...important to vote? voting is more important than the bullet. I think that is a really strong quote and i really like it because it has a sequences like jail or they could take you to court . That is why it is important to vote be cause we have a right to. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”-Abraham Lincoln. This quote means One of the reasons not to vote is some presidents are for bad stuff. One president was voting for abortion. And other bad stuff like really really bad stuff. But I personally like voting. Well kinda. Sometimes. The reason you should is because it is a honer. Some people don’t take it as a honer. But i do but i am not saying it you shouldn’t vote i think we should. Everybody...
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...me is close to my heart. I think that myself personally have been pretty lucky especially with the job that I have now and with one other one that I had in the past. I would say that the management that I have had in the past has been really good, I have had a lot of extras that allowed me to do my own thing in my positions that would also allow me to find other ways of doing my job and of motivating others to do their job as well. The job that I have now is really big on using our ideas and telling us how well we are doing. I don't have any issues with a job or with supervisors that will only reprimand you and never tell you when you do good. I get both, not usually reprimanded but there are times that I make mistakes and there are way more times that I get praised. I think that when you have the chance to be who you are and to give help to your supervisors and other workers that you have a happier workplace overall. I feel in the instance with Ayame, she is really in a position that is needing some change and help. I think that when you are having someone do something that is not only against their culture, but is also against their beliefs you are going to have some very unhappy employees and ones that will not go above and beyond for your company. If Ayame is not happy with her job she is very likely to not do everything that can be done to make whatever business it is the best it can be. I think that if the company would...
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...Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 * Homework after session 3: Chapters 8, 9 and 10 * Deadline for the complete file (hard copy; so, print out everything): to follow on BlackBoard and via your lecturer ------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1: surprising facts about leaders 1. your turn, page 3 Already done in the first session 2. your turn, page 4 The idea that leaders differ in personal traits makes me realize that every leader has a different view on things and that it does not have to matter for the quality of the leader. Everybody is able to be a good leader, as long as they the right training 3. your turn, page 7 I think Hesse portrays Leo as a servant to make the point that good leaders are not only leaders but also servants. To achieve a goal the leader needs his members and will do as much as he can to fulfil the needs of the group or company. This means for instance that a boss of a jewellery shop also needs to stand in the shop from time to time to see if everything is going well with his customers and employees. 4. your turn, page 8 I consider Peter Coffeng as a servant-leader. I work in the workplace of a jeweller in Amsterdam and he is the head of the workshop. Normally he sits behind his desk helping customers and he makes sure everything goes well in the workplace but when it is very busy he helps us out by also sitting behind the workbench repairing jewellery. Fill out the ‘instrument for reflection’ part from page 11-13 ...
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...sent one to you, and since you haven’t read your email I want to try to nip this in the bud and explain what this email is about. She’s accusing me of sexual harassment. What had happened, let me just give you some back history first. First of all, my wife and I are having marital problems and during that time we separated and Abby and I, because we have seen each other, because we have liked each other decided, let’s see what can happen. B: How long ago was this? R: This was 6 months ago. Last 2 weeks it has really become stressed and that’s why production is down. And I know that you know these numbers. But the problem being is that she is fighting everything. She doesn’t want to work with me, she doesn’t want to give me a hand with anything, and I’m managing it all on my own. And then she’s threatening me. Now this is in response to another email that I sent her, which she refers to in there. Now here is that email, and let me explain. Right now I’m just saying if you don’t want to get back together with me, and I had wrote her an email saying why don’t we get back together. Well she didn’t respond positively so I said fine, if you’re uncomfortable on our team, I’ll do everything that I can to help facilitate you moving to a different group. I wanted to help her, I wanted to solve this problem and instead she’s writing me these threatening things like you need to change departments, I’m going to sue you, I’m going to sue the company and take everybody down. B: Ok well whether...
