American International Group

I’d like to begin by saying congratulations on your acceptance into the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Whether or not you’ve had the chance to tour the campus, I’m confident you’ll walk away learning something new. This tour has been specifically designed by the Multicultural Student Center to help point out resources aimed at creating a more inclusive and safe environment for our incoming students. We’ll make stops at some of the places on campus that have helped foster minority student…

sound ideal” uses a predictable fixed rhythmic group while other members of the group play much more complex rhythms that work together as one to, “[reinforce] a main meter for dancers’ feet” (Pond 36-38). Funk music is built around this “heterogeneous sound ideal” and the successful execution of this musical approach creates the perfect conditions for funk listeners to get down and…

It seems that almost everybody used to play the toy of a six-sided magic cube in their childhood, me included. The difference was at the age of twelve, a grande international competition of magic cube was held in Russia that year. As a participant, I was agog and inquisitive as the first time I went abroad. Left the plane, sit car, I enter the ocean of exotica with respect to dissolve. Yet all those people, different as Chinese, were blonde looks. A kid who grew up in an eastern country was so…

most racism in America and they have become extremely good at addressing racial issues with their sense of humor. Modern day minority comedians like Aziz Ansari use their talent, experiences, and the media to break down ignorant stereotypes set upon American Asians like the way they speak and their link to terrorism, which has helped in people having somewhat a better understanding of different cultures. Aziz Ansari is an…

to serve a non-existed market at that time in China, Alibaba was created to help facilitate the connection between merchants and customers, furthermore, Mr. Ma inspired millions of people to open their own business and grow China’s economy. Alibaba group has three main sites: Taobao, Tmall, and Alibaba.com, which combined have hundred of millions of users and merchants, creating transactions…

that the Inner Ring can be good and bad. The Inner Ring is what people strive for. They want to be inside so they are not outside, but once inside they are still not happy. Friendship is the key to any Inner Ring. Without friendship people are just a group wanting the same thing with no relationship with one another. I agree with Lewis on his account of the Inner Ring because I think that while we want to be inside, it will not get us anywhere better in life. Lewis talked about how once you get…

seems to be numerous groups on a college campus, each sharing at least one particular cultural trait in common. However, there is one group on campus that is composed of people from different cultural backgrounds and walks of life. These are the international students. This is an ever growing subset of those attending an American university, making up almost 820,000 students across all colleges and universities in this country in the 2012-13 academic year (Institute of International Education).…

addresses those impediments that can prevent a group of people from working effectively and efficiently together towards a goal. My experience as a member of a Cornerstone formation team last year exemplifies how those obstacles make team work almost impossible and definitely unpleasant. I will summarize that experience and evaluate it in terms of the five dysfunctions explained in the book, ending with my assessment and recommendation on how our group could have overcome the dysfunctions we…

This design was perfect for this study because the effect of different treatments were being tested on different groups. There were advantages and disadvantages to this experimental design. One of the main disadvantages was that there were certain differences among the participants and groups. Genetic differences and different lifestyles could exist among participants. Also, the different factors that caused MDD in the participants could also have an…

In ‘The Spectre of Terrorism’ by Roger Douglas, he states that the experience in which terrorism creates an unease in which is hard to dissipate, regardless if it’s domestic or international, especially if it’s in regards to the UK. This suggests that things such as the media playing a key role in perception despite what some say. ‘Multiculturalism is Dead!’ the daily mail proclaimed exactly a year after the London bombings, also…