Do you speak American? American English is not spoken the same by residents from different parts of the United States. Based on America’s history and cultural background‚ English used in America differs from region to region‚ among ethnic and social groups‚ even by age and gender. In this documentary film‚ Robert MacNeil‚ a journalist‚ travelled across the United States to discover how and why people from different regions speak different kinds of American English. From north to south‚ east
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Japanese-American Internment Camps A historical fact that is not really talked about is the fact that‚ during World War II‚ over 100‚000 Japanese-American people‚ the vast majority of which were actually American citizens‚ were rounded up and shipped to internment camps. These consisted of poorly constructed barracks surrounded by barbed wire‚ sentry posts and armed guards. It all began when Franklin D. Roosevelt gave this war message to Congress on December 8th‚ 1941; “Yesterday‚ December 7th
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Running Head: LEVEL 5 LEADERSHIP Level 5 Leadership Grantham University Level 5 Leadership First Section Leadership is a process by which one person influences the thoughts‚ attitudes‚ and behaviors of others. Leaders set a direction for the rest of us; they help us see what lies ahead; they help us visualize what we might achieve; they encourage us and inspire us. Level 5 leadership refers to the highest level in a hierarchy of executive capabilities that we identified during our research
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CONTENTS GLOBAL CEMENT to 2020 Country-by-Country Forecasts of Cement Supply & Demand The world cement industry is a complex structure of local‚ national‚ regional and global markets and cement/clinker movements. The structure is ever changing‚ being closely tied to changes in a range of variables – including macro-economic growth‚ housing sector booms‚ public spending levels‚ trade protectionism‚ and transportation costs. With a relatively small number of multinational companies dominating
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09 Leadership in a Global Environment Overview Leadership • Examples • Definition • Management vs. Leadership • Culture • Cultural dimensions • Components • Communication challenge • Expatriate success factors International context Cultural Intelligence Leadership Implications Who are leaders? Leadership Which leaders do you know? Who are leaders for you? Characteristics Leadership What is characterizing a leader? Definition Leadership Leadership is
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GridIndicated Rating Outcomes Appendix A: Global Chemcial Industry Methodology Factor Grid Appendix B: Methodology GridIndicated Ratings Appendix C: Observations and Outliers for Grid Mapping Appendix D: Chemical Industry Overview Appendix E: Key Rating Issues over the Intermediate Term 1 3 5 8 Corporate Finance December 2009 Moody’s Global Global Chemical Industry Summary This rating methodology explains Moody’s approach to assessing credit risk for global chemical companies. This document replaces
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1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02430.x The global alcohol industry: an overview David H. Jernigan Department of Health‚ Behavior and Society‚ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health‚ Baltimore‚ MD‚ USA ABSTRACT Aims To describe the globalized sector of the alcoholic beverage industry‚ including its size‚ principal actors and activities. Methods Market research firms and business journalism are the primary sources for information about the global alcohol industry‚ and are used to profile the size
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artistic component of its culture. During the 1860’s‚ Japanese artistic influence began to flow into France due to the reopening of trade relations between Europe and Japan. Japanese art‚ especially ukiyo-e print‚ had a special appeal to some French impressionistic artists of the time such as Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse- Lautrec. In this time period imperialism in Europe had sparked an interest in other cultures of the world. With the opening of Japanese trade‚ its culture was revealed to Europeans as
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The Shifting of Pangea Have you ever noticed that a map of the world looks like a puzzle and the continents look like the pieces that would fit together to complete the puzzle. In 1912‚ Alfred Wegener‚ a German scientist and an adventurer‚ came up with a theory that the continents had once been part of a "supercontinent". Wegener proposed that‚ over 200 million years‚ what he called Pangea had separated and became individual pieces. Pangea means "all lands" in Greek‚ and that is what Pangea
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Traditionally‚ national retailers outsource apparel production‚ via global brokers‚ to thousands of small apparel makers. The typical apparel manufacturer‚ usually located in a low-wage country‚ is a small-scale operation that employs a few to a few dozen workers. In a labor-intensive process‚ workers make specific pieces of clothing‚ often in a narrow range of sizes and colors. These pieces are then integrated with the output of hundreds of other such companies spread across dozens of countries
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