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The Benefits of E-business
E-business functionality is useful to me where I work because it allows the parents of the students the ability to check grades online, keeping a serious eye on the deeds (or misdeeds) of their children. The school system (district) where I work is selling a product to the parents, and in regards to that my school has footed the bill to have software developed that allows parents, students, administrators and teachers to all interact online. This type of software allows for a Customer Relationship Management in regards to what is being attempted (the education of young students in a most proficient method).
By developing this type of software, the school system, as the vendor was attempting to initiate a niche type of philosophy
| 844 | Realism: Twain, James and Howells
The focus of this work in writing is the examination of the works of Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean Howells. These three authors are considered the best writers from the period known as 'realism' in which the creation of fictitious characters in real-life situations captivated the reader with their authenticity. There are similarities and differences that exist when these three authors are compared, and yet they emerge from the period of realism in literature to stand together above the other works of this time period.
THE REALISTIC PERIOD
REALISM IN THE WORK OF TWAIN, JAMES AND HOWELLS
OBJECTIVE
The objective of this work is to research and examine the period of literary history as to the major historical events, overall themes, and innovative forms of writing. The three authors chosen for this work Mark Twain, Wi
| 2306 | Literature Geared Toward a Global Culture
The objective of this work is to research and examine the controversies that exist in the area of management literature controversies in an area of management literature geared toward informing the researcher in the dissertation process
INTRODUCTION
Theories of management and what is considered to be the most effective and successful management methods change quite often however, as the new global culture becomes the norm in organizational culture and management considerations it is important to explore what information has been gleaned thus far and applied in effective and successful hands-on management in organizations that are culturally diverse.
CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE LITERATURE
Authors Ekenvall and Gao state in the work entitled: "Culture's Impact Upon Co-Workers' Perceptions and
| 1686 | Richard Branson: Profile of a Leader
Executive Summary
Richard Branson is one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and corporate success stories. His Virgin brand is recognized around the Globe. Virgin is a leader in a wide variety of fields, in everything from media, to travel and transportation. Much of Virgin's success and reputation is owing to the image and qualities of its leader and founder _ Richard Branson. Branson has made a name for himself by portraying himself as a trendy, perpetual young person, who knows what the market wants, because he is that market. Branson has taken popular concepts such as environmentalism and exploited their trendy aspects to showcase his own products and ventures as cutting edge and desirable. The Virgin name added to any ventur
| 2530 | Campaign Blue Martini
The Martini is almost as American as apple pie. The journalist H. L. Mencken said that this drink was "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The writer E. B. White descibed the Martini as "the elixir of quietude," and the Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev called it "America's lethal weapon."
No one knows for sure exactly who made the first one, but legend says it stems back to the 1860s. The Martini has starred in many a film, especially about alienated businessmen in the 1950s and their "three-Martini lunches." It also is associated with numerous politicians and entertainers: W.C. Fields, who was said to start each day with double Martinis, or "angels milk," as he called them; Frank Sinatra, who made it a very sophistic
| 808 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper: Story of a Woman Confined in a Room With Ugly Yellow Wallpaper, Who Gradually Goes Insane: Examples of Opposites
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" tells the story of a woman, confined in a room with ugly yellow wallpaper, who gradually goes insane. The story is written in first person, which makes it sound as if the writer is the speaker, but writing it this way makes the experience of the woman's growing difficulties more intense. The author sets the reader up to feel that the speaker is the writer from the second sentence in the story, and uses this technique to build tension based on conflicting perceptions throughout the story.
From the very beginning, the reader feels that he or she is experiencing what the narrator experiences. The narrator's difficulties are revealed subtly at first. In the second sentence, the speaker s
| 604 | Abigail Smith: Idealist on Women's Rights
Abigail Smith was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, a rural area just outside of Boston. Her upbringing had a significant impact on her later life and her women's rights ideologies. Growing up in the farmlands of Massachusetts gave her a lifelong understanding of the countryside and farming. She explores this within the first chapter as she reminisces about the freedom she felt living within nature. This became significant later in her life as she had to manage the family farm entirely by herself as John Adams went to Europe. It was her ability to be independent as a child that greatly influenced her ability to be an independent woman later on. Furthermore, another influence on her life was her family. Her father was a Clergy-men and
| 1092 | What Does it Mean to be Well Educated by Alfie Kohn
This paper presents an evaluation of the book What Does it Mean to be Well Educated by Alfie Kohn. The writer provides a complete summary of the book and then discusses the ways the book will impact the writer's teaching career. There was one source used to complete this book.
What Does it Mean to be Well Educated by Alfie Kohn is a book designed to open one's eyes to some of the pitfalls and wonders of becoming a teacher. In the book Kohn blueprints his understanding of the system of education in America.
