...THE GIVER Lois Lowry ← Plot Overview → The giver is written from the point of view of Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, and there is very little competition. Everyone is unfailingly polite. The society has also eliminated choice: at age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Citizens can apply for and be assigned compatible spouses, and each couple is assigned exactly two children each. The children are born to Birthmothers, who never see them, and spend their first year in a Nurturing Center with other babies, or “newchildren,” born that year. When their children are grown, family units dissolve and adults live together with Childless Adults until they are too old to function in the society. Then they spend their last years being cared for in the House of the Old until they are finally “released” from the society. In the community, release is death, but it is never described that way; most people think that after release, flawed newchildren and joyful elderly people are welcomed into the vast expanse of Elsewhere that surrounds the communities. Citizens who break rules or fail to adapt properly to the society’s codes of behavior are also released, though in their cases it is an occasion of great shame. Everything is planned and organized so that life is as convenient...
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...receiving the Mark if DOME thinks they have rebellious behavior they will nullify them and inform their families that there was an unfortunate malfunction and their child died. Also in The Giver anyone who could possibly challenge the system and its goals they desire to reach is released from their society at any age. On the contrary, both dystopian societies in The Giver and Swipe are very controlled, but The Giver’s requirements of their failed attempt of a perfect society are far more complex. In the society that we see in the film The Giver, you do not see any affection, also known as stirrings in the film,or time put in to finding your partner for a traditional marriage and a family instead we see the government assigning you a job, a spouse, a child, and a life. On the other hand, in Swipe the characters feel those emotions that those in The Giver besides the Receiver of Memory Jonas can not. They are given the free choice to pick their jobs and decide if they want to have children or a spouse. Another way they differ is how the characters rebel and what actions they chose to make. In Swipe the character Logan began to be followed and watched shortly after his sister Lily died from receiving the Mark. Logan made the choice not to tell anyone about this at first even though he found ample amounts of evidence such as the burning note in his room and the tin can attached for the string entering his house. Jonas, the Receiver of Memory was beginning to feel a way he has...
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...Topic: In both The Giver and The Chrysalids, the communities strive to create utopias in their own ways. Discuss how memories are forgotten and/or emphasized to achieve this. In the novels The Chrysalids by John Wyndham and The Giver by Lois Lowry, both authors illustrate how, when communities emphasize or forget memories from the past, it will result in a dystopia. Further, it will also affect our future generations and the way people choose to live. In the Waknuk community of The Chrysalids, memories are recalled, emphasized, and then used to threaten and control the society. The leaders rule the community using fear as a weapon, forcing the people to believe what they want them to believe. The Waknuk community’s idea of a utopia is to have the people obey the rules, and to live under the will of God. A citizen of another community criticized the Old People, “If they had not brought down Tribulation which all but destroyed them” (Wyndham 157). The memory of Tribulation is constantly discussed, repeated and emphasized throughout the novel. The community believes that if they break the laws and rules of The Bible and Nicholson’s Repentances, their two only and sacred books, they will be faced with consequences like how the “Old People” of the past did. Tribulation is believed to be a period of time where the people of earth made too many mistakes, broke too many rules, that angered God, causing Him to destroy all of earth to give people a chance to start a new...
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...Motivation Paper Motivation is an important aspect in many organizations. In our organization motivation is a key to the success. When evaluating administrative staff, sales people, and production workers, each department works well utilizing different theories. One theory could not work adequately for all three; therefore, three theories were used. Production workers utilize the Two-factor theory; sales people use Vroom's expectancy theory and the Equity theory works for the administrative staff. Combining all three theories into one organization helps the organization run smoothly, while gaining successful motivation on all levels. Sales People Sales people rely on motivation that is accomplished through a process; this method that best fits them is known as Vroom's expectancy theory. The expectancy theory, as stated by Victor Vroom, is motivation that has a high performance result due to value being placed on the sales person and their ability (2003, p. 20). Sales people are motivated to the degree that he or she believes "(1) effort will yield acceptable performance, (2) performance will be rewarded, and (3) the value of the rewards is highly positive" (2003, p.20). For sales people to reap rewards or benefits, they first need to know the expectancy of their position. During this first stage, the managers will layout the training that is needed and will set their goals. The managers are also responsible for...
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...loss. I transferred a memory of a child taken from its parents. That was the first one. She appeared stunned at its end.’” (142). Another example is when the committee wanted advice from the Giver about increasing the birthrate but the Giver had a painful memory of hunger and overpopulation and advised them otherwise. The Giver says, “‘And the strongest memory that came back was hunger. It came from many generations back. Centuries back. The population had gotten so big that hunger was everywhere. Excruciating hunger and starvation. It was followed by warfare” (111). The first example showed that the pain helped make the decision to not do that to the next receiver and slowly ease him into the pain and the second example shows that the Giver’s knowledge of pain made it so that he could help the committee make the right choice. The Giver is not the only one who has the pain, Jonas also has the pain and uses it to make...
