Essays on China

IKEA is considered as retailer internationalization since IKEA’s plan into entering a new location is organizing strategic objective, understanding the local nature of markets and using outlet as a retailer’s product. A strategic planning is required for IKEA when internationalizing into a new location they are moving into so as to be successful. Psychic distance and Uppsala model should be applied into their strategy and wherever they move into would be a success as IKEA already possess a strong brand image, also has strong relationship of network structure, large number of suppliers and customers would easily associate with them

Implementation of the Recommendations

With respect to the recommendation ...

International trade is defined from various sources as the exchange of goods and services between countries. International trade allows countries to expand their markets for both goods and services that may not otherwise be found domestically. In international trade, the goods and services are called imports and exports and it mainly involves foreign exchange. International trade is either visible (exchange of goods) or invisible (for exchange of services like tourism and electricity).

Imports: these are commodities ...

According to a new regulation, drivers in China are required to stop at the yellow light, just like the red light regardless of the the speed at which one is driving or the distance between the vehicle and the traffic light. In china accumulation of 6 point in a single year leads to giving up of once license until one completes one week course and pass the onerous test. Even though the prohibition of mobile phone usage and smoking while driving also accompanied the yellow light regulation, it is the yellow light traffic rules amendment the evoked a state of tumultuousness. Just ...

Every culture has differences in communication and communication styles. These differences may be vast and nearly insurmountable, or they may be smaller, nearly imperceptible differences. Without an awareness of these differences, however, there can be problems with communicating across cultural boundaries. Even within a culture, there can be differences in verbal and nonverbal communication between members of different socioeconomic classes or individuals of different genders; these differences do not necessary preclude communication, but they can cause problems if the people who are communicating are not aware and sensitive to the differences.

For this activity, I was assisted by my ...

The publication focuses on the foreign policy of the U.S. with China and provides some of the key recommendations that if implemented could help in resolving the tension between China and the U.S. The key areas in question include economy and trade, democracy and human rights, military competition, and foreign policy.

The publication offers a suggestion the U.S. can adopt to put pressure on China to respect intellectual property rights without causing a trade war between the two countries. Through this recommendation, the U.S. can be able to take an ethical stand on areas affecting America’s economic and diplomatic ...

Article Summaries

Article Summaries:

Samsung became a leader in Smartphone market after receiving the title of world’s top smart phone maker. Samsung Smart phones are grown up by 44 percent in international markets and showing a promising growth in coming quarters. Smart phone market is mainly dominated by Apple and Samsung. In the current quarter, Samsung sales were £1.4 billion whereas apple managed only 17.1 billion. Apple suffered a loss of 16 percent in unit sold and is able to maintain only 16 percent market share. On the other hand Samsung was able to capture 23.8 percent Smartphone market share. Now everyone is ...

Terry Zupita must decide whether she should invest in Universal Autos, which is an American firm that is partnering with the Chinese government to manufacture U.S. automobiles in China. If she makes the investment, it appears that Ms. Zupita’s money will grow substantially during the next few years. However, friends and relatives have told her that UA might use child labor in its Chinese plants, and that employees often are abused in such plants. Should Terry purchase UA? If she does, she could be supporting exploitation of children and mistreatment of employees.1. Is there an ethical problem? If ...

Introduction

Most parents around the world wish the best for their children leading them to seek for the most convenient way to do it. Love acts as a key factor for bringing up successful children. Amy Chua never gave her daughters (Sophia and Louisa) an opportunity to attend a sleepover or have a date play and at the same time insisted that they should not take part in a school play. She also required them to get an A grade and nothing less than that. The two daughters were not allowed to complain for not participating in a school play neither should they watch TV ...

Labor cost

Effect of the World Economy as China commodity increases Chinese has employed wide use of the mass production as a manufacturing strategy. This has lowered the price of commodities compared to other markets in the world. The Chinese product has been more competitive in the entire market and contributing largely to the economy of the country. The exported products to the international market from china have a competitive advantage due to the low cost. In comparison to other markets the Chinese products such as DVD player and sweater among others, are cheap and hence attracting consumers. United States has ...

