...What I’ve Learned from Men by Barbra Ehrenreich Critique The article, “What I’ve Learned from Men” was first printed in Ms. Magazine in 1985 a strategic attempt at targeting her main audience as it was published in a time when women did not have as much freedom as they do in the present day. Barbra Ehrenreich (2012), a feminist, liberal and democratic socialist, bases her article on what she believes women can learn from men, some men. She believes that getting tough is the one trait acceptable for a woman to replicate from a man. In this article she discusses the continuous battle between the two sexes and how women portray themselves as “too damn ladylike” (Ehrenrich, 2012). The message she is trying to convey is that she wants women to become stronger, and selfish individuals by using a sarcastic tone. She believes that if a woman was to adapt the traits of a man they would be able to accomplish more and earn what is owed to them. However, Ehrenreich’s article failed at convincing her female audience to adapt this trait by her tone, language and the organization of the article itself. Throughout the article, Ehrenrich (2012) uses a mocking, sarcastic tone. Ehrenreich (2012) states that a “prestigious professor” attempted a pass at her, which she put an end to abruptly. She states, “I, a full-grown feminist, conversant with such matters as rape crisis counseling and sexual harassment at the workplace, had behaved like a ninny – or, as I now ...
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...Running head: JOHN CRAIG’S COACHING PLAN My Coaching Plan John D. Craig II Waldorf College JOHN CRAIG’S COACHING PLAN A Reflection On Me During an army career that spanned 30 years, five continents and, 5 conflicts, I had the opportunity to coach and mentor some of the bravest young men I have will ever have the honor of knowing. Some were brand new privates right out of boot camp, and some were fresh lieutenants straight out of college. Either way, they had no real idea what the army was truly all about. Their frame of reference was limited to video games, Hollywood fantasy or, only what they read in a few college classes. It was my duty to make sure they could perform in the real army. My Self-Assessment Fortunately the army has a very regimented evaluation system that requires a soldier to be counseled and graded on their performance at regular intervals. For NCOs and Officers you have quarterly reviews, capped off with an annual final report. During the quarterly reviews the NCO actually sits down with his direct supervisor and does a joint evaluation, hopefully being totally honest with himself. This is the time when you are expected to look in the mirror and identify the good and, the not so good areas, of your own leadership during the past quarter. This review wasn’t about bashing yourself or being berated. It was about finding those areas where you succeeded and, identifying those you need to work on. Being able to master your use of self is, “a lifelong...
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...Critiquing Sarah Pitts and Rob Kamery’s The Role of Business Ethics: Incorporating Values and Ethics into Business Decisions Markitta Reed Columbia Southern University Introduction An article written by Sarah Pitts and Rob Kamery, published in the Journal of Legal, carefully inquires the special importance of business ethics, a responsibility that has been placed upon educational institutions within the past two decades. In addition Pitts and Kamery also describe what role the government has taken in influencing businesses to comply with making ethical decisions despite traditional business practices. Summary Pitts & Kamery (2003), in their article “The Role of Business Ethics: Incorporating Values and Ethics into Business Decisions,” directs its attention to why it is important for schools to teach students about values and ethics in business. From the results of their investigation out of the 500 largest corporations in the U.S. over half have behaved illegally (Pitts & Kamery, 2003). Before businesses were making headlines for their unethical behavior, business educational institutions were not convinced that business ethics should be a topic of discussion or part of the curriculum. “The invisible hand”, an Adam Smith’s theory contributed immensely to those views that were once held by business schools. However, the lack of involvement had proven to be of great consequence. The absence of educating students in business ethics begin to change following...
