What is culture about? I think culture is made by a group of people’s behavior, same language, similar appearances and dresses. By these points, we can easily have a general idea about a society or a culture; as for every culture has its unique way to let their population live, I suggest that people need to learn how to respect other cultures and try to enjoy what these cultures could bring you a new vision of the world. There are two examples to support my opinions.
The first one is when we are going to travel to other countries. Nowadays, traveling has been a popular activity that most of the people will choose to do to have fun and relax or maybe they travel because of business needs. To this point, we may have more chances to be able to meet more people all over the world, and there is a saying goes “do as what Rome’s do”, this means when we are in a new environment or a society, we’d better learn to live in their ways. For example, western culture has a lot differences than eastern cultures. Take Chinese cultures for example, in Chinese families, when we are invited to go to other people’s houses, we tend to bring some fruit or food for the host because we think it is the way we show our gratitude to them and thanks for the invitation. And if we didn’t bring anything, we will be considered impolite. Furthermore, this is what we called a society custom.
Another example is about dress code. In the Middle East countries, such as U.A.E,, Saudi Arabia or Afghan and so on, women there are all being demanded to wear a scarf around their neck and cover their hairs. I have a friend from U.A.E. who is always wear a scarf on her head. Because I have been curious about her hair for a long time, one day, I asked her if she could put down her scarf and let me see what her hair color and hair style look like, but she said no. She explained to me it is because their culture; the Middle East women can only let their husbands to see their hairs and they are not allowed to let other people see them. That was the time I realized that why the Middle East culture are somehow more conservative than any other societies in the world.
In conclusion, we already have a brief idea why we should learn and respect other cultures. Learn more from other people’s behaviors, dresses, language and activities can help us to keep away from some embarrassing moment and help us to get along with other people from all over the world.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Internet Makes Everything Possible (Completed)
What is the most innovative technology that has been improved a lot recently? If you asked this question to anyone on the streets, workplaces or schools, the majority of people would say “It is the Internet”. And why would they choose the Internet as the most developed new technology? One obvious point is that the Internet brings population some new choices to do familiar things rapidly. The world has been changed quickly by the Internet use, there are three main different ways of doing things from the past: multiple choices of communication to other people, new business models, and ways of getting information promptly.
First of all, the diversity of communication to people is one direct way which they can see the differences from the past few years. One big difference is how people send their messages to contact each other. Nowadays most of the public tend to write a virtual e-mail or e-card on the computers then send a real letter or card through local post offices. Another point of communicational difference is people can use on-line chatting programs to talk to more people at one time. People installed these instant on-line chatting programs such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL, Skype and so on, so they could use them to communicate with their friends and not just one by one as old days. In the past, people could only use telephones to talk to a friend one time but now through these programs, they were not able to have a small group of meeting or discussion on-line together. That is why the general populace consider internet chatting are more suitable for them.
The second change is new business models have been created. Take the advertisements for example, ten years ago, if you were looking for a place to live, a car to buy, a place to eat or find a job, people usually look for the advertised pages on the newspaper or some kind of paper advertisements you got from your mailbox. The advertising was very simple and dull, which caused people to take a long time to find what they need; it felt like looking for a needle in a haystack. And now, we have a more sufficient way which could save us more time and to sift the exact information we want. Another main point is online shopping. It is the electronic mall with commercial videos, colorful pictures. The statistic on Virtual Marketing Blog shows that there are 71% of line shoppers they will browse variety online stores to make a purchase, and 53% of online shoppers like to survey discounts or exclusive offers for members as the most valuable of Frequent Buyer/Loyalty Programs. Besides that, online shopping has been risen 29% in 2006 to over $146 billion. (Virtual Marketing Blog, screen 1) As you can see through the statistic, the reason that online shopping consumers has increased a lot is because the Internet provides them a fully access and a less expensive of marketing a service or product. This is win-win situation for businesses and customers. (Larry Norton, par.9)
The last incredible innovation of the Internet is to get worldwide information instantly. In the past, when there’s the time without the Internet, how did older population get news at that time? There are tree main ways we are familiar with, one is TV, another is newspaper, and the other one is radio. Even they could use these ways to absorb the information but there is still a disadvantage part, which is time difference. It was hard for people to know what’s the other side of the word was going on at the same time. But things have been changed recently, with the Internet; people nowadays have multi-media options to have access to receive global information includes news, music, TV shows, and anything you want to know in a fast way. That is to say, the Internet has changed the way we stay informed and entertained.
