...previously the teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois and is now on staff at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California. The following book review is concerning his work presented in The Life You’ve Always Wanted. There’s a point in every Christian’s life where you begin to ask questions like; am I doing all that I was created to do? Am I as intimate with God as I ought to be? Is this life I’m living pleasing to God? The list of questions could go on and on. John Ortberg’s book The Life You’ve Always Wanted gives very clear and precise ways for accurate analysis of our lives through a ministerial, biblical and cultural lens. Ortber’s perspectives, life examples and raw truths are vast and practical for pondering and application. This book voices a line of reasoning in the areas of Hope of Transformation, Spiritual Disciplines, a Well-Ordered Heart, and Living a Life of Endurance. Hope of Transformation Ortberg begins this book with the everlasting ache of disappointment many Christians have experienced as they continue in their personal relationships with God. He places great emphasis on the feeling of disappointment. He states “…the feeling of disappointment is not the problem, but a reflection of a deeper problem – my failure to be the person God had in mind when he created me.” (Ortberg, p13) Through the ache of disappointment there is still a hope that rises within the Christian and thus the struggle between hope and their...
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...texts; for example, in Vedic forms, we see several a which denote the celebration of heroic acts or the akhyana or narasamsi which narrates the life of the hero, etc. “These texts”, as the author points out, “concerned with the past asserted differential truth claims ranging from what really happened to what was imagined” (p71). In the itihasa-purana tradition, we encounter these two words— itihasa and purana, while the former meant 'thus indeed it was', the latter means 'ancient folklore'....
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...The goal of the program is to reignite the youth's commitment to learning and being successful both out and in the classroom. All mentors participate in a structured program of support by empowering young people to finish school, mentors are improving the student's success in the work world as adults. The mentoring relationship is utilized to establish a program of change in the young person's life. The mentor encourages goal-setting, self-discipline, and skill development that improves the young person's sense of...
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...process should be a continuous, systematic approach that is designed to improve results through evidence-based decision making. In addition, it should focus on accountability for performance from varying levels with measureable tools. Performance management should be integrated into all aspects of an organization’s management and policy-making processes regardless of that organization’s size and industry. In the case of the Landslide Limousine Service, I have identified several key components that must be considered to adequately prepare and present a comprehensive performance management plan for Mr. Bradley Stonefield, the owner. As a business consultant, the development of a performance management framework, performance philosophy, job analysis, employee skill measurement and feedback assessment should be addressed in this plan. (University of Phoenix, Traci Goldmann) Performance Management Framework The performance management framework for the Landslide Limousine service will maximize driver engagement, development, and performance. This framework will also be consistent across all staff and establish achievable goals with appropriate measurement tools that will provide clear feedback. Organization Performance Philosophy A “performance management philosophy” is the organization’s belief about how people should be managed to achieve the performance that the organization needs to succeed. (Deloitte Development LLC, 2011) There are several key components that must accompany...
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...Dr. Brook Anthropology 5 March 2012 Midterm 1 Espinal 1 Part A (2) Participant observation, for many years, has been a hallmark anthropological study. In recent years, the field of education has seen an increase in the number of qualitative studies that include participant observation as a way to collect information. Qualitative methods of data collection, such as interviewing, observation, and document analysis, have been included under the umbrella term of "ethnographic methods" in recent years Aspects of observation discussed herein include various definitions of participant observation, some history of its use, the purposes for which such observation is used, the stances or roles of the observer, and additional information about when, what, and how to observe It is also a structured type of research strategy. It is a widely used methodology in many disciplines, particularly, cultural anthropology. Its aim is to gain a close and intimate familiarity with a given group of individuals (such cultural group, or a particular community) and their practices through an intensive involvement with people in their natural environment, usually over an extended period of time. Observation methods are useful to anthropologists in a variety of ways. They provide researchers with ways to check for nonverbal expression of feelings, determine who interacts with whom, grasp how participants communicate with each other, and check...
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...Marriam Harrissa Mulonya BAH/P/77/07 Miss Asante Mtenje American Novel 26th June 2012 Analysis of major characters in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: Brother Jack Brother Jack is our main contact with the Brotherhood and he is a mysterious character. He is a white man and he easily enters the narrator's life and offers him a ton of opportunities like money, a job, and the chance to represent his community. There are many strings attached to the benefits that the narrator accrues through working for the Brotherhood. Brother Jack demands that the narrator renounce his past, focus on the collective, and use abstract jargon and ideology in his speeches. Although he professes to be in favor of racial equality, when the Brotherhood shifts its aims, Brother Jack willingly sacrifices the Harlem community without thinking twice. His literal blindness is a metaphor for the flawed nature of his vision. Ellison uses Brother Jack to point out the failure of abstract ideologies to address the real plight of African Americans and other victims of oppression. At first, Jack seems kind, compassionate, intelligent, and helpful, a real boon to the struggling narrator, to whom he gives money, a job, and seemingly a way to help his people fight against prejudice. But as the story progresses, it becomes clear that the narrator is just as invisible to Jack as he is to everyone else. Jack sees him not as a person but as a tool for the advancement of the Brotherhood’s goals. It eventually becomes clear...
