Gilland, Steve: Frederick County Maryland Backgrounds

Portraits And Backgrounds (1917) (Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour)

Germany Travel Guide : A Guid To Germany's Historical Backgrounds

Germany Travel Guide : A Guid To Germany's Historical Backgrounds

Backgrounds to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Spector, Robert Donald)

Positive Phrases Coloring Book : Lets color it uplifting sayings on flower backgrounds

Positive Phrases Coloring Book : Lets color it uplifting sayings on flower backgrounds

Handlettering Backgrounds. 15 kreative Hintergründe mit Pinsel, Stempel & Co. In wenigen Schritten zum fertigen Lettering-Design.

Lal: To study the effect of rural and urban backgrounds on teachers' self-efficacy and personality factors

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy Institut ), course: ¿The Subaltern Speaks¿: Minority Literature in the USA, language: English, abstract: Around World War One, two American authors from different minority backgrounds published their seemingly unlike novels. In 1912, the African American diplomat and writer James Weldon Johnson published his narrative ¿The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man¿ anonymously, and in 1917, the Jewish American editor and journalist Abraham Cahan put out his novel ¿The Rise of David Levinsky¿. Despite all differences obvious between the authors and their protagonists, both novels nevertheless describe at their core the need to assimilate, the search for an American identity and the costs of assimilation. In their quest for an American identity, both protagonists, the former Orthodox Jew from Russia and the anonymous, light-skinned African American, chose to escape white Anglo-Saxon Protestant hostility towards their minority status by assimilating respectively by passing as far as possible into the dominant culture of white American society. The need to assimilate derives from the fear of marginalization and the hostility shown towards minority groups in America. It is precisely this threatening attitude in combination with a longing to take part in the dominant culture of American society that finally forces these characters to assimilate respectively to pass entirely. Despite their minority backgrounds, both protagonists manage to enter the dominant culture at last. But even though both men live up to a life of financial and social success at the end of the novels, their narratives are not simply average American success-stories, but rather tragic tales on the high costs of assimilation. Levinsky and the Ex-Colored Man live the classical American dream from ¿rags to riches¿, but in the end, both must nevertheless realize that wealth and a high social status alone do not guarantee true inner happiness. The conclusion seems bitter: one¿s marginality and minority status must be overcome in order to take part in the ¿American success story¿. But even though ethnic and racial backgrounds can be denied and essential parts of one¿s own identity can be ignored, full assimilation can never be achieved. The successful economic and social rise of the two men cannot be separated from the tragic personal failure to find their true identity and inner happiness. In their novels, Cahan and Johnson thus voice the dreadful loss of individual identity that full assimilation and passing ask for. (Longolius, Sonja)

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,7, niversity of Applied Sciences Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven; Emden, course: International Human Resource Management, language: English, abstract: Table of contents 1. Intercultural Management as a challenge 1.1. Globalisation of the economy 1.2. Demographics 1.3. Migration 2. Cultural Differences 2.1. Theories of cultures 2.1.1. Hofstede 2.1.2. Trompenaars 2.1.3. Hall 2.1.4. Pinto 2.2. Intercultural behaviour 2.3. Conclusion 3. Intercultural Communication 3.1. Communication model 3.2. Cultural Communication barriers 3.3. Successful communication 4. International Teams 4.1. Multicultural workgroups 4.2. Team development 4.3. Critical areas for successful teamwork 5. Diversity Management 5.1. Classical vs. modern definition 5.2. Historical development 5.3. Diversity Management as a competitive advantage 6. Conclusion 8. Literature 8.1. Books and other printed media 8.2. Websites 1. Intercultural Management as a challenge The main purpose of intercultural management is to manage the diverse workforce that appears in most of our companies. During the last decades, a trend towards globalisation could be monitored. The workforce doesn¿t consist mainly of male Caucasians anymore. Today, we have a colourful mixture of people at the workplace. People who come from different countries, different cultures and different ethical backgrounds. (Erlenkamp, Marco)

The book presents a discourse analysis of police interrogations involving U.S. Hispanic suspects accused of crimes. The study is unique in that it concentrates on interrogations involving suspects whose first language is not English and police officers who have a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish. It examines the pitfalls of using police officers as interpreters at custodial interrogations. Using an interactional sociolinguistic discourse analytical approach, the book offers a microlinguistic examination of interrogations involving persons accused of murder, child molestation, and kidnapping. Communication difficulties are shown to arise from suspects' limited proficiency in English and police officers' equally limited proficiency in Spanish, coupled with the unwillingness of these officers to remain in interpreter footing. The volume demonstrates how pidginization and asymmetrical communicative accommodation can emerge in such situations of highly unequal power relations. It also demonstrates how cultural factors such as acquiescence to interlocutors of greater authority and higher socioeconomic status can lead persons of certain Latin American backgrounds to engage in "gratuitous concurrence", answering "yes" to police questions even when it is clear that that these yes-tokens are not truly affirmative responses to those questions. In addition, the book provides evidence of the kinds of abuse that can result from police interrogations that are not electronically recorded. Coerced Confessions reviews appellate cases involving police interpreters spanning a thirty-four-year period, and concludes that the Miranda rights are placed in jeopardy when a police officer is assigned the role of interpreter at a custodial interrogation. (Berk-Seligson, Susan)