I don’t know if it is going to be like this in a near future when people will speak in short and strange words and the fashion of talking or writing long and well said sentences will have passed away. It may be so, but I won’t most probably be here by then.

I admit that texting up may be done briefly, because space is short. If we’re going to write up a long sentence, it may require a couple of texts and I know it’s pricey. It’s understable enough. I do also try to abbreviate or synthesise, especially if what I want to tell the other person is a small text to get in touch such as “I’ll meet you at 7.00 p.m.” Or, “How was was your interview?” These short sentences won’t take a lot of space and they’re nicer to the eye as well as to understand them. I could give loads of examples of abbreviations that could have easily been avoided. Texting up the way many people do doesn’t help much to understand what the other person wants to tell us and, in the end, it’s the language to suffer from our laziness to write up a brief, but a clear sentence that won’t cost us a fortune. I’ve already seen that people who are doing it like this on cell phone texts, they also doing it when they write an email, a letter or a small note. It is a shame because, inso doing, they will lose one of our precious treausures such as our language.

How are you? doesn’t take much space, but it looks a lot better than Hw r u?

Another point is the over use of initials when it comes to write something -even as a  small text. I understand that certain names such as makes have to be written as initials -a company’s name for instance or a political party. It is normal to write IBM for International Business Machines or TWA for Trans World Airliner, because these are brand names. They are their names. But I find it ridiculous to use initials for statements, policies or projects drawn by a governmental department no matter in what country. If say a specific institutional department draws a plan for whatever issue, it will soon become sort of brand or proper name. Say, an institution creates a plan to tackle the problem of the jobless and homeless. It may come up like this Jobless and Homeless Solution Project (JHSP) One may say that its initials are used for short when referring to it. But it isn’t a brand name as it isn’t a company or a political party. 

When overusing initials when they could well write a full sentence, they are , in my opinion, trying to confuse us whether there is an intention or not.

One may pick up a newspaper to read a certain article of one’s interest, but it may be dizzying to spot loads of name initials that could have easily avoided. Some people may know what many of these initials mean, but a vast majority of the population in every country don’t. They may be used once in a while if we aren’t to repeat the whole phrase over and over again.

I may be an old-fashioned one if I say that I still like a well written sentence to tell me news or things. Or, it may be the new global language they are introducing us and I haven’t realized about it.

Lily uses repetition to get her point across. In paragraph two, Lily repeats the phrase ‘I know for a fact’ five times. This shows that she knows what she is talking about. She knows what teachers do behind the scenes and that is definitely not just to teach a class for a period or two each day. No, they also help their students in areas they are unsure of and they must also work overtime to prepare the materials for the next day.

Lily uses anecdotes in this letter. She talks about how all her teachers are willing to help her out and her close relationship with her teachers. The student-teacher relationships are so close that they can be called friends. Through her own personal stories, Lily was able to show the readers how important teachers are to their students.

In the last paragraph, Lily indirectly blames the officials who decide teachers’ wages. She doesn’t blame the teachers who aren’t teaching their classes and are on strike. She agrees with the teachers in that they should receive higher pay for what their hard work.

Overall, I think Lily’s letter to The Age is very persuasive and can sway readers into supports for teachers.

Khath Ourng

Jones International University

Course Title: Leading from a Global Perspective

Course Number: BC-607

Professor: Dr. Miro Smriga

   Introduction

Assignment 7.2, I was asked to analyze the case of Jihad vs. McWorld applying the criteria, as defined by Barber the scientist, as follows: utilize the Jihad vs. McWorld reading assignment, define Barber’s two primary metaphors “McWorld” and “Jihad,” create the major summary issues about the nature of social, cultural, and/or religious resistance to globalization, and establish a list of “dos” of “don’ts” for global enterprises to avoid the tensions reflecting from the resistances. The Jihad has the agenda to care for and protect the community, environment, and everyone living within the parameter that the global businesses are conducting the sales to the global consumers. The McWorld had the agenda to supply the global consumers’ needs and wants as the business knows best. The two opponents head opposite directions. Nevertheless, they do not support and have anything to do with democracy. The Jihad employs violent to stir up the attention of the public or the McWorld in a way to resist or prevent globalization from successfully dominating the whole world. Alternatively, the McWorld while striving to supply or exploit the global consumers with large-volume sales, it ignores major responsibilities regarding culture, social, politics, religious, and so forth existing within the areas – countries and societies ( Barber, The Atlantic, 2012, JIU, 2012).

