...“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” - Abraham Lincoln. Italic nerd Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass explain connects to this quote on a deep level. Although this book has many social issues, power is the one that stands out. Slaves were controlled by white people, only because they thought they had more power over them. When actually they didn’t. If the white people didn’t have power, things would have been drastically different. Even though the whites thought they had power over blacks, we still had many black heros help change the future for other generations. Frederick Douglass was one of those heros. Frederick Douglass was perhaps the most powerful and influential black American of his time. In summary, white males in America sometimes abuse their power. From slavery to present day, white people are privileged and are accepted more in America, which makes them feel higher and more powerful. This is important because caucasians in America abusing their power is an ongoing problem that needs to be addressed because it oppresses black people. Readers can learn how privileged white people are and how they take advantage from the benefits of being privileged....
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...Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Summary After a two and half hour checking dictionary and writing notes, I finally understood this movie. Indeed, it’s a great movie with a tragic and thought-provoking ending. As the movie, it is complicated to say that whose responsibility is the most. Inside Enron The U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations listed high risk accounting, inappropriate conflicts of interest, extensive undisclosed off-the-books activity, and excessive compensation at top of the report findings (Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 2002). These unscrupulous operations are made by increasingly arrogant Enron. Therefore, it cannot be denied that Enron is demise by its own corporate culture. Meanwhile, its culture is affected by individuals’ actions which are closely linked with Kenneth Lay, former chairman and CEO of Enron, and Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO and COO. Ken Lay comes from a quite poor family. When he was a child he had to work some jobs such as newspaper delivery boy and lawn mower. I think it’s the major reason that he becomes an egomania who puts earnings before scruples. Actually, his condition makes me reminding President Lincoln whose also came from a poor family with enormous ambitions. Fortunately, Lincoln chose to do right things using his intelligence and abilities. However, Jeff Skilling had different situation. Back to his admission interview in Harvard Business School, the professor asked him...
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...PHIL 447 All weeks Quizzes Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwaid.com/shop/phil-447-weeks-quizzes/ WEEK 1: 2016 Points 100/100 Multiple Choice 5 1 Grade Details - All Questions Question 1. Question : (TCOs 2 and 3) In Chapter 1, we learned how to recognize the main issue in a passage. Consider the following example: “The point is that you have to believe what we experience through our senses because our senses are the only tools we have for interacting with the world.” The main issue is whether or not Question 2. Question : (TCOs 2 and 3) In Chapter 1, we learned how to recognize the main issue in a passage. Consider the following example: “If you're going to buy a computer, you might as well sign up for some lessons on how to use the thing too. After all, no computer ever did any work for its owner until the owner found out how to make it work.” The main issue is whether or not Question 3. Question : (TCOs 1 and 2) In Chapter 1, we learned how to recognize the main issue in a passage. Consider the following example: “Most people you find on university faculties are people who are interested in ideas. And the most interesting ideas are usually new ideas. So, most people you find on university faculties are interested in new ideas. Therefore, you are not going to find many conservatives on university faculties, because conservatives are not usually interested in new ideas.” The main issue is whether or not Question...
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...introducing its most important office products. Microsoft Works, a combined program which featured typically word processor, spreadsheet, database and other office applications. Towards the end of 1986, Apple Mac. released their first application software. Microsoft Works would later be sold with other Microsoft products including Microsoft Word and Microsoft Bookshelf. In 1987 a reference collection introduced that was the company's first CD-ROM product. Later, on August 8, 1989, Microsoft would introduce its most successful office product, Microsoft Office. Microsoft office included Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Power Point. Obviously Bill Gates couldn’t make and sell these products by himself, so he had to hire well. He had to hire “nerds” that knew what they were doing, and could work in his environment. With his employees they made the operating systems and the application software. But why were they flying off of the shelves so fast? People needed it, and it worked. The firm couldn’t run on its own without a leader, it needed someone who was capable of handling the pressure. Bill Gates set very high expectations for himself, from the time he was playing farmer chess without a computer screen when he was 13 to Gates telling his teachers that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 30....
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... 8. 2nd Chosen Scene: Original Script 17-22 9. 2nd Chosen Scene: Shooting Script 23 10. 2nd Chosen Scene: Shot List 23-26 11. 2nd Chosen Scene: Floor Plan 27 12. 2nd Chosen Scene: Storyboard 28-29 13. 2nd Chosen Scene: Short Analysis of Scene 30 Section B: Their Version 14. 1st Chosen Scene: Floor Plan of Actual Shots 32 15. 1st Chosen Scene: Marked Up Script 33-38 16. 1st Chosen Scene: Various Notes on the Filmed Scene 38-39 17. 2nd Chosen Scene: Floor Plan 40 18. 2nd Chosen Scene: Marked Up Script 41-47 19. 2nd Chosen Scene: Various Notes on the Filmed Scene 48 Section C: Comparison 20. Comparison 49-52 Section D: General Analysis of the film 21. Plot Summary 53-54 22. Tag Line 54 23. 'What if...?' Statement 54 24. List of Locations 55-57 25. Character profiles 57-59 26. Subtext 60-61 27. "Moments" 61 28. Director's Style 62 29. Emotions 62-63 30. Conclusion 63 1. Introduction Initially I was going to choose a black comedy called Eulogy [2004; Michael Clancy], but I was unable to find the script anywhere. I then decided to analyse black comedy horror film Jennifer's Body [2009; Karyn Kusama], which is arguably my favourite film. The script was written by Diablo Cody. Usually I'll go into how underrated this film is, but this is not what the assignment is about. A short plot synopsis...
