...Mind wondering is a common listening problem that can result in other complications. A wondering mind not only diverts attention form the information that is being given, but it also can infer that the information is not important or relavent to the listener. The speaker can get offended or start creating a rough impression of the reader. Although, listeners can create poor impacts of themselves there is a feasible possibility that as the mind wonders the “listener” could be pseudolistening, faking listening, to show “listening.” Fake istening can cause the speaker to belive listening is occuring without it genually occuring. As a result of fake listening the speaker expects the listener to know what is being said and the listener has show...
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...After reading the passages on weither or not recycling, and composting intitiatives should be adopted, and put into practice around communties in the United States. I believe that communties around the country would not benefit from this intitiave because, it was make the government worry about non violent or drug related crimes. While reading these passages, I had a couple flash backs to when I was in middle school, and in high school. I remember in middle school they taught us a lesson on how much left over food from families was thrown away annualy. The school came up with there own method on how to throw away our school lunches. We would all line up, where we would have four buckets to throw away our lunch in. The first bucket was for left over milk in the cartin so we wouldnt stink up the recycle with moldy milk. The second bucket was compost for food we didn't finish. The third bucket was for plastic, like straw wrappers or sandwhich bags. The last bucket or bag was for all of our cardboard trays which would at the end of the day get tossed into the recycle. My point here is that a great way to reduce or stop the ammount of stuff that is being thrown away that shouldn't, is to educate the younger generation on the effect it causes our enviroment, and economy....
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...Heros of the Holocaust What is a hero? A hero is defined as a brave or noble person, but this definition is not accurate after reading Arnold Geier's book Heroes of the Holocaust. This book deals with the true heroes of one the most repulsive and disgusting times in world history. The compilation of stories in this book are not so much about the survivors who tell the stories, but about the heroes who risked their lives and well being to come to the aid of others so these stories could be told. There are heroes such as Mr. Warszawski who sold his competitor's merchandise so the family could stay alive or Mr. DeJong who searched for days for his missing daughter. There are even the stories of German soldiers, who must not have believed in the atrocities surrounding them, and found ways to feed, clothe, or find better work in a labor camp. And finally there is the story of German SS officer Menke who recalled childhood memories to save a couple and pushed aside an implanted hatred for Jews. Throughout the whole book, the stories would not have been able to be told unless these heroes emerged and because of these heroes, we are reading these stories today. Simple acts of Kindness and four heros: Israel Orzech tells a story of pain, struggle, and simple acts of kindness. Orzech story begins as he is summoned to a "special roll call" for all sick inmates of labor camp Markstaett. During the roll call, he was one of about 50 inmates who were considered...
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...acts as a personalized developmental needs assessment, calling attention to the individual's strengths as well as areas needing improvement According to the LSI profile show my “primary” style is affiliative. My “backup thinking style is power. The Limiting thinking style was picked was approval. Which I do belive henderd me as times. But to go more indepth about the primary style according to the LSI test people that score a high percentile in affliative are individuals who appreciate people and enjoy being in the company of others. In fact, they tend to be most comfortable when among those with whom they have established strong emotional and social ties. These results didn’t surprise me because I come froma very close knit family and I value relationships with anyone that is close to me, that same relationship extends over into all my frieldships. During my undergarde years I pleadge a sosority and the basis of the sorority was all about “Sisterhood” friendships are something that’s need to be cherished because its solid and true true relationship like those of family and frields are hard to come by in lifetime. My “Backup” style is Power which according to the LSI means I can be domineering and like to feel in charge at all times. You tend to feel threatened and helpless when not in absolute...
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...supervision of an adult. The law of the legal drinking age was changed on Dec. 22, 1978 (Markoff, 2012). People believed that changing the law would stop 18- 20 year old from drinking, and reduce highway crashes. In my opinion the law don’t stop the 18 year olds from drinking, and the highway crashes haven’t stopped. The drinking has went underground, or behind closed doors. This makes it more dangerous for college students because they can’t have any drinks out in the open at a bar, or at family event like New Year ’s Eve. Also, the age of 21 don’t stop the DUI’s or the problem of too much drinking. Some may belive that the legal drinking age should not be changed, and other belive that it should be changed back. Becoming adults at the age of eighteen comes with rights, as well as grate responsibilities. An individual is considered mature enough to make decisions and deal with the consequences of the bad ones as well. But still people may say that...
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...I chose both because when i read the text before Malcom X even had gotten locked up he had his whole life to try to learn to read and write but instead he chose until he got into jail to try to do it all because that's all he had left to do with life. Malxom X stated "I went to school far beyond the eight grade. This impression is due entirely to my prison studies." When i read that one little part of the text I new right then and there that Malcom X must have dropped out of school at the eight grade and when he realized that his life way over he tried something that he never got a chance to do before. 4. Discuss the significance of Malcom X's narrative and , byimplication, the significance of learning to read and write. What lessons does his experience teach us about the power of reading and writing? The importance of his narrative is that it is good to learn how to read and write. Malcomx ex says that he is not an very educated man but he is trying to better himself behind bars. He didnt feel sorry but instead he accepted it. The lesson taught is that it is important for adults to know how to read and...
