...In a Grove Ryunosuke Akutagawa The Testimony of a Woodcutter, Questioned by a High Police Commissioner 1 Yes, sir. Certainly, it was I who found the body. This morning, as usual, I went to cut my daily quota of cedars, when I found the body in a grove in a hollow in the mountains. The exact location? About 150 meters off the Yamashina stage road. It's an out-of-the-way grove of bamboo and cedars. 2 The body was lying flat on its back dressed in a bluish silk kimono and a wrinkled headdress of the Kyoto style. A single sword-stroke had pierced the breast. The fallen bamboo-blades around it were stained with bloody blossoms. No, the blood was no longer running. The wound had dried up, I believe. And also, a gad-fly was stuck fast there, hardly noticing my footsteps. 3 You ask me if I saw a sword or any such thing? 4 No, nothing, sir. I found only a rope at the root of a cedar near by. And . . . well, in addition to a rope, I found a comb. That was all. Apparently he must have made a battle of it before he was murdered, because the grass and fallen bamboo-blades had been trampled down all around. 5 "A horse was near by?" 6 No, sir. It's hard enough for a man to enter, let alone a horse. The Testimony of a Traveling Buddhist Priest, Questioned by a High Police Commissioner 7 The time? Certainly, it was about noon yesterday, sir. The unfortunate man was on the road from Sekiyama to Yamashina. He was walking...
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...Grove Erin Brooks Worley Erin Brooks Worley writes Grove in 2006. It takes place in Florida in a town called Frostproof. We are hearing about a man and his girlfriend that visits his parents’ in Florida. His parents don’t have a house so they live in a trailer near the lake. The next day he borrows his father’s bike and has an accident. He has just left his wife because she couldn’t have kids and then he has got a new girlfriend. But it’s like a mysterious because he wants his girlfriend to be with him as a comfort and then again he won’t her not to touch him. When we hear the mother’s attitude to the girlfriend it isn’t quite good. She doesn’t like his new girlfriend and want her to say that she isn’t feeling well and that they need to leave earlier. The short story tells us about relationship, emotion, respect and drinking because it’s the relationship to everyone in the trailer we are hearing about but mostly the man and his girlfriend and their emotions that are stock. They have some big problems for example that she is drinking and he actually doesn’t care. He only says that she isn’t aloud to drink in his parents’ home. We know that the girlfriend has a big problem when we hear that she turn on the bathroom light and open the shower door and drink whiskey from her shampoo bottle. When people have to hide something we know that they have problems – she just can’t take a whiskey bottle, she has to hide it in a shampoo bottle. The man want to have kids but his...
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...The only thing we can be sure about in the Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge, by John Taylor and Howling Wolf is that they “contain the same overt content-that is the peace treaty signing”. (Sayre) How can both artists be so far apart in their renderings and what influences affected their works? Was it the time between the two artworks, cultural differences, or form? John Taylor’s illustration for Leslie’s Illustrated Gazette is more naturalistic than representational because he was focusing on what he saw in the grove at the treaty signing but ethnocentric beliefs may have caused him to make the Native-Americans look hostile in their facial expressions, with their bow and arrows at hand. He also portrays them as non-descript so you can’t tell which tribe they represent. The tipis in the back are also no-descript. The Anglo-Americans are portrayed as benevolent peace makers and I can’t find a gun anywhere. There are no women in Taylor’s illustration even though we know women where present. At that time, in Anglo-American culture, women were left at home to take care of the children and household. They were not involved in matters of importance and John Taylor may have felt to put women in the illustration could take away from the importance of the Treaty Signing of medicine Creek. John Taylor’s illustration appeared soon after the Treaty of Medicine Creek was signed while Howling Wolf’s artwork “was done nearly a decade later, after he was taken east and imprisoned at...
