Essays on Chun

It is normally challenging to research the history of Chinese Kung Fu due to the scarcity of written records on the same topic. For most of the Kung FU communities, the clan practices and history was passed down from one generation to the other orally. With time, the descendant themselves became the teachers and taught the new generation according to what they learned from their ancestors. Thus, history and traditions were transitioned from one generation to the rest through word of mouth. In “Wing Chun Kung-Fu,” Yim Lee gives a brief description of the origin of Wing Chun and ...

Integrity

Integrity

Integrity is a critical value for any manager who is leading a team to possess because it

can potentially inspire subordinates to achieve their best work. Gentry, Cullen, Sosik, Chun, Leupold, and Tonidandel (2013) define integrity as behaving in a manner that is consistent with the established rules of a company while ensuring that job expectations are met. Kaiser and Hogan (2010) further asserted that integrity is a quality that specifically deals with a person’s moral character. A manager needs to have integrity in his or her work because it is important to acknowledge that subordinates watch how the leader operates in various situations and they expect the manager to lead others by example. ...

In the “It Can be a Religion if You Want’: Wing Chun Kung Fu as Secular Religion,” it is clear that the relationship of people with Wing Kung could be said as religious, and the life evolving around Wing Chun was complex. These themes of the spiritual and religious sensitization surrounding the life of Wing are found in the biographical accounts of martial artists. The history can be found in the genres of people like Polly, Powell, and Preston. It was noted that the literature that the martial practices would at sometimes perfect to form a spiritual perfection. ...

Thesis statement

Effective labor relations help identify different systems and mechanisms necessary for successful implementation of the reform process to streamline organization operations (Castro, 2014). To justify the rationale of active labor relation, the paper outlines the various demerits of having a bad industrial relation in organizations and why voters often become reluctant to implementing change. The essay takes account of the views of different scholars on the subject with a justification of the existing theories on the matter. In the first section, the critical analysis justifies the need to conduct the study, indicating that the concept of workplace relation has ...

Ceramic art and its various forms

The art of pottery might be the oldest one among all other forms of art and it has been proven to exist even 8000 years ago when people used to mix clay and water and used to heat the mixture till it got into the desired shape. The invention of pottery and ceramic art was developed as a tool to create more vessels like glasses and bowls and it ultimately led to the improvement in the standard of living. The evolution in the overall technology and methods used in case of pottery has been directly proportional to the growing ...

Introduction

The leading companies with a global footprint in the soft drink industry are Coca cola, Cadbury Schweppes and PepsiCo. The rivalry between these giants has shifted gears from the pop fight to other product flavors in order to seek exponential growth. The main areas of comparison of the giants are by market size, growth rate and profitability. The market size has been on the rise with 2004 clocking at $307 billion and an increase to $367 billion in 2009 (Kish u. a., 2001). The growth rate has been on the decline largely due to market saturation in the United ...

Comics are a simple and engaging style of storytelling with the help of images, visual art and words. The images are arranged in a panel and into a sequential narrative. Words might or might not be used and usually, appear in a box or balloons near the images. The essay discusses MAUS graphic novel, its content and visual strategies used by the illustrator to convey the information. It evaluates as to how some specific concepts of comics are employed by the author of MAUS. When one mentions a graphic novel, it conjures images of illustrated books and comics. There ...

Over the years the PRC existence, the country's banking system passed a difficult and contradictory path of development, reflecting the peculiarities of the economic policy pursued by the state at a particular stage. In the late 70-ies of the last century in China economic and social reform was launched in order to create a model of “socialism with Chinese specifics” which would combine the primacy of market principles and effective macro control of the administering state agencies. In the process of creation of this model, an important role is given to China's banking system, as it is an institution, ...

Abstract

Pine Crest School is a Fort Lauderdale, FL-based school offering educational services for Pre-K, Kindergarten, Lower School, Middle School and Upper School students. The school offers a broad range of academic, extracurricular and community activities for enrolled students. In an attempt to appraise her commitment, Pine Crest School's Mission Statement and Vision Statement are analyzed. Textual, content and search engine analyses are performed in order to appraise school's pronounced statements against the actual implementation on the school's official website. Further, Pine Crest School's 2014-2019 Strategic Vision and Recommendations, school's de facto Vision Statement, is discussed. Pine Crest School's main ...

Abstract

This study sought to investigate the fact that there is greater likelihood of one to falter in detecting the second target T2 after he has detected the first target T1. There had been concerns that participants in previous studies had problems in detecting the second target after 200 ms -500 ms from the first target. The researcher employed a 2 ×6 experimental design; it involved a randomized sample of 49 university students. Using web experiment software, Interactive Sensation Laboratory Exercise (ISLE), the researcher had students identifying letter S as the first target and letter T as the second target ...

Article 1: Knowledge and Culture in Tourism Organization Management by Ēriks Lingebērziņš

There is considerable information loss between incoming tour operators and their customers who come from emerging, non-Western markets, yet the extent of this loss resists measurement. It is important to integrate cultural competencies into the management processes and practices of international tourism organizations in order to minimize information loss and contribute to the experience of a diverse range of customers. Cultural competency means more than just hiring staff from various countries or who speak more than one language; it includes values, beliefs, and attitudes. International tourism organizations must constantly be in a learning mode in order to understand the ...

Institutional of Affiliation

Chun-Ping Changa and Chien-Chiang Lee research to identify whether presidential approval varies with the economic performance of a country have found out that people approve more of regimes as their economic performance is. This nonlinear relationship identifies that presidents whom the economy performs best when they are in power will receive more approval than those who the economy goes downhill. Due to the recent unemployment rates and recession and raising debts of Americans President Barack Obama popularity had been going downhill, the little unpredictability of the economy results to quick reaction from Americans than any other incident. Voters have ...