...raised from the event will go toward the Wounded Warrior Project, an organization whose mission is to honor and empower Wounded Warriors. The Wounded Warrior Project has helped thousands of family and service members with medical, housing, along with numerous other types of support. This year’s event is split into three different competitions: Men’s Women’s, and Co-ed groups, which are composed of many Greek, Academic, Religious, and other UT organizations. The University of Toledo takes much pride in these events, raising awareness and donations toward a worthy cause. Current sponsors of Songfest include Blue Key National Honor Fraternity and Mortar Board National Honor Society, both of which hold their recognition and tapping ceremonies during the event. Each organization participating in Songfest was challenged to come up with a fundraising goal to go above and beyond what they raised last year supporting children diagnosed with terminal cancer, which was a grand total of $25,000. According to Joy T. Bennett’s journal article Stepping Up, Joy deliberates the importance of fundraising in sororities and fraternities toward their philanthropy, providing money to improve the lives of many people and ensuring that non-profit organizations are still able to exist. She states, “Life is a gist, and it offers us privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” After interviewing Taylor, a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, she indicated that...
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...|Military Appreciation Day | |Meetings and Event Management SUMA10 – Sec A | |Instructor: Kelli Price | | | | | |8/22/2010 | |This analysis provides the basic outline for Military Appreciation Day. | TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Page 3 Date of Event Page 3 Number of Attendees Page 3 Staff Requirements Page 4 Event Plan Page 4 Food and Beverage Vendors Page 6 Alcohol vendors Page 6 Non-Food Vendors Page 6 Marketing Plan Page 7 Budget Page 10 Technology Page 11 Accommodation provided for special needs guest Page 12 Emergency Staff Page 12 Contracts...
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...Resource Links Wounded Warrior Resource Center The Wounded Warrior Resource Center Web site (WWRC) is a Department of Defense Web site which provides wounded Service Members, their families, and caregivers with information they need on military facilities, health care services, and benefits. It supports access to the Wounded Warrior Resource Call Center and trained specialists who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone at 1-800-342-9647 or by e-mail at wwrc@militaryonesource.com. Advocacy/Support - Disabled American Veterans* www.dav.org The DAV’s 1.2 million members provide grassroots advocacy and services in communities nationwide. From educating lawmakers and the public about important issues to supporting services and legislation to help disabled veterans — the DAV is there to promote its message of hope to all who have served and sacrificed. Advocacy/Support - National Veterans Foundation* www.nvf.org Our Mission: to serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of all U.S. Veterans and their families through: * Management and operation of the nation’s only toll-free helpline for all veterans and their families. * Public awareness programs that shine a consistent spotlight on the needs of America’s veterans. * Outreach services that provide veterans and families in need with food, clothing, transportation, employment, and other essential resources. Advocacy/Support - Salute Inc.* www.saluteinc.org SALUTE, Inc. is a...
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...on a 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. The movie takes place in ancient Greece, recounting the battle of Thermopylae, between Spartan and Persian. The story revolves around King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and Queen Gorgo (Lena Heady). The movie lasts for 117 minutes and spends 65 million dollars for the budget. The movie begins one year after the main story, the famed battle of Thermopylae, as Dilios (David Wenham) starts talking to his fellow warriors. As the character and also the storyteller, Dillios is able to frame the story with his interesting narrative technique. Dillios starts depicting the journey of a child (Leonidas) who is born under Sparta’s doctrine, from childhood until he reaches kingship. As a child, Leonidas is portrayed as someone who receives an extremely excruciating trainings. As Leonidas grows up, he learnt the skills of a warrior, the art of killing. He turns to be a brutal- merciless man, who leaves no room for lenity in his heart. Before becoming one of Spartans, Leonidas has to face several trials, the last one is to kill the monstrous wolf that lives deep within the forest. 300’s refined graphic...
