...Madam C.J. Walker's Abilities Gen200 December 9, 2010 Madam C.J. Walker's Abilities “While America has produced hundreds of millionaires, few ex-washerwomen are numbered among their ranks” (Inventors Assistance League, 1999-2005). Madam C. J. Walker, an African American, formerly known as Sarah Breedlove, went through many hardships but had the abilities to turn her adversity into prosperity. She went from tending cotton fields to a washerwoman, eventually marrying to escape the abuse of her brother-in-law. She gave birth to a daughter and three years later husband passed away. Madam C.J. Walker decided that she wanted her daughter to have a better life than her own. She had to find the ability to start this journey, to plan, grow and sustain her accomplishments and finally the ability to give back and help others. Many Americans have the dream to start their own company and become successful, but most have the inability to start. Madam C.J. Walker was able to start; she moved her daughter to Denver and worked as a cook while she saved her money to start her business. She discovered the ingredients to put on her scalp to make her hair grow. Many African American people back in her time had poor hygiene and would lose his or her hair. Madam C.J. Walker’s treatment worked wonders on her own scalp and on her friends. She began her own company, selling her Wonderful...
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...ENGLISH LITERATURE The Pride cause of Prejudice in “The Way of The World” Stories by William Congreve by: Nisa Primadita (12130032) Lecturers: Titik Minarti, SE, SS, M.Hum DARMA PERSADA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LITERATURE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT JAKARTA 2014 CONTENTS 1. Contents 2 2. Background 3 3. Chapter I: Introduction 4 a. Summary 4 b. Theory 4 1. Pride 4 2. Prejudice 5 4. Chapter II: Analysis 6 a. Pride 6 b. Prejudice 10 c. Conclusion 18 5. Bibliography 19 BACKGROUND William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet. Congreve was born in Bardsey, West Yorkshire, England (near Leeds). William Congreve wrote some of the most popular English plays of the Restoration period of the late 17th century. By the age of thirty, he had written four comedies, including Love for Love (premiered 30 April 1695) and The Way of the World (1700), and one tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697). Unfortunately, his career ended almost as soon as it began. After writing five plays from his first in 1693 until 1700, he produced no more as public tastes turned against the sort of high-brow sexual comedy of manners in which he specialized. He reportedly was particularly stung by a critique written by Jeremy Collier to the point that he wrote a long reply, “Amendments of Mr. Collier’s False and Imperfect Citations.” A member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, Congreve's career shifted to the political sector, where he held various...
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...SCRIPT OF THE FOURTH BOARD MEETING <!--[if !supportLists]-->1) <!--[endif]-->CHAIPERSON ADRESS:- Chairperson : I am glad to welcome all board members to the fourth meeting of the Venus Corporation. Thank you, thank you for being present in this meeting. Can we call this meeting to order? All : Yes <!--[if !supportLists]-->2) <!--[endif]-->APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE:- Chairperson : Are there any apologies for absence for today’s meeting? Secretary : Yes, MrsChairerson, Bella is on medical leave being admitted to the hospital since yesterday because of contraction. While, Shahrul Khan is on business trip for the joint venture meeting with the company in Korea. <!--[if !supportLists]-->3) <!--[endif]-->MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING:- Chairperson : Thank You, can we proceed to the next item, regarding of the minutes from the previous meeting? All : Yes Chairperson : Are there any amendment? Am : Yes, Mrs Chairperson. There is correction to item number 7. This item number 7, the amount allocated for show room gallery was RM45700, not RM45400. Secretary : Thank You Mrs Am, I’ll make the necessary correction to amount. Chairperson : Are there any other amendments? As : Yes, based on the previous...
