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Internships vs. Additional Coursework: Choosing the Best Path for Your Career

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Introducing ourselves to the labor market after finishing a university degree is a daunting task that weighs heavily on students' minds. When faced with the choice between pursuing additional coursework or undertaking an internship, it's crucial to determine the most suitable option. This essay aims to compare and contrast these two possibilities, highlighting their similarities and differences.

Similarities in Learning Outcomes and Career Prospects

Firstly, it's important to acknowledge that both options can lead to similar outcomes. Regardless of the chosen path, students can acquire valuable knowledge and skills. While the learning approaches may differ, the fundamental principles and concepts remain consistent. Whether gained through theoretical... Continue reading "Internships vs. Additional Coursework: Choosing the Best Path for Your Career" »

International relation

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·Illiberal democracy - is a governing system in which, although Elections take place, citizens are cut off from knowledge about the activities Of those who exercise real power because of the lack of civil liberties.

·Political economic system – relationship between economic and political institutions and The policies and outcomes they create

·Institutions – humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic, and social Interaction; rules of the game, formal or informal, legal or not, backed by Orgs or not

·Welfare State - a system whereby the Government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, Especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and Other benefits.

·Colonialism/... Continue reading "International relation" »

Benchmarking and Reengineering for Business Improvement

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BENCHMARKING

Understand and evaluate the current position of a business or organization in relation to best practices and identify areas for performance improvement. Benchmarking can be applied to any product, process, function, or approach in business.

BENCHMARKING STAGES OF IMPROVEMENT

World class, best in class, efficient, effective, incapable.

PROCESS

  • Choose a product or service or internal department to benchmark
  • Determine which best in class companies you should benchmark against
  • Gather information on their internal performance
  • Compare the data from both organizations to identify gaps in your company’s performance
  • Adopt the processes and policies in place within class performance

REASONS

  • Learning from best practices from any industry and incorporating
... Continue reading "Benchmarking and Reengineering for Business Improvement" »

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series: Expert Overviews on a Range of Topics

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The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers accessible, concise, beautifully produced pocket-size books on topics of current interest. Written by leading thinkers, the books in this series deliver expert overviews of subjects that range from the cultural and the historical to the scientific and the technical.

In today's era of instant information gratification, we have ready access to opinions, rationalizations, and superficial descriptions. Much harder to come by is the foundational knowledge that informs a principled understanding of the world. Essential Knowledge books fill that need. Synthesizing specialized subject matter for nonspecialists and engaging critical topics through fundamentals, each of these compact volumes.



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The Importance of Technology in Education and Communication

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In my opinion, technology, like cell phones or computers, is very useful nowadays if used in a good way.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Technological Devices

First of all, these kinds of devices have both positive and negative aspects.

Proper Use of Technological Devices

Secondly, these devices were intended for academic and social purposes, not for wasting time.

Enhancing Education with Technology

Finally, education should be based on these technological devices to make it easier for students and to foster better communication between teachers and students.

Conclusion

In conclusion, technological devices are essential and important today for communication, studying, and searching for information.

Vocabulary List: Words Starting with E

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Ebb-

to diminish

Ecclesiastical-

having to do with church

Eclipse-

to block the light of

Ecosystem-

a community of organisms

Edict-

an official decree

Edifice-

a big, imposing building

Effectual-

effective

Efficacy-

effectiveness

Effigy-

a likeness of person

Elation-

a feeling of great joy

Electorate-

the voters

Elegy-

a mournful poem or music

Elite-

the best selected group

Elocution-

the art of public speaking

Emaciate-

to make extremely thin through starvation or illness

Emanate-

to come forth

Emancipate-

to liberate

Embargo-

a government suspending foreign trade

Embellish-

to adorn

Embody-

to personify

Embroil-

to involve in conflict

Embryonic-

undeveloped

Emissary-

a messenger sent to represent another

Empathy-

identification with the feelings of another

Empower-

to give power or authority... Continue reading "Vocabulary List: Words Starting with E" »

Age and Second Language Acquisition: Is Earlier Really Better?

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Theoretical Background

The learning of English at an early age is becoming more and more commonplace in the Spanish educational system. However, this contrasts with the situation in other European countries where they start the teaching of a foreign language in primary education. Actually, there is no real evidence that demonstrates the effect of age on learners’ second language achievement, that is, whether learners who begin learning as children are able to reach higher levels of L2 ability than those who start learning in adolescence or adulthood.

Studies on Age and Language Acquisition

According to Clavel-Arroitia, several studies in the literature examine the effects of starting foreign language education in primary school compared with... Continue reading "Age and Second Language Acquisition: Is Earlier Really Better?" »

Foundations of Sociology: Durkheim, Weber, and Critical Theory

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COMPTE: First to use the term sociology. Sociology should be scientific.
Law of the three stages: Theory proposes the world has gone through three intellectual stages. Theological stage (prior 1300): belief in supernatural powers and religious figures, social and physical world is seen as produced by God. Metaphysical stage (between 1300 -1800): abstract forces like 'nature', rather than gods, explain virtually everything.
Positivistic (1800): belief in science intellectual disorder is the cause of social disorder. Disorder stemmed from earlier idea systems because the positive stage, science still bears some marks of the two previous stages. Only when positivism gained total control would social upheavals cease. Society is characterized by inevitable
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Regional Organizations and the Chinese Economy: A Comprehensive Overview

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Regional Organizations and the Chinese Economy

Q5. Objectives of Establishing Regional Organizations

The objectives of establishing regional organizations are:

  1. To achieve regional development on par with the rapidly growing global economy.
  2. To accelerate economic growth through social progress and cultural development.
  3. To promote regional peace and stability based on the rule of law and the principles of the United Nations Charter.

Q6. Influence of Geographical Proximity on Regional Organizations

Geographical proximity influences the formation of regional organizations because:

  1. Countries within a region often face similar challenges. For example, Southeast Asian countries experienced the economic and political consequences of colonialism before and
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The Evolution of T.S. Eliot's Poetry

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Eliot attributed a great deal of his early style to the French Symbolists—Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Laforgue—whom he first encountered in college, in a book by Arthur Symons called The Symbolist Movement in Literature. It is easy to understand why a young aspiring poet would want to imitate these glamorous bohemian figures, but their ultimate effect on his poetry is perhaps less profound than he claimed. While he took from them their ability to infuse poetry with high intellectualism while maintaining a sensuousness of language, Eliot also developed a great deal that was new and original. His early works, like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land, draw on a wide range of cultural reference to depict a modern... Continue reading "The Evolution of T.S. Eliot's Poetry" »