...The song “Hallelujah”, by Leonard Cohen, is a very opaque and dreary song. Cohen was at a low point in his life when he wrote the song. It is a very long and soft-spoken song that was written by Cohen in 1984. Despite the sad time that Cohen was going through when writing the song, it is one of the most popular songs in the world. Many famous singers have performed renditions on this song including: Bono, Jeff Buckley, and Bob Dylan. Many have been inspired by the song’s form and its way to stick in your head. However, people don’t see the biblical stories that the song brings out. The song alludes to prayer and the story of King David. Hallelujah is a word of praise or in other words, “Praise The Lord”, the song is usually used in church...
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...Hughes’ poem, “Democracy, and Leonard Cohen’s poem, “Democracy”, both authors share the common theory that there should be democracy. However, the two stories have completely different perspectives. Langston Hughes wants democracy for African Americans and Leonard Cohen wants democracy for the world. Despite these differences, the two authors use their rhyme scheme, their stanza structure, and their point of view to express their demands. In Leonard Cohen’s poem, “Democracy” Leonard Cohen’s rhyme scheme in the fourth stanza shows that change could happen, but people don’t want it. For example, in the fourth stanza of “Democracy” by Leonard Cohen, “It's coming to America first/The cradle of the best and of the worst/It’s here they got the range/And the machinery for change/And it's here they got the spiritual thirst/It’s here the family's broken/And it's here the lonely say/That the heart has got to open/In a fundamental way/Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.” In this stanza the rhyme scheme is A/A/B/B/C/D/E/D/E/F. Leonard Cohen uses this rhyme scheme so people could understand where he’s coming from better and two, it helps him emphasize on places that don’t have democracy. In his stanza structure, he uses 10 lines (Or at least in this copy) in one stanza. This not only shows that he emphasized on this stanza but it also shows that its related to one another. In the line, “ It’s here they got the range/And the machinery for change.” Leonard Cohen puts this line so he shows his...
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...Organizational Approaches to Change The ability to change and adapt is extremely important for any organization to reach its full potential. Influencing people to change is more dependent on showing them a truth that influences their feelings, rather than shifting their thinking (Kotter & Cohen, 2002, p. 1). If leaders can change the behavior of members of an organization, the successful large-scale change they are seeking will more likely be realized. According to Kotter and Cohen, in order to achieve successful large-stage change, there are first eight stages that must be followed. These steps are: increasing urgency, building the guiding team, getting the vision right, communicate for buy-in, empower action, create short-term wins, don't let up, and making change stick (Kotter & Cohen, 2002, p. 6). While organizational change does not necessary require each of these steps to occur, or in the exact specified order, they provide a basic pattern for leaders to use to influence behavior and create change (Kotter & Cohen, 2002, p.7). An alternative to the eight steps suggested by Kotter and Cohen is the Model of Organizational Change and Development. This model operates in this way: forces for change affect performance outcomes, which are the focus of diagnosis of the problem, which leads to the selection of appropriate methods, as constrained by impediments and limiting conditions, followed by implementation of the method, which is the provision for program evaluation...
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...Yen Nguyen ISM 6026 The New Digital Age – Reshape the Future of People, Nation and business book review “The New Digital Age” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen gives us their vision of how technology will impact and reshape our lives in the future; a world of fully connectivity where every individual will be a part of the whole virtual world through the critical development of technology. Schmidt and Cohen’s argument is that the rapid improvement of computer technology with internet access will significantly connect and transfer every aspect of life from the physical world to the new virtual one, whether it is for the better, for the worse, or just different. The book also addresses the way humans interact with, apply, and explore technology in life and the guidance for humans to adapt the changes in the new technological revolution. The two authors start by introducing a variety of new technologies which are created and used to increase our efficiency such as smart devices, “additive manufacturing” _ 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, voice and gesture recognition, and robotics. These new technologies provide new opportunities for not only business but also many other fields including: education, healthcare, and entertainment. They indicate that the global trend will be supported strongly as connectivity spreads become power in the future, and an effective working environment will be created when the new technology’s invention removes language and geographical...