Religion is regarded as one of the most important and impulsive identifiers of a culture as it consists of moral values and principles that have a strong foothold in the conventional cultural model. For the same reason, when one’s religion is threatened, it puts everything at risk; past, present and future (Simonsen & Spindlove 17). The same has happened in China where the Muslim Uighur from Xinjiang have formed activist groups in order to protect their religious standing and have an independent Islamic state of their own. The history of Uighurs’ independence dates back to A.D. 744. ...

Advanced countries have been on the fore front in advocating for Kyoto Protocol of 1997. In the USA, the Chicago Climate Exchange has been on the frontline as an operator of the emission trading scheme. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is legal binding actually a first voluntary GHG reduction and also a trading system that aims to emit and offset projects in the Brazil and the North America. Such a scheme helps achieve reduction goals through a cost effective means and via trading emission allowances between the available participants. The Chicago Climate Exchange has proclaimed and described itself as the rules based ...

Abstract

The FIFA World Cup Soccer contest was held in South Africa (SA) in 2010. Planning the event and managing the resources were very challenging because SA did not have a well-developed tourist infrastructure. Many gaps were found during the planning stage that needed to be corrected if so the event would meet high expectations and show SA at its best. The government invested 3.15 billion Rands to make improvements for tourism needs. The largest expenditure for the government was for the safety and security of tourists. Tourism rose ...

Introduction

Throughout history, Chinese people have been migrating to USA in search for greener passage. From 1826 to 1950, they were booking their passage on ships like occidental and oriental steamship company, and pacific mail Steamship Company to travel. The money that they required to fund their journey was mostly borrowed from family members, commercial lenders or district associations. The first Chinese people to arrive in Los Angeles were men, who specialized in manual work. Their work mainly included gardening, laundry, road builders or ranch work. The migration of Chinese people from china was localized and controlled through parts of ...

Analysis for reformulating the business model

With regard to the economics of a business, some performance metrics determines the success of a business venture in a certain region. These elements comprise of customers, competition, technology and the regulatory framework. In order to appreciate the background and the context of eBay, it is crucial to have an insight on its history. As an American company, eBay had survived the dot-com bubble in the US. Founded in 1995, the company had grown to a level of recording revenue at least 18% of its revenue by 2001 (Ireland, Hoskisson and Hitt). Therefore, having had such success in the US and international markets, ...

Personal Statement: Robert H. Smith School of Business

I have been dreaming of pursuing my Masters of Science degree in business since well before I graduated from secondary school. My family has always supported my dreams of leaving China for America and pursuing my education, but it is not until recently that these dreams began to seem achievable in the near future. After I graduated from Xi’An Jiantong University, I was fortunate enough to receive the good news that I had been admitted into the University of Nebraska’s Bachelor of Science program for business administration. At the University of Nebraska, I worked extremely hard and ...

Executive Summary

Macau is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region, just across the border for Hong Kong. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. However, unfortunately this is not the case, primarily because of the intense pressure on manpower, which is contributing to labour turnover in Macau, so much that, almost 30% of the SMEs are facing closure ...

The most fundamental frontier for growth in international business is making the franchise and international business entity. Well-established always look beyond the local and national market to tap the opportunities available in the other countries (Hill 1). Making a business to go international is not a new strategy in the business world. However, O’Mart Organic Market (OOM) needs careful planning and analysis of the market because of the nature of international business. Opening five branches in five different cities in China is a good plan that will maximize the huge Chinese market, given the population of the ...

Introduction

This presentation entails a reflection of the child labor practices applied in the context of the manufacture of goods and services and which are prevalent in China. Many American companies with large scale operations across the globe usually outsource some of their production operations to China due to the favorable cost propositions found there. The goods and services are then manufactured there and shipped to the United States where they are packaged and sold (Basu, 2010). However, a good number of the Chinese factories where these goods are produced are involved in child labor ...