Because of these two major conflicting impacting on people living around the world, there have been much social turmoil, economic downsize, politics struggle, and  war occurring consistently all over the world. War starts in many countries in Asai, recently, the Middle East, and more places in Africa and Europe. Remember the terrorist attacked on the US soil on 9/11. It was part of the conflict regarding globalization tearing apart between the Jihad and the McWorld!

Analysis/Recommendation

The two worlds are at stage, the separation within one-world – the earth and everything existing within. The world of openness to all and the world of closeness to all, the desire and non-desire world existing in one world, but they head opposite directions.  The Jihad is the metaphoric world of closeness or protected from modernity. The McWorld is the world of openness, welcoming the modernity, attracting to all consumers regardless cultural, social, political, and religious boundaries.

Jihad is a Lebanonization style. It turns one party again another party: Culture, people, and tribe against each other. It is a closed mind, but care for and protected the environmental areas as it has claimed for the public (people of the world). Nevertheless, thus the real story behind the scene, the public may not know, still stemmed from the claim are much violent through war and social devastated.

McWorld is the materialistic or modernity via the growth of economic, ecology, technology, communications, and commerce that have been motivated and innovate us rushing for globalization, integrating the world via technologies: high-speed computers, high-speed the internet, low-cost products and services through e-commerce. These technologies have eliminated the widespace and waiting time, made us easily and conveniencely interactiong with other in no time. Nevertheless, our world then beome monogenous world: The networld  or McWorld connected by technology, ecologym communications, and commerce.

As our world connected as one, it has also fragmented. The separation is due to two main areas: the controversy between the Jihad and the McWorld and the regional business blocks, such as NAFTA, ASEAN, and the EU. Unlike, the controversy of the Jihad and McWorld, the regional blocks’ separation is based mainly on the business competitive advantage, striving to survive the global business via supplying the global business with low-cost,  but high-quality products and services in large-volume sales. This is good for the global consumers as well as for qualified global business.

As if we puzzled back into the dashboard, we can see the picture clearer that even the regional blocks are embedded within the McWorld. They can be the target against the Jihad. To avoid the controversial problem, the enterprises around the world, needs to conduct a thorough research on the atmosphere that they wish to offer their sales or conduct business within the areas. First, they should find out the geo-demography. Second, they should contact the authority within the community for assisting and setting their business in the right format both legally and ethically accepted by the country and the community. Third, they should contact, learn, collaborate, and build good relationship with any NGO existing within the areas. This way, they will not override the NGO’s business or disrespect the organization,  but instead, will gain worthy credit and honor to do business with the surrounding community. Fourth, they should build an active friendship with the customers, employees, and people of the community. Fifth, they should invest in their customers, employees, and people of the community. They should  supply a community center, where people of the community can interact via special events such as New Year Celebration, cultural festival, local music and song events, and so forth. The things that the enterprises should not dos are to do in reversing these five elements mentioning above. Most of all, they should respect and do everything regard to the social, culture, religious, language, and people of the community. Furthermore, they should take good care of the environment. They are conducting business within, and of course; they should not forget to care for their customers and employees (Barber, The Attlantic, 2012, JIU, 2012).

References

Barber R.,  B. (2012). Jihad vs. McWorld. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1992/03/jihad-vs-mcworld/3882/

Jones intternational University (2012). Jihad vs. McWorld. Retrieved from 

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Many factors why English is so difficult for us..

But I write here, not focusing why English is so difficult for us, but i encourage some of us, include my self for always and always learning English in every time and every chance we got for it..

Many ways and efforts for improving our English and make it more better…

Here are the ways for it..

1. Always remember that practise make our English is better..So use every chance for speaking, writing, reading many English articles and word if we had chance for it..

2. Don’t be shy for speaking English maybe..Don’t get down if many people always laugh at your poor English..Remember that it takes a time for making your English is good..