According to the Internet World States, as of June 10th, 2007 1.133 billion people use the Internet. (Steven Cancel, par.4) And the number of the Internet users are still continuing increase nowadays. The Internet makes everything possible in virtue of its which are complex of online communication, Internet marketing and diversity ways of getting informed through network. Broderick Booth Goran pointed out “the Internet is such an incredible invention because it not only simplified everyday tasks, but it also transformed the lifestyle of an entire culture. People can now shop, research, work, and learn faster than ever before.” (Broderick Booth Goran, par.4)
References:
1. Steven Cancel. “How The Internet Is Changing Communication.” Ezine Articles
< http://ezinearticles.com/?How-The-Internet-Is-Changing-Communication&id=662004 >
2. Broderick Booth Goran. “BBG Communications – The Internet has changed our Lives.” Articlesbase Dec. 28, 2009. < http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/bbg-communications-the-internet-has-changed-our-lives-1631782.html >
3. Larry Norton. “Changing the business model.” OregonLive.Com Oct. 05, 2009 < http://blog.oregonlive.com/oldtown/2009/10/changing_the_business_model.html >
4. “20 Internet Marketing and E-Commerce Statistics.” Virtual Marketing Blog
< http://www.virtualmarketingblog.com/20-internet-marketing-statistics/ >
First of all, the diversity of communication to people is one direct way which they can see the differences from the past few years. One big difference is how people send their messages to contact each other. Nowadays most of the public tend to write a virtual e-mail or e-card on the computers then send a real letter or card through local post offices. Another point of communicational difference is people can use on-line chatting programs to talk to more people at one time. People installed these instant on-line chatting programs such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL, Skype and so on, so they could use them to communicate with their friends and not just one by one as old days. In the past, people could only use telephones to talk to a friend one time but now through these programs, they were not able to have a small group of meeting or discussion on-line together. That is why the general populace consider internet chatting are more suitable for them.
The second change is new business models have been created. Take the advertisements for example, ten years ago, if you were looking for a place to live, a car to buy, a place to eat or find a job, people usually look for the advertised pages on the newspaper or some kind of paper advertisements you got from your mailbox. The advertising was very simple and dull, which caused people to take a long time to find what they need; it felt like looking for a needle in a haystack. And now, we have a more sufficient way which could save us more time and to sift the exact information we want. Another main point is online shopping. It is the electronic mall with commercial videos, colorful pictures. The statistic on Virtual Marketing Blog shows that there are 71% of line shoppers they will browse variety online stores to make a purchase, and 53% of online shoppers like to survey discounts or exclusive offers for members as the most valuable of Frequent Buyer/Loyalty Programs. Besides that, online shopping has been risen 29% in 2006 to over $146 billion. (Virtual Marketing Blog, screen 1) As you can see through the statistic, the reason that online shopping consumers has increased a lot is because the Internet provides them a fully access and a less expensive of marketing a service or product. This is win-win situation for businesses and customers. (Larry Norton, par.9)
The last incredible innovation of the Internet is to get worldwide information instantly. In the past, when there’s the time without the Internet, how did older population get news at that time? There are tree main ways we are familiar with, one is TV, another is newspaper, and the other one is radio. Even they could use these ways to absorb the information but there is still a disadvantage part, which is time difference. It was hard for people to know what’s the other side of the word was going on at the same time. But things have been changed recently, with the Internet; people nowadays have multi-media options to have access to receive global information includes news, music, TV shows, and anything you want to know in a fast way. That is to say, the Internet has changed the way we stay informed and entertained.
According to the Internet World States, as of June 10th, 2007 1.133 billion people use the Internet. (Steven Cancel, par.4) And the number of the Internet users are still continuing increase nowadays. The Internet makes everything possible in virtue of its which are complex of online communication, Internet marketing and diversity ways of getting informed through network. Broderick Booth Goran pointed out “the Internet is such an incredible invention because it not only simplified everyday tasks, but it also transformed the lifestyle of an entire culture. People can now shop, research, work, and learn faster than ever before.” (Broderick Booth Goran, par.4)
References:
1. Steven Cancel. “How The Internet Is Changing Communication.” Ezine Articles
< http://ezinearticles.com/?How-The-Internet-Is-Changing-Communication&id=662004 >
2. Broderick Booth Goran. “BBG Communications – The Internet has changed our Lives.” Articlesbase Dec. 28, 2009. < http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/bbg-communications-the-internet-has-changed-our-lives-1631782.html >
3. Larry Norton. “Changing the business model.” OregonLive.Com Oct. 05, 2009 < http://blog.oregonlive.com/oldtown/2009/10/changing_the_business_model.html >
4. “20 Internet Marketing and E-Commerce Statistics.” Virtual Marketing Blog
< http://www.virtualmarketingblog.com/20-internet-marketing-statistics/ >
Friday, February 26, 2010
Internet Makes Everything Possible
What is the most well-known technology that has been improved and innovated a lot during these days? If we asked this question to anyone on the streets, workplaces or schools, I think the majority of people would say “It is the Internet”. And why would they choose the Internet as the most developed new technology? One obvious point is that the Internet brings us some new choices to do familiar things rapidly. As for the world has been changed quickly by the Internet use, there are three main different ways of doing things from the past: multiple choices of communication to other people, new business models, and ways of getting information promptly.