Kohn, who is well known for his disregard for the standardized school test revisits that testing system in the book, however he also deal with many other issues that have recently been faced by the educational system of the country. How educators dealt with the we
| 705 | Reasonable Workplace Accommodation
The concept of "reasonable accommodation" emerges from a variety of laws and regulations promulgated in order to eliminate discrimination in the workplace that is based on, for example, an employee's age, religion, disability, gender, race and ethnicity, and so forth (Bohlander & Snell, 2004). Of these, Meiners, Ringleb and Edwards (1994) note that accommodation of religious worship and practices and the disabled tend to predominate. Beginning with the Title VII of the Civil Rights At of 1964, and continuing through to other Congressional legislation including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1973, the goal of these legislative actions has been to ensure that discrimination against protected classes of workers is ended and that empl
| 636 | Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Their Potential Impact on Athletes
This paper presents an examination of omega 3 fatty acids and their potential impact on athletes. The writer explores their use and function and illuminates a recent study that involved athletes and omega 3 fatty acids. There were five sources used to complete this paper.
INTRODUCTION
When one wants to know whether the world is becoming more health conscious, one only has to look at the number of health food stores cropping up nationwide. It seems that everywhere one looks, health and fitness are the recurring themes of business. Restaurants have produced "healthy choice" menus, fast food establishments are promoting various salads and school menus have come under scrutiny. The trend has not overlooked the most health conscious industry in the nation either. Athletes undergo vigorous tr
| 1320 | Comparison of "The Story of an Hour" and "The Disappearance"
It has always been assumed that the modern women are far different from the women in the traditional women. Many believed that women from the olden years (such as the Victorian era, or the years of the 1700's or 1800's) are treated in an extremely different way from the women in today's generation. However, there are some written stories that tell otherwise.
Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" was written in 1894 while Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "The Disappearance" was written in 1995. Chopin is of white decent, while Divakaruni is Indian. The stories and the authors came from two different times and from two opposite ends of the world, yet the very theme and personification of the woman characters in both stories tell the same th
| 1281 | Music of the Lost Prophets
Lost Prophet has been experiencing a meteoric rise to stardom in recent years due to an underground music craze following the lack of real metal music within the music industry. Many fans of old style metal bands such as Metalica wanted to move on a modern update on metal music and this led to the emergence of "nu-metal". The Lost Prophets play within this genre by combining the influences of punk music with metal to create a very unique blend. The blending of heavy metal with punk vocal and lyrics characterize this type of music. It is not nearly as powerful as traditional metal because the vocals for Lost Prophet are nearly as prominent as other aspects of the music. "Nu-metal" originally started as an underground movement in Great B
| 1084 | Non Discriminatory Hiring and the Workplace
Equal Opportunity employment is more or less the law of the land. One says "more or less" because there are still some pockets of resistance. However, most human resources managers now are very careful to use some form of "Affirmative Action" in their hiring process. Just what is the definition of Affirmative Action? "Affirmative Action is a policy designed to create a nondiscriminatory environment for the management of human resources and the distribution of economic benefits...It means taking a second look to be fair to everyone who applies for a job or admission to college." (Anderson 1996 PG) What stirred up many people was not the previous blatant unfairness, whites favored over blacks or Hispanics, bosses hiring friends instead of the
| 920 | Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Depression in Non-Institutionalized Older Women
In a study of Omega-3 fatty acids, researchers Ma and Taylor sought to identify what effect the Fatty Acids have on mood and depression in elderly women. The focus on elderly women was chosen due to a high occurrence of both depression and risk of improper nutrition in those subjects. Researchers emphasized that understanding what nutritional aspects are fostering depression in elderly adults
| 319 | Love in Literature and Poetry: Chopin, Millay, Sexton and Shakespeare
Love provides the underlying impetus and thematic content in many works of literature, especially poetry. In its various forms and expressions, love is the driving force of life, the magnetism uniting mother to child, lover to lover, friend to friend. However, love is not always portrayed as a liberating, life-giving force in works of poetry and poets especially disagree on the role romantic love plays in the human experience. Millay and Shakespeare use the sonnet, a form of poetry reserved almost exclusively for the theme of love, to convey starkly different opinions about love's power and its impact on human beings. Written by a male poet, Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 also reveals specifically how romance has affected men. On the other hand, E
| 653 | Racism an Racial Inequality: Modern Day Racial Discrimination
The book "Racism and Racial Inequality" talks about the modern day racial discrimination that is happening in the society. More particularly, the book highlights the kind of racism and/or racial inequality that students and teacher experience in school.
