...The Male Divine | Characteristics of The Male Divine | Bhagavad GitaHinduLeonard and McClure (2004, pp. 208-220) | * Bhagavad Gita: Savior/Sage * Purely a spiritual document that encompassed everything relating to human beings and life on mother earth. The Gita is believed to bring supreme peace, immortality and eternal piece. * Prince Arjuna and Lord Krishna find themselves on the battle field of Kurukshetra. The two begin to talk about profound spiritual truths and believes. * Prince Arjuna becomes stuck between wanting to be forcefully and powerful but remain spiritually correct. * Lord Krishna is the opposite. He is a powerful aggressive warrior who has already destroyer of both armies. * In the 11th teaching the gods revealed Lord Krishna and not just a destroyer but also a creator. With Krishna killing everything for the outlook that they were destine to die and be reborn. As a creator the god brings everything back to birth and responsible for the human order where good things come. | Enki and NinhursangaSumerianLeonard and McClure (pp. 220-227) | * Enki and Ninhursanga: Tricksters and Shamans * Enki : Water God later became known as the God of Wisdom * Ninhursanga: Earth Goddess and also the highest ranking also known as Mother Earth * Once the land was “pure” or completed, Enki provided the land with fresh water from the mountain ranges to the water that flows underground. * Enki began to fertilize and help with reproduction. First...
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...Feminine Divine Paper Deborah O'Reilly HUM/105 March 6, 2011 Greg Underwood Feminine Divine Paper This paper reviews an article that discusses aspects of the female divine in contemporary culture. The article is called, “It's all ancient Greek to me; the latest design trend celebrates the power of modern goddesses while giving their inner women freedom to move,” by Edwina Ings-Chambers. Also summarizing the article mentioned above, this paper compares the article between the modern female divine images with mythic examples of feminine divine. Feminine divine in mythology relates to feminine goddesses. In some cultures, feminine goddesses were viewed of as supernatural immortal beings. Goddesses had special powers to control nature, fertility and agriculture among others. Many of these goddesses had similar figures to human women and were thought to also share some human emotions. In today’s general American culture, goddesses are believed by many to just be a myth. In contrast and as mentioned in Leonard & McClure, the discoveries of many ancient feminine shaped artifacts may contribute to several other groups believing that goddesses had previously existed. “A growing number of archaeologists and anthropologists and other scholars, including historians, theologians, literary critics, and social theorists, have seen in these artifacts proof than human societies worshiped an all-powerful Great Goddess from whom the many goddesses of the historical period...
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...Final Exam Mgt 3030 1. The final exam will require written/essay answers based on THREE of the following scenarios. You will be provided with clean copies of the scenarios for the exam. 2. Questions will be graded on the thoroughness of the answer. The grading rubric is attached to this document. Each scenario has equal weight. 3. I will be available, during office hours or by appointment, to support your study process. This support will be limited to helping you understand the course concepts and theory. I cannot answer questions directly related to the scenarios or how the theories could be directly applied to these scenarios. 4. You are encouraged to prepare for this exam with your colleagues, e.g. your assigned work group. Feel free to discuss the scenarios and your approaches with your classmates. The actual exam, however, is to be an individual effort. Any incidence of cheating will receive in an automatic F in the course. 5. This will be a closed book exam. No course materials, including your working copies of these scenarios, will be permitted into the exam room. (Binders, book bags, etc. will be left at the front of the exam room for collection after the exam is completed.) No electronics (headphones, Palmpilots etc.) are permitted. 6. As this is a closed book exam and access to your references/sources (text, lecture notes) are not available, you will not be expected to cite your sources on the final exam. Hints: Evidence of critical thinking...