For primary research, an online questionnaire was prepared that was forwarded to Chinese Students in West and Western friends and from them, it was further forwarded to their friends. This research strategy was time saving but Questionnaire was made by first analyzing how different researchers, researching in similar field, do their research. After that, they were compared with our research objectives and purposes. Highlighted differences made it clear as to how should a new questionnaire were made which could bring reliable results after analysis. Survey questions were kept as unbiased as possible. The questionnaire has three parts, first in which ...

Globalization is a term used to explain the enhanced connectivity between nations, institutions, corporations, culture and people. It assumes a borderless world whereby ideas, finances, goods and services move freely across perceived boundaries that include borders, languages, governments and time. Some circles suggest we are in a second wave of globalization following the industrial revolution that emanated from England in the 18th century (Lewellen, 2002). The current wave of globalization has been prompted by the growth in communications, particularly in relation to advancements in, and widespread use of networked technologies.

Modernization can be interpreted as a western conception of industrialization. In a traditional ...

SuperCharge holds itself to the highest standards as it introduces its new product into the marketplace in Beijing, China. These standards are based in the core values of SuperCharge, which are as follows: exemplary customer service; satisfaction guarantee; and environmental awareness. These core values permeate through every part of the business, but they become especially important in regards to intercultural conflict.

These three core values are all non-negotiable. Although the situations may vary from place to place as the product is launched, the values will not change. In Beijing, China, a place filled with an abundance of potential customers, ...

INTRODUCTION

- Attention Diplomatic ties between nations are of great importance as the saying goes no nation is an island in matters concerning trade, It is unimaginable to have oil as the key economic resource but lack market for this important good?. - Need It is of importance to maintain the long existed trade the between China and Saudi Arabia traceable to 1980s and which formed deep inter-relations in 1990s necessitating diplomatic interventions to make trading between the countries formal (Amineh, 2010 P. 12). Mutual benefits and comparative advantage in production and marketing of goods and services, ...

The African continent has become a place where advanced nations have resorted to for scramble for its natural wealth. Africa is is rich in in minerals and natural resources attractive to outside forces. The fact that many African continents are still recovering from slavery makes it even more vulnerable to outside forces who come to invest in the countries to get a share of the resources. Africa has been riddled by dictators and western powers have taken advantage of this fact reducing the continent to a beggarly state. With the high rate on malnutrition, disease and death there has been increase in ...

The supply chain flow of Riordan Mfg is not fully centralized around the headquarters office in San Jose, where the company’s R&D department is located. Three production plants are located in states Georgia, Michigan and abroad in China. The production cycle starts from raw materials and every facility always has sufficient amount of polymers to produce plastic parts quickly. Supply chain at the moment is broken to three plants with the same flow: raw materials – production plant – shipment company – customers.

Every facility specializes in a narrow field of plastic production: Albany – plastic beverage containers, Pontiac – custom plastic parts, ...

Today, the Sri Vijaya Empire personifies the glory and pride of the proud past of the Malay people. But an astonishing fact is that this kingdom was virtually unknown for the past few centuries, and was erased not just from the history books but also from the memories of the Malay people till the year 1918. The Sri Vijaya Empire was located in Palembang and Bukit Seguntang functioned as its capital. The historical evidence collected so far indicates that the kingdom was powerful, and served as an important Buddhist development centre between the centuries of ...

The human rights crisis between the Tibetans and the Chinese government started in the early 1900s. The Chinese government recognizes Tibet as part of it and cannot be separated. Accordingly, clashes, protest by the Tibet arrests and detention have characterized the relation between the two parties as Tibet seeks her independence from China. In 1959, a failed uprising by Tibet claimed thousand lives and 80, 000 fled to India where the formed a government which was to be used as a vehicle to reach the international community.

