Looking Backward Paper While many Americans viewed themselves as practical people prior to the publication of Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward," I believe that the book had so many supporters because the ideas that Bellamy offered to Americans were beyond practical. It wa...

Tuesdays with Morrie "An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson" In the beginning he was just a professor, and then that professor became a great example of life that could be followed successfully by anyone who wants to be better and who wan...

Videoconferencing has been around for many years, introduced as early as the 1960s. Only recently however is it getting much press as the technology of the future, as more and more companies are searching for ways to cut back on costs and invest in equipment that will save time and travel expen...

Should we all be farmers? My first impression of Wendell Berry's book, The Unsettling of America; Culture & Agriculture was "What could this possibly have to do with me?" I first thought that Berry wanted us all to be farmers, ...

Introduction The future of training and development in the workplace over the next five to ten years will be impacted both by changes in the business environment and technological advances. The entry of a new generation of individuals who grew up with computers, changing definitions of ...