...the movie. Regardless of its mistakes, the film became a great success, because the plot of the movie allowed the audience to explore a different side of life after death and the grief that comes with it. Ultimately, the movie The Sixth Sense can be perceived as a therapy, because it gives us tools on how to deal with fear and helps us learn about the ways on how to come with terms of loss. It also explains the importance of communication between a doctor and the patient, a husband and a wife, a mother and a son, and of course, between our society and ourselves. Two unalike families contribute to the story’s plot. Two separate lives of Cole (played by Haley Joel Osment) and his mother Lynn (played by Toni Collette), and a psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) with his wife Anna (played by Olivia Williams). The story begins with an ordinary psychologist, who practices in a private sitting to help a young boy in defeating anxiety and distress. During a quiet evening, a former patient (played by Donnie Wahlberg) breaks into the doctor’s home, who then shoots and kills the doctor, and at last commits suicide. Subsequently, the story continues with a different telling about the establishing of a connection between the doctor and a new...
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...is something commonly visited with my family and me. Having three children in the last seven years, my family and I have had our share of hospital and medical office visits. The quality in care does not go unnoticed as I see many areas that need improvement, as well as other areas that are exemplary. One measure that many organizations utilize is continuous quality improvement (CQI). It is a structured organizational process by which personnel plans and executes a constant flow of improvements in order to provide exceptional quality healthcare (McLaughlin & Kaluzny, 2006). CQI is an approach to quality management, where traditional quality assurance is implemented and emphasizes on the systems of the organization. Aside from gaining satisfaction and confidence from patients, quality improvements of a healthcare organization (if applied successfully) can earn prestigious awards. When quality in healthcare meets government regulations and standards, and when satisfactory is met with the public and/or patients, many organizations are recognized for their achievements in quality. Some organizations are rewarded, along with their recognition, with awards reflecting their success. One such award is the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Stated in the article Four U. S. Organizations Honored with the 2011 Baldrige National Quality Award (2011), the Baldrige Award is named after the 26th Secretary of Commerce, Malcolm Baldrige. Established by Congress in 1987, the Baldrige...
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...A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE SIGNET CLASSIC EDITION OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH LINDA NEAL UNDERWOOD S E R I E S E D I T O R S : W. GEIGER ELLIS, ED.D., ARTHEA J. S. REED, PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, EMERITUS and UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, RETIRED A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth 2 INTRODUCTION William Shakespeare developed many stories into excellent dramatizations for the Elizabethan stage. Shakespeare knew how to entertain and involve an audience with fast-paced plots, creative imagery, and multi-faceted characters. Macbeth is an action-packed, psychological thriller that has not lost its impact in nearly four hundred years. The politically ambitious character of Macbeth is as timely today as he was to Shakespeare's audience. Mary McCarthy says in her essay about Macbeth, "It is a troubling thought that Macbeth, of all Shakespeare's characters, should seem the most 'modern,' the only one you could transpose into contemporary battle dress or a sport shirt and slacks." (Signet Classic Macbeth) Audiences today quickly become interested in the plot of a blindly ambitious general with a strong-willed wife who must try to cope with the guilt engendered by their murder of an innocent king in order to further their power. The elements of superstition, ghosts, and witchcraft, though more readily a part of everyday life for the Renaissance audience, remain intriguing to modern teenagers. The action-packed...
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...Jurassic Park Michael Crichton Copyright Michael Crichton (c) 1991 All Rights Reserved The right of Michael Crichton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in Great Britain in 1991 by the Random Century Group 20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London SWIV 2SA Century Hutchinson South Africa (Pty) Ltd PO Box 337, Bergvlei 2012 South Africa Random Century Australia Pty Ltd 20 Alfred St, Milsons Point, Sydney, NSW 2061 Australia Random Century New Zealand Ltd PO Box 40-086, Glenfield, Auckland 10 New Zealand A CIP Catalogue Record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 0 7126 4686 8 Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc For A-M and T "Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them." LINNAEUS, 1797 "You cannot recall a new form of life." ERWIN CHARGAFF, 1972 Introduction "The InGen Incident" The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering. This enterprise has proceeded so rapidly-with so little outside commentary-that its dimensions and implications are hardly understood at all. Biotechnology promises the...
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...Joseph Juran Joseph Moses Juran (December 24, 1904 – February 28, 2008) was a Romanian-born American management consultant and engineer. Dr. Joseph Juran is considered to have had the greatest impact on quality management after W. Edwards Deming. He is principally remembered as an evangelist for quality and quality management, having written several influential books on those subjects including the Quality Control Handbook and Managerial Breakthrough. In 1941, after discovering the Pareto principle by Vilfredo Pareto, he began to apply it to quality issues. In later years, Juran preferred "the vital few and the useful many" to signal the remaining 80% of the causes should not be totally ignored. Although his philosophy is similar to Deming’s, there are some differences. Whereas Deming stressed the need for an organizational “transformation,” Juran believes that implementing quality initiatives should not require such a dramatic change and that quality management should be embedded in the organization. One of his important contributions is his focus on the definition of quality and the cost of quality and poor quality. He extended his quality management to encompass nonmanufacturing processes, especially those that might be thought of as service related. Juran is credited with defining quality as fitness for use rather than simply conformance to specifications. Juran was one of the first to think about the cost of poor quality. This was illustrated by his "Juran trilogy"...
