flexibility week（一篇英语作文关于中国和美国在对待时间上的 不同）

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• 一篇英语作文关于中国和美国在对待时间上的 不同
• 英文感谢信
• 急！！课文Time to plan your life~有追加~~

一篇英语作文关于中国和美国在对待时间上的 不同

Good morning everyone, today we’ll look at culture or rather classifications of cultures. Usually when we deal with different people, we deal with them as if we were all members of the same culture. However, it’s possible that people from different cultures have different assumptions about the world, regarding such important and basic ideas as time, personal space. And this is the view of Edward Hall. And Edward Hall is an anthropologist who spent a large part of his life studying American Indians, their culture, their language, but he was different from a lot of other anthropologists who just study one culture. He was interested in the relations between cultures, how cultures interact, what Hall believes is that cultures can be classified by placing them on a continuing, ranging from what he called high-context to low-context.
OK, what is a high-context culture? A high-context culture is a culture in which the context of the message or the action or an event carries a large part of its meaning and significance. What this means is that in a high-context culture more attention is paid to what’s happening in and around the message than to the message itself. Now let me give you examples. First in terms of personal space, generally speaking in a high-context culture, because there’s a greater dependency on group thinking, people lean towards heavier sensory involvement or closeness to people. And they have less respect for privacy, for personal space. If you go into that culture, people might stand closer when they’re talking to you. They might touch more and if they’re justled in a crowd, they won’t feel violated. And also people from a high-context culture pay attention to body language. Because remember what I said, the definition of a high-context culture is that more attention is paid to the context of the message than to the message itself. And part of the context is body language. Second in terms of time, people in high-context cultures are considered to have what is called a polychronic attitude toward time. Here “poly” means multiple and “chronic” means time. What this means is that they believe people, things, events have their own time and there can’t be a standard system of time for everything. What this leads them to believe is that you can’t emphasize punctuality. Things happen when they are supposed to happen. So there’s a different attitude toward time. There is no set standard of time. You can’t control time. Everything has its own sense of time. So it’s a culture that pays little attention to time, to clock time.
Now, let’s move on to low-context culture. A lower context culture is just the opposite. A low-context culture is one in which the message, the event or the action is a separate entity, having meaning onto itself, regardless of the surroundings or the context. That the message, the event, the action has meaning in itself. So what this means in a low-context culture is that people pay more attention to the event itself rather than to the context which surrounds the event or the message. For example, in terms of personal space again. There’s more emphasis on individuality, so the concept of privacy is very very important whereas before as I said in a high-context culture they might not even be concerned with privacy or personal space. But in a low-context culture, there’s a feeling that we each have our own personal space. If you get too close, if you don’t knock on doors before entering, that’s an invasion of privacy; people feel violated. There’s a respect and desire for privacy, and you also see that people might pay less attention to body language because as I said the message is, the message is everything. They are not going to worry about all the details around it. What you say is the important thing or what you do is the important thing. Another example of a low-context culture is people’s attitude towards time. In terms of time, I said before there was a polychronic sense of time in a high-context culture. What do you think there would be in a low-context culture? Monochronic! Right! A monochronic sense of time and by that we mean that there is one time. And that concept means that people in a low-context culture believe that there’s one standard of time and that should be for everything. And so I’m not willing to hear “Oh, the traffic was heavy. That’s why I am late. ” or “Oh, I slept late.” People in a low-context culture would be much more upset with lateness because they feel that everyone should follow the same time; there shouldn’t be all this flexibility with time and they expect punctuality. And they look at time as almost a commodity that they use expressions like “use time”, “to waste time”, “to spend time” or “time is money”. All of these expressions reinforce the concept that time is actually something you can hold onto. So what this is all about is that Hall expresses that people need to be aware of these different consumptions or concepts about reality. And he thinks that this has all kinds of relevance no matter what you’re doing, if you’re in business, negotiations, interpersonal relations. If you’re dealing with people from different cultures in any way, it’s going to affect every part of your life. In any multicultural situation, these assumptions need to be taken into account for successful interactions.
Ok, today, we’ll take a brief look at Edward Hall’s view of culture, mainly his classification of high or low context culture with some examples. Next week, we’ll look at some more examples of cultures on the continuing between high-context and low-context cultures.
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英文感谢信

　　在学习、工作或生活中，大家或多或少都会接触过书信吧，书信是一种用文字来表情达意的’应用文体。那么，怎么去写信呢？下面是我为大家收集的英文感谢信9篇，仅供参考，欢迎大家阅读。

英文感谢信 篇1

　　Dear Mr. X:

　　Thank you very much for the interview yesterday. I learned a great deal about your company, its major projects, and its ambitious plans for future development in Guangzhou.