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...LITTLE BLACK BOY My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh my soul is white! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, And, sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissed me, And, pointed to the east, began to say: ‘‘Look on the rising sun: there God does live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away, And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. ‘‘And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. ‘‘For when our souls have learn’d the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall hear His voice, Saying, ’Come out from the grove, my love and care And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice’,’’ Thus did my mother say, and kissed me; And thus I say to little English boy. When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of God like lambs we joy I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear To lean in joy upon our Father’s knee; And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER A little black thing in the snow, Crying ‘‘weep! weep!’’ in notes of woe! ‘‘Where are thy father and mother? Say!’’— ‘‘They are both gone up to the church to pray. ‘‘Because I was happy upon the heath, And smiled among the winter’s snow, They clothed...
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...Maple Grove is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 61,567 at the 2010 census.[5] Maple Grove serves as the retail, cultural and medical center of the northwest region of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. One of the Twin Cities' largest shopping centers, The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes, is located in Maple Grove. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Geography 3 Economy 4 Education 5 Government and politics 6 Demographics 6.1 2010 census 6.2 2000 census 7 Notable people 8 References 9 External links History[edit] Winnebago were the only inhabitants in the area of Maple Grove until 1851 when Louis Gervais arrived and settled. Four years later, in 1855, city growth included a church, town hall and many homes....
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...Meanwhile, Paul gets to school, but only to find that a bunch of kids are absent. He tells Henry D they're home "fighting the freeze". Henry D explains that families who grow oranges or vegetables need their kids to stay and help protect the crops when it gets this cold. They start bonfires in their groves, or do whatever else they can to create...
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...processes, and organizations. It can be taught or learned in many ways across large and small entities alike. The value of leadership, however, cannot be reduced to a specific dollar amount though it is, and always will be, directly tied to an organization’s financial successes and failures. This activity provides insight into the mind of two iconic leadership figures, Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell, Inc., and Andy Grove, cofounder and former CEO of Intel, Inc. Michael Dell is considered a modern maverick of leadership. From the inception of his company he focused on providing his customers’ products based on their specific needs and requirements at the lowest price possible. He was not a big fan of filling shelves for retail businesses based on anticipated or surveyed customer buying trends. This allowed Dell to provide a higher level of satisfaction for every customer experience. And, as it turned out, it was a slam-dunk move. Consumers were excited about the opportunity to add their personal touch to newly acquired technologies. Andy Grove is also celebrated as a leadership maverick. From Intel’s early days and throughout his reign as CEO he implemented strategies and changes unlike many others of his time. For instance, he moved Intel completely away from a market in which they helped to pioneer and was highly skilled into an industry that was new, undeveloped and foreign to the company. Other similarities shared between these two icons include their indoctrination...
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...peaks of 90,000 percent, rating it the number one stock in the 1990's; it's no wonder how he became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 Company at the tender age of 27. Mr. Dell believed that 'by placing the customer at the epicenter' and creating a strategic concept 'based on customers' needs and preferences' would be the key to a successful company. (Krames, 2003, p. 59) Having a direct model 'based on a one-to-one relationship between the company and the customer' was how he made Dell so successful with ''no intermediaries, no middlemen'. (Krames, 2003, p. 59) Andy Grove is the co-founder and former CEO of Intel. The company he co-founded in the 1960's success can be contributed to his suspicious mentality of 'only the paranoid survive.' (Krames, 2003, p. 135) This man was considered as a legend of this industry by many and built Intel into the biggest computer chipmaker in the world at that time. Mr. Grove was credited for 'his role in fueling the computer revolution' by being named Person of the Year in 1997 by Time magazine. (Krames, 2003, p. 135) Mr. Grove's three-legged stool metaphor outlined how equal levels of execution and strategy in technology, manufacturing and marketing were the foundation for Intel's success. Also, he was influential in coining the phrase Strategic Inflection Point (SIP), which can be described as '-a point at which a company comes face to face with a massive change, one that is powerful enough to threaten the life of the enterprise.' (Krames...
