...The Great Debaters Based on a true story set in Marshall, Texas, in 1935, The movie captures the degradation of racial segregation. Using the example of segregated Wiley College's debate team, the script shows how African-Americans had to claw their way inch by inch toward social inclusion. The team struggled for the opportunity to debate white schools and, finally, based on their incredible string of victories, to debate and to defeat Harvard while a national radio audience listened in. “The Great Debaters” is also a morality tale (an archetypal narrative that is fundamentally didactic or prescriptive and relies heavily on both a morality (a conception of what is good or right), which is usually implicit, and a didactic moral, which is usually explicit.), Yet it is very different. Its message is that there is another way; that hard work, enterprise, preparation and perseverance pays off. It shows how “the system” can be changed without resorting to Mafia methods. The inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi is cited. The film’s script speaks eloquently against violence in the scene where the motoring Wiley College debaters accidently come upon a lynching and are lucky to escape from the mob with their lives. The movie portrays the poverty and ignorance of many dirt poor white folk that had nothing of their own except the mistaken belief the color of their skin elevated them to superior status. There’s an electric scene in which James Farmer Sr. runs over a white farmer’s pig and...
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...(comedy: includes lots of a natively spoken click language—phonetics/typology) • Children of a Lesser God (drama: about deaf culture and American Sign Language—typology/sociolinguistics) • Rango (comedy: about creating identity through speech patterns—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis/phonetics) • Snowcake (comedy/drama: about what can go hilariously/profoundly wrong when pragmatic implicatures are not used/understood—pragmatics/morphology) • Kenneth Branaugh’s Much Ado About Nothing (comedy: a sample of Shakespearean English—pay attention to the ways in which language has changed in the past 400 years—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics /phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics) • Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet (tragedy: as above—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics/phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics) • Driving Miss Daisy (comedy/drama: class differences in language use and pragmatic implicature—sociolinguistics/pragmatics) • Bridge on the River Kwai (drama: learning to communicate across a language/culture/power barrier—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis) • The Great Debaters (drama: using language to inform/persuade/manipulate—semantics/pragmatics/discourse analysis/rhetoric) • My Fair Lady (musical: about standard accents and class structure—sociolinguistics/phonetics) 2. Attend class the day the TA is teaching (TA—take attendance!). 3. Working in your small groups (we’ll figure out groups in...
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...Group Debate Analysis Paper Kenneth McDougald XBCOM/275 April 12, 2015 Lorelle Davies Group Debate Analysis Paper There are many benefits associated with group debates, but there are also many drawbacks. Let us talk about some benefits first. Different perspectives are brought into play when there is a group involved. These perspectives tend to yield more information especially when they are coming from different positions of the argument. Diversity in the group can add to these different perspectives. Someone who was raised in an upper class family in the suburbs would have different experiences and views than someone from an impoverished inner city area. Debating in groups can also improve one’s communication skills. It also gives the debaters the opportunity to show off there listening skills. If one cannot properly listen to the arguments being presented or the questions being asked it will be difficult to present an argument that is substantive. Communication is something that is important in many aspects of business and personal communication. It is important to be able to communicate eloquently and respectfully. Part of respect is self control. Controlling one’s emotions in a debate is the best way to be taken seriously. There are also a few drawbacks to group debates and many of us have seen them first hand. Political debates are a great example. How many times have you seen a presidential primary debate with 4 candidates get away from...
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...Section I: * Good reason: reasons that are psychologically compelling for a given audience that makes further inquiry both unnecessary and redundant. Therefore, justifying a decision to affirm or reject a proposition. (Page 2, 12th Edition) Example: * Ethos: means to convince by the character of the author and by the amount of respect and credibility the commands from the audience. Example: As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results. * NDT*: National debate tournament. (Page 20, 12th Edition). * CEDA*: Cross Examination Debate Association. (Page 20, 12th Edition) * Sophists: A person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments. Example: A person who uses graphs and scientific observation to convince someone that humans are not mammals. * Enthymeme: (1) A truncated syllogism, in which one of the premises or the conclusion is not stated. (Page 153, 12th Edition) Example: “You will come out victorious, just do your best." The missing premise is "All people who do their best are people who come out victorious." * Deduction: Argument that begins with a broad generalization and moves to a more specific application or conclusion. (Page 170, 12th Edition) Example: All living organisms eventually die. A flower is a living organism. Therefore, it will eventually die. * Induction: Argument that begins with a specific case and moves to a broader generalization...