　　I believe I am fully qualified for the work you described. My experience with ABC Corporation is directly related to the work you are offering. Also, my academic background and the training I received as an administrative assistant provide a strong base for further development.

　　Thanks again for the interview. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

　　Sincerely yours,

　　XXX

英文感谢信 篇2

　　i am very grateful for your unselfish work. thank you so much to spare time to help me learning english. there is an obvious effect as my english performance has been improved a lot. It is you that give me so much help to make such a english idiot like me make this achievement. All appreciations are beyond my words.

　　thank you so much, my dearest friend.

　　best regards

　　sincerely

英文感谢信 篇3

Dear Dad,

　　Today is father’s day, for so many years I’ve been seekig a way to express my heartfelt thanks for all you have done for me. Here comes it!Thank you for always being there sharing my life when I need you most. Whenever I encounter difficulties, I never feel alone and vulnerable, because you will keep me on the right path. I’m blessed to have you.Thank you for offering me education and teaching me how to be a man. You always inspire me not by words, but by what you have done! Your efforts in the work, your loyalty to your friends, your responsibility for the family and your persistence in the life have already set me good examples in my own life.Thank you for always appreciating my work, no matter how tiny it is! You have made me realize that it’s capacity not scores that really counts.

　　Dad, I love you and I will love you forever!

　　Yours beloved,

英文感谢信 篇4

　　i am very grateful for your unselfish work. thank you so much to spare time to help me learning english. there is an obvious effect as my english performance has been improved a lot. It is you that give me so much help to make such a english idiot like me make this achievement. All appreciations are beyond my words.

　　thank you so much, my dearest friend.

　　best regards（肿瘤医院感谢信）

　　sincerely

英文感谢信 篇5

　　Dear Mrs. Gorden,

　　I’d like you to know how much the week at your lovely house meant to me. I not only enjoyed myself immensely, but also I felt relaxed and refreshed as I haven’t felt for months.

　　Please give my love to Helen. It was so nice being with her again just like our old days together at school.

　　Many thanks to you and Mr. Gordon for asking me.

　　Sincerely yours，

　　Jean Brown

英文感谢信 篇6

Dear Mrs. Green:

　　My daughter has written to tell that you have been very kind to her during her stay in New York.

　　My husband and I deeply appreciate your Courtesy（对此深感谢意）, and we do hope you’ll come to stay together with us for a few days when you are in Beijing.

　　Thank you for your many kindness to Lin Fang.

　　Sincerely yours,

　　Li Lan

英文感谢信 篇7

Dear ______,

　　How about your life/ study/ work? I’m writing to express my thanks for your _____(感谢的原因). If it had not been your assistance in _____(对方给你的具体帮助), I fear that I would have been_____ (没有对方帮助时的后果).

　　During the ______, you gave me generous help and continuous guidance by _____. First, you _____.What’s more, you ______. There is still one thing that I can’t forget. That is _______. (原因)

　　Thanks a lot for your kindness again. (再次致谢)

　　Give my best regards to ______. (祝愿)

　　Yours sincerely

　　_______

英文感谢信 篇8

　　Dear sharon,

　　I am writing to tell you how very much i enjoyed the days at chicago.Everything was just about perfect. you certainly know how to make a guest feel at home. your delicious meals were a treat, and your flexibility in adapting to my irregular schedules made many things possible.

　　I hope you and peter know how i appreciate your hospitality, and your many kindnesses to me. I count myself fortunate indeed to have two such generous charming friends!

　　With thanks again and best wishes to you.