Human rights for the Tibetans have been violated for a long period of time. This ...

It all began in 1971 after President Nixon lowered trade restrictions between China and U.S. This led to dramatic events, which helped end more than decades of Sino-American hostility. It occurred when President Nixon met the ailing Chinese dictator, Mao Zedong, with the aim of improving the Sino-American relationship. This was due to Nixon’s belief on the importance of maintaining a strategic equilibrium among the super powers, which led to the development of a foreign policy that established a stable triangular balance of power (Norton et al, 2012).

This led to reduced military actions that could spark emotions among the ...

Business

The first point stuck into the mind after reading this article is that the government of the United States of America is concerned about improving the quality of bulbs and other electric equipments to reduce the power consumption in the country. Moreover, new technology is cost-effective for the consumers. However, shutting down the industry will create unemployment because the quality of bulbs that is required by the government is manufactured in China. Therefore, shutting down the industry in America will increase unemployment in the USA and create the jobs in China. (Whoriskey)

Another major concern is that the ...

Natural Gas in China: An Overview

This research paper delves into the prospects for the Peoples Republic of China’s gas market, its consequences for her needs, and the possible world’s effects of China’s natural gas policies.

All the way through 2020, China aims to carry out intense shifts in her energy outline. Accordingly, China’s natural gas represents is beneficial as it aims to advance towards a cleaner energy and to eliminate coal as a fuel. However, as the Chinese government continues to support the usage of ...

- Key points in Business Week Articles on Outsourcing & Impact on China Broadcasting Industry

There are several points that are identified in the Business Week articles on outsourcing. In the Rise of India article, the points raised are that outsourcing is considered as an opportunity for the jobless recovery in the tech and services between India and America.

However, the outsourcing has raised the jobless rate among US software engineers that have increased 4.6% in the 3 years. The report by Bureau of Labor statistics has recorded unemployment of IT professionals is 234,000. The outsourcing is a ...

Overview

Chengdu is one of China’s largest cities. In people’s perception, it is favorable and in 2006 China Daily named it the 4th-most livable city in the country. It is also one of the oldest cities in the world, founded 2,000 years ago. Most recently it was in the national spotlight for earthquakes, which led to thousands in the city and surrounding area to lose their lives or homes. The major religion of the area is Buddhism and Daoism.

Geography

Chengdu is one of China’s most important cities. It is located on a large plain area that varies ...

Investing in the other countries provides several benefits to the investors, which include attractive, and more returns and the diversification opportunity. The introduction of the investment products has now made the assessment of international markets easier (Agarwal & Ramaswami, 1992). But, at the same time it is essential for people who are making investments overseas to have the basic idea and understanding of the working of international markets.

Being CEO of the organization based within the United States, I will invest in China. This is due to the fact that the economy of China has huge potential; it provides ...

The Asian Americans form the fastest growing ethnic groups in the US. Most of these Asian Americans comprised of low wage laborers who travelled to the US in search of proper living. This group mainly originated from regions such as china, Far East, south Asian and the Indian subcontinent. This paper however lays emphasis on the Asian Americans comprising of the Chinese ethnic group.

The Chinese group went to the US with the intention of working in the Californian gold rushes in the 1850s. Through their skills, they worked in agricultural plantations, factories and in the building of ...

So where is the trust? This paper has researched and highlighted the effects of food manufacturing in an era of mass preparations, not necessarily concerned with health benefits of edible items. Industrialization continues to burgeon in every field: medicine, sports, media broadcasting, and food production. This moment represents a critical time for industrial food technology. In terms of safe, sanitary livestock, fruit and vegetable production there exists the simultaneous competition to make food products tasty, cost-efficient, and instantly consumed. Chemical-based food additives add flavors and colorings attractive to children, but are greasy French fries loaded with salt (and the promise ...