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...Throughout the course of the semester, my writing as drastically improved through analyzing and understanding the course goals, its objectives, the topics of the papers, and grading rubrics. Utilizing the syllabus allowed me to see what was expected of me as a writer, and how I would be critiqued in my writing, starting with the first paper which asked me to explain the moment or experience when I knew I was a part of a discourse community. At first, I did not understand what I was supposed to write. Once we talked about it in class and went over discourse community characteristics and sample papers, my paper began to flourish from draft one all the way to draft four. In draft one, I finished my paper with “I became so good with weave that...
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...University of North Carolina at Pembroke English and Theatre DEPARTMENT COURSE: ENG 2100: African American Literature Fall 2014 INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Charles Tita OFFICE: West Building, Office of Distance Education OFFICE HOURS: Monday 4-6 and Tuesday/Thursday 10:30-12 OFFICE PHONE: 521 6352 FAX: 910 521 6762 EMAIL ADDRESS: charles.tita@uncp.edu LECTURE TIME: Tuesday/Thursday 2-3:15pm LOCATION: DIAL 147 REQUIRED TEXT Gates Jr., Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004. OPTIONAL REFERENCES Locke, Alain, ed. The New Negro. New York: Atheneum, 1968. hooks, bell. Teaching to Trangress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994. Harrold, Stanley. American Abolitionists. New York: Pearson Education, 2001. Youngs, J. William T. American Realities: Historical Episodes-From First Settlements to the Civil War. New York: Longman, 2000. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963. COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of African American literature, introducing students to genres, trends, and major periods of African American literature, ranging from the 17th-, 18th- and 19th- century autobiographies and narratives to 20tth –century works. Authors include: Jupiter Hammon, Briton Hammon, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison...
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...CHAPTER ONE CONVERSATION 1. Conversation is the essence of interpersonal communication. In many scholarly views they are equivalent and among no scholars the words conversation and interpersonal communication often men the same thing. Conversation occurs when two or three people exchange messages , weather face to face ,over the telephone, through apartment walls, or on internet. STAGES OF CONVERSATION PROCESS 2. There are five stages of conversation process Opening Feedback Feed forward Opening Closing 3. The opening. The first step is to open the conversation, usually with some kind of greeting. Greetings can be verbal or nonverbal and are usually both. Verbal greetings include, for example, verbal salutes ("Hi," "Hello"), initiation of the topic (The reason I called ") making reference to the other ("Hey, Joe, what's up?"), and personal inquiries ("What’s new?" " How are you doing?") Openings are also generally consistent in tone with the main part of the conversation, a cheery "How ya doing today, big guy?" is not normally followed by news of a family death. In opening a conversation, consider two general guidelines. Fist, be positive. Lead off with something positive rather than something negative. Say, for example, "I really enjoy coming here" instead of "Don't you just hate this place?" Second, don't be too...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. Improving of effective communication skills help us better understand a person or situation and enable us to resolve differences, build trust and respect, and create environments where creative ideas, problem solving, affection, and caring can flourish. As simple as communication seems, much of what we try to communicate to others and what others try to communicate to us, gets misunderstood, which can cause conflict and frustration in personal and professional relationships. By learning these effective communication skills, you can better connect with your spouse, kids, friends, and coworkers. In simply, its activity or process of expressing ideas and feelings or of giving peoples information. The successful communication include, basic four skills such as Listing, speaking Reading and writing. 2. As officers in security forces and police department, it is necessary to enhance abovementioned communication skills for betterment of our self and others. From the above mentioned skills conversation skills is important to work in any environment. There for learning of conversation skills very important as we communicate with each verbally and non-verbally. CONVERSATION 3. Conversation is the essence of interpersonal communication. In many scholarly views they are equivalent and among no scholars the words conversation...
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...“We are saying we are determined to be men” (King). He is telling them that what they desire is not wrong; it is simple. It is the desire for justice and equality. Similarly, in her book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan tells women to seek their freedom, despite feeling wrong for wanting to have the opportunities their husbands and their brothers were raised to expect. Just as Friedan tells women they can no longer “that voice within [them] saying “I want something more than my husband and my children and my house’” (Friedan 32), MLK tells the black people “we’re going to march again, and we’ve got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be” (King). The leaders of both movements work to inspire their people and call them to action. This connection shows the ideological connection between the two movements. In each, there is the understanding that people need to be shown the injustice and that the injustice needs to be fought by the...