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...Currently, I am planning to use four meter parabolic dish available in my college for constructing(making) a radio telescope using which I could study radio emissions from sun and 21 cm hydrogen line. As most of my Research projects involved simulations, I have gained a good command in computation and coding. I love doing experiments and analysis of data and that is the major reason why I performed very well in all my laboratory courses. I am a believer of this famous dictum “All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy”. Hence, apart from Astronomy, Physics and electronics, I play badminton and I am a folk dancer. From my school times, I am active debater and involved myself in various literary activities like poetry composition, various oratory competitions like declamation, extempore etc. I am also a member of Renewable energy club and debating society of my college. I love teaching and especially if it contributes to a cause and that’s why I am a part of social organization Nirmaan and currently working in one of their projects where we are providing quality education to poor and needy...
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...Week 3 (2) Keynes believed that it was a waste to save money, it only lead to destruction and prevent economic growth. He didn’t agree with private investment. He felt by keeping money in your pocket is senseless because soon we will all be dead. You can’t take the money with you. He also felt that the government should increase spending during times of recessions. In contrast, Hayek believed that you must save money so that you could later invest the money wisely. He felt time would multiply your interest. He felt that time did not matter. He believed the same principles of the economy that applied in the 1920 still applied in 2005. The solution was not to print more money, but to invest the money the money saved. (3) During Great Depression, Keynes concluded in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money that government action was needed to stimulate aggregate demand to promote consumption so that the economy could achieve its potential and thereby reduce unemployment. Since 1930, there were two major successes based on Keynesian theory: massive government spending during World War II propelled the United States out of the Depression and the 1964 tax cut stimulated the economy during a period of slow growth. Both public spending and tax cuts promoted consumption and a multiplier effect meant that for every dollar of spending or tax cut, consumers spent even more. In 1971, Keynes’s economic theory was in full ascendency when President Nixon declared in The...
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...Milton Friedman Jordan Locke Economics 10 April, 2013 Jordan C. Locke 10 April, 2013 Period: 2 Ms. House Milton Friedman Milton Friedman once said, "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand”. Due to Friedman's many accomplishments and published works in the Economics field, I felt that he would be a great economist to write about. Milton Friedman was born in 1912, to two Jewish immigrant parents that lived in New York City. He earned his Bachelor's degree at Rutgers University at the age of twenty. He then went to the University of Chicago in 1933 to earn his Masters. In 1946, he earned his Doctorate at the Columbia University. He received the John Bates Clark Medal, honoring economists that had achieved the most outstanding levels of achievement by the age of Forty. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy. He served as an adviser for President Richard Nixon, and he was the president of the American Economic Association in 1967. He retired from the University of Chicago in 1977, and became the senior researcher at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. He was the premier spokesman for the monetarist school of economics and a pioneer in promoting the value of free market economics, when the position was not popular. Milton Friedman was...
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...CRJS-6137-4 Analysis of an Offender Larry Tyus April 10, 2016 ABSTRACT My topic is about being a drug dealer and addressing all of the concepts of what and constitute and define a drug dealer, and it does get a bad rap, but at the same times it is glorified through songs and movies. We will address the issue of whether being a criminal is an inherent trait or learned behavior, the average age group of most dealers and their family and social environments. I will only use data as it pertains to cocaine, whether it is powder or crack, heroin and methamphetamine since they are the preferred choice. What constitute criminal behavior Criminal behavior is a behavior in which the offender commits an offense that has been deemed as being unlawful act and punishable by the government and usually it is against individuals or property. Criminal behavior is seen as being prohibition or possession that constitutes a menace against the general public or society. In hope of confining and understanding criminal behavior researcher begin to study the brain of violent crime and compare their findings to the brain imaging “normal” individual. Through doing this they came up a new field of study called neurocriminology. Adrian Raine has studied the brain image of murders, violent criminals and psychopaths and from this research, he is convinced that there is a social and environmental cause to violent behavior. Although he is also convinced there exist a biology side of this type of behavior (npr...