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...Presidents Father’s Day Address Outside Speech Critique Jamie Brown 16 June 2013 The speech I choose was given on 15th of June 2013. It was given by President Barack Obama at the White House. Each week on Saturday mornings, the President addresses everyone via live feed or through radio. You can also go to The White House web page and click on Weekly address and you can watch each speech he has given since this term has started. This Week the President addressed this Father’s Day. In the introduction the President said “Today we’re blessed to live in a world where technology allows us to connect instantly with just about anyone on the planet. But no matter how advanced we get, there will never be a substitute for the love and support and, most importantly, the presence of a parent in a child’s life. And in many ways, that’s uniquely true for fathers”. I was like wow, I was hooked right from the get go. I myself didn’t have a farther growing up. My father died when I was 7 years old and my mother never remarried. She raised three boys and one girl by herself without any help. My little brother has no knowledge or can remember any interaction with our father because he was only 1 years old when he died. As I have grown and realized that I wish we could have had a father figure in our lives, because some of the things a mother can’t teach a man. Plus, we need that male bonding time. I think President Obama’s speech tailored towards everyone, young, old, high...
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............................................................................................................6 Action..................................................................................................................................7 Bibliography ........................................................................................................................9 Rubrics………………………………………………………………………………....10 4 MAT Book Review Abstract Share Jesus Without Fear is a dynamic book on evangelism. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to read books and seat at the feet of many who were so called “expert” on the subject of winning souls for Christ but this book takes the cake. It unpacked and unearth the subject of evangelism, in such a way, that even a babe in Christ would be able to run with. William Fay possesses a great testimony that adds to the creditability of this work but shares the perfect message of what real evangelism is all about. We quote Matthew 28:19 in saying, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. William Fay and Linda Shepherd challenges the readers to get up, get out and be a witness. I have been around church for a large portion of my life but I have never read a work on evangelism like this. William Fay and Linda Shepherd breakdown...
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...Prayer: The Timeless Secret of High-Impact Leaders Book Critique Submitted by: Shannon J. Cockrell Student ID: L23353600 Submitted to: Dr. Jim O'Neill EVAN 670 Liberty Theological Seminary January 19, 2015 INTRODUCTION “Much prayer equals much power”, is a quote I’ve heard most my Christian adult life. Dr. Earley asks a thought-provoking question, “How would you rate your prayers?” (p.111) Truth be told, I wasn’t very powerful. Sure I prayed in the morning and at night, but I wasn’t seeing the results I saw that prayer brought about in the Scriptures. Prayer: The Timeless Secret Of High-Impact Leaders by Dr. Dave Earley is a life-transforming book. Earley has written a treatise on prayer that will be a classic for years to come. In this brief critique/review I will give an overview, summary of the chapters, critique, and application. SUMMARY “Leadership is influence…Prayer influences men by influencing God to influence them.” (Earley, x). Wow. What a powerful summary of his own book that Earlely gives us. This book is about influence and how prayer can better enable and position us to be better influences in the world. To lead better, we must pray better. Earley uses “Nine Prayer Disciplines of High-Impact Spiritual Leaders” to serve as the framework of his book. In chapter 1, entitled Value the Power of Prayer, Earley elaborates on the dynamic power that is found in prayer. Earley says, “If you want to maximize your impact, prioritize your...
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...| What I Have Become | Sandtron Leon Harrell | | | | Approaching the end of my Fall Semester of 2011 I had accomplished one of the greatest things in my life. I had become a member Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated. All was well and I felt as though there was not too much else for me to conquer. Then as the semester drew to a close being advised and selecting classes for the Spring Semester began to be advertised all over myUWG. So to rid myself of all the irksome alerts of West Georgia I went and got advised. While selecting my classes my advisor brought up Personal Relationships. When I first heard it the first two things I thought were “my girlfriend took that class” and “she said it was easy.” So with me being the collegiate student I am I decided I would take it. I figured why not I’m in a personal relationship I should be able to relate. The first day of class was definitely not what I expected. I did not know that my teacher would look, think and talk like a student! From then on I knew that this was class was going to have the biggest impact on me, the way I thought, the way I talked, the way I evaluated relationships and how I looked at my life’s up and downs all together we’re going to change in due time. From the time I got advised up to the first day of class I honestly thought that this was just going to be another class. When in reality it wasn’t just another class, it was going to be THE class. From January 10, 2012 and so on, my life would...