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...Matthew Wilson was just an average kid at the age of 13. He had always been on the A/B honor roll, he listened to his parents, and he was brave for a 7th grader. He was quiet and didn't have many friends. He had a loving mother, a father who was, at the time, in the military, and a dog named Buddie, who was pretty much his only friend. Matthew lived in Seattle, Washington, where he went to Inman Elementary School. He was often un-noticed at school because he didn’t like to talk, but he preferred to be unbothered by people. His teachers didn't have anything against Matthew, all of them except for Mrs. Payton, his science teacher. Matt never understood why she didn't like him, but he disregarded it with hope that she'll change her mind about him. The morning Matthew's mother had declared that they were moving, he was upset about it. He had lived in the same house his entire life. Eventually, he settled down and started packing. A week later, they were fully un-loaded at their new home. It was a nice house for the most part, but there was something about the house that Matthew found odd. Perhaps the 2 foot tall door in the basement that led to the backyard. Buddie always barked at it around 10:00 pm. Also, it could've been the ring that was outside of the door. The ring had a shank that was the size of Matthew's pinky finger. Connected to the shank of the ring was a huge jewel, that looked like a diamond and an opal morphed together. Matt had no idea where it came from, but knew...
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..."Spoon-fed babies more likely to be overweight," reports The Independent. The study the news comes from found an association between feeding techniques and weight gain, although many other factors may also be involved. The study looked at whether the way mothers introduced solid foods to their babies (weaning) was linked to the child's weight and their "eating style" as a toddler. Researchers looked at two methods of weaning: "traditional" spoon-feeding and what is termed baby-led weaning (BLW), where babies pick up food and feed themselves. The study found that the BLW babies were less likely to be overweight when assessed between the ages of 18 and 24 months. However, babies in both groups were predominantly of a normal weight. The researchers speculate that the BLW approach may lead to better appetite control in later life, but this speculation remains entirely hypothetical. However, they did find a bigger "satiety response" in the BLW group, which is the child's ability to regulate what they eat when they feel full. The study does not show that spoon-feeding causes obesity. It has several limitations, including the fact that it is based on mothers self-reporting, which might affect its reliability. A longer follow-up period would also be useful, as it is currently unclear whether toddlers who were overweight would stay that way in the future. Still, parental approaches to feeding are an important area of research. Experts agree that a relaxed attitude to feeding and...
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...11/27/2015 2014-19-E-858 | Oluwole Adeoti | WELL DONE MADAM | NEGOTIATION TERM PAPER | WELL DONE MADAM | NEGOTIATION TERM PAPER | TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Intro Strategy and Tactics employed by Mrs. B ………………………………… 3 Negotiation Strategy …………………………………………………………….. 5 Types of Negotiation Strategy …………………………………………………… 5 Negotiation Tactics …………………………………………………………….. 5 Types of Negotiation tactics …………………………………………………… 6 Conclusion Reference Introduction Negotiation is a means through which differences are being settled. This usually involves communication between two or more people, parties who intend to reach a mutual beneficial outcome, have points of difference to resolve, trying to gain advantage for an individual or a group or get an outcome that will satisfy various interest. Through negotiation, compromise or agreement is been reached while avoiding argument and dispute and it is aimed to achieve most favorable result for the position that that the negotiator stands for. The case well done Madam is centered on negotiation between the protagonists Mrs B and the Airport police, how she used her negotiation skill to secure the release of her driver and the company car without been booked and paying the appropriately charges. Monday, Mrs B driver had wrongfully parked at the Airport entrance against his boss wish and was arrested for illegal parking by the Airport police. Mrs B noticing this from distance used negotiation process and tactical...
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...Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary tells the story of a woman’s quest to make her life into a novel. Emma Bovary attempts again and again to escape the ordinariness of her life by reading novels, daydreaming, moving from town to town, having affairs, and buying luxurious items. One of the most penetrating debates in this novel is whether Flaubert takes on a romantic and realistic view. Is he a realist, naturalist, traditionalist, a romantic, or neither of these in this novel? According to B. F. Bart, Flaubert “was deeply irritated by those who set up little schools of the Beautiful -- romantic, realistic, or classical for that matter: there was for him only one Beautiful, with varying aspects...” (206) Although, Henry James has no doubt that Flaubert combines his techniques and his own style in order to transform his novel into a work that clearly exhibits romanticism and a realistic view, despite Bart’s arguments. Through the characters actions, especially of Emma Bovary’s, and of imagery the novel shows how Flaubert is a romantic realist. Flaubert gives Emma, his central character, an essence of helpless romanticism so that it would express the truth throughout the novel. It is Emma’s early education, described for an entire chapter by Flaubert, that awakens in her a struggle against what she perceives as confinement. Her education at the convent is the most significant development in the novel between confinement and escape. Vince Brombert explains “that the convent is...
