...Myths are clues to the spiritual experience of life”. Joseph Campbell, a man who has dedicated his life to interpreting myths and talks about how they influence our every day lives. From watching the video The Power of Myth starring Joseph Campbell was very intrigued on how he is able to connect myths in our lives and how they shape us to live. In the video Joseph Campbell defined god as a thought/idea. My first reaction to his idea was negative at first but when I digested it, I actually found myself to agree with him. I think in a way God was brought up to keep civilizations in order by making people believe in a divine power that can punish them when they commit acts that are looked down upon. When Mr. Campbell was talking about the topic Creation I had mixed feelings about how he interpreted the relationship between humans and nature. He believes that nature is corrupt and has to be tamed by humans; I believe that humans and nature should have a balance between one another instead of one side trying to regulate the other. What I did like about the Creation discussion was when he stated that God is in all of us. I think that when God made us in his own image he also put a part of his soul in each of us. From this video I have learned a couple new things about myths, god and creation and how they affect us. I think that this video is a vital to show to people interested in studying Myths because it can give people a new perspective on how they view...
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...Campbell was founded shortly before the start of the Civil War. Abraham Anderson and Joseph Campbell began manufacturing canned vegetables and fruit preserves. In 1976, Campbell bought out Anderson’s interest and renamed the firm the Joseph Campbell Preserving Company. Later, Arthur Dorrance was Campbell’s new partner. In the early 1920s, John Dorrance, Arthur Dorrance’s nephew, was the sole owner of the Campbell Soup Company, which was the largest producer of canned soup products. Unfortunately, as the twentieth century was coming to a close, the nation’s appetite for condensed soup products was waning. The weakening demand prompted the company’s executives to use an assortment of questionable business practices and accounting schemes to enhance the company’s reported earnings. Campbell stockholders filed a series of lawsuits in late 1990s. The alleged scams included trade loading, improper accounting for loading discounts, shipping to the yard, and guaranteed sales. The plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit filed against Campbell Soup Company and its top executives eventually added Pricewaterhouse (PwC), Campbell’s independent auditor, as a defendant in the case. To allow a lawsuit filed under the 1934 Security Act to proceed against a defendant, a federal judge must find that the plaintiffs have alleged or “pleaded” facts “to support a strong inference of scienter” on the part of that defendant. After completing the review of PwC’s audit workpapers, judge Irenas...
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...Background: Campbell Soup Company is a large food processing company headquartered in Camden, NJ, whose product lines include soups, vegetable juices, spaghetti products, frozen dinners, and baked goods. With revenue of $4.5 Billion in 1987, Campbell’s soup division accounted for 35% ($1.6B) of this revenue and was an established market leader in the condensed and (canned) readytoserve (RTS) soup segments. In response to demand for higher quality “convenience foods,” Campbell’s then CEO Gordon McGovern responded by championing the New Products and Markets division with preliminary emphasis on frozen entrees, but ultimately shifted focus to Microwaveable “shelfstable” soups. Since the New Products and Market division’s revenue was estimated to increase from $650M to $3B by 1992, their internal strategy was to respond to this demand to maintain dominance in the soup market. To accomplish this goal as well as improve overall company management, McGovern revamped technical capabilities in three areas: R&D, packaging, and engineering. The first step was the decentralization of manufacturing into five regional facilities to offer greater manufacturing flexibility. Research & Development was then subdivided into the Campbell Institute for Research and Technology (CIRT) and the Containers and Capital Improvement Division (CCID). CIRT focused on agriculture, process, and product development, while CCID’s focus was real estate, packaging...
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...Joseph Campbell is a genius, for years he studied ancient mythology. Joseph also made the monomyth also known as The Hero’s Journey.The Hero’s Journey is the adventure the hero’s take, but in steps.The hero’s journey helps the reader understand what the hero is going through to get to his/her treasure. How is my life’s story like Joseph Campbell’s hero journey? My journey overcoming my fear of rollercoasters is similar to Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey because I had left my ordinary world, had a refusal to call, and got a reward. Although, I had left my ordinary world, and went to a theme park. I had been going to theme parks my whole life, but I was nervous to ride one of the biggest ones at the park. My refusal to call was when my parents...
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...Joseph Campbell has come to the conclusion that all heroes reflect off of the same path.He has come up with “The Hero's Journey”. He believes that all hero's journeys reflect off that chart. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. He was also a mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology, and comparative religion. I may not be a hero, but I have gotten stronger, and more outgoing, since my grandmother has passed away.And I learned to deal with it. With the help of God and my Mom. Since she passed it's made me realize a lot of things I didn't in my ordinary world. I have overcome some really difficult obstacles since my grandmother died to become the person I am today, because both our journeys...