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...Sacco and Vanzetti On April 15, 1920, Frederick Parmenter, a paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, his assistant, were transporting the payroll when a man approached, robbed, and shot them in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Stolen was approximately $15,000 and both men died. Only a few months prior, in the nearby town of Braintree, had a similar heist occurred where the attempted robbery had failed. The failed Braintree job had pointed towards an Italian anarchist. The Bridgewater Police Chief felt that these two cases were connected. Later, Nicolas Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti came to pick up the car of the, then suspected anarchist, Mike Boda, from a local garage (Davidson & Lytle, 2005, p. 262). They were then the primary targets of the investigation thereafter. This case would become an international dilemma of American injustice. Both men protested against governments with anarchists’ views. They...
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...the approach that should have been taken if fraud was suspected and applying one theory related to crime causation of this case. As well as critiquing the ethical behavior of Pavlo and MCI – discussing what actions could have been taken to prevent the crime. 1. Discuss the internal control weaknesses that existed at MCI that contributed to the commission of this fraud. When we listen to Pavlo and outside sources, like ethics professor Stephen Henn in his book “Business Ethics,” we hear of employees concealing bad debt in Pavlo’s department. It seems that “unethical decisions were commonplace” (Henn 2009). We see an upper management that, when notified of large amounts of bad debt, completely denied any problem. Pavlo states, “I sent a memo to senior staff telling them that we had about $180 million of bad debt…. and asking how we were going to address it…The response was that the bad debt budget…was going to remain at $15 million and that we would just have to work through whatever issues we had.” (Jacka 2004) An ‘Internal Auditor” article from 2004 goes on to report that in one account “a customer who owed MCI US $100 million was allowed to sign a promissory note, which turned the receivable into a short-term asset.” These examples are perhaps the most unbelievable from the case. We see a management that refuses to acknowledge large amounts of bad assets and multiple employees working to conceal large amounts of bad debt. And throughout the hearings and our case study...
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...and Why The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why by Deborah Tannen FROM THE SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1995 ISSUE T he head of a large division of a multinational corporation was running a meeting devoted to performance assessment. Each senior manager stood up, reviewed the individuals in his group, and evaluated them for promotion. Although there were women in every group, not one of them made the cut. One after another, each manager declared, in effect, that every woman in his group didn’t have the self-confidence needed to be promoted. The division head began to doubt his ears. How could it be that all the talented women in the division suffered from a lack of self-confidence? In all likelihood, they didn’t. Consider the many women who have left large corporations to start their own businesses, obviously exhibiting enough confidence to succeed on their own. Judgments about confidence can be inferred only from the way people present themselves, and much of that presentation is in the form of talk. The CEO of a major corporation told me that he often has to make decisions in five minutes about matters on which others may have worked five months. He said he uses this rule: If the person making the proposal seems confident, the CEO approves it. If not, he says no. This might seem like a reasonable approach. But my field of research, socio-linguistics, suggests otherwise. The CEO obviously thinks he knows what a confident person sounds like. But his judgment, which may be dead right...
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...the field as fitting the description of the tempered radical, at least in some circumstances and at different times. The reviewers, while suggesting changes, as reviewers do, were also very taken with the paper. It is intellectually interesting, and evocative. It provides us with a perspective on organizational issues that is typically glossed. It opens an arena for organizational analysis that is missed in most theoretical frameworks. Tempered radicals, Meyerson and Scully argue, are individuals who identify with and are committed to their organizations and also to a cause, community or ideology that is fundamentally different from, and possibly at odds with, the dominant culture of their organization. Their radicalism stimulates them to challenge the status quo. Their temperedness reflects the way they have been toughened by challenges, angered by what they see as injustices or ineffectiveness, and inclined to seek moderation in their interactions with members closer to the centre of organizational values and orientations. The paper is a scholarly treatment of a complex concept. It is radical in its charge to us to see new possibilities in the study of organization. It is tempered, even hopeful, in its prescriptions for harnessing participants who are often on the margins of organizational life and who have much to offer to enrich and sustain positive change in organizations. It is a very appropriate...