First of all, the diversity of communication to people is one direct way which they can see the differences from the past few years. One big difference is how people send their messages to contact each other. Nowadays most of the public tend to write a virtual e-mail or e-card on the computers then send a real letter or card through local post offices. Another point of communicational difference is people can use on-line chatting programs to talk to more people at one time. People installed these instant on-line chatting programs such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL, Skype and so on, so they could use them to communicate with their friends and not just one by one as old days. In the past, people could only use telephones to talk to a friend one time but now through these programs, they were not able to have a small group of meeting or discussion on-line together. That is why the general populace consider internet chatting are more suitable for them.
The second change is new business models have been created. Take the advertisements for example, ten years ago, if you were looking for a place to live, a car to buy, a place to eat or find a job, people usually look for the advertised pages on the newspaper or some kind of paper advertisements you got from your mailbox. The advertising was very simple and dull which might took us a long time to find out the one we need; it felt like to look for a needle in a haystack. And now, we have a more sufficient way which could save us more time and to sift the exact information we want. Another main point is shopping on-line,
First of all, the diversity of communication to people is one direct way which they can see the differences from the past few years. One big difference is how people send their messages to contact each other. Nowadays most of the public tend to write a virtual e-mail or e-card on the computers then send a real letter or card through local post offices. Another point of communicational difference is people can use on-line chatting programs to talk to more people at one time. People installed these instant on-line chatting programs such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL, Skype and so on, so they could use them to communicate with their friends and not just one by one as old days. In the past, people could only use telephones to talk to a friend one time but now through these programs, they were not able to have a small group of meeting or discussion on-line together. That is why the general populace consider internet chatting are more suitable for them.
The second change is new business models have been created. Take the advertisements for example, ten years ago, if you were looking for a place to live, a car to buy, a place to eat or find a job, people usually look for the advertised pages on the newspaper or some kind of paper advertisements you got from your mailbox. The advertising was very simple and dull which might took us a long time to find out the one we need; it felt like to look for a needle in a haystack. And now, we have a more sufficient way which could save us more time and to sift the exact information we want. Another main point is shopping on-line,
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The best preparation of Life
What is the most important thing about learning for the best preparation of life? Is it right that people have to learn to be competitive or maybe to be cooperative? Some people consider that learn to be competitive can give themselves more opportunities to become achievement faster than other people; on the other hand, some other people think being competitive will be concerned themselves are not easy to get along with and they will prefer to learn to be more cooperative rather than being competitive. In this case, I will go with learn to be cooperative instead of being competitive for the best preparation of life.
When we were in schools or working, some of assignments required a team work to accomplish, and this was the time people would understand how important for people to learn to be cooperative than competitive. The word “Team Work” is very obvious to understand and tells us it is a group job, which means we need to work with other people. In this situation, we may have to work with the people we don’t like or maybe people who only insists his or her ideas. So how do we solve the conflict in a group discussion? Being competitive is not going to help but only make things even worse. In another words, it is the time to use our cooperative personality and being patient and open-minded to other people’s opinions and combine with others.
In conclusion, I strongly agree that people learn to be cooperative is the best preparation for life or a career then learn to be competitive. Being cooperative can give you happiness if you get along or work well with other people. People are not meant to live by themselves, so learn to be cooperative can provide the self satisfaction for yourself and provide you a better chance to pursued a better lives.
When we were in schools or working, some of assignments required a team work to accomplish, and this was the time people would understand how important for people to learn to be cooperative than competitive. The word “Team Work” is very obvious to understand and tells us it is a group job, which means we need to work with other people. In this situation, we may have to work with the people we don’t like or maybe people who only insists his or her ideas. So how do we solve the conflict in a group discussion? Being competitive is not going to help but only make things even worse. In another words, it is the time to use our cooperative personality and being patient and open-minded to other people’s opinions and combine with others.
