...is a definite encouraging position to be seen As the emergent ideas inundated my mind to express my point of view and approaches in reference to these words I consistently discovered myself reverting back to independence, strong self-esteem and acquiescent. During my evaluating and revision of the stories and poems that were assigned and in conjunction with my reviewed analysis of these stories and poems by others, I discovered that a definite subject of the acceptance of others once they were further educated was determined as well. The passages from Lauren Axelrod and my point of view provided a sound transcribed breakdown. Self-empowerment is gained through knowledge. I found myself following the guidance of the author, during my reflection and brainstorming for this essay, and pursued the guidelines on pages eighty nine and ninety. As what needed to be followed in the instructions was stated, some of the wide-ranging generalities and expectations that came to mind while thinking over the words knowledge and individual power are what I penned down. The way toward individual power above one’s individual atmosphere is paved by the possession of knowledge. The ability for you to be a much sounder person and to be able to progress the surroundings for those that are around you. An ideology and the power is instilled in you that you will be confidently encouraged to feel and live better. Assistance in coming up with better choices and lead you in the direction of righteousness...
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...Stranger, is an existential anti-hero. Locked into the routine of daily existence, his life is a shapeless void without ideas, preferences, goals, or emotions. Like a robot, Meursault responds to everything automatically, neither feeling nor caring. When he is offered a job transfer to Paris, Meursault says he does not care where he works; yet he does not go because moving would be too much trouble. His mother’s death is met with similar lack of response: he feels no despair or grief. Occasionally, Meursault lacks motivation to do anything, so he spends the day sitting at his bedroom window, smoking cigarettes more out of habit than desire. Meursault utilizes all of the six existential themes: Freedom, Contingency, Individuality, Existence, Reflection, and Nihilism. The first existential theme is freedom. Freedom means that whatever happened prior to now does not influence what your next choice in life will be, we are free to make any choice we want. Meursault displays Freedom by just doing as he wishes to do. Meursault’s mother dies so he attends the funeral. While at his mother's funeral, Meursault decides to smoke cigarettes, drink a cup of coffee, and also he fails to cry. This just shows how Meursault is displaying his free will, he does not let the influence of his mother dying effect what he...
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...art has its own history as well. The Ancient art period started before 500 B.C with its characteristics were about God, Goddess and Heroes. Women, in ancient Greek and Roman societies, did not have high status and they were considered as properties of men. During that time, woman was just being a wife and being a mother and stayed at home to take care of the house for her man. Women did not have any role in politics therefore they could not vote and they did not have any right for themselves. The roles of women could be learned by reviewing how female figures were created through the ancient Greek and Roman art works. Most of the female figures, in any art work during this period, were either goddess; such as statue of Athena goddess of wisdom,warfare and women's craft, or monsters; such as Sphixn in Greek mythology. Therefore, during the ancient...
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...trip to Mecca, which the the holiest city of Islam, as it is the birthplace of Muhammad and the faith itself. When someone goes to Mecca in order to seek answers in faith or to pray to their god, it is called a pilgrimage, or a religious journey. Malcolm X said “My vocabulary cannot describe the new mosque that was being built around the Ka’aba”. He described the sacred site as “a huge black stone house in the middle of the Grand Mosque. It was being circumambulated, or walked around by thousands upon thousands of praying pilgrims, both sexes, and every size, shape, color, race in the world.” It was a sight that inspired his famous “Letters from Abroad”, three letters, one from Saudi Arabia, one from Nigeria and one from Ghana, that began reflection Malcolm X’s philosophy. “America,” he wrote from Saudi Arabia on April 20, 1964, “needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases the race problem from its society.” He would later concede that “the white man is not inherently evil, but America’s racist society influences him to act evilly." His philosophy was taking a new direction. But his critique of liberalism went on unabated. He was willing to take the help of “sincere whites,” but he was under no illusion that the solution for black Americans would not begin with...