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...MockingBird we got to take notes on. For the first semester that was my first book to take notes on. To understand which of the notes were the correct notes from the book to use for when we had test on the book. That was my one of some problems on the first semester. I had the problem on how to write specific notes which could help me if I needed them. My second problem was on presentations that we had. What I think on the way of if I did do a good job on assignments were not really bad. On the way that I passed this class with a good grade. By the way that my grade was based on what I did a good and hard working job to get the the grade that I got for the first quarter. I really tried my best to pass this class and to give my hard and best work to be able to do really good and to get my grade that I really wanted to pass this class with. Even though I was a bit scared and shy to go up in front of the class and the students to give my presentation I still did a really good job. The presentation that I had to go up and do what I had to do I did a really good job I passed the grade I wanted to achieve and did a great job....
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...through deal of the day offerings from local and national businesses. Consumers love the concept, buying everything from restaurant certificates to yoga lessons to tickets to a museum. Mason thinks the Internet has the potential to change the way people discover and buy from local businesses. Groupon actually started [inaudible] action, and the idea was to get those people together to solve kind of the world’s unsolvable problems, whether it was getting a bunch of people together to work with government or, you know, refurbish a local school, really accomplish anything that a group was looking to do. Eventually, it kind of morphed into people were looking for deals. They were kind of all trying to get around how do we — how do we take this group and put it into this commerce channel, and so we kind of took the idea up [inaudible], and we made it into Groupon. [Inaudible] 2008, 400 subscribers all the way up to more than 60 million worldwide. We’re in more than 40 countries, and we’ve saved consumers more than $2 billion [inaudible]. Groupon is an easy way to get huge discounts while discovering fun activities in your city. Each day we feature a cool new experience at an unbeatable price in dozens of cities across the country. From restaurants, theaters, spas, stores and special events, we work with the best local businesses to offer one deal each day at an incredibly low price. Using Groupon is easy. Check in every day to see the new deal, or subscribe to our daily alerts...
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...MICHAEL PORTER: Well, the problem is I think we've gotten into a very vicious cycle in thinking about the relationship between business and society. And really, the purpose of capitalism, and the benefits of the capitalist system to society, and to meeting society's needs-- needs like improving people's lives, and improving the health of communities. We've gotten into a cycle where, I think, business has evolved and thinking about business management has evolved, in a direction that we've narrowed the scope of how you create economic value. And increasingly, companies are being perceived as creating profit at the expense of the community, not creating profit that actually ultimately benefits the communities. As a result of this, I think government has increasingly seen business as a problem, as a source of bad things in society. And the mindset is becoming increasingly to regulate, to control, to tax. And ultimately, now often political leaders are unable to pursue business-friendly public policies, because the political environment almost forces them to be tough on business. Despite the fact that we know at some deep level, business and society need each other. But we've kind of gotten ourselves into a bad place. ADI IGNATIUS: But, I think a lot of business people would argue, what we do is run businesses, and we make profits. And when we're successful we hire people. And that's all we can do. To have an agenda beyond that is really outside of our scope. MICHAEL PORTER:...
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...heavy topic, and it’s getting heavier because we’re understanding that we need to do more than we are. We’re understanding, in fact, that those of us who live in the developed world need to be really pushing towards eliminating our emissions. That’s, to put it mildly, not what’s on the table[1] now. And it tends to feel a little overwhelming when we look at what is there in reality today and the magnitude[2] of the problem that we face. And when we have overwhelming problems in front of us, we tend to seek simple answers. And I think this is what we’ve done with climate change. We look at where the emissions are coming from -- they’re coming out of our tailpipes[3] and smokestacks[4] and so forth, and we say, okay, well the problem is that they’re coming out of fossil fuels[5] that we’re burning, so therefore, the answer must be to replace those fossil fuels with clean sources of energy. And while, of course, we do need clean energy, I would put to you that it’s possible that by looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we’re in fact setting ourselves up not to solve it. And the reason why is that we live on a planet that is rapidly urbanizing. That shouldn’t be news to any of us. However, it’s hard sometimes to remember the extent of that urbanization. By mid-century, we’re going to have about eight billion -- perhaps more -- people living in cities or within a day’s travel of one. We will be an overwhelmingly urban species. In order to provide the kind...