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...ARTICLE IN PRESS Tourism Management 29 (2008) 403–428 www.elsevier.com/locate/tourman Progress in Tourism Management Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research Donald Getzà Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, 2500 University Ave. N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Received 24 April 2007; accepted 31 July 2007 Abstract This article reviews ‘event tourism’ as both professional practice and a field of academic study. The origins and evolution of research on event tourism are pinpointed through both chronological and thematic literature reviews. A conceptual model of the core phenomenon and key themes in event tourism studies is provided as a framework for spurring theoretical advancement, identifying research gaps, and assisting professional practice. Conclusions are in two parts: a discussion of implications for the practice of event management and tourism, and implications are drawn for advancing theory in event tourism. r 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Event tourism; Definitions; Theory; Research 1. Introduction Events are an important motivator of tourism, and figure prominently in the development and marketing plans of most destinations. The roles and impacts of planned events within tourism have been well documented, and are of increasing importance for destination competitiveness. Yet it was only a few decades ago that ‘event tourism’ became established in both the tourism industry and in the research community,...
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...Global Leadership Concerns for the Future It is my belief that the powerful driving forces that will impact my future business will be online and mobile communication, globalization, attitudes to the environment generational change, rising customer expectations, technologically savvy and many more issues will raise vital challenges for the company. In the world of business, increasing globalization of commerce and trade has created new challenges for business leaders throughout the marketplace (Goldsmith et al, 2003). As a leader my concerns for the future will be first to, understand how both foreign and domestic trade policy will affect a particular business structure. For instance, a Limited Liability Company (LLC) will have different guidelines to follow under Federal Law than a C-corporation, which also will have varied guidelines to follow if conducting business outside the U.S. or with other countries. Look at trends in emerging economies. Many developing countries such as India and China are becoming some of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world (Ernst & Chrobot-Mason, p. 2011). A leader must be aware of the company's exposure to other cultural concerns. The international relations between a company's country of origin and the other nations we conduct business with are important to the livelihood of the business. Second, my global leadership concerns for the future are diversity training and development; there is not enough. According to Goldsmith...
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...The impact of Cultural Capital on advertisement Class Professor *** Name Date Overview The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu first proposed the concept of cultural capital. Since the 1980s, social capital has become a popular concept in many disciplines concerned and analysis of important starting point. Hofstede (1980) published a study in the field of cultural significance of the research results. In 1980s, scholars did a large number of cross-cultural consumer behavior based Hofstede’s cultural construct. After the 1990s, globalization and technological revolution in the joint action, cultural issues in all areas of marketing, reflected in all directions, the impact of cultural capital on advertisement journals were seen everywhere. "Advertising." The word of foreign origin, derived from the Latin word “Adteurture”; its basic meaning is the meaning of attention and induce the latter evolved into the English language “Advertise”. In recent years, advertising fills of people’s lives. From the television’s ads, newspaper’s ads, outdoor walls’ ads, to the network, advertising are seen every where. But in different cultural background, consumer values, consumption patterns and consumer behavior are different. Cultural capital has a deep impact on advertising, which cannot be ignored. Today's society is in economic globalization; all the advertising companies cannot separate from cultural capital. We need to know when planning to advertise the nation's culture, and...
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...present study (Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency) was planned to unravel the complex causes of delinquency. The main objective of the study was to uncover the causes of juvenile delinquency and adult criminality and in assessing the overall effectiveness of correctional treatment in preventing criminal careers. This project was a rather large project especially in the era that the study was done. The Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency study started in 1950 and subsequent follow-up studies were conducted in 1956, 1962, 1968, and 1970 (Sampson and Laub1988; Otto Kleinberg 1951). The study employed specialists in all fields relevant to crime in order not to overlook any promising leads to crime causation. Glueck 50 years study was based on the analysis of 1000 cases, and involved the cooperation of a large staff including social investigators,...
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...Abstract As Grameenphone has the largest cellular mobile operator with the largest job facilities. So lots of CV are posted by male and online i-recruitment site. So they have find out the best CVs for competitive advantage. The main objective of this report is that what are the basic elements of a CV and what is the features of a winning cv creation . Overview Grameenphone is the largest mobile telecommunications operator in Bangladesh by revenue and subscriber base. Grameenphone was incorporated on October 10, 1996 as a private limited company and commenced services on March 26, 1997. Grameenphone converted to a public limited company on June 25, 2007. After 16 years of operations, Grameenphone had 21.0 million subscribers as of December 31, 2012, representing a subscriber market share of 47.0%. Grameenphone provide services to both rural and urban customers across Bangladesh, where mobile telephony is a major driver of socioeconomic development. Bangladesh has one of the loweest teledensity rates and highest subscriber growth rates in the world. The penetration rate of mobile telecommunications services in Bangladesh as of December 31, 2011 was approximately 31.3%. Grameenphone operate a digital mobile telecommunications network based on the GSM standard in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz frequency bands, under a license granted by the BTRC which expires in November 2011. Grameenphone built their network on a nationwide basis. Their network is EDGE/GPRS enabled, allowing...