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...http://hr.blr.com/whitepapers/Staffing-Training/Leadership/10-Qualities-that-Made-Abraham-Lincoln-a-Great-Lea 10 Qualities that Made Abraham Lincoln a Great Leader By Catherine L. Moreton, J.D. Capacity to Listen to Different Points of View While researching her Pulitzer Prize winning book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Kearns Goodwin learned that Lincoln had the capacity to listen to different points of view. He created a climate where Cabinet members were free to disagree without fear of retaliation. At the same time, he knew when to stop the discussion and after listening to the various opinions, make a final decision. Ability to Learn on the Job Lincoln was able to acknowledge errors, learn from them, and then move. In this way, he established a culture of learning in his administration, said Kearns Goodwin. Ready Willingness to Share Credit for Success In response to concerns expressed by friends about the actions of some of his Cabinet members, Lincoln stated that the "path to success and ambition is broad enough for two" said Kearns Goodwin. When there was success, Lincoln shared the credit with all of those involved. Ready Willingness to Share Blame for Failure When mistakes were made by members of his Cabinet, Lincoln stood up for them said Kearns Goodwin. When contracts related to the war effort raised serious questions about a member of his administration, Lincoln spoke up and indicated that he and his entire Cabinet...
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...REFERENCE: Horngren, Charles T., George Foster, and Srikant M. Datar. Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis. Eleventh edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003 (or another cost accounting text) Kaplan, Robert S., and Robin Cooper. Cost and Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998. Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. Porter, Michael E. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. New York: The Free Press, 1985. Ronstadt. The Art of Case Analysis. Third edition. Lord Publishing, 1993. (1-800-525-5673) COURSE METHOD: The requiring reading for the course includes cases and chapters contained in the assigned textbook and supplementary materials. Most class...
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...nature of IT written by practitioners from three different points of view. It deals with IT Doesn’t Matter, a polemic written by Nicholas Carr, then editor of the Harvard Business Review in which he argued that the days when IT offered strategic advantage are long since gone and that managers therefore should undertake a different approach to IT. The paper, obviously, became notorious in the IS community. On December 3, 2003, the Southern California Chapter of the Society for Information Management, at its regular meeting invited three of its members with long experience as chief information officers to debate the issue. The title of the meeting was: "I.T. Doesn't Matter or Does It? How to Improve the Value and Perception of I.T.” The three debaters were assigned a position to argue: favorable to Carr (Laskey), neutral (DeJarnett), and unfavorable to Carr (Trainor). Edited versions of their remarks are presented below. Keywords: value of IT, perception of IT, role of IT, Nicholas Carr, I.T. Doesn’t Matter, IT Does Matter, contrarian point-of-view, strategic advantage, vanishing advantage of I.T., ubiquity, management of technology I. MAKING SENSE OF THE IT DOESN'T MATTER DEBATE by Robert Laskey INTRODUCTION Perhaps too much has been written about the debate surrounding Nicholas Carr's [2003] article, IT Doesn't Matter, in the Harvard Business Review. In lieu of a debate, what management needs now are some answers on how to...