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...Whistleblowing: The Right Choice Whistleblowing has become a contentious issue in both the public and private sectors. Whistleblowers are often regarded in derogatory terms. However, they should not be viewed in this manner. They are the average employee who does this out of loyalty. Many are retaliated against, and this forces the whistleblower to seek protections. Despite the negativity and retaliation, whistleblowing is the right decision because it exposes the wrongdoing of the employer. A whistleblower is a “person who reveals to a government agency or news media, confidential information of wrongdoing or conduct he or she regards as unethical”. They are referred to in derogatory terms such as “rat”, “stool-pigeon”, “snitch”, “fink”, and even called disloyal (Liuzzo, 2012, pg 28). But those terms do a disservice to the employee who wants to fix a problem or help the organization. Whistleblowers are none of those labels. Some are considered “citizen crime fighters” or “ethical resisters” who put their careers and lives in jeopardy for the safety of the public (Westman, 1991, pg vii) whose motivation stems from a deep ethical responsibility and loyalty. Any person who decides to speak out understands they have a responsibility not only to the public, but to the company, and to their co-workers. These must be considered in order to determine if whistleblowing is the right course of action. The whistleblower is motivated by whether the perceived...
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...1) Ted Devine, CEO Insureon Inside the LaSalle Atrium Building in downtown Chicago, a short walk from Lake Michigan, Insureon CEO Ted Devine has his desk arranged in one corner of the company's open-plan office space. The CFO is adjacent. The head of marketing sits just 15 feet away, and the head of sales is nearby. There are no offices--not even cubicle dividers. In fact, from where Devine sits, he can look out on all 20 of his employees at company headquarters. Devine came to Insureon in 2011 from Aon Risk Services, where, as president, he worked in a more traditional setting, one befitting the guy in charge of an operation with 28,000 employees and $5 billion in annual revenue. But it drove him crazy, Devine says, to sit in his resplendent office and see people lining up in the hallway outside, as if waiting to be granted an audience with the pope. So for Devine, the open floor plan he instituted at Insureon conveys a message that extends far beyond any interior design aesthetic. It goes to the heart of the company's management style and workplace culture. It symbolizes an openness of spirit and Devine's availability to everyone in the company, no matter their station--and no waiting required. "For me it says a couple things about leadership," he says. "One is: No walls, no barriers, no hierarchy. Everybody can talk to everybody. Everybody can participate in a decision. We work together, and that's very important in leadership." In his eagerness to tear down the...
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... REL/134 William Sunday PH.D. 2/26/14 Understanding religion there are many important characteristics, my emphasis here is to describe how religious traditions explain the relationships with the Devine, sacred time, sacred space and the natural world, and with each other. The essential goal for many of the world’s foremost faith traditions is to be love and be loved by God, to be able to live in a relationship with the Devine reconciliation with the ultimate, and union with the beloved. All religious traditions with the Devine are distinct incomparably based on separate beliefs and faith systems. What they all have in common is that they all share the same interest for the deepest level of reality and for the majority of religions the origin or core of everything is mysterious and sacred. The Dao, Devine Parent, Great Spirit, Great Mother, the Absolute, and Allah are only some examples people use to illustrate the Devine. In the Christian faith the Devine is well defined as the Holy Trinity, Holy Spirit, the Father and the Son. In the Christian religion it can seem like there are more Gods than one, but in fact, they believe that God is one. Sacred time, measured to be the starting point connecting eternity and time with the pulse of human life, is thought to be the holy ancient history in which the Gods worked...
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...many different cultures and experiences in so many different countries form the foundations of all of humanity’s religions. I will be talking about these different elements in this paper. There are different relationships that individuals form in their life with the specific religion they are accustomed to. Depending on how one was raised and grew up, and how their parents were raised and grew up is a significant factor on how serious of a relationship they have with their religion. There are different relationships an individual has with their religion. One is the relationship with the Devine. In the west, a relationship with the Devine takes on only one main form. This type of relationship is one with very limited potential. This is a relationship of a child to a Devine parent. This is the form we are most familiar with. The religion that forms a sort of relationship with a Devine parent that insists on obedience and honoring that which is greater than you, your creator. This type of relationship is mainly found in Christianity, and other One-God Western religions. This type of religion asks of a spiritual duty and obedience to a disciplinarian God. The spiritual duty is to that of this Gods commandments and spokesmen. This obedience entitles an individual, in religious mythology, to earn future rewards after you die. Failure to obey these duties earns future punishment. The relationship with sacred time also...
