...Poetry is a place full of imagination and sometimes it is also full of bad grammar and poor punctuation and Edward Estlin Cummings is a poet with bad grammar. Edward Estlin Cummings or also known as E.E. Cummings was born in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1894. He went to Harvard University, where he then grew up to be a poet. How does E.E. Cummings use vision and hearing to create meaning is a question some people ask. E.E. Cummings creates meaning by using visual techniques and auditory techniques in his poems. To begin with, E.E. Cummmings usually uses visual techniques to give his poem a bigger meaning to it. The way he made the words spaced out and where he placed them made the poem in Document B or “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” look like the legs of a leaping grasshopper which is what the poem mostly focuses on. In Document A or “l(a”...
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...Plastic Does Not Belong in the Sea “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always ourself we find in the sea” this is a beautiful phrase E. E. Cummings once said. The ocean is vital for the environment. It’s well known to be one of the most important natural resources of earth. At the same time, it’s very much affected with pollution and trash. The photograph “Polluted Sushis” shows three sushis placed in a white platter, they are wrapped around plastic in place of the usual seaweed. This image leads to an understanding that nothing goes by without a consequence. The message that is being sent by this image is powerful in the sense of saying that what we throw into the ocean, will eventually come back. The JWT advertisement agency in charge of the add “Polluted Sushis” does a great job using ethos, pathos, and logos to help effectively persuade the audience to stop littering the sea. The use of pro environmental ads nowadays is quite usual. Some of them are very harsh and direct, they go straight to the point and leave no space to wonder. Nevertheless, there are some ads which are more subtle with their message. They suggest the problem in a more creative way giving the viewer the possibility to reflect upon their add. I find this mechanism much more effective than the first one because it gives a way to internalize the problem shown. Precisely, this is what happens with “Polluted Sushis”. It achieves that people are most likely to perceive the possibility of what is presented...
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...times, triangular hierarchies; that strategy is enacted by ‘the men at the top’, and that it is about longterm planning, directing, organizing and controlling. At a philosophical level, we deconstruct this history before reconstructing an alternative vision – one based on a broader ‘pre-modern’ heritage. Here, organization could take many forms and strategy could, correspondingly, be many things and be seen through many images. At a practical level, we use the analogy of how people are oriented and animated by maps to argue that this broader heritage simply reinstates a more pragmatic view of how everyday people use many different frameworks in developing strategy in complex environments over time. 1 Images of Strategy STEPHEN CUMMINGS AND DAVID WILSON The young lieutenant of a Hungarian detachment in the Alps sent a reconnaissance unit into the icy wilderness. It began to snow immediately, and unexpectedly continued to snow for two days. The unit did not return. The lieutenant feared that he had dispatched his own people to death. However, on the third day the unit came back. Where had they been? How had they made their way? ‘Yes,’ they said: ‘We considered ourselves lost and waited for the end. We did not have any maps, compasses or other equipment with which to ascertain our position or a probable route out. But then one of us found an old tattered map in a seldom used pocket. That calmed us down. The map did not seem to quite fit the terrain but eventually we discovered...
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...PROVISION OF HEALTHCARE DISCUSSION ON LEADERSHIP STYLE OF A LEADER 11-12 THAT FACILITATES POSITIVE STAFF DEVELOPMENT CONCLUSION 12-13 INTRODUCTION in today ever rapid changing and challenging healthcare environment, nurses are required to develop their leadership skills where effective leadership styles they choose to deliver high quality care with improved patient safety outcome (Treguno et al, 2009); healthy work environments (Shirey, 2009): job satisfaction (Heller et al, 2004; Sellgren et al, 2007); lower turnover rates (Gelinas and Bohen, 2000); and positive outcome for organization and patients (Wong and Cummings, 2007) and healthcare providers (Cummings et al, 2005). It must be emphasized that leadership should not be viewed as an optional role or function for nurses. Nurse leaders nowadays confronting challenges like new roles, new technology, financial constraints, greater participation, cultural diversity and education We must be aware and realized that leadership is a must in all healthcare facility where effecting change and achieving high standards of patient care are stipulated in job titles, such as Director of Nursing, Nurse Consultant, or Modern Matron (Sulivan and Garland, 2010). One of the most challenging nurses faced today in nursing profession is...