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...tired to go out. A: So what did you do? B: We just stayed home and watched TV. 2. A: I had a great weekend. B: What happened? A: I met this really terrific girl and I think she likes me. B: Really? A: Yeah, we’re going out next weekend. B: All right! 3. A: What did you do last weekend? B: Umm, I spent most of the time at the gym. A: How come? B: Well, I plan to enter a bodybuilding competition next month. A: Gee, I didn’t know you were a bodybuilder. B: Yeah. Want to see my muscles? 4. A: So, what was your weekend like? B: Not very good. My brother came over. A: Yeah? » B: Well, he’s got three young boys. I spent all weekend playing computer games with my nephews. Now I’m exhausted. A: I’ll bet! 5. A: Did you have a nice weekend? B: Mmm . Not too bad. A: Did you do anything special? B: Well, I saw a really good movie. A: Who with? B: Oh, I don’t think you know him. It’s this really good-looking guy I just met. 6. A: Did you have a nice weekend, Teresa? B: It was okay. A: So what did you do? B: Well, I met some friends on Saturday and we rented a video. A: How about Sunday? Did you see the World Series on TV? B: The what? A: The baseball game. B: Oh. No, I was too tired. I slept most of the day. A: You’re kidding! You missed a really great game. 3. Let’s Listen 1. A: So how was your weekend? B: Oh, I went to see that new science-fiction movie downtown. A: Oh, yeah? How was it? B: Boring. I think I fell asleep in the middle of it...
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...We say a great many things in church (and out of church too) without thinking of what we are saying. For instance, we say in the Creed " I believe in the forgiveness of sins." I had been saying it for several years before I asked myself why it was in the Creed. At first sight it seems hardly worth putting in. "If one is a Christian," I thought " of course one believes in the forgiveness of sins. It goes without saying." But the people who compiled the Creed apparently thought that this was a part of our belief which we needed to be reminded of every time we went to church. And I have begun to see that, as far as I am concerned, they were right. To believe in the forgiveness of sins is not so easy as I thought. Real belief in it is the sort of thing that easily slips away if we don't keep on polishing it up. We believe that God forgives us our sins; but also that He will not do so unless we forgive other people their sins against us. There is no doubt about the second part of this statement. It is in the Lord's Prayer, it was emphatically stated by our Lord. If you don't forgive you will not be forgiven. No exceptions to it. He doesn't say that we are to forgive other people's sins, provided they are not too frightful, or provided there are extenuating circumstances, or anything of that sort. We are to forgive them all, however spiteful, however mean, however often they are repeated. If we don't we shall be forgiven none of our own. Now it seems to me that we often...
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...International Negotiation class that we learned there are four major areas of Emotional Intelligence. The first area is selfawareness, which the ability to know one's emotions, strengths, weaknesses, drives, values and goals and recognize their impact on others while using feelings to guide decisions. The gut second area is selfregulation, which involves controlling or redirecting one's disruptive emotions and impulses and adapting to changing circumstances. The third area is emotional awareness that we need to considering other people's feelings especially when making decision, and the ability to understand the emotional makeup of other people. The last area is relationship management, which is an ability to find common ground and build rapport, and manage relationships to move people in the desired direction. For me, the most challenged my emotional intelligence are selfregulation and emotional awareness. It is really hard to control emotion when we are mad and feel disappointed. I need to learn more about have to self control my emotion and think it first then behave and talk. I feel like I have two totally opposite behaviors after I am mad. Sometimes, I am a quick temper. My emotion changes really fast when I argue with the people that I am not really close to. Second, with my family and friends...
