...(1850)" and "The House of Seven Gables (1851)," Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," Henry David Thoreau's "Walden (1854)," and Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass (1855)." American Renaissance Literary Masterpieces The American Renaissance, a literary and cultural period circa extending from 1820 to the mid-1860s, gained inspiration from the unresolved issues of the American Revolution. The American Renaissance literary style was coined as "Romanticism," an international philosophical movement that redefined the perceptions of Western cultures, and seldom refers to the preconceived notions of love. Some important authors arising out of this era include: James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe, and Herman Melville. These brilliant scholars herald with American literature's hallmark of literary excellence expounding on the fundamentals of classical...
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...Bilal Hussain Asad BUAD 417 Emersion Electric Company Case Emerson Electric has been showing a notable growth in its international sales over the past three years. The company has over this period, therefore, shifted its focus from exports towards offshore production; increasing offshore plants from 50 to 82. To keep this trend going, W.F. Bousquette, Emerson Electric Company’s Chief financial officer has to develop a plan to raise $65 million to meet Emerson’s general corporate needs. The management of the company believes that Asia has the most potential for future sales growth, and perhaps plans to open new plants close somewhere as well. Previously, the company required mostly short term loans which it borrowed in the local currency where the operations needed funding, but now it needs a more reliable currency to issue long-term debt in. As high as the required New Zealand coupon rate of 18.55% is, it is not necessarily a nonstarter. The inflation in New Zealand “is high and is certain to go higher”. The high expected inflation and a freely floating New Zealand dollar (NZ$) means that the depreciation of NZ$ could result in a lower total cost of debt. The relative purchasing power parity implies that the inflation rate and exchange rate of NZ$ will move in proportion to each other i.e. a higher inflation rate would cause the country’s currency (NZ$) to depreciate, thus reducing the amount of US$ needed to buy NZ$ to pay back the loan. Before, nonetheless, we come...
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...Analysis of "A Nation's Strength" By Ralph Waldo Emerson "A nation's strength" is a poem written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1847. I can see that it is a poem from a line of similarities that this text has to/with a poem. A poem is characterized by the composition, the use of strong verbs and precise nouns, the use of rhythm, repetitions, alliteration, line breaks and the use of metaphors, similes or personification. Poems will often rhyme but they will not sacrifice meaning for rhyme. A poem has a focused purpose (paints a picture, recreates a feeling, tells a story, captures a moment, etc). In this poem the author uses vivid imagery and metaphors to convince the reader that the strength of a nation, is not in its wealth or military powers, but in its people. I would like to start off by explaining the structural composition of this poem. The form of this poem is a bit of a mix. It has both enjambments and full stops. The enjambment (stanza 1, verse 1, 2) is when one sentence is divided into two verses. A full stop (stanza 2, vers 1) is when there is a definite break/period. It has 6 stanzas and 4 verses in each stanza. The poem has an ab ab rhyme and an 8-6-8-6 rhythm. The ab ab rhyme tells us that the last words in the sentences will rhyme in pairs, every second line. For example the first stanza rhymes; high-defy and strong-throng. The 8-6-8-6 rhythm explains the number of syllables in each verse. For example stanza 1, vers 1, 2; what makes a nation's pillars high=...
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...as an educator and then to Concord (Durbin). Louisa May Alcott received the beginnings of her education in Boston and Concord, although she never received any formal education. Most of Alcott’s learning came from her father who was an “idealistic philosopher” and teacher (Louisa May Alcott). “Her father believed strongly in the values of high moral principles, self-reliance, reading, and philosophical discussion”, and he taught many of these things to his daughters (Louisa May Alcott). When the Alcotts were living in Concord, Louisa met some people who would be influential to her writing career. One of those people was both a neighbor and family friend and an esteemed writer, and he was named Ralph Waldo Emerson (Louisa May Alcott). The Alcotts became close with the Emerson family and Louisa was able to learn a lot from them. She was also able to learn...
