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donations are needed everyday. The American Red Cross has been around since 1881 when Clara Barton founded it. Clara began to bring supplies to the battle field to help the soldiers. She saw there was a need to help soldiers, and since then the Red Cross has been helping people everyday. The founding of the American Red Cross has helped by helping with blood supply, disasters, and our country with health and safety. There was many needs for the Red Cross to be formed. One reason was that it…

lap at the state cross country meet. That was the moment when I knew I could finish this race with a personal record. For five months, I had worked hard to qualify for state. When most kids were sleeping, I was running. When most kids were at the pool on hot summer days, I was running. It wasn’t just me though, I was on a team of nineteen fantastic girls and I had a great coach to keep me motivated. We were a close group of girls, whom would not have been friends without cross country. We had a…

When I first joined the cross country team, I did not know much about myself as a runner, let alone the sport itself. I never felt like I completely belonged in anything I did, so I was terrified that I would feel, yet again, like an outcast. During my first practice, all that worry disappeared as I was welcomed with open arms by strangers, who all we had in common was the possible interest in running. My struggle was their struggle and as team, we were in it together. A unique bond of…

I remember the time when my coach made me run a cross country race on a course with hills bigger than a house in our town. She thought that I was ready to run three miles in under twenty-five minutes. It was hard, and I thought I would fall but I kept going and never gave up. The day of our cross country meet, our coach came and picked us all up at our houses, took us to a gas station, and got us food. We all got something light so we wouldn’t get stomach aches during our race. Then…

3.2.1 – Cross – cultural communication Failures Cross- cultural communication: Cross-cultural communication refers to the exchange of information between people of different cultural backgrounds. Cross-cultural communication deals with the comparison of two or more cultures. Culture has tremendous influence on the communication process. These influences could be at work both via verbal and non-verbal communication. Verbal communication: Culture could be understood by how, culture structures…

On your marks...Bang! That is the sound of the gun going off, and hundreds of kids running like a stampede to one destination, the finish line. Many people think that Cross Country is just a hard sport to do and think why would someone want to run for fun. Well, it isn’t fun, and it is hard, but the friends that I have made in the sport, are some that I will never forget. It’s not just that, but it is a sport that helps, whether it’s getting someone in shape, or helping them realize that they…

9.ETHICS AND CROSS-CULTURAL DIVERSITY In this increasingly global world, it is extremely important to understand the differences in cultures and how these differences can potentially affect the communication between members of different cultures in an organization. Many communication barriers exist even when we speak the same language. Adding cultural and language differences to the mix can compound the potential for miscommunication. By understanding and acknowledging how the following…

background and go beyond the conceptual meaning of the utterance. Misunderstandings can occur even between the speakers sharing the same culture when speakers wrongly interpret the pragmatic meaning of the utterance, but more commonly it happens in cross-culture communication. These kinds of mistakes are called pragmatic failures which…

The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization that was founded on May 21, 1881 in Washington, D.C. The American Red Cross provides services and support within five critical areas: Biomedical Services that facilitate services to collect, process, and distribute blood products; Service to the Armed Forces that provides support to military service members and their families; Preparedness & Health & Safety Services that offers education and training on health and safety topics; Disaster…

American Red Cross Origin and Purpose In 1863, Switzerland adopted the International Red Cross (Rosenberg, n.d., para, 2). Going off of that idea, Clara Barton, a military nurse of the Civil War, founded the American Red Cross (ARC) in 1881, originally named American Association of the Red Cross (Rosenberg, n.d., para. 1). ARC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organization (Bancuk, n.d., para 1). “The American Red Cross jumped into its first disaster relief operation when they responded…