British Government - Constitutional Monarchy
US Goverment - Republic
Britain - an Island
USA - a large land mass
Britain - Free Schools, Free Medical Care,
USA - Pay for School, Pay For Health Insurance
Britain - At least 4 week payed holiday/vacation issued by the Goverment
USA - Employers decide holidays/vacations length,
Britain - Drink Alcohol when your 18 years old
USA - Drink Alcohol when your 21 years old
Britain; Hand Guns are banned
USA; Guns galore.
Britain; Play Soccer, Rugby (Upper-class play cricket, Tennis)
USA; Play American Football, Basketball, Baseball, Ice Hockey
Britain - high cost for petroleum
USA - low cost for petroleum
Britain - Celebrate Bonfire Night
USA - Celebrate Thanks Giving
Britain; Narrow, bendy roads,
USA; Wide, Straight roads,
Britain; Different spellings in English language (Defence, Realise, Theatre, Sulphur)
USA; Different spellings in English language (Defense, Realize, Theater, Sulfur)
Britain; Different words in English Language (Pavement, Mobile-phone, Toilet)
USA; Different words in English Language (Sidewalk, Cell-phone, Bathroom)
Britain; Food is expensive
USA; Food is cheap
Britain; Beer is strong
USA; Beer is weak,
Britain; have foxes
USA; have bears
May 29, 2009
What are the cultural differences between Britain and the USA?
The Advantages and Disadvantages Of Advertising
Advertising is the name given to the process of commercial promotion of goods and services in order to increase its sales. Advertising can be done by means of a number of mediums like television, newspapers, wall paintings, billboards, magazines, Internet, by the word-of-mouth and in many other ways. Advertising informs the buyers about the availability of a certain product or service in the market and encourages them to buy it. The main objectives of advertising are:
* Increasing the usage of a certain product
* Creating new customers and increasing brand recognition.
* To obtain feedback from customers regarding a certain product.
* To indicate introduction of new products or replacement of old ones.
Advertising has a number of uses. Apart from promoting commercial goods, advertising can also be used to educate and motivate the public about non-commercial issues such as AIDS, deforestation, family planning, etc. It is a powerful media which is capable of reaching to the far out masses. Now a days we find many ads on the internet also. These ads in most cases, have been successfully in connecting the user with the information he requires. To prevent complete commercialization of electronic media, some countries have made it mandatory for broadcasters to air some advertisements related to consumer interest. These public advertisements educate people of that country on a number of social and moral issues. However, some people are very keen on exposing the negative side of advertising. The impact that advertisements cause depends on the state of mind of an individual and his past experiences. For instances, young kids will be easily attracted by the false claims made in advertisements.
People are also arguing about the increase in consumption of substances like alcohol and cigarettes after viewing the ads. Excessive advertising has become a nuisance in most cities of the world. Manufacturers easily make false claims about any product and influence the minds of the people. To confront this problem, companies are being asked to withdraw any false and negative claims made in their ads and also being made to pay a fine for these false claims.
Good - Increases exposure for new or smaller companies, or for larger companies with new or unestablished product lines.
Good - It alerts consumers to products that may fill just the niche they need (which is why all good advertising is targeted to a specific audience).
Bad - Advertising is expensive and can therefore be a crapshoot if a company doesn't do its research beforehand.
Bad - It can be intrusive or invasive (think telemarketers and poll-takers) and its effectiveness can be diluted if the arena becomes saturated (think race cars; you see a lot of stickers, but how many do you really NOTICE).
Mongolian tourism
In Mongolia 217 tour operators provide safe and year round tourist service to foreigners. Winter tourist offers deer race, camel race, and morning sun rising.
Winter daily life of Mongolians and nature beauty attracts tourists.
But this year, snow fall is less than previous years and climate warming is negative impact on the tourism rush hour of winter tourism in Mongolia is from November to February.
Since Mongolia's transfer to the market economy in 1990, the tourism sector has evolved into a critical part of the country's development. It has been a major factor in Mongolia's union with the world trend of globalization. Around US$ 150 million are collected each year from travel and tourism, equal to 10% of the country's GDR the construction of more hotels, tourist camps, restaurants and reliable transportation networks which are up to international standards will draw more tourists to Mongolia and increase the profits of companies operating in the tourism sector. At the same time, Mongolia's transition to the market economy has resulted in the emergence of private sectors that have started to operate in the tourism industry
In accordance with the declaration of 2004 as the Discover Mongolia Year, the numbers of foreign tourists have been increasing. As of the first six months of 2004, a total of 107,977 tourists visited Mongolia. At the same time of last year, 74,365 tourists were welcomed to the country
Write a report for your local newspaper on how public transport facilities in your area could be improved
In a rapidly growing urban in developing countries good urban transport systems are one of the important decision in making any city more efficient. Problems today we have on the road is a lot, traffic congestion, deteriorated path, overrated cars and vehicles and besides mad and irritated drivers.
Any city feature shows what the country look like. In other words, when foreigners are visiting our city their first impression will depend on how the city attracts them. That is why improving our city transport is one of the way shows the how much we educated.
. To improve our public transport, there are many things to do. The works will include the installation of new traffic signals and improved pedestrian facilities. In order to carry out some of the planned works it will be necessary to expand the road to one lane in each direction. This will only occur from time to time.
. I'm confident these kind of works will help convince everyone to use public transport more and help us relieve city centre congestion."
May 22, 2009
Little survey
by the beginning of next academic year how many of us will have gone to study abroad?
lets guess, type your number