...Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen was born on September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He started playing music in his teenage years by learning how to play guitar, at around the same time he started to write poetry and novels as well. As a middle aged man, Cohen had become intrigued by the Greenwich Village folk scene and, with his background in music and writing, music composition was a natural step. He soon began to compose and release folk-rock and pop songs. Leonard Cohen is not famously known for his singing abilities, instead his unique voice tone in songs he sings, as exemplified by our choir class as well as critiques. Cohen’s most popular song by far was Hallelujah which is even now a TV talent competition staple, who’s many ironies include the fact that its parent album was rejected by his record company in 1983. Hallelujah's path to ubiquity has so many meanders that there is an entire book devoted to it. Hallelujah even appeared in the movie Shrek boosting its popularity as Shrek was one of Disney’s biggest hit. His other songs did not reach quite far as Hallelujah as he is commonly referred to as “that guy who wrote Hallelujah”. Though Hallelujah was the most popular Cohen song, it was no necessarily the best song that he wrote What makes him distinctive is that he is both a poet and an artist, but those are not the only factors that make him different. His type of music is folk music, but unlike other artist his music does not specifically stick to folk...
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...animals for the benefit of man and animals themselves. It is my belief that by granting animals to many rights we would not only be putting human lives in jeopardy but we would also be doing harm to the animals themselves. The way by which we can help animals in the most humane way is to have obligations towards them which is not the same as granting them rights. In this essay I will present the arguments of writers, thinkers and philosophers to give the reader background and knowledge on many of the topics and ideas I will be speaking about. In addition I will provide real life examples of why granting animals too many rights is harmful to both animals and humans. To do this I will first go over and analyze the arguments laid out by Carl Cohen who is opposed to animal rights. I will then discuss the arguments presented by Tom Regan. After this I will present my own opinion based on their arguments and the writings of others. Animal rights is the idea that some or all nonhuman animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives, and that their most basic interests – such as an interest in not suffering – should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings. Advocatess, such as Peter Singer oppose the assignment of moral value and fundamental protections on the basis of species membership alone – an idea known as speciesism. Peter singer argues that speciesism is a prejudice similar to racism or sexism, in that the treatment of individuals is...
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...Baron-Cohen et al 1. The participants were tested in 3 ways. 1 of these was the eye test. This was when 25 different pictures of were shown of an array of different emotions. The participants were given forced questions. Then they had to choice between two mental states. They had to guess which emotion they eyes were portraying. Another test was a strange story test. These were a happe story task in order to demonstrate the validity of the eye task as a test of ToM. If it was a valid test then the performance of the eye task should correlate with performance on the strange story task. 2. The dependent variable on the eye test is whether the participants can recognize the emotion of the eyes. The independent variable is the groups they tested. 3. It’s a quasi-experiment because the experimenter did not control the IV. 4. The two control groups were Tourette’s and ‘normal’ participants. This is because they wanted to see if it was a mental disorder, which meant they couldn’t understand the theory of mind and the ‘normal’ group, was a control group because it’s meant to compare to the general population. 5. Answered in question 4. 6. The investigation found Autism participants by putting an advertisement in a popular Autism magazine. The Tourette participants were selected because of the similarities between the Autism and Tourette. For example, they are all developmental disorders experienced from childhood. These disorders disrupted normal schooling...
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...Organizational Approaches to Change The ability to change and adapt is extremely important for any organization to reach its full potential. Influencing people to change is more dependent on showing them a truth that influences their feelings, rather than shifting their thinking (Kotter & Cohen, 2002, p. 1). If leaders can change the behavior of members of an organization, the successful large-scale change they are seeking will more likely be realized. According to Kotter and Cohen, in order to achieve successful large-stage change, there are first eight stages that must be followed. These steps are: increasing urgency, building the guiding team, getting the vision right, communicate for buy-in, empower action, create short-term wins, don't let up, and making change stick (Kotter & Cohen, 2002, p. 6). While organizational change does not necessary require each of these steps to occur, or in the exact specified order, they provide a basic pattern for leaders to use to influence behavior and create change (Kotter & Cohen, 2002, p.7). An alternative to the eight steps suggested by Kotter and Cohen is the Model of Organizational Change and Development. This model operates in this way: forces for change affect performance outcomes, which are the focus of diagnosis of the problem, which leads to the selection of appropriate methods, as constrained by impediments and limiting conditions, followed by implementation of the method, which is the provision for program evaluation...
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...The song “Hallelujah”, by Leonard Cohen, is a very opaque and dreary song. Cohen was at a low point in his life when he wrote the song. It is a very long and soft-spoken song that was written by Cohen in 1984. Despite the sad time that Cohen was going through when writing the song, it is one of the most popular songs in the world. Many famous singers have performed renditions on this song including: Bono, Jeff Buckley, and Bob Dylan. Many have been inspired by the song’s form and its way to stick in your head. However, people don’t see the biblical stories that the song brings out. The song alludes to prayer and the story of King David. Hallelujah is a word of praise or in other words, “Praise The Lord”, the song is usually used in church...
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...Yen Nguyen ISM 6026 The New Digital Age – Reshape the Future of People, Nation and business book review “The New Digital Age” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen gives us their vision of how technology will impact and reshape our lives in the future; a world of fully connectivity where every individual will be a part of the whole virtual world through the critical development of technology. Schmidt and Cohen’s argument is that the rapid improvement of computer technology with internet access will significantly connect and transfer every aspect of life from the physical world to the new virtual one, whether it is for the better, for the worse, or just different. The book also addresses the way humans interact with, apply, and explore technology in life and the guidance for humans to adapt the changes in the new technological revolution. The two authors start by introducing a variety of new technologies which are created and used to increase our efficiency such as smart devices, “additive manufacturing” _ 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, voice and gesture recognition, and robotics. These new technologies provide new opportunities for not only business but also many other fields including: education, healthcare, and entertainment. They indicate that the global trend will be supported strongly as connectivity spreads become power in the future, and an effective working environment will be created when the new technology’s invention removes language and geographical...