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...Boys and Girls Clubs also conduct numerous regional programs. In Ottawa, they conducted a project focused on high-risk children aged 6-12 living in a social housing neighbourhood in Ottawa that provided sports and recreational opportunities and was successful for many years. In Scarborough, a program known as YELL provides employment and leadership training over the course of 40 weeks to older youth and young adults who did not earn a high school diploma. Boys and Girls Clubs of Niagara operate an emergency shelter for homeless and at risk youth, and nearly 70% were able to transition to stable housing over the course of a 22 month period. Finally, the Peace Builders program was offered at 23 Boys and Girls Clubs in Alberta with the goal of teaching youth peaceful, non-violent conflict resolution. Nearly 90% of...
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...Unit 1 Individual Project AIU Online Abstract Native American Tribes are a huge part of our nation’s history; at the beginning they were a free group of people who had their own set of beliefs and religion. But over time wars and government agencies made it extremely hard on these tribes to just live their lives. Crazy Horse, Lt. Custer, and General Crook were very important in the history of the Sioux tribe. The Sioux Native American Tribe is one of the many tribes residing within the United States, who in 1868 signed a treaty at a conference in Wyoming, promising peace between their tribe and the whites. In this treaty the Sioux agreed to settle in the Dakota Territory at the Black Hills reservation (Sioux Nation>Life and Culture-Reservations and Treaties, 2009). There are three major dialects that are spoken in the Sioux and these are Lakota, Western Dakota, and Eastern Dakota. Mythology and beliefs are very important to the Sioux, and some are still practiced today. Within the Sioux tribe are separate tribes and one of those tribes are the Lakota, they also speak the dialect Lakota. One of the things I found interesting is that the dream catcher started with the Lakota tribe, which started from a dream that one of their spiritual leaders had. In the dream he spoke with Ikotomi about the cycle of life and choosing you right path (Crystal, 1995). It is said to remove all the bad visions and dreams so an individual is able to focus on the right path for their...
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...Affairs and VA sponsored sites would not be as successful as we are. The VA finally acknowledged that community service and service learners are beneficial to the veterans who suffer from loss of family, companionship and miss being active. Those who suffer from PTSD like myself find it easier to interact and talk into a social setting instead of in front of a physician. When talking to volunteers I feel personally excited when they ask about my time served. It makes me feel they care. Most of the time I noticed that the same volunteers come back and this makes me think they want to know what more can they do. Volunteers do so much for the military community by assisting with home building for heroes, helping at our shelters and becoming active members serving the DAV (Disabled American Veterans) association. Volunteering for Veterans Blueprints-Rinse and Repeat at its finest. Service Learning for Volunteering for Veterans Blueprints-Rinse and Repeat Volunteering to help a veteran or homeless veteran is important because we all need social support at some time (psmag.org) or another otherwise it leads to suicide for the most of us. When we fall through the crack in system and we are felt like we are no longer relevant we destroy ourselves to end the pain of not being needed anymore. We sometimes need help with socializing in public, reconnecting with the community and need renovations done to homes we live in or near. You should be interested because through the help of socializing...
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...Woman of Color Project on Wilma Mankiller My presentation is on Wilma Mankiller, the Cherokee Nations first female Indian Chief Can a young Cherokee girl grow up to be a Chief? Before Wilma Mankiller grew up to be her tribe’s chosen leader many Indian girls believed that answer to be no. Wilma had a lot to overcome personally in order to be a leader as Wilma was a shy and quiet person who didn’t like to speak in public or talk in front of a camera. One day while driving along the reservation, Wilma saw something that changed her mind. Looking at the plight of her people from an outsiders view, Wilma decided she needed to do something to help her people become the great people she knew they could become. Overcoming her shyness, Wilma set out to campaign her way to deputy chief a step just below Chief. Why wouldn’t she win? It wasn’t easy for Wilma in the beginning. Many Cherokees didn’t want to be governed by a woman; only “good ole boys” could run the Cherokee Nation. Even though Indian women had always been medicine women, warriors and council members, basically having equal rights to the men, people were talking behind her back and not happy with a woman becoming chief. She had to endure slashed tires and even death threats. Wilma believed sexism was the white man’s culture and it was creeping into the Indian culture. She set out to prove them wrong. When Wilma was only ten, her whole family was relocated to California as part of a Federal Government’s...