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...to be sophomore in college I believe it is a good time to ask myself: can I dress myself? Before I tackle this question it is incredibly important to understand the significance of it, that is, to be able to understand it from Cool’s perspective. Obviously in everyday life when someone says, “I dressed myself this morning” they are simply referring to the fact that they were able to pick up and put on clothes of any sort and call it an “outfit”. What I’m talking about though, is the ability to express myself in the way I want to, and not be tied down by any social or cultural norms. These norms include the underlying features of the American population and what the majority of people around me value at this very moment. If I simply conform to these norms and wear what everyone else is wearing, then I have not dress myself, but rather dressed the typical white American male of today’s society. Now, it is possible that I may just be the typical white American male of today’s society; so it is crucial to be able to define “myself” before I can analysis how I dress that self. According to Friedrich Nietzsche, “myself” can be whatever I make it to be. In Nietzsche’s THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, Zarathustra tells the people around him that they were born men, but a man “is a bridge and not a goal” (4.4). Here, Nietzsche is referring to the bridge between the animal and the Superman. He believes that we are all born as animal, like sheep, and it should be our goal in life to give up our...
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...during, and after the 2008-09 presidential campaign of former Sen. Barack Obama, when some of his political opponents thought it beneficial to disclose Obama’s connections to a Black Theology of Liberation. Through this research I seek not only to obtain a broader understanding of this particular theology of liberation, but also to understand the Marxist ideological concept within the Black Theology of Liberation. Towards the culmination of the decade which witnessed the peak of the Civil Rights movement, black churches throughout America in the 1960s began to search for avenues through which they could help their communities cope with racial discrimination. Caught between the contradicting preachings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, a peculiar young theology student from Union Theological Seminary of New York City, James H. Cone, published his proposal for a Black Theology of Liberation titled Black Theology and Black Power (1969). This first scholarly work served as an introduction to his following work A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), which earned him the title of the founder or chief architect of Black Theology of Liberation in America. Cone, who was born and raised in the segregated South of the United States, not only developed this avenue through which the African-American community could assimilate their experiences with the gospel of...
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...quality control methods in post-world war 2. Friday 27th September 2013 In Friday we continued with the topic Operations and Service Management. Operations Management in Germany is called Production management. Production is a process where there are inputs, transformation process and outputs. Transformation process for operations and service management is the main area what their concerned with. In transformations process managers drive productivity. The main task for managers is to get work done thru other people in an effective and efficient way. Operation management tend to have less workers than Service management because peoples work in Manufacturing is doing automated systems or assembly lines. Work/Consumer Experience That makes me think of when I was working in the furniture factory. In furniture factory...
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...Singapore, Trading Company With Bunkering Opera ons (Company Confiden al) ....................................Page 7 Case Study 2: Germany, Trading Company With Bunkering Opera ons (Company Confiden al)...................................Page 7-8 Case Study 3: Africa, Regional Trading Company: Linetrale ............................................................................................Page 8-9 Case Study 4: Russia, Large Integrated Oil & Gas Company: TNK-BP.........................................................................Pages 10-11 The Costs Of Failing To Manage & Control Risks Are High. The Right ETRM System Is Essential. Don’t buy ANY Trading and Risk Management Until You’ve Read This 10-Point Guide In these tough mes there’s no doubt that managing risk within your organiza on should be a top priority. The costs of failing to manage and control risks are high, but the right Trading and Risk Management system configured in the right way...
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...| Stevenson UniversityGraduate SchoolBTM606 Creativity in Information SystemsIncreasing Productivity of the Print Management System | | Contents Table of Figures 2 Background Information 3 Problem Statement 4 Three Basic Principles Behind All Creative Thinking 4 Preparation Phase 6 Imagination Phase 8 Development Phase 9 Troubleshooting with Technology App on Tablet 10 Scenarios 10 Action Phase 12 Conclusion 13 Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations 15 Bibliography 16 Table of Figures Figure 1 – HP All-In-One Printer 3 Figure 2 – Plesk’s Model of Directed Creativity 5 Figure 3 – Flowchart for Current Print Management System 7 Figure 4 – Six Thinking Hats 8 Figure 5 – New Print Management System Flowchart 13 Figure 1 – HP All-In-One Printer Background Information As part of the Digital Learning Initiative, Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) contracted Hewlett-Packard (HP) for hybrid devices and all-in-one printers. HP was contracted to deliver, service, and maintain the HP revolve devices and the all-in-one networked printers to all central offices and school locations for BCPS. HP technicians removed all previously owned BCPS printer equipment and replaced them with HP networked all-in-one printers to be more cost effective and efficient. This new process was designed to fulfill Dr. Dance's vision to create budget savings that will allow BCPS to reallocate funding resources for the purchase of tablets/laptops for every teacher and...
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