One of the most remarkable aspects of Singapore is the truly cosmopolitan nature of her population‚ a natural result of the country’s geographical position and commercial success. Established by Thomas Stamford Raffles as a trading post on 29 January 1819‚ the small sea town of Singapore soon attracted migrants and merchants from China‚ the Indian sub-continent‚ Indonesia‚ the Malay Peninsula and the Middle East. Drawn by the lure of better prospects‚ the immigrants brought with them their own
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Introduction This critical reflective report was written as a requirement for the Professional and Therapeutic Communication Class (Nurs11152). There are many techniques for writing which will separate out the descriptive‚ personal and emotional components from the analytical and reflective – a lot of which I have used in this report to move any reader into imagination and metaphor to create more insight (Rolfe‚ Jasper & Freshwater‚ 2011). As a writer‚ I wanted to put myself in a place of the
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degree. Since I can speak Mandarin‚ I will sometimes converse with my Chinese colleague in Mandarin. However‚ we do not talk about work related topics. Rather‚ we converse about how our weekend went and talk about our hobbies. However‚ this can make other colleagues feel left out who are going out to lunch with us because they are not able to communicate with us because they do not speak Mandarin. There was an instance where my Chinese colleague and I spoke Mandarin during lunch and a colleague
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culprits. To do this‚ he asked for assistance from the Chinese authorities of Fujian‚ who welcomed the young Dasmariñas’ ambassadors and offered them their help as well. The second episode happened 10 years later‚ in the spring of 1603‚ when “three mandarins” arrived in Manila on a strange mission: to reconnoiter a "mountain of gold" abundant with trees that bore gold. This visit raised the suspicion of the Spaniards in the Philippines‚ already so accustomed to intermittent threats of conquest‚ particularly
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on the language in which I use. Utterances are not filmclips of an event (Slobin‚ 2003‚ p. 159) Rather‚ Utterances present a sketch of events‚ and they include different features of the events‚ depending on the language. I find when I am speaking Mandarin‚ I feel like I am much more a “noisy” and “harsh” person. In English‚ I feel like I am more a “relaxed”‚ “cool” and “extroverted” person. When I am around Japanese and Korean‚ I find myself a “shy”‚ “polite” and “reserved” person. In Japanese language
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this paper will consider the debate in context of cross-cultural implications. The extent to which people from different cultures construe‚ analyze and interact with the world differently will be analyzed. For the purpose of this paper‚ the Chinese (Mandarin) and English languages will be focused on in particular. Building upon existing literature‚ this paper will consider two central thesis statements: 1.) The use of spatiotemporal metaphors affect the way individuals think about time in the long term
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The three films Gittell analyses to make his argument clear about American’s New Favorite Villian Is a Rich Guy are Lone Ranger‚ White House Down‚ and Iron Man 3. For example‚ in the film White House Down‚ Gittell demonstrates how our “new enemy of the moment…doesn’t come from overseas” (478). Gittell indicates that our enemies do not necessary need to be from a foreign country‚ but that our enemies can be among us. In the film‚ White House Down‚ the White House is under attack by 2 domestic terrorist
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after hardships in her life due to her fate and karma. Kieu was born into a well-educated family and loved a young scholar named Kim Trong. Then disaster struck her family when her father and brother were falsely accused and imprisoned by the local mandarin. In order to save them‚ Kieu decided to sell herself to Scholar Ma Giam
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Nowadays‚ immigration has become a popular trend in this modern society. It is evident that Canada has become one of the most popular immigration countries. However‚ it is evident that the second largest group in Canada is Chinese who were born in China or immigrated early in the past few years. From my perspective‚ due to the length of time that they lived in Canada‚ they view themselves as authentic Canadians and they hope that they can be considered as authentic Canadians. Firstly‚ the Chinese
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gossip‚ Mandarin expatriate in Austria and Italy‚ apostle of friendship and domesticity: Auden wore many social masks‚ all authentic‚ over his sixty-six productive years" (A 14). During the "poetic revolution‚" he wrote a poem‚ "Spain"‚ about "the conscious acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder"(A 14) in response to the Spanish Civil War and was forced to flee England due to his refusal to join the army. Also in his time‚ Auden worked for a film company where he writing scripts which expressed
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