...Photographer: Colleen Plumb Born: 1970 Chicago Illinois Galleries: Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Fidelity Investments in Boston. Artists Representation: Animals Are Outside Today is a journey examining underneath this net, offering us the chance to contemplate our intersections with animals and consider the multi-layered impact humans have on other living beings. Contradictions define our relationships with animals. We love and admire them; we are entertained and fascinated by them; we take our children to watch and learn about them. Animals are embedded within core human history—evident in our stories, rituals and symbols. At the same time, we eat, wear and cage them with seeming indifference, consuming them, and their images, in countless ways. Our connection to animals today is often developed through assimilation and appropriation; we absorb them into our lives, yet we no longer know of their origin. Most people are cut off from the steps involved in their processing or acquisition, shielded from witnessing their death or decay. This series moves within these contradictions, always questioning if the notion of the sacred, and the primal connection to Nature that animals convey and inspire, will survive alongside our evolution. Solo Exhibitions: Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, Animals Are Outside Today, 2011 Women in Photography, wipnyc.org, April, 2011 Jen Bekman...
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...1) Before describing Southwest Airline’s organizational culture, it is important to know what is meant by this term. Organizational culture refers to the norms and values of an organization, including the vision shared by its members. At Southwest, their culture was lived first and foremost through their employees who they valued dearly. Southwest renamed human resources “The People Department” because they understood that their people are their competitive advantage and most important resource. Their family spirit could be seen in many ways; for example, there is the catastrophe fund in which voluntary contributions are made for Southwest employees who need help. Their culture promotes informal teamwork and employees routinely help each other out. In order to ensure they have the right people to preserve this culture, Southwest places great importance on recruiting the right people. As Ann Rhoades (the Vice President of People) noted, “If they say ‘I’ too much in the interview, they don’t get hired.” This displays how much of a critical role, teamwork plays at Southwest. In addition, Southwest looks for people who are creative as they value those that will constantly be innovators. For instance, as part of the interview process, applicants are given crayons to draw a picture that tells a story of their life; Southwest wants people who think outside the box. Furthermore, Southwest’s relaxed management style ensures that work is always a fun place to be. Kelleher believes that...
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...The leadership characteristics that helped Southwest Airlines move forward is the responsibility of the leader. Responsible leadership is defined as making business decisions that, upon the interests of the shareholders and also other stakeholders, for example employees, customers, suppliers, the context as well as the future generations (Definition of responsible leadership, n.d). From the text showed that the leader have the responsibility on his staff, he is caring his staff. The way to prove my point is three days after 9/11, James Parker announced that the company would be keeping all of its employees when the ramifications of the shutdown forced other airlines to cut staff. When he promised to keep all of its employees, the employees do not worry whether when their last day to work is, so the task which he delegated to employees can be doing well. And the employees created the loyalty to the company due to this action. Even when the company wanted to help reduce the company’s workforce and cuts cost, it also without laying off its employees but it was offering voluntary buyout packages to all employees who were willing to retire early. Besides that, encouragement also is another leadership characteristic of the leader of Southwest Airline. The encouragement in leadership is defined as the action of motivating other people with the whole new courage, spirit, hope, support or confidence (Jeremiah, 2005). The power of encouragement in leadership is very unique and powerful...
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...Southwest Airlines Herb Kelleher is the founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines (SWA). He went to Texas to create a new airline more than three decades ago and became a legend (“Southwest succession,” 2002). Kelleher suffered a health scare in 1999; he decided to name his successor and stunned everyone by appointing a man and woman team to run the major airline (“Southwest succession,” 2002). They became a dual management team. Jim Parker became the chief executive and vice president who serves as the brains of the operation with responsibility for business structure. Colleen Barrett is the heart of SWA where she serves as the president and chief operating officer who oversees the culture (“Southwest succession,” 2002). SWA defines its culture as altruism, listening intently, leading with a servant’s heart and exhibits an exciting-loving and fun approach, (McGee-Cooper, Trammell, & Looper, 2008). Barrett stimulates the image, allows workers at each level to grow into family, prototypes the way of servant leadership, acknowledges works well done and inspires the souls of 32,000 SWA employees (McGee-Cooper, Trammell, & Looper, 2008). Barrett created the Culture Committee, whose goal is to support the Southwest spirit and values throughout the company; to enhance it and assist the improvement in which the committee previously subsists (McGee-Cooper, Trammell, & Looper, 2008). The members who serve on this committee do it voluntarily. They put in the time willingly...
