...The poetic pieces displays the difficult decisions individuals make in order to progress in life. Moreover, one choice can alter the future for better or worse. II. Body c. Body i. Surface meaning: An individual comes to “x” in the road and must decide which path he must go. ii. Deeper meaning: Internal debates are overwhelming when faced with the choice to make the right decision. iii. Theme: The choices, which we make in life, can alter the future for better or worse. d. Tone iv. The individual speaking in the poem displays a certain level of maturity and it is revealed in the debate of the path, which must be taken. v. The tone of the speaker is solemn in nature. vi. The tone is solemn due to the fact that the speaker is left with the uncertainty in regards to what lies down each road and speaks in past tense throughout the poem. e. Figures of Speech vii. The speaker is using a metaphor when speaking. viii. The comparison of the wear of the two roads makes the decision more difficult. Moreover, the yellow wood usually refers to autumn, or an age of dying. The fact that the roads were worn evenly also displays the time it takes for them to be worn. ix. The speech reveals that the speaker was mature moreover; the difficult decision was elevated due to the similarities between the roads, thus making the decision more difficult. x. The metaphors...
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...speaking to Curley's wife, and the final decision George makes to shoot Lennie are all examples of showing some 'tough love'. When difficult choices are to be made, the solution may not always be what we desire. When Candy's “ancient dog” starts to bother the men in the bunkhouse, Carlson suggests to Candy that the dog should be shot. Candy, strongly...
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...the “Case Study for Six Caps” on p. 175 of Professional Nursing. Answer the following questions individually. Then, discuss your answers in your Learning Team forum online. After you have discussed each question and achieved a consensus, compile a group response, which will be submitted as a Learning Team assignment. White cap: What pieces of information are needed to assist the family in making a decision regarding Marianne’s care? The information provided explains that Marianne, 79, was admitted to the emergency department yesterday with a sever headache. She became unresponsive and a CT scan of her brain revealed she had a hemorrhagic stroke. Her pupils are dilated and unresponsive to light. She is breathing only with a respirator. The piece of information to assist the family in decision-making is the fact that her pupils are dilated and she is unresponsive breathing only with a respirator device. The surgeon cannot guarantee quality of life even with the clot removed (Black, p. 175, 2010). We know that Marianne’s children and husband are involved in the decision making regarding her care and have differing opinions on what medical measures should be done. Her doctor wants to perform surgery but not much information on her quality of life post-surgery is available, nor do we have information on the pros and cons of surgery given her diagnosis and age. We would need to find out from the husband why he feels it is best to “try everything”. Is this because of...
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...their employees or teams look forward to guidance and leadership. This paper will focus on the role of the manager figures. In their everyday operations, managers are faced with many ethical and moral decisions meant to move the organization forward. This means in making important decisions for the organizations, managers are likely to be faced with many challenges. These decisions are meant to move the company forward and can affect the company as well as employees and customers. When making these decisions managers usually think about the various outcomes and how everyone associated with these decisions will be affected. I have been through some ethical decision making as a manager for the company that I work for, making some decisions are difficult because you know that the outcome will change someone’s livelihood and will affect them maybe even mentally. I truly believe that when a manager or a supervisor are placed in these positions they should go through various training and ethical testing process. When an employee or a lower level employee sees a manager doing something unethical in the workplace they will lose all respect for that individual, so a manager needs to carry themselves with honor and humility so that others will notice and will trust them to make decisions. When looking over society and the adverse of some of the managers and upper level figures being in the news for committing crimes against the consumers as well as the company they represent can put...
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...A Difficult Decision 1 Making the Most Difficult Decision of My Life John G. Sumner American InterContinental University A Difficult Decision 2 Abstract This Essay will discuss, the history and all research I did online and in different books about Alzheimer’s Disease. Plus some facts that I have recently found on new Drugs and Nano Bio-Technology. Also a new Article that supports a theory of mine that I have had for years. The most difficult decision that I ever had to do, was to except that my dad had Alzheimer’s and put him in a Nursing Home. A Difficult Decision 3 Making the Most Difficult Decision of My Life This started back the fall of 1996, I started noticing dad forgetting a lot of simple things and getting upset & argue about them too. He thought people were moving...
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...Robert Frost's “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road not Taken” is a lyrical poem that describes the author’s thoughts when he comes to a fork in the road and the difficult decision of which path to take. It is a closed form poem with a rhyming scheme of “ABAAB” with 4 stanzas of 5 lines each. The fork in the road symbolizes decisions individuals make in life. With his used of mood, symbolism, setting, and imagery, Robert Frost describes the dilemma of decision making and how those decisions play a part in one’s future choices. The poem can be used to describe how an individual decides to follow Jesus Christ, the faith that it requires to do so, and the result of giving your life to Him. The poem begins with “Two Roads diverged in a yellow wood”, symbolizing the different choices individuals have in life. The author explains to the reader that the decision is weighed out carefully and not hastily. Even as the author talks of trying to look down the road as far as possible, there is no sure way of seeing what is at the end. This symbolization can also be used to describe the way people try to make difficult decisions. Even though they may try to intelligently predict the outcome, these tough choices rarely have the answer easily found and requires the individual to have faith in the decision they choose. This faith can also be found when deciding to follow Jesus Christ. Hebrews 11:1 states, “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not...