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...As I am already doing an internship with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society at their Overland, Missouri location, I thought it would be perfect to interview someone from the organization. I decided to ask my supervisor, Molly Devine, a campaign specialist. Not only is she responsible for marketing, promoting and designing the Man/Woman of the Year campaign, but also the Student of the Year campaign which are both events held annually. She has helped to published many media tools as well as informational ones, such as brochures, website content and much more. Given the fact that Ms. Devine has a very busy schedule, I decided to email her my question. Molly responded back with the following answer: “I would say that LLS has created a culture of cures and they use that messaging in there marketing and media promotion. Our...
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...company should provide their project managers with best practices (Devine, 2011). The reason is fairly logical; for the company to make the most money, project managers (actually all employees) need to be as efficient as possible. One way to do this is to equip the project manager with the best practices that have been developed, learned, and implemented in the company in order to streamline the project management process. Without the establishment and sharing of such best practices, each project manager will have to “reinvent the wheel”. Such an activity requires time and effort that could be put to better use if the project manager had been given access to best practices at the outset of the project. Furthermore, the tool that the project manager eventually selects, may be sufficient for the project, but may not be the most efficient tool for the company. Best practices are the “optimal method recognized within a given industry or discipline to achieve a stated goal or objective,” (Devine, 2011, slide 11). Such practices will allow project managers to deliver consistent, predictable, and successful projects (Devine, 2011). However, since new practices are always being discovered and existing practices are always being refined for particular applications, the best practices of a company should be dynamic in nature. This simply means that over time, an organization’s best practices should evolve and mature (Devine, 2011). In fact, I would argue that if a company’s best practices...
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...Dr. Devine started out his talk about the VP by asking who they were and why they matter. He explained that their Constitutional duties were to open the votes from the electoral college, cast a vote to break ties in the Senate, and basically wait for the President to die. Beginning with Mondale and continuing on up to Biden, the VPs have taken on a more powerful role in the government. Mondale started it by sitting in on Cabinet meetings and National Security Council meetings. After him, the government realized how important this position was. When Nixon’s first VP resigned, Gerald Ford had to be thoroughly scrutinized and vetted before Congress would approve him. The VPs new role was informal because it was never formally changed in the Constitution, but it included becoming the senior advisor to the President, a government troubleshooter, and ended VPs just being given busy work. Joe Biden is a great example because he served as...
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...about outgroup members (Amodio &Devine, 2006). This essay examines the hypothesis that implicit stereotypes and evaluations are dependent constructs which necessitate each other to activate, by considering past literature on the subject. Gawronski, Deutsch, Mbirkou, Seibt and Strack (2008) studied the dependency hypothesis by measuring the effect of the reduction of automatic stereotyping on automatic evaluations. They found that when automatic stereotyping was reduced due to training in the affirmation of positive counterstereotypes, automatic negative evaluations were subsequently reduced as well. Furthermore, training in the negation of negative stereotypes, led to an increase in automatic stereotype activation and a subsequent increase in negative evaluations. Gawronski et...
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...In the adeptly produced film Waking Ned Devine, directed by Kirk Jones, a story centred on hypocrisy, deceit, and opportunism is depicted based on the attempt of the protagonist, Jackie O’shea, to defraud a lottery company by impersonating the winner, the late Ned Divine. The theme that is developed by symbolism in the film is that greed may lead to dubious moral decisions that result in physical and psychological peril. The telephone booth which symbolizes egocentrism and opportunism clearly demonstrates the theme. The sole purpose of the telephone booth in the context of the film is to facilitate attempts at personal gain, which jeopardize the well-being of the community, Tullymore, and culminate in Lizzie Quinn’s death. Furthermore, the chicken dinner more extensively signifies the sharing of wealth under different motives which establishes the theme. In the first circumstance, Jackie, his wife Annie, and his friend Michael are inspired by lust for riches which leads to moral insecurity. Most poignantly, at the climax of the film, the church serves as the embodiment of the theme. Ironically, within the town’s most sacred location and during the most solemn of ceremonies, an entire community, driven by greed, leaves the late Ned Devine’s funeral unfinished, thereby disgracing his memory and the sanctity of the church, in the pursuit of personal gain. Thus, symbols in the thought-provoking film Waking Ned Devine efficaciously elucidate the theme that when dubious moral choices...
