...Introduction Richard I reigned over England during the Middle Ages from 1189 to 1199 with great bravery and immense courage. Richard was born as the third legitimate son of King Henry II of England and never assumed that he would ever ascend to become the king. After leading his country in the Third Crusade, he gained the nicknames “the lionhearted” and “the absent king.” Through many heroic deeds while away at war, he deserved the nickname of “The Lionhearted” the most. Body Richard was born on September 8, 1157, at Beaumont Palace in Oxford, England. He was the fourth child and third son of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Not much is known about Richard’s education; however, he could not speak English, and wrote in Limousin and in French. Being favored by his mother, Richard became very close to Eleanor, which led to his heightened anger when she was imprisoned. At the age of 16, Richard began commanding his own army, which was putting down rebellions that were started against his father. During the Third Crusade, Richard was a central Christian commander and led the crusade after Philip Augustus left the campaign. During this time, Richard had great victories over Saladin, the Muslim commander; however, Richard was unsuccessful in conquering Jerusalem. In 1199, as Richard was walking around the castle, he found great amusement in one of the guards defending the castle who was a crossbowman and was holding a frying pan that he had been using...
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...“A Study of International Marketing Application in Foreign Trade in India” Authors: Nader Angoutin Research Scholar in Commerce, University of Kerala, Trivandrum. Email:Nader_Angoutin@yahoo.com Abstract This paper analyses the Study of International Marketing Application in Foreign Trade in India. The study argues the international marketing as simple extension of exporting, whereby the marketing miss is simply adapted in some way to take into account differences in consumers and segment. International marketing research really plays an important role in the marketing research. The study will help in understanding the application of international marketing and knowing the socio economic, foreign trade and financial economic effects. This will fill a critical gap as not much information is available in the context of International Marketing Application in Foreign Trade in India. Keywords: International Marketing- Foreign Trade INTRODUCTION: International marketing is simply the application of marketing principles to more than one country. However, there is a crossover between what is commonly expressed as international marketing and global marketing, or across national borderlines. The intersection is the result of the process of internationalization. Many American and European authors see international marketing as simple extension of exporting, whereby the marketing miss is simply adapted in some way to take into account differences in consumers...
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...Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation Regis University Joseph Billman May 27, 2016 Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation Three phrases come to mind when I think of motivation, “Monday blues”, “hump day”, and “Thank God it’s Friday”. These phrases have a lack of motivation associated with them. All three phrases basically refer to looking forward to the end of the work week. We spend most of our lifetime working at our career, job, or our personal business. Positive motivation is important in both our professional and personal time during the day; it brings in happiness and health into our lives. Because we spend most of our time at work, I’m going to talk about the benefits of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation at our jobs. In the appendix of this paper is an article called, “The Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators on Employee Engagement in Information Organizations” by Rajesh Singh. This paper will go over a summary of the article and how the article relates to motivation. Additional references will be made from the text book, “Management” by Schermerhorn, J., & Bachrach, D., for a comparison and contrast to the article. Lastly, all the information presented in this paper will show how a manager could become a more effective leader in the 21st century. Let’s begin with a summary of the article Research study This is a research article that was conducted from St. John’s University in New York, within the division of Library and Information Science (LIS). Ninety-eight...
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...Dan Robinson Marketing 4-24-2012 Section 1 Situation Analysis Career Search Branding yourself is one of the most difficult things you can do in life. It represents the beginning of starting a career and establishing your credibility. It takes a lot of effort to discover your specific brand, so I will take a step by step approach in order to advertise myself. I can get a great grasp on my future by starting from the the very core: values. Self-Reliance Communication Determination Accountability Decisiveness Hard Working Efficiency Loyalty Individuality Trust Values may be seen as ways to accomplish a mission or achieve a certain goal. Individuals as well as organizations may shoot for specific values and goals in order to reach a level of success, including myself. I would not alter any of these values because, to me, they act out of universal importance towards anything I am striving for. In this case, I am establishing necessary values in the general field of business. In choosing the most important values towards my life in regards to my possible career choices, I asked myself what would it take to be the ultimate employee or eventually employer. The answer came down to a self-reliant, communicative, and determined person. These values that I would bring to the table are the cornerstone of a great career. In order to allow yourself to reach your full abilities, you must be able to rely on yourself to complete the tasks at hand. This first value...