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...Warning Concerning Copyright Restrictions The Copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyright material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction not be "used for any purposes other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. How to Say Nothing in 500 Words Paul Roberts Paul Roberts (1917-1967) was a linguist, a teacher, and a writer at San Jose State College from 1946 to 1960 and at Cornell University from 1962 to 1964. His books on writing, including English Syntax (1954) and Patterns of English (1956), have helped generations of high school and college students become better writers. "How to Say Nothing in 500 Words" is taken from his best-known book, Understanding English (1958). Although written almost fifty years ago, the essay is still relevant for student writers today. Good writing, Roberts tells us, is not simply a matter of filling up a page; rather, the words have to hold the reader's interest, and they must say something. In this essay, Roberts uses lively prose and a step-by-step process to guide the student from the blank page to the finished essay...
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...HBR.ORG Spotlight on Smarter sales The End of Solution Sales The old playbook no longer works. Star salespeople now seek to upend the customer’s current approach to doing business. by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, and Nicholas Toman July–August 2012 reprinT R1207C Spotlight on Smarter sales Spotlight Artwork Chad Wys, Thrift Store Landscape With a Color Test, 2009, paint on found canvas and frame, 42" x 34" x 2" For article reprints call 800-988-0886 or 617-783-7500, or visit hbr.org Brent Adamson is a managing director, Matthew Dixon is an executive director, and Nicholas Toman is a research director at Corporate Executive Board. The End of Solution Sales The old playbook no longer works. Star salespeople now seek to upend the customer’s current approach to doing business. by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, and Nicholas Toman July–August 2012 Harvard Business Review 3 Copyright © 2012 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. T Spotlight on Smarter sales The hardest thing about B2B selling today is that customers don’t need you the way they used to. In recent decades sales reps have become adept at discovering customers’ needs and selling them “solutions”—generally, complex combinations of products and services. This worked because customers didn’t know how to solve their own problems, even though they often had a good understanding of what their problems were. But now, owing to increasingly...
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...Guide to Admissions 2016-2017 CONTENTS S.No. Particulars Page No. 1. General Information 1 – 34 2. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences 35 3. Faculty of Arts 38 4. Faculty of Commerce 47 5. Faculty of Engineering & Technology 50 6. Faculty of Law 60 7. Faculty of Life Sciences 61 8. Faculty of Management Studies & Research 66 9. Faculty of Medicine 68 10. Faculty of Science 71 11. Faculty of Social Sciences 77 12. Faculty of Theology 88 13. Faculty of Unani Medicine 90 14. Centre of Professional Courses 92 15. Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit 94 16. Faculty of International Studies 95 17. Senior Secondary Schools 97 18. K.A. Nizami Centre for Quranic Studies 100 19. Community College 101 20. Part Time Courses 104 21. Bridge Course, Centre for Promotion of Educational and Cultural Advancement of Muslims of India 118 S.No. Particulars 22. Appendix – I 23. Page No. Appendix – II(A) 24. 25. 26. (Summary of Courses of study (with their Application Form Details & Test Fee) (Undertaking for Non-upgradation of the course / branch/main subject/ stream/ specialization already allotted) 120 128 Appendix – II(B) (Undertaking for submission of required original documents at the time of completion of admission formalities) 129 Appendix – II(C) ...
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...MOB Final Review Ch 8- Motivation: From Concepts to Applications * Developed by J. Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham, the job characteristics model (5) 1.Skill variety: the degree to which a job requires a variety of different activities so the worker can use specialized skills and talents. The work of a garage owner operator, who does electrical work, rebuilds engine, does body work, and interacts with customer’s scores high on skill variety. The job of a body shop owner worker who sprays paints 8 hrs. a day scores low on this dimension. 2.Task identity: the degree to which a job requires completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work. A cabinet workers who designs a piece of furniture, selects wood, builds the object, and finishes it to perfection has a job that scores high on task identity. A job scoring low on this dimension is operating a factory lathes solely to make table legs. 3.Task significance: the degree to which a job affects the lives or work of other people. The job of a nurse handling the diverse needs of patients in a hospital intensive care unit scores high on task significance; sweeping floors in a hospital scores low. 4.Autonomy: the degree to which a job provides the workers freedom, independence, and discretion in scheduling work and determining the procedures for carrying it out. A salesperson that schedules his or her own work each day decides on the sales approach for each customer without supervision...
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