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...Change Management Concept Paper Submitted to Northcentral University Graduate Faculty of the School of XXXXXXXXXXX in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT by KIM S JOHNSON Prescott Valley, Arizona October 2012 Table of Contents [Note: this is a non-inclusive sample and will vary depending on your subheadings] Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..1 Statement of the Problem………………………………………………………….1 Purpose of the Study………………………………………………………………1 Brief Review of the Literature…………………………………………………………….2 Research Method………………………………………………………………………….3 Appendix: Annotated Bibliography……………………………………………………….6 Introduction [One of the most serious tests associations meet today is managing change. Since steady changes facing some amount of modification and development can and must transpire continuously. Every employee, organization, and position is manipulated by of variables that influence the accomplishment of each sole change attempt. Some workers seem to search for an out and encourage change and next can successfully amend and develop their job presentation as quickly as the change occasion is determined or the change demand is made. Others may be unwilling and may require time and teaching to become prepared to carry and successfully contribute in the recommended changes. Some, nevertheless, may decide not to contribute and may essentially prevent the association's best presentation because...
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...recruitment and selection and training and development (Kayworth and Leidner, 2000; Selmer, 2001; O’Leary, Cummings, 2002). Geographical dispersion has created trends correlated with several challenges IHR managers face when dealing with the global environment. These include issues associated with the Internet, time zones and employee isolation. Being in contact with different geographic locations leads IHR managers to do business with employees of different nationalities and cultures. The challenge for IHR managers is to avoid culture clashes and adequately prepare unit members, specifically expatriates, on adapting in a foreign environment (Tung, 1987; Selmer, 2001; Chauh, Hoffman, Jones and Williams, 2007). This essay will discuss these challenges in relation to IHR directors designing recruitment and selection processes and training and development programs. The essay will also describe briefly the challenges IHRM come across as a result of pressure to rationalise and differentiate their operations, and explain how these challenges prove IHRM to be more complicated than the domestic human resource management (HRM) of large firms. While geographic dispersion is not a new concept it is growing in importance as new trends make it more practical for a team’s configuration to consist of members in different sites unbound by the distances between them (O’Leary, Cummings, 2002). Being geographically dispersed has several benefits such as having access to a larger...
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...level, depending on if the work assignment needs to be performed by the individual or the group. However, it should be noted that even when the work is group-based, it will still be in part dependent on the individuals within the group to complete the overall work assignment. Rather, each group member will have their own individual tasks to manage that will benefit the group’s work assignment overall. Lastly, employee involvement refers to whether the goal setting, performance appraisal, and reward systems require the input from the employee or group in a decentralized or more centralized manner when the input comes from the top down. As described by Cummings & Worley (2009, p.422), the decentralized decision process is a high-involvement organization and the centralized decision process is a low-involvement organization. Cummings & Worley (2009, p. 426) state, “the impact of goal setting has been researched...
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...Dissertation Proposal Introduction The aim of this dissertation is to question the nature of digital cinema and its relationship to analogue filmmaking. I would like to argue that “pure” digital or analogue cinema does not exist anymore. Even films which are shot and edited using digital technology, in most cases, eventually will be printed onto film in order to be projected. I am interested in the transformation of storytelling and narration caused by digital revolution. I will analyse the shift that occurred in cinema after 1997, when the video techniques became more popular. I would like to avoid simplifying or dismissive statements about the aesthetics developed by digital techniques. It is a very rare occurrence for a film to be entirely analogue or digital. Therefore, I intend to talk about the intersection of digital and analogue techniques and the effect that digital practices have upon the tradition of storytelling. In their analysis of new media, Anna Everett and John T. Caldwell describe this intersection of analogue and digital with a term “digitextuality”. This fusion of “digital” and “intertextuality” illustrates the process in which old media acquire new shape and form: M.A. Digital Culture and Technology New digital media technologies make meaning not only by building a new text through absorption and transformation of other texts, but also by embedding the entirety of other texts (analogue and digital) seamlessly within the new. 1 My intention is to discuss...
