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Arranged Marriages Hindu Religion
2,239 words... ation. During the train journey back, he beat his head with his fists, and moaned aloud about the dowry and the wedding expenses while everyone, all of them strangers-women with babies and baskets of food, men reading newspapers or playing cards or discussing business-turned to listen with the keenest of interest, throwing significant looks at Uma who kept her head wrapped up in her sari in an effort to screen her shame. (Desai: 1998: 94) Papas behaviour is typical of the Indian male whose p...
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Transformational Leaders Charismatic Leadership
1,332 words... ary. Such leaders are often very successful. They have visions and can communicate them successfully to their followers by linking them with the innermost desires of the followers, thus making these visions appealing to the followers and motivating them to work towards the visions. The reason why past research has almost always assumed that if a leader is charismatic, he / she is also a visionary could be that, most of the leaders that were studied by researchers on were very prominent, succ...
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Mise En Scene Close Up Shot
2,049 wordsAmerican Beauty and the Beast Beneath In American Beauty, 1999, directed by Sam Mendes, we are confronted with the permeating images that have consumed mainstream American life. Mendes exploits these images as constructions that we created around ourselves as a means of hiding our true selves. Mendes is able to implicate us in the construction and make us active viewers by exploiting our voyeuristic nature, the nature of a prying observer to usually seek the sordid or the scandalous. In American...
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Organizational Culture Joint Ventures
2,075 wordsInternational Joint Venture Ijv's (International Joint Ventures) have increased significantly in popularity in recent years (Beamish and Delios 1997) as firms find themselves under more pressure to expand internationally, to be competitive. However, international joint ventures (Ijv's) continue to be challenging to manage and, as a result, often lead to failure. In a meta-analysis of 12 past studies of Ijv's, Beamish and Delios (1997) found that the performance of between 32 and 61 percent of th...
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Group Of People Sage Publications
1,840 wordsCulture may be defined in a broad and narrow context. The broad definition includes demographic variables (age, gender), status variables (social, educational, economic) and affiliations (formal and informal), as well as ethnographic variables, such as ethnicity, nationality, language. Narrow definition of culture is limited to the terms of ethnicity and nationality, which are important for individual and familial identity, but the concept of culture in Counselling usually goes beyond national a...
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Act 1 Sc Act 4 Sc
1,862 wordsMen dominated Elizabethan times. It was a patriarchal society. Women needed to conform to the social expectations. They were not supposed to show off their bodies. Their dresses had high, choking necklines, a plate that flattened their bosom, and layers of cloth that made them appear larger than they really were on the hips. The ideal picture of beauty was fair-skinned, red hair, high foreheads and very thin eyebrows. They spoke softly and did not express their opinions openly. Women were expect...
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Psychological Factors Significant Impact
3,304 wordsABSTRACT Whether it be at a collegiate or professional level, organizations have been faced with public pressure to be successful. The selection of appropriate personnel is one means for doing this. Although coaches are experts in identifying the physical characteristics needed for success in their field; they lack the skills necessary to asses the psychological factors that have been proven to have a significant impact on athletic performance. The identification, quantification and implementati...
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Object Oriented Floating Point
4,205 wordsSather is Sather 1. 1 Introduction Sather is an object oriented language designed to be simple, efficient, safe, and non-proprietary. It aims to meet the needs of modern research groups and to foster the development of a large, freely available, high-quality library of efficient well-written classes for a wide variety of computational tasks. It was originally based on Eiffel but now incorporates ideas and approaches from several languages. One way of placing it in the space of languages is to sa...
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