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...Colleen is attending college “up North” and having a challenging time adjusting to the new culture and expectations of her environment. Being from Mississippi, Colleen has always been proud of her family’s Civil War heritage and enjoyed hearing her parent and grandparents tell stories about her linage. She even spoke with a Southern accent that was thicker than either of her parents to demonstrate her pride. In high school, she was elected to a prestigious position in the Daughters of the Confederacy where she could organize events and socialize with influential members of the community. Colleen was very popular as she frequently hosted events and parties, always wanting the right people in the right place. She was a member of the cheerleading...
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...During the heyday of the subprime lending boom circa 2003, Coleen Colombo had just begun her job as a senior underwriter at BNC. This small office she worked in was part of a larger umbrella group whose coffers funded over a billion dollars in loans every month. Initially, she had great success and received rave reviews. Managers would often rate her job performance as “exceeds expectations”. However, only two years into the job she would be exposed to the dark underbelly of the mortgage business. Facing mounting pressure to accept bribe money to approve sketchy loans, she lodged a formal complaint. Her actions were met with hostility, threats and sexual harassment. Ultimately, she would discover herself caught up in a corporate-wide system of corruption fighting for her job and dignity. Finding of Fact #1 Coleen Colombo’s co-workers are acting in an unethical manner due to the corrupt culture at BNC. A wholesaler within the company is submitting loans to Colombo with inaccurate information including occupations, salaries, and property values. He has even attempted to bribe her in order to get his loans approved. The vice president is even neglecting to hear her case. Recommendation #1 “The importance of having an ethical culture in organizations cannot be underestimated. Employees in organizations with a weak ethical culture reported a much higher level of observing at least one type of misconduct...
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...Colleen Colombo and Colleagues Resist Mortgage Fraud Synopsis In 2005, Colleen Colombo and five other female employees filed a harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit in the California Superior Court on Concord branch of BNC, a small office in California that funded over a billion dollars in loans per month. Colleen was hired as a senior underwriter for BNC in 2003 and was an exceptional employee even receiving a “exceeds expectations” rating in a performance review according to court records. (Hellriegel, pg. 250) A male employee and wholesaler for BNC began bribing Colleen in 2005 by bringing her loans that were questionable. Most of the loans her brought to her had occupations, home values, and salaries that were false. The wholesaler tried to payoff Colleen in order for her to allow the fraudulent information to pass through the system. (Hellriegel, pg. 250) Bribes, or spiffs, were typical at BNC and happened on a day-to-day basis according to Sylvia Vega-Sutfin, one of the females and wholesalers for BNC that filed the lawsuit with Colleen. Sylvia claimed that a quite a few underwriters wanted spiffs of $1,000 to $2,500 even if they didn’t approve the mortgages. Her commission checks suffered when she refused to pay off the underwriters and her loan files went missing. Sylvia claimed that her supervisors wanted to make an example of her to others if she complained about not paying off the bribes. (Hellriegel, pg. 250) Colleen claimed that the regional...
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...Over the course of history, humans have learned an individual will thrive more if surrounded by people that care about them. The relationships people build with others create an impact on every action and decision one makes. Throughout the course of the novel, Slammed by Colleen Hoover, readers are able to recognize several of the characters are slowly coming to terms with the significance of the relationships they establish and how these relationships affect their lives. My mother has always been the one to give me advice about friends when I was going through a hard time. She was always exceptionally honest with me about the situation as well. She would never hold back if she believed I was the one at fault in the predicament. Layken described...
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...Similarly, this backward movement helps us to see the steps that lead to the total despair and suicide of Kate and Benoît and aids the discovery of signs that Kate and Benoît might have psychological traits or problems possibly leading to suicidal thoughts.] 2 [The author Colleen Murphy was born in Rouyn-Noranda; Quebec and grew up in Northern Ontario. She studied acting at Ryerson University and at the Strasberg Institute in New York. The entire play dictates from the event of The École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montréal Massacre, occurred on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique in Montréal. Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine shot twenty-eight people before killing himself. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students. After claiming that he was "fighting feminism," he shot all nine women in the...
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...• What type of lease would you require if you were to lease a commercial building? Explain why. • The type of lease required for commercial building will be dictated by the type of service, location, or business rendered by your company. If your intention is to open up an automobile repair shop, Home Depot, Best Buy, CVS, etc…, and you have outstanding credit, then triple net lease would benefit you well. In the case of a small business, say an automobile repair shop, my preference is still the triple net lease (NNN). The NNN lease is based on your credit, and the work required in bringing the facility up to a workable standard or building code. The basic office building might require paint and a signs while an auto repair shop requires the modification of wiring, foundation, hazardous chemical and so on. However, if you’re an established fortune 500 company with AAA rating, the NNN should fit the bill. Home Depot or CVS are usually built from the ground up. Then reason triple net lease is best for an industrial business or service is the necessary amounts of work in bring that facility up to the current building code. Business like the Home Depot or Best Buy is generally built from the ground up and usually does not accept reconditioned buildings. In the case off small business man with good credit, opening an automobile repair shop could be expensive. The associated cost of putting in body lift, acid cleaner, heavy equipment, hazardous material disposal, etc… could...
