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    MirrorMirror on the Wall Indonesia’s advertising Industry which is one of the youngest in the region‚ is almost at its adolescence trying to come to terms with all the rapid changes that it faces as it comes of age to find its own well defined personality and identity. A philosopher rightly said about life “We see life not as it is but as we are”. This seems so true in advertising too. Advertising should draw upon people’s emotions in order

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    characteristics of American society. During the nineteenth century‚ America was deemed a melting pot: a place where people of different ethnicities could co-exist. The idea of people being able to embrace commonalities without letting go of their culture has been the basis of the America that we live in today. This sense of collaboration‚ which comes with diversity‚ has created outlets for our citizens and opportunities for those foreign to our country. Diversity is one of the most beneficial aspects

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    MIRROR -The simplest and the most common optical instrument. -Uses the Law of Reflection to redirect light it receives. -It reflects most of the light in one direction. -Good reflecting mirrors can have 85% reflectance. Types of Mirror 1. Plane Mirror A mirror with a flat surface. Image formed: Laterally inverted Upright and always the same size as the object they reflect. Virtual image (images appear to behind the mirror) at the same distance as the object in front of the mirror. Examples:

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    the mirror says that it’s unjudgemental and it just reflects everything it sees.... it calls the candles and moon liars and goes on about how the woman needs the mirror. It also compares and places itself within the ranks of godliness. This poem is not a riddle‚ speaking with the voice of some mysterious "I" until the end‚ where the reader is shocked to find out that it’s a mirror‚ and not a person speaking. Instead‚ the poem lets us know from the start that we’re hearing from a mirror‚ with its

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    The article “Through the Mirror of Beauty Culture”‚ by Carla Rice‚ describes the struggle women experience to fit in the ideal picture of “beauty” that society constructed. The main argument is to change our way of defining beauty. To support the argument‚ most of the cultures view beauty as women being used as objects and sex symbols. I agree with the author’s opinion about rethinking beauty. The image of beauty changes by society and most importantly by media‚ because they are deciding what should

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    Analysis of “Mirror” In her poem “Mirror”‚ Sylvia Plath takes us into the thoughts of a woman from an interesting perspective. We always view ourselves truthfully in the mirror and face the outside world in nothing but lies. Through the speaker of mirror‚ it tells us that woman’s beautiful appearance will not stay for a long time. In the poem “Mirror”‚ Plath uses various poetic techniques that effectively shapes its meaning and creates a mood for the poem. One of the features in this poem is that

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    ஽ Academy of Management Review 2008‚ Vol. 33‚ No. 4‚ 885–904. MIRRORMIRROR ON THE WALL: CULTURE’S CONSEQUENCES IN A VALUE TEST OF ITS OWN DESIGN GALIT AILON Bar-Ilan University The paper offers a critical reading of Geert Hofstede’s (1980) Culture’s Consequences using an analytical strategy where the book is mirrored against itself and analyzed in terms of its own proposed value dimensions. “Mirroring” unravels the book’s normative viewpoint and political subtext and exposes discursive

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    relation to whether cultures are eroded by foreign cultural influences including media Along with the development of technology‚ especially the internet and media‚ globalization has risen rapidly throughout the world. The impacts of globalization have been the focus of a number of recent academic studies on global cultural influence. Some scholars argue that the foreign cultural influences‚ especially imported media‚ may erode local culture. Others claim that pure culture has not existed or cultural

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    there have always been foreign influences on every culture. When it comes to the Turkish culture‚ having a wide geographic area‚ being located between Europe and Asia‚ playing a role as a host to hundreds of cultures are determiner factors for Turkish culture to be influenced by foreign cultures. In today’s world interaction between cultures happens more easily and quickly because of the mass media‚ guest workers living in foreign countries‚ TV series‚ literature‚ and music culture. Chinese‚ Arabic‚ Persian

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    America on Global Affairs 1880-1929 United States of America set its ride to become a competitive- further a dominant‚ power since the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. To its advantage‚ America was far away from the European dominance over the world and on its own accord‚ geared towards industrialization‚ which was its root stand to become a Great Power. The U.S evolved from a continentally isolated country to a Great Power‚ a nation stronger than the others in Europe in such a small period of time from

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