Explain how the people’s republic of china has managed to control the spread of terrorism within their borders. Has the Chinese government attempted to control religious groups? Have they been successful? Why or why not? Use at least one internet source in addition to the text to answer this question.

The people’s republic of china has been facing terrorism for many decades. The largest threat is the internal terrorism. The internal terrorism is mainly attacking the minorities in the country. The latest killing of Chinese people in the city of Kunming have taken many innocent lives. ...

Impact of recent changes in India, Japan, and other Asian countries on your own life

India, Japan, China and other Asian countries have emerged to be economic power houses over the past few decades. Economists attribute this paradigm shift to accelerated integration to the international economy that happened in 1979- 2002. Foreign direct investment (FDI) increased during this period to over US$50 billion in china alone.

India’s independence led to a steady growth in economy and per capita income due to a modern economy. However, this growth was not optimal due to adoption of “License Raj”. This meant that you needed the license in order to do virtually anything. For instance you could ...

Abstract

Chinese entrepreneurship is known to be influenced by historically traditional and cultural characteristics. The concept of Chinese businesses that the family patriarch critically manages them continues to hold true, although in the modern world as opposed to two decades ago, it has slowly changed. However, much of the management is held by a male member of the family, whether they operate a business upon their property or if they lease or rent the property. The tradition of a Chinese family-run business retains its discernible mark in worldwide business.

As motivated as they may be maintaining past practices for the sake of ...

Political Implications of Sino-Saudi Relations to the US and Regional Affairs

Abstract As the largest and most influential nations in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has been considered a valuable asset to any country wishing to have influence in the tightly-knitted Middle East. Many nations throughout the years have tried to sway the Saudi government and monarchy into entering diplomatic and economic partnerships with them in order to gain access to the region’s oil reserves and establish their partnership but only a few have been successful. One of these successful nations is the People’s Republic of China, which has strong diplomatic, economic and social partnerships with Saudi. China has been ...

Discussion

Digital marketing provides a connection since it targets the space where the youth spend most of their time. They are immersed in internet activities and mobile services that tend to be modern, dynamic, and full of fun. The goods must speak their language by implementing holistic and dynamic strategies encompassing all aspects of the current digital world.

Social media for networking is very essential to be included in the youth audience oriented campaigns. Related data reports that the youth makes up the highest percentage of all the social connection with Twitter and Facebook considered the youngest social networking system ...

‘Fashion and quality at the best price’ is the motto on which H&M bases its business concept. H&M had humble beginnings over sixty years ago in Vasteras, Sweden. It is now a highly successful, contemporary fashion group with a global reach. H&M’s Annual Report for FY 2013 reported 3,132 department stores worldwide; H&M department stores are now in 53 countries.

Outward processing trade (OPT) agreements work well for many segments of the textile production and marketing sectors. OPT is better than free trade regulations for H&M when using production facilities in countries in closer proximity to ...

Introduction

A shoe is just shoe a shoe and a car is a car. In the same line, Ron Sim, the founder of OSIM knows a chair is a chair. However, how that car, shoe or OSIM chair is marketed makes all the difference. OSIM has been in the market for the last 35 years, and the company has grown from local household to an internal brand. The phenomenal growth has not been the lack of fair share of challenges. The recession that hit Singapore in 1985 was the first propeller for the company to seek international markets. In Singapore alone, the company has no ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Slide 1: While Chinese people have migrated all over the world, the demographic being focused on are the individuals living in China. Census data from 2012 stated that China’s population was at 1.2 billion, and is on a steady rise despite attempts to control the population . More than half of these people live in rural China.

Slide 2: Ethnic practices include gendercide. Each family is allowed one child, unless the first is a girl. Then they are allowed to try for a second child. Many baby girls are killed or left for dead in China because of this rule. As a ...

