ENG 101 Reading Response #2 What We Really Miss About the 1950s Stephanie Coontz Stephanie Coontz‚ the author of “What We Really Miss about the 1950’s‚” delivers a polemical analysis of what was really going on during that period of time. Coontz claims that it could be misleading to have nostalgia for the 1950’s and subtly suggests that readers think about the ways in which the 1950’s led to the 60’s‚ 70’s and 80’s. Using strong and logical facts‚ she reaches out to an older/mature audience
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In “Diversity Challenges-What Would You Do?” (Learning Communications‚ 2009)‚ an organization interviewed prospective employee Felix. While Felix immediately hit it off with the human resources associate‚ it soon became apparent that he was not accustomed to the level of diversity in the organization. His overt shock and multicultural leadership in addition to his nonverbal response to various other diversity characteristics present in the workforce indicated that Felix had an issue with working
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Question: "What does the Bible say about legalism? How can a Christian avoid falling into the trap of legalism?" The Word of God in the Bible does not expressly define the term “legalism” Answer: The word “legalism” does not occur in the Bible. It is a term Christians use to describe a doctrinal position emphasizing a system of rules and regulations for achieving both salvation and spiritual growth. Legalists believe in and demand a strict literal adherence to rules and regulations. Doctrinally‚
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Economic Competition: Should We Care about the losers? Only if you’re doing it wrong Jonathan Wolff is the head of philosophy at the University College of London. In one of his pieces titled‚ Economic Competition: Should We Care About The Losers‚ he particularly focuses on the economic wellbeing on individuals whom interests may be in danger within economic competition. After discussing several subcategories within economic play‚ Wolff believes that we have a moral obligation to help those that
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Q.1) what do you understand by social groups? (Define‚ describe and discuss) Ans.- “A group is a set of people engaged in frequent interaction; they identify with one another; they are defined by others as a group’ they share values‚ beliefs and norms about areas of common interest; they define themselves as a group; they come together to work on common tasks and for agreed purposes” Any physical collection of people regardless of the size who share a common interest and works
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What do you think of “Westernization” in Malaysia? Provide argument and examples. Nowadays‚ we can see there is a lot of westernization in Malaysia. People in Malaysia like to copy the style from western country because they think that country more develop than our country. From my point of view‚ westernization in Malaysia give disadvantages rather than good thing. The westernization gives bad impact to the Malaysian people especially teenagers because we can see that teenagers today have lack
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Tourism – What has ethics got to do with it? By Laura Pampel‚ 13341 (2013) Abstract The following article gives an overview about ethics in the tourism industry and the different possibilities for teaching business ethics. And you can find two examples from practice. The first example is the decision making process for visiting Myanmar or not and the second example is taken from the philosophy of the Lindner Hotels and Resorts AG. Introduction – Defining Business Ethics Before we start the journey
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Name: Jee-Seop Kim (김지섭) Title/authors of the articles: What the West Doesn’t Get About China / George Stalk & David Michael Executive Summary: While many western managers believe that China’s growth is founded on foreign commodities that are built in China and exported globally‚ this view is completely wrong. China’s growth is coming from domestic consumption. Apart from major cities like Beijing and Shanghai‚ some 90 odd fast growing cities comprised of 250‚000 or more middle-class families
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globalization of business transactions. ii) The increasing use of economic logic‚ concepts‚ theories‚ and tools of economic analysis in business decision-making processes. iii) Rapid increase in demand for professionally trained managerial manpower. It should be noted that the recent complexities associated with business decisions has increased the need for application of economic concepts‚ theories and tools of economic analysis in business decisions. The reason of making appropriate business decision
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Should Kids Really Get Paid To Do Chores? Come on‚ are you really going to pay your kids money to do Their chores? Or are you going to say‚ “No sorry you made the mess clean it up on your own!’’? Some parents pay their kids allowance because they think that their kids will be more motivated to do their chores. This is not always the case‚ if parents pay their kids to do chores they may become less motivated to work at all. Kids need to do chores without being paid because they need to learn responsibility
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