...In Wonder, there is an adventure of a boy going to school for the first time. August is a boy who was homeschooled because his face is deformed. It is written by R.J. Palacio. When a part of a story is relatable, it’s there to ground you to the real world. It’s to help the book make sense. When it’s not relatable, that part is there to give you new perspectives. It makes the book more interesting. Wonder is a compelling book because it tells a story that is out of the ordinary, but has some relatable parts, like how hard middle school can be. Having a life that is so different from mine, August is hard to relate to. Maybe some people can relate to him, but I can’t. I have never seen anyone with a physical disfigurement. It’s horrible how...
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...Alvin D. Parnell Jr. August 26, 2014 2nd Block 1. Were you surprised by the ending of the story? If not, at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson foreshadow the ending? Conversely, how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town? I wasn’t really surprised by the ending of the story. I really didn’t know what was going to happen but I had a feeling that something bad was about to when Jackson wrote about the stones being gathered in huge piles. Jackson foreshadowed the ending by telling the reaction of the crowd when the paper was drawn. I think that he made us think this was ordinary by saying all the towns had done it and it was a tradition. 2. Where does the story take place? In what way does the setting affect the story? Does it make you more or less likely to anticipate the ending? The setting made it easier to predict the ending because if you think about it, no matter where, in history “we are gathering of the entire town means one of two things”; it is either good news or it is bad news. The color of the box also gave away that something bad was going to happen. 3. In what ways are the characters differentiated from one another? Looking back at the story, can you see why Tessie Hutchinson is singled out as the "winner"? She was the chosen as the “winner” because she was the one that was saying the drawing was unfair. I feel that like the story chose her because no body likes...
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...the article “Stones and Bones” from Adam Gopnik. In the article, there are a lot of different opinions about the 9/11 memorial and museum. Is the memorial just an ordinary public square at the end of a skyscraper, or is it a beautiful place to visit, when wanting to recall and show respect for the victims of 9/11? In august 2006, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commenced the project September 11 memorial and museum. In 2007 the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation was renamed National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, who collaborated with Paul Walker. The Memorial park is designed as a forest of trees with two square “reflecting pools” in the center where the Twin Towers stood. All the way around the pools, the victims’ names have been engraved on the edges. The Museum is located within the archaeological heart of the World Trade Center site and tells the story of the lives of the victims through multimedia displays, archives, narratives and a collection of monumental and authentic artifacts. Stories from both victims of the 2001 and 1993 attacks are commemorated at the museum. Adam Gopnik is a Canadian American writer born in Philadelphia in August 1956, but lived in Montreal. He is married to Martha Parker and has two kids. Adam writes non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism and has done that since 1986. In...
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...modification of a constitution. An entrenched constitution recognizes the constitution and its process of modification as different from other laws .Key features of a codified constitution, entrenched – The provisions laid out in a codified constitution are entrenched, which means that they are difficult to amend or abolish. Some constitutions contain certain clauses which prevent them being changed at all. A good example would be the German ‘eternity clause’. Others prevent the changing or amending of parts of the constitution during times of conflict, or before a certain time period. An un-entrenched constitution does not recognize the constitutional law as different or supreme and thus constitutions can be modified as easily as statutory laws. The procedure for modifying a constitution is often called amending. Amending an entrenched constitution needs numerous procedures than modification of a statue. Sometimes, this is because the constitution is considered supreme law. Article 2(1) of the Kenyan Constitution of 2010, states that the Constitution is the supreme law of the republic and binds all persons and all state organs at both levels of the government. Regardless of whether constitutional modifications require more complex procedures, all states with an entrenched constitution recognize the difference between constitutional law and ordinary statutory law. Procedures for ratification of constitutional amendments vary across states. In a federal system of government, the...
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...considered a business expense but a sharing of recognized assets among shareholders. Dividends are either paid regularly or can be called out anytime. Consequently, a dividend policy is a set of company rules and guidelines used to decide how much the company will pay out to its shareholders. A dividend policy is first known as a heavy factor in a company’s stock value. However, more scholars are suggesting that corporate dividend policies do not matter and should not matter in a company’s stock value. Arguments against dividend policies start from the fact that investors can create their own dividends on other investment option. A wise investor can look at more stable bonds to earn a return of investment rather than a dividend policy that can fluctuate. Secondly, earning from dividends is taxed higher than capital gains. For these reasons, investors are not lured to relative corporate dividend policies of companies as an accurate value of their stock. Some companies believe that a no-dividend policy is just as sound as companies with a dividend policy. Companies without a dividend policy can use their profit earnings to reinvest and expand the company shares or buy assets. Having a dividend policy foregoes these opportunities. For people who value profit certainty of a company, a sound dividend policy is important. It follows that a high and regular corporate dividend policy means that companies have a benchmark for doing well. Therefore, more dividends can equate to the...