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...complex and produces a considerable amount of deliberation. In the following pages we hope to give you a synopsis of Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, as well as the company they created, while attempting to carefully construct answers to the questions posed on specific issues raised by Mr. Brasel in the power point slides he provided to the class. The history of Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield can be dated back to when the men first met in the seventh grade. Both Cohen and Greenfield grew up in Merrick, Long Island and quickly became friends during Junior high school. After high school, Jerry finished college. His goal was to attend medical school to become a doctor, but he could not get in. (benjerry.com). On the other hand, Ben applied and was accepted to several colleges, but always dropped out of them. The beginnings for the development of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade were launched in 1977 from the front porch of Jerry’s parent’s house. Neither Ben nor Jerry knew anything about running or opening a business, but both men knew about food and shared the great passion of eating. They pondered on what type of business they would start. The men came across an AD in the local newspaper for an ice-cream-making course offered through a local college. There was a $5 fee associated with the course. Due to the extreme poverty in which Cohen and Greenfield were brought up in, they decided to split the fee and took the course on ice-cream-making from Penn State...
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...Range Type of competition Part 2 – International Presence of Tesco’s and H&M I will be carrying out a widespread research about Tesco’s and H&M. I will be evaluating and making a general overview of Tesco’s firstly. Tesco’s GENERAL OVERVIEW Tesco’s was founded in 1919 in a small borough called Hackney in London. The founder of this business was a man named Jack Cohen, he was originally Jewish but was a Polish immigrant. Jack Cohen grew up in the area Whitechapel. He was educated at the London County Council elementary school on Rutland Street but left education behind him at the age of 14 and began working as an apprentice tailor to his father. Jack Cohen first began selling groceries in a stall in East London. Jack Cohen left the Royal Flying corps and was paid his demob money which he then used to purchase his first day’s stock. The first product which started Tesco’s branding was ‘Tesco’s Tea’. 10 years later in 1929 Jack Cohen opened a store in Burnt Oak in North London. This store sold mainly dry goods but the main branded product was Tesco’s Tea. In 1934 Jack Cohen bought land at Angel Road, Edmonton which...
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...Crime and Society – Moral Panics Lecture 07.12.15 Moral panics lecture will cover; the concept of moral panics, some possible reasons behind moral panics, the politics of a moral panic and also look into some moral panics case studies. Cohen (1972) studied ‘Folk Devils and Moral Panics’ and this was known to be the first systematic study of moral panics within Britain. He studied the social disturbance of the mods and rockers in Britain, during Easter Bank Holiday, in Clacton, the Summer of 1964. Groups of working class youths began arriving in Clacton, and this was a traditional holiday meeting place for youths form the East End of London. Facilities for young people were limited at the time, and some café owners, despite the already poor conditions, refused groups of youth’s entry to their establishment. There were minor scuffles, which eventually lead to massive brawls. The media allowed the story to receive front page news throughout the national press. They blew the story way out of proportion. According to Cohen most youths didn’t actually own a motorbike or scooter and had actually got there via train. Rivalry was mainly about regional identity, and argues that the amount of actual serious vandalism and violence, was actually on a small scale. Shortly after events, local journalists admitted the events had actually been over reported. Media outrage had set in motion a chain of responses, which initiated a wider level of public concern. This lead to the police...
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...Langston Hughes wants democracy for African Americans and Leonard Cohen wants democracy for the world. Despite these differences, the two authors use their rhyme scheme, their stanza structure, and their point of view to express their demands. In Leonard Cohen’s poem, “Democracy” Leonard Cohen’s rhyme scheme in the fourth stanza shows that change could happen, but people don’t want it. For example, in the fourth stanza of “Democracy” by Leonard Cohen, “It's coming to America first/The cradle of the best and of the worst/It’s here they got the range/And the machinery for change/And it's here they got the spiritual thirst/It’s here the family's broken/And it's here the lonely say/That the heart has got to open/In a fundamental way/Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.” In this stanza the rhyme scheme is A/A/B/B/C/D/E/D/E/F. Leonard Cohen uses this rhyme scheme so people could understand where he’s coming from better and two, it helps him emphasize on places that don’t have democracy. In his stanza structure, he uses 10 lines (Or at least in this copy) in one stanza. This not only shows that he emphasized on this stanza but it also shows that its related to one another. In the line, “ It’s here they got the range/And the machinery for change.” Leonard Cohen puts this line so he shows his point of view. I would say that he thinks that others have the chance to have Democracy, but don’t accept it. Another line that Leonard Cohen uses that proves his point is, “From the ashes of the gay.”...
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...essence of what is termed 'propaganda' does not exist in such a force today, it is nevertheless evident that what was quoted from The Daily Star is tantamount to propaganda. Throughout history, the mass media industry has been utilised as a tool to appeal to the public at large, particularly in the field of politics, where people in a position of power can tempt society into believing what they want them to believe. As Eldridge describes "The media, wittingly or unwittingly, reproduce the definitions of the powerful." [Eldridge 1997: 65] This document will examine not only the essence and origin of the term 'moral panic' but the very important nature of the media's involvement in the whole process of creating a 'moral panic'. It was Stanley Cohen, in his work, Folk Devils and Moral Panics. (1987) who first coined the term 'moral panics'. He defined the concept as a sporadic episode which, as it occurs, subjects society to bouts of moral panic, or in other terms, