...What is the purpose and use of parliamentary procedures? The purpose of parliamentary procedures is that they are a system of maintaining order in organizations. It provides a uniform method of conducting meetings in a fair and orderly manner. The use of parliamentary procedures is a respect for the law and a clear willingness to practice a specific method of procedure to follow the will of the majority, to protect the rights of the minority, and to protect the interests of those absent. The use of parliamentary procedures however, does not insure that these ideals will be met. Everyone involved with an organization must also work to create an atmosphere of trust, mutual respect, and shared purpose. General Henry M. Robert's (Robert's Rules of Order) work is still regarded as the basic authority on the subject of parliamentary law. It is the accepted authority for almost all organizations today. What are the objectives in parliamentary procedures? The 4 main objectives in parliamentary procedures are to; 1. Expedite business 2. Maintain order 3. Insure justice and equality to all 4. Accomplish the purpose for which the group organized What are the steps in handling a motion? Business may be introduced by an individual member or by a committee. Business is always introduced in the form of a motion. After a motion has been made another member, without rising and obtaining the floor, may second the motion. A second implies that that person...
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...Fidley explores how people deal with hardships, redefine gender roles, and find solace in...
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...medieval Church is depicted as an inflexible patriarchal hierarchical system both in direct and abstract ways. The first example I noticed came in the initial interaction with Sir Robert. This knight doubts the legitimacy of Joan’s prophecy and miracles, so he orders the priest at his side to, “do what he does” and exorcise Joan to determine if she is possessed by demons. This priest, who by Sir Robert’s acclamation and by his own role as an exorcist is considered an expert and professional on the matter, is eager to jump at a chance to disprove Joan as no more than a witch or a sorceress. This is done despite the fact that this professional makes no note of any outward sign of possession. After the exorcism, in which it is determined that Joan is good by her approach to the priest, she even tells him that “You heard my confession just yesterday. This is absurd.” This can represent the priest’s symbolic representation of the church and its attempts to quell any uprising by a female as it pertains to religion. This can also represent the priest as an extension of Sir Robert’s will, and Sir Robert’s will ultimately indicative of a male society uneager to accept women and continue patriarchal control. With a simple order Sir Robert is able to question Joan’s legitimacy. Another example of the church’s attempt to reinforce a patriarchal system comes after Joan wins the favor of the Prince. Excuse the spelling, but she is taken to the town of Portiae, the center of intelligence and judicial...
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...of her father, alone. Claire wishes to put their father in an institution, rather than let him live peacefully at home. Catherine, who does not want to put their father in a facility, drops out of Northwestern to take care of her schizophrenic father. Catherine has been mostly a loner for most of her life. She has very few people in her life and does not socialize much. Catherine does not interact with the other sex very much, most of the interaction she has with any man is with her father and Hal. She has never been married nor have any children. Hal, one of Robert’s old students, likes Catherine very much. Catherine does not care for Hal much at first; she tries to push him away. Robert asks Catherine to go out on her birthday and Catherine makes a remark about in order to go out on her birthday she has to have friends. The remark at the beginning of the play points out the hardships and the social isolation Catherine faces on a day-to-day basis. Catherine is also somewhat depressed. On most days, Catherine just sleeps all day long or just read magazines and nothing else. Catherine makes many sacrifices for her father. She has always been smart at mathematics, something she inherited from her father. Unfortunately, Catherine gives up all her talents to take care of her father. Robert is very grateful to Catherine; however, both Catherine and Robert always wonder what...