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..."Confess thy truth and thou shall have eternal rest." I belive that is the moral to be taught in this novel of inspirational love, yet a novel of much sorrow. The impossible became possible in The Scarlet Letter, a story set back in the Puritan Times. In this response, I will give my reactions in writing to different aspects of the novel;the characchters, my likes and dislikes, my questions, and my opinion of the harsh Puritain lifestyle. Hester Prynne, the Reverend Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth each suffered guilt in their own way in the novel The Scarlet Letter. In the beginning of the novel, Hester Prynne should have not suffered the way she did on the scaffold alone. She was forced to be intergated by the high-officials of the town, while holding her little Pearl in arms. Making matters worse, the father of the child was in that very group of officals. She was then sentenced to wear the scarlet letter "A", showing her guilt "externally". Unable to take it off, she was forced to show her guilt to the entire settlement. However, the Reverend Dimmesdale suffered "internally", with a scarlet letter of his own engraved in his mind, and on his chest as well. He felt like he betrayed God, and beat himself in a frenzy to prove his wrongdoing. He often questioned wheather his authority was true or not. Roger Chillingworth suffered the least, because he only failed to reveal the secret that he knew, the father of the child who Hester Prynne was forced to live with. This small...
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...The Book That Changed Our Thinking The Godfather by Mario Puzo has been around for over 40 years. Published in 1969, it introduced society to the world of the Italian immigrants in New York City. Everyone has read this book can relate to it since it was produced. In this review, we will look at how “The Godfather” effected our minds as Americans, what effects it had on American politics, and American ethics. The Godfather was published during a rocky time in America’s history. Black power groups were increasing, people were starting to become more liberal with sex and drugs use, and the Vietnam War loomed in the background of every heart. Society was beginning to lose faith in the American government. “The Godfather” simply connected to everyone that read it. The story of an eye for an eye, sex scenes, and revenge running parallel with the slow destruction of the Corleone family captured our hearts. “The Godfather” with his solid family and supreme power on both sides of the law, loomed in the public imagination as a figure ironically sympathetic and even nostalgic. Seldom has a literary character had such a major impact on popular culture.” ("Critical Context" Masterpieces of American Fiction Ed. Steven G. Kellman. eNotes.com, Inc. 2000 eNotes.com, n.d.) The Godfather helped its reader understand what the American Dream was suppose to be and allowed us to understand how tainted it had become. With so much turmoil going on in America during the late 60s and 70s...
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...The story of Plato's “ Allegory of the Cave” The story of the Allegory of the Cave written by the greek ancient greek philosopher Plato[->0] was more or less a theory involving the way human beings percieve things in life. The theory is platos main idea that wisdom or knowledge obtained through the senses like, eyes, smell or sound can not be more than personal opinion and that the only way to obtain true knowledge, people need to obtain it through rational and intellectual reasoning. In this story, the philosopher Plato differentiates between people who make the simple mistake sensory knowledge for the absolute truth and the people who really do see the truth using rational thought. I really believe that the story can be explained in parts 4 parts, the cave, the shadows, the escape and return, and the game . These parts explain the story of humanities perceptions. In Platos main theory, he explains the dark cave represents people or who strongly believe that wisdom comes from what we see , feel ,and hear in the world . The cave shows that believers of this absolute knowledge are trapped in a cave of misleading wealth of information. Now these prisoners have been here since birth, and have never seen day light or the opening of the cave. The prisoners were bound to rocks, their arms and legs were tied and their head is tied still so that they would not be able to look at anything but the stonewall in front of them witch represents a pritive movie screen. This obviously...
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...CASE STUDY ARE you darling enough to be an Essence employee ?we are looking for dynamic energetic team players to join our vibrant young team at Essence .you should . you should find work a continuation of your party life style mixing with the elegant set here at Essence .the Essence experience is a mixture of joie de vivre and audacious panache from our stylish professional waiting and bar staff.if u think you could cut a dash at Essence apply for interview today asking for (Amie@essence .com) .louiefolded open the free newspaper as he took the journey from his home in the East end of London to the chic West end resturent ,which was the Essence chain .He couldn’t quite belive what he was reading and tried to calm himself as he counted all the ways that Amie had contravened not only the law but also the compny’s code of ethics.She had definitely gone too far this time . Amie cycled in from Camden Town with her toy poodle in the basket .Today was going to be a busy day after she ‘d fired the waiters who annoyed her yesterday .Amie loved new people and was looking forwad to meeting the new applicant .None of them from job centre this time as her advert had only gone into commuter’s paper .Also louie was coming in from head office to conduct her first appraisal today too.Why hadn’t she remember to fill in her part of that form ?It was going to be a very busy day ! Louie remembered that he had just signed off hussain ‘s first real developmental training where he was off...