3. Always learn and learn..now in Internet you can find many website for teaching your English..Like Triond maybe and so on..

Keep reading and learning..

Second to my own dialect is English. I do not know when or how it began but I have loved this language that sometimes it feels like my brain communicates with me using English. I started using it since elementary school. I wrote letters mostly in English. There is something interesting about this language that made me so fond of using it especially in writing. I found an old photo I sent to my mother when she still worked abroad. At the back of that photo was my dedication. It was of course written in English. When I recently read it, I couldn’t help myself but laugh. My dedication was a little corny and the grammar was unsurprisingly a little higgledy-piggledy. At least, at my young non-Englishness I attempted to use it.

There was one event in college when I was the department’s representative for an extemporaneous speech contest. It was in Filipino category. Being a first-timer, my nervousness engulfed me that I didn’t notice delivering my impromptu piece in English. Crazy, isn’t it? One contestant left on stage without saying anything so, I became second to the last. One of the judges approached me afterwards and said “you should have won but you’re in the wrong category.”

English is a very challenging language. This was my realization after listening to a toastmasters’ podcast. There are so many things I need to get aware of in order to use this language effectively. There are also dos and don’ts of using tenses, proposition and other words. And the more I use it in my writing, the more that I realize how much I have yet to learn. By the way using “and” at the beginning of a sentence is highly discouraged. I always hear this from my English professors but I keep on doing it.

Another good thing about English language is its being dynamic in nature. It continues to evolve year after year. With these, if I stop reading perhaps I would end up unaware of some newborn English words.

For a person having English as only the second language like me, it is very difficult to express everything using the language. English is a universal language. There are more people around the globe using it than any other languages. That is why, it is very important to continue honing the foreign language that I love to stay connected with the world.

The accident had caused her to fall into a coma for 11 hours. Doctors did a couple of scan and found a blood clot behind her head but miraclously it dissapear in the second scan. They did a third one and confirmed there was no longer any clotting.

Noraini confused with her new skill

On the fourth day around 5PM after discharge, she woke up  from sleep and suddenly started to speak in Korean. She asked her mother for water but she couldn’t understand her. At first they thought she was speaking Chinese until a relative who likes to watch Korean movie told them that she is speaking Korean. Sometimes she would switch to Mandarin. Surprisingly, once she has started to speak in these foreign languages, she is unable to speak Malay.

Her ability was tested by her relatives when they asked her to translate a Korean movie; and she did. She was able to translate exactecaly like the provided subtitle. A Chinese doctor who did a follow-up treatment considered her condition curious in his 17 years of service as a doctor in Kelantan, Malaysia. Strangely she can no longer speaks Malay in her Kelantan dialect but instead she uses standard Malay language. This worries her parents and they are trying to seek help to cure their daughter.

So while others while away from their viewing time of peace in the world, I went back for inspiration Friday.

If you remember, four of the seven days of the week named after Norse gods:
- Tuesday is Tyr, the god of truth and war,
- Wednesday is Odin, the father of the gods Vikings
- Thursday is for Thor, the god of thunder
- Friday, but hiding behind ambiguity.

I’ve always heard the name of day, came home, Frigg, Odin the greatest wife, who had more of the wisest of which is based on references in the English language, as the dictionary of Oxford. Others say it was for or Freja Frey, brother and sister were in the clan of the Vanir. Frey was the god of fertility, so it was much to make her happy, Freja was the goddess of love and beauty, so it does not hurt to keep on the right side, either.

Frigg functions were to be the goddess of the sky. It was a subtle work, but someone had to do.

With respect to cyberspace of the resolution, I found an excellent tutorial, the Lady Norse Viking response. She is so meticulous in her material to take the opportunity to shed light on the issue, she feels pretty good. So I contacted. To say that she has done her research is an understatement. She replied:

“Since all of Western Europe are derived originally from Indo-European tribes, we find that using a large number of connections between the various branches, not exactly a one to one identity, but the concepts are clear. It is no surprise that the name and symbolism of the day of the week, and the number of days a week, maybe about the same in all the descendants of the Indo-Europeans.

