...citizens are always looking to verify the past successes of our country. He believes that we should love and honor our country because of its history, because of our forefathers, and simply because it’s ours. Liberal patriotism, however, tends to focus on a better future. They see patriotism as a promise that the future will to redeem our past sins, and they believe that no matter what, American can always become greater than it already is. While conservatives center a lot of their attention around American symbols like the flag, liberals tend to focus on the American ideals about democracy, equality, and liberty. Because Obama’s beliefs are based on liberal patriotism and McCain’s are based on conservative patriotism, their specific ideas are likely to conflict. As expected based on Beinart’s analysis, Obama’s speech focus on American ideals and the future, while McCain’s focuses on honoring the past. Obama uses his “rags to riches” life story to emphasize the equality of opportunity in America, a democratic ideal that defines the American culture. He states that “…our votes will be counted”, demonstrating the American belief in political equality with “one person, one vote.” While Obama believes we should feel blessed to have all the opportunities that present themselves in America, McCain believes that “The patriot must not just accept, but in his or her own way protect the ideals that gave birth to our country.” McCain emphasizes that we should constantly be protecting...
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...Human Service Scenario Analysis Instructor: Julie Murphy ABSTRACT This analysis gives in detail the background, including age and gender of the patient in the evaluation. The details are that the treatment plan must be a clear and concise method to help the patient cope with her significant events. The underlying treatment and diagnosis for this patient are confirmed and may be requested for further treatment and examination. Diagnosis at this time is Major Depressive Disorder, Axis-IV as so stated in DSM-IV. Jennifer Diggs is a twenty six year old African American female soldier. She was raised in a single parent house hold along with her three siblings. Her parents divorced when she was about twelve years old. Jennifer was always pushed around as a child because she was the youngest daughter. She rarely got to go outside during the summer because she has chronic asthma. Her mother is an LPN at a nursing home and her father is a retired Army Veteran and he now lives in Jacksonville, Florida. She has a younger sister that lives with her father and step mother. She used to spend her summers and holidays with her father and step-mother.Her father would take her to Six Flags during her summer breaks and to Disney Land. She has three children, all whom are school age. Jennifer was married, but she is now divorced and is taking on full responsibility of her three children with the absence of their father. Prior to joining the U.S. Army, she had given birth to a set of twin boys...
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...HubPages exploresign injoin now flag Explore »Education and Science (65,836) »Psychology and Psychiatry (3,569) by shazwellyn 1,094 Followers Psychology 101, What Are The Historical Perspectives In Psychology? In this Psychology 101 article, we ask what are the historical perspectives in psychology? Now, this question provokes a thesis on its own, but here we evaluate specific times of extraordinary turning points leading to where we are today. We are all psychologists in our own right. We have the innate ability to draw conclusions by watching the behaviours of others. So, where, whom and what legitimizes psychology as a science and how did we arrive there? It is through history, that we have built and drawn from our own evaluations as a species. So, what is psychology? Psychology Definition As this is a psychology 101 based article, as always, we will start by providing a ‘working definition’ of psychology as a term: ‘Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behaviour of humans and animals.’ Psychologists concentrate on what is observable and measurable in a person’s behaviour. This includes the biological processes in the body, although, the mind is central to the subject. ψ - This is the Greek letter pronounced as 'Sigh' and spelled as 'Psi'. It is now used as the International symbol of Psychology. Psychologists think it is important to be scientific in their study. This is to avoid confused thinking. What Is Psychology...
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...Team Name: D Date: May 19, 2014 HRM/300: Fundamentals of Human Resources Equal Employment Opportunity & Employee Rights Review Content 60 Percent The student’s presented the following: Provided a general summary describing your chosen laws or issues For each law presented, provided a current court case that has challenged your selected law or issue. Defined any implications for HR in managing employeremployee relationship in the context of the law or issue. Provided an HR Policy for compliance The content is comprehensive, accurate, and persuasive .5 .5 1 .5 .5 .5 .5 1 .5 .5 Points Available 3 Points Earned X Additional Comments: Very good assessment of employer-employee rights… Very good analysis of how organizations have integrated Equal Opportunity and the Family Medical Leave Act into the day to day operations of the organization. It is important to continually revisit the policies that the organization has setup to ensure continual compliance as your organization has done. How will you gain the management commitment to ensuring that policies continue to benefit the employees and company? Additional Comments: Organization / Development 20 Percent The report is 1050 – 1400 words in length (WC: 1317) Points Available 1 .5 .5 Points Available 1 .25 .25 .25 .25 Points Earned X .5 .5 Points Earned X .25 0 .25 .25 Paragraph transitions are present, logical, and maintain the flow throughout the memo Mechanics 20 Percent Additional Comments: ...
