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CONCLUSIVE EXERCISE on
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
1. A. London is a large city whose streets zigzag,
snake, and circle without a numbering system.
B. New York and Chicago just spread out, pushed
by the demands for residential, business, or
industrial space. (Choose one marker from
similarity focus)
-- London is a large city whose streets zigzag,
snake, and circle without a numbering system.
Similarly, (Likewise, In the same way,) New York
and Chicago just spread out, pushed by the
demands for residential, business, or industrial
space.
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2. The United States boycotted the 1980's
Olympics. Similarly, (Likewise, In the same way,)
the USSR, did not send their athletes to the 1984's
Olympics.
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3. When you live in another country, you should try
to learn the language of that country.
Similarly, (Likewise, In the same way,) when other
people visit your country, they should try to speak
your language.
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4. Going to Mars you would climb against the
Sun's pull; returning, you would be helped along
by it. On the other hand, (In contrast), going to
Venus you would fall with the Sun's pull;
returning, you would move against it.
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5.The truck strike in France protested a new driving
license system, aimed at punishing dangerous driving
more harshly. Similarly, (Likewise, In the same way,)
the truckers in India staged a countrywide strike
demanding abolition of an excess of interstate taxes.
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Emily Dickinson and Fay Chiang are different kinds
and wrote 100
of American poets. Dickinson lived (1)____
years ago. (2)_In contrast,__
Fay Chiang is a modern
poet, alive and writing today. Dickinson was a shy,
solitary person. (3)__While
___ she was writing, she
almost never left her house. Fay Chiang, (4)_however
is an activist who works in an Asian-American artists'
community in New York's Chinatown. Chiang (5)_
also
___
works with writers of other minority groups.
(6)__
__
Dickinson and Chiang are very
Although
different kinds of American women, they both
express similarly powerful emotions through their
poems.
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French and American business managers have decidedly different
management styles. French meetings, for example, are long and
rambling and rarely end on time. Furthermore, meetings often end
without closure. Americans, on the other hand, make an effort to start
and stop a meeting on time, and American business meetings typically
end with decisions-and action plans. Another difference involves
documentation. Americans adore documentation; they have a procedure
manual for everything. The French, in contrast, think this is childish.
French managers find it difficult to stick to a schedule, but American
managers are intolerant of delays. In addition, the French prefer to work
alone, whereas Americans like to work in teams. Another major
difference in management style is that in French companies, authority
comes from the top; French managers do not share information with
subordinates and make decisions with little participation by employees
beneath them. In American companies, however, top managers share
information and frequently solicit3 input from subordinates.
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1. What should be the title?
_______________________________________
___________________________________
2. What two things are being compared /
contrasted?
___________________________________
_____________________________________
3. What points are being compared / contrasted?
_____________________________________
_______________________________________
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Management Styles
French Management
Styles
1. Meeting:
-- long & rambling
-- without closure
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-- start & stop on time
--end with decisions &
action plans
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2. Documentation
--this is childish
--no on schedule activity
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American Management
Styles
-- adore documents
-- on schedule activity
3. Working style
-- alone
4. Authority
-- in team
-- No sharing info
-- no decision from
employee
-- sharing info.
-- solicit input from
employee
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