“You can see, the day coincides with the names in other languages ​​from the Indo-European descent:

“Greek is: Selene Hemera (Day of the Moon), Hemera Areos (Martian days), Hermu Hemera (Day of Hermes), God Hemera (day Zeus), Aphrodite Hemera (the Day of Aphrodite), Khronu Hemera (Chronos day) , Heliou Hemera (sunny day)

“America: dies Lunae (the moon today, Monday), dies Martis (Mars-day, Tuesday), Mercurii dies (day of Mercury, Wednesday), dies Jovis (day of Jupiter, Thursday), dies Veneris (day of Venus” Friday), dies of Saturn (Saturn’s day, Saturday) and Christian Sabbatum Sabbati or dies (Saturday), dies Solis (Sunday) and Christian dies Dominicus (day of the Lord)

“Not surprisingly, the Romance languages ​​derive their name from America on course, with the exception of the Portuguese, the number of days:

“In Italian: lunedì, martedì, Mercoledì, giovedì, venerdì, Sabato, domenica
“Spain: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Sunday
“French: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
“Romania: Luni, Marti, miercuri, joi, Vineri, Simbata, duminica
“Portuguese: Second-Feira (second Monday); Terca Feira (third day, Tuesday), Quarta-Feira (Day 4, Wednesday), Quinta Feira (Day 5, Thursday), La Sexta Feira-(6 th day Friday) , Saturday (Sabbath on Saturdays), Sunday (the Lord’s Day, Sunday)

“The Celtic languages ​​have taken and preserved the Latin names of days, and also borrowed heavily Christian ideas:
“Wales: Dydd Llun (Moon / Moon days), Dydd Mawrth (day of March), Dydd mercher (day of Mercury), Dydd IAU (day of Jupiter), Dydd Gwener (day of Venus), Dydd Sadwrn (day of Saturn), Dydd Sul (sunny day)

“Gaelic: Di-Luain (day of the moon) Di-máirt (day of March), di-di-o ciaduinn ciadaoin (first fasting day of the week – Friday is the second fast); Diardaoin (the day between the two fasts of Wednesday and Friday), di-or slide-haoine aoine (fasting) of di-sathuirn (day of Saturn); dómhnuich-di (Day of the Lord)

“Ireland: Luan De (Luna / Moon days); In Mairt (day of March); In Céadaoin (first fasting day of the week); Déardaoin h-Aoine DE (The days between the two fasts of Wednesday and Friday); In Sathairn (day of Saturn); In Domhnaigh (Day of the Lord)

“The Germanic languages ​​are also connected. Ares / Mars was equated with Tyr as a warrior of God Mercury. Zeus / Jupiter was used as the god Thor, the lightning released. Was equated with Odin, as they have both their psychompomps role as the dead will be played after the death of their lives. Aphrodite / Venus and Freyja and Frigg were identified.

“Germany: Monday (Moon Day), Monday (the day of the wheel), Wednesday (weekdays), Thursday (Thunder / day of Thor), Friday (Freya / Frigga Day), Saturday (ultimately, Sabbatum derived from Latin), Sunday (day of sun)”.
“Norwegian and Danish: Mandag (lunar day), tirsdag (Day of the rim), onsdag (day of Odin), torsdag (Thor’s day), Fredag ​​(Freyja / Frigg’s day), Lordag (day laundry ) Sondag (sunny day)

“In Holland: maandag (lunar day), dinsdag, woensdag (Wodan / Odin days), donderda (Thunder / day of Thor), Vrijdag (Freya / Frigga Day), Zaterdag (day of Saturn) Zondag (sunny day)

“Sweden: Mandag (lunar day), TISDAG (Day of the rim), onsdag (day of Odin), torsdag (Day IFCO) Fredag ​​(Freya / Frigga day), Lordag (laundry day), Sondag ( sunny day)

“Old English: mondæg or monandæg (day of the moon); tiwesdæg (TIW time of day, tires); wodnesdæg (Wotan / Odin days); thunresdæg (Thor’s day); frigedæg (Frigga / Freya’s day); sæterdæg or sæternesdæg (day of Saturn); sunnandæg (sunny day)

