the end of his third year at Energem Mark was offered a three-year international assignment opportunity at the corporate headquarters in London. The job was another promotion and he would now be part of the company’s senior management. This was a great opportunity and with the expatriate benefits package and Mark’s wife Linda would not have to work and could stay at home with their two children who were still very young. She could always go back to work as a private banker when they returned to Singapore
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From Dewey Ballantine’s point-of-view‚ what are the critical issues in this case. Which among them are most important? The company was culturally insensitive. Issue spread out from internal communication. Who are the principal stakeholders here? What’s at stake for each of them? Asian-american community Getter (mail sender) law firms‚ law students‚ public interest groups‚ and various Internet message boards Is this just a temporary matter for the firm‚ or are complaints and animosity like to persist
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Women’s roles 1950 Women’s roles were greatly changed in the 1950s‚ with the men coming back from war and taking their jobs back. Women had‚ during World War II‚ taken men’s jobs while they had been away at war. After the war‚ many women wanted to keep their jobs. Many of them became wives and mothers as the men came back from the war. In 1957‚ 70% of working women held clerical positions‚ assembly lines or service jobs. 12 % held a profession and 6% held management positions. Those that held professional
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John Vanier is one of the greatest of Canadians that has inspired our world to live united together in community. He was born in Geneva‚ Switzerland in 1928 but received an education through England and Canadian schools while growing up. He served in both the Royal Canadian Navy and the British Navy but shortly after he decided to follow a more spiritual direction in life. During this time he went back to school to further his education and also was a professor at University of Toronto.
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According to the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) ‚ a discourse community is “the grouping of people who share common language norms‚ characteristics‚ patterns‚ or practices as a consequence of their ongoing communications and identifications with each other”‚ with that being said the discourse community of Political Science is one of relevance and interest to myself. There are many different articles and pages that serve to help one understand all about discourses and the discourse
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“The Concept of Discourse Community‚” an excerpt from the book Genre Analysis‚ by John Swales attempts to indicate the actual definition of a discourse community. Swales main argument is that there is a difference between a speech community and a discourse community. Also‚ that there are six characteristics a group must meet in order to be a discourse community. Swales then provides examples and discusses issues concerning the idea of a discourse community. In the beginning of Swales argument‚
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The search beneath the Google Search Researching is a skill most people have but in all reality are the sources that we’re finding that reliable and helpful? After completing the extensive research for this paper I learned skills that will be beneficial in the future. Personally‚ I was one of those students who turned to Google for everything. Considering Google has numerous articles‚ it can save time and come in handy‚ but going above and beyond Google is something that is necessary for college
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David T. Lai Mr. McCarthy American Literature Period 7 12 May 2003 How did The Great Depression influence the works of John Steinbeck? The purpose of this paper is to discover the role that the Great Depression played on the work of John Steinbeck. "I must go over to the interior valleys. There are about five thousand families starving to death over there‚ not just hungry but starving. The government is trying to feed them and get medical attention to them with the fascist groups of utilities
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marshmallows‚ pies‚ and so much more. All this started nearly 86 years ago‚ with the at-that-time outrageous dreams of a 15 year old boy‚ working in a candy factory‚ wondering about what the cake world could become. Dewey McKinley Wilton was born at the turn of the 20th century. Dewey was born into a very poor family‚ with 2 brothers and one sister. When his mother died in her 30s‚ Dewey’s father had to provide for his relatively large family by finding work‚ however strange‚ wherever he could. Dewey’s
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Discussing Discourses Many people find the concept of a discourse community to be important enough to write about but many have failed to create a clear and universal definition. Three scholars: Porter‚ Swales‚ and Gee each attempt to create their own definition of the concept. Each of their articles has major differences in their interpretation of the notion of discourse communities while still having underlying similarities. The articles all build off the work of others while also introducing
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