...General George Wingate set out to do was create an association that would promote and encourage rifle shooting. The two men visited a bank in 1871 and was given a loan by the state of New York to create and work toward the National Rifle Association. The two men discussed who they would hire to become president. They decided on a former General of the Cilvil War, General Ambrose Burnside. The three men then purchased land in Long, Island, New York to build a rifle range, which would eventually hold the first rifle shooting matches. Because of various complications the three men had to sell their land back to the state of New York and move the NRA to Sea Girt, New Jersey. In 1903 the NRA set out to promote shooting clubs in colleges, universities, and military establishments. By the year 1906 the NRA was hosting more then two hundred young men from around the world in shooting competitions in New Jersey. Even today the shooting competitions of young men is one of the largest for the NRA. They have over one million participants including the 4-H, the Boy Scouts of America, the American Legion, and the US Jaycees. Because the NRA was getting so large, they needed to open a new range to host all participants. Construction on a new range was started just off the shores of Lake Erie. This new range was called "Camp Perry". Camp Perry became the host of the national shooting matches. With over six thousand people attending this shoot annually, it is one of the largest sporting...
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...A modest prediction for the next 100 years People are intrigued by the question over the years by asking what the world will look like since the invention of science and technology. The world has changed in the last 100 years or so but we humans are still driven by same food, sex, and having the feeling of being loved in our society. If you are to eliminate the inventions that were brought by science and technology, most people will be affected because they addicted or stalked with the idea of having electricity, video games, computers, television, and their cars which enables them to move from one place to another. Depending too much on science and technology can be detrimental to our culture or way of traditionally getting things done in the society. During the time of the axial people did stuff manually without the help of machines or something. And a lot of philosophers existed at that time which helped to predict their future success or failures. People from the axial age are said to lack self-reflection or awareness. Our current generation is pretty much messed up because we have eradicated and moved away from the ancient way doing things or thinking. For me I feel that predicting our future is important because first of all we would like to think about the future we would like for ourselves and our upcoming generations. Flying automobiles like cars is an epitome that has been seen in cartoons and movies. It is an interesting concept to deliberate about and also we have...
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...The Barn Owl: Its Role and its Endangerment Often times, it goes unrealized that there are important roles and purposes distributed amongst the vast fauna on Earth. It is this diversity which maintains a sense of equilibrium when it comes to animal populations and/or flora-related phenomena. The Barn Owl (Tyto alba), falling under the smaller side of owl species, exemplifies itself as both a fundamental element in rodent control as well as a symbol of ghostly beauty. Yet, survival of the species is not guaranteed. Numerous factors, including both naturally occurring as well as human-caused, have contributed to the owl’s decline in recent years. Additionally, given that their breeding cycles produce a limited amount of young in conjunction to their short life spans, Tyto alba’s numbers are predicted to reach further abatement in the near future. Human-associated activity has been regarded as a significant component in the Barn Owl’s downfall; nonetheless, human involvement in the conservation of the species can also mend this trend and bring it back towards escalation. Having a wingspan of approximately 85cm, Tyto alba is considered relatively small in comparison to other species of owls (Bunn, Warburton, and Wilson 23). They weigh between 470 and 570g (1.0-1.3lbs) and feature an array of distinct physical qualities (Martin, Raid, and Branch 1). Their head resembles a heart and have no visible ear tufts as other species of owl portray. Their beak is typically of a pink shade...