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...billionaire and business tycoon who is currently the richest man in both Malaysia and Southeast Asia, with an estimated wealth of 17 billion dollars. He owns multiple companies in numerous fields of business—from sugar mills to food products, from farms and plantations to hotels and resorts. He is most known for owning the world-class Shangri-La Hotels, a chain of hotel-resorts that now runs over 60 hotels worldwide in cities like Tokyo, Dubai, Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Paris. THE RICHEST MAN IN MALAYSIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA Robert is also called the “Sugar King of Asia” for having 80 percent of the Malaysian sugar production, which accounts for ten percent of the total world production, under his control. Robert’s amazing story of rising up from poverty and becoming Southeast Asia’s richest person has become a shining inspiration for a lot of people. Robert is a firm believer of hard work, diligence, and a broad set of thinking. He believes that these traits allow a person to achieve their goals, and enable them to properly set the course of their life. Robert has a deep root in Buddhist and Communist beliefs, in helping others and how everyone has an equal opportunity of succeeding, but is hindered by so much corruption—not just in politics, but a corruption of the entire system of life itself. In his interviews, Robert often cites his mother and his brother as his influences, stating: “Otherwise, probably I would have been an arrogant middle-class...
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...Robert Frost, first four- time Pulitzer Prize winner, was the best colloquial tone writer. This type of writing made his poems simple, clear and ideal. Robert conquered many hardships and persevered throughout his whole life. He took a hard road and found success. Frost is a poet no one will ever forget and his poems will forever carry on. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. He lived in San Francisco with his father, mother, and sister for eleven years until his father's death. He then moved to the east Massachusetts with his mother and sister to be with his grandparents. Frost continued his life there going to Lawrence High School where he wrote his first poem, and met his wife. There Frost graduated as valedictorian and class poet...
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...Arlington Robinson portrays this well in his poem, “Richard Cory”. Although the poem starts out with the townspeople admiring and aspiring to be Richard Cory, who they believe is a perfect man with all the fame, wealth, and characteristics he has, that man later commits suicide. In the poem, Richard Cory is depicted as “…a gentleman from sole to crown/ Clean favored, and imperially slim”(ll 3-4), being a gentleman and having nice bodily features. However, his utmost biggest characteristic was that “he was rich−yes, richer than a king”(ll 9), which people of lower social rank would want to seek. Therefore, the townspeople tries hard and “worked, and waited for the light/ And went without meat, and cursed the bread”(ll 13-14) enduring all the hardship they had to be like Richard Cory. But, shockingly, Richard Cory “put a bullet through his head”(ll 16) despite all he had. The sheer ignorance caused by the preconceived notion shows how one cannot judge a person by their appearance. Because the townspeople conformed to the notion that Richard Cory was perfect, they ignore the possible internal issues that surrounded and tormented him until his self-imposed death. Unlike the works of Dickinson, Jackson, and Robinson, there are other works of literature that also challenges conformity, but by illustrating how insightful and great breaking away from conformity can be. “Cathedral”, a short story by Raymond Carver, involves the ideas of preconceived notion and jumping to conclusion, but ends...
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...Her spirits revive once Robert returns to her, although tensions arise when he questions her possession of another man’s portrait, leading her to remark, “It was at the other house. I thought it had been left there” (Chopin 139). The extension of Edna and Robert’s affair into winter fits not within societal standards: “With the first cold weather madame will resume her still tailor-made frock, and with it her perfectly correct ideas of deportment” (Dix “Summer…” 130). A woman may flirt during the sweltering months of summer, caring little for other’s opinions, yet must submit once the air grew colder or else expect shame and disapproval from society. Despite her efforts, Robert worsens Edna’s depression by abandoning her. Abandonment by her love, possessiveness from her husband, suppression by her children, all culminate in Edna’s inevitable suicide: she ventures into the gulf, reflecting upon her life. She determines that Mademoiselle Reisz would have “laughed, perhaps sneered” (Chopin 159) were she aware of the situation and recalls the woman’s words: “you call yourself an artist! What pretensions, Madame!” (Chopin 160). Advanced in age and happily unattached, Mademoiselle suffered myriad hardships “with Christian fortitude and resignation” (Dix “Women…” 134), thereby displaying the strength possessed by women in lieu of personal freedoms; a strength which in which Edna lacked. Depression and consistent denial of her desires left Edna feeling as though suicide was...
