The Distance

opportunity than another. Yet America, just like most modern cultures, suffers from power distance and gender inequality. It can crop up in any area of life, but perhaps most spotlight is the workplace. As a hopeful future elementary teacher, I am fortunate to belong to a that sees less of these injustices than other majors (engineering for example). This does not negate the fact, however, that power distance and gender roles will impact my career in the coming years, whether it be in my…

This chapter covers the different types of basic online distance education styles, such as one or two-way audio/video, while also getting into details regarding specific emerging technologies, such as podcasting. Through this chapter students are able to immerse themselves in the basic familiarity of distance education sources, emerging technology usage and basic tiers of the internet service that can be incorporated into learning…

3.4 Power distance A large distance between power of society is similar to collective society which emphasis on social class and level (Hofstede, 1994). Everyone wants power and desires gap between people(Hofstede, 1994). In this society, people who has low power also want to make friend with high power people that hope to increase their power. There is common phenomenon between different people which was recognized by people who is in large power distance society(Hofstede, 1994). In this…

Except it, this project is really hard to complete because the underground cable throughout very long, which is from the Denver to the San Francisco. Indeed, as these underground lines, people could communicate with others from a long distance even though the “long distance call” has to…

When you are caring for a family member it often requires teamwork. While one sibling might be local and take on most of the everyday caregiving responsibilities, a long distance caregiver can also have an important role. As a long distance caregiver you can provide important respite to the primary caregiver and support to the aging family. It is important when you are responsible to take care of a person that need your help you need to be there and you need to make sure that you know that it…

Personal distance is a concept associated with proxemics. Personal distance has both a close phase and a far phase, but this paper will be focusing on the close phase. Personal distance is defined as the consistent space between two communicators, having no physical contact with each other (Hall, 1966). Edward Hall (1966) states, “It might be thought of as a small protective sphere or bubble that an organism maintains between itself and others” (p. 119). Hall (1966) claimed that the proxemics…

functional distance is the “degree of closeness and quality of functional working relationship between the supervisor and the subordinate”. “These types of distance influence an individual’s motivation, ability, and opportunity to exhibit OCB. For example, when structural distance is high, an employee has infrequent contact with others in the organization, the physical distance between them is great, and so the opportunity to engage in some forms of OCB (e.g. helping, voice, sportsmanship) is…

student has more than one option to choose from when obtaining an education. For students who wish to attend a specific school located at a greater distance than the student can travel to on a regular basis, the option to attend on-campus or combining on-campus with online learning presents a big challenge for the student. In such circumstances, distance learning offers the student similar tools found in a traditional classroom setting. Even though online classrooms do share some similarities to…

Long-distance caregiving is usually defined as care given by a person (who takes care of someone) living more than an hour away from the care receiver. Caring from a distance is very hard both emotionally and organizationally, and is most common (in the original position)ations where adult children and their parents do not live in the same…

Internet Outside the Classroom It’s obvious at this point that the internet is an integral part of today’s everyday life. It’s become an adolescent’s medium for entertainment, information gathering, and communication. and the increase of it’s use, comes changes within the lives of students. Instant gratification is now expected by adolescents as things like quick-time scrolling, vine, and web searches with immediate answers becomes the norm. And it has become the norm, if you look into a…