In Another Country

Iphigénie is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by the French playwright Jean Racine. It was first performed in the Orangerie in Versailles on August 18th 1674 as part of the fifth of the royal Divertissements de Versailles of Louis XIV to celebrate the conquest of Franche-Comté. Later in December it was triumphantly revived at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, home of the royal troupe of actors in Paris. With Iphigénie, Racine returned once again to a mythological subject, following

Gonnard Professor Riley English 110 Group languages In France, appearance of contemporary slang seems concomitant with massive urbanization of the suburbs in the 1970’s, and the creation of large popular quarters intended to place the populations of workmen and employees, in majority immigrants. This one is made up gradually starting from a base brought by traditional slang, with words as “condé” (cops) or “daron” (dad in slang), supplemented by new words from various origin, like “garrot”

member are those who are served in first with the best pieces. At last, it is pertinent to know that meals are rarely divided into separate courses. All the food is served at once and shared from common dishes. The family sits on mats on the floor (as they eat on a low table), and each person has a rice bowl, chopsticks and a soup spoon. ( their food) The Vietnamese food is based on fresh products, vegetables and tropical fruits. Moreover, the traditional plats in Vietnam is based on white rice of

British imperialism John Ruskin (1819-1900) English domestic history can not be separated from that of the Empire: the processes of state formation and of imperial construction are inevitably linked in the history of the Great Bretagne. British imperial experience is constituting for both the colonized for the colonizers. However, British colonies have been long time an embarrassing legacy for Liberal thinkers of the United Kingdom. Historians, sociologists and intellectuals of the British

commonly known as China is located in East Asia and has the biggest population in the world with more than 1.3 billion people. It is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China. For a very long period, China had been under an autocratic socialist system where strict controls were imposed but after 1978, when Deng Xiaoping succeed to Mao and came to power he established a market-oriented economic development and for the last decade permitted the country to quadruple its outputs. Due to

everything, and it’s usual because we are humans. We have a subjective vision on the object. To struggle against these preconceptions, we must be informed and learning about “Cultural Differences in the World”, because we are not alone in this planet. If a firm would like to be implanted in another country, you must affront a new culture, mentality, and the way of seeing things whether a Monocultural strategy, a Multicultural Strategy or a Mixed Culture Strategy, because a certain adaptation must be

Environment Following is a summary of global situations and trends, which managers need to monitor and incorporate in their strategic and operational planning. Globalism Business competitiveness has now evolved to a level of sophistication that many term globalism—global competition characterized by networks of international linkages that bind countries, institutions, and people in an interdependent global economy. The invisible hand of global competition is being propelled by the phenomenon of

FAT TAXES IN THE UNITED STATES INTRODUCTION Hi everyone. So today I'm going to talk about an article I found in the Economist. The article is called "Waist banned", and deals with a possible enforcement of a junk food tax in the United States. This kind of tax is also known as a Pigouvian tax, Pigou being a 20th century economist. First I'm going to introduce you to the concept of Pigouvian taxes, second we'll talk about its underlying rationale, third we'll try to wonder whether a fat

Industry Analysis The company OPODO is an online travel agency. In order to be more efficient a company must know its environment whether this is in the online or offline world. It is a step very important to do because it permits the company where are its strengths and opportunities on the market and try to overcome the difficulties and be the best. In this way, we will analyse the external environment of the company OPODO, to do so we will use an external analysis and the Michael Porter 5

retailers in their own countries, why have they difficulties to expand abroad? We have to see first of all the local differences, and then we will see the financials consequences. The article takes the examples of the famous retailers Wal-Mart (from America), Carrefour (from France) and Tesco (from Great-Britain).The first problem of expanding overseas is to be able to adapt to the local culture. Indeed as the article said, “what works in a country does not necessarily work in another”. For instance