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...Difficult Decisions 1 Chapter 8 Case Study: Making Difficult Decisions at NBC Universal The NBC Universal’s late night programming network where faced with some very tough decisions regarding Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien talk show host. I’m sure everyone is familiar with this dynamic duo, if not allow me to share a little history about these two gentleman. Jay Leno was born James Douglas Muir Leno on April 28, 1950, in New Rochelle, New York to father Angelo Leno and mother Cathryn Leno. Jay Leno is the late night talk show host and stand-up comedian who hosted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992 to 2009. Conan O’Brien was born Conan Christopher O’Brien on April 18, 1963 in Brookline, Massachusetts to father Dr. Thomas O’Brien and mother Ruth Reardon O’Brien. Conan O’Brien started out as a TV writer before becoming a talk show host. Conon O’Brien now the new host the Tonight Show for the last 12yrs on NBC host by Jay Leno previously. NBC management decided to move Jay Leno to prime-time slot while elevating Conan O’Brien to the new host of “The Tonight Show” then NBC decided to reverse their decision. NBC became concerned that O’Brien might move to another network, so they decided to make him a promise in 2009 that he would succeed Jay Leno as the host of “The Tonight Show”. NBC was betting by this time Jay Leno would be ready to retire. Unfortunately in...
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...Making An Important Decision Assignment: Describe a particular time in your life when you had difficulty making an important decision. During the course of our lifetimes we make many significant and difficult choices that affect us. These choices affect our personal and professional lives. Therefore, we make these choices with much thought and care. One of the most difficult and important decisions I have made was changing careers. Changing careers at this stage of my life, mid-life, was very difficult. Preparation for my new career required me to resign my job. The former position was providing a major portion of my family's income and most of the medical benefits. Some means of earning a living while preparing for a new career was foremost on my mind during this stage. If I spent to much time and energy pursuing a job to provide a means for supporting my family while retraining, I might not do a sufficient job of retraining for a new career. Another difficulty equally as important as the the financial one was the possibility of failing at a new endeavor or not being able to find a new job. These possibilities made me feel uncomfortable and insecure. If I failed or could not find a new position, what would my family think of me? Failing at a new career would also cause me to lose confidence in myself. These concerns, failure and financial, and not finding a new job made this decision very difficult. The decision to choose a new career...
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...decline. It serves as a straightforward and powerful guideline that describes a product’s life as it proceeds from its introduction stage to the growth stage, the maturity stage, and finally, the decline stage. However, not all products follow every stage of the product life cycle, and it is often difficult to tell which stage a product is at. Moreover, a product’s life cycle is not independent from other factors such as marketing decisions and therefore is subject to change. For these reasons, the product life cycle theory is difficult to be applied in real life. First of all, many products often do not undergo every stage of the product life cycle. A new product may enter the decline stage quickly after its introduction without even reaching the maturity stage. For example, MiniDisc players entered the market in the early 1990s, gained popularity in the mid 1990s especially in Japan, but then quickly disappeared from the market before reaching its maturity stage. The main reason for its abrupt decline was technological advance and shift in market trends, as more convenient MP3 players were introduced and people quickly moved away from MiniDisc players. Secondly, it is difficult to tell which stage a product is currently at. Product life cycle function is a relation between time and sales, and none of these variables is definite. The time that a product spends at each stage varies among products, and the length of the life cycle varies as well. Also, fluctuations in product...
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...nice to say that people’s ethical beliefs do not play a role in decisions that have to be made, but that is not the case. Ethics, virtues and values are involved in most decisions that are made. When allocating resources, especially scarce resources there are tough decisions that have to be made to determine who is entitled to get the resource. In order to understand how ethics can play a hand in who is going to get a scarce resource, one must understand exactly what ethics are. Ethics are the basic concepts and principles of right human conduct (“Business Dictionary”, 2013). There are social norms and usually the country is divided on what they deem to be ethical, but there are issues that most everyone agrees with. There are also values and virtues. A value is what a person or their culture value as far as morals and character, for example, being on time or always being neat can be seen as a value. A virtue is more about expressing character, and example of virtue would be loyalty (Sheryl, 2010). All of these play into how people arrive at the decisions they make. When thinking of a difficult decision it is easy to see how ethics, virtues and values play into each decision. When it comes to voting time, it can sometimes be hard to choose between the different amendments and politicians, but we as people use our values and judge people based on what we see as their virtues. There are other difficult decisions that come into play when you get into the area of resources. There...
