...own wishes and needs for the family needs. Women do their housework obligations: cook, bring up children and please their husband. One of the things they do in the book is...
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...Exile Literature is the expression of life in words of truth and beauty.It encompasses all genres of literature-poetry,prose,fiction,drama,philosophy,history etc.Among them,fiction is any narrative,whether in prose or verse,which is invented instead of being an account of events that actually happened. The voice of Africa in the world of letters tries to emancipate Africa from its literary stereotype.Africa is no longer a gloomy phenomenon,a dark continent.Chinua Achebe, the major exponent of the modern African novel,is greatly concerned with the two realities of social man –his individual and group identity,the legacy of colonialism, and the shift in the system of values of life leading to rampant corruption- moral and monetary. He is also concerned with the use of English as the medium of expression of African experience defining the relevance of colonial and post-colonial experience to the present .Achebe’s novels are dialectic tranformation of experience, a new way of looking at tradition to create a different order of reality through universalizing imagination.Though he has followed the established tradition of novel writing in English, Achebe has put few things ‘African’ and has successfully employed certain narrative techniques of narration to give authenticity and African flavour to his novels in order to attract the native audience and overseas readers as well. Chinua Achebe , the doyen of African writing, the major exponent of modern African novel.His novels...
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...Gayle Forman Style Essay Numerous authors use distinctive components of style to separate their work from different writers and create what people refer to as author's style. Best selling author, Gayle Forman, has her very own style in which she uses to connect the audience with her stories, I Was Here and I Have Lost My Way. After reading both stories and analyzing the techniques in which she uses, it is clear to see her style includes the use of motifs and the distinct way she creates her characters. These elements of style help her to capture readers and keep them coming back for more excitement and entertainment. Both stories contain the same motifs. The motifs present in her writing are friendship and loss. In the novel, I Have Lost My...
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...is looking to make sure I can help maintain its ability to recruit the right staff and control their financial and non-financial resources. Task 1 Describe the recruitment documentation used in your selected organisation. Specific Job- Teaching Job Job Description Once it has been decided that a vacancy exists the first document that would be needed is the job description. The job description would be needed just in case it need to be changed. The description is the document that gives you a detailed description of the job, what the job entails and any other information that you would need to know about the job. The job description is an important document because tells you specifically what you will be doing, for instance the first thing you would see on the job description would be the job title so you know exactly what you are going to be doing if you get the job, so for the teaching vacancy it would say Science Teacher. The document also tells you who you will be accountable to and who you will be accountable for so applying for a job such as a teacher you would be accountable to the head teacher but you would be accountable for the students because you would be teaching them and they would be underneath your supervision during the lesson. There are also a few other details that are on the job description and they are: * The main job function and the responsibilities you would have as a teacher. * The job description could possibly tell you about the management...
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...is looking to make sure I can help maintain its ability to recruit the right staff and control their financial and non-financial resources. Task 1 Describe the recruitment documentation used in your selected organisation. Specific Job- Teaching Job Job Description Once it has been decided that a vacancy exists the first document that would be needed is the job description. The job description would be needed just in case it need to be changed. The description is the document that gives you a detailed description of the job, what the job entails and any other information that you would need to know about the job. The job description is an important document because tells you specifically what you will be doing, for instance the first thing you would see on the job description would be the job title so you know exactly what you are going to be doing if you get the job, so for the teaching vacancy it would say Science Teacher. The document also tells you who you will be accountable to and who you will be accountable for so applying for a job such as a teacher you would be accountable to the head teacher but you would be accountable for the students because you would be teaching them and they would be underneath your supervision during the lesson. There are also a few other details that are on the job description and they are: * The main job function and the responsibilities you would have as a teacher. * The job description could possibly tell you about the management...
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...is looking to make sure I can help maintain its ability to recruit the right staff and control their financial and non-financial resources. Task 1 Describe the recruitment documentation used in your selected organisation. Specific Job- Teaching Job Job Description Once it has been decided that a vacancy exists the first document that would be needed is the job description. The job description would be needed just in case it need to be changed. The description is the document that gives you a detailed description of the job, what the job entails and any other information that you would need to know about the job. The job description is an important document because tells you specifically what you will be doing, for instance the first thing you would see on the job description would be the job title so you know exactly what you are going to be doing if you get the job, so for the teaching vacancy it would say Science Teacher. The document also tells you who you will be accountable to and who you will be accountable for so applying for a job such as a teacher you would be accountable to the head teacher but you would be accountable for the students because you would be teaching them and they would be underneath your supervision during the lesson. There are also a few other details that are on the job description and they are: * The main job function and the responsibilities you would have as a teacher. * The job description could possibly tell you about the management...
