dunham and Alpert define social contract as “embodying a general
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We as Americans love food and slowly but surely we have ended up with an abundant amount of food options as well as huge waistlines. But we have to argue‚ who is to blame for this? Should we be held responsible for our bodies and what we decide to consume or is the food industry responsible for luring us in? This‚ as well as many biological and environmental factors can contribute to the rise of weight problems and obesity. R.A Ames‚ author of "Fast Food Isn’t to Blame"‚ argues that weight difficulties
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Types of Reasoning Reasoning is the process of inferring conclusions from premises. The premises may be in the form of any of the various types of evidence; they may be stated as propositions; or they may be statements of conclusions reached through prior reasoning. Thus advocates use the premises they have previously established or asserted‚ and by a process of reasoning‚ they try to establish something new—a conclusion they want their audience to accept. If the audience perceives the premises
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At a moments thought we might say yes yes it is a caring society and yes I do love my neighbour. Who does your neighbour include? It is very easy to love our "respectable" neighbours‚ but do we have the same capacity of love for our "underprivileged" and not so "well off" neighbours? <br> <br>It’s a lovely idea to have all of God’s children‚ black men and white men‚ Jews and Gentiles‚ Protestants and Catholics singing in a voice of equality. However the reality is very difficult to achieve. <br> <br>Some
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The article discusses the long-term negative impact of watching television on the diet of American adults and provides advice on encouraging teenagers to eat healthy. This article is relevant to my project on proposing ways to combat obesity in Singapore as it highlights an important but possibly neglected causal factor for unhealthy eating habits – TV-watching. As young Singaporeans are exposed to television shows and media sources just as American teenagers are‚ findings on their negative influence
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Categorical Propositions Categorical Proposition- a proposition that relates two classes or categories of entities together in some way. (sentence with truth value) -The classes in question are denoted respectively by the subject term and predicate term (S) (P) Quantifiers (S) (P) -All Ex. All Snow is White -None No Snow is Green -Some Some Snow is Yellow
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Studying Abroad or Studying At Home ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Studying abroad has become very fashionable for many residents. Many students seek the opportunities to study overseas to create a bright future and achieve childhood dreams. People who prefer to leave their home and study abroad seemed to be searching
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Different Starting Points Namit Arora‚ “What Do We Deserve”. He portrays the discussion on societal success and achievements. Society’s perspective on success is not measured by hard work it is measured through wealth attained. People of our society do not deserve exactly what they obtain just because they are diligent and hardworking throughout their life. Arora supports his belief by interpreting Michael Sandel’s book “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” which discussed the three major approaches
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