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...Positive Decision Making Process Every person at some point in time will face situations in life that require one to make decisions. Some of these options are easy, and at times, some of them can be difficult. The toughest decisions in life are not those between good and bad, but those between the good and the lesser good. Choices, everyone goes through them sometimes the person makes good ones and sometimes the person makes bad ones. Making positive decisions is a method that must be learned. It is not something with which one comes equipped with, but merely a step by step process that is usually ascertained from life experiences. The project team will examine the concepts of the Decision-making process. The decision-making process can also be described as a process of reducing uncertainty and doubt about the option to allow a rational choices to be made. It is simple to make an easy decision. Trivial decisions do not need a lot of time and efforts. They are quickly made. Easy decisions consist of things like what clothing one should wear, or what movie to go see. People make basic decisions on a daily basis mainly because of habit and routine. They do not need a lot of decisiveness. Decisions that seem to be the most difficult are those that require a deeper level of thought, like the project team deciding to attend Indiana Wesleyan College, or what career would be best, and whether or not to marry a loved one and start a family. These types of decisions are difficult because...
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...We make so many decisions in our lives not knowing how they may affect us in the long run. The road to success can be very scenic one but not always an easy one. My academic success is not any different. There have been countless times where I have felt defeated, lost, and broken with no signs of light at the end of the tunnel. This all-too-familiar feeling is probably one more reason why I chose the events that are focused around my academic career. Two strong positive influences that have made a difference in my life was the decision to transfer high schools and receiving my first A in advanced placement. Home and School Support Continuing your education is always a big step and there's always a lot of factors that need to be weighed. What always makes those difficult decisions easier is the phenomenal support one receives from their family and peers. Becoming an online learner at a new University is definitely no different. The support I needed from my family now in the pursuit of reaching my degree in Anthropology, has not changed from the support that I needed from them to make the difficult decision to transition high schools. Transition is always difficult no matter what it is; I'm somebody who has a more difficult time because I don't handle change well. I feel like I'm always two steps behind time. A new system, navigating my courses, and unfortunately I don't always get it right. I can't let it defeat me, I have to learn from it. Mesosystem A Mesosystem I have come...
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...Anthony, F. L., & Brian, M. R. (1995). Decision-making process: The key to quality decisions. American Journal of Management Development, 1(4), 5-8. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/205531425?accountid=10674 Dean, J. W.,Jr, & Sharfman, M. P. (1996). Does decision process matter? A study of strategic decision-making effectiveness. Academy of Management Journal, 39(2), 368-368. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/199815374?accountid=10674 The decision making process is a complex process which have direct social, economic and technological problems. Administrators are faced with the difficulty of decision-making, which have constant changing problems. The decision making process is used to predict the consequences of choices made. Administrators make decisions which range from spontaneous to highly logical. The logical approach is structured, while spontaneous decisions are made without specific considerations. Decision making with a logical approach uses a prescriptive decision/analytic approach. Spontaneous decisions are based on intuition, judgment, and emotion, and should be avoided. The decision making process can be applied in any organizational framework. The decision making must coincide with the goals and objectives of the organization. The organization must take into consideration the people affected, money involved, frequency of the decision, and time sensitivity. The decision making process consists of: Defining...
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...reinforced and used as a foundation for all other ethical practice. The code of ethics has helped me make the patient’s safety and comfort a priority, and all things that do not benefit a patient’s well being not as important. When I am being faced with an ethical dilemma, the nursing code of ethics can help guild me to the best option. In an attempt to respect all areas of human rights, I have to understand the vulnerability of the patient and do my best to help them make informed decisions autonomously that can help provide the best outcomes. Patient confidentiality is a must in my person ethics, and I am also legally bound to keep all patient information protected and only accessible to others providing care. The morals and values I’ve had before I became a nurse has been a good base for growth and development. Putting the patient first and doing whatever it takes to keep the patient safe and without undue pain or discomfort is my primary ethical decision making model. This can be difficult, as many...
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...Decision-Making Process MGT/230 July 15, 2013 Decision-Making Process Summary Making decisions for career promotions or career changes can be difficult for one in the decision. Recently I was challenged with a career change. I had to make a decision to stay at my present employer, or switch careers to a different company. The reasoning behind a possible career change was because the present owner of the apartment complex has sold the company to a much larger company that is taking over at the end of August, beginning of September. Decision Process The decision process in this scenario was very difficult because I actually enjoy my job as an assistant property manager for an apartment complex. The first part of my process was, which company paid more. After I learned that my current job paid more, I went to the decision of the medical and dental benefits. My present employer did not have a good benefits package, but once the new company takes over the benefits will be well worth the low amount of money taken from my paychecks bi-weekly. The other job I was considering had a good medical and dental plan, but it was almost twice the amount than my present employment. After processing these two crucial decisions, I already had my mind made up but decided in the process to consider two more aspect. That first aspect was the distance between my house and the employers because gas prices seem to keep rising than falling for a short time. My present employer was closer...
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