Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s inspiring TED talk, The Danger of a Single Story, proves how stories influence the way we perceive the world. She describes the ‘single story ‘ as a narrative that surrounds only one perspective. The objective of her speech is to inform her audience that assuming something is true based on a single piece of information gives us incomplete and incorrect perceptions. Society […]

The Role of Context and Popular Culture in Intercultural Relationships.   When I first arrived in the United States I experienced a lot of culture shock. Almost everything was being done differently from what I knew. Starting from language to dressing to eating habits all seemed a little odd to me. I was told I had to be politically correct in whatever I said, lest […]

INTRODUCTION Creative Media Industries are swiftly shifting its focus to solely digital media and opportunities for creative writers are paid no attention but a Canada-based Nigerian scholar at the thirty first yearly covention of the Association of Nigerian Authors, points out that “writers are the world’s window into a culture” Adesanmi (2013). Novelists, biographers, historians, scriptwriters, and more recently, bloggers are the constant that record […]

According to Murphy (2011), cultural competence is having the “knowledge, attitudes, and skills that support caring for people across different languages and cultures” (p.5). It is important to be cultural competent when providing nursing care for patients because you never know who will be laying in the bed. As a nurse, you will have to care for people from all walks of life no matter […]

The European Union (EU) vs the North American Free Trade Agreement   Introduction   The European Union (EU) is the organization which integrates the countries listed below, both politically and economically. It is a customs union, which is an agreement amongst a group of countries to eliminate trade barriers between them on the movement of goods, services, labor and capital, and also to establish a […]

Since the World War II, the creation of regional economic blocs has become an essential political remedy that gathers countries and nations rather than divide. Essentially, the creation of the economic regional blocs aims to minimize the obstacles between nations that share the same geographic border and to facilitate the circulations of goods and services. In fact, the regional trading blocs differ in terms of […]

Thuc Nguyen MGMT 346 Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Paper Assignment – NAFTA vs EU International Integration With the development of the world economy, all countries are natural to trade and communicate with other people, especially their neighbors. Regional economic integration plays a very important role in the post-war period. This essay is aimed to compare the progress of the strategic competition between the European Union […]

Porter’s Diamond Model provides companies with four reliant factors that fully depend on the state of each other to achieve success within a competitive environment. However, Curran (2001) claims that Porter’s Diamond Model does not fully explain a country’s competitive advantage since only two factors provide evidence of their competitive position. The used factors are company rivalry, strategy, and factor endowments. With reference to the […]

International economics Module Code: BME 0003 Student name: Lamin Jatta Student number: U1370065. Introduction International trade theories explain international trade patterns. Academics see trade as the interdependence of states through the exchange of capital, goods, and services. International trade has existed for thousands of years in the world. Its economic, political and social influence in the world has begun rise. However, new trade theories include […]