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When you do something in the world one way or another it will come back, either to haunt you or to reward you. In the story “The Fight” by Adam Bagdasarian, the protagonist, a popular kid named Adam, challenges big Mike Dichter to a fight, and after he loses he has no friends. He didn’t just lose a fight he lost his friends. The theme of the story, karma is seen throughout the beginning, middle and end.

Now that Mayweather has retired from professional boxing, he will go down as one of the greatest pound for pound fighter in history. The man shares the record of being the undisputed champion with another great boxer Rocky Marciano (inspiration behind the blockbuster movie Rocky) but at the same time there are others who deny such claims - citing his choice of fighter who many believed that he cherry picked them or his less than exciting and crowd friendly tactics or his flamboyant lifestyle. What nobody can deny is his glittering career full of highlights and great moments like being champion for 18 years in his 19 year of professional boxing. To honour the future hall of fame, we look into his journey in becoming the G.O.A.T. The Early Days

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury discusses the art of principled negotiation, a negotiation method developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project that aims to produce effective, lasting, and fair agreements between parties. It is a diverse method that devised to work in nearly any given negotiation situation regardless of the parties involved, whether one is more experienced in bargaining than another, knows the strategy better than the other, etc. In their book, Fisher and Ury begin by outlining the issues related to negotiations and then by providing four principles on how to apply principled negotiation. The book ends by addressing the most common questions people have about the method. Fisher and Ury state that the most common issues surrounding negotiation is that people often negotiate by bargaining over positions, meaning that negotiations often consist of people taking a particular stance and trying to bargain with the opposing side.

Former undisputed world middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler took his sentiments to social media and broadcasted his desire to see a Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Gennady Golovkin fight in September. Boxing News 24 reported that the 61-year-old Hall of Famer believes that the pay-per-view king should face the current WBA and IBO middleweight champion for his supposed to be last fight before retirement this fall. Hagler, who expressed his opinion via a series of posts in his official Twitter account on Thursday, said that if his contemporary and fellow legend four-division champion Roberto Duran could fight bigger men than himself, then Mayweather should also do the same to prove that he is one of the greatest boxers of all time. Mayweather is reported to fight two-time welterweight champion Andre Berto on September 12 and has received a lot of criticisms from boxing fans and pundits alike.

Nathan Kramr Mrs. Parnell English AAC February 8, 2023 Boxing in the Roaring Twenties During the 1920s, or rather the roaring twenties, the sport of boxing had significant growth and experienced a surge in popularity, and it became one of the most popular sports in America. Boxing had a positive impact on the nation’s economy and boxing made its top fighters very rich. Among them were Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney who had some of the best and most controversial fights of the twenties. Boxing positively benefited the nation, the economy, and its boxers.

Gene Luen Yang offers a humanistic perspective on western imperialism in China during the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century in his graphic novel Boxers, a tragic narrative about Chinese grassroots resistance against foreign occupation in which an armed revolution ultimately fails. The novel focuses on religious identity, and cultural connections in the face of invasion. Boxers highlights the negative effects of imperialism through clashes between different religions, ideologies and power structures. Therefore, the criticism of western imperialism presented in Boxers could support a world systems theory approach to international relations because it shows to exploitation through westernization and the squandering of cultural

Floyd Mayweather Jr is an American professional boxing person and a formal professional boxer. He was born on February 24, 1977. His age is 41. He was born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. He is an American national.

Conflict resolution as a field of study as indicated has formed hypothetical bits of knowledge into the nature and source of conflict and how conflicts can be resolved through peaceful systems to effectuate a dependable settlement. Morton Deutsch, was the first to form and understanding into the helpful results of collaboration as a scholastic enquiry. In his view, various variables like the way of the debate and the objectives every group in a conflict goes for are crucial in deciding the sort of introduction a group would convey to the negotiation table in its endeavor to unravel the conflict (Morton Deucth, 1985, p.24). To him, two essential orientations do exist. These are competitive and cooperative.

As described earlier in the introduction part, I have recalled different courses of negotiation in my life from which I have tried to figure out my weaknesses and strengths. Before the negotiation course, I could only realize some of my capacity and limits, for example I might be good at emotional control and bad at active listening. I believed they were not all the weaknesses and strengths that I should realize. In addition, I found it hard to hone my strengths and improve my weaknesses because (i) I did not see negotiation in systematic viewpoint (ii) I have not had enough negotiation experiences. Thankfully, this course has shed the new light on the wide scope of negotiations and how they should be conducted.

What are the Factors that facilitate successful integrative negotiation? 1- Some common goal or objective 2- Belief in one's ability to solve problems 3- There is a belief in the validity of one's position and point of view of the

Pearson and Stephan (1998) examined differences between Brazilians and Americans in preferences for the styles of negotiation, and the results were that the Brazilians prefer a style of negotiation that reflects a high concern for the other over styles that reflect a low concern for the other. Thomas (2010: 3) emphasizes that: “When accommodating, a person may neglect his or her considerations to satisfy the considerations of the opposite person; there's a component of cooperation during this style. Accommodating would possibly take the shape of altruistic, generosity of charity, obeying another person’s order once you would favor to not, or yielding to another’s point of view”.

The adjustment in negotiation style could be in time orientation, focal point selections (substance or relationship), team setting (individual or group) and communication patterns (the way to start negotiation, make offer or refuse offer, etc.). Good preparation and better understanding the cultural differences is believed to create chance to reveal both sides’ interests and expand the bargaining zone. As a result, it will be more possible that the deal could be made in win – win

INTRODUCTION Negotiation involves communication or dialogue between two or more parties over one or more issues to settle existing conflicts relating to issues and achieve a beneficial outcome. Negotiation usually involves solving a conflict. (Trotschel et al, 2011). For a negotiation to be effective it must: • Result in a quality agreement that is wise and satisfies both parties. • Foster good interpersonal relationships.

The use of power based negotiation can foster mistrust and anger. The parties view each other as adversaries, and can withhold information that may hinder the negotiation. One of the major downsize of power based negotiations is that the parties may lose sight of the real issue. Personal Application As a

The following values tend to influence Japanese communication: focus on group goals, interdependence, and a hierarchical orientation. In negotiations, these values manifest themselves in awareness of group needs and goals, and deference to those of higher status. Japanese negotiators are known for their politeness and their emphasis on building relationships. Japanese concern with face and face-saving is one reason that politeness is so important and confrontation is avoided. They also tend to put less emphasis on the literal meanings of words used in negotiation and more emphasis on the relationships established before negotiating begins.