West Indies Yacht Club Resort: When Cultures Collide Jeffrey P. Shay University of Montana In early December 1994‚ Patrick Dowd‚ a 30-year-old management consultant‚ stared out his office window at the snowy Ithaca‚ New York‚ landscape. Dowd reflected on his recent phone conversation with Jim Johnson‚ general manager of the 95-room West Indies Yacht Club Resort (WIYCR)‚ located in the British Virgin Islands. Johnson sounded desperate to pull the resort out of its apparent tailspin and noted
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the natural beauty around us. In Cornell University‚ one of the most beautiful campuses in the whole world‚ I found my special niche in the place called Beebe Lake. Before I came to Cornell‚ I once thought that I was very familiar to lakes‚ for there is a big park with three different sizes of lakes next to my house. But now‚ the Beebe Lake refreshed and changed my understanding of how to define a lake is vigorous or dynamic. From the introduction of the Cornell famous sceneries‚ we can know that
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Post-apartheid Society “A Matter of Taste” by Alex La Guma Alex La Guma’s short story “A Matter of Taste” talks about the post-apartheid social relationships and conflicts between the mixed races‚ also known as the coloureds and the whites. Through the observation of John‚ the narrator‚ the American Dream is interpreted differently by Whitey and Chinaboy; in other words‚ by the wealthy and respectable whites and the poor non-whites. Throughout the short story‚ various examples of characterization
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“APING THE WEST” Of late the trend has been to follow whatever is done in the west and it is becoming a sort of in-thing to be doing it. Is it due to liberalization of economy that we are also attempting to liberalize our life style. Indians have started aping the west completely and the western influences can be clearly seen in our behavior‚ culture‚ attire and even language. Though to say‚ we are an independent nation but instead of promoting our culture‚ we are aping the west and one would
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States of matter are the distinct forms that different phases of matter take on. Historically‚ the distinction is made based on qualitative differences in bulk properties. Solid is the state in which matter maintains a fixed volume and shape; liquid is the state in which matter maintains a fixed volume but adapts to the shape of its container; and gas is the state in which matter expands to occupy whatever volume is available. This diagram shows the nomenclature for the different phase transitions
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Franz West A Brief biography of Franz West Franz West was born in Vienna in 1947 and studied at the Academy of Applied Arts‚ Vienna. He died in Vienna in July 2012. West’s work has been a fixture in countless international survey exhibitions such as Documenta and Biennales all over the world‚ and it is included in major public collections including Centre Pompidou‚ Paris; Museum Ludwig‚ Cologne‚ the Museum of Modern Art‚ New York; and MAXXI‚ Rome. Recent solo exhibitions include “We’ll Not
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The Space Race Three‚ two‚ one‚ blast off. The ship went up in smoke as it rose to the atmosphere and launched the first satellite into space. This achievement started the Space Race. The race to the Moon would be an excruciating and long task for the U.S. and the Soviet Union. First‚ The Soviet Union was winning and the U.S was falling behind. The Soviet Union launched the first ever satellite. The Soviet Union also put the first man into orbit. The U.S. Tried to launch a satellite but failed. President
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Islam and the West: Conflict‚ Democracy‚ Identity Akeel Bilgrami‚ Columbia University This short essay analyzes the deception and self-deception in talk of ‘the clash of civilizations’ and proceeds to diagnose what is wrong in the standard understanding of Islam in the Western media today by looking to the abiding history of colonial relations with Islam down to this day and also looking to the relation between ideals of democracy and the formation of religious identities. The essay closes with some
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Transforming the West -West is the supplier and place where all the raw material comes from -Main supplier of the East CONTENT: Transcontinental Railroad -Completed in the 1870’s‚ over 2 mountain ranges 1 company owned primarily by people who made money as storekeepers -Government Project‚ but owned privately -Land grant railroads -Opened up the west‚ tied California and the East together Indian Affairs -Government took on Indian policy that wanted to get them out of the way Western
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Why should the Western Countries begin to fear Joseph Stalin’s actions within the year 1945? Looking within the Cold War‚ many people believe and wonder over the origins and the causes of the Cold War and the actions of which preceded it and caused such anger between Truman‚ Churchill and Stalin. It was established before the date of where the Cold War had first started‚ that there was growing conflict between the world leaders of Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of Great Britain} Harry S Truman
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