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...For Ms. Laura Alderson, Instructor of Management University of Memphis By Trent Turner April 3, 2016 Personal Branding According to Laura Lake, a marketing expert, the definition of personal branding is the process of developing a “mark” that is created around your personal name or your career (Lake, 2014). Building up a personal brand is not something that takes a few days or weeks to build, it is something that can take up to a lifetime to achieve. There are a lot of people in this world today that are without a personal brand or something that sets them apart from the rest of their peers. This is not because they’re too lazy or unnoticed to make one for them self; it is due to the fact that it takes time to build something out of yourself for other people to recognize. If you take a look at Stephen Curry, he is an example to all of someone who made a personal brand out of himself. Coming from a small college, Davidson, no one thought that he would make out to be the player that he is today. In saying that, if you beyond the type of basketball player that he is, he is also a person that has made a statement of the type of person off the court he is. If you didn’t know, Stephen Curry writes his favorite Bible verse on all of his shoes, which happens to be Philippians 4:13, and when he asked Nike to stitch this on his shoes, they told him no. At this time, Nike accounted for 95.5 percent of the basketball sneaker market in 2014, according to The Washington...
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...the ability to create, worship, communicate, reason, and relate. We are also capable of love and responsible for our actions. The Christian story also tells us that human beings were created for intimacy with God, nonetheless rejected God instead. Although humans were created to reflect Him, we sought to replace Him (Genesis 1, Paraphrased). Indeed, this brought death and destruction into the world, but the fall is not the end of the story. God sent a redeemer; the perfect image of an invisible God who took the fractured pieces of our humanity and bound it up, thus restoring the broken image of God and renewing our lost fellowship with Him. Thus, the image of God changes everything. It shapes how we see the world and one another and causes us to honor the image of God in everyone (The Gospels Paraphrased). The Christians mandate is to work to alleviate poverty, disease, and starvation because the poorest of the poor is steal made in the image of God. Christian are called to rescue and rehabilitate the abducted and trafficked boys and girls because there is no such thing as a disposable human being created by God and in the image of God. God’s image compels God’s children to love all people. “Then God said, Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground” (Genesis 1:26 NLT). God created human beings in His image...
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...COMPANY Case Target: From “Expect More” to “Pay Less” When you hear the term discount retail, two names usually come to mind: Walmart and Target. The two have been compared so much that the press rarely covers one without at least mentioning the other. The reasons for the comparison are fairly obvious. These corporations are two of the largest discount retailers in the United States. Category for category, they offer very similar merchandise. They tend to build their stores in close proximity to one another, even facing each other across major boulevards. But even with such strong similarities, ask consumers if there’s a difference between the two, and they won’t even hesitate. Walmart is all about low prices; Target is about style and fashion. The “cheap chic” label applied by consumers and the media over the years perfectly captures the long-standing company positioning: “Expect More. Pay Less.” With its numerous designer product lines, Target has been so successful with its brand positioning that for a number of years it has slowly chipped away at Walmart’s massive market share. Granted, the difference in the scale for the two companies has always been huge. Walmart’s most recent annual revenues of $408 billion are more than six times those of Target. But for many years, Target’s business grew at a much faster pace than Walmart’s. In fact, as Walmart’s same-store sales began to lag in the mid-2000s, the world’s largest retailer unabashedly attempted to become more like...
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...An organizational mission is an organization's reason for existence. It often reflects the values and beliefs of top managers in an organization. A mission statement is the broad definition of the organizational mission. It is sometimes referred to as a creed, purpose, or statement of corporate philosophy and values. A good mission statement inspires employees and provides a focus and direction for setting lower level objectives. It should guide employees in making decisions and establish what the organization does. Mission statements are crucial for organizations to prosper and grow. While studies suggest that they have a positive impact on profitability and can increase shareholder equity, they also support that almost 40 percent of employees do not know or understand their company's mission. Not only large corporations benefit from creating mission statements but small businesses as well. Entrepreneurial businesses are driven by vision and high aspirations. Developing a mission statement will help the small business realize their vision. Its primary purpose is to guide the entrepreneur and assist in refining the planning process. By developing a strategic plan that incorporates the mission statement, entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful and stay focused on what is important. The mission statement encourages managers and small business owners alike to consider the nature and scope of the business. Business Week attributes 30 percent higher return on several key financial...
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...94 Part Two | Understanding the Marketplace and Consumers Assignment No. 3 I.A.Mir VIDEO Case TOMS Shoes Principles of Marketing on how TOMS executes its strategy within the constantly changing marketing environment. After viewing the video featuring TOMS Shoes, answer the following questions about the marketing environment: “Get involved: Changing a life begins with a single step.” This sounds like a mandate from a nonprofit volunteer organization. But in fact, this is the motto of a for-profit shoe company located in Santa Monica, California. In 2006, Tom Mycoskie founded TOMS Shoes because he wanted to do something different. He wanted to run a company that would make a profit while at the same time helping the needy of the world. Specifically, for every pair of shoes that TOMS sells, it gives a pair of shoes to a needy child somewhere in the world. So far, the company has given away tens of thousands of pairs of shoes and is on track to give away hundreds of thousands. Can TOMS succeed and thrive based on this idealistic concept? That all depends 1. What trends in the marketing environment have contributed to the success of TOMS Shoes? 2. Did TOMS Shoes first scan the marketing environment in creating its strategy, or did it create its strategy and fit the strategy to the environment? Does this matter? 3. Is TOMS’ strategy more about serving needy children or about creating value for customers? Explain. COMPANY Case Target: From “Expect...