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...of sustained competitive advantage (Barney, 1991) since it is an explanatory variable that differentiates one company from others (Sathe, 1985). As employees have their own values and beliefs, it may be difficult for leaders to manage them well as a whole if the company does not have methods to direct them into the same path. Therefore, the existence of organizational culture could be one of the outcomes resulted from this. Among different types of culture and performance, I particularly have interest in the relationship between adhocracy organizational culture and financial performance of a company since there is only little research discussing their relationship and it is essential to an organization. In this essay, I will examine how financial performance of a firm is affected by knowledge management under adhocracy organizational culture and how will environmental uncertainty affect the operation of the culture and financial success of the company. First, I will briefly illustrate the meaning of Adhocracy culture and propose the method I use for examination in depth. Then, I will discuss the relationship between different variables one by one and will reach to conclusion and recommendation finally. 2. What is Adhocracy organizational culture? Adhocracy culture emphasizes on high level of flexibility on employees and provides a lot of opportunities to workers to express and develop in their...
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...North-West University 15 Assignment 4 PBSC 811 Neo Mashile North-West University 15 Assignment 4 PBSC 811 Neo Mashile ASSIGNMENT 4 SECTION 1: RESEARCH PROPOSAL : The importance of fatherhood in children lives. | | Please study the topics and reading material of Quality Circle 2 and complete the following sections of the research proposal: | | 3 INTRODUCTION3.1 Problem StatementThere has been an explosion in research on the benefits of having engaged and involved fathers, as well as the deleterious consequences of father absence. Although the negative outcomes for fatherless children are pervasive and impact all ethnicities, the focus of this qualitative research is on understanding the lived experiences of a particular family that has suffered through the pain of three generations of father absence. The literature regarding father absence is reviewed, and the negative outcomes associated with fatherless children are explored. The father absence literature categorically concludes that the father’s role is essential in child development. This problem statement project aims to develop a program from a Christian perspective that can be implemented in churches or faith-based groups to address the issue of father absence. The ultimate goal of this project is to reconnect fathers in a research demonstrating that children from single parent homes experience disadvantages when compared to their peers. In addition, the pain and emotional longing for the...
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...BUILDING EVIDENCE-BASED ARGUMENTS DEVELOPING CORE PROFICIENCIES ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS / LITERACY UNIT GRADE 7 “Doping can be that last 2 percent.” OD LL DUCATION www.odelleducation.com OD LL DUCATION Page 1 EVIDENCE-BASED ARGUMENTATION Literacy – the integrated abilities to read texts closely, to investigate ideas and deepen understanding through research, to make and evaluate evidence-based claims, and to communicate one’s perspective in a reasoned way – is fundamental to participation in civic life. Thus, the importance of a literate citizenry was understood and expressed by Thomas Jefferson early in the life of our democratic nation. Today, students face the prospect of participating in a civic life that stretches beyond the boundaries of a single nation and has become increasingly contentious, characterized by entrenched polarization in response to complex issues. Citizens have access to a glut of information (some of which is nothing more than opinion passed off as fact) and are often bombarded by bombast rather than engaged in reasoned and civil debate. Learning the skills and habits of mind associated with argumentation – how to conceive and communicate “arguments to support claims, using valid reasoning and sufficient evidence” [CCSS W1] as well as how to “delineate and evaluate the argument[s]” and “the validity of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence” presented by others [CCSS R8] – is therefore...