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...A survey was conducted by Colleen Barry to get an understanding of how the public feels about gun policies for individuals with mental illnesses. The survey reveals that the public strongly agrees with providing stronger background checks on those with mental illnesses. Barry elaborated on the idea of taking the public’s opinion and consider the idea of giving more improved background checks. Out of the respondents, eighty-five percent agreed with the idea of “requiring states to report to the national background-check system” each individual who is unable to be in the possession of a gun if they been “committed to a hospital for psychiatric treatment or been declared mentally incompetent by a court” (Barry 1081). Although the majority agreed with this policy, there is...
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...1. Colleen seeks to be proactive. An example of this questioning Kallik on the root cause of issues to ensure corrections are made and interim work-arounds are used, as needed, until the corrections are made. Another example where Colleen exhibited being proactive versus reactive during the concern with the Google Chrome update when Java would no longer be supported. This issue caused the AMS annotation tool to stop working on their desktop version of Chrome. Colleen proactively worked with the Citrix team (several months before) to ensure that the Chrome instance in Citrix would not be auto updated. 2. Colleen looks for opportunities to improve the user experience with AMS. She created the AMS Enhancement list and solicits input from key users during the...
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...Collen directly to the Juvenile Center intake unit. The officer could also decide to write a citation and make Collen, and her aunt sign a promise to see a probation officer at the Juvenile Center. In this case with Colleen M. the officer took Colleen to the Juvenile Center intake unit and asked that charges be filed since the situation was serious with the death of a neighbor. The officer will have several choices as how to handle the situation. First the officer would need to determine if the situation is serious enough to take Colleen directly to the Juvenile Center intake unit, or if writing a citation. Colleen and her aunt would sign a promise to see a probation officer at the Juvenile Center. The officer needs to investigate then to receive the evidence and facts to determine if the death was caused by Colleen acting in a reckless or criminal negligence. Or if Colleen had not simply thrown what she believed to be water in a bucket on the neighbor in an effort to douse the fire of the scarecrow as she stated. Petition Once the probation officer gave the suggestion for charges of manslaughter, the DA filed a petition. The petition has information on Colleen M. such as her name, age, her current address. The code that details what section that Colleen has broken....
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...activities and the situation involving the justice system. As this paper presumes it will identify the issues more in-depth and create ideas that may assist in restricting the scenario. Evaluation of Case Study Colleen The first case that will be defined is involving Colleen. The case study identified that she (Colleen) came from a broken family which be an influence when it comes to possible juvenile issues. By the time a juvenile reaches the age of 12 it is a prime point in their young teenage years in which they are in need of strong parenting. It is clear that there are often exceptions to each situation and that in some cases having both parents may not be an option due to unforeseen events. In the scenario involving Colleen, she displayed signs of juvenile delinquency when she admitted to running away from home. She clearly defined that over a course of years and on several occasions she made the choice of running away, and chose to become involved with the wrong crowd. Sarah Brown defines (1992) “that some of the reasons why children choose to run away from home during the early twentieth century was due to: death of parents, abusive home life, broken homes, feeblemindedness, delinquency, and poverty” (Brown, 1992). The crowd of individual’s in which Colleen was hanging with, persuaded her into the use of illegal narcotics and opiates which would eventually be identified in her...
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...Synopsis Colleen Colombo and five other female employees from BNC have filed a lawsuit in California superior court for wrongful termination and harassment. Colleen began working at the Concord, California branch of BNC in 2003. The environment became hostile in 2005. A fellow employee started bringing questionable loans to Colleen for approval. It made Colleen uncomfortable when he tried to bribe her for approval on this loan, even though this was a common practice. Colleen e-mailed the regional vice president of operations to turn her fellow employee for this practice, who ignored her. This fellow employee began sexually harassing her, rubbing his body against hers. This case has been on hold since September 15, 2008 when BNC owners Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. They have stated “We dispute the allegations made by these former employees and will be contesting them on the merits in the pending litigation”. Findings of Fact 1- Ethics It is an ethical issue because the wholesaler wants her to approve some questionable loans with incorrect information and tries to bribe her to approve them. “Ethics are the values and principles that distinguish right from wrong” (10). Recommendation I have previously worked as a loan officer for a credit union. I know that I would have been terminated for falsifying documents. And I should have been! There are so many rules and regulations in the banking industry to follow. I’m sure that the lensing institution could be facing...
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