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...Running head: ABRAHAM'S PROMISES Abraham's Promises Samantha Langford Fr. Joe Hirsh World Religions May 10, 2009 Regis University Abraham's Promises In this we shall discuss and review some areas of conflict as well as the covenants, circumcision, characteristics, and touch on the roots of Abraham. Abraham gave his life to obeying God and his word and finding favor in God’s eyes. Abraham received plenty from the Lord just for his obedience as well as his descendants. The covenant is a basic agreement between two parties. Some covenants often promise rewards or blessings for people who agree to keep the covenant. In the past covenants were sealed by blood or animal sacrifices. The covenant may have been made between family members, kings, states, or God himself. Those who did not keep a covenant was punished or even cursed. Often times the covenant would display a sign or symbol as a reminder of the covenant, such as: Adam and Eve disobeyed and received death, Jesus covenant was displayed through the cup and the drinking of wine as if it were his blood, the rainbow with Noah, and circumcision with Abraham. It is said Abraham shall be numerous and become a great nation while inheriting the Promised Land Cannon later to become Israel while others become blessed in and through him and their sign of the covenant was through circumcision. Abraham believed in monotheism, he believed in the promise from God of receiving the “Holy Land” and that he was the chosen one...
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...people” (McCormick, 1994). Based on this definition, the conceptual framework was formulated. The operationalization of the framework included an assessment procedure, the ecotourism standards and its corresponding management guidelines. and a communication plan. These tools were guided by the principles presented by Jeffries (1997) on biodiversity and conservation, Kersten (1997) on Community Based Ecotourism and Community Building, Kusler (1991) on Strengthening Resource Conservation through Ecotourism, and McCormick (1994) on how ecotourism can save a rainforest. Furthermore, the experiences gained by Regis et al. (2000) from the Ecotourism project for the two municipalities of Sorsogon reinforced the management guidelines put together based on the Philippine situation. Characteristics of ecotourism According to Chesworth (1995), Ecotourism has six characteristics. These are: a) ecotourism involves travel to relatively undisturbed natural areas and/or archeological sites, b) it focuses on learning and the quality of experience, c) it economically benefits the local communities, d) ecotourists seek to view rare species, spectacular landscapes and/or the unusual and exotic, e) ecotourists do not deplete resources but even sustain the environment or help undo damage to the environment, and f) ecotourists appreciate and respect local culture, traditions, etc. Moreover, Kusler (1991) believes that ecotourism must have a strong “people element”. For example, the travelers...
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...Research Paper 781 SALESFORCE COMPENSATION PLANS IN ENVIRONMENTS WITH ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION Rajiv Lal* and Richard Staelin** October, 1984 * Graduate Shool of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706 ** The authors wish to thank Professors Milton Harris, Joseph Hotz, Jim Noel, and Tom Paifrey for their several helpful comments and suggestions. ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a theory of salesforce compensation plans to explain the type of plans implemented by IBM and St. Regis Paper where the members of the salesforce are provided an opportunity to choose a compensation scheme from a menu of contracts offered by the firm~We model this interaction in an agency-theory framework, as in Basu, Lal, Srinivasan and Staelin (1984), but relax the assumptions of information symmetry and salesforce homogeneity to demonstrate the optimality of such compensation plans. We also show that even when these assumptions are relaxed there are situations where the plans characterized by Basu, Lal, Srinivasan and Staelin (1984) are still optimal. 1. Introduction Most salesforce compeiisation plans include not only a salary, but also some form of remuneration (e.g., comrni~~sions) based on the output of the salesperson. Recently, Basu, Lal, Srinivasan, and Staelin (1984), hereafter referred to as BLSS, proposed a model which provided insights into why the proportion of salary to total...
