Essays on Misunderstanding

Perrier, an iconic brand in the world of mineral water, started to experience some problems the year after it great success of 1989. The previous year it had remarkably sold 1.2 billion bottles of mineral water, almost half to the population in the United States. The reason for their remarkable sale can be attributed to the absence of potential competitors in the market. The people had no choice, and therefore, they had to buy Perrier’s bottled water. However, in the year 1990, a minute quantity of benzene detected in the bottle reduced its sale by almost fifty percent ( ...

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The growing demand for the competitive specialists justifies the particular attention and concern to the Malaysian students’ reading comprehension skills from the Malaysian authorities. The introduction of teaching the Malaysian core school subjects in the English language (Yassin et al., 2009) provided the continual attempts and experiments to define the most efficient way to decrease achievement gaps in the reading of Malaysian pupils. Starting from the 5th grade, students extend their vocabulary through reading (Zubairi & Sarudin, 2009). The following research proposes the method of using “Reading Cues’ as scaffolding answering the closed or WH-questions to improve the performance of ...

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Introduction For many centuries women were deprived of their natural rights to control their life and even body and yet the struggle for equal rights is still continuing. At some point, feminism acquired a negative connotation that people today associate with the fanaticism and misandry. It is quite difficult to explain why the movement that released so many women from their invisible prisons is criticized by the modern society. A lot of women have fought to overcome discrimination, prejudice, and stereotyping of womanhood by changing the laws, altering the views of the society, and fighting back their oppressors. In ...

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Cross-cultural Communication In the book's Preface, Tannen states: "all communication is more or less cross-cultural." (Tannen) What does she mean by this statement? This point has to be made because challenges arise in communication when there is more than one culture involved. In the communication process, culture differences are an issue during encoding and decoding. The challenge for the sender is to develop a message in forms that can be decoded successfully by the receiver without losing or misunderstanding the content and meaning of the message. The forms of communication like language and non-verbal communication are ...

Parallel Worlds in “Bridge to Terabithia”

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson is the story of two children, adolescents, who came up with their own, fantastic country, hiding from the world that does not accept and understand them. This book is about life and death, about the fragility of life and the way of life, about that how hard to find friends, and that people should forgive even enemies. It is sad, but incredibly touching story of friendship, loyalty and love, the first mistakes and incorrigible consequences that children faced living in parallel worlds. Bridge to Terabithia is a story about the friendship of two ...

The first crusade was an event launched by Pope Urban II and it started a series of crusades that were meant to recapture what was known as the Holy lands. Marcus Bull presents the first crusade as a pilgrimage even though the Crusaders carried weapons. The crusade later turned into a military expedition perpetrated by Roman Catholic. In the study of the writings of the first crusade, Bull brings out the different authors’ perspectives about the actions of the crusaders and their motivation. For example, Susanna Throop refers to the crusades as a means to commit vengeance on the ...

Suzanne observes that; for decades, Hemingway scholars have used the term remate to describe the uniqueness in Hemingway's approach to autobiography and memoir. She also notes that Mary Hemingway's definition and use of the word remate is wrong. This wrong definition necessitates her to argue that reconsidering how we define and use the term remate would change our understanding about A Moveable Feast. She does manage to convince us through her well-dissected arguments, why Mary's definition and use of the term remate as well as that of other scholars is wrong, and that reconsidering the definition of the word ...

Within each society, people build relationships that foster growth and development as people interact with each other. The relationships vary according to the work and social standards of the specific society. In other words, most people in a particular society will work together to develop a common idea that will help to bind people together as a community. Within these societies, there are those simple or common guiding principles that are practiced for extended periods and become an integral part of the culture and the traditions of the society. But, not all consensuses within the society will guarantee the ...

Importance of listening

Listening is an active procedure that involves the focus on what is said. Furthermore, the listener must not allow other thoughts to permeate into the process. For this reason, proper listening requires a lot of focus and a strong ability to comprehend. It is only then that proper communication can occur between individuals or a group of people. Good communication enhances teamwork and reduces the chances of conflicts. Entrepreneurs and small business owners need to employ serious listening skills. Moreover, they need to foster the same ability to the other employees. When people within an organization can communicate properly, ...

The assumption that changes are as good as rest is not always taken positively when it is eventually put into practice. Often than not, reorganization is feared and strongly resisted because it brings around disturbances of the status quo, a threat to individuals vested interests in their jobs. Sometimes changes are altered resulting in a loss of effectiveness and an increase in costs. Vehement resistance to cultural, ethical and professional changes as is witnessed in the New Zealand Police Unit. The top brass in the New Zealand Police though some in subtle ways is up in arms against almost ...

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During the Anglo-American era, the Abbots and the Bishops ran the court systems. There were neither professional lawyers nor judges. The courts meeting was open to any individual the lawbreakers who had to be present during the ruling (Lynch, 2014). In the court proceeding, no recording was made. The judgment was made from the proceedings since there was no one preceding them. There was no direct mode of determining who had one the case between the plaintiff and the defendant. The complainant had to provide a more convincing proof and provide a body-witness for the credibility of their case. ...