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...Competition Strategy Formulation Butch Bradley, Benjamin Hinderer, Alicia Pearson, Amy Terre, Vicki Thompson MGT/498 June 24, 2013 Rebekah Benson Competition Strategy Formulation Introduction: Vicki To achieve an organization’s vision a process of strategy formulation is the course of action. Management will factor in goals and objectives derived from organization’s mission statement. Competitive strategy formulation’s purpose is to develop effective performance to improve and secure future position. Steps in the process are measuring internal and external environments, competitive business strategies, creating value sustainable for competitive advantage, and measuring guidelines. This data collection process is essential to successful planning and implementation of innovation Internal Environmental Measurements: Vicki Environmental scanning involves the collection, examination, and distribution of internal and external information for development of a strategic process. Internal analysis is the first step of environmental scanning. Examinations consist of organizational structure, brand awareness, shareholder interactions, natural resource access, operational potential, and employee interactions with management, and other employees ("Management Study Guide," 2008 - 2013). In strategy formulation factors of a SWOT analysis of internal strengths and weaknesses are examined. Management considers the resources of financial, intellectual, and location in the decision-making...
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...1. Describe the Second Great Awakening and why it was important. (Pages 332 -333) The Second Great Awakening was an Evangelist movement in the early nineteenth century. The first notable event in the Second Great Awakening was in 1801 at Cane Ridge, Kentucky. It was an official religious meeting for preachers to get their licenses, baptisms for new converts, and licensing marriages. The non-believers often set up in the outskirts of the event conducting actions of sin. When they had seizures the religious people encouraged it to continue, because they felt it was Christ relieving them of their demons. If they lived they were often converted and had religious zeal. The South had a wider influence; the Second Great Awakening was not as potent in the North. There were few significant Northern preachers. Reverend Timothy Dwight, Nathaniel Taylor, Charles G. Finney, and Lyman Beecher were the most significant preachers of the era. They had the most success in urban areas, but still strove to achieve religious awakening in the cities, New York being a major target. The Second Great Awakening was vital for the religious reformation to take place. The Second Great Awakening produced fruit during the...
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...Whitman once referred to the work as “a succession of growths like the rings of trees.” Leaves of Grass was first published with ninety-five pages, consisting of a prose introduction and twelve poems. By the time of Whitman’s death, the “Deathbed” edition contained 383 poems. In 1855 upon returning to New York, Whitman began carrying around a notebook with him everywhere, wandering around the city and jotting down ideas for poems. In addition, he read a variety of literature, including the Iliad and Odyssey, Shakespeare, Dickens, Hawthorne, Emerson, and pieces about astronomy, geography, and philosophy. The result of all the wandering, jotting, and reading was the publication of the first edition of Leaves of Grass (“Walt Whitman”, 2002). Whitman sent a copy to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emerson’s reply is now famous. He wrote, “I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed...I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” While the first edition of Leaves of Grass sold poorly, the letter meant the world to Whitman (“Walt Whitman”, 1998). Interestingly, Whitman wrote most of the favorable reviews of Leaves of Grass himself and published them anonymously (“Walt Whitman”,...
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...American Romanticism * Early Romanticism * Washington Irving * James Cooper * Transcendentalism * Ralph Emerson * Henry Thoreau * Others: eg. Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne… * Romanticism---a retrospect * Background of Romanticism in Europe? * The Industrial Revolution * The French Revolution * Ideological change * Definition & Features of Romanticism? * Romanticism(The Romantic Movement) * 5 key features * Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, recognized for expressions of exoticism, individualism, emotionalism, and the beauty of nature, rejecting the ordered rationality of the Enlightenment as mechanical, impersonal, and artificial. * Imagination; * Nature; * Individualism; * Glorification of the Commonplace; * The Lure of the Exotic * American Romanticism * Time: Romantic period---early 19th century to the outbreak of the Civil War * Forms: novels, short stories, and poems replaced sermons and manifestos as America’s principal literary forms * Background: * exterior: Romantic movement in Europe (inheritance) * interior: Westward movement and economic boom; * Literary themes: * Highly imaginative and subjective * Emotional intensity * Escapism * Common man as hero ...