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...Introduction From 1894 to 1899, Captain Albert Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jewish artillery officer, languished in prison on Devil's Island after the French Army General Staff wrongfully convicted him of treason and espionage. The campaign for his release, organized by his family and supporters, along with revelations of an army cover-up, saw the so-called “Dreyfus Affair” become the major focal point of French public discourse at the turn of the century. Partisan camps of “Dreyfusards” and “anti-Dreyfusards” waged a war of words against each other as they debated Dreyfus' innocence and, implicitly, what it meant to be French in the Third Republic. Marked by an effusion of antisemitic vitriol, this debate has been characterized by Frederick Brown as a polarizing battle between two rival visions of France.[1] This battle at times extended to the streets, as it did in response to the publication of Émile Zola's 1898 “J'accuse.” Zola's open letter indicted the Army General Staff for antisemitism and cover-up, and prompted reactionary riots across France, the most violent of which occurred in French colonial Algiers. There, the burning of Zola in effigy sparked a riot in which 158 shops were destroyed, six Jews were assaulted (two fatally), and 9 rioters, 47 police, and a large but unknown number of Jews were seriously injured.[2] As the site of some of the only murderous violence during the Affair, colonial Algeria deserves particular attention. Examining the Dreyfus Affair from the...
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...Jurassic Park Michael Crichton Copyright Michael Crichton (c) 1991 All Rights Reserved The right of Michael Crichton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in Great Britain in 1991 by the Random Century Group 20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London SWIV 2SA Century Hutchinson South Africa (Pty) Ltd PO Box 337, Bergvlei 2012 South Africa Random Century Australia Pty Ltd 20 Alfred St, Milsons Point, Sydney, NSW 2061 Australia Random Century New Zealand Ltd PO Box 40-086, Glenfield, Auckland 10 New Zealand A CIP Catalogue Record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 0 7126 4686 8 Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc For A-M and T "Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them." LINNAEUS, 1797 "You cannot recall a new form of life." ERWIN CHARGAFF, 1972 Introduction "The InGen Incident" The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering. This enterprise has proceeded so rapidly-with so little outside commentary-that its dimensions and implications are hardly understood at all. Biotechnology promises the...
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...Running head: HOW FLOW AND CSIKSZENTMIHALYI How Flow and Csikszentmihalyi Came To Be S Langford Regis University Kristy Frush April 12, 2009 How “Flow” and Csikszentmihalyi Came to Be One may wonder who Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is. In this discussion a review his life as a child and into his adult life and how he came into discovery of the “flow” development. Discussions of his accomplishments as well as those who are inspired by him are given. Sometimes a person needs to know about a person’s background in order to appreciate the obstacles experienced for the realization that is possible for others to overcome ones past and realize the possibility of a more positive future. A view of how the “flow” has benefitted some. Csikszentmihalyi is known for his obsession for serenity, the man behind the “flow” and his life experiences getting there. On September 29, 1934 he was born in Fiume, Italy to his father a Hungarian diplomatic (Answers, 2006). He lived in various places growing up such as Rome and Florence. During his time as a child he spoke various languages from German, Hungarian, and Italian which proved to be an asset while living in an Italian prison camp during World War II. He lived through bombing throughout Rome as well as POW and refugee camps. It was during this time he learned how to play chess which became his way of escaping the world and the routines of the daily life activities of and from the war (Starr, 2008). The rules and guidelines...
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...described as a feeling, portrayed non-verbally, and includes thoughts and emotions related to understanding patients' situations. Nurses' own attributes and previous personal and professional experiences impact their ability to empathize, while knowledge about people and how they are feeling is important for developing empathy. Empathic feelings are difficult to generate when nurses have no context for a similar experience or when the patient is difficult to get to know or communicate with. Further barriers often include a stressful working environment and lack of time. The most important question to ask is: How does this description of the essential structure of empathy differ from sympathy? Sharing of painful feelings of another person is characteristic of both sympathy and empathy. However, the person using sympathy is feeling sorry...