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...I. Introduction Immigration plays a big role in today’s business world. Especially the hospitality and tourism industry is highly affected, as this industry offers a large number of unskilled positions that can easily be provided to immigrants (Hearns, Devine & Baum, 2007). The intention of these workers who go abroad is mainly the chance to earn higher wages in the chosen foreign country (D’Netto & Sohal, 1999). According to these facts the workforce, especially in the hospitality industry, is becoming more and more diverse which can lead to either advantages or disadvantages (Kandola & Fullerton, 1998; Gröschl & Doherty, 1999; Kreitner, 2004 in Hearns, Devine & Baum, 2007). In order to overcome issues and conflicts related to cultural diversity, key authors such as Gundling & Zanchettin (2007), Primer (2000), D’Netto & Sohal (1999) , Graf (2003) and Lund (2003) have pointed out the possibility to implement diversity management strategies that help employees with the adaptation process. II. Cultural diversity Culture is a term that has many definitions in academia; Hofstede (2001) introduces culture as “the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another” (p.9). Moreover Hofstede (2001) has developed the theory of using five different dimensions in order to analyze differences between cultures. In addition not only National Culture can have an impact on the workforce but also the implementation of an organizational...
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...be forced to bring up such a kid (Petchesky, R. P. (1986). I don’t believe in abortion myself since this is murder and it is not our duty to decide whether the fetus or embryo should live or die. As a pro-life advocate, I strongly believe that the baby has a right to live irrespective of a woman’s decision. Religious groups such Human life international, Christian coalition and others support the right for life. The main point of argument is the fact that it results in the killing of an unborn baby and murdering of an unsuspecting life. By procuring an abortion therefore one is trying to take the place of God by killing someone. It is only God who has that right as the maker of everything on earth (Tooley, M., Jaggar, A. M., Devine, P. E., & Wolf-Devine, C. (2009). Abortion also exposes the woman to a risky procedure that may lead to her death. The procedure is dangerous and may cause massive bleeding of the mother if done in an undesired manner or by a quack doctor. Moreover it may result in serious medical complications for the woman later in life including the risk for ectopic pregnancies which doubles; the woman have increased chances of miscarriages and contracting pelvic inflammatory diseases. Moreover in case of rape, women now can be assured of a comprehensive medical care that ensures that they don’t get pregnant. Abortion tends to punish the unborn child who did not commit any crime. It should be discouraged since it cannot substitute other forms of contraception...
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...do we do good things so than God says that it is good. Another argument I am going to examine, is for the statement, and it is an argument based on a group of people called Anti-Theists. They don’t believe in God, so they agree with the statement. However, Anti-Theists like Richard Dawkins say that anyone who believes in religion or in a god is an extremist and it clouds and distorts your view on morality. The next argument that I am going to examine is what some people in the world think, but it is based around Cultural Relativists, who say that if morality was decided for by God then he could say one day to murder somebody and it would be fine. This would then agree with the statement above. An argument I’m going to examine is The Devine Command Theory. This argument goes against the statement as it says that you can only have morals if you believe in God because you get morals from revelations, scriptures or religious experience. This means that to have morals God has to exist. Another argument that I’m going to examine is Scriptural Ethics, which goes against the statement. This means that people should get their morals from Holy Scriptures and text like The Bible and The Qur’an...
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