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...Contents INRODUCTIONS AND HISTORY: 2 Product and market history: 3 The Intel’s market, suppliers and competitors: 4 The Current and Future Challenges to Intel: 6 Analysis of Intel Corporation: 7 Corporate strategies: 8 Conclusion and Recommendations: 8 INRODUCTIONS AND HISTORY: Intel is one of the world’s largest and very best introducers of semi conductor chip Makers Company. It’s an American based multinational chip makers corporation which is located Santa Clara, California and founded on founded mountain view on July 18, 1968 by Gordon E. Moore , Robert Noyce, Arthur Rock and Max Palevsky. Rock was the Chairman of the Board. After Rock Andry Grove ran the company till 1980 till 1990. The word Intel is basically used in terms of intelligent. Intel manufactured many products as motherboards ,chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory ,graphics chips ,embedded processors and other devices which are used in communications and computing systems on large scale. In ages of 1990 Intel was only be known primarily to engineers and technologists i.e. Intel inside which made it a household name, along with its Pentium processor. The main ability of Intel is to combine advance chip design capability with as leading-edge manufacturing capability. As compared to other companies like Google in today’s world Intel is not using common system. As Google is transferring data from long distance by using fiber optics but when machines...
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...Intel began in 1968. It was founded by Gordon E. Moore who is also a physicist and chemist. He was accompanied by Robert Noyce, also a fellow physicist and co-creator of integrated circuitry, after they both had left Fairchild Semiconductor. During the 1980’s Intel was run by a chemical engineer by the name of Andy Grove, who was the third member of the original Intel family. Many other Fairchild employees participated in other Silicon Valley companies. Andy Grove today is considered to be one of the company’s essential business and strategic leaders. As the 1990’s concluded, Intel had become one of the largest and by far the most successful businesses in the entire world. Intel has gone through many faces and phases. In the beginning Intel was set apart by its ability primarily to create memory chips or SRAM. When the firm was founded, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce had the idea to name their company Moore Noyce. However when the name is spoken it is heard as “More Noise” This idea was quickly abandoned and the pursuit of a more suitable name – one which was not associated with a bad interface. The name NM Electronics was shortly thereafter chosen and used for nearly a year, when the company experienced a name change to Integrated Electronics, or INTEL for short. The rights to the name however had to be purchased as it was already in use by a fairly well known hotel chain. Though Intel had mastered the first microprocessor called the Intel 4004 in 1971 and also one of the...
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...with an entrepreneur, an idea, and a business loan. Michael Dell (Dell, Founder and CEO) and Andy Grove (Intel, Cofounder and CEO) success’ stories were no exception. Michael Dell launched his company in 1984 with a unique business model known as” mass customization” (Krames, 2003, p 59) or a “one-to-one” (Krames, 2003, p 59) between customers and company. The company delivered what the customers exactly want with “rock-bottom prices” (krames, 2003, p.59). With no margin paid to distributer or middleman. Dell increased customer savings while keeping a healthy profit margin. Dell’s business success continue to grow, four years later the company went public and Michael Dell at age 27 was named the “Youngest CEO” of a Fortune 500 Company. The second CEO and cofounder of Intel Andy Grove and other two engineers launched their company in 1968 with the invention of microprocessor that revolutionized the industry. Andy Grove dominated the market with little or no competition until 1984 when a Japanese company which provided the same products took over the market by lowering their prices, after trying almost everything, Andy Grove and his top managers decided to leave of the memory chip business and switch to solely microprocessors ship. They went on to build the world’s largest chip-making business (Krames, 2003, p 135) Along the way, both CEOs faced some challenges. In 1980 Andy Grove had to make a crucial decision when he decided it is time for the company to make drastic change...