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...Wesleyan University WesScholar Division I Faculty Publications Arts and Humanities 1-1-1995 Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Polemic with Madame Bovary Priscilla Meyer Wesleyan University, pmeyer@wesleyan.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/div1facpubs Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Priscilla Meyer. "Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Polemic with Madame Bovary" Russian Review 54.2 (1995): 243-259. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts and Humanities at WesScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Division I Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of WesScholar. For more information, please contact dschnaidt@wesleyan.edu, ljohnson@wesleyan.edu. Karenina: Anna Tolstoy's Polemic Madame Bovary PRISCILLA MEYER with id Tolstoy intend a dialogue with Flaubert's Madame Bovary when he wrote D Anna Karenina? Boris Eikhenbaum agrees with the French critics who found traces of Tolstoy's study of French literature in Anna Karenina, though he emphasizes the complexity of Tolstoy's struggle with the tradition of the "love" novel.' George Steiner long ago concluded that "all that can be said is that Anna Karenina was written in some awareness of its predecessor."2 But the evidence of that awareness is so abundant and suggestive that it is worth examining the possibility of a more detailed dialectic than Eikhenbaum and Steiner suppose.3 Tolstoy arrived in Paris on 21 February 1857. Less than...
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...Case Study Analysis: Part A “Successful negotiation is an art, not a science. The three most important concerns and elements in any negotiation are the relationship, the risk and the value. These concerns are the real decision criteria that underlie any business transaction” (Di Frances, 2005, para. 2). Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation (CMI) was acquired by Northwest Equipment Corporation in 1978 and was a wholly owned subsidiary (Lewicki, Saunders, & Barry, 2005). Northwest Equipment Corporation acquired CMI when the parent company went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company was developed to work with residential mortgage lenders in selling mortgage guaranty insurance policies throughout the United States. The following paper will briefly describe the case at hand, what role social context will play in the negotiation process, and how the social relationship that Burr, Lehman, and Kupchak will affect the negotiation. The paper will end by describing the tangible and intangible benefits, cost, and risks associated with negotiating Corporate Transfer Services (CTS). Analyzing the case of Capital Mortgage Corporation will allow a reader to define how social relationships affect negotiations, and define the benefits, costs, and risks of the negotiation process. Case Summary CMI has an interest in broadening its financial services to strengthen the company. CMI primary goal is to be the leader in the financial services industry. CMI will have to stand against the...
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...Taylor Hammons T. Akin English 2110-101 19 February 2014 Madam Knight Mrs. Sarah Kemble Knight was born on 1666 to Thomas and Elizabeth Kemble in Boston. Sarah married a man significantly more mature in age than she, who was a sea captain as well as a London agent for an American company. Knight was considered stubborn and mildly arrogant, these conceptions of her were caused by her joy in managing peoples affairs as well as being rather ambitious for a woman of her faith but mainly her time period. With her father having passed away and her husband being abroad, she decided to run a boarding house and teach school. Benjamin Franklin as well as the Mather children were said to have attended Mrs. Knight’s school while she taught penmanship. Another of her achievements, training herself in the law, helped her be more knowledgable when it came to copying court documents and settling peoples affairs and estates. Sometime during 1706 Knight becomes a widow and decides eight years later that she will move to New London with her daughter. The last fourteen years of her life were spent running an Inn and investing in property. There is no doubt that Mrs. Knight was a highly educated woman with many goals and practically fearless. The Private Journal of Mrs. Sarah Kemble Knight was never meant to be read, instead it was meant to be personal and a way for her to capture all the events she experienced while on her travels. Knight’s journal was not published until the nineteenth...