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... O’Brien and George M. Marakas, in Management Information Systems maintain “the Internet has a wealth of information and contacts for both employers and job hunters” (292). While internet job searching may be an effective resource for job seekers, cyber recruiting may also be valuable for employers. The 10th Annual Source of Hire Study is conducted annually by Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler of CareerXroads. In January, 2011 they surveyed 200 large, competitive, well-branded firms and discovered that over 42% of new hires resulted from use of the Internet (2). The CareerXroads study determined that 53% of all hires are promotions or transfers. Internal movement is the number one source of all hires (7). The number two source of external hires is internet-based job boards and corporate websites. Over 24% of all external hires are sourced from job boards and 19% from corporate websites (8). General job boards, like monster.com and careerbuilder.com make up 15% of new hires, and an additional 6% are attributed to niche sites (15). A niche website is a website that targets a specific audience. Websites like elance.com, guru.com, and vworker.com target freelance workers, independent contractors, and others who prefer to work on a project basis. Monster.com, a 10-year old online recruitment provider claims to be “the premier global online employment solution for people seeking jobs and employers who need great people” (Who). Monster.com targets everyone. It is a global job board...
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...The Wildlife Leadership Academy (WLA) may seem like a week long summer camp, but the WLA goes far beyond one week. The skills, knowledge, and networking instilled by this weeklong opportunity for high school age youth lasts a lifetime. In fact, the mission of the WLA is to “engage and empower high school age youth to become Conservation Ambassadors to ensure a sustained wildlife, fisheries and natural resource legacy for future generations.” The WLA has certainly held true to this mission. The academy has graduated 274 high school youth from across 60 counties in Pennsylvania, as well as students from Ohio, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland and North Carolina. The impact of the camp spreads far beyond the students involved. Conservation...
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...Vasconcellos Fabiana Vasconcellos ENG 201 – 526 Apr. 20, 2010 Prof. J. Wynter Societies can be stratified in various ways, such as religion, social class, language, race, ethnicity, gender and sex. These distinctions are either socially constructed or born within the individual. Sex; for example, is based on the ascribed status since it is “imposed by nature” (Renzetti and Curran 137) and biologically determined. In contrast, gender is socially constructed since it “refers to the constellation of traits and behaviors that compose the categories masculine and feminine” (Renzetti and Curran 252). These gender distinctions are reinforced by stereotypes that contribute to social inequality and discrimination in the western societies. Throughout history, our society has always complied with gender roles, however today we are walking through a path to reverse them. Having been conformed to mother’s role for 40 years, Sarah Pen the main character in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’ “The Revolt of the Mother” gains self-confidence to challenge traditional gender roles and reverses them in order to live in a better home. Our society has always characterized men and women in different ways and expected different behaviors from them. “[M]en have generally been the dominant sex and women have been subordinate to them” (Robertson 217). Men are also “strong”, “rational” and “aggressive” while women are “weak”, “emotional”, and “submissive” (Basow 1). These masculine and feminine traits show...
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...Animal Rights Introduction Ethics and morality have consistently been topics of concern in our society. Concerns about ethics and morality also extend to matters associated with the treatment of animals. The purpose of this discussion is to summarize and critique several different theories associated with the ethical treatment of animals. The discussion will focus on the treatment of animals as it relates to hunting and trapping animals, eating animals, using animals for research, and the manner in which domestic and wild animals are treated. The research will summarize and critique several theories including anthropocentrism, Animal liberation, Strong Animal Rights Theory, Weak(er) animal rights theory, Two-factor egalitarianism, biocentric egalitarianism, ecocentric views. Anthropocentrism Anthropocentrism views human being as the center of the universe and regards the world from the point of view of human values and experiences (Dictionary). According to the western philosopher Immanuel Kant human beings alone are rational beings and as such have intrinsic moral worth. Kant asserts that human beings do not owe animals anything because they are not rational beings. However, he does assert that people should be kind to animals but only because kindness to animals assists in developing character in human beings. In other words kindness to animals should not take place for the sake of the animal but for the betterment of the human being. In addition to Kant...
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...safety or well-being’. Example of safe environment is as follows: - · Employees are treated with respect and dignity · Free from sexual and verbal harassment · No negative reference made to any of the employee’s based on skin colour, gender or religion · Hire security guards to guard the office Health and safety at work is expensive. There are personal and social costs arising from the debilitating demands of stressful work situations, the dangers that are part of work and the burden of deteriorating health (Fairbrother, P., 1996, p.5). It is vital to look into health and safety issue in a work place, as the organization will be able to overcome and prevents creation of certain problem. Problems that may arise due to lacking of importance given to health and safety are increase in injuries, number of death, cost,...