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...Harald (not his real name) is a high-potential leader with 15 years of experience at a leading European chemical company. He started as an assistant product manager in the plastics unit and was quickly transferred to Hong Kong to help set up the unit’s new Asian business center. As sales there soared, he soon won a promotion to sales manager. Three years later he returned to Europe as the marketing and sales director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, overseeing a group of 80 professionals. Continuing his string of successes, he was promoted to vice president of marketing and sales for the polyethylene division, responsible for several lines of products, related services, and a staff of nearly 200. All of Harald’s hard work culminated in his appointment as the head of the company’s plastic resins unit, a business with more than 3,000 employees worldwide. Quite intentionally, the company had assigned him to run a small but thriving business with a strong team. The idea was to give him the opportunity to move beyond managing sales and marketing, get his arms around an entire business, learn what it meant to head up a unit with the help of his more-experienced team, and take his leadership skills to the next level in a situation free from complicating problems or crises. The setup seemed perfect, but a few months into the new position, Harald was struggling mightily. Like Harald, many rising stars trip when they shift from leading a function to leading an enterprise and for...
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...Old Testament Bible Dictionary Project: Exodus / Aaron / Sinai Exodus is the second book of the five books, known as the Pentateuch or Torah of the Old Testament, dating back to 1445 BC. In the Hebrew Bible it is referred to as Shemoth and the English designation was taken from the Septuagint title, Exodus. Jewish and Christian tradition has believed Moses to be the author, however, controversy arose in the 19th century. It is now thought that it could go back as far as the 6th century during Babylonian exile that the first draft occurred known as the Yahwist. Some key themes, purposes, events, and personalities in Exodus is Moses was born, Moses chosen to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery, and the Ten Commandments where written on two tablets by the hand of God himself. At the birth of Moses Pharaoh feared the growth rate of the Hebrews and ordered all male Hebrew children to be thrown into the Nile. Moses’s mother hid him for three months but when she could no longer hide Moses she constructed an ark and placed it by the river bank. Moses was found by Pharaoh’s own daughter, which she had compassion for Moses, and later adopted him. Later when Moses was 40 years of age (40 years in the wilderness) he encountered God through a burning bush. God spoke to Moses through the burning bush telling him that he was chosen to lead his people, the Israelites, out of Egyptian slavery. The center account master piece regarding Moses is the events that took place at...
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...TAKE HOME FINAL ESSAY. By Vivek Nipani 1. In Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) what qualities does Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) project or possess that make her seem so tough? How or where does her femininity figure in her toughness? According to Sherrie A. Inness in “Lady Killers, Tough Enough?” what are two ways that Hollywood cinema undermines and punishes tough or powerful women? How is this twice demonstrated in Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur,1998)? And how does Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) re-assess her gender to secure lasting power? Finally, in what way can she be considered according to Inness’s formulation, “pseudo-tough?” It is interesting to note that women in Hollywood are not considered tough even when they play characters that can break and haunt a male protagonist in the film. Sherrie A. Inness in her chapter, “Women warriors and wonder women in popular culture,” mentions that, all women in Hollywood are not as tough as they seem. They repeatedly show the tough and masculine killer nature is nothing but all women or feminine underneath. They are made and designed to be desirable by men, even if they are found in the middle of an intense battle, they show no signs of breaking a sweat, with their beautiful hair flowing in high speed shots and are lithe stylistically to make them look like an Amazon warrior with a ton of sexuality. I found this analogy true and very interesting as we were shown the clip from the Ridley Scot film, Alien. Here we...