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...Course: CJ 233: Introduction of Forensic Psychology Instructor: Doctor Findley Assignment: Unit 9 Final Assignment Total Points: 150 Due Date: November 24, 2015 Name: Donna Marie Brown (Donnabrown119) Unit 9: Final Project: You Are a Forensic Psychologist Kaplan University Donna Brown119 Monday, November 23, 2015 Deviant behavior is any behavior that is contrary to the dominant norms of society. There are many different theories on what causes a person to perform deviant behavior, including biological explanations, psychological explanations, and sociological explanations. Numerous theories have been established to explain criminal behavior. While some theories are not as common, others have evolved and are used in many criminal studies today. Up-to-date criminologists combine the most relevant characteristics of sociology, psychology, biological, and social-psychological to advance their understanding of criminal behavior. Professionals in this field study factors that contribute to criminal activities, make relevant policy recommendations and draw conclusions based on those assessments. (Varying Theories on Crime, 2015) Several theories attempt to explain criminal behavior. Most theories assume: * Crime is part of human nature. * Crime is based on biological, psychological, and/or economic aspects. One of the earliest approaches to explaining the causes of crime was the classical theory, which is defined as a product of the Enlightenment,...
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...www.elsevier.com/locate/ynimg NeuroImage 25 (2005) 1256 – 1265 Cortical thickness analysis in autism with heat kernel smoothing Moo K. Chung,a,b,c,* Steven M. Robbins,f Kim M. Dalton,c Richard J. Davidson,c,d Andrew L. Alexander,c,e and Alan C. Evansf a Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, WI 53706, USA Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, WI 53706, USA c W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA d Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA e Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA f Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada b Received 5 October 2004; revised 22 November 2004; accepted 3 December 2004 Available online 10 March 2005 We present a novel data smoothing and analysis framework for cortical thickness data defined on the brain cortical manifold. Gaussian kernel smoothing, which weights neighboring observations according to their 3D Euclidean distance, has been widely used in 3D brain images to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. When the observations lie on a convoluted brain surface, however, it is more natural to assign the weights based on the geodesic distance along the surface. We therefore develop a framework for geodesic distance-based kernel smoothing and ...
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...ages: humiliation, gossips and threats. The difference is, cyber bullies do their dirty work using Web logs, emails, instant messaging, cell phones and several other electronic tools. According to psychotherapists, the easy access to Internet gives a chance to kids to say and to do things they wouldn't be able to do face to face, and also they feel they would not be held accountable in the same way, It gives bullies false sense of power and security. They say by using computers children get a sense of being anonymous. Using internet allows bullies to inflict abuse without experiencing or seeing the consequences of their actions, which makes the abuse less real to them and leads to a greater degree of being mean. (Gates, 2000) University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center conducted a survey and revealed that, cyber bullying is major problem in the United States. The study was conducted in 2006, and reports that 1 out of 17 kids ranging from age 10 and 17 has either been threatened or harassed online,...
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...State Police High Performance Teams Analysis The State Police for any state uses the advances of a flexible, fluid interchanging operational structure. The State Police high performance teams become more than functioning officers behind the wheel of a police cruiser, at the controls of the helicopter, or underwater saving a child. Every high performance or learning team uses and involves group decisions for each situation may change at a moment’s notice. The elements for excellent high performance team-builds show in the supporting information. The advances of biometric, information, and electronic technology create the help each high performance, or learning organization needs for social survival. High Performance and Learning Team Elements The essential elements for building high performance police and learning teams begin three important stages; engaging, enabling, and energizing (Building Teamwork, 2012). The engaging stage defines first three elements as purpose, commitment, and trust. Starting with purpose for using the specialized team and goals. The reasoning foundation shows details for the operational support and resources for achieving the organizational goals. The commitment stage defines decisions of each individual in a team for becoming close-knit unit calmly working together. This collection of talented individuals agree to commit dedicated time, and training to achieve the goals for success. The importance of team trust shows a conscious commitment of each...
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