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...culture to my own society. Other names for the Iroquois are Haudenosaunee, People of the Longhouse, and the Six Nations. The Iroquois Indians lived in what is now New York State along the St. Lawrence River. “The Iroquois Indians were known as the "Five Nations". The league was formed before European contact. The original five nations are Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca. The Tuscarora joined later, after European contact, and became the sixth nation.” (Miller, 2000-2001) The Iroquois originated from Up State New York. Throughout migration they gained control of most of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. In 1680, “their empire extended west from the north shore of Chesapeake Bay through Kentucky to the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; then north following the Illinois River to the south end of Lake Michigan; east across all of lower Michigan, southern Ontario and adjacent parts of southwestern Quebec; and finally south through northern New England west of the Connecticut River through the Hudson and upper Delaware Valleys across Pennsylvania back to the Chesapeake. IROQUOIS KINSHIP 3 Kinship systems in Foraging and Horticultural based societies provide support for people in all stages of their life. Iroquois men were in charge of hunting, trading, and war. Iroquois women were in charge of farming, property, and...
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...transformation into young men and responsible leaders. O’Brien is not a character in the story but the fact that he is fluent with military lingo and conveys great passion and a working knowledge of the military suggests that he was a soldier. He tells his war story of soldiers’ experiences with obsession, duty, regret, burden, comradely and maturing. He achieves this by describing every facet of the items they carried with great accuracy and detail. The things they carried as they are depicted in the story represent literal things, emotional things, psychological things and symbolic things all weighing in at different levels of importance. There were physical as well as emotional things they carried on their missions, both were equally burdensome. O’Brien states that during missions many of these items were discarded no regardless of their importance to achieve a higher level of comfort. The author further states that the choppers would effortlessly replace the discarded items. In research conducted by Michael Tavel Clarke he implies that this behavior is immature, irresponsible and wasteful. Clarke also points out the blatant transformation of Cross into a disciplined leader. The things they carried identified them by rank and military occupation specialty. While some of the physical items seem silly to many it didn’t make them any less of a necessity. The author states “By necessity, and because it was SOP, they...
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...Strategic Management O’Neill’s Sports Teresa Mc Guire; L00063943 Samuel Greene; L00092056 Rachael Colhoun; L00086911 Table of Contents No. | Index | Page Number | 1 | Table of Contents | 1 | 2 | Executive Summary | 2 | 3 | Introduction to Company | 3 | 4 | Michael Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis | 4 | 5 | P.E.S.T Analysis | 7 | 6 | VRIN Strategic Capabilities | 9 | 7 | The Value Chain | 12 | 8 | Critical Evaluation Of Strategy | 16 | 9 | Recommendations | 18 | 10 | Bibliography | 20 | 11 | Appendices | 21 | | | | Executive Summary Having received the brief for this C A our team arranged an initial meeting to discuss a number of ideas and issues. We had to choose which organisation to focus on, what was to be done individually and as a team and how and when to meet, correlate and progress. We all agreed that our focus was to be on the LYIT. We were attending the institute and had a handle on the culture, had access to information and knowledgeable people. Quite soon afterwards we ran into some problems when we started conducting internal (Value Chain & VRIN) and external (5 Forces & P.E.S.T) analysis. The nature of the business of the institute was in complete contrast to that of any organisation we had studied previously in that it was operating in the Public sector, was primarily focussed on the provision of services and not on profit maximisation and had no tangible end-product for sale. We couldn’t agree...
