Kristina Yerisov Cultural Competency HDFS 475 April 12‚ 2013 Cultural Competency There is a considerable amount of diversity in families all over the world‚ but there is also continuity. Core values‚ beliefs‚ rituals‚ and unique characteristics describes groups of people within a culture who live in a specific country‚ share religious values‚ have similar heritage‚ or are just grouped together for other reasons. It is important to understand that culture is more than just a “thing‚” it
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Report on the Cultural Adaptation on the PG Students in Middlesex University Executive Summary: When new students attend university in a new culture from their own culture‚ behaviors and expectations change. According to Zhou at el (2008)‚ traditionally researchers thought that culture shock was only about medical conditions. Historical theory has changed to contemporary theory of acculturation. This theory contains of cultural learning‚ stress and coping and social identification. We found
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Case Hand-In: WhiteWater West Industries Submitted by: Ben Goodman Student Number: 0306298 Submitted to: Prof. Tannys Laughren November 14th‚ 2013 Executive Summary In August 1995‚ President Geoffrey Chutter of Richmond‚ British Columbia based WhiteWater West Industries Ltd.‚ a water slide designing‚ manufacturing and installation company‚ decided that the company’s fiberglass manufacturing facility in Kelowna‚ BC needed to be relocated. The main reasoning for the move
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SYNTHESIS ESSAY Brandon Carter 02/12/13 Period 3 Writers have long written about their cultural experiences‚ so much that they have become speakers for their culture. Chief Joseph‚ of the Nez Perce‚ is one of them. He shares his struggles of being forced from his homeland to a reservation‚ miniscule is size compared to his original safe haven. He shows the emotional undertakings that he endured through his speech I Will Fight No More. In said speech‚ Chief Joseph sued imagery to show the physical
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The Three Dimensions of Happiness [Positive Psychology] takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification‚ up into the high country of strength and virtue‚ and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose (Seligman 2002‚ p. 61). According to Seligman‚ we can experience three kinds of happiness: 1) pleasure and gratification‚ 2) embodiment of strengths and virtues and 3) meaning and purpose. Each kind of happiness is linked to positive emotion but from his quote‚
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the West by Wu-Cheng-en‚ the central characters participate in a series of events that lead to the establishment of their personalities and aspirations. Monkey‚ a shared protagonist of the novels‚ lives in a world of self-absorption and his immature‚ unjustified actions bring severe punishment‚ continuing the rest of his endless life while trapped under a pile of rocks. Later‚ a monk arrives at Monkey’s imprisonment site to ask for accompaniment towards a long‚ perilous journey into the West. Monkey
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character with the corresponding character from West Side Story. You should analyse the way that characterization reflects context. Explain how each character reflects the values‚ attitudes and/or lifestyles within that society. Which aspects of the character transcend the context and remain universal? William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet approximately four hundred years ago for Elizabethan audiences of the time. After watching the film West side Story directed by Robert Wise‚ the universal
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Understanding other cultures without making judgments about the way they do things or the way they understand and react to things is the basic concept of cultural relativity. The importance of this idea is demostrated by Richard B. Lee in his story about the Christmas feast with the !Kung. In this story Lee‚ a social anthropologist living with the tribe‚ experiences a misunderstanding that almost caused him to pack his belongings and leave the bushmen which were the subject of his study
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Comparative Management Practices in China and the West It is true to say that globalisation is a two-way street. As international business and trade continue to grow‚ models of organisations and approaches to management are beginning to merge; nevertheless it remains imperative for firms to understand and govern across the myriad of cultural differences which still exist. These differences seem most apparent in China‚ where managerial values are deeply rooted in archaic and powerful culture. Some
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Cultural Event Report: HUM 112 – World Cultures II Abstract Cultural education and appreciation influence economic growth and advance a rewarding intellectual‚ emotional‚ moral and spiritual life of a people. Community development is a collaborative and facilitative process undertaken by the community that shares a common purpose of building capacity. The mission of the All Cameroonian Cultural & Development Foundation (ACCDF) combines cultural sustenance and community development to promote
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