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...of love loss within the dyadic relationship, conflicts can become detrimental to marital bliss. Achieving marital satisfaction and longevity can be challenging when passions are high and couples are in a constant state of flux due to verbal confrontation, or gender-role conflict. Keywords: marital conflict, marital longevity, conflict resolution and marital Satisfaction. Effects of Unresolved Conflict on Marital Satisfaction and Longevity Within the binding bonds of marital bliss, there is a dynamic that occasionally rears its ugly head; conflict. There have been married couples throughout time in memoriam who have declared that conflict does not reside within the confines of their marriages. (These are “the avoiders,” they will be discussed later in this composition.) If this is true, then how does a marital relationship survive if each partner impedes the value of differentiation while still remaining true too, and loving the person with whom they are joined in marriage? Conflict celebrates difference and in doing so, the efficacy of conflict resolution must play a pivotal part in bringing both parties full circle to the point of empathic effort and accuracy toward marital satisfaction and longevity. It is the presence or absence of conflict-related behavior and emotion that best predicts relationship...
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...A Study of Alienation among Knowledge Workers Submission of Thesis Proposal Nisha Nair Doctoral candidate Organizational Behavior Area Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) India Email: nishan@iimahd.ernet.in Telephone +91-79-6632-6216 Mobile: +91-9327309000 Advisor Information Dr. Neharika Vohra Organizational Behavior Area Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) ‘The hidden conflict between the knowledge workers view of himself as a professional and the social reality in which he is the upgraded well paid successor to the skilled worker of yesterday, underlies the disenchantment of so many highly educated young people with the jobs available to them’ - (Drucker, 1969, p 259) Knowledge workers (KWs) are thought to be the engines of growth of the new economy (Yigitcanlar, Baum & Horton, 2007) and the key strategic and competitive resources of today’s organizations (O’Neill & Adya, 2007). Considerable attention has been directed to the analysis of knowledge work and knowledge intensive firms in recent years (Alvesson, 1995, 2001; Burton-Jones, 1999; Donnelly, 2006; Swan & Scarborough, 2001). Because of the emphasis on human capital in knowledge-intensive firms (Edvinsson & Malone, 1997), where tacit knowledge residing within workers is the chief asset of the organization, it has become imperative to retain KWs and ensure their continued commitment to the organization. Davenport et al. (2002) observe that companies cannot...
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...Evaluating the research process Teenage pregnancy inflicts indirect costs related to lost education and jobs, as well as direct costs related to public assistance services used during and after pregnancy. A major concern is that the majority of teenage pregnancies are unintended. 79 percent of teens 18 to 19 years old and almost 87 percent of teens 15 to 17 years old reported their pregnancy as unintended in 2001. Policies and programs need to be put into place to help teens make well-informed choices about sexual activities. Because teens lack formal education and training they rely heavily on public assistance programs. Adams, Gavin, Ayadi, Santelli, & Raskind-Hood felt there was a need for a study on teen pregnancy and how they affect the cost of public services. Research produces valuable information and expands understanding (Neuman, 2009). The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data for this ten-state shows that even though both the teens and older mothers account for 34 percent of all births in the study states, they accounted for 52 percent of all births reported as unintended. The researchers believe the data from this study will not only add to current literature on the topic, but will also provide a measure of costs that may be more relevant to state budgets and decisions regarding alternative public health interventions. In this paper I will discuss the literature review, ethical considerations for data collection, statistical analysis, and the conclusions...
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...of Management 1. Planning: This is a managerial function that determines in advance what should be done. It involves looking for the future. It is the determination of what is to be done, how and where it is to be done, who is to do it and how the results are to be evaluated. 2. Organizing: This involves arranging the way/manner in which organizational structure is established, how authority, responsibilities and duties are given to the managerial team. 3. Directing/Leading: Once the structure has been established and staffing done, the next step in any organization is to move towards achieving the objectives of the organization. It’s a process whereby the management guides and influences the staff by arousing the desires in their minds to give their best to the organization. 4. Controlling: Through controlling, the manager has to ensure that everything is done in conformity with the plans adopted as well as the established principles. In controlling, the management must establish standards of performance, measure performance and compare it against the already set standards, as well as taking action to correct any performance that does not meet the standards. In the absence of sound control, there is no guarantee that the set standards/objectives will be realized. 5. Coordinating: This is the way in which activities are designed to create a relationship among all of the organizations efforts to accomplish a common goal....
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