　　Yours

　　Alice

急！！课文Time to plan your life~有追加~~

When Katherine Goldstein was growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., her mom, an artist, was usually home waiting for her after school. Goldstein, now 26, is grateful that her mother was around. But she plans to do things differently. A recent graduate of Harvard Law School, Goldstein works as a clerk for a circuit-court judge in Cleveland and is engaged to be married in October. “ I view having a full-time job and children as an eventuality and a reality,” she says. Already she is anticipating what it will take to combine a law career with raising a family. Her calculation: tackle the more demanding facets of her profession—like trial law—now, before she starts having kids. That way, “I can transfer to a more family-friendly role when I have children,” she explains. She has been deeply influenced by one of her “mentors,” a law partner in her mid-30s who recently gave birth to her first child. “She told me that when she dies, she just wants to say that she was a good wife and mother,” says Goldstein. “It’s less important to her to become a federal judge or a fearsome trial lawyer. I find that advice really compelling.”
　　 Ever since women first entered the work force en masse in the 1970s, they have struggled to balance career and family. The movement’s pioneers often sacrificed marriage and children to the larger cause of breaking down barriers in the workplace. Subsequent generations made careers their priority and stumbled into marriage—and childbearing—late. Today’s young women have seen enough harried superwomen to recognize that 4blending full-time work with raising children is hardly “having it all.” At the same time, the idea of not working is unfathomable to many of them. So they have invented their own compromise: having some of it all. Many plan to work hard for a few years, take time off to have children, then return to a less-demanding or part-time job. “The emerging attitude toward work is flexibility, and building one’s career by making choices rather than getting on a ladder and hoping it will take you to the top,” says sociologist Kathleen Gerson, author of “Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career and Motherhood.” “ are more concerned with finding a balance between public and private, family and work.”
　　Most women need to work for financial reasons. And today they have more career options than ever. They are well educated, confident and technologically savvy, and they are entering a labor market that still desperately wants them. According to the Census Bureau, in 1998 nearly 60 percent of all women over 16 worked, compared to 43 percent in 1970. New mothers are, on average, returning to work more quickly: in 1998 nearly 62 percent of mothers with children under the age of 1 were working, up from 31 percent in 1975. And they are having children—or at least planning for them—at an earlier age: Andrea Truncali, 27, says she began thinking about having kids during her first year of medical school, when she learned about the risks of advanced maternal age. Indeed, the new generation places great importance on establishing their families. “These young people on the whole have grown up as children of divorce,” says Sheila Wellington, president of Catalyst, a nonprofit research organization that studies women in business. “They may tend to value family more. If so, they’re going to recognize that family time is precious.”
　　The key to more family time, of course, is fewer hours in the office. After her daughter, Jordana, was born a year ago, Lizzy Bornstein, 29, switched Chicago law firms so she could work three days a week. She says she enjoys having “my own thing that I can feel good about” while also spending time with her daughter. A recent study by Catalyst found that more than 80 percent of both men and women use “some kind of flexibility at work, either formal or informal,” says Wellington. That means anything from working a three-day week to occasionally leaving early to catch a kid’s soccer game. And many employers are sanctioning such moves: Isabel Schultz, 31, an advertising manager in Chicago, says her employer, Starcom Worldwide, a division of Leo Burnett, is open-minded about flexible schedules and offers a telecommuting pilot program.
　　Some young women are even choosing professions based on the flexibility they afford. Anne Maxson, whose class at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine is 76 percent women, says women might be more likely to consider veterinary medicine because it offers more freedom. Chicagoan Sally Rosen, 24, says she is well aware that her skills as a computer scientist can easily be employed from home. And Beverly Brettmann, 28, says she derives satisfaction from her career as a freelance writer and teacher in New York in part because “I won’t have to alter my lifestyle much when it comes time to include marriage and children.”
　　But a part-time schedule isn’t without risks. “Often the part-time options don’t have any benefits attached to them, and don’t have any job security,” says Donna Stewart, chair of the American Psychiatric Association’s committee on women. Part-time jobs are also the first to go in an economic downturn. Still, many young working women are willing to make that trade-off for the prospect of afternoons at the playground. “If they expect to have meaningful, useful, fulfilling part-time work,” says Wellington, “the odds are they’ll get it.”
　　In fact, if forced to choose between a high-powered career and raising children, several of the women interviewed for this article said they would ditch the job (at least temporarily). Diane Thompson, a 25-year-old cancer-research specialist in Los Angeles, says she would “probably choose to raise kids” and then “go back to later.” For now, the biggest obstacle women like Thompson face is finding an acceptable mate. Though they are hopeful that they will find men who will be equal partners, they are well aware that few women, including their mothers, have achieved that: women still do the bulk of the housework and child care. “We’ve been going in the right direction,” says Peggy Orenstein, author of “Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World.” “The ultimate goal is to have real choice for men as well as women, which means women have to be capable of fulfilling their economic potential and men their domestic potential.” Brettmann’s goal is much simpler. “I’m just waiting to date someone who isn’t a jerk,” she says. In that respect, at least, what women want has remained remarkably consistent.