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...Human Services and Helping Skills Anjelica McCartneyBSHS/305May 23, 2016Cassidy Hawf | | | | Human Services and Helping Skills The human service field is a very rewarding field to work in. Human service professionals have the privilege to help others when in need. However, for human service professionals to accomplish this they must be knowledgeable about and possess a broad range of helping skills. These helping skills are vital to the effectiveness of the services the client receives and to ensure that the individual receives the best possible support and can successfully meet their goals. The five stages of helping skills include preparation, client arrival, exploring the problem, intervention, and termination. In addition to the helping skills, there are also barriers that an individual may face that the human services professional and the client must overcome together. Helping Skills There is a wide array of skills that is pertinent for a human service professional to possess to help engage the client and have a successful outcome. Some of these skills include: active listening, observing, responding, knowing cultural differences and good communication, both verbal and non-verbal. Active listening is one of the most important skills for a helper to practice. When you actively listen to the client it is easier to relate to the individual and to get a better understanding of what exactly the problem is, as well as what caused the problem. Active listening...
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...just words. One can also communicate with body language such as: eyes movements, arm and leg placements, and even just plain old facial expressions. Kirk Duncan, President of 3KeyElements, wrote in his training manual, ‘Master Your Influence’*, that “Communication is: 57% Gestures, 36% Tone, 7% Words”. He also observed that “In the first 4 seconds of conversation, people will make judgement about you…”. Basically, people evaluate your trustworthiness in the first 4 seconds of interacting with you. Communication isn’t just for humans, animals do it as well. For example, My dog communicates in three ways. He either barks, puts his ears in different places (pulled forward means curious, pulled back means happiness, etc.), or his eyes express how he feels. Babies also have to use other means than words to explain how they feel whether its crying, cooing, being calm, smiling, etc. Emotions are a great way to communicate without speaking. If you see someone smiling chances are that you don’t need to ask if they are happy. The smile on his/her face is a very good indicator of what they wish to communicate with the world. As a normal rule, you wouldn’t walk up to that person and ask them why they were sad. That would be silly. Ralph Waldo Emerson said “What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” A good example of this is something I witness with my younger sister. My sister, Elena, says she wants to graduate from high school but then refuses to do her homework...
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...PREFACE This major project examines the indispensable desiderata of Transcendentalism in comparison to the Dark Romantics background and how these technicalities prepare this work of art as an influential synthesis of human imagination incorporated with mystic facts. Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism were two literary movements that occurred in America during roughly the same time period (1840—1860). Although the two had surface similarities, such as their reverence for Nature, their founding beliefs were quite different, enough to make one seem almost the antithesis of each other. Moreover one’s genesis is ventured out from other; i.e. Dark Romanticism from the roots of Transcendentalism or precisely the lacunae are best determined for raising up the term called Dark Romanticism. Contents S. No. Page no. Chapter 1.........................................................................................................4-14 Chapter 2.........................................................................................................15-23. Chapter 3..........................................................................................................24-27 Resolution.........................................................................................................28-29 Work Cited................................................................
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...Essays Essays Part II. 2, 2.] Part II. 2, 2.] Essays The Project Gutenberg EBook of Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Essays Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Editor: Edna H. L. Turpin Release Date: September 4, 2005 [EBook #16643] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ESSAYS *** 1 Essays Produced by Curtis A. Weyant , Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ESSAYS BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON Merrill's English Texts SELECTED AND EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY EDNA H.L. TURPIN, AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY," "CLASSIC FABLES," "FAMOUS PAINTERS," ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES E. MERRILL CO. 1907 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION LIFE OF EMERSON CRITICAL OPINIONS CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR COMPENSATION SELF RELIANCE FRIENDSHIP HEROISM MANNERS GIFTS NATURE SHAKESPEARE; OR, THE POET PRUDENCE CIRCLES NOTES PUBLISHERS' NOTE Merrill's English Texts 2 Essays 3 This series of books will include in complete editions those masterpieces of English Literature that are best adapted for the use of schools and colleges. The editors of the several volumes will...