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...the Land Use Planning Commons Recommended Citation David Riesman, Some Observations on Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History”, 1962 Wash. U. L. Q. 288 (1962). Available at: http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol1962/iss3/2 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Law Review by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact digital@wumail.wustl.edu. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON LEWIS MUMFORD'S 'THE CITY IN HISTORY' DAVID RIESMAN* For a number of years I have not had any time to undertake book reviews but I feel so keenly the importance and excitement of Mumford's work, and my own personal debt to that work, that I wanted to contribute to this symposium even if I could not begin to do justice to the task. What follows are my only slightly modified notes made on reading selected chapters of the book-notes which I had hoped to have time to sift and revise for a review. I hope I can give some flavor of the book and of its author and invite readers into the corpus of Mumford's work on their own. 1. Lewis Mumford correctly says in the book that he is a generalist, not a specialist; indeed until recently he has not had (or perhaps wanted to have) a full-time academic position. There are generalists faute de mieux, who cannot make the grade in a specialty; there are ...
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...According to Robbins, et al. (2009, p. 450) the most important and critical decision HR personnel has to make is to effectively select the right people by figuring out the right match between individual’s ability, experience, attitude, skills and knowledge and job requirements. This is not always easy and in most cases not achievable as lot of factors like organization’s adherence to recruitment and selection policies, processes used, Government regulations e.g. Employment Equity Act, budget for recruitment and lastly the urgency to fill the position shift the focus of hiring the “best” suited candidates. Recruitment and Selection: Johnson & Johnson & Unilever Both Unilever and J&J specify a certain amount of desired skills that potential new recruits should possesses. They are ranging from effective communication for global and international competitiveness, language skills and intercultural sensitivity. J&J also ensures that there is a match and fit between individual’s values and company’s beliefs as laid down in the...
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...1 LESSON- 1 ENTREPRENEUR AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Dr. Jyotsna Sethi STRUCTURE 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Objectives 1.2 Entrepreneurship as a Career Option 1.3 Concepts and Definitions 1.3.1 Entrepreneur 1.3.2 Entrepreneurship 1.3.3 Enterprise 1.3.4 Difference between Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship 1.4 Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development 1.4.1 Entrepreneurship and Economic Development 1.4.2Entrepreneurship and Education 1.5 Functions of an Entrepreneur 1.6 Innovation 1.7 Risk and Uncertainty Bearing 1.8 Organization 1.9 Functions Performed by an Imitator Entrepreneur 1.10Entrepreneur vs. Manager Relationship 1.11 Summary 1.12 Glossary 1.13 Self-Assessment Questions 1.14 Further Readings 1.0 INTRODUCTION Do you know that there are millions of unemployed youth in the country and by the time you graduate, this number would have increased substantially? Do you want to be part of that group which keeps knocking from pillar to post, checking with employment exchanges, relatives, friends, and neighbours and still not able to get a job to their liking and then settle for a second or third rate job? You can also choose to be like Mr. Patel of Nirma who was a chemist’s assistance and has a Rs. 2500 crore company today. Did you know that the original Mr. Bata was a cobbler? And now has stores in more than 30 countries all over the world. Or...
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...SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH AS A UNIQUE TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY IN THE CAT BA BIOSPHERE RESERVE OF VIETNAM Thanh Van Mai Bosch O.J.H School of Integrative Systems, The University of Queensland, QLD 4343, Australia Corresponding author (thanh.mai@uqconnect.edu.au) ABSTRACT Tourism is not simply an industry, but is an open, dynamic and complex system. The system consists of many interacting components and involves many different stakeholders. The development of tourism in a sustainable way impinges on and is subject to many factors. The limitation of traditional approaches to tourism research has become evidently in many cases. These approaches have usually looked at a particular issue or issues of the whole tourism picture. As a result, it has become difficult to manage tourism toward sustainability. This paper provides an overview of the systems thinking approach and its application in the study of the tourism system in the Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve of Vietnam. This study shows that systems thinking has proved to be an effective and powerful tool to explain the complexities of the tourism system. It has helped to simplify, clarify and integrate isolated problems associated with the industry, and provided a mechanism for group learning and decision making to achieve desirable outcomes. The paper proposes systems thinking be used as an appropriate tool for sustainable tourism development. Key words: complexity, dynamics, sustainability, systems thinking...
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