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...Summary of Madam CJ Walker Born into poverty in the year of 1867, orphaned at the age of seven, Madam CJ Walker worked in the state of Mississippi on the cotton fields. At the age of fourteen, she married, and had a child. Working as a laundry women, Madam CJ Walker was able to provide her only daughter, born in 1885, with an education. Madam CJ Walker lost some hair due to her scalp ailment in the year of 1890, then decided to take a look at different products made by Annie Malone. Madam CJ Walker began to work for Annie Malone in the year of 1905, and relocated to the state of Denver, where she married Charles Joseph Walker. While living in Denver, she sold her own products called “Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower”, and had her own business....
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...Madam C. J Walker was the first African American woman to become a Millionaire due to products she invented. Madam Walker was originally born as Sarah breedlover, a child of recently emancipated African Americans during the 1860’s. Sarah parents were poor and worked as sharecroppers, which Sarah herself participated in when she was of age. However; when she turned six, both of her parents died leaving her to be taken in by her older sister, Louvenia, who lived in Mississippi. When Ms. Breedlover turned 14 she married Moses Jeff McWilliams, who they then had a daughter named A’Lelia Walker, who would become one of the most influential painters during the Harlem Renaissance, which was a time period in Harlem that ideals and artistic influences changed the culture of then Modern African-Americans....
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...Madam C. J. Walker Madam C. J. Walker (birth name, Sarah Breedlove), was born two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on December 23, 1867. She was the only child of the six children of Owen and Minerva Breedlove, Sr. to be born into freedom. Both of Madam Walker’s parents had died by the time she was only seven years old. She Then went to live with her older sister, Louvenia. In order to survive and make money, she worked in the cotton fields with her sister. When she was fourteen, she married a man named Moses McWilliams. After three years Of that union, she birthed a daughter. They named her Lelia. Sadly, at the age of twenty, her husband died. Madam Walker was then left a single parent of her young daughter. To make ends meet, she took in work by doing laundry and cleaning houses for other people....
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...Madam C.J. Walker was born on December 23, 1867 on a cotton plantation near Delta, Louisiana. Before she inherited the name that would be well known along with her business, Walker was born Sarah Breedlove to Minerva and Owen Breedlove who were recently freed sharecroppers. In 1874, her mother passed away and her father passed the following year making Sarah an orphan age seven; Sarah went to live with her sister, Louvenia, and brother-in-law, but in 1877, the three moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi where she picked cotton and was most likely employed doing housework. Eventually, when Breedlove was 14, she married a man named a Moses to escape from her oppressive working environment and the frequent mistreatment from her brother-in-law. When Sarah was 18, she gave birth to her daughter, A’Leila, but two years later, her husband, Moses, died. Afterwards, Sarah and her daughter moved to St. Louis where her brothers had established...
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...‘The Necklace’, written by Guy de Maupassant in the mid-1800s, is a short story depicting the pitiful situation of a poor, young French girl. Maupassant plays on the growing issues of vanity within society, to coerce the reader into feeling sadness for the main character; Madame Loisel. Maupassant’s over exaggerated writing is quick to reflect the flaws of humanity and, combined with the subtle irony of the text, he communicates the piece’s main theme: lies only lead to hardships. Much of Maupassant’s story is conversation, echoing the style of traditional storytelling. He acts as an impartial observer, stating the facts as they are and leaving the reader to draw any conclusions regarding the characters’ personality and morality. For example, the fact that the first six paragraphs all start with the third tense pronoun ‘she’, indicates that the narrator is objective towards the events of the story, even though the writer’s choice of vocabulary holds a cynical undertone, as does the speech. Mathilde often say things such as ‘What earthly use is that to me’ in a tone that is described as irritable, to contrast with her lighter tone, and playful alliteration that explore her dreams of wealth. Phrases like ‘spectacle’, ‘oriental tapestries’, ‘pretty little parlours’ and ‘bronze candelabras’ are strong indicators of her love for fortune, something that is a common character trait nowadays. This also indicates a split in her personality; to the world she appears to be cold, hard...
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