Posts Tagged ‘Business’
Communication and social status
There’s no doubt that we do need communication in our lives, we are social creature, we need interaction with others. We do business with communication, and communication also reflect our social status. The more communicative and honorable persons are, could be able to be segmented by their social status.
A number of efforts to try systemized main functions of mass communication, which was originally begun by Lasswell (1948) which gives a summary / conclusion about the basic functions of communication as follows: control environment; relationship (correlation) parts of the community in responding to the environment; transmission of cultural heritage . Function of social control refers to efforts to spread information and objective interpretation of the events occurring within and outside the social environment with the aim of social control in order to avoid the things that are not desirable. Social correlation function refers to efforts to provide interpretation and information linking a social group with other social groups or between one view with another view with the aim of reaching consensus. The function of socialization refers to the efforts of inheritance of values from one generation to another, or from one group to another.
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Arizona Destination
When most of the cold regions of the United States, the State of Arizona is still quite warm so it became a vacation destination. Because of that, came the term “Snowbird” is reserved for U.S. citizens in the north and Canada who vacation in Arizona. Arizona is positioned on the southwestern U.S. has a subtropical climate. The position was made the state whose territory is a combination of mountains and desert is more “warm” when the majority of U.S. territories into autumn and winter.
Winter for the elderly can be an ordeal, because they must be more confined in the house and shovel snow. Because of that, they then choose a vacation to the south, which was still warm. Many options on vacation in Arizona. One of them was the famous Scottsdale.
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War Orphan
Following the defeat of WWII, while many Japanese racially mixed babies were abondoned by their parents, Miki Sawada dedicated her life to take care of the orphans.
With many American military servicemen residing in Japan to help rebuild the country, unwanted pregnancies between American men and Japanese women were not unusual. However, racially mixed children, particularly of American decent, were viewed as shameful. A culture of shame created an extraordinary influence on Japanese society to marginalize these orphans. Read the rest of this entry »