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...before the great Aztec empire, who was a nation of great wealth. In 1519 thru 1521 Mexico was conquered and ruled by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes. Mexico was the colonized by Spain for the next three hundred years. Mexico won their independence from Spain in 1821 after many bloody revolts and uprisings. Mexico has a population of (2010 est.) 112,468,855 (growth rate: 1.1%); birth rate: 19. /1000; infant mortality rate17.8/1000; life expectancy rate. Solar Photovoltaic Solutions is an American company based in Atlanta Georgia. The proposition of this report will be to export our industry leading solar panels into the Mexican market. This report will provide evidence that there is a business opportunity for our company to assist Mexico with viable alternative energy solutions that are being underserved. Solar Photovoltaic Solutions LLC has identified opportunities in three segments in the country. The research will focus first, on Mexico’s political/ regulatory changes, followed by an economic opportunity evaluation and challenges of doing business in Mexico, Lastly a comprehensive analysis of the photovoltaic market and value chain. Mexico’s political changes have begun with the...
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...Persona Paper Writing about oneself is not easy and sharing personal feelings, especially with strangers. This self-analysis assignment will show multiple masks created in challenging and significant situations that have created the person I am today. The first mask was insecurity formed in grade school where it all began. By the 6th grade, I had already attended seven different schools. No one ever seemed to like the new kid, it was very hard to fit in, and the teasing seemed never to stop. To complicate insecurity matter even further was the diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the need to take medicine. The teasing causing the insecurity could not stay in fear the teasing would never stop. I developed persona’s...
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...certain resistance to the study of TV. To study popular culture was parallel to the fear of the death of high culture. Umberto Eco (1964) and others gave special attention to TV and other “minor arts”. The interest in the study of reader/receiver increased in the 60’s in the universe of high culture and the academy. R.Barthes – encode/decode. Later the canonization of popular mass culture in Anglo-American countries changed the vision of the society about the TV. In the US they reflected about the industry. Cultural industries – television is culture but it’s also an industry. If we think in Hollywood as a dream factory we have also a culture industry. Nowadays popular culture is a part of our life. Common sense and TV – resisting the analysis of television is also a consequence of commons sense. But there is a paradox: it is so easy to watch that it becomes difficult to analyze. TV is inscribed in daily life. TV is transparent. Popular culture, namely TV, has a supposed transparency: what I see is what it looks likely to be. It’s so easy that it resists analysis, but what is easy to watch is as complex as any other phenomenon. Kracauers perspective – “The Mass Ornament”, 1931 * Analyses of widely read books are an artifice to investigate social strata whose structure cannot be determined by a direct approach”. * Their editorial success would result from the creation of a “wide portrait of the...
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...or previous session). It also is committed when a purchased (or free) paper is found online that is specific to the assignments provided in the course. Websites like Student of Fortune, ScribD, Ask.com, and so forth (many others) sometimes end up with DeVry assignments posted on them by students who have hired online tutor sources to write their work for them. Faculty members are aware of these sites and, just like students, can Google sources to find out if a paper has been bought from these sites. Avoid these sites like the plague—seriously. It just isn’t worth the extra hour or two it might buy you if you end up with a 0 for the paper or course or lose your degree over buying a paper (or getting it for free.) Typically, the #1 red flag to a professor that one of these sites has been used is when multiple students miss the same question in the exact same manner. Yes, the answers on those sites will typically cost money, but the answers are not guaranteed to be right. And further, the free papers on those sites almost always have wrong answers. Do not use these sites! Avoid them! If you use them, citing them is not enough to overcome the copying stigma and violation of the policy. As one instructor of the course stated, "The majority of students who have been cited for Academic Integrity in my classes over the last 10 years have been because of their use of these websites – please remind students not to use them!" What should you do if you find one of DeVry’s assignments...
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...We only used a small special operations footprint and managed not to deploy thousands of conventional forces. Then we abandoned the RMA concept, and went purely conventional in both Afghanistan and Iraq. This could have occurred for a myriad of reasons, some of which are highlighted in Donald Skuskind’s book, “The 1% Doctrine”. It is my understanding that our protracted war in Afghanistan and Iraq has created more instability and more terrorist groups than existed 16 years ago. Due to our inability to nest the mission of the Department of State with the capabilities of the Department of Defense, we made catastrophic mistakes that subsequently jeopardize the...
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...Copyright © 2013 by McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-07-180360-1 MHID: 0-07-180360-2 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 978-0-07-180359-5, MHID: 0-07180359-9. E-book conversion by Codemantra Version 1.0 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill Education eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions or for use in corporate training programs. To contact a representative please visit the Contact Us page at www.mhprofessional.com. Trademarks: McGraw-Hill Education, the McGraw-Hill Education logo, 5 Steps to a 5 and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of McGraw-Hill Education and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property...
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...Contents General Models Nation Building and Political Development 1 Nation Building and War-fighting in Historical Perspective 4 Post Cold War Approaches to Nation-building: The Case of the United States: 6 Nation Building and War fighting: A Snapshot of the Record 8 Germany and Japan: misleading historical lessons, specious claims: 9 CONCLUSION 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 ASSESS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WAR-FIGHTING AND NATION-BUILDING. Nothing is, and will remain in such short supply in the greater majority of the polities of the world’s ‘countryside’, as a sense of political community; and yet no such crucial term as ‘nation building’ has of recent been subjected to so much trivialisation and casual usage. This essay attempts to lay out what it is that nation building entails, as a background to assessing whatever linkage it may have with war fighting, causally or by coincidence. I outline existing schools of thought on nation building and demonstrate that it bore a clear relationship with war fighting especially in the dusk of the extensive empires of Western Europe. I argue that the United States had a much rosier experience by virtue of its geographical isolation, and of being constituted by an immigrant population, and as such, it may the least qualified actor to enforce nation building however construed. The essay points out the prevailing fallacy of conflating short-term post-conflict reconstruction with protracted nation building and state...