“Middle English: Monday, Currency and or monenday (moon day) or tewesday tiwesday (TIW time of day, tires); wodnesday, Wednesday or wednesdai (Wotan / Odin days) or thuresday Thursday (Thor’s day); fridai (Frigga / Freya day), Saturday (day of Saturn); soneday, sonenday sunnenday Sunday (sunny day)

“North Frisian: monnendei (moon day); Tirsdei (Týr’s days); Winsdei (Wotan / Odin days); Türsdei (Thor’s day); Fridei (Frigga / day of Freyja), Sennin (Evening Sun); sennedei (day the sun)

“Etymologically, it is impossible to say with certainty whether the” Friday the Frigg or Freyja words (or at least what I said, I am not a philologist or linguistics expert) can be derived. We can say that equates cognates derives its name from the goddess Aphrodite and Venus, Friday also can mean Fashion, Friday Fashion.

“We are going to other problems in this” woman Freya “is derived from the root meaning is simply” ‘, while’ Frigga ‘comes from the roots associated with the beloved. “There have been several researchers that Frigg and Freyja are different titles for the same goddess to exist.

“However, it remains probably the word Friday comes from the name of one of the two goddesses, not the name of the god Freyr.”

Well, this is the type of study is rigorous series can achieve. This is a preponderance of the evidence, which can carry the day in court. Even if you delete one of the three contenders for the title of the same Friday, the Lady Vikings was to provide reaction time beyond the call of duty for me the information I requested.

Formal language can be learned through training, courses, or school, and can be studied manually by yourself.
Language can be understood by using a dictionary, using the interpreter, or use a special translator.
Such, English is the common language, a language of instruction in the international world, and became the language of business.
English became the language of everyday life, and being in the habit of saying it, a habit of using words, although not used optimally.
This means that the language is very easy to understand, according to environmental conditions, because the environment greatly affect the use of language.
If you are in Thailand, or are in china, or are in German, or in malaysia, language affects one’s personal psychology.
However, it can be understood in a textual language, language can be understood through symbols, which is important is the “heart language”.
Language of the heart, can not be fooled, do not be fooled, because the language of the heart is the language that was born through the expression of the soul.
Language of the heart, not always expressed, could form the heart language of the soul cues, body cues, cue the eye, or face gaze cue.
Understanding the language of the heart, will give a very deep understanding.

Communication needs to be an expression uttered by the tongue, something that is a language spoken by the tongue.

Formal language can be learned through training, courses, or school, and can be studied manually by yourself.

Language can be understood by using a dictionary, using the interpreter, or use a special translator.

Such, English is the common language, a language of instruction in the international world, and became the language of business.

English became the language of everyday life, and being in the habit of saying it, a habit of using words, although not used optimally.

This means that the language is very easy to understand, according to environmental conditions, because the environment greatly affect the use of language.

If you are in Thailand, or are in china, or are in German, or in malasia, language affects one’s personal psychology.

However, it can be understood in a textual language, language can be understood through symbols, which is important is the “heart language”.

Language of the heart, can not be fooled, do not be fooled, because the language of the heart is the language that was born through the expression of the soul.

Language of the heart, not always expressed, could form the heart language of the soul cues, body cues, cue the eye, or face gaze cue. “Understanding the language of the heart, will give a very deep understanding”.

Formal language can be learned through training, courses, or school, and can be studied manually by yourself.
Language can be understood by using a dictionary, using the interpreter, or use a special translator.
Such, English is the common language, a language of instruction in the international world, and became the language of business.
English became the language of everyday life, and being in the habit of saying it, a habit of using words, although not used optimally.
This means that the language is very easy to understand, according to environmental conditions, because the environment greatly affect the use of language.
If you are in Thailand, or are in china, or are in German, or in Malaysia, language affects one’s personal psychology.
However, it can be understood in a textual language, language can be understood through symbols, which is important is the “heart language”.
Language of the heart, can not be fooled, do not be fooled, because the language of the heart is the language that was born through the expression of the soul.
Language of the heart, not always expressed, could form the heart language of the soul cues, body cues, cue the eye, or face gaze cue.
Understanding the language of the heart, will give a very deep understanding.