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...WEEK ONE- ASSSIGNMENT ( EBM 520) CHAPTER ONE 1-23 Five human resources problems Carter cleaning company will have to grapple with. 1.) No plan for training of staff that will match the dream of bringing in modern management concept and techniques. Unskilled staff that lacks retraining will no doubt make mess of whatever modern management technique introduced in the future. 2.) While having good plan to acquire modern management concept and technique, no mention was made of plans to improve working condition for staff such as health insurance and housing scheme. This may generate dissatisfaction in the minds of the staff that are expected to braze up to the new techniques in the face of poor working condition. Some staff may eventually resign. 3.) The graduation from one outfit to six is an indication of growth and success in business. A feat that may have resulted from dedicated and hardworking staff with good performances as ascertain by Carter. While increasing the number of stores nothing was done to increase the staff wages and benefits. Some staff may get offended with such development and resign in the future. 4.) Employing Jennifer, a fresh graduate with little or no experience as a consultant and trouble shooter could smell doom in the future. Experience matters a lot; you cannot give what you don’t have. 5.) Finally, placing Jennifer above older staff with over a decade experience could engender strife and rebellion, none of these...
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...SCM880TT-International Purchasing and Supply Management Analysis of Southeastern University case study This case involves the purchase of a folding machine by the purchasing department of Southeastern University. The school’s laid down procedures, one of which is buying from an approved supplier amongst other things was not followed and now Heather, the buyer has a meeting with Glen her boss to explain ways to avoid problems of this kind in the future. The appropriate course of action would be for Heather to tell Glen, that she would meet with the staff involved with purchasing in general to remind them of and sensitize them to the importance of adhering to the university’s purchasing practices at all times so the integrity of the centralized purchasing system in place is not jeopardized or undermined. It also helps to save costs. Besides, transparency is also of utmost importance because it is a public institution that is funded by taxpayers. Also the processes involved with future purchases should be audited and vetted by a senior member of staff before the order is paced. In regards to the folding machine already bought, the best thing would be to go back to the supplier and negotiate a better deal comparable to the quotes she received from other suppliers. If that doesn’t work, a cancellation penalty might be another option so long as the final costs do not exceed the other quotes. So a cost-benefit analysis of the situation would be necessary. They may return...
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...The article I will be summarizing caught my eye because it explains which skills sets that will be needed for future jobs. This article is basing itself looking forward to the year 2020 and gives advice on which skill sets people should be preparing themselves for in the next 8 years. This article was written by a lady names Vickie Jimenez. She goes into detail about the importance of why having one or more of these skill sets are going to be so important in 2020. Personally I agree with her, because the world we live in now is not the world we were born into. Technology has grown so much in the past 20-30 years, which makes you think about how much more it is going to grow in the next decade. For example, Ms. Jimenez believes these skill sets are the most important out of any careers in the world today. The seven skill sets she talks about are; leaderships and management roles, social technologists/specialist, consulting, writing and editing, virtual assisting, IT (information technologists), and medical professionals. Jimenez explains that this world is turning itself into a globalized computer technology based universe. In more detail, this means technology is literally taking workforce jobs away from us because any industry anywhere is turning itself into computer based ran machines. With more technology comes less jobs. Also, the out sourcing for jobs now has become normal for the United States of America and many other countries. This is not a good thing for our work...
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...Crime and Society – Moral Panics Lecture 07.12.15 Moral panics lecture will cover; the concept of moral panics, some possible reasons behind moral panics, the politics of a moral panic and also look into some moral panics case studies. Cohen (1972) studied ‘Folk Devils and Moral Panics’ and this was known to be the first systematic study of moral panics within Britain. He studied the social disturbance of the mods and rockers in Britain, during Easter Bank Holiday, in Clacton, the Summer of 1964. Groups of working class youths began arriving in Clacton, and this was a traditional holiday meeting place for youths form the East End of London. Facilities for young people were limited at the time, and some café owners, despite the already poor conditions, refused groups of youth’s entry to their establishment. There were minor scuffles, which eventually lead to massive brawls. The media allowed the story to receive front page news throughout the national press. They blew the story way out of proportion. According to Cohen most youths didn’t actually own a motorbike or scooter and had actually got there via train. Rivalry was mainly about regional identity, and argues that the amount of actual serious vandalism and violence, was actually on a small scale. Shortly after events, local journalists admitted the events had actually been over reported. Media outrage had set in motion a chain of responses, which initiated a wider level of public concern. This lead to the police...