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...has to fill Robert in on the show when the TV is not speaking, just showing pictures. The narrator asked Robert if he knew anything about a cathedral or what it looked like. However, the man only knew what he heard on the TV and what the narrator had told him. Therefore, Robert asks him to describe it, but while trying to explain the cathedrals the narrator realized he was failing and then explained how he was not religious and that the cathedral was actually quite meaningless to him. Even though the narrator could see the physical cathedral he was not able to describe it well. This is symbolic of the narrator’s life and his relationships. Robert told him to find a piece of paper and a pen and to draw the cathedral with his eyes closed. Robert’s hand also followed the movements of the narrator’s hand. (Carver) Once they have finished, Robert tells him to open his eyes and see what he has drawn but he kept them closed and he knew he “was in his house” but it “didn’t feel like [he] was inside anything” (Carver 311). And, he states “its really something” (Carver 311). This line in particular, is extremely significant in explaining the moral of the story. The Cathedral encounter really stimulates thought in the reader’s mind. The drawing in particular, sparks the awareness between looking and seeing. Looking is being able to observe what is around us, but seeing is being able to give active meaning to these things. The narrator in the beginning, assumes he is superior to Robert because...
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...sold her for the incredibly low bargaining price of three hundred dollars. Dumont needed more slaves for his New York plantation. He was always bragging on Isabella, she was the hardest working slave on the plantation. He forced her to marry a fellow slave known as Tom. Isabella gave birth to five children with those five years. Two years before the Emancipation Act of 1828, which all slaves within New York was freed, Dumont promised Isabella that if she work extra hard the following year, he would set her free a year early than the other slaves. She was the even hard working already hardest working slaves on the plantation. Around 1815, she fell in love with a slave named Robert from a neighboring farm. The two had a daughter, Diana. Robert's owner forbade the relationship, since Diana and any subsequent children produced by the union would be the property of John Dumont rather than himself. Robert and Sojourner Truth never saw each other again. In 1817, Dumont compelled Truth to marry an older slave named Thomas. Their marriage produced a...
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...THE OF THE ST CENTURY 21 THE OF THE 21 CENTURY ST Other Best-Selling Books in the Rich Dad Series Rich Dad Poor Dad What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Classes Do Not Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing What the Rich Invest in That the Poor and Middle Classes Do Not Rich Dad’s Rich Kid Smart Kid Give Your Child a Financial Head-Start Rich Dad’s Retire Young Retire Rich How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Rich Forever Rich Dad’s Prophecy Why the Biggest Stock Market Crash in History Is Still Coming… and How You Can Prepare Yourself and Profit from It! Rich Dad’s Success Stories Real-Life Success Stories from Real-Life People Who Followed the Rich Dad Lesson The Business School for People Who Like Helping People The Eight Hidden Values of a Network Marketing Business Rich Dad’s Guide to Becoming Rich Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards Turn “Bad Credit” into “Good Credit” Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens The Secrets About Money—That You Don’t Learn in School! Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job 10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business Why We Want You to Be Rich by Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump Provide Insight on How to Improve Your Financial Future Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ How to Get Smarter with Your Money Rich Woman: A Book on Investing for Women ...
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...AN EXAMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST TRANSGENDER AMERICANS IN THE WORKPLACE HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR AND PENSIONS COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION HEARING HELD IN WASHINGTON, DC, JUNE 26, 2008 Serial No. 110–99 Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor ( Available on the Internet: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/house/education/index.html U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 43–027 PDF WASHINGTON : 2008 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 0ct 09 2002 10:55 Dec 17, 2008 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 G:\DOCS\110TH\HELP\110-99\43027.TXT HBUD PsN: DICK COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR GEORGE MILLER, California, Chairman Dale E. Kildee, Michigan, Vice Chairman Donald M. Payne, New Jersey Robert E. Andrews, New Jersey Robert C. ‘‘Bobby’’ Scott, Virginia Lynn C. Woolsey, California ´ Ruben Hinojosa, Texas Carolyn McCarthy, New York John F. Tierney, Massachusetts Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio David Wu, Oregon Rush D. Holt, New Jersey Susan A. Davis, California Danny K. Davis, Illinois ´ Raul M. Grijalva, Arizona Timothy H. Bishop, New York ´ Linda T. Sanchez, California John P...