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...Walking is an ordinary task that people do every day. People walk to class, to their jobs, and even for their exercise. These ordinary walks are deemed as powerless because the only person that is putting meaning to that walk is the person that is experiencing that walk. How does someone make a walk powerful to other people? How does someone make a walk that means more than a means of transportation? The walks that have power behind them are the walks that mean something. These walks are to make a stand. These walks are meant to bring people together in order to shout out the message that they truly believe in. These walks make history. Rebecca Solnit describes in her book, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, the effects of these powerful walks...
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...English Essay made of several essays cobbled together from plagiarized sources When analyzing different novels, you must learn to read between the lines and look for the deeper meaning. For instance, the famous saying “The grass is always greener on the other side” can be taken many different ways. If you read the statement literally, it tells you about the color of the grass and that it is on the other side. If you review the statement closely and think about the meaning behind it, you can see that it is relating to the feeling of when people get jealous of other people’s lives. The greener grass symbolizes the other person’s better, richer life. August Wilson’s play Fences provides numerous opportunities for the reader to read between the lines and find the deeper meaning of the themes in the play. I am going to discuss how the themes of the fence and the “sins of the father” carry meaning and are related to the characters Rose, Cory, Lyons and Troy. In Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl Linda Brent is born into slavery. As a slave, then a fugitive slave and a mother, she has many fears. Linda lives each day worrying about her safety and the safety of her family. Starting from a young child, Linda was a slave she dealt with the hardship that comes with having an owner, a mistress, and having to watch her kids go through the same things. As Harriet Jacobs describes in depth in this book, slavery is hard and horrible for both men and woman, but in most cases is a lot...
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...Nelson Mandela Posted on August 17, 2011 by Martin Kalungu-Banda The world is in dire need of great leaders, ones who inspire people not through words but by serving them. The cutting edge in leadership discourse is the old fashioned idea of leadership through service. The whole human race, we could say, desperately needs these servant-leaders who really attend to others and are beacons of hope in our search for a world society where justice, fairness, care for the weaker members of our communities, and love flourish. The call for leaders who genuinely serve their people is obvious in social and political communities. We can see it equally in the economic sphere, in business organisations or corporations. The high turnover of staff in many work places suggests that people are looking for what Lance Secretan, a Canadian guru on leadership, calls ‘soul space’[1] – an environment where they will not simply be cogs in the wheel of production but can live full and happy lives. In my book, Leading Like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela[2], published in March 2006, I have attempted to present through stories the type of leadership that will take our world a higher ground.[3] What is so extraordinary about Mr Mandela’s style and practice of leadership is that it crosses the boundaries of culture, gender, race, religion and age. Madiba (as he is fondly referred to in his home country) has done so in a society that was once more polarized than any other – one the world expected...
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...Tim Burton is an incredible film director that has a unique romantic dark fantasy theme, gothic style, and characters. Tim Burton was born on August 25, 1958 in Burbank California. His parents were Jean Burton, who owned a cat themed gift shop and Bill Burton, who was a minor league baseball player. Growing up he enjoined painting, drawing watching and filming short films. At age 13, he created his oldest known work "The Island of Doctor Agor". After graduating from Burbank high school he enrolled in the California institute of arts, majoring in animation. His career then started when he obtained a job at Disney as an animator. Shortly after, he became tired of this job and decided to form his own film production. The...
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...Stritch Managing Change MGT 545 Scott Braught August 12, 2013 Impact of Change at Starbucks Executive Summary There is something about Starbucks that goes beyond caffeine. Starbucks has used their multi-cultural diversity to turn challenges into opportunities for success. Corporations such as Starbucks use Performance Management Systems (PMS) to monitor progress towards achieving a set of specific objectives and goals. Organizations commonly identify evaluating performance as the most demanding. Leaders are apprehensive discussing and providing feedback on behaviors because the process uses too much time supervising employee’s job tasks. The best way to keep these challenges from weakening a performance management operation is to meet the issues directly. This paper will identify, analyze and assess the impact of organizational change at Starbucks to enhance the customer experience as well as offer some recommendations for continued success. Introduction Starbucks has experienced phenomenal growth since 1992 and has become one of the greatest retail stories in recent history. The company currently occupies all fifty states and forty three countries with over 16,000 stores (Starbucks, 2013). Starbucks just celebrated its 42nd year in existence on March, 8, 2013. Eric Conger is the entrepreneur behind Starbucks who created a model coffee shop with a passion for superior coffee. The company’s goals grew from an ordinary business plan of offering high-grade coffee...
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...lessons can other companies learn from Apple’s strategies over the year? Introduction Since the return of Steve Jobs to Apple Incorporation, the company regains its influence and expands to embrace millions of customers worldwide with its increasing brand value of USD $98.3 billion (Mourdoukoutas, 2013). In global market nowadays, it is rare for other companies to imitate Apple’s influencing brand with high customer loyalty. Most Apple product users call themselves as an Apple fan rather than a customer and worship Apple brand as a religion, which shows a strong bond between customers and Apple (Milian, 2011a). Moreover, 59% iPhone owners admit blind loyalty to the brand that they exclude other brands while making purchasing decisions (Kelly, 2014). Apple’s achievement on brand building has reached a level where most companies can only dream for, but it takes more than ordinary marketing to achieve that. Apple’s success can be summarized into cult branding and product innovation. Cult Branding Unlike the traditional marketing which promotes products to customers, Apple’s cult brand creates its own unique customer ‘community’ to share the ideology for a better lifestyle associated with the brand and products (Schneiders, 2011). In order to attract more people to join Apple’s ‘community’, it frequently shares its company’s belief via movement marketing activities with emotional attachment to build a bond with its target market. Instead of simply telling what the company does, Apple...
