...ASSIGNMENT 3 Managing Improvement Understand the effectiveness of the organisation and own ability to manage and improve quality to meet customer requirements 1.1 Critically assess the organisation’s effectiveness in managing quality to meet or exceed customer requirements Opening statement defining Quality (quote from research eg Peter Honey/ Definitions of Quality in Workshop Workbook)) Describe the systems, policies, procedures to manage/monitor and evaluate quality in the school and critically assess them Role of governing body/ESTYN/Local Authority/Consortium/Welsh Government Monitoring, Evaluation, Review (MER) Use the Workshop Powerpoint to help you 1.2 Evaluate own ability to manage quality to meet or exceed customer requirements Data Analysis and monitoring in your own subject/aspect/area of responsibility Your role in that process and your strengths and areas to develop Curriculum Design as a response to raising standards Target Setting What have you learnt from your monitoring experiences? How does your role feed into the School Improvement cycle? Make sure this section is EVALUATIVE 2. Be able to plan and implement projects to meet, and, if possible exceed customer requirements 2.1 Develop an improvement plan that is designed to meet and, if possible, exceed customer requirements This section is your Improvement Plan with SMART targets (A4 page in body of text or appendix). Make sure your headings are SMART too! 2.2 Implement...
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...Well, the scaffold scenes are some of the most important scenes that occur in The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. These scenes provide insight as to how much of a significant factor the scaffold was in Puritan society. In puritan society, the scaffold was used as a symbol for one’s sin. In The Scarlet Letter, there are three different scenes that occur at the scaffold at different times during the book. All of the book's main characters are present in each of these scenes; Hester Prynne, Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale, as well as Roger Chillingworth. Along with these characters being present, so is the novel's primary symbol, the scarlet letter. In The Scarlet Letter, even though the scarlet letter was the main symbol, the scaffold portrays...
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...raised platform, referred to as a scaffold. This form of punishment is a reoccurring event in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, where the protagonist, Hester Prynne, was originally patronized for the creation of an illegitimate child named Pearl with an unknown man, learned to be minister Dimmesdale. However, scaffolding scenes reoccurs throughout the novel and represents turning points in the plot that change the motives and actions of varying characters. The first scaffold scene of the novel occurs when Hester Prynne is released from prison and while upon the scaffold, shows the crowd her scarlet letter “A” that she bares upon her chest. This scarlet “A” was a punishment appointed by the head ministers of the community for her adultery that she committed. However, Hester turns this would-be punishment as a way to individualize herself. Hester adorns the scarlet letter with “an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread” and with that, appears to have a “haughty smile” (Hawthorne 50). By making the scarlet letter elaborate and elegant, it portrays the idea that Hester wants to draw attention to the scarlet letter. This demonstrates to the reader that Hester has nothing to hide nor feels guilty about what she has done because she is drawing attention to her sin. Hester’s positive attitude and the vibrant qualities of scarlet letter later displays the idea that her pride of individuality on top of the scaffold motivates Hester help out the community...
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...In the Scaffold Plank Incident, Bob Hopkins receives an order from Stan Parish, the lumber buyer from Quality Lumber, this request is going to be used as scaffold plank which is identical to most material but unable to meet the specifications. Hopkins becomes uncomfortable with the idea of his lumber being used for an unethical business because he was aware that their can be a dangerous outcomes from the customer at the other end. As an employee of White Lumber he felt it was his duty to ensure that the company is aware that it has a legal and ethical responsibility to its customers which means workers are to follow laws and regulations. By questioning Stan, Bob was running the possibility of upsetting him by suggesting he might be doing something unethical and it can blow the relations between the companies....
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...of vulnerability, Dimmesdale has an affair with Hester Prynne, who then bores his child out of wedlock. In the eyes of this puritanical community, Hester has sinned against God. To punish her, the heads of the town force her to wear a scarlet “A” for adulteress. She must stand upon a scaffold, a raised wooden platform that is used for public executions, in front of the whole town. While Hester is punished for her sin, Dimmesdale is too apprehensive to admit to his sin and receive his punishment. Because he does not admit or accept his...
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...BSBMKG501B Identify and evaluate marketing opportunities Assessment Task 1 Individual project and presentation Section Background – about the company or business About Cape: Cape Scaffolding, provides a range of non mechanical industrial services including access systems, insulation, painting, coatings, blasting, industrial cleaning, scaffolding, training and assessment to both industrial plant operators and major international engineering and construction companies. As a single source provider, Cape is able to provide a range of specialist multi-disciplinary services specifically tailored to meet the needs of the client providing the most intelligent and cost efficient solutions for their customers’ non-mechanical implant maintenance and capital needs. Cape's approach to business is based on an understanding that today's industry leaders demand safer, more intelligent and resourceful answers to solving their challenges and those strong customer relationships are built on confidence and trust. Focus for the year ahead will be: Realising the very significant organic growth opportunities in our chosen markets Exploiting the strengthening bid scaffolding with further bolt-on acquisitions; and Building on the value of the Cape Australian brand Trading momentum has continued into the new year and expect: Continued organic revenue growth in 2012 supported by growth in order book Although anticipated that operating margin will reduce we expect strong...
