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    Pennsylvania. During the conference Mary Louise Pratt a Stanford Professor delivered a keynote/lecture that revolutionized how people think about their social spaces. She introduced a revolutionary way to think about these social spaces, instead of calling them communities she started calling it the “contact zone”. According to Pratt a “contact zone is a place where cultures meet, clash, and grapple” (Pratt 487). While lecturing her fellow colleagues Pratt argues that our idea of community is strongly

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    their homeland. Great opening sentences. Mary Louise Pratt, Kenji Yoshino and Edward Said all present very good methods of maintaining one's national identity in their essays. In Mary Louise Pratt's essay Arts of the Contact Zone she gives examples of people who are in a contact zone. Contact zones are where people are meeting other cultures, and they have to remember not to lose their own. (this was a run-on so I made it into two senteces)One of

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    The “Arts of the Contact Zone”, an article written by Stanford professor Mary Louise Pratt, discusses many different ideas about culture and communication by utilizing what she calls the literate arts. Pratt explains many terms that she believes are beneficial in gaining a further understanding of a literary piece. Key terms such as, contact zone, autoethnography and transculturation are introduced in her essay. She describes contact zones as “social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple

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    Visualizing being a part of Mary Louise Pratt’s lecture on “Art of the contact zone” who was asked to verbalize as an MLA [Modern Language Association] member working in the elite academy, would have been a great accolade. However, I coined several notes on what I cerebrated was gainful and vital from her lecture. From a multi-cultural perspective, I was blissful to discern how crucial “contact zone” was to Pratt. Pratt commenced off with a nice example of her son and his friend aged six and seven

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    Arts of the Contact Zone by Mary Louise Pratt      The Arts of the Contact Zone by Mary Louise Pratt opened up a whole new concept for our class. The new term “contact zone” appeared and Pratt defined it as "social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today." The idea of the contact zone is intended in part to

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    Arts of the Contact Zone by Mary Louise Pratt In the Arts of the Contact Zone, Mary Louise Pratt has tried to explain the concepts of the “contact zone”, which she referred to as “the space of colonial encounters”. This social space that she speaks about is a stage where “disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination”. Pratt aims to highlight these relations between the colonizer and the colonized “in terms of

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    wealth and literacy are heard out and are able to actually make a change. Today, a similar fight for power is evident in classrooms, work places and all over the world. Mary Louise Pratt, a woman of the Elite MLA Academy presented a speech, “Art of the contact zone” to expose the students and faculty to the contact zone. Pratt uses a very clever technique by starting off with the story with personal illustrations and then leaves us dumbfounded by the points her essay makes about the inequality of

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    Key Management Issues to be Solved Standard Oil, a monopolistic company of massive size, used a lack of regulation in the oil industry to become a leader by unscrupulous business practices. By the year 1878 Standard Oil was in control of more than ninety five percent of the oil business in the United States. “Rockefeller’s strengths in bargaining situations was that he figured out what he wanted and what the other party wanted and then crafted mutually advantageous terms…. Standard Oil formed the

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    As a worldwide economic driver, entrepreneurship adds real value through the creation of new jobs and the production of innovative products and services. In today 's business environment, the concept of entrepreneurship has gained immense importance as the entrepreneurs have revolutionized the way businesses carry on their operations to compete effectively. Entrepreneurs are individuals who are willing to risk everything in order to create innovative products or services that will fulfil the many

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    Jessica M. Hintermeister American History Louisa Garry Due: Thursday, March 15, 2001 The Rockefellers feared the temptations of wealth, yet a visitor once described their estate as the kind of place God would have built if only he'd had the money. They amassed a fortune that outraged a Democratic nation, then gave it all away reshaping America. They were the closest thing the country had to a royal family, but the Rockefellers shunned the public eye. For decades, the Rockefeller name

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