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...complex and produces a considerable amount of deliberation. In the following pages we hope to give you a synopsis of Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, as well as the company they created, while attempting to carefully construct answers to the questions posed on specific issues raised by Mr. Brasel in the power point slides he provided to the class. The history of Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield can be dated back to when the men first met in the seventh grade. Both Cohen and Greenfield grew up in Merrick, Long Island and quickly became friends during Junior high school. After high school, Jerry finished college. His goal was to attend medical school to become a doctor, but he could not get in. (benjerry.com). On the other hand, Ben applied and was accepted to several colleges, but always dropped out of them. The beginnings for the development of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade were launched in 1977 from the front porch of Jerry’s parent’s house. Neither Ben nor Jerry knew anything about running or opening a business, but both men knew about food and shared the great passion of eating. They pondered on what type of business they would start. The men came across an AD in the local newspaper for an ice-cream-making course offered through a local college. There was a $5 fee associated with the course. Due to the extreme poverty in which Cohen and Greenfield were brought up in, they decided to split the fee and took the course on ice-cream-making from Penn State...
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...Justin Sunwoong Choi BUSM 431 Brother Huff 10/18/2012 Ben & Jerry’s - Japan 1. Overview of the case * Perry Odak had meeting with Masahiko Iida who is the president of Seven-Eleven Japan to resolve conundrum of whether to introduce Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to the Japan market and, if so, how. Ben & Jerry’s was established by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who were school mates before, when they were in mid 20s. They were growing between 1982 and 1990 but they had suffered with their net income from 1993 to 1994 when their sales exceeded $150 million. Haagen-Dazs was the only major competitor in the super-premium ice cream market where Ben & Jerry’s was in. Ben & Jerry’s was very slow with embracing foreign market. The company only had foreign sales of $6 million, with total sales of $174 million. In the super-premium ice cream sales, Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s were still the leading brands, but Haagen-Dazs was above Ben & Jerry’s. Now Ben & Jerry’s is trying to focus on market opportunities in Japan where Haagen-Dazs already had managed to capture nearly half the super-premium market in. Ben & Jerry’s is facing some difficulties with requests or changing their strategies by getting into the market in Japan. 2. Identification and Analysis of the Key Issues of the Case. * The reason for the decision of Ben & Jerry’s getting into Japan’s market is because Japan is the second biggest ice cream market with a big...
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...essence of what is termed 'propaganda' does not exist in such a force today, it is nevertheless evident that what was quoted from The Daily Star is tantamount to propaganda. Throughout history, the mass media industry has been utilised as a tool to appeal to the public at large, particularly in the field of politics, where people in a position of power can tempt society into believing what they want them to believe. As Eldridge describes "The media, wittingly or unwittingly, reproduce the definitions of the powerful." [Eldridge 1997: 65] This document will examine not only the essence and origin of the term 'moral panic' but the very important nature of the media's involvement in the whole process of creating a 'moral panic'. It was Stanley Cohen, in his work, Folk Devils and Moral Panics. (1987) who first coined the term 'moral panics'. He defined the concept as a sporadic episode which, as it occurs, subjects society to bouts of moral panic, or in other terms, worry about the values and principles which society upholds which may be in jeopardy. He describes its characteristics as "a condition, episode, person or group of...
