...Organizational change Organizational change is often a vital part in a company’s organizational development. For an organization to succeed within the competitive and often unpredictable business world it is crucial that the organization is able to adapt to, and embrace change. There are a number of forces both internal, for example; organizational growth, restructuring, redesign of jobs, and external; technological advances, customer needs and competitor behavior, which can be the driving force for change. It is often the case however, that employees will react adversely to change, and perhaps this is because employees and senior executives view change differently. Company executives view change as a good thing, an opportunity to better the company and often to better themselves and their career, where as often employees will perceive change as disruptive and intrusive. It is fundamental to the success of the organization that the need for change and any change made to the organization is understood and supported by the organizations employees throughout the hierarchy. If an organization cannot embrace change then it is likely that this will have a detrimental effect on the business. This point can be illustrated by the Netherlands firm Philips Electronics. In the 1980’s, employees at the firms failure to understand and adapt to change drove organization to the brink of bankruptcy. The concept of resistance to change can be traced back to social psychologist...
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...The poem says: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.” Discuss how these lines encapsulate the main message of this poem. Your paragraph should connect to Marley’s broader context. 3. Bob Marley was a deeply religious man. He uses many references to divine intervention in this poem. Discuss the effect that these lines have in creating the overall message of the poem. Your answer should include a discussion of the figurative language he uses to make his point. Your answer must include quotations from the poem that you reference by counting the lines (i.e. number the lines for referencing purposes) and by using the following in your bibliography: Marley, Bob. 1980. “Redemption Song.” Uprising. London: EMI Records. When quoting from the poem within your paragraph, make sure that your sentences are grammatically consistent with any quote that you embed. Also make sure that you reference your quotations correctly within the paragraph. Your answer should conform to the following structure: Paragraph 1: Introduction in which you: a) Make a general statement b) Construct a topic statement (paraphrase the question in your own words) c) Construct a thesis statement (e.g. In this essay, I will show how Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” ….) i.e. this sentence summarizes your overall...
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...Was the Spartacist uprising the most important problem faced by the Weimar Republic in the years 1919-1923? Explain your answer. The most important problem that the Weimar Republic faced was the Kapp Putsch. This was because in this uprising the Freikorps units managed to get the Weimar government to flee showing that they had a lot of power and were undermining the Weimar Republic. However, even though this was the most important reason there were other factors that caused problems for the Weimar Republic from the years 1919-1923 including the Spartacist uprising, the French occupation of the Ruhr and the weaknesses of the Constitution. To determine which factor is the most important I will look at how successful each factor and how many problems each of them caused the Weimar Republic in regards to money and power. Although, all these factors caused problems for the Weimar Republic it was the Kapp Putsch that put pressure on the Weimar Republic and was important problem they had to face. The Kapp Putsch was the most significant problem that the Weimar Republic faced from 1919-1923. This was due to them having a strong army subsequently putting a lot of pressure on the Weimar Republic. This was the biggest threat to the Weimar Republic as Dr. Wolfgang who was in charge of the rebellion managed to get the Weimar Republic to flee therefore putting him in power and making this rebellion a success. One of the reasons why this was such an important problem that the Weimar...
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...Document Summary No. 4 “Bring Warm Clothes: Henry Whipple” The passage from “Bring Warm Clothes” of Henry Whipple’s letter to Thomas Galbraith in early 1861 embodies his sympathy for the Native Americans. He was writing in response to Galbraith’s recent appointee as an Indian agent in hopes that he could provide some color to the current situation. Whipple’s letter takes a stance of advocation for the natives as he feels that they have been wronged and deserve an ‘outstretched’ hand. He describes the reasons he believes that they were owed help; their land was taken and had nowhere to hunt, they were robbed and taken advantage by greedy agents, the whites were infringing on their culture and providing them with alcohol. By outlining this information, it is as if he was trying to convince Galbraith to take his stance. An interesting theoretical question was posed by Whipple about why the Canadians had so many communicants, or “a person who receives Holy Communion”, while the Native Americans were killed and taken advantage of. Whipple concludes his writing by positioning his argument for help as a religious obligation as he states “… but you are permitted by God to represent the honor of our government and race and will answer to him for the trust…”. This excerpt is a very poignant and unique writing for this time. Whipple, in my opinion, was in a very tough spot. He was advocating for the natives while many were opposing them. I imagine that this didn’t sit well...
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...Video Review 1 November 01, 2015 HIUS 222, “World War II In Color: Total War,” (A&E Television Networks), 47:10 mins. This documentary was designed to show what World War II was like in a color format. Most videos that have been produced were in black and white, and even though you get an idea of what the destruction and devastation was like, nothing will prepare you for seeing the devastation on all sides of the war in a color video format. “World War II in Color: Total War” is an unbiased documentary that was aired on the A&E Network in the year 2000. This documentary was put together using diary entries, letters, and interviews of those who lived through World War II on all sides of the war. Some of the diary entries were horrifying to listen to, but when set to video of the event it really brought home how horrible this war was to live through by the civilians living in hard-hit cities. Mary Borg was a seventeen year old Jewish girl who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto and wrote in her diary about the great number of children left to be orphans because their parents were killed and how this affected them. She talked about how malnourished they were and how they looked like monkeys instead of children. These words were chilling in themselves, but to view the video of these small children ranging in ages of three years old and up made you want to cry. This documentary also highlights the thoughts of soldiers fighting this war...