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...Case Analysis Campbell Soup Ltd. University of Toronto Date: 03/25/2009 Name: Philipp Muedder ID: 997242176 Course: MGT492 Lecturer: J. Klakurka Assignment: Case Analysis Table of Content Page # 1. Introduction………………....…………………………………………………………………………...3 2. Campbell Soup Ltd. History………………………………………………………………………..4 a. The Cooperation……………………………………………………………………………..4 b. Campbell Canada…………………………………………………………………………….6 3. Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………………………….7 a. SWOT Analysis.………………………………………………………………………………7 i. Strength………………………………………………………………………………8 ii. Weaknesses……………………………………………………………………….10 iii. Opportunities…………………………………………………………………….11 iv. Threats……………………………………………………………………………...14 4. Recommendation……………………………………………………………………………………15 5. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………...16 6. Reference……………………………………………………………………………………………….18 7. Appendix………………………………………………………………………………………………..19 2 1. Introduction The case analysis of my assignment deals with the worldwide known firm Campbell Soup Ltd., which is a food‐processing firm with its headquarters located in Camden, New Jersey. In the case we follow the role of David Clark who is the CEO of the Campbell Canada division, we will get a chance to see what important factors play a role in running such a large company and what complex and strategic decisions have to be made in ...
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...Joseph Campbell's hero's journey describes the cycle of heroes. All heroes go through a process from an ordinary life to a final reward and that is what the hero's journey cycle is all about. Throughout the adventure the hero experiences challenges, but when the hero overcome the tests/allies the hero receive a reward at the end. ( The reward is not always physical but sometimes mental) According to the hero's cycle from Joseph Campbell, my life relates to the cycle because I have experienced the the call to adventure,tests and challenges,and rewards This is how my life adventure relates to Joseph Campbell's hero's journey cycle! It was just an ordinary life for me, loving water but afraid to drown. The call to adventure had come whenever I had to start swim lessons and learn many different strokes in the deep blue water. Sometimes I would refuse because I had to start learning dives and it would be hard to come up with the water again. Although I did have a mentor which was my dad, he told I shouldn't give up. This is just the call to adventure from the hero's journey....
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...While heroes throughout these time periods are different in their on respected ways, they are fundamentally the same. What I mean by fundamental is how all the actions and plot follow a similar pattern. This pattern is recognized in the The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. One of the first thing discussed by this book is the call to adventure. This is very evident in all three of these stories such as Odysseus call to the Trojan War, Sir Gawain and his quest to find the Green Knight ,and Beowulf journey to defeat Grendel. These ordeals are meant to stimulate the protagonists and to throw the “Ordinary World off balance” and to establish “the stakes involved if the challenge is rejected” (Vogler 3). This meant that the heroes either...
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...Joseph Campbell, a famous author, mythologist, and most notable for his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. During the mid 1900’s, Campbell studied the heroic ideology throughout the world and time. Campbell realized similarities of the heroic journeys between the different cultures and time periods. Even though all heroic stories are different, they all have common patterns of their journey. He wrote his discovery in the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. To summarize the heroic journey, Campbell wrote in his book, “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power...
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...about business? -Campbell soup is one of the leading soup producers in the world. It mainly serves in the secondary sector, manufacturing. All its resources are focused on expansionism and marketing. Since the company is already well known, it is only the point of sales which matters. Therefore, Campbell soup focuses and specializes in the soup, leaving other corporations to manage the collection of raw materials and to sell the products. Even though the company has many other spin-offs and brand names, Campbell soup makes soup… * The mushroom chicken soup and corn soup are famous cash cows… 2) Analyze the impact on business activity of changes in the economy. -Canned soup is most likely an inferior good. Therefore, when the economy crashes, Campbell soup’s stocks grew. But when news about the advance purchase of raw materials, where prices were still considerably high, the company was slightly affected. On the long run, Campbell soup will remain stable throughout and economic crisis as such. Good for investments! (except, people don’t have money…) 3) Is the business in the Primary, Secondary or Tertiary sector. Describe the nature of the sector and evidence from your business? -The business is in the secondary sector. This sector generally takes the output of the primary sector and manufactures finished goods. Campbell soup buys its raw materials mostly from American farmers; it does not own any stores to sell its product in. Considering that Campbell soup does not operate...
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...THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES JOSEPH CAMPBELL BO I. L I N G EN SERIES XVII PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AND PRESS P R I N C E T O N OXFORD Copyright © 2004 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton Unhxmt^Pms, U WiffiaM SUrtt, Pnnceton, New Jersey 08540; im^inii!-. •:-..• punght i 1-49 by Botiingen e d i t i o n l n ' i l h Foundation, rc't.'itii.yi •: • andpttt t*j''!' !_•"' . !.,.: b% :''ohi: •• Bough, one-volume edition, p. 386. Copyright, 1922 by The MacmiUan Company and used with their permission). Compare Sigmund Freud: "I recognized the presence of symbolism in dreams from the very beginning. But it was only by degTees and as my experience increased that I arrived at a full appreciation of its extent and significance, and I did so under the influence of . . . Wilhelm Stekel. . . . Stekel arrived at his interpretations of symbols by way of intuition, thanks to a peculiar gift for the direct understanding of them. . . . Advances in psycho-analytic experience have brought to our notice patients who have shown a direct understanding of dream-symbolism of this kind to a surprising extent. . . . This symbolism is not peculiar to dreams, hut is characteristic of unconscious ideation, in particular among the people, and it is to be found in folklore, and in popular myths, legends, linguistic idioms,, proverbial wisdom and current jokes, to a more complete extent than in dreams." {The Interpretation of Dreams, translated by...