The police force in the Republic of China is popularly known as the ‘people’s police agencies’ or the ‘public security agencies’. The Police Force was formed in October 1949 as the Ministry of Public Security (MPS). The responsibility of MPS was for counter subversion, counterintelligence, surveillance, protection of military and economic installations. Other responsibilities include registration, routine police administration and investigation of criminal acts (Ebbe, 2000).

The overall structure of the criminal justice is entrenched in the constitution. At the top is the State Council (the central government). The second in command is the Ministry of Public ...

Taking into account that Red Post, an American chain of restaurants, has opened up a branch in China, its top management will have to consider cultural patterns of the new place. Various consumer behaviorists have concurred that consumers usually follow predictable patterns in ordering foods and drinks. This is very true especially for those customers that are still rooted in their cultures like those in Shanghai where the new restaurant has been opened. Therefore, this study will develop modules that will be used to teach graduate and blue collar employees and the community or future employees about cross cultural concerns ...

Introduction

The graph above shows the astounding growth of the Chinese and Russian economies in the last 30 years. The graph shows the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of both countries from 1990 to 2012 and it clearly shows that the Chinese economy has over paced Russia. In fact, the online web resource “The Guardian” reported that China‘s GDP slowed down at a rate of 7.6 percent in 2012 . This “slowdown” is ...

Executive Summary

China is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in the establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. This paper explores the role of SMEs in an emerging economies, the role of manpower in SMEs, as well as understanding the key success factors of the SMEs in China.

Introduction

SMEs are the growth engines for any economy in the ...

The torch relay and its traditions

This is an illustration of the unity and uniqueness of the Chinese people. It also represented the ancient ties and the traditions of the communities. The torch was carried for 130 days which was supposed to shoe harmony within the Chinese people and the ancient’s traditions that brought them together. Of all the torches, this torch was carried for the longest time to showcase the respect the people of China have had amongst themselves and the people around them. China has been criticized for not embracing human rights and has been in the limelight for the same. Therefore, ...

Impacts of female roles in traditional Chinese drama on foreign audience (US audience) or impacts to spread Chinese culture

In Chinese drama, the female characters are referred to as Dan. This is a general name given to female characters that play different roles, and it can be subdivided into four: Wudan, Laodan, Huadan, and Zhengdan (Wertz, 2011).Zhengdan is also known as “Qinqyi”, and this character mainly plays the role of a middle-aged woman who is strong-minded and her behavior is full of elegance. Most lines acted by the Zhengdan character are delivered as songs. Moreover, the spoken parts of her acting are delivered as rhythms. This character is always dressed in blue gowns. Huadan character refers to young women ...

- Introduction: Demographics, Politics, and Economics of China

The most important thing to consider when thinking about China is the sheer size of the country. There are billions of people in China; the country is extremely overpopulated and very crowded. Socially, it is a country in flux. Today, the Chinese are still reeling from the Cultural Revolution of the 1950s and the massive societal changes that took place at that time. Once China opened her doors to the west, however, she began to grow; today she is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and this fact seems ...

Introduction

In the speech, I went beyond the critical and conventional academic research and deployed rhetoric to express my disappointment with the situation of pollution in China. The speech effectively employed pathos, logos and ethos to drive the point home and call for action. I use the tone of disappointment to argue that pollution is immoral, inhumane and driven by corporate that do not have the future generations in mind. Through pathos and the tone of hope, I urge the Chines to rise up speak against until the government comes up with effective laws and policies to handle the situation. ...

International Joint Ventures in China

Completion date International Joint venture in china

In promising economies like China, international joint relationships are still the most general basis on which collaboration between host country and foreign partners is established. Some international companies have opened business in China through joint venture with Chinese companies. All of them are not doing well though; there are pros and cons of some joint ventures. In the previous years, China has emerged ‘as international economic powerhouse’, becoming more attractive as a joint venture partner for international companies in order to get access to the Chinese market. Overseas companies can profit ...