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...Spotlight on LeadershIp Spotlight Artwork Adam Ekberg Country Road, 2005 Ink-jet print HBr.orG Michael D. Watkins is a cofounder of Genesis Advisers, a leadership development firm specializing in onboarding and transition acceleration, and a professor at IMD. He is the author of The First 90 Days and Your Next Move (both from Harvard Business Press). The seven seismic shifts of perspective and responsibility by Michael D. Watkins How Managers Become Leaders June 2012 Harvard Business review 65 SPOTLIGHT ON LEADERSHIP arald (not his real name) is a highpotential leader with 15 years of experience at a leading European chemical company. He started as an assistant product manager in the plastics unit and was quickly transferred to Hong Kong to help set up the unit’s new Asian business center. As sales there soared, he soon won a promotion to sales manager. Three years later he returned to Europe as the marketing and sales director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, overseeing a group of 80 professionals. Continuing his string of successes, he was promoted to vice president of marketing and sales for the polyethylene division, responsible for several lines of products, related services, and a sta of nearly 200. All of Harald’s hard work culminated in his appointment as the head of the company’s plastic resins unit, a business with more than 3,000 employees worldwide. Quite intentionally, the company had assigned him to run a small but thriving business...
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...magical abilities, a path of initiation, an alchemy in which vision and action are united into a whole. The Magical Week on Gotland is the most important magical highlight of the year, where we unite magical work with inspiring social activities and there will be a unique opportunity to work magically in depth together with others in Dragon Rouge. The Magical Week 2007 we will focus on Visio Vires Actio – The Draconian Alchemy and we will ennoble our magical abilities during intensive magical operations. HDHM! Dracontias No. 1 2007 In this issue: Editorial A few words by Thomas Karlsson The Path Through the Underworld By Anne L. The Manala Pathworking By Andreas Backa The Left Hand Path By Vamacara The Magical Week 2007 Lodge Programs Member Shop 3 4 7 9 12 13 20 Editor Thomas Karlsson. Layout T. Ketola. English translations from Swedish by Tommie Eriksson. Front cover artwork (based on a fresco at Pompei) by T.K. For opinions or suggestions, please write to adminis-tration@dragonrouge.net. The authors of the articles are...
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...Education McDonalized Brianna Warrior Sociology-110HA Professor Moises O. Mina June 18, 2014 Abstract Each student will select a social institution, such as education, the economy, the polity, the family, religion, the media, the military, etc. that he or she thinks has become McDonalized. The paper should discuss 1) the McDonaldization of the institution and 2) research and discuss efforts that are being undertaken to counter or resist the trend. Students should look for instance, for alternative lifestyles, alternative forms of organization, or social movements that address the issue. They will decide which efforts are most promising or realistic in resisting McDonaldization. Their analysis should emphasize our course core value of Community. What is McDonalization? McDonaldization was originated from the author American sociologist George Ritzer. He uses McDonalization to define the homogenous sociological result that is happening to our culture. He expresses McDonaldization as the development by which the values of the fast-food restaurant such as McDonalds, are approaching to rule new and diverse divisions of American society, and as well as the rest of the world. The hamburgers here in the United States are the same all over the world. McDonaldization can be looked, in a way, in which the hamburger chain makes food for ingestion is taken as an ideal of Max Weber's philosophy of the reasoning of the modern world. McDonaldization is the development of rationalization...
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...all of the above. We will call this tree “cultural diversity.” The challenge is to prove why every home should have one of their very own. Let us take a walk through the “Tree Farm” of life to explore this issue further so we can discover what is “cultural diversity” and determine why it is worth the effort of picking out one of these “trees,” bringing it home, and setting it up. We will start with the base of the tree—the environment in which we grow up. According to Marya Axner, author of the book The Community Leadership Project Curriculum, “‘Culture’ refers to a group or community which shares common experiences that shape the way its members understand the world. It includes groups that we are born into, such as race, national origin, gender, class, or religion. It can also include a group we join or become part of. For example, it is possible to acquire a new culture by moving to a new country or region, by a change in our economic status, or by becoming disabled (Axner).” Ms. Axner’s definition is broad but important because it indicates we all fall into at least one of these categories. But, why is it necessary for us to realize this? The Diversity Affairs...
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