...Sarah Chichester Kaplan University I chose for my element Beryllium (Be). I choose this element because I had no idea what it was or what it was in for that matter. I was interested to see how it relates to my world and what not only it can be found in but what it is used in as well. It is fascinating to learn the natural source of all the elements and I got very distracted looking up others after I was done with Beryllium. It however was not in the provided website Household Products Database. I looked up other reliable websites to learn more as provided below. Beryllium has the atomic number of 4. Its symbol on the periodic table is Be. It’s atomic weight is 9.012182. Beryllium is a alkali earth metal that is hard and grey and does not occur naturally. It does however; occur as a component that occurs in coal, soil, certain kinds of rocks and volcanic dust. It was discovered in 1798 by Louis-Nicholas Vauquelin in France (Helmenstine,2012). Other names for this element are Glucinium or Glucinum. Beryllium is found 30 mineral species; the most important are bertrandite, beryl, chrysoberyl, and phenacite. Out of these four the most used commercially are beryl and bertrandite. Beryllium is the second lightest of all metals and is used in a wide variety of applications. It is mostly used as an alloying agent used in springs, electrical contacts, and non- sparking tools. Some technologies that make use of this element are aerospace, nuclear, manufacturing industries, structural...
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...practices just as what other translation courses back to undergraduate school asked me to do, only to gain more skills and techniques, to drown myself into the sea of translation, swimming hard and fast, without an awareness of the orientation and destination. Nevertheless, after four times of Baptism in this course, now I feel refreshed and able to stand in a higher place, to get a bird view of the sea, being oriented and determined. Yes, that is what this course means to me—new ideas, new perspectives of view about translation and a much broader horizontal. To be more specific, I list below three points of significance or gifts that this course bestows me with. 1. Being meaningful is the meaning of our life. Long ago, I set my mind to become a translator so as to introduce more Chinese traditional culture to western world. I feel obligated and cheerful for this dream because I always hold the faith that my dream or goal should not be totally personal. I mean it should be constructive to the society and helpful to other people. It must be meaningful. However, from time to time, I was distracted by my petty desires and fears— those worldly concerns, trapping myself into a dilemma, sometimes being self-interested and money-oriented and sometimes struggling to uphold what I have been pursuing. But after the exposure to your philosophy of translation and your obligations and faith, I became determined again. Our life and dream must be meaningful. We must make a difference in...
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...knowledge, ideas, information, attitudes, and feelings are transmitted (Padilla et al, 2003 p. 3). Communication is a two-way process by which information is changed between or among individuals through a common system of symbols, sign and behaviour (Martinez, p1). It is an essential function of civilization. Basically it consists of writing, reading, speaking and listening. Listening is a skill that has to be practiced and learned. Among the four skills of communication, listening is the most ignored, yet it takes up the greatest amount of time in the study of these four skills (Igoy, 2004 p 85). Listening like any other skill, has to be practiced because we listen everyday and we think we know how to do it. Yet, like any other skill, we can learn to do it better and continue to improve our listening skills throughout our lives (Diaz, 2005, p. 28). At the end of the communication line is an indispensable element – the listener, the active participation of whom either makes or unmakes communication. How good at listening this element is, spells a big difference in the communication process. At this point, it part, comes though a constant awareness and study of how listeners respond. This is especially so if we consider the axiom that meaning is altogether in the mind of the listener. II. 1. What is the listening? (Diaz, (2005 p. 28) simply states that listening is the active Intellectual process of decoding, interpreting, understanding and evaluating messages. It is a mode...
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...leadership evolves to match this quickly changing world. Usually people believe good leaders should have outstanding charisma and skills in order to lead successfully. This essay, however, will examine the servant style of leaderships which, rather than relying upon command and control, is structured from the bottom-up. That is, servant leaders approach the organizational goals by establishing the organization’s norms to help people who is in need.(Tiaki, 2014). Servant leadership is of 3 core elements: listening, conceptualization and stewardship. This essay will discuss these three elements and demonstrate how they work in action by examining the life and exploits of Martin Luther King. When discussing about the servant leaders, the ability of listening can be emphasized at the very beginning. That is more than just listening. This is where making conscious efforts to hear not only the words that another person is saying but, more importantly, try to understand the complete message being sent. According to Nichols(2009),good listeners try to understand and realize what speakers say to them and no judgment will be delivered. So good listeners not only make speakers perceive that what they are talking about is interesting to the listeners but also to get information, understand and learn at the same time. For examples, If students can pay more attention and patience to listen to what teachers say in the lectures obviously their knowledge and understanding must be better than otherwise...
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...practices are in a combination setting of three places. The weight room is used for conditioning weigh training and is located above the gym. The gym is used for mat practice and warm-ups and the local community is used for endurance and cardio exercises. The specific setting I have chosen is in the gym for mat practice and warm-ups of which is where the team spends most of their time. The purpose for choosing this setting is to observe the dynamics of social interaction accompanied by leadership of the older more senior varsity wrestlers and to include the naturalistic form of competition that exists in sports programs. The gym environment is typical for a rural community high school as it is small in size. Laid out on the floor there are four large wrestling mats coordinated with team logos to accommodate 23 team members. Eight members are female wrestlers and fifteen are male wrestlers. Education level ranges from senior to freshman as varsity and junior varsity has not yet been decided. The wrestling team has three coaches as...