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...because everyone is different and has differing tastes and preferences. So now what? Could there be another rule that might tie up the loose ends? Enter the Platinum Rule: “Do unto everyone as they would have you do unto them.” This rule obliges us to respect and consider the needs and wants of people, and then act based on this understanding. It is what prevails in gift-giving, in earnest advice-giving, and so on. The focus of the relationship shifts from “this is what I want, so I'll give everyone the same thing" to "let me first understand what they want and then I'll give that to them." It is a more considerate and sensitive moral guideline than its predecessor which ignores the wishes of the recipients in favour of imposing the giver's preferences onto others in a misguided attempt at kindness. The Platinum Rule, or at least its name, might be unfamiliar to most, but...
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...GIVING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK PRIMER A McKinsey (2001) survey of 6,900 managers at 56 large and midsize U.S. companies found that organizations can achieve competitive advantage through better talent management. The highest ranked companies said that the strength of their talent pool was among the top three priorities of senior leaders. McKinsey propose that managers must rebuild their recruiting strategies; create plenty of opportunities for development; and learn to identify their A (as well as their less capable) performers and invest in them appropriately. In particular, they must pay greater attention to measuring performance and feedback. In this survey, 89% of respondents said that candid feedback was important, but just 39% said they had received it. Tolerating under-performers carries a high price - 58% of senior and midlevel managers reported that they have worked for an under performing manager with the following results: • 76% said this prevented them from learning • 81% said it hurt their career • 82% said it prevented them from making a contribution to the bottom line • 86% said it made them want to leave the company The same survey found that good people are great for business. Based on mean responses from 410 corporate officers to the question of “how much more does a high performer generate annually than an average performer?” the survey proposed that high performers increased revenue in sales roles by 67%; increased profit in general management roles...
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...In “The Giver”, we are introduced to Jonas, the eleven-year-old protagonist of the story, as he struggles to find the right word to describe his feelings as he approaches an important milestone. He rejects “frightened” as too strong a word, recalling a time when he had really been frightened: a year ago, an unidentified aircraft flew over his community; it was a strange and unprecedented event, since Pilots were not allowed to fly over the community. As Jonas remembers the community reaction to the event, we learn more about the society in which he lives. It is extremely structured, with official orders transmitted through loudspeakers planted all around the community. As a punishment, the pilot was “released” from the community, the worst fate that can befall a citizen. Jonas decides he is apprehensive, not frightened (Jonas and his society value the use of precise and accurate language), about the important thing that is going to happen in December. Jonas thinks he lives in a perfect world. He lives in a highly ordered community where there is no pain, but he learns that there is a price to pay for this kind of life and discovers humanity’s long forgotten pains and joys. He finds out that he is living in a twisted messed up imperfect “utopia”. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD AN ESSAY SUBMITTED TO DR. MATT SANDERS FOR MASTER’S OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES PROGRAM BY MARCUS CAMPBELL MAY 2013 I. Introduction 2 II. Categories of Attributes 2 III. Incommunicable Attributes of God 5 A. Sovereignty 5 B. Aseity 7 C. Immutability 7 D. E. Eternity (Eternality) 9 F. Omnipotence 10 G. Omnipresence 11 H. Infinity 11 I. J. IV. Communicable Attributes of God 12 A. Holiness ...
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...Business leaders frequently face dilemmas, circumstances where whatever course of action they choose, something of important value will be offended. How can an organisation prepare its decision makers for such situations? This article presents a pedagogical approach to dilemma training for business leaders and managers. It has evolved through ten years of experience with human resource development, where ethics has been an integral part of programs designed to help individuals to become excellent in their professional roles. The core element in our approach is The Navigation Wheel, a figure used to keep track of relevant decision factors. Feedback from participants indicates that dilemma training has helped them to recognise the ethical dimension of leadership. They respond that the tools and concepts are highly relevant in relation to the challenges that occur in the working environment they return to after leadership training. Keywords: business ethics, leadership training, dilemma Introduction The purpose of this article is to present a pedagogical approach to dilemma training for business managers and leaders. In the past ten years we have been responsible for ethical training sessions in programs designed to help individuals develop their leadership skills. We have used elements from moral philosophy in attempts to cultivate the participants’ theoretical understanding of the morally challenging situations they can encounter in their practice as managers and...
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...relevance of the notion of knowledge communication for management. We outline where and how the communication of expertise from specialists to decision makers is crucial. We introduce key elements of the concept of knowledge communication and review influential theoretical constructs that explain why knowledge communication among experts and decision makers frequently fails. 1. INTRODUCTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE COMMUNICATION IN MANAGEMENT Communicating professional knowledge is a key activity for today’s specialized workforce. The efficient and effective transfer of experiences, insights, and know-how among different experts and decision makers is a prerequisite for high-quality decision making and coordinated, organizational action (Straub & Karahanna, 1998; Rosenthal & ‘t Hart, 1991). Situations of such deliberate (interfunctional) knowledge transfer through interpersonal communication or group conversations (Gratton & Goshal, 2002, Tsoukas 1996) can be found in many business constellations, as the following typical examples illustrate: Technology experts present their evaluation of a new technology to management in order to jointly devise a new production strategy (McDermott, 1999). Engineers who have discovered how to master a difficult manufacturing process need to convey their methods to engineers in other business units (Szulanski, 1996, 1999). Legal experts brief a management team on the implications of new regulations on their business model (Wilmotte & Morgan...
