Assignment #4 Observation Report A: Describe one on-the-job problem of issue encountered and how it was resolved. I first encountered this problem two weeks into my internship with Raffles Hotel Marketing Communications. After my orientation week‚ it was finally time for me to take on projects on my own and start communicating with some of the clients and media the department would follow up from time to time. One of the projects that I was tasked was to prepare the Arabic version of Raffles
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Case #4 * From my point of view‚ I think that the example of Maktoob can be found again in the Arab world especially that we have the resources along with hard working and innovative developers. Investment from the western region also is important for the developers to reach new limits. Maktoob was very successful innovative story of excellence that aimed to bring Arabic used in the internet to new ages and make it available for more users. At that time‚ the number of the Arabic users was sharply
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Bedouin Ethnobotany : Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World By James Mandaville (09/2001) The author‚ James Mandaville‚ had worked in Eastern Saudi Arabia gathering plant names and plant-related terminology in the 1960’s. His work spewed out into his free time and he began gathering samples of the local plants and cataloging names extensively. The purpose of his ethnography was to shed light on the folk classifications of Bedouin Arabic plant lore; the report and devotion of the
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Eng 203 – Section 11 February 21‚ 2013 The term graffiti is very ambiguous. It can be regarded as an art or as scribbling of infidels. As we walk down the streets of Beirut‚ we tend to see various types of graffiti. They can be ways in which people tend to express themselves in terms of anger or revenge and to talk about their hard conditions. There is always a hidden message behind these catchy artistic images. As Rasha Salti mentioned in her article "Urban Scrolls and Modern-Day Oracles"’
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Khat is a green-leaved plant grown predominantly in the Horn of Africa‚ and consumed in the diaspora by emigrants from the region – Ethiopians‚ Kenyans‚ Yemenis and most notably Somalis – who report a mild‚ amphetamine-like high. Khat is legal in the UK‚ as are mafrishes‚ but spirited campaigns to outlaw it on health and social grounds have been galvanised in the past year by claims that terror cells are operating wherever khat is chewed‚ and that al-Shabaab is focusing its recruitment efforts on
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Japanese and Arabic Language Although Japanese and Arabic languages ranked as top ten languages used in the web in 2011‚ there are significant differences in the number of internet users and the percentage of growth between Arabic and Japanese language. (www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm). This essay compares the ratio between Japanese and Arabic language in the Internet and then discusses the reasons for this differences. Although Arabic population was higher than Japanese by over than
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1. Current situation After five years of a great success on the Saudi Arabian market American manufacturer of precision steel products – Bladeco Corporation had been made to make some changes. In order to protect the local producers‚ government levied costly tariffs and trade restrictions on the foreign enterprises. The only way to avoid those regulations was forming a joint venture with a national company. Therefore Bladeco signed a contract with Mid-East steel Merchants‚ a subsidiary of the Al
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Case Application – Al Jazira: The Genius Inventor (Chapter 3‚ pp. 92-93) The Hot Weather Air conditioning is one of the most crucial appliances in almost all homes and businesses in the Arab world. The Saudi Arabian climate can be characterized as a desert climate‚ with wide fluctuations in day and night temperatures. The climate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has resulted in the installation of air conditioning in most domestic and commercial buildings. Sales of air conditioner s reach 2.1 million
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Tradition is an act‚ an activity‚ a feeling‚ or a way of thinking that has been forced into existence by repetition; without a strong effort towards repetition tradition cannot exist. Tradition is not something that arrives free of creation; tradition must be molded and formed in order to hold its form. If tradition is not pressed hard enough‚ or not enough effort is put into the creation of tradition‚ that tradition will quickly crumble. The act of continuous and conscious repetition is what molds
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“Progress is impossible without change‚ and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw Out of Shadows‚ a historical fiction book by Jason Wallace tells the story of Robert Jacklin‚ a teen whose family moves from England to Zimbabwe in the 1980s. There‚ he faces rampant racism inside and out of his boarding school against the black Africans. I am Malala‚ a memoir by Malala Yousafzai is about Malala’s life in Pakistan’s Swat Valley where she and others face
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