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...Internal and External Factor Paper MGT 230 September 21, 2015 Jack Geer Internal and External Factor Paper The four functions of managements is planning, organizing, leading, and controlling one’s organization. These functions should be used by managers to be more efficient in “achieving goals with minimal waste of resources.” (Management, Pg. 15) All four functions of management are key elements to be effective as a manager. Planning is described by “specifying the goals to be achieved and deciding in advance the appropriate actions needed to achieve those goals.” (Management, Pg. 15) A manager should have a plan before implicating any decision making. When a manager makes a plan, they can re-evaluate the plan and make any adjustments to the plan where they seem fit. Planning helps deliver strategic value within an organization or business. Organizing is described as “assembling and coordinating the human, financial, physical, informational, and other resources needed to achieve goals.” (Management, Pg. 15) After a manager has implicated a plan, they would then want to organize the plan by delegating authority, assigning work and providing direction to the employees. Controlling is described by “monitoring performance and implementing necessary changes.” (Management, Pg. 15) After a goal has been completed, the manager may monitor the performance by employee that may include, but not limited to, monetary goals, reducing customer complaints...
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...there electronics to become multitaskers it’s a completely different story. They become so fixated on what they were supposed to do, that they have to double the amount of time just to finish what they started. Doing homework while instant messaging, listening to music, and watching television becomes more of a concern for parents everyday. Family life is becoming a concern for children and how they act around there family member. A specific study by Anthropologist Elinor Orch, director of UCLA’s center on everyday lives of families. Because of the large scale of multitasking with children in there homes, they become so fixated with what they are doing they don’t give parents enough attention. The study was done over a four year periods which ranged from thirty two families in California. What they found was that most parents aren’t as occupied with multitasking and they don’t know how to relate to there children. Orch says, “We also saw how difficult it was for...
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...12 Angry Men I saw a lot of different peer pressure in the movie 12 Angry Men. Modaff describes how powerful peer pressure can be stating that “by violating team norms or exhibiting elements of dis-identification a team member risks punishment by the team” (p. 245 Modaff) One individual was able to avoid group think. One way this individual was able to get the group to quit this practice of group think was to keep communicating communication also known as “metacommunication” (p. 235 Modaff) Another individual was a facilitator or moderator who kept structure with the group after establishing “norms (informal rules that teams establish to govern their activities and behaviors)”. Modaff talks about how “teams need to agree on how they will operate.” (p. 241 Modaff) Is there an unspoken understanding that changing your mind is bad or says something negative about you? This is shown in the movie because every time someone changed their mind, it took more energy to get this out than from someone that didn’t change their mind. Emotions are a big part of the decisions that people made. People are emotional and this is used to help communicate to other people. Emotions, if not controlled, can alter our ability to think rationally. Another thing that will cause people from thinking rationally is prejudice. It will blind people from seeing the truth. Other things that must be considered is conflicts of interest or motives. Some of these that I noticed from the movie...
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... Listening is an important part of the communication process. It is stated as being the active processing of the information we receive. How well you listen has a major impact on the quality of your relationships with others. Listening is a skill which everyone can benefit from improvement. A great deal of our communication process is devoted to listening. Chapter five focuses on improving your listening skills with suggestions and principles and also identifies barriers that keep people from listening at peak efficiency. In this essay, we will go over all key points and terms that will help you become an effective listener. To become an effective listener we first need to develop certain skills that can be used in stages to guide us through the process. Effective listening involves selecting, attending to, understanding, and remembering the meaning behind the message. The goal as a public speaker is to develop and deliver a speech that audience members will listen and respond to. (62) Although it seems easy, there are barriers that can hinder a speech from being received by the listener. These barriers are referred to as listening barriers. Listening barriers are created when we fail to select, attend to, or understand a message or remember what was said. (62) There are many listening barriers that can vary depending on the individual; however, the book has narrowed them down to four: information overload, personal concerns, outside distractions, and prejudice....
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...The information processing theory is an approach to the cognitive development of a human being, which deals with the study and the analysis of the sequence of events that occur in a person’s mind while receiving some new piece of information. (Schraw, 2003-2009). The components of the information processing theory are sensory memory, long term memory, and short term memory. The sensory memory is that part of the mental processing unit that receives all information and then stores it temporarily or permanently. Sensory memory processes incoming sensory information for very brief periods of time, usually on the order of 1/2 to 3 seconds. (Schraw, 2003-2009).The amount of information held at any given moment in sensory memory is limited to five to seven discrete elements such as letters of the alphabet or pictures of human faces. (Schraw, 2003-2009). The sensory preceptors of a human being function in the same way as the hardware of a computer does, and the mindset and the rules and strategies adopted by the person while learning is equivalent to the software used by computers. The main purpose of sensory memory is to screen incoming stimuli and process only those stimuli that are most relevant at the present time. The information processing system of a person can be enhanced if these preceptors and rules are altered. (Schraw, 2003-2009). Short term memory is that part of the sensory register where the information is stored temporarily. Once the decision has been made regarding the...