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...Tesco plc. * Tesco plc. Is a multinational business, it was found in 1919 and was found by Jack Cohen. * Tesco plc. Is the third largest retailer business in the whole world measured by revenues and the second largest business measured in profits? * Tesco Plc. has headquarters located in Cheshunt, Broxbourne and in Hertfordshire. * Tesco has been improving their revenue hugely every year which shows that they are very successful. * The chairman of Tesco Plc. is currently Sir Richard Broadbent; he has been doing a great job coping the business to survive in the market. * Tesco Plc. has two executive directors and eight non-executive directors. * Tesco is owned mainly by the shareholders because Tesco is a public limited company. For every function in Tesco, has a team which is controlled by a financial director. Its controlled by the financial director so then the business can make much profit as well as it helps tout because a financial directors mainly are the ones which help out to make profit. Tesco has many functions to keep the business on the market. Tesco has a product group which only concentrates on making the products nothing else will be done by them. Tesco care a lot about their consumer type, they are very interested in what the customers want. They call their method “Customer Lifestyles”. The customer lifestyle is “you are what you buy”, it’s a way of them offering on range of things needed. Tesco thinks that this is the best...
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...Range Type of competition Part 2 – International Presence of Tesco’s and H&M I will be carrying out a widespread research about Tesco’s and H&M. I will be evaluating and making a general overview of Tesco’s firstly. Tesco’s GENERAL OVERVIEW Tesco’s was founded in 1919 in a small borough called Hackney in London. The founder of this business was a man named Jack Cohen, he was originally Jewish but was a Polish immigrant. Jack Cohen grew up in the area Whitechapel. He was educated at the London County Council elementary school on Rutland Street but left education behind him at the age of 14 and began working as an apprentice tailor to his father. Jack Cohen first began selling groceries in a stall in East London. Jack Cohen left the Royal Flying corps and was paid his demob money which he then used to purchase his first day’s stock. The first product which started Tesco’s branding was ‘Tesco’s Tea’. 10 years later in 1929 Jack Cohen opened a store in Burnt Oak in North London. This store sold mainly dry goods but the main branded product was Tesco’s Tea. In 1934 Jack Cohen bought land at Angel Road, Edmonton which...
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...rP os t 9-306-037 REV: JANUARY 18, 2007 JAMES AUSTIN JAMES QUINN Ben & Jerry’s: Preserving Mission and Brand within Unilever op yo In December 2004, Ben & Jerry’s head of Social Mission, Yola Carlough, sat in her office in South Burlington, Vermont, talking with the company’s “social auditor,” an external consultant hired to generate an independent perspective on the company’s performance. Together, the two were compiling data for a forthcoming report, Social and Environmental Assessment 2004, in which Ben & Jerry’s social and environmental performance would be assessed in a comprehensive, candid fashion. The auditor had been conducting the report annually since 1996, each year evaluating the extent to which the company lived up to its ambitious three-part mission of “linked prosperity” under which its product, economic performance, and social contribution were viewed as “interrelated.” tC Carlough took a moment to reflect on the dramatic change that had swept over the ice-cream company since she became its head of social mission in 2001. Since then the company had transitioned from a self-described quirky, independent-minded maker of premium ice cream, to a division within a large multinational corporation. When Ben & Jerry’s was acquired by Unilever in September 2000, many familiar with the company’s unique brand and mission were concerned with how the company might change under the direction of a large parent company. Many employees, ...
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...180 THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW E S S A Y VIRGINIA WOOLF IN IRELAND: A SHORT VOYAGE OUT by Kathryn Laing o, it wouldnt do living in Ireland, in spite of the rocks & the desolate bays. It would lower the pulse of the heart: & all one’s mind wd. run out in talk” (Diary 4: 216)–so Woolf declared in her diary during her one and only journey around Ireland in May 1934. For her descriptions of the landscape and the people she met (mainly the Anglo-Irish gentry) are as ambivalent as her now infamous reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. But Woolf’s response to Ireland, and more particularly to Irish writing is only part of the story. As a contemporary, how was Woolf read in Ireland, if she was read at all, and what, if any, impact has she had on Irish writing? For the contemplation of “Virginia Woolf in Ireland,” both as a traveler and a reader of Irish culture, politics and literature, and as someone to be read through her various publications, provokes a proliferation of research possibilities about both writer and country. In this essay I wish to sketch out a preliminary map of these possibilities, showing some of the potentially complex and intriguing routes that require further exploration, in relation to Woolf studies, in particular the European Reception of Woolf, and in relation to Ireland and its own literary history. So the paper is divided into three sections: briefly, Virginia Woolf literally in Ireland, reading Virginia Woolf in Ireland from the 1920s...
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