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...tired to go out. A: So what did you do? B: We just stayed home and watched TV. 2. A: I had a great weekend. B: What happened? A: I met this really terrific girl and I think she likes me. B: Really? A: Yeah, we’re going out next weekend. B: All right! 3. A: What did you do last weekend? B: Umm, I spent most of the time at the gym. A: How come? B: Well, I plan to enter a bodybuilding competition next month. A: Gee, I didn’t know you were a bodybuilder. B: Yeah. Want to see my muscles? 4. A: So, what was your weekend like? B: Not very good. My brother came over. A: Yeah? B: Well, he’s got three young boys. I spent all weekend playing computer games with my nephews. Now I’m exhausted. A: I’ll bet! 5. A: Did you have a nice weekend? B: Mmm. Not too bad. A: Did you do anything special? B: Well, I saw a really good movie. A: Who with? B: Oh, I don’t think you know him. It’s this really good-looking guy I just met. 6. A: Did you have a nice weekend, Teresa? B: It was okay. A: So what did you do? B: Well, I met some friends on Saturday and we rented a video. A: How about Sunday? Did you see the World Series on TV? B: The what? A: The baseball game. B: Oh. No, I was too tired. I slept most of the day. A: You’re kidding! You missed a really great game. 3. Let’s Listen (Page 3) 1. A: So, how was your weekend? B: Oh, I went to see that new science-fiction movie downtown. A: Oh, yeah? How was it? B: Boring. I think I fell asleep in the middle of it...
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...(1596-1650) is an example of a rationalist. According to Descartes, before we can describe the nature of reality (as is done in metaphysics) or say what it means for something to be or exist (which is the focus of ontology), we must first consider what we mean when we say we know what reality, being, or existence is. He suggests that it is pointless to claim that something is real or exists unless we first know how such a claim could be known as a justified true belief. But to say that our beliefs are justified, we have to be able to base them ultimately on a belief that is itself indubitable. Such a belief could then provide a firm foundation on which all subsequent beliefs are grounded and could thus be known as true. This way of thinking about knowledge is called foundationalism. In his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), Descartes indicates how we are able to guarantee our beliefs about reality by limiting what we believe to what is indubitable or is based on what is indubitable. That involves him in a series of six "meditations" (of which we will focus on only the first two) about the proper method of philosophical reflection and the conclusions that can be drawn from using that method. Throughout these Meditations Descartes insists that (1) we should claim to know only that for which we have justification, (2) we cannot appeal to anything outside of our ideas for such justification, and (3) we judge our ideas using a method that guarantees that our ideas are correct...
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...Megan Peters Studio I honestly don’t really know where to begin with this essay because I have so much to say. I guess I should start by saying that theatre is and has been the biggest and most influential force in my life. Growing up, my parents were determined I was destined to be an athlete. Although at age 4 I was writing my own plays and having each part played by a specific person in my family, they insisted on sports. They put me in every sport they could think of. They were athletes themselves and thrived teaching their kids how to throw a softball or how to serve a volleyball. I went along and played five sports a year until I was ten years old. When I was ten, I got cast as the Wicked Witch of the West in our school play, the Wizard of Oz. If I do say so myself, I stole the show. The feeling of being onstage and performing to ten year old me was just enchanting and I knew it was something I would never be able to let go. I haven’t let it go since to my parent’s dismay. Acting is the most important thing in my life and no matter what I always want to be in rehearsal or in acting class or performing. I think that the Studio program at West Virginia University would be a great place for me because it will help me reach my goals within the university and beyond. One reason I would love to be a part of the studio program is my constant desire for knowledge. As I said before, theatre is the biggest part of my life and my passion for it grows the more I learn. I want to...
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...| | |LISTEN A MINUTE.com | | | |Aliens | |http://www.listenAminute.com/a/aliens.html | |[pic] | |One minute a day is all you need to improve your listening skills. | |Focus on new words, grammar and pronunciation in this short text. | |Doing the online activities, discussion, survey and writing will help. | |Listen many times – enough for you to you understand everything. | | ...
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