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...rP os t op yo Vendor Partnering Important Considerations When IT Outsources IT E xc e r p t e d fro m tC The Adventures of an IT Leader By Do No Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Buy the book: Amazon Barnes & Noble HarvardBusiness.org Harvard Business Press Boston, Massachusetts ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-3046-9 3028BC This document is authorized for use only by Paolo Neirotti until September 2011. Copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. Permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu or 617.783.7860. rP os t op yo Copyright 2009 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America This chapter was originally published as chapter 14 of The Adventures of an IT Leader, copyright 2009 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher. Requests for permission should be directed to permissions@harvardbusiness.org, or mailed to Permissions, Harvard Business School Publishing, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02163. Do No tC You can purchase Harvard Business Press books at booksellers worldwide. You can order Harvard Business Press books and book chapters online at www.harvardbusiness...
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...Steve Jobs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Steve Jobs | Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 | Born | Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955 (1955-02-24) (age 56)[1] San Francisco, California, U.S.[1] | Residence | Palo Alto, California, U.S.[2] | Nationality | American | Alma mater | Reed College (dropped out in 1972) | Occupation | Chairman, Apple Inc. | Salary | US$1[3][4][5][6] | Net worth | $8.3 billion (2011)[7] | Board member of | The Walt Disney Company,[8] Apple, Inc. | Religion | Buddhism[9] | Spouse | Laurene Powell (1991–present) | Children | 4 | Relatives | Mona Simpson | Signature | | Website | Steve Jobs | Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is co-founder,[10] chairman, and former chief executive officer of Apple Inc.[11][12] Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 film Toy Story as an executive producer.[13] In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula,[10] and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox...
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...ENGLISH ONLY COURT CASES INVOLVING THE U.S. WORKPLACE: THE MYTHS OF LANGUAGE USE AND THE HOMOGENIZATION OF BILINGUAL WORKERS’ IDENTITIES KARI GIBSON University of Hawai‘i Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects against discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, sex, religion and national origin. However when the judicial system has examined English only workplace policies in light of Title VII, it has generally determined that such policies are not discriminatory if an employee is able to speak English. Although plaintiffs have argued that language is inextricably linked to national origin and cultural identity, the courts have stated that the use of a language other than English is detrimental to the morale of monolingual English speakers and a single language is necessary to ensure workplace harmony and proper management. This paper examines the court cases where English Only workplace policies have been challenged, and identifies the prevalent myths and ideologies held by businesses and the courts about language use, identity, and bilingual speakers. Through the process of homogeneism, linguistic diversity is rejected as monolingual English speakers are able to create and enforce rules that favor themselves as they construct the identity of “American” in their own image. Language is a central feature of human identity. When we hear someone speak, we immediately make guesses about gender, education level, age, profession, and place of origin....
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...Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research M A R Y B U C H O L T Z Department of Linguistics 3607 South Hall University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100 bucholtz@linguistics.ucsb.edu K I R A H A L L Department of Linguistics Campus Box 295 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0295 kira.hall@colorado.edu A B S T R A C T The field of language and sexuality has gained importance within socioculturally oriented linguistic scholarship. Much current work in this area emphasizes identity as one key aspect of sexuality. However, recent critiques of identity-based research advocate instead a desire-centered view of sexuality. Such an approach artificially restricts the scope of the field by overlooking the close relationship between identity and desire. This connection emerges clearly in queer linguistics, an approach to language and sexuality that incorporates insights from feminist, queer, and sociolinguistic theories to analyze sexuality as a broad sociocultural phenomenon. These intellectual approaches have shown that research on identity, sexual or otherwise, is most productive when the concept is understood as the outcome of intersubjectively negotiated practices and ideologies. To this end, an analytic framework for the semiotic study of social intersubjectivity is presented. (Sexuality, feminism, identity, desire, queer linguistics.)* I N T R O D U C T I O N Within the past decade the field of language...
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...The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Carmine Gallo Columnist, Businessweek.com New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2010 by Carmine Gallo. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-07-163675-9 MHID: 0-07-163675-7 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 978-0-07-163608-7, MHID: 0-07-163608-0. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. To contact a representative please e-mail us at bulksales@mcgraw-hill.com. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. Background to the Study Films, generally, serve as a tool for national integration and development. Major types of film are home video, which develop, until now, from what is formerly known as cinema or stage play/drama. As part of mass media, home videos play the important roles of informing, educating, entertaining and transmitting social heritage. Through their educational role, however, home videos concern themselves with evolving a better society by exposing societal ill and wrongs. Since the emergence of home videos, at the turn of the twenty-first century the films industries, and both male and female actors in Nigeria, Nollywood, have considerably influenced the habits, belief systems, style of dressing and other behavioural idiosyncrasies on many Nigerian youths. Thus, one can say, however, that the emergence of home videos have helped to promote the Nigerian cultural heritage; aside this, it has awaken in many youths the Nigerian culture that was once lost during the colonial period. There are also negative effects of home videos on audiences. However, there have been cases where home videos are criticized to the cause for some societal ills. Social critics, who believes in this school of thought says that some antisocial behaviours like violence and extravagant life that many films portrays in their content perceptibly affect the behavior of the audience. Nonetheless, all these sum up to mean that home videos have both positive...