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...Professor: Hans Hahn Summer Semester 2014 Cultural Dimensions of Geert Hofstede: Analysis of Colombia 10.06.2014 Soraya A. Suarez I. Register Number: 969800 Darmstädter Landstr. 64 60598 Frankfurt Tel: 0176- 708 59654 E-mail: sorayasuarez@gmail.com Cultural Dimensions of Geert Hofstede: Analysis of Colombia 2 Content 1. Introduction............................................2 2. Culture.................................................3 3. Colombia................................................5 4. Cultural Models and Cultural Dimensions.................9 4.1 Geert Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions.................9 4.1.1. Power Distance Index...........................10 4.1.2. Uncertainty Avoidance..........................12 4.1.3. Individualism vs. Collectivism.................13 4.1.4. Masculinity vs. Femininity.....................15 4.1.5. Long vs. Short-term Orientation................16 4.1.6. Indulgence vs. Restraint.......................17 5. Conclusion.............................................20 6. References.............................................21 Table of Figures Colombia Facts & Figures...................................6 Colombia Location, Flag and Coat of Arms...................8 Colombian Population According to Ethnocultural Identity..11 Colombian Culture through the 6-D Model...................13 Cultural Dimensions of Geert Hofstede: Analysis of Colombia 3 1. Introduction With the arise of globalization, the issues about...
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...GLOBALIZATION Globalization is a term that is constantly being referred to when discussing the current market. What does it really mean? Definition: The process of making world economy dominated by capitalist model ( World System Theory By I.Wallerstein) | Joseph chin (2006) stated that globalization is all about increasing the links amongst organizations around the world to the mutual benefit of all concerned. This involves shrinking space, shrinking time and disappearance of boarders. The idea of globalization may be simplified by identifying several key characteristics that are improved transportation and communication technologies, loosened regulations on financial institutions, increased demand for imported goods, and lowered international trade barriers. Joseph (2006) stated With record harvests being in developed countries it is somewhat easier to enter because they usually have fully development communication, distrubution,and transportation systems to name but a few facilities factors. Most successful global business are aggressively building their global strategies around, common technology used in many markets particularly in areas of information technology, when they high cost of research and development that must be recovered through sales in many countries. BACKGROUND OF THE COMPANY McDonald’s is one of the top restaurant chains in the world, touching the lives of people every day. The long journey of the burger brand started...
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...is considered a hero, a saint or a visionary woman, her life continues to be of controversy among scholars who still immortalize her with their studies. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the various perceptions that attempt to portray Joan of Arc as a venerated and outstanding figure. Part of the analysis will focus on her role as an inspirational woman, the iconography and symbols and the role within religion and political involvement that Joan of Arc continues to influence. Her life and death According to Kevin J. Harty’s article “Joan of Arc’s life may well be the most-documented of anyone who lived before the twentieth-century but as Professor Heimann’s ground-breaking and fascinating study suggests there is still much to be learned about the Maid of Orléans” (Harty 104). Her very short life (1412-31) had a series of events that would be remembered for hundreds of years to follow. At the age of 12, she started seeing visions of saints who would guide her way leading the French troops to end the siege of Orléans. Her visions can be contrasted with the annunciation experienced by the Virgin Mary. In the annunciation, the Holy Spirit told Mary that she would give birth to Jesus, in the case of Joan; her annunciation was to lead the French troops to victory. Another similarity to Mary’s life is Joan’s virginity. In Neil Warren’s article, he mentions that “Joan's English captors put Joan through yet another ladies' medical exam. If her menses were noted as missing, no one...
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...CREATE Research Archive Non-published Research Reports 2007 A Brief Analysis of Threats and Vulnerabilities in the Maritime Domain Niyazi Onur Bakir CREATE, nbakir@usc.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://research.create.usc.edu/nonpublished_reports Recommended Citation Bakir, Niyazi Onur, "A Brief Analysis of Threats and Vulnerabilities in the Maritime Domain" (2007). Non-published Research Reports. Paper 5. http://research.create.usc.edu/nonpublished_reports/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by CREATE Research Archive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Non-published Research Reports by an authorized administrator of CREATE Research Archive. For more information, please contact gribben@usc.edu. A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THREATS AND VULNERABILITIES IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN1 N.O. BAKIR University of Southern California, Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) 3710 McClintock Avenue, RTH 322, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2902 USA Abstract The attacks of September 11 have exposed the vulnerability of the American homeland against terrorism. Terrorists have already expressed their intentions to continue their aggression towards United States. Their goal is to incur maximum economic damage, inflict mass casualty, spread unprecedented fear among citizens and thus destabilize the nation to further their agenda. Many critical sites lay across US maritime borders, all of which could be potential targets to accomplish these goals...
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