Racism and racial inequality is an old-aged problem. The difference in skin color, cultural background, language, historical perspective and even
| 323 | Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison: Obsession With Flying
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison narrates the story of Milkman Dead and his obsession with flying. Solomon, he later discovers, was an ancestor who tried to fly from bondage with his son Jake but couldn't take him along to the destination as Jake fell off somewhere in the middle. The book is full of repetitive motifs and themes. The story of Solomon and Jake itself is adapted from Daedalus/Icarus Greek myth.
The novel follows Milkman's obsession with flying and chooses flight as an important theme. In fact the novel opens with it when Robert Smith, an agent of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, decides to "take off from Mercy and fly away on my own wings" (3). But Pilate fails to save him and sings a song at his death: "O
| 602 | Song of Solomon by Tony Morrison
Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" is considered to be by critics and readers alike one of the most significant novels of the African American literature. It is the creative result of one of the most acclaimed writers of the American cultural scene. The author draws her inspiration and writing motivation from a deep cultural heritage which is quite obvious throughout the novel. In doing so, she makes use of different literary techniques and details which enable her to perfectly express her intensions by drawing up individual and well defined characters and at the same time present her all around perspective on life.
In order to best capture the profound meanings of the novel in its entirety, it is important to analyze specific elements of t
| 1010 | The American Revolution: True Democracy Was Achieved
INTRODUCTION
The American Revolution started when the British colonies in America had conflict with their own British rulers. The war consists of the revolt against Britain and the foundation of a new form of government.
The American Revolution continued until Thomas Jefferson was elected as President of the United States and the War between France and India ended. The British invaded Americans and this was the time when they organized a revolution against the British. Americans became tired of British regime, they aspired for independence and wanted to establish their own freedom and form of government in which Americans should rule their own land. When the Americans started to revolt, this was also the start of the new beginning. The n
| 1255 | Decision Making in Leadership
In my experience, decision making in a business, corporate or military setting is intrinsically tied to leadership. Of course, leadership comes in many forms, and the resulting decision making processes are equally numerous. Nevertheless, leaders of any organization must have followers, and these followers can only truly be won through trust. Similarly, an organization that is devoted to teamwork must have trust running throughout its ranks; this will allow for shared leadership structures, and more efficient decision-making. Since leadership is event-based, it can best be applied within teams with varying specialties and the trust to allow any one of their members to assume command should the need arise. Generating an organization that adh
| 746 | Measurable Outcomes for Gestalt Therapy
Since clearly individuals enter into therapy for varied and personal reasons, the outcomes for any method will be very different in specifics. However, there are clearly defined goals that are set early in the therapeutic relationship, and the success of each of these goals can be measured. In Gestalt therapy, for example, strives to integrate the mind and the body; the
| 298 | Family Therapy
Gestalt Family Therapy has a greater range of styles and modalities than any other therapy. But the styles in each modality vary in type of structure, quantity and quality of techniques, frequency of sessions, abrasiveness/ease in relating, focus on body, cognition, feelings, interpersonal contact and so on (Yontef 1993). Psychodrama may also be used (Weiser 2003). By using confrontation, dream analysis, dialogue with polarities or role playing, a healing/learning process may be carried out in formally organized groups of three or more individuals who seek chan
| 454 | Feminist Therapy Critique
Some people believe that the roles that have been set for males and females affect the life choices of growing and grown-up humans excessively. As women begin to form self-images, they measure themselves against unrealistic standards. Many of these standards involve role stereotypes set up by Western cultures. Although people believe they are unable to see how our culture has differing roles for men and women, many attitudes reflect bias, prejudice and stereotypes along the lines of sexual and gender expectations (Worrell, 2002). People need to look at the roles that women and men are expected to play in W
| 491 | Ethical Work Climate as a Factor in the Development of Person-Organization Fit by Sims and Keon
"Ethical work climate as a factor in the development of person-organization fit" by Sims and Keon (1997). This article presents findings relative to the business research issue of how to best fit a person to their employment organization. Business research includes market research and more, such as research that examines all aspects of the business environment. The purpose of business research is to examine a specific business phenomenon. For this article, the purpose of the business research was to understand the relationship between ethical climate in the organization and the development of a good person-organization fit. Survey research was used to conduct this research.
Specifically, the business problem investigated, was the nee
| 1085 | Ford Pinto & Social Capital
The Ford Pinto fiasco in the 1970s led to an "unprecedented court case" in which the "prosecution brought charges of reckless homicide against the Ford Motor Company," the first time a corporation had been charged with criminal conduct in the United States (Gioia, p. 115). Buckling under pressure from pending lawsuits, increasingly strident governmental regulations, and a persistent media, the Ford Motor Corporation finally recalled all Pintos sold between 1970 and 1976. What really inspired Ford to recall the explosive vehicles was, however, the clear fact that the negative attention they were receiving in the media impinged on their profit margins. Mismanagement of the Pinto problem led to a decline in Ford's reputation and thus eroded th
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