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...are interested in smaller scale phenomenon’s * Emile Durkheim was a positivist, saw society as analogous to a body, concerned with social solidarity, and developed the idea of the ‘social fact’ * Social Solidarity: division of labour Organic: present in modern societies, high dynamic density, high degree of labour specialization (works like a human body, everything works together with high specialization) Mechanical: present in traditional societies, low dynamic density , low degree of labour specialization (works like gears, works together to complete society) * Similarities of Social Solidarity: Conscience collective similar ideas of morality, similar ideas about space time and reality (collective ideas of morality, what you can and cannot do with the influence on laws, teachings, parents etc.) * In modern society are functional, high amount of labour (all works together, functionalism) * Crime is a functional part of society (punishment s are set, so others don’t commit crime) * A social fact is way of...
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...Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex by Marte Rognstad A Thesis Presented to The Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages University of Oslo In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the MA Degree Spring Term 2012 Marte Rognstad The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex Marte Rognstad http://www.duo.uio.no Trykk: Reprosentralen, Universitetet i Oslo Abstract This thesis presents an exploration of the representation of gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex mainly in light of the theories of Judith Butler. The focus will be on how the two novels challenge the traditional concept of gender and gender categories, and in what ways the novels can give us new perspectives on the concept of gender. The theoretical focus will be on Judith Butler, more precisely her idea of gender as performance, and her deconstructionist approach to identity categories. I will present Butler’s proposal for a “new feminist genealogy,” and through my investigation of the representation of gender in Orlando and Middlesex I will show how both novels take on a “Butlerian” understanding of the concept of gender. By looking at various issues related to gender explored in the two novels, and pointing to similarities and differences between the two works, I hope to show how the protagonists, Orlando and Cal/lie, break down and transcend the fraught categories of male and female, thus disrupting...
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...I. Introduction In his foreword to a collection of the radio scripts of comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. endorses these entertainers as somehow new and different—and relevant—since they draw their humor from the plight of the (American) Common Man. In the process, Vonnegut offers us an insight into his own writing, and the philosophies that inform it. “They aren’t like most other comedians’ jokes these days,” Vonnegut writes, aren’t rooted in show business and the world of celebrities and news of the day. They feature Americans who are almost always fourth-rate or below, engaged in enterprises which, if not contemptible, are at least insane. And while other comedians show us persons tormented by bad luck and enemies and so on, Bob and Ray’s characters threaten to wreck themselves and their surroundings with their own stupidity. There is a refreshing and beautiful innocence in Bob’s and Ray’s humor. Man is not evil, they seem to say. He is simply too hilariously stupid to survive. And this I believe. Jerome Klinkowitz, in the introduction to his essay collection entitled Vonnegut in America, has used this quote—as he certainly should—to support his claim that Vonnegut’s humor has its roots in the comedic response to the Great Depression. But of course there is much more to it than that. The reader is left with a nagging question: Were humanity’s case really as Vonnegut describes it, and were this truly his belief, wouldn’t it seem that the...
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...Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank to accompany A First Look at Communication Theory Sixth Edition Em Griffin Wheaton College prepared by Glen McClish San Diego State University and Emily J. Langan Wheaton College Published by McGrawHill, an imprint of The McGrawHill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright Ó 2006, 2003, 2000, 1997, 1994, 1991 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. The contents, or parts thereof, may be reproduced in print form solely for classroom use with A First Look At Communication Theory provided such reproductions bear copyright notice, but may not be reproduced in any other form or for any other purpose without the prior written consent of The McGrawHill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. PREFACE Rationale We agreed to produce the instructor’s manual for the sixth edition of A First Look at Communication Theory because it’s a first-rate book and because we enjoy talking and writing about pedagogy. Yet when we recall the discussions we’ve had with colleagues about instructor’s manuals over the years, two unnerving comments stick with us: “I don’t find them much help”; and (even worse) “I never look at them.” And, if the truth be told, we were often the people making such points! With these statements in mind, we have done some serious soul-searching about the texts that so many teachers—ourselves...
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