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...The Concept of Nature in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Robert Frost : A Comparative Study Chapter One Introduction 1. Background Poets have long been inspired to tune their lyrics to the variations in landscape, the changes in season, and the natural phenomena around them. The Greek poet Theocritus began writing idylls in the third century B.C.E. to glorify and honor the simplicity of rural life--creating such well known characters as Lycidas, who has inspired dozens of poems as the archetypal shepherd, including the famous poem "Lycidas" by John Milton. An idyll was originally a short, peaceful pastoral lyric, but has come to include poems of epic adventure set in an idealized past, including Lord Alfred Tennyson's take on Arthurian legend, The Idylls of the King. The Biblical Song of Songs is also considered an idyll, as it tells its story of love and passion by continuously evoking imagery from the natural world. The more familiar form of surviving pastoral poetry that has retained its integrity is the eclogue, a poem attuned to the natural world and seasons, placed in a pleasant, serene, and rural place, and in which shepherds often converse. The first eclogue was written by Virgil in 37 B.C.E. The eclogue also flourished in the Italian Renaissance, its most notable authors being Dante and Petrarch. It became something of a requirement for young poets, a form they had to master before embarking upon great original work. Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia and Edmund Spenser’s...
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...Chapters 11 & 13 Guided Reading Tentative Due date: 11/17/2015 Big Picture Questions (must be answered to receive full credit): To what extent did individualism, new religious sects, abolitionism, and women’s rights change American culture during the antebellum period (1820-1860)? Chapter 11: Religion and Reform 1800-1860 Individualism: The Ethic of the Middle Class Discuss the differing opinions on the lack of rigid class structures in America: Alexis de Tocqueville: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transcendentalism: How did Second Great Awakening preachers like Finney adopt portion of Emerson’s philosophies regarding man? How did the main teachings of Transcendentalism differ from the teachings of most Protestant faiths of the time? Emerson’s Literary Influence (For each author describe their main literary focus and delineate between fiction or nonfiction) Henry David Thoreau: Margaret Fuller: Walt Whitman: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Herman Melville: Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture Utopias: Communalists: Shakers: marriage? Socialism: property ownership? Humphrey Noyes and Oneida: perfectionism: marriage? Joseph Smith: Mormonism: What was summary of Book of Mormon? How were Mormons accepted by those outside of their faith and what did this lead them to do? Brigham Young: Abolitionism -Skip (We will cover this in class) The Women’s Rights Movement Women became...
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...LET1 Task 3 Influence someone has over another is known as power. Power can be good or bad depending on how it is used. If power is used wisely it can help an organization. Used poorly, however, power can be detrimental to those involved. There are five bases of power and all are seen in the given scenario. These five bases can be divided into two main forms of power. The first form of power “is based on an individual’s position in an organization” (Robbins & Judge, 2007, p. 471), this is also known as formal power. This form of power encompasses three of our five bases of power. The first that is included is a fear based power known as coercive power. The second is based on rewards and acknowledgement and is known as reward power. The final base covered in the first group is legitimate power. Legitimate power is created by a specific title or position within an organization. The second form of power is personal power, and encompasses the remaining two bases of power. The first base of power covered under personal power is expert power. Having skills or knowledge that someone else does not is expert power. The last base of power is referent power. “Referent power develops out of admiration of another and a desire to be like that person,” (Robbins & Judge, 2007, p. 472). All individuals possess a degree of personal power. As mentioned previously, all five bases of power are represented within the given scenario. Coercive power, the first base of power, is presented...
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