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...Walt Whitman Through the history of the United States there have been a countless numbers of poets. With them came an equal number of writing styles. Certainly one of the most unique poets to write life’s story through his own view of the world and with the ambition to do it was Walter Whitman. Greatly criticized by many readers of his work, Whitman was not a man to be deterred. Soon he would show the world that he had a voice, and that it spoke with a poet’s words. Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Thus Whitman began his “Song of the Open Road”. This paper will attempt to describe his life and poetry in a way that does justice to the path he chose. He was a man who grew up impoverished, who wrote from his experiences, and who tried to lift his fellow men above life’s trivialities. These are the points to be discussed on these pages. To know the essence of Walter Whitman, you would have to understand the heart of his writing. For he is in his pen. Walter Whitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, on May 31, 1819 . He did not have much opportunity for education in his early life. His parents were mostly poor and illiterate- his father a laborer, while his mother was a devout Quaker. Whitman was one of nine children and little is known about his youth except that two of his siblings were imbeciles. No wonder he demonstrated such an insight for life in his poems...
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...FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES LEADERSHIP SKILLS PEC05 ASSIGNMENT : MULAN & THE LION KING NAME | ID NUMBER | ELYZA IDAYU BINTI AFANDI | 012014111080 (BFN) | LECTURER : MISS ADAWIYAH MARKS: MARKS: SYNOPSIS OF MULAN Mulan is a girl, the only child of her honored family. When the Huns invade China, one man from every family is called to fight for the country. Mulan's father, who has an old wound and cannot walk properly, decides to fight for his country and the honor of his family though it is clear that he will not survive an enemy encounter. Mulan, who just got rejected by the matchmaker because she had set her on fire, decides to prove that she is worth something and steals away to fit her father's place in the Chinese army. She prays to her family's ancestors for protection and luck before leaving as a man in her father's armor with her family's horse. The ancestors awake and decide to send Mushu, a little dishonored dragon as Mulan’s guardian. Mulan proceeds into camp and meets fellow soldiers, but under advice from Mushu on how to act like a man. However, Captain Li Shang begins a grueling training schedule and is visibly disappointed at his new troop's abilities, or lack thereof. Eventually he orders Mulan to return home, but she succeeds in impressing him by retrieving an arrow from a tall pole while weighed down with brass amulets. The troops, inspired by this, all improve and become good soldiers. Weeks later...
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...something bad or wrong Strategy: to do things right Weakness: boring for all their naive innocence Talent: faith and optimism The Innocent is also known as: Utopian, traditionalist, naive, mystic, saint, romantic, dreamer. The Innocent provides an identity for brands that: * offer a simple solution to an identifiable problem are associated with goodness, morality, simplicity, nostalgia or childhood * are low or moderately priced are produced by a company with straightforward values need to be differentiated from brands with poor reputations. 2. The Regular Guy/Girl Motto: All men and women are created equal Core Desire: connecting with others Goal: to belong Greatest fear: to be left out or to stand out from the crowd Strategy: develop ordinary solid virtues, be down to earth, the common touch Weakness: losing one's own self in an effort to blend in or for the sake of superficial relationships Talent: realism, empathy, lack of pretense The Regular Person is also known as: The good old boy, everyman,...
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...May I never be content. May I never be perfect” (Palahniuk). This dialogue has been said by Jack himself and not Tyler Durden, in a moment of self reflection where he pleads his alter ego this deliver him to his destiny and bring him out of his misery, once and for all. Here, the words like "complete", "content", "perfect", has been used in a negative light to bring out the thirst for a man's efforts at gaining perfection. But what does completeness and perfection achieve? It is just a way to settle for mediocrity as the sole essence of life lies in educating oneself and gaining wisdom till the...