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...and not checking my facts. They are essentially as laid out in this paper, but 20th Century World the sources are imaginary—just to illustrate how to document a scholarly paper.) The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Could Have Succeeded: But Would It Have Mattered? One of the most horrifying realities of World War II surrounded the genocide of millions of people the Axis Powers deemed inferior. Jewish. Of those, the best known group was Every nation in Europe that fell under Axis control had some Jewish citizens, and millions of these people were arrested, detained, and eventually executed, worked, or starved to death. Poland’s Jews were the most numerous group outside of Germany itself and, from the beginning of the war, suffered under Nazi rule. Initially confined to ghettos in major cities, the Jewish population was systematically deported to concentration camps and exterminated. When Jews failed to report for deportation 1 in sufficient numbers, the Germans decided to demolish the ghettos in every city, the largest of which was in Warsaw. In the spring of 1943, some Jews in the Warsaw ghetto elected to resist militantly, and they held the German Army at bay for weeks longer than Poland itself had held out against the invaders in 1939. The ghetto uprising failed for a number of reasons, but it could have succeeded if different decisions had been made sooner and if the outside world had been willing to help.1 When the Germans decided to construct the Warsaw...
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...Bloggers Association of Kenya ,Dedan Kimathi University (Bake Dekut) is a community of bloggers from Dedan Kimathi University of Technology that was launched on 31st Jan 2015 by Bake. The Chapter relatively new and seeks to promote quality online content creation through organizing Blogathons where members of the online community can help each other grow. The Blogathons are thematic monthly challenges Bake Dekut organizes to help increase the online content creation, digital story telling skills and discussions on various issues affecting the youth and society in general. It involves online forums like Twitter chats (Micro-Blogging) and Blog posts. Last month we held our first Blogathon and the theme was “African liberation efforts through the eyes of technology.” We partnered with Zawadi society and County Media Ltd and the winners of the challenge got a chance to publish their work on a local paper called The County Voice which circulates within Mt Kenya Region. 2nd Blogathon Challenge.March Edition Request for Partnership. We acknowledge that you have conducted a lot of Twitter Chats and you have a very impressive following on your social media.We would therefore like to humbly request for your involvement in our Blogathon Challenge, them being a first in Kenya. We propose that you be the moderator of a Twitter Chat for the first evening. (21st March2015) at 8:00pm The Blogathon shall be conducted as follows. From March 21st to 27th 2015 we shall be talking about the different...
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...Ours is a growing and wonderful community. With growth, however, come greater challenges and even greater opportunities. Our community consists of many people from many different cultures and with growth it will become even more diverse. We have all seen tragedies unfold in schools across the country and as made evident by the necessity of our bullying policy, the issues of ignorance and intolerance are also alive and well here at home. This is why we must address issues surrounding cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is simply the blending of different cultures – people with different backgrounds, routines, looks, beliefs, styles of dress all coming together to form a community. The challenge is do we continue to stick our head in the sand and hope that our children will not fear, bully our outcast those who are different than them? Do we hope that consequences will alleviate bullying? Or do we take a proactive stance by educating them on their differences and teaching them that diversity is a positive thing? I know, as parents, that we don’t want our children put in the position we’ve seen played out so many times on the news. They can be taught that our society can and should be viewed as a body. Each part is different and cannot be compared to another, but also cannot exist in a full or healthy manner without the other. We need to learn and teach our children, even learn with them, to celebrate the differences in others. Encourage them to be curious about worlds...
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...Media and Marketing 2: Getting the message out Managing the Arts 4129A * If public money is received, there is a lot more scrutiny. * Arts organizations have to be careful with how they get there message out * when Arts organizations are seen as spiralling down, the business side questions whether investing in the organization will even make any sort of impact * Arts Marketing tips from across cultural sector ( Experiment, challenge, and ask questions-In business you are generally a part of a uniform way of doing things, in business you’ve defined who you’re target audience is. Arts on the other hand, generally have to change the way they do things to serve different audiences and different occasions.Refine Your skills- Both business and arts stress the need to innovate and learn from their mistakes and the mistakes of others. Both stress the importance of exciting customers. Arts however, stresses the need to innovate more than business do. Be Realistic, but not defeatist-Arts organization really have to be resourceful. Everything spent has to create a significant impact. Set aside time to read inspiring content-distinction between arts and business is that it’s hard to get routine in Arts Organization. Know Your Tone- it’s hard for arts organization to look at themselves objectively. Don’t reinvent the wheel- ) * 10 Social media tips for arts Organizations ( You have to find various ways of getting the message out) * goal of e-messages (you want...