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...long rehabilitation times and causes stenosis. • Absorbable Constructs: The focus here was on the use of materials that would degrade in the body with time. However, studies fail to report anisotropy in the muscle layer, vasculature and the network required for exhibiting a functional esophagus tissue. Adding to this, stenosis of the constructs continued to occur. • Decelluralised Matrices: are tissues that retain ECM and matrix structure while are processed to remove the cells. Their structure closely resembles the native esophagus tissue. But again the problem of stenosis persists. Proposed Design A NiTi Stent Covered with Collagen Scaffold as a replacement for esophagus Tissue. The proposed design consists of a three layered scaffold that uses Nitinol stent, a shape memory alloy. The inner lumen of the stent is covered with collagen scaffold seeded with fibroblasts and autologus Bone marrow stem cells. The outside of the stent is spray-layered with collagen crosslinked using genipin. As an improvement to the previously proposed design during the presentation, we could spray coat collagen with sirolimus, an immunosupressent commonly used on coronary stents to reduce stenosis. • Design Specification: Nitinol an alloy of Nickel and Titanium is a biocompatible shape memory alloy. The shape memory characteristics of nitinol is expressed in a temperature range of 20-50ºC and requires a mechanical stress of 69-138 MPa. The shape memory characterstic of nitinol could be exploited...
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...different from the literal sense. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorn utilizes symbolism to represent multiple layers of meanings throughout the novel. These symbols have more significant meanings than the mundane and express ideas and beliefs at a much deeper level. A symbol that is present throughout the novel is the scaffold. In construction, scaffolds are used to provide support. These scaffolds motivate and enable those standing on them to stay on task and purpose. In Hawthorne’s novel, the scaffold is the location where truth is to be supported and moved forward. It is the place where truth comes forth and is examined. Those who stand on the scaffold are forced to face the truth and evaluate what is in their hearts. The first time, the scaffold represents Hester’s shame in having a Pearl from an adulteress affair. The second time, Hester and Pearl join Dimesdale on the scaffold in his futile attempt in admitting his involvement with Hester. The last time the scaffold is mentioned in the novel, Dimesdale, openly admits the secret that he is Pearls father in the light of day in front of all the townspeople. Like sentencing before a judge’s bench, the scaffold focuses the lens of honesty on situations and compels the truth to out. Another strong symbol is the scarlet letter Hester is forced to embroider on her clothes. The letter was to represent Hester’s transgression. It was to make her feel guilty and shameful and label as an adulteress in front of...
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... Essay 3 The Boston scaffold is a symbol for change in “The Scarlet Letter.” Every time a character is on or beneath it a life change occurs. This change is spread over Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl. It sees their grief, happiness and many many mind changes. These characters reevaluate life decisions and plan for their future, all in the place of the scaffold. When Hester Prynne is committed to the scaffold in chapter two it is as punishment for her adultery and is the reader’s first view of the scaffold. While standing on the scaffold Hester is forever changed. It is in this moment that she realizes her own true strength. Hester faces the shame and adversity with poise and character, never breaking down or showing weakness to her community. The strength that Hester discovers on the scaffold follows her through the duration of “The Scarlet Letter” and influences many future decisions for her. The scaffold is again a place of change seven years later. It is then that Dimmesdale climbs the scaffold with Hester and Pearl. This encounter allows Hester and Arthur to unify fronts. Previously, they had each faced the sin of adultery alone, but upon the scaffold, they are able to trust in each other and join hands. The three characters on the scaffold that night become more of a family, something that may have never happened anywhere but upon the scaffold. Dimmesdale stands upon the scaffold one final time in chapter twenty-three...
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...highly regarded by his peers than being truthful to himself, and in turn, God who would easily be able to see the transparent acts of hypocrisy that Dimmesdale tries to fool himself with by subconsciously convincing himself of its purity. Dimmesdale's guilt eats him from the inside out and eventually leads to his demise. Hawthorne sets the stage for Dimmesdale’s character in the first scaffold scene, where the reverend’s uncomfortable attitude condones suspicion. Dimmesdale anxiously watches Hester and Pearl on the scaffold from his balcony and is eventually asked to try to pry out the father’s name from Hester, which he hesitantly attempts and uses it as a coded message for Hester. Dimmesdale says to her I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer...believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of...
