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Assessment One Intercultural Communication Introduction Within this essay, I aim to reflect on how understanding the concept of intercultural communication and the cultural orientation of myself and others would have helped me to have a better outcome of the misjudgement in my workplace. I will first describe the whole notion of intercultural communication and then delve into the differences between the Indian and New Zealand culture. Aspects such as power distance, individualism versus…

Title: Aquatecture Background: A third of the earth is covered in water, and most of the world’s population lives close to large bodies of water, including the Philippines which is made up of islands. Thus encouraging naval architecture and stilt designs Water has been important in helping create architecture, from the people who lived by the two rivers; Tigris and Euphrates to the people of Dubai who are living on artificial islands today. Since we highly depend on, use and live with water, it…

Through Another 's Eyes: A Perceptual Miscommunication Error Description of the Interaction APPROX.300 words My miscommunication experience derives from a time I was serving customers in the high-end jewellery shop I work in. The shop is located in Auckland city centre, and its main publics are females, aged 20+ who work or live in and around the High Street. As all the employees are commission paid, we often need to pick between the customers, choosing ones to interact with which seem like…

Introduction This critical essay is written to analyse the issues related to effective team development in a selected New Zealand company. The theories are based on the research of Mickan and Rodger (2000) and Lees (2011) in team building. The essay first looks into the key concepts delivered in these two articles and the differences, advantages and disadvantages between the two theoretical frameworks, as well as the application to below business organisation. The selected organisation is a New…

INTRODUCTION: Podiatry has no universal form of training or scope of profession. In my assignment I will compare the scope of professions within the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Netherland and Australasia, to the South African Scope of profession in Podiatric Medicine. It will include the training of podiatry within each country, and the current disorders seen by each podiatrist. What is Podiatry? According to the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA),…

Executive Summary The main objective of this report is the implementation of strategic marketing tools to uplift a business from losses making it attractive and bringing to profitable situation. The diagnosis and treatment tool has been used to bring changes and get competitive advantage. This report is about my father-in-law’s business which is in a struggling phase under no profit-no loss circumstances and has no competitive advantage. My father-in-law is running a school from past four…

Introduction ‘During and after the English Revolution (1642-88), different English thinkers reacted differently toward the revolution, based on their own life experience and philosophical outlook’. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke strongly argued distinct notions of political power. One absolute kinship, the other a democratic republic. In this essay it will firstly state and discuss the relation between state and sovereign according to Thomas Hobbes. In doing so Thomas Hobbes ideas will then be…

Denis Diderot -Le Salon de 1767 Diderot is well known for his distinction in the formulation of the ‘poetics of ruin’. Diderot wrote nine Salons from 1759-1781 under the instruction of Melchior Grimm. These were to simply be the minutes of the exhibitions at The Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as a part of the literary journal la Correspondance littéraire. Diderot’s writing however created a radical change to the nature and scope of the only artistic section of the literary journal,…

He has written several texts for BRANZ. His main focus is Sustainability in New Zealand. His research is often referenced for his water usage reports on Auckland. The eBook summarised above contained justified statistics and a case study that involves the monitoring of water usage in Kapiti Coast. The source was published by BRANZ, an independent research organisation that aims to provide its consumers with…

The Catchment Land Use for Environmental Sustainability model (CLUES), designed by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA), provided the data for both the Nitrogen and the Phosphorus concentrations throughout New Zealand. The development of CLUES was through a consolidation of existing mapping procedures and modelling(EnviroLink, 2012), and contributed to by various research organisations (NIWA, 2016). From this collaboration, the models responsible for the Nitrogen…