Self-Assessment Report: Communication Communication is one of the key elements needed to keep any organization functioning. Once it has been done effectively, it can lead to the promotion of socialization, motivation, and it can even help in the controlling process by monitoring every individual’s attitude and behavior in the organization. Effective communication is best understood by focusing on how the organization would be like in its absence. For instance, if an organization has no system for
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While growing up in the northern plains of Bihar, I loved watching Spaghetti Westerns―all the way from John Wayne to Clint Eastwood. There was something so outlandish about them that despite their breathless guns and bloodletting, I found them rather amusing. Little did I then know that if I wanted to see the Wild West for myself, I had only to look a few miles to my south―towards the coal mines around the charred, soot-soaked town of Dhanbad. My neighbourhood Wild West complete with its dust-laden
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as sloppy and rushed, many of their pictures appeared very realistic; as opposed to the classical compositions that were so formulaic they became boring and stiff. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt2. They had all attended the Royal Academy of arts together and were trained in the classical style of painting5. This style was very routine and repetitive. The three founders wanted to do something more original
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is located on an area of approximately 502 square miles. The city within itself is flat and hilly. However, it is located in a large coastal basin, surrounded on 3 sides by mountains over 10,000 feet high, Santa Monica Mountains on the East, San Gabriel Mountains on the North, and northeast of San Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles River begins in the Canoga River and runs east from the San Fernando Valley, turns by the north edge of the Sana Monica Mountains, and through the city center, to finally
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GLG/200 Allen Fronabarger PLATE TECTONICS AND EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS IN LOS ANGELES There are many serious hazards associated with earthquakes in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. This includes ground shaking, ground displacement, liquefaction, fires, and tsunamis (Girty, 2009, Chapter 7). During an earthquake there are varying degrees of vibration of the ground, dependent on the magnitude of the earthquake. This violent movement of the soil can compromise the structure of buildings or other structures
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Integrating antithetical hues of mystical magic and routinal reality lightens a perception that otherwise is unable to be seen. The works of both Rudolfo Anaya; Bless Me, Ultima and Gabriel García Márquez; “The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World”, reflect this key aspect of magical realism. Magical realism as well incorporates key elements within the literary mode, where essentially the magic and the realistic aspects of the novel are kept in equal focus. The themes of both Anaya and Márquez are
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The Gaucho Juan Moreira recalls the life and exploits of Argentina's great 19th-century antihero, Juan Moreia, a noble and hard-working horseman who has been forced into a life of crime. This crime story, however, is more than just a gauchesque novela. In the novel, Gutierrez claims that the development of a new state had dire consequences for the noble lifestyle of the rural people in Argentina. The progress towards free trade and modernization ,in fact, was too much to handle and it destroyed
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez can be seen as one of the 20th century’s greatest storytellers exploring the notions of machismo and honour within a Latin-American context in Chronicle of a Death Foretold published in 1981. Chronicle of a Death Foretold follows the series of events up to and after the death of Santiago Nasar and explores the town peoples’ culpability several decades on. Through the chronicle of events Marquez explores the Latin American cultural paradigm coupled with the naivety of Santiago
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As readers, the interpretation of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is up to the reader themselves. The reader automatically assumes that the old man is an angel even though the description of the man doesn’t exactly fit the description of one. Depending on the situation of the reader, the angel could be either looked down upon or related to. In the situation of a middle class, American family one could see this angel as an outsider because of how he’s described. Due
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My understanding of the Columbian cultural context was enhanced by our discussion of the actual historical event the novel was based on; 1951, in the small town of Sucre, Colombia, where twin brothers murdered Cayetano Chimento who had deflowered their sister before her marriage to another man. This was under the influence of the code of honour – an old belief from the 16th and 17th centuries that started in Spain that established order in the society and put all the importance of honour in the virginity
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