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...Positive Leadership Theories LDR/300 Positive Leadership Theories Intro For years studies have been conducted, great minds have met, and countless other activities have been held, all in hopes of finding a viable and reliable positive leadership theory. There are numerous theories and strategies documented. Some of these are very similar to the others, some take a different approach entirely, some can be looked at as being negative at their core, and the ones we will focus on are tend to have a positive structure. Authentic leadership and its application to modern leadership Authentic leadership is an approach to leadership that emphasizes building the leader’s legitimacy through honest relationships with followers which values their input and are built through honest relationships with followers which value their input and are built on an ethical foundation. Generally, authentic leaders are positive people with truthful self-concepts who promote openness. Building trust and generating enthusiastic support from their subordinates, authentic leaders are able to improve individual and team performance. The concept of “authenticity” can trace its history back to ancient Greece, philosophers stressed authenticity as an important state through an emphasis on being in control of one’s own life. They are also self-actualized individuals who are aware of their strengths, their limitations, and their emotions; they also show their real selves to their followers and do not...
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...Abstract This paper discusses Airport security throughout the world and in the U.S. The lack of security in the airports in the U.S. compared to other countries even after 9/11. The resources not being used for security and training; the different security sections that should be made developed for more thorough security checks before any passenger even steps foot onto the airplane. The airport should run their security like it was a military base where everything out of the ordinary is scrutinized with undercover security personnel asking suspicious passengers questions. Airport Security How many times have you, your family member or friend gone through security in a U.S. Airport? Is a metal detector really going to stop a terrorist from hi-jacking a plane? I have been to different Airports in the U.S. and to Hartsfield International Airport too many times. I have noticed one thing in all of these airports in the U.S., lack of security and the business like approach to it. After we all pass through the metal detectors, what other security measures are there, from preventing a person to get on a plane with bad intentions either smuggling something or passing through the metal detectors which, they don’t catch a terrorist with bad intentions. After the initial security metal detector check point, we are all free and on are way to the airplane. If the security guards at the metal detector check point, don’t catch the person with bad intentions the first time, who will? The...
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...Professional Success Instructor: Christopher Mott Professional Values and Ethics Values and ethics are extremely profound attributes, and very significant when instilled within a person of determination. In knowing the desire and need to be successful, the driven nature within can empower energy, magnified by the continued success of one’s desired career path. Although both values and ethics seemingly support one another, the defining factor varies with each individual, as everyone’s core within is different. Professionally speaking, giving proper support and importance, not only in defining values and ethics, yet to also bring to light the derivative of sources, truly gives the overall impact of achieving career success. The choice one makes to practice honest values and quality ethics, allows a structured environment sustaining loyalty, for the overall business arena. In essence, professional values and ethics supports the true core of whom all are professionally and personally, as the way all choose to value themselves in doing what is right, the more often all will show positive reflection within the business world. Values are the personal ways the depths of everyone’s soul speaks to them, often urging one to stand ground and take action, enhancing direction and guidance supporting nourishment and strength of he or she’s total being. (Poyner, 2009) From childhood to adulthood, everything gone through in life has been shaped by our values, woven into our designed...
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...Manson. It is an understatement to say that Manson is a little out of the ordinary. With pungent assertions and eerie esthetics, Manson has created a loyal fan base and a legacy that will last him years to come. Why is Marilyn Manson as popular as he is, and how did he do it? Marilyn Manson uses cacophonous diction, grotesque imagery, guilt by association, and reverse psychology to attract listeners. Accordingly, in order to gain popularity, one must “spread the word” about himself/herself. Companies that want their products consumed will invest in televised commercials. Manson and advertisers from MTV's TRL did the same when promoting Manson's appearance on the show. Manson's persona was represented in the diction of the commercial. Harsh, “in-your-face”, cacophonous diction was used in the commercial with the narration of “Marilyn Manson wants to crash the party, by limo, by tank, by helicopter, who knows...” (“Marilyn Manson TRL Promo”). The uses of the words crash and tank are very harsh-sounding words, yet match Manson's persona. The word choice makes the commercial more attention-grabbing, and may make the listeners wonder who this certain person is, forcing them to want to watch Manson, and invest in his “product”. Fig 1 et 2. Manson's commercial for his appearance on the MTV's TRL (“Marilyn Manson TRL Promo”). Also, the commercial lists several exaggerations that do not sound ordinary in a commercial. The final statement in the commercial is, “After this homecoming...
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