Abstract

The objective of the paper was to use a descriptive study to try to explain the possible similarities and differences between the culture and standards of practice in the field of marketing and advertising in the following two countries: the United Kingdom and China. In line with this, the study also aims to gather necessary information about the perception of the consumers from different cultures on the way how products and services, among other things that can be advertised, are actually advertised in their respective country; perception of the users on the content and style of advertisements in the respective ...

Overview

Before the invasion of Chinese in 1949, Tibet was once an independent state for over two millennium. In later part of 1949, China attacked Tibet and officially occupied the nation in 1951. In 1959, a number of rebellions against the Chinese ended in uprisings in Lhasa for the purpose of gaining independence. During those periods, China creased the revolts, slaying an over 87,000 Tibetans in Lhasa. Tenzin Gyatso, a Tibetan leader, went to India along with his 80,000 supporters. The International Commission of Jurists termed the Chinese invasion genocidal. Tibet had all the characteristics of statehood based on the ...

- Introduction

IBM is a world leader company in information technology and stands as the largest revenue generating Company in its field. In the past 50 years, IBM has earned a place for itself as the pioneer in information technology developments and innovation. The Company manufactures products ranging from hardware to software for its impressive clientele around the world. These products are designed for another range of storage products, line of business servers, customized microchips including the application software. In addition to manufacturing, IBM also serves as a consulting and outsourcing agent. The new information age is quite challenging to compete ...

Coca Cola is invented in May 1886 by Doctor John Pemberton known as Doc, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia. The name of Coca Cola is suggested by Frank Robinson, a bookkeeper and he first scripted “Coca Cola” into the flowing letters, which becomes the famous logo of today. The soft drink is first sold to the public at the soda fountain, in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta on May 8, 1886. Until 1960s, the carbonated beverages at the local soda fountain are enjoyed by both small town and big city dwellers in the city. On April 23, 1985, “New Coke” ...

The history of glass can be traced back to 3500 BC in Mesopotamia and the first jar made of glass was made in 3000BC. The first historical archaeological evidence of glass was discovered in ancient Egypt along the Mediterranean coast where it is estimated that that the first glass like object was discovered from the slug waste that was used from extracting metals. Indigenous production of glass progressed commercially in 1730 BC, and in Ancient China took out late as compared to metalwork and ceramics. It later took a giant production root that saw it to become among the leading ...

Business ethics is a concept with varying definitions. It is not easily agreed upon worldwide. Although, it is an old concept and is implemented in every culture and business, but still, its definition varies from person to person. Scholars consider business ethics as an applied ethics, which can be defined as the specialized study of moral values or right and wrong principles in business. However, these definitions of right and wrong differs from person to person based on the thoughts developed by their culture or community. These thoughts or right and wrong help people ...

Both Ibn Batuta and Marco Polo were famous world explorers at their respective times – about a generation apart. However, the travels of Marco Polo preceded those of Ibn Batuta by a couple of decades. Therefore, in that respect, the worldview of the both the travelers are not that different since both saw more or less the same period in history. This essay shall compare the travel accounts of both these travelers and argue that the travel accounts of Marco Polo are historically more reliable than those of Ibn Batuta.

One can examine the focus of the travel writings of both ...

Sexism and Classism were seen majorly in the communist China during the period lasting from the year 1949 to the year 1979. Sexism which refers to discrimination and prejudices that is not based on race but on the sex of the individual. This usually is channeled towards the female sex due to some ancient cultural, religious or social beliefs. This can surprisingly be seen till date in our present day society. Classism on the other hand refers to this same practice but with the tendency of being based on the race and ...

Compare and contrast the new ideologies that developed in the Han period, including neo-Daoism, Buddhism, and other new influences in China. What was the impact on Chinese society and politics of these new schools of thought?

A number of new ideologies began to take hold as China itself changed in a number of ways during the Han period. This occurred during a period of time that is considered to be something of a “golden era” in terms of almost every aspect of life. For the purposes of this paper, we will focus upon the way in which China changed on a philosophical, ...