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...Good Guys Last of the Good Guys Last of the Mark Irwin Copyright 2008 by Mark Irwin All rights Reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author or publisher. There is one exception. Brief passages may be quoted in articles or reviews. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Irwin, Mark, 1944Last of the good guys / Mark Irwin. ISBN 978-1-926582-04-7 I. Title. PS8617.R87L37 2008 C813'.6 C2008-907141-7 Dedication LCDR WB IRWIN MMM CD CHAPTER ONE Shipside A Bayou In Southeast Louisiana Early Monday Evening Bobby identified the second shot from the here and now, the first staying webbed into his dream. He knew without pleasure what the gunshots meant. Though he hadn’t known Howie more than a couple of days, he had become predictable. The lunacy of the disconnected. He pushed the tarp from his head and realized it was still daylight, with the sun backing decisively into evening. Uncomfortably covered with two days of sweat and grime he headed astern without thinking about it. Slowly, getting his legs under him, he moved in favor of the aches in his body. He hoped that everything would take care of itself by the time he got there. When he got to the aft quarterdeck he found Gomez sitting where he’d slept. Their eyes met and Bobby saw without speaking that Gomez didn’t want to...
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...Good Guys Last of the Good Guys Last of the Mark Irwin Copyright 2008 by Mark Irwin All rights Reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author or publisher. There is one exception. Brief passages may be quoted in articles or reviews. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Irwin, Mark, 1944Last of the good guys / Mark Irwin. ISBN 978-1-926582-04-7 I. Title. PS8617.R87L37 2008 C813'.6 C2008-907141-7 Dedication LCDR WB IRWIN MMM CD CHAPTER ONE Shipside A Bayou In Southeast Louisiana Early Monday Evening Bobby identified the second shot from the here and now, the first staying webbed into his dream. He knew without pleasure what the gunshots meant. Though he hadn’t known Howie more than a couple of days, he had become predictable. The lunacy of the disconnected. He pushed the tarp from his head and realized it was still daylight, with the sun backing decisively into evening. Uncomfortably covered with two days of sweat and grime he headed astern without thinking about it. Slowly, getting his legs under him, he moved in favor of the aches in his body. He hoped that everything would take care of itself by the time he got there. When he got to the aft quarterdeck he found Gomez sitting where he’d slept. Their eyes met and Bobby saw without speaking that Gomez didn’t want to...
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...Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication PREFACE TO THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Introduction Part I - THE PURPOSE OF LIFE Chapter 1 - THE RIGHT TO HAPPINESS Chapter 2 - THE SOURCES OF HAPPINESS Chapter 3 - TRAINING THE MIND FOR HAPPINESS Chapter 4 - RECLAIMING OUR INNATE STATE OF HAPPINESS Part II - HUMAN WARMTH AND COMPASSION Chapter 5 - A NEW MODEL FOR INTIMACY Chapter 6 - DEEPENING OUR CONNECTION TO OTHERS Chapter 7 - THE VALUE AND BENEFITS OF COMPASSION Part III - TRANSFORMING SUFFERING Chapter 8 - FACING SUFFERING Chapter 9 - SELF-CREATED SUFFERING Chapter 10 - SHIFTING PERSPECTIVE Chapter 11 - FINDING MEANING IN PAIN AND SUFFERING Part IV - OVERCOMING OBSTACLES Chapter 12 - BRINGING ABOUT CHANGE Chapter 13 - DEALING WITH ANGER AND HATRED Chapter 14 - DEALING WITH ANXIETY AND BUILDING SELF-ESTEEM Part V - CLOSING REFLECTIONS ON LIVING A SPIRITUAL LIFE Chapter 15 - BASIC SPIRITUAL VALUES Acknowledgements THE ART OF HAPPINESS BOOK SERIES ABOUT THE AUTHORS RIVERHEAD BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell...
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