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...at are, Michael Dell and Andy Grove. Comparing people’s contribution to the information technology filed, along with identifying resistance each encountered, will help understand how they promoted their research, ideas, or programs. Noting any similarities between these two professionals will help point out their differences they may have. It will be helpful to look at their environmental, professional, and personal factors, which may have affected their success. Contributions to the field Michael Dell’s contribution to field was consistently shaping customer value. The business community defines customer value, as customer satisfaction and repeat customers. Product planning is important to the overall success of any business because it allows you to understand your customers’ needs and wants. Potential customers are just as important as current customers in any successful business in order to stay ahead of the competitive edge (Krames, A.J. 2003). Andy Grove’s contribution to the field was far different from Michael Dell’s. Grove’s contribution was to develop the outsider perspective. An outsider perspective is defined by studying your organization as a competitor and looking at your company as an outsider would. This concept was used by Grove to help turn Intel’s downward spiral around. The Foreign competition was able to create the same product with better quality and lower cost (Krames, A.J. 2003). The Resistance Grove may have felt resistance to change...
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...five American companies. Much of Intel’s success had been due to microprocessors, a product it invented in 1971 and in which it continued to set the pace. Despite the company’s illustrious history and enviable success, its Chairman and CEO, Andy Grove, worried about the challenges ahead: Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left. I believe that the prime responsibility of a manager is to guard constantly against other people’s attacks.1 This case begins by describing Intel’s origins as a semiconductor company before turning to its evolution into the leading manufacturer of microprocessors. Intel: The Early Years Intel was founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce (one of the co-inventors of the integrated circuit) and Gordon Moore, both of whom had been senior executives at Fairchild Semiconductors. They, in turn, recruited Andy Grove, who was then Assistant Director of Research at Fairchild. From the beginning, this trio was the driving force behind Intel. The company’s initial strategy was to develop semiconductor memory chips for mainframe computers and minicomputers. Andy Grove recalled that after receiving a Ph. D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, he interviewed for jobs at Bell Laboratories as well as Fairchild. For him, “the choice was very easy: Bell Labs was the place to work back then. So...
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...first Intel chief executive without a degree in science or engineering, the soft-spoken 53-year-old didn’t have the technical expertise that mentors like ex-CEO Craig Barrett and chairman Andy Grove possessed. Which is why Otellini, the company’s then president and COO, crammed in more than 50 tutorials, on everything from next-generation wireless networks to microprocessor design, with many more to come. The training regimen wasn’t some chore handed down by the human resource management department. It was part of a little-known but deliberate philosophy at Intel to grow and groom its own CEOs and leaders. In an era of corporate headhunters, celebrity CEOs, and management by “creative destruction,” succession at Intel, one of America’s most profitable manufacturers, is a rare model of discipline. The company plans orderly regime changes years in advance, without enervating gossip, infighting, or drama over the identity of the new boss. Otellini was scheduled to become the fifth homegrown CEO to run the company since its launch in 1968, which suggests that there’s an “Intel inside” aspect to its management formulas as well as its high-performance chips. The first two leaders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, weren’t just founders but legends in their industry. The third was Grove— one of Intel’s original employees and considered one of the best executives of the 20th century. Former CEO Barrett, a renowned manufacturing guru, taught materials science at Stanford before...
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...Wenxiao NIU Club Paper - HM212 It was a real pleasure to be a part of the first Hart School Big Event and do voluntary community service at Camp Still Meadows. I were assigned to clear the stable and see horses there. Since the community service is not so popular in China, I really gained a meaningful new experience in my life. The most important thing I learned from this event is volunteer service spirit. Nowadays, everyone who live in the modern society is so busy and independent that we always lament the coldness of the modern society. But some of us are still willing to help others and improve society without expecting reward, fame, benefit or privilege. As the old saying goes, “There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.” There is no doubt that volunteering community makes a contribution to our society and the people who are in need. Our personal efforts are limited, but we can make great contributions to our community. What`s more, serving the community as a volunteer is also beneficial to the ourselves. We can get a great chance to improve our communication skills with different people when providing help for others. I got to know many classmates a little better and felt more involved when I left. Also, we may get in touch with different kinds of environments as well as broaden our horizon. I learned a lot about many different sorts of subjects related to horses including everything from riding to physical care of the animals to management of barns...
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