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... colonial psychology and capitalism. Wangarĩ first appears when being picked up by the cab being driven by Mwaũra. Shortly after being picked up, she tells the driver, Mwaũra, that she is unable to pay the fare for travel to Illmrog. The others decide to pay for her fare together after hearing that she has been left penniless from traveling to Nairobi looking for work, only to be arrested for vagrancy. Wangarĩ was denied work in Nairobi after being told repeatedly that there were no jobs for Africans, and particularly for African women, except prostitution. Much like Warĩĩnga, Wangarĩ is viewed as a commodity by many of her male Kenyan and foreign peers. Wangarĩ fought for the independence of Kenya from the British during the Mau Mau uprising or the Kenyan Emergency, a conflict she views as having produced little good for the Kenyan people after discovering that there were almost no employment opportunities in the Kenyan capitol. After being arrested for vagrancy, Wangarĩ loses control in court and claims that the real vagrants, the real criminals are hiding in caves in Illmrog and stealing the hard work of others causing people like her to seek employment in Nairobi. She is then told to help lead the police to the cave where the bandits are hiding. She eventually does inform...
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...Often times when reading novels based off of true events, the reader is inclined to interpret what the narrator says to be true. In Art Spiegelman’s Maus, neither Artie nor Vladek could be considered reliable narrators due to Artie being the author of the book thus being able to edit his book however he saw fit, and Vladek is unreliable because his recollection of the Holocaust has a large bias since he only encountered one side of the Holocaust and his memories could be skewed by his age. Artie is not a reliable narrator because he is both the author and narrator and because he has allowed his relationship to his father to bias his perspective. Art Spiegelman chose to show his relationship with his father in the book. “Simultaneously it is a sharp study of the tension that exists between father and son, and the story of the writing of the book itself” (Grossman “Maus…”). Due to him being the author and editor of the book, one cannot trust Artie because he could have edited anything he wanted in order to portray the tension between him and his father in a different light than what it really was. Throughout the novel, Art and Vladek have intense arguments, the most passionate being the final one where Art leaves his father, calling him “Murderer” (159). When taken out of context, it seems a bit extreme for Art to call his father a murderer. But, the way Art wrote about his mother and included the very personal strip that he wrote about her, makes the reader feel for his side...
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...this off the top of my head and not checking my facts. They are essentially as laid out in this paper, but the sources are imaginary—just to illustrate how to document a scholarly paper.) The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Could Have Succeeded: But Would It Have Mattered? One of the most horrifying realities of World War II surrounded the genocide of millions of people the Axis Powers deemed inferior. Jewish. Of those, the best known group was Every nation in Europe that fell under Axis control had some Jewish citizens, and millions of these people were arrested, detained, and eventually executed, worked, or starved to death. Poland’s Jews were the most numerous group outside of Germany itself and, from the beginning of the war, suffered under Nazi rule. Initially confined to ghettos in major cities, the Jewish population was systematically deported to concentration camps and exterminated. When Jews failed to report for deportation 1 in sufficient numbers, the Germans decided to demolish the ghettos in every city, the largest of which was in Warsaw. In the spring of 1943, some Jews in the Warsaw ghetto elected to resist militantly, and they held the German Army at bay for weeks longer than Poland itself had held out against the invaders in 1939. The ghetto uprising failed for a number of reasons, but it could have succeeded if different decisions had been made sooner and if the outside world had been willing to help.1 When the Germans decided to construct the Warsaw ghetto...
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...THE BETRAYAL OF THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF KENYA BY POST-COLONIAL LEADERSHIP. Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ngugi wa Mirii’s I Will Marry When I Want concerns itself primarily with the betrayal of the aspirations of the people of Kenya by the leadership that emerged after their independence from the British. Kenya’s struggle for independence was a bloody one, and it involved the Mau Mau movement as well as the ordinary people. They fought against colonial domination and especially against the land tenure system which deprived the local people from owning lands. In fact, the local people were reduced to labourers who only worked on the farms of the white land owners. After independence the people of Kenya had hoped for equal opportunities as far as land acquisition was concerned. But it turned out that, the new breed of politicians who emerged, perpetuated the same kind of obnoxious regime, if not worse than the colonial masters, on their people. Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ngugi wa Mirii’s drama depicts clearly how the Kenyans became disillusioned after they were betrayed by their own people. The thought that after the departure of the white colonial masters, everything was going to be politically corrected never materialised. In the drama, Ahab Kioi Wa Kanoru, his wife Jezebel, Samuel Ngugire and Ikuuna Wa Ntidika, representing the bourgeoisie – the ruling class, were seen exploiting their fellow Kenyans. They owned businesses and employed the Kenyans. Some of these businesses they owned...
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