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...EG2401 Engineering Professionalism Group 3 Final Report EG2401 Engineering Professionalism Full Report Group Members: Liu Weiyuan (A0086030R) Pham Thi Cam Nguyen (A0074425H) Reymond Edlin (A0083418A) EG2401 Engineering Professionalism Group 3 Final Report EG2401 Engineering Professionalism Group 3 Final Report Contents Abstract I. Introduction/Background II. Method III. Discussion 1. Bribe or Gifts? Ethical or Unethical? 2. Case Studies and the Scenario Case Study # 1 Case Study # 2 Case Study # 3 3. Limitation IV. Conclusion References EG2401 Engineering Professionalism Group 3 Final Report Abstract Gift receiving has long been a problem in evaluating the ethicality of engineers. In this study, we analyse the ethical boundaries of gift receiving. The foreground for this analysis will be based on several factors, including the value of the gifts and the behaviour (or intention) of engineers after receiving the gifts. These criteria will underpin the discussion for the scenario on whether it is ethical for engineers A, B and C to receive gifts from contractors and suppliers, given that they are involved in the bidding process to select the from the same contractors and suppliers. This report will also evaluate various ethical concerns by comparing the scenario against three different case studies, which will act as the three different extents of moral lines that are set in place. These comparisons would be used to derive a conclusion for the scenario...
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...relevance of the notion of knowledge communication for management. We outline where and how the communication of expertise from specialists to decision makers is crucial. We introduce key elements of the concept of knowledge communication and review influential theoretical constructs that explain why knowledge communication among experts and decision makers frequently fails. 1. INTRODUCTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE COMMUNICATION IN MANAGEMENT Communicating professional knowledge is a key activity for today’s specialized workforce. The efficient and effective transfer of experiences, insights, and know-how among different experts and decision makers is a prerequisite for high-quality decision making and coordinated, organizational action (Straub & Karahanna, 1998; Rosenthal & ‘t Hart, 1991). Situations of such deliberate (interfunctional) knowledge transfer through interpersonal communication or group conversations (Gratton & Goshal, 2002, Tsoukas 1996) can be found in many business constellations, as the following typical examples illustrate: Technology experts present their evaluation of a new technology to management in order to jointly devise a new production strategy (McDermott, 1999). Engineers who have discovered how to master a difficult manufacturing process need to convey their methods to engineers in other business units (Szulanski, 1996, 1999). Legal experts brief a management team on the implications of new regulations on their business model (Wilmotte & Morgan...
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...Chapter 1 An Overview of International Business International business – business transactions between parties from more than one country. The global economy – an economy in which national borders are irrelevant The global manager – The early era of international business – Basic Forms of Global Business Activities Exporting and Importing Exporting – the selling of products made in one’s own country for use or resale in other countries. Importing – the buying of products made in other countries for use or resale in one’s own country. Merchandise exports and imports (visible trade) – such as clothing, computers, and raw materials. Service exports and imports (invisible trade) – such as banking, travel, and accounting activities. International Investments Foreign direct investments (FDI) – investments made for the purpose of actively controlling property, assets, or companies located in host countries. Foreign portfolio investments (FPI) – purchases of foreign financial assets (stocks, bonds, and certificates of deposit) for a purpose other than control. Home country – the country in which the parent company’s headquarters is located. Host country – any other country in which the company operates. Other Forms of International Business Activity International licensing – a contractual arrangement in which a firm in one country licenses the use of its intellectual property (patents, trademarks, brand names, copyrights, or trade secrets) to a firm in a...
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...Part 2 Cases Case 1A–Joint Venture #1: The Corning-Vitro Divorce This case analyzes the business venture and subsequent breakup of Corning Glass Works, and American company, and Vitro, a Mexican firm. Suggested Questions for Class Discussion 1. Did Vitro and Corning do enough research before engaging in a joint venture? 2. Was it wise to start with such a large venture? 3. Could some of the problems have been mitigated through cultural training during the joint venture? 4. Was two and one half years long enough to try to make the joint venture work? Was it too long? 5. What can the two companies do to prevent such situations from occurring in the future? Case 1B–Joint Venture #2: The Volvo-Renault Marriage This case presents an overview of the successful alliance between two automobile makers, Volvo and Renault. Suggested questions for class discussion: 1. How does this case differ from the situation presented in Case 1, the Corning/Vitro joint venture? 2. Did the “chemistry” between the two top executives contribute to the overall success of the venture? 3. Did not having a provision in the agreement for dissolving the relationship contribute to its success? 4. Did the purchase of each other’s stock help ensure success? Case 2–Moto Coming to America This case gives a detailed account of the “courtship”...
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