Regional accents of English

Yes or No to each part. a. The owner of a large US staffing agency that does 100% of its business with US companies refuses employment to a Korean woman applying for a receptionist position although she speaks perfect English albeit with a very thick, hard to understand Korean accent. b. An Indian restaurant seeks to fill a wait staff position. The advertisement requests applications from qualified individuals of Indian descent in order to add to the authenticity of the restaurant. In the…

There are also two- to three-year junior colleges and vocational colleges. Elementary schooling is compulsory, with an enrollment rate of 100 percent. Compulsory middle school education for three additional years was implemented in 2002. * Secondary education According to APEC website, there are two types of high schools in South Korea, general and vocational. Combining the two types of high schools together, the ratio of middle school graduates advancing to high school was 99.7 in…

CONTENTS: Chapter Page 1 Prologue 3 2. The Family 16 3. Leadership and its impacts 55 4. Social Constructs and Conspiracies 80 5. Professional Barbarism 122 6. Politics and Health 160 7. Race relations and Deception 178 8. Education and Employment 205 9. Economics and Globalisation 222 10. Religion and the Apocalypse 240 11. Change of global Culture 260 12.…

NSFNET was created to provide access to NSF-sponsored supercomputing centers. Starting with an initial backbone speed of 56 kbps, NSFNET’s backbone would be running at 1.5 Mbps by the end of the decade and would serve as a primary backbone linking regional networks. In the ARPAnet community, many of the final pieces of today’s Internet architecture were falling into place. January 1, 1983 saw the official deployment of TCP/IP as the new standard host protocol for ARPAnet (replacing the NCP…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…