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...www.hbr.org Today’s central managerial challenge is to inspire and enable knowledge workers to solve, day in and day out, problems that cannot be anticipated. The Competitive Imperative of Learning by Amy C. Edmondson Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 The Competitive Imperative of Learning 10 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications This document is authorized for use only by Suzi Tack (ST@STRATHSPEYCROWN.COM). Copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. Please contact customerservice@harvardbusiness.org or 800-988-0886 for additional copies. Reprint R0807E The Competitive Imperative of Learning The Idea in Brief Most managers believe that relentless execution—the efficient, timely production and delivery of offerings—is vital to corporate performance. Execution-as-efficiency is important. But focusing too narrowly on it can prevent your company from adapting effectively to change. Consider General Motors: Managers’ confidence in GM’s famously efficient control systems blinded them to big shifts in the market, including customers’ preferences for fuel-efficient cars. GM posted a $38.7 billion loss in 2007. Edmondson recommends widening your lens to include execution-as-learning. Companies that use this approach focus not just on carrying...
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...Losing Your Place Sue Clifford and Angela King The main players fall silent, the filming is over, the recording is finished, but the sound technician has hushed everyone to get some 'atmos'. Coughs, car noise echoing off the warehouses, birdsong, boards creaking, trees breathing in the wind, these are the sounds of the everyday, so particular to this place, that to cut the film and add studio voiceovers needs an underlay of this local atmosphere in order to ensure continuity and authenticity. That elusive particularity, so often undervalued as 'background noise', is as important as the stars. It is the richness we take for granted. How do we know where we are in time and space? How do we understand ourselves in the world? Common Ground has been exploring and developing a new concept, that of local distinctiveness. It is characterised by elusiveness, it is instantly recognizable yet difficult to describe; It is simple yet may have profound meaning to us. It demands a poetic quest and points up the shortcomings in all those attempts to understand the things around us by compartmentalising them, fragmenting, quantifying, reducing. Local distinctiveness is essentially about places and our relationship with them. It is as much about the commonplace as about the rare, about the everyday as much as the endangered, and about the ordinary as much as the spectacular. In other cultures it might be about people's deep relationship with the land. Here discontinuities have...
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...The Genius and Beauty Found Within The Clifton StrengthsFinder Themes of Talent Edward “Chip” Anderson, Ph.D. Professor, Doctoral Studies in Educational Leadership Azusa Pacific University [Note: This was the last writing from Chip before his death on July 5, 2005. In it, he shares his thoughtful reflections on each of the Clifton StrengthsFinder themes, in terms of the “genius” he saw in each one. He presented this to the Board of Trustees of Azusa Pacific University.] Genius: spirit, fondness for social enjoyment 1. a. An attendant spirit of a person or place b. A person who influences another for good or bad a strong leaning or inclination; a peculiar, distinctive, or identifying character or spirit; the association and traditions of a place; a personification or embodiment esp. of a quality or condition. A single strongly marked capacity or aptitude. Extraordinary intellectual power esp. as manifested in creative activity. A person endowed with transcendent mental superiority; a person with a very high intelligence quotient. From my experience, each of the themes of talent identified by the Clifton StrengthsFinder Inventory has a stroke of genius within it. The genius of our talents reflects what those talents enable and empower us to do to potential levels of excellence. The concept of genius refers to an extraordinary ability to do certain things, and as such there is great beauty in seeing what is done by the genius within individuals. Accordingly...
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...DISCOVER YOUR DESTINY WITH THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERRARI 7 S TAGES O F S ELF-AWAKENING T HE ROBIN SHARMA JAICO PUBLISHING HOUSE Ahmedabad Bangalore Bhopal Chennai Delhi Hyderabad Kolkata Mumbai Published by Jaico Publishing House A-2 Jash Chambers, 7-A Sir Phirozshah Mehta Road Fort, Mumbai - 400 001 jaicopub@jaicobooks.com www.jaicobooks.com © Robin Sharma Published in arrangement with HarperCollinsPublishersLtd Toronto, Canada DISCOVER YOUR DESTINY ISBN 81-7992-327-4 First Jaico Impression: 2004 Twenty-seventh Jaico Impression: 2009 No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Printed by Rashmi Graphics #3, Amrutwel CHS Ltd., C.S. #50/74 Ganesh Galli, Lalbaug, Mumbai-400 012 E-mail: tiwarijp@vsnl.net q/Discover Your Destiny 01.12.03 15.43 Page ix Acknowledgements I am blessed to be surrounded by many extraordinary people in my life. Without them, it would not be possible for me to do what I do and to advance my mission of helping people live their highest lives. For all who have helped in the shaping of my ideas, encouraged me to dream big dreams and aided in the spread of my message, I am deeply grateful. I must offer special thanks to my team at Sharma Leadership International. In particular, thanks go to Marie...