In conclusion, I strongly agree that people learn to be cooperative is the best preparation for life or a career then learn to be competitive. Being cooperative can give you happiness if you get along or work well with other people. People are not meant to live by themselves, so learn to be cooperative can provide the self satisfaction for yourself and provide you a better chance to pursued a better lives.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Response: Internet Making Life Easier for Business People
According to the result of the survey “The Internet’s Impact on Business Productivity and Individual Work Habits” shows that most of the respondents use the Internet for a variety of business tasks, and only 13 percent of them prevent or disapprove of the Internet use in their companies. I think this is the interesting part of the result that even the Internet has become ordinary technology nowadays, but there are still some businesses, which abandon web use during work. Does it mean that these companies are just showing that their employees don’t need to use the Internet and still can do their job well or maybe it is because these bosses feel that some of their employees? On the contrary, 68 percent of the survey shows that these companies gain business profit from the Internet. So this makes me wonder what the real reason is for 13 percent of businesses don’t collaborate with the web. Are they really running the companies without any network or intranet help?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Summary: Internet Making Life Easier for Business People
In his article, “Internet Making Life Easier for Business People”, Michael Pastore reported that the survey “The Internet Impact on Business Productivity and Individual Work Habits ” shows the American companies are promptly combine the Internet with their daily business practices, and they use it as a tool to collaborate with businesses and improve work productivity. Most of the survey respondents use the Internet to do many kinds of works. Mainly they use it to access online maps, obtain flight information, conduct research on other companies and other tasks. There are 68 percent of respondents said the internet help them reduced the costs and 63 percent said it makes customer service becomes much better, and they all consider themselves gain a lot of benefits from the Internet. For business travelers, four out of five respondents use it to connect to network or intranet and more than half of them use it to rearrange their travel plans. More and more business professionals are using the Internet to attend a meeting or work with other coworkers.
Michael Pastore, “ClickZ.” Internet Making Life Easier for Business People. 1999.
Michael Pastore, “ClickZ.” Internet Making Life Easier for Business People. 1999.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Human Activities Make the Earth Even Worse to Live
Many people think that human activities have damage or hurt the Earth so much in this modern society, and some people consider these human activities only bring people a better place to live. In this point, I am completely agree with human activities have damage the Earth too much. The development countries are trying to expand their industry places as large as possible and they try to add more technical facilities in their societies as much as they can do. Their purpose is to make their country a better and modern place for people to live but they ignore the side effects of these human activities bring to the Earth. There are two main seriously damages that the Earth already had.
First one is global warning issue. Global warning problem has become more and more popular in the past few years. There’re many scientists trying to find a way to slow down or even stop this horrible damage to the Earth, but it’s hard to make it because of the developing industries. The global warning has caused the icebergs melting so fast and a lot in every year. This change makes the polar bears has rare place to live and also no fish to catch, furthermore, they died because of hungry and cold weather.
Another serious damage is all kinds of environmental pollutions. These pollutions include such as air, water, noise and so on, and these all because of human activities which are being over-developed. Take air pollution for example, there are more and more new born children have breath and noses care problems based on it. They have to take medicines when they were little and their parents are dying to find a better and health place to live just because of the air pollution.
In conclusion, I believe that human activities not only broke the balance between nature and human society but also make the Earth a worse place to live. The Earth has already being harmed by what we called human development and the governments and companies should take responsibilities to make the Earth become a more health and safe place for populations to live.
First one is global warning issue. Global warning problem has become more and more popular in the past few years. There’re many scientists trying to find a way to slow down or even stop this horrible damage to the Earth, but it’s hard to make it because of the developing industries. The global warning has caused the icebergs melting so fast and a lot in every year. This change makes the polar bears has rare place to live and also no fish to catch, furthermore, they died because of hungry and cold weather.
Another serious damage is all kinds of environmental pollutions. These pollutions include such as air, water, noise and so on, and these all because of human activities which are being over-developed. Take air pollution for example, there are more and more new born children have breath and noses care problems based on it. They have to take medicines when they were little and their parents are dying to find a better and health place to live just because of the air pollution.
In conclusion, I believe that human activities not only broke the balance between nature and human society but also make the Earth a worse place to live. The Earth has already being harmed by what we called human development and the governments and companies should take responsibilities to make the Earth become a more health and safe place for populations to live.
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