Comparison
Essays

¶ … unifies and permeates an entire literary work. The theme can be a brief and meaningful insight or a comprehensive vision of life; it may be a single idea. The theme may be also a more complicated paradigm.

Cognitive Dissonance, Social Comparison Theory, & a Norwegian Mass Murderer

Sudan Nation at War With Itself: The Sudan

The Power of Imagination in Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

The scientific world noticed the signs of global warming since the early stages of its manifestations through climate changes. Differences in the global temperature that were believed to have manifested thorough…

The traditional 4Ps of marketing that include product, price, promotion and place or distribution are quickly becoming obsolete given the rapid advances in social networking and the use of many more channels of…

Dealing with people who suffer from Schizophrenia

Appraise the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the Freedom of Information Center, 2002.

The Hindu and Sikh traditions have no significant difference in religion and culture. Traditional teachings in these two religious traditions deal with the duties of an individual. The two religions share a culture and worldview associated with ideas of Karma and rebirth, some paths to Moksha. This paper compares and contrasts one path of Moksha in Hinduism and Sikhism.

The way training is delivered in a corporate environment has a tremendous effect on results. This study investigates the role of culture in the learning styles of adult French and American students enrolled in online training programs at an international university. Using Kolb's learning style inventory, the learning style preferences of respondents in both cultural groups will be classified as divergers, convergers, accommodators, and assimilators, reflecting their general tendencies toward learning environments as conceptualized by Kolb (1985). The assumption is that Americans prefer to learn from action-oriented methods and are more comfortable learning from activities that are not job related, such as role plays and games, than do their French counterparts who prefer to learn from job-related activities based on solid research. These preferences will then be examined in light of learners' responses to Hofstede's Culture in the Workplace questionnaire, which examines cultural tendencies towards collectivism/individualism, power orientation, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and long/short term orientation (Hofstede, 1980). The sample population will be composed of 150 American and 150 French trainees. They are all employed in multinationals and hold jobs that require them to attend corporate training and travel around the world. Conclusions will be drawn which compare French and American cultural differences in learning style preferences and the extent to which these preferences are mediated by cultural orientations as conceptualized by Hofstede (1980). Results will assist multinational corporations in understanding the role of culture in their training scenarios as they seek to provide more effective training for their increasingly cultural diverse learner populations which can provide some proof that they will be successful in using the new skills.