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...For the exclusive use of M. Park, 2016. CASE: HR-1A DATE: 1995 (REV’D. 04/05/06) SOUTHWEST AIRLINES (A) “The workforce is dedicated to the company. They’re Moonies basically. That’s the way they 1 operate.” —Edward J. Starkman, Airline Analyst, PaineWebber Ann Rhoades, vice president of people for Southwest Airlines, was packing her briefcase at the end of a 17-hour day. Tomorrow was an off-site meeting with the top nine executives of Southwest Airlines. The agenda for the meeting was to review Southwest’s competitive position in light of recent actions by United and Continental, both of whom had entered Southwest’s low fare market. That day’s New York Times (September 16, 1994) had an article that characterized the situation as a major showdown in airline industry: This is a battle royal that has implications for the industry, said Kevin C. Murphy, an airline stock analyst at Morgan Stanley. The battle will, after all, be as much a test of strategy as a contest between two airlines. United and other big carriers like USAir and Continental have decided that they can lower their costs by creating a so-called airline-within-an-airline that offers low fares, few flights, and frequent service. The new operations are unabashedly modeled after Southwest, the pioneer of this strategy and keeper of the healthiest balance sheet in the industry.2 The reasons for this competition were easy to understand. Over 45 percent of United’s revenues came from passengers...
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...The Social is B r r og an ng au th or of C N k e A im s t T u ts s e s e nt b g s li el T ew Praise for Social Media 101 “Dismissing social media is not an option, but neither is recruiting a small army of consultants to move your business forward. If you need a crisp view of what’s relevant and how to implement what’s measurable and meaningful today do not miss Social Media 101. Chris Brogan has clearly established himself as the “Social Media Compass” for the rest of us. By the time you finish reading this sentence, there’s something new to tweet about, but you can count on Chris to keep you headed in the right direction.” —Beth Dockins Director, Customer Service, Scotts “Social media is a new and fascinating playground for the complexities of human nature. Chris Brogan understands social media because he puts in the time—observing, understanding, and most importantly, taking action in ways that work.” —Brian Clark Owner/Publisher of Copyblogger.com “Social Media 101 is packed full of the kind of actionable information I wish I’d had starting out in the game.” —Darren Rowse Publisher of Problogger.net “It’s terrific to see Chris Brogan capturing so many of his thoughts on social media in one resource. He’s a person who I follow just for that reason. He offers clever insights and is always at the front of the learning curve.” —Ferg Devins Chief Public Affairs Officer, Molson Coors Canada “Don’t know where to start with...
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...To my mother and grandmother, whose engineering endeavors paved the way for my own. Copyright © 2011 by Gayle Laakmann. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials. The advice and strategies...
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...PROCEEDINGS of the 3rd Christian Engineering Education Conference June 23-25, 1999 at the JAARS Facility of Wycliffe Bible Translators Waxhaw, North Carolina The Mission of Christian College Engineering Programs for Y2K and Beyond Preface THE FIRST CHRISTIAN ENGINEERING EDUCATION CONFERENCE WAS HELD IN 1992 AT CALVIN COLLEGE IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. SEVERAL YEARS LATER, TTHE SECOND CONFERENCE WAS HELD IN 1996 AT MESSIAH COLLEGE, IN GRANTHAM, PENNSYLVANIA. THE 1999 CHRISTIAN ENGINEERING EDUCATION CONFERENCE BROUGHT TOGETHER A DIVERSE GROUP OF DEDICATED CHRISTIAN ENGINEERS. IT WAS A DISTINCT PLEASURE TO HEAR THE WONDERFUL WAYS GOD IS WORKING IN THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS AND SCHOOLS REPRESENTED AT OUR MEETING. THE JUNGLE AVIATION AND RADIO SERVICE (JAARS) FACILITY OF WYCLIFFE WAS A FANTASTIC LOCATION FOR OUR CONFERENCE, AND WE ARE VERY THANKFUL TO OUR GRACIOUS HOSTS. A SPECIAL THANKS GOES TO CAROL WEAVER, THE JAARS CONFERENCE COORDINATOR. The goal of these conferences is to glorify God, to foster community among Christian engineering educators, and to encourage and challenge each other in our work of kingdom building. Abraham Kuyper, one of the great thinkers within the Reformed tradition of Christianity, has said that there is not one square centimeter of the creation that is not claimed by Christ. As Christian engineering educators of whatever tradition, we seek to stake that claim in our discipline, exploring how...
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