Rational Choice Theory

Rational choice theory forms the basis for understanding and modeling the reasons why people make decisions or perform actions that lead to specific results and for prediction of their decisions and actions under specific circumstances. The roots of rational choice theory lie in political and classical economic theories. Its sociological use is innovative as allows to explain how social interactions influence people’s decisions and shape social order. However, rational choice theory is criticized for several reasons including over-rationalization of human thoughts, modernism, and ignoring of the social determinants. This critic seems well argued, as social behavior does not ...

The film “Lost in Translation” is really about the difficulties in translation, but not so much in the linguistic sense, as in the human, - translation of others’ feelings ("Lost In Translation (2003)"). The film is not so much the words as the information, the mood and emotions are not concluded just in words. This is perhaps one of the few movies, where the characters’ silence can be comfortable and talk about many things. A slow, as it might seem, dragged action is not the lack of pictures – that's the essence of the whole atmosphere of loneliness – the characters ...

The Music industry is ever full of juicy dramas. Friends and partners alike are turning foes day after day in what is majorly caused by a strong feeling of betrayal. It is normal to hear of conflicts between two or more rappers in the music industry as each musician is always looking for a top selling point to gain niche popularity. However, it always turns so unprofessional when two collaborating rappers are engrossed in a conflict of a song they were to release together. Gucci mane and Young Jeezey once found themselves in this kind of conflit in 2005 ...

In this essay, we will provide some general information of the importance of taking into consideration the difference between different cultures in everyday life. We will dwell a little on the case of Singapore and how it can be compared with our experience at work or at the university. Also, our own example of the usage of this case will be provided and analyzed due to one of the given Core Cultural Dimensions.

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All nationalities differ. But still, they can live and interact together without any problems if only both nations will treat each other respectively. And it is ...

According to Byng (2008) the use of power and the policies introduced by the United States government, in combination with the backlash of the September 11th attacks, and other extremist terrorist activities, have together created a high level of misunderstanding and of resentment against people of the Muslim faith in the United States. As a result, they suffer from a high level of discrimination, and resulting social inequality. One of the areas in which this is most visible is their access to, and treatment during, medical care. According to Stubbs (2003), following September 11th the Muslim population became the ...

Tourists Relationship with Food and Drinks

Introduction According to Dale (2006, p.2), tourism involves activities of people travelling to take vacationsin places that are outside their typical environments. These vacations do not exceed one consecutive year. Tourism is driven by several factors such as leisure, business, or any other purpose (Dale, 2006 p.2). The definition indicates that tourists move away from their usual homes to a destination where food, drinks, and culture are different.Food and culture are strongly linked. Food choices reflect the identity of the eater (Hurh and Kim, 1998 p.72). Human beings tend to adhere to taking familiar foods and drinks because of ...

Over the last like forty years, there has been a rapid emergence of criminal cases which is believed to be attributed by the expanding level of globalization. Although the use of internet and inventions in the information technology industry is beneficial, there are those who have used it to facilitate their criminal activities. Any act considered as a felony to the society is a crime. For instance, if one person robs another that act is regarded as an offense to everyone in the state. Examples of other crimes are homicide, rape, burglary, a conspiracy among others ("Key Cases: Criminal ...

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Domestic violence in the United States is on the increase and cases of deaths are high due to that. The question on whether to have mandatory arrest of domestic violence suspects is a topic that requires a keen analysis due to the gravity of the issue at hand. Mandatory arrest referrers to a law that requires compulsory arrest by police officers while responding to domestic violence cases. Mandatory arrests are considered important in preventing future crimes by the persons involved. As a result, the law is seen as necessary for implementation for the cases of domestic violence. In most ...

The popular American show The Colbert Report is considered a crucial satire encounter in recent years. Watching the news satire and late-night talk show on Comedy Central triggered extra interest in satire and how it is employed in contemporary American society to communicate current issues of interest. Focusing on Stephen Colbert, its fictional anchorman, the show mainly satirized political programs driven by conservative personalities. Appreciation of this show as a satire and parody encounter is used as a point of departure for this construction, which explores how satire works in a socio-political setting as that presented by the show. ...

Advanced organization behaviour

Organizational behavior involves the study of human behavior in institutional settings. It forms an interface between the behavior of people within the organization and the organization itself (Locke, 2009). There are three levels of organization behavior. The first type is the micro level. This level involves individuals. Furthermore, it focuses on how the individuals interact with each other at the personal level. Various people portray varied kinds of body language toward one another. This trait can be visible from the way people talk to one another or make facial expressions. The second type of behavior occurs at the meso-level. ...

Flight Logistics Agencies,

11-04-2016 The Chief Operations Officer, Highway Travels, Colorado Dear Sir, RE: RESTRUCTRUING OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES I am writing with reference to the recent incidences that have led to some misunderstanding on the functional operations involved in the flight operations. First, I would like to express my sincere apologies for the miscommunication that have contributed to the inconveniences and the errors that have led to disruptions in the functional operations of the firm. My team and I take full responsibility for the miscommunication and failure to update the relevant authority on the major changes and context of our operations as ...

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Daigle (2012) suggests that the rampant misuse and misunderstanding of the Garrity warning is something that has a profound effect on the administrative and managerial part of law enforcement. Law enforcement has to have a way to elicit responses from employees to determine employees’ willingness and ability to do their jobs; this should be entirely separate from the criminal prosecution that can occur as a result of criminal misconduct (Daigle, 2012). Administrative and internal affairs professionals must be able to appropriately understand how and when to use the statements given to them by personnel. When an officer issues a ...