Languages are said to be arbitrary because there is no necessary or natural relationship between the words of a given language and the concepts that they represent. For example, there is nothing in the word "tree" that connects it to the concept of a tree; which is why Spanish can use a totally different sign for the same concept: "árbol"; and so on with other languages.Also, languages are arbitrary...
26 October, 2010
Postmodernism and Implications for Business and the Marketplace
Introduction.Every society is an organizational expression of humanity’s deep desire to overcome the limitsimposed by time and space. We create organizations to perpetuate ourselves.In medieval times, skilled craftsmen and chemists attempted to turn lead into gold and to mixchemicals with fire to discover the secret elixir that would lead to everlasting life. During theindustrial age, the focus turned...
Global Warming and Bangladesh by Ali Hamid Khan
Neither the world nor the country is in good state environmentally. In these couple of centuries, man has done enough damage to the environment to change weather patterns eco – balance and diversity.
Global warming has triggered melting of glaciers resulting in rising water levels. With land being gobbled up by the rising water mass migration of people is taking place. People are affected by land...
Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility - Maj Gen (Retd) Mohd Aminul Karim
Ethical standards have a very wide ambit that cover areas and levels such as international, national, societal, environmental, individuals, systemic, corporate, suppliers, customers, shareholders and so on . Ethics can broadly be defined as a person’s, since everything is contingent upon an individual’s ethical standards, and beliefs about what constitutes right and wrong behavior. Webster’s Ninth...