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...that she is going to want to free herself from the distorted Puritan society and join a civilization in which truth is allowed. In order to attempt to extract information from Hester as well as to publicly ridicule her, the Puritan leaders force her to stand upon the scaffold in center of town, which symbolizes the Puritan oppression. When Hester is condemned for her sins in Puritan society, she are forced to stand upon the scaffold to endure public punishment. Hawthorne conveys what it is like to be on the scaffold by describing it as “a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule” and “ as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself” (Hawthorne 52). In doing so, Hawthorne establishes that the scaffold is Puritan symbol of truth, but truth as they want to hear. He uses this to display that the abuse of being put upon this scaffold is similar to death. By writing of the scaffold, Hawthorne allows the reader to understand the Puritan oppression in society. In contradiction to the scaffold, Hawthorne uses the meteor to symbolize truth, thus furthering his argument of a world being distorted due to it being untruthful. During the night, Hester is walking with Pearl through town and she happens to walk by the scaffold where she finds Dimmesdale standing upon it. He asks Pearl and Hester to come stand hand and hand with him, to purge himself from their sins as they have committed adultery together. During this scene, Hawthorne uses a meteor flying up above to symbolize truth. He writes...
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...the scaffold, where she is to be publicly shamed for having committed adultery. Hester is forced to wear the letter A on her gown at all times. She has stitched a large scarlet A onto her dress with gold thread, giving the letter an air of elegance. Hester carries Pearl, her daughter, with her. On the scaffold she is asked to reveal the name of Pearl's father, but she refuses. In the crowd Hester recognizes her husband from Amsterdam, Roger Chillingworth. Chillingworth visits Hester after she is returned to the prison. He tells her that he will find out who the man was, and he will read the truth on the man's heart. Chillingworth then forces her to promise never to reveal his true identity as her cuckolded husband. Hester moves into a cottage bordering the woods. She and Pearl live there in relative solitude. Hester earns her money by doing stitchwork for local dignitaries, but she often spends her time helping the poor and sick. Pearl grows up to be wild, even refusing to obey her mother. Roger Chillingworth earns a reputation as a good physician. He uses his reputation to get transferred into the same home as Arthur Dimmesdale, an ailing minister. Chillingworth eventually discovers that Dimmesdale is the true father of Pearl, at which point he spends every moment trying to torment the minister. One night Dimmesdale is so overcome with shame about hiding his secret that he walks to the scaffold where Hester was publicly humiliated. He stands on the scaffold and...
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...financial worries, another influence on the story is Hawthorne's rejection of his ancestors. His forefathers were strict Puritans, and John Hathorne, his great-great-grandfather, was a judge presiding during the Salem witch trials ("Biographical Note" VII). Hawthorne did not condone their acts and actually spent a great deal of his life renouncing the Puritans in general (VII). Similarly, The Scarlet Letter was a literal "soapbox" for Hawthorne to convey to the world that the majority of Puritans were strict and unfeeling. For example, before Hester emerges from the prison she is being scorned by a group of women who feel that she deserves a larger punishment than she actually receives. Instead of only being made to stand on the scaffold and wear the scarlet letter on her chest, they suggest that she have it branded on her forehead or even be put to death (Hawthorne 51). Perhaps the most important influence on the story is the author's interest in the "dark side" ("Introduction" VIII). Unlike the transcendentalists of the era, Hawthorne "confronted reality, rather than evading it" (VII). Likewise,...
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...The settings in The Scarlet Letter are more localized, in contrast to the widespread geography of The Great Gatsby. The areas are more familiar; they are places in Boston or other areas that Hester has a connection with. The relationship the characters have with the settings help to signify the proximity in which the characters are to their sins and their punishments. The scaffold in the marketplace serves the same purpose as New York City in The Great Gatsby. The locations are both areas where moral decay is on display, but unlike New York, where immorality is seemingly accepted, the scaffold is a setting where sins are exhibited to condemn the sinner and prevent others from emulating their actions. The scaffold is designed “to be as effectual...
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...The Scarlet Letter Study Guide Published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter is considered Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous novel--and the first quintessentially American novel in style, theme, and language. Set in seventeenth-century Puritan Massachusetts, the novel centers around the travails of Hester Prynne, who gives birth to a daughter Pearl after an adulterous affair. Hawthorne's novel is concerned with the effects of the affair rather than the affair itself, using Hester's public shaming as a springboard to explore the lingering taboos of Puritan New England in contemporary society. The Scarlet Letter was an immediate success for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the United States was still a relatively new society, less than one hundred years old at the time of the novel’s publication. Indeed, still tied to Britain in its cultural formation, Hawthorne's novel offered a uniquely American style, language, set of characters, and--most importantly--a uniquely American central dilemma. Besides entertainment, then, Hawthorne's novel had the possibility of goading change, since it addressed a topic that was still relatively controversial, even taboo. Certainly Puritan values had eased somewhat by 1850, but not enough to make the novel completely welcome. It was to some degree a career-threatening decision to center his novel around an adulterous affair (but compare the plot of Fielding's Tom Jones). But Hawthorne was not concerned with a prurient affair here, though the novel’s...
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