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...Organizational Change Campbell and Bailyn’s Boston Office Case StudySharon Hunt Part I: Analysis of Case and Application of OD/C Theories Field Theory and Group Dynamics The Campbell and Bailyn case takes place during a time of significant change in thefinancial world, especially within the investment industry. The trying economictimes had created a different sort of demand in the market place that required theapplication of complicated debt instruments. Additionally, the shrinking of high-profile sales had influenced the organization to restructure the sales compensationin such a way that required sales teams to work more closely with product managerand research staff located in a different geographic area. The case details theseactions, but it is important to remember that the catalyst for this new behavior wasthe changes in the environment. Here, we can see the application of Lewin’s Field Theory at work- the firm was in a state of quasi-equilibrium until forces in theenvironment (namely, the macro economic recession and mortgage crisis) createdforces that altered that state. According to Lewin, changes in the environment (thefield) result in changes in the behavior of the group within the field, and in this casethe pressure was enough to warrant a re-organization of the firm in order to bettercontend with the changes in the environment. When analyzing the case through Lewin’s lens, it is also important to note the elements of group...
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...Jean Campbell Profile in Servant Leadership By James Michael Crunkleton Walden University A Project Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for DDBA 8151 Organizational Leadership: Doctoral Theory and Practice for Doctoral Business Administration Studies Instructor: Doctor Annie Brown September 2015 Abstract On January 17, 1994 a major earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Synergistic Systems Inc. a computer based medical billing company headed by Jean Campbell was damaged by the earthquake and challenged to its core Kouzes &Posner (2002). Due to Jean’s servant leadership, the company survived the earthquake as an ongoing concern and continues to thrive as a trusted firm that employs 200 people and handles over two hundred million dollars in charges for more than twelve hundred physicians in eighty-four medical groups throughout the United States Kouzes & Posner (2002). This paper will identify the servant leadership dimensions demonstrated by Jean Campbell that contributed to Synergistic Systems Inc. not only surviving the earthquake but growing and thriving during this unfortunate incident. Jean Campbell Profile in Servant Leadership As Jean Campbell was looking at the damage to SSI that had taken place from the earthquake, she was already formulating a plan for keeping her clients informed of the company’s status. Communication and listening not only to ones followers, but to one’s...
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...industries and as a Wall Street financier. Upon his death he left his large fortune to his wife Margaret Olivia Sage. (Russellsage.org) Margaret Olivia Sage (1828–1918) established the Russell Sage Foundation as the nation’s first general purpose foundation with an initial gift of $10 million, part of the fortune she inherited upon the death of her husband, Russell Sage, in 1906. Mrs. Sage directed the new foundation to pursue research and programs for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States of America.” (Russellsage.org) The setting up of the Russell Sage Foundation paved the way for the John C. and Olive Dame Campbell to embark upon the research that they were destined to do. John C. Campbell was born in Indiana in 1867. He graduated from Williams College in 1892. After receiving a bachelor of divinity degree, Campbell accepted a position as an administrator of an academy in North Alabama. This was his first introduction to mountain culture. The passions for the region John developed that first year remained with him for the rest of his life. In 1901 John was appointed to a superintendent’s post at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. He soon was elevated to dean and eventually became president of the...
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...Campbell and Fiske Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Campbell and Fiske Introduction Psychology is the scientific study of the mental capability and behavior with the aim of creating an understanding of different groups of individuals, both human and nonhuman, in the society. In psychology, constructs refers to ideals or variables that is impossible to quantify since they do not possess any measurable attribute. Motivation, intelligence anger, personality, attachment, love and fear are some example of construct. Personality psychology comprises of characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that shapes a person. One of the most prominent issues in personality psychology is the measurement of personality construct. This paper aims at looking into the measurement of construct with regard to multitrait-multimethod matrix developed by Campbell and Fiske and other single methodology. The multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) matrix is an approach for the examination of Construct Validity. It was developed by Campbell and Fiske (1959). According to Campbell and Fiske, there are six major considerations when examining a construct's validity through the MTMM matrix. The six considerations are as follows. The first consideration is the evaluation of convergent validity, which is used to design tests that measures and shows how construct relate to each other. The second consideration is the evaluation of divergent validity. In this case, the construct being measured...
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