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...Introduction In my essay I am going to be discussing ‘Tragic Ballets ‘and ‘Heroines’. As a child I spent a brief period studying ballet and on a visit to Prague, in February 2013, I enjoyed watching the Russian Ballet perform 'Giselle' at the Prague State Opera House. I have often wondered why so many ballets and the female heroines in them end in tragedy. My essay will discuss the issues that female heroines face and the events that eventually bring them to their fate. I will also discuss the origins and definitions of ‘heroine’ and ‘tragedy’. In order to examine my chosen themes I started my investigation by watching, analysing and comparing the films ‘Black Swan’, ‘The Red Shoes’ and the ballet ‘Giselle’. I read the feminist writings of Marina Warner on the portrayal of women, the Catholic Church and also her book on ‘Joan of Arc. In my essay I will be discussing the themes of love, conquest, devotion, deception, spirituality and how they play a role in altering the lives of the female protagonists in various different situations and offer my own opinions on how the tragedies are formed. I will begin my comparison of the female heroines that I will be discussing, with Giselle. Figure 1'Giselle and Count Albrecht' The Russian Ballet Giselle is a poor peasant’s daughter who falls in love with Count Albrecht. Count Albrecht’s character plays the main part in the protagonist Giselle’s downfall during the ballet, as he breaks her heart when she learns that he is betrothed...
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...INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT Subject : INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT INTAKE I |Student’s name |: Trương Vũ Hoàng | | |ID |: VN1001788 | | |Date of completion |: 07/01/2016 | | Topic 1- Analyze the role of cultural factors that can create comparative advantage for a company. Give some relevant examples. CONTENT Culture is a complex category and diversity. To understand the nature of culture, we should consider the cultural elements. Based on the concept of culture,It can be divided into two basic sectors culture which is material culture and spiritual culture. Material culture: the entire value creation is reflected in the material wealth created by man. These are commodity products, working tools and materials consumption, the economic infrastructure such as transport, communications, energy; social infrastructure such as health care, housing, education system and financial infrastructure like banking, insurance and financial services in the society. Material culture is expressed through the material life of the nation. Therefore, material culture will greatly influence to educational level and...
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...Anyone know about the symbolism in ‘A Quiet American’ by Graham Greene? | Pyle represents the idealistic New Age America, thirsty for heroism. Phuong represents pre-war Vietnam, passive, innocent. What exactly does Fowler represent? Is it the wisdom and world-weariness of Old Europe or Britain’s involvement in the war simply for personal gain? | The symbolism of the individual characters has to be placed within the context of colonialism, since that was the relationship between the nations they each represented. Pyle's motives are far from heroic. An idealism that is motivated by interventionism in a Third World country's affairs can be dangerous and destructive, not only in the way Graham Greene saw it in the early fifties, but as history proved it by the events that unfolded years later, leading to the US war in Viet Nam. Or for what is happening now in Iraq, if you will. Fowler had the "old colonialist" wisdom that questioned Pyle's justification for violence. He had already learned that "democracy" is something many countries neither understand nor want, and any foreign attempt to impose it is doomed to failure. I don't know that this helps, but I can't see the novel any other way. | | Outline of characters | Thomas Fowler is a British journalist in his fifties who has been covering the French war in Viet Nam for over two years. He meets a young American idealist named Alden Pyle, who is a student of York Harding. Harding's theory is that neither Communism...
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