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...Assess the usefulness of theories of communication within health and social care environments Communication cycle in a health and social care setting This is argyles theory of communication, where he believes that when someone makes contact there are 6 stages that they go through. The first being ‘idea occurred’, he believes that this is when their brain decides that they are going to speak. The second is ‘message coded’, this is when what they are going to say has been planned and considered, and it is also considered what language they speak it in, what gestures to use, whether they use sign language etc. and the third is ‘messaged sent’, and where what they have been planning to say is spoken. The fourth stage is ‘message received’, this happens when the person they are talking to has heard what they have said. The fifth is ‘message decoded’, this is where the person you have been talking too figures out with their communication skills, what the message they have sent means and what they are going to say. The final stage is ‘message understood’, when the person receiving the message responds with an accurate response and has understood everything that has been said to them. Here is an example: Idea occurred - Charlie is 2 years of age. He enjoys helping his mum in the kitchen when she is making a meal. Charlie’s mother spots Charlie in the corner of her eye. Message coded - She notices Charlie starring at the fruit and is going to ask him if he wants any. ...
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...Running head: BIOLOGICAL AND HUMANISTIC THEORIES Biological and Humanistic Theories Victor Bell University Of Phoenix Psychology of Personality Psy 250 Byron Pettit, M.A. Due July 29, 2009 Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality Understanding the wide range and the development of personalities within our culture has been an ongoing challenge for hundreds of years. Within this document we will consider why people have completely different personalities even in the case of identical twins. Although Freud’s believed that people were basically born with their personality intact, many different theories have developed over the years in direct contrast to Freud’s. I will also consider the impact of genetics, environment and the role they play in reference to the biological aspect of personality development. Two of the more popular personality theories today are Biological and Humanistic; I will analyze and compare both theories to demonstrate an understanding of the differences and similarities between them. The Biological factor determines our physical make-up the color of our eyes, hair how tall we will grow as adults, and our overall body type. Base on society standards our appearance will affect the way we are viewed and treated by others from childhood into adulthood. The preferential treatment that one may receive due to their physical appearance will create a superior level of confidence and self-worth that in most cases will continue throughout...
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...As Benshoff and Griffin put it, “men in Western culture are taught that it is their birthright to do while women remain relatively immobile in order to be the object of the male gaze.” This ideology is commonly seen in most media texts where males are typically seen in lead roles where they are depicted as functional compared to females who are represented as distracted and dependent on men. Whilst this argument is widely seen throughout studies about gender roles in media, it functions as the center of my argument about the depiction of women in the music videos of “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams and “Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel. Both videos revolve around the acquisition of female attention, which supports...
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...Synopsis of Tort Cases In this paper, you will find synopsizes of four tort cases. Each scenario will include the type of tort actions in the case, potential plaintiffs and defendants, elements of the tort claim that constitute the plaintiff’s claim as well as any defenses that the defendant may assert. Additionally, you will find the writer opinion as to how they believe the claim will be resolved along with the legal reasons for their belief. Scenario One The torts actions, elements, potential plaintiffs, defendants, and claim resolution arise from a series of actions that took place at a football game. Daniel and his son Ruben, age 8, go to a football game. The quarterback drops back to throw a pass, and is hit by an opposing player, breaking the quarterback’s arm, and sending the ball into the stands, injuring a fan. Malik jumps up to yell at the referee, spilling his cold beer on Ruben. Daniel is upset to see Ruben’s enjoyment spoiled this way, and shoves Malik. As Malik falls, he grabs onto the railing, which gives way under his weight. Malik’s face hits the aisle steps, knocking out two of his front teeth. On their way out, Daniel stops at the concession stand to buy two diet soft drinks. A lady standing in line at the concession stand smells the beer on Ruben, and she starts yelling at Daniel, accusing him of giving beer to a child. She makes a huge scene, and several customers cast disgusted glances toward Daniel. One of them is Daniel’s boss...
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...ads)” (Burkey 5) which are no different in the case of Hennessy yet somewhat different in the case of Bombay Sapphire. Hennessy, a maker of cognac, creates an advertisement that is superior to Bombay Sapphire, a maker of dry gin, with respect to the use of color, emotional appeal and the overall tone which cause the viewer to spend money by pursuing an experience with their product. The Hennessy ad creates a storyboard effect by using four separate images. Three photographic images of a social scene and the Hennessy product surround a graphic image of the golden Hennessy logo. Each image varies in size and dimension. Two of the photographs show a cast of four people having a good time and one of the photographs shows of a bottle of Hennessy. The first photograph of the party goers takes place in an entryway where bright smiles compliment white shirts, slightly raised hands easily grasp cognac filled glasses, and friends approach each other to embrace in greeting. The second and largest photograph continues to feature the same four well dressed party goers but the scene now takes place in nicely furnished living room where two friends engage...
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