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...ßCultural-Competence Assignment Introduction The purpose of this essay is to firstly understand the arguments between McSweeney and Hofstede about national cultures. The argument starts on the Hoftstede’s published book Culture’s Consequences. Hoftstede’s cultural dimensions theory has got popular and in the same time criticised by other scholars, while McSweeney is one of the scholars who have been critising the cultural dimensions on people from different nations. This essay will firstly summarise the ideas and arguments of both of McSweeney and Hofstede in order to develop the understanding about the reasons why they are conflicting with each other on the cultural dimension theories. Following the summary of the two scholars ideas and argument, this essay will discuss the agreement and disagreement of both scholars. Reflection on this course on national culture will be specified as well in order to show whether my personal understanding about culture has been changed or improved. Summary of the ideas and argument of both McSweeney and Hofstede * McSweeney’s argument McSweeney expresses his doubts about Hoftstede’s model of national cultural differences and their consequences. The criticism that McSweeney has on the theory of Hoftstede’s cultural dimensions based on the description of national cultural differences in the Culture’s Consequences published in 1980 (McSweeney, 2002). First of all, the methodology applied in the research of Hoftstede’s model is critised...
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...ummarizes various patterns that you can use to answer questions about the state of an information in the past. These include questions of the form "what was Martin's address on 1 Jul 1999" and "what did we think Martin's address was on 1 Jul 1999 when we sent him a bill on 12 Aug 1999". 16 February 2005 Photo of Martin Fowler Martin Fowler Contents Dimensions of Time Updating a Temporal Record Other Readings This is part of the Further Enterprise Application Architecture development writing that I was doing in the mid 2000’s. Sadly too many other things have claimed my attention since, so I haven’t had time to work on them further, nor do I see much time in the foreseeable future. As such this material is very much in draft form and I won’t be doing any corrections or updates until I’m able to find time to work on it again. Things change. If we store information about the world this may not be a problem. After all when something changes one of the great values of a computerized record system is that it allows us to easily update a record without resorting to liquid paper or retyping pages of information. Things get interesting, however, when we need to record the history of the changes. Not just do we want to know the state of the world, we want to know the state of the world six months ago. Even worse we may want to know what two months ago we thought the state of the world six months ago was. These questions lead us into a fascinating ground...
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...Critically reflective essay Emma Purnell: 0522771 “Our planning (or worrying about) what’s happening next gives us little opportunity or inclination to examine what has just passed” Wallace (2005) Writing from a student teacher perspective I thought it was very apt to start with the quote above. I believe I, like many student teacher colleagues, spend so much time worrying about what I have to do next, that sometimes I need to have a gentle prod or reminder that I need to be critically reflective of my actions in order to improve my future teaching performance. Sometimes if a session goes wrong I would rather not dwell on it and re-examine why it went wrong as it hurts my pride. However, this would be the easy option and how many times in future situations could I close my eyes and pretend bad experiences hadn’t happened? So regardless of how painful the experience it is vital that we critically reflect on everything we do as teachers, after all we reflect automatically on events in our personal life that we do or don’t want to happen again yet we find it harder to do it in our professional lives. The idea of the need for reflection goes back to the time of Socrates who claimed that the unexamined life was not worth living. More recently however, the idea of reflection in learning was radical in the times of traditional educational institutions. John Dewey as early as the 1930’s wrote and advocated the need for reflection in learning. Dewey, the father of experiential...
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...Academic Tasks Course Code: Course Title: | Course Instructor: | Academic Task No.: Academic Task Title: | Date of Allotment: Date of submission: | Student’s Roll no: Student’s Reg. no: | Evaluation Parameters: (Parameters on which student is to be evaluated- To be mentioned by students as specified at the time of assigning the task by the instructor) | Learning Outcomes: (Student to write briefly about learnings obtained from the academic tasks) Declaration: I declare that this Assignment is my individual work. I have not copied it from any other student‟s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgement is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written for me by any other person. Evaluator’s comments (For Instructor’s use only) General Observations Suggestions for Improvement Best part of assignment Evaluator‟s Signature and Date: Marks Obtained: Max. Marks: ………………………… ABSTRACT: Sir Richard Branson is the Founder and Chairman of Virgin Group – a multi-billion dollar, branded venture . capital organization headquartered in London, United Kingdom He is basically a charismatic and participative leader.this term paper deals with the leadership...
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...com 2) www.dairyqueen.com.ph 3) www.ue.edu.ph 1. Company Information i) Background of Company ii) Industry situation iii) Missions Statement iv) Primary Business Activities a) Why they are important and b) How they are accomplished 2. Organizational Structure of Company i) Diagram 3. Value Chain & Critical Processes i) Chart 4.0 People Management i) Why people want to work here or looking for other opportunities. Task 2 Human behavior and values are not self-generating; they are by-products of culture. TRUE or FALSE Why? Task 3 • Explain how the relationship between an organisation’s structure and culture can impact on the performance of the business. I think many human behaviors are self-generating. If they weren't then there wouldn't be variations in social norms. Many people's values seem to run independant from their stereotypical social norms. There are just as many "Moral" athiest as there are moral religious people in how they treat others. There's also an equal number of immoral or amoral individuals spanning all cultures and races. If values were completely external, then all would conform. The way individuals react to social norms is an intrinsic, therefore, self generating. I believe they are intrinsic to some extent but are mostly by products of culture and their immediate environment...
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