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Abstraction challenges the notion that art should be representational. Not all art represents a recognizable object, such as a landscape or a still life. Art that is non-representational is generally referred to as…

Life in high school was never a breeze, but I did have it easier than most others. Although I was always more into the sports and activities side of school life I still maintained a 3.0 GPA.

¶ … believing Christians commit sin because some form of temptation. The temptation arrives on a mental level; internally. When a Christian acts on this temptation and succumbs to it, the act is externalized.

¶ … rise if the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, the social, political, and technological changes have inexorably changed the earth's environment in numerous ways. The 20th century, in fact, has seen…

The Jones house certainly questions the familiar. It is an unadorned two story gray block of a building with no visible windows or apertures. It is a single-family dwelling that offers a contrast between the greenery…

Ben Jonson is a writer who was deeply influenced by earlier novels in both themes and structures. In the opening of the Prologue to Volpone, the play of interest in this paper, Jonson invokes Horace and Aristotle,…

Joseph Roth's short story the Honors Student is about a person named Anton Wanzl. Roth has a specific and extended description of the main character of his story; this description foreshadows the way the story will end.

In this paper, a board briefing is created for a company explaining why the company should increase their security in relation to the threat of terrorism. In this paper, a board briefing is created for a company explaining why the company should increase their security in relation to the threat of terrorism.

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.