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...VALUES AND ETHICS INTRODUCTION Values and ethics are central to any organization; those operating in the national security arena are no exception. What exactly do we mean by values and ethics? Both are extremely broad terms, and we need to focus in on the aspects most relevant for strategic leaders and decision makers. What we will first discuss is the distinctive nature of ethics for public officials; second, the forces which influence the ethical behavior of individuals in organizations; and third, explore the actions strategic leaders can take to build ethical climates in their organizations. THE CHARACTER OF VALUES AND ETHICS Values can be defined as those things that are important to or valued by someone. That someone can be an individual or, collectively, an organization. One place where values are important is in relation to vision. One of the imperatives for organizational vision is that it must be based on and consistent with the organization's core values. In one example of a vision statement we'll look at later, the organization's core values - in this case, integrity, professionalism, caring, teamwork, and stewardship- were deemed important enough to be included with the statement of the organization's vision. Dr. John Johns, in an article entitled "The Ethical Dimensions of National Security," mentions honesty and loyalty as values that are the ingredients of integrity. When values are shared by all members of an organization, they are extraordinarily...
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...Chapter 1 The Christmas dinner dispute introduces the political landscape of late nineteenth-century Ireland into the novel. This is the first Christmas meal at which Stephen is allowed to sit at the grown-up table, a milestone in his path toward adulthood. The dispute that unfolds among Dante, Mr. Dedalus, and Mr. Casey makes Stephen quickly realize, however, that adulthood is fraught with conflicts, doubts, and anger. This discussion engenders no harmonious Christmas feeling of family togetherness. Rather, the growing boy learns that politics is often such a charged subject that it can cause huge rifts even within a single home. Dante's tumultuous departure from the dinner table is the first in a pattern of incidents in which characters declare independence and break away from a group for political and ideological reasons. Indeed, the political landscape of Ireland is deeply divided when the action of the novel occurs. Secularists like Mr. Dedalus and Mr. Casey feel that religion is keeping Ireland from progress and independence, while the orthodox, like Dante, feel that religion should take precedence in Irish culture. The secularists consider Parnell the savior of Ireland, but Parnell's shame at being caught in an extramarital affair tarnishes his political luster and earns him the church's condemnation. This condemnation on the part of the church mirrors Stephen's shame over expressing a desire to marry Eileen Vance, who is Protestant. On the whole, however, Stephen's reaction...
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...Learning organizations are characterized by total employee involvement in a process of collaboratively conducted, collectively accountable change directed towards shared values or principles. (Watkins and Marsick 1992: 118) We can see much that is shared in these definitions – and some contrasts. To start with the last first: some writers (such as Pedler et. al.) appear to approach learning organizations as something that are initiated and developed by senior management – they involve a top-down, managerial imposed, vision (Hughes and Tight 1998: 183). This can be contrasted with more ‘bottom-up’ or democratic approaches such as that hinted at by Watkins and Marsick (1992; 1993). According to Sandra Kerka (1995) most conceptualizations of the learning organizations seem to work on the assumption that ‘learning is valuable, continuous, and most effective when shared and that every experience is an opportunity to learn’ (Kerka 1995). The following characteristics appear in some form in the more popular conceptions. Learning organizations: Provide continuous learning opportunities. Use learning to reach their goals. Link individual performance with organizational performance. Foster inquiry and dialogue, making it safe for people to share openly and take risks. Embrace creative tension as a source of energy and renewal. Are continuously aware of and interact with their environment. (Kerka 1995) As Kerka (1995) goes onto comment, the five disciplines that Peter Senge goes...
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...more vital than ever. Why? The Internet weakens industries’ profitability, as rivals compete on price alone. And it no longer provides proprietary advantages, as virtually all companies now use the Web. The Internet is no more than a tool—albeit a powerful one—that can support or damage your firm’s strategic positioning. The key to using it most effectively? Integrate Internet initiatives into your company’s overall strategy and operations so that they 1) complement, rather than cannibalize, your established competitive approaches and 2) create systemic advantages that your competitors can’t copy. Integrating Internet initiatives enhances your company’s ability to develop unique products, proprietary content, distinctive processes, and strong personal service—all the things that create true value, and that have always defined competitive advantage. The Idea in Practice THE INTERNET’S INFLUENCE The Internet powerfully influences industry structure and sustainable competitive advantage. Industry structure derives from the basic forces of competition: competitor rivalry; entry barriers for new competitors; the threat of substitute offerings; and the bargaining power of suppliers, channels, and buyers. How does the Internet affect these forces? • It’s an open system whose technological advances level most...
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