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The Role of First Language in Second Language Acquisition

expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...

Article Analysis: Japanese Architecture

a renowned Japanese architect who makes his home in Osaka. The new museum is "dedicated to the relics and techniques of ancient Ja...

Japan, National Goals/1868-1890 & 1890-1912

63). Through incremental decrees, the Meiji government moved toward creating a highly centralized, bureaucratic government. Duri...

The Effects of Bushido on Japanese Culture

would take place there ("Bushido," 2005). It would be with the ending of the Edo period that loyalty and restraint would emerge as...

Is The Japanese Manufacturing System Appropriate In The U.S.

documentary that asked why American manufacturing enterprises could not be as successful as Japanese enterprises (Heller, 2005). B...

Sovereignty: What It Means In Today's Global Society

in world politics illustrates how such groups form out of a need to "right" perceived wrongs. Since they believe their duty is to...

Adult Undergraduate Learning

by in large, adults such a Emerald require instruction that shows them how their life knowledge relates to areas of academic study...

Traditional Personnel Management and Human Resource Management; A Comparison

long established, and therefore has a longer history that HRM but it should be noted that there are some large cross overs as well...

Politics and Cultural Values

the political correctness that goes along with it have won out. This triumph is concerning to say the least. Weyrich (17) warns,...

Organizational Change; From A Traditional Organizational Model to A Transformed Organizational Model

Jordanian royal court undertook consultations with the US Health and Human Services National Cancer Institute (Moe et al., 2007). ...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

The Relationship between Culture Modernity in South Korea

rituals undertaken in line with societal values of the time which may reflect events, to architecture output which lasts well beyo...

Lethal Injection: Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

by electric chair, hanging, and shooting squad seem quite morbid! Those, however, have been the primary means that have been used...

Pa Chin's "Family" - Author's Message

both grand and far-reaching; that this conundrum proves damaging to the familys whole infrastructure speaks to the underlying mess...

Patient Simulators/Human Patients in Nursing Education

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

Triple Bottom Line and Systems Theory; Similarities and Differences in the Accounting Approaches

This 3 page paper compares and contrasts to approaches to accounting; triple bottom line and the use of systems theory. The approa...

Leaving Variance Analysis Behind

Walker (2005, p. 43) presents a scenario to which she applies variance analysis. Though variance analysis techniques can be used ...

Obesity in America

genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...

Multiple Intelligences & Gifted Students

researchers such as Howard Gardner proposing that intelligence applies to multiple aspects of cognition, rather than simply to the...

Is Personality Fixed Throughout One’s Lifetime?

difference between these two statements may seem subtle, but Herbert notes that "to the developing mind the two messages are night...

INTERNET MARKETING AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

open the discussion, well first point out the differences between traditional marketing and that used for the Internet. Traditiona...

SYSTEM THINKING AND THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS

of supply and inventory moves into a particular project, then goes through and ends up with the finished project. In a standard ma...

Assessing Divisional Performance

and a high growth rate is an unknown quantity, the final result is not known and as such this is referred to as a questions mark, ...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

Architectural Similarities and Differences in Kuala Lampur and Dubai

that people could better escape the somewhat inhospitable environment as they moved from building to building. Their time outside...

Virtual Multi-Cultural Teams

multi-cultural work teams can easily fail and when it is a virtual team, even more problems may emerge. Virtual multi-cultural ...

Habermas: Universality Of Linguistic Understanding

and aesthetic projects of resistance and revolution, recooperation and universalism all played an integral role within the ultimat...

JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF KOREA

adopt Japanese names and convert to Shintoism, the native Japanese religion (Life in Korea, 2006). Korean citizens were also prohi...

Ethnobotany in Belize

patients with locally grown trees, roots, plants, and shrubs for more than 2,000 years with more than 950 species from which to dr...

IP Telephony

is, how it works and how it compares to traditional forms of telecommunications. By understanding what the technology is and how i...