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...Through the years, Pixar has been producing both technological and artistic breakthroughs. In fact, this organization is the pioneer in the computer-animated technology with its release of Toy Story in 1995, and has established itself as a creative company (Ed Catmull, 2008). Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson have decided to write the book, Innovate the Pixar way, which provides “business lessons from the world’s most creative corporate playground”, being Pixar. When asking Ed Catmull, cofounder of Pixar and the president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, in a Harvard Business Review paper about how to foster creativity in his organization, three main points are raised; Culture, leadership and collaboration. In the book under our analysis, the same points are raised. However, the authors believe that the key factor of Pixar’s great creativity is the fact that everyone thinks like a child and acts like a child within the organization. In fact, Pixar will inspire the readers to (Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson, 2010): - Dream like a child. - Believe in your playmates. - Dare to jump in the water and make waves. - Do unleash your childlike potential. The book is then divided into four parts and deal with the four main components that will help readers enhance their creativity: Dream, believe, dare and do. The first part talks about a supportive organization, where leadership plays a great role. Then, collaboration is the company is touched on. After, three aspects...
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...University Dear Sir, In this Project of “Bringing the Life Back In The Zoo”, we have tried to implement our learning from this course. We would like to thank you for offering the opportunity to work on this topic. Despite many limitations, we have tried my best to make this analysis accurate and reliable. If you have any further enquiry concerning any additional information, we would be very pleased to clarify that. Thank you. Sincerely yours, Executive summary: This report analyzes on how to create an effective IMC plan for the Dhaka Zoo. Dhaka zoo is largest zoo in Bangladesh situated in Mirpur, Dhaka. Because of some shortcomings such as mismanagement and frequent deaths of rare animals Dhaka zoo has started to loss its appeal. As a result Dhaka zoo is losing its visitors and its revenue is decreasing frequently. By creating an IMC plan, this paper aims at identifying and analyzing the factors that will motivate visitors for visiting Dhaka Zoo. First of all, we have created a mission and vision statement and also a catchy tagline for the Dhaka zoo. Then we have set our strategic goals and objectives in which the main objective was to regain the lost glory of the Dhaka zoo. We did a market analysis and tried to do the positioning of the Dhaka zoo in a effective way. Our target market is mainly the children between the ages of 5 and 15 as well as their families (by association). Then we have set our communication and marketing objectives which include creating a strong...
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...Ryerson University Racism in Canadian Hockey Neil McGregor - 500 459 843 SOC 507- Race and Ethnicity in Canadian Society Professor Christopher Powell April 13th, 2016 ------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction......................................................................................................3 Evidence of Racism in Hockey Minor Hockey.......................................................................................3 Professional Hockey.............................................................................6 Impacts of Racism in Hockey............................................................................8 Influencing Factors...........................................................................................8 Corrective Action.............................................................................................10 Conclusion........................................................................................................12 ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION Canada’s favourite past time hockey has and continues to endure racism throughout all levels of the sport. This paper will expose the institutional racism in Canadian hockey associations with an emphasis on black hockey players. Drawing credible news reports and personally experiences, I will provide evidence that institutional racism is deeply rooted within the fabric...
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...SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Savonia Business Marketing Plan in Spain of Black Light Discipline Heikki Karvonen Zhao Yunke Gogunskaya Valeriiya Xie Yuanyuan International Business Administration May 2011 CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 5 2 TITLE 6 2.2 Subtitle 6 2.2.1 Subtitle 6 3 DISCUSSION 6 3.2 Subtitle 6 3.2.1 Subtitle 6 4 CONCLUSION 7 4.2 Subtitle 7 4.2.1 Subtitle 7 REFERENCES OR BIBLIOGRAPHY (examples) 8 5 APPENDIX 1 Title of Appendix 1 9 6 APPENDIX 2 Title of Appendix 2 10 INTRODUCTION With the development of globalization, our company decides to expand our target market to Spain. To make sure we have enough background knowledge about Spain, our company has done some marketing research, such as questionnaire, telephone interview and face-to-face interview before we dealing with the detailed marketing plan. In this marketing plan, we will present the result of our marketing research, and the analysis of marketing mix. The SWOT analysis is also an essential part of this plan. The insights of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats offer our company a good foundation before implementing the marketing plan. Below is some background information of Black Light Discipline band: Black Light Discipline is a Finnish band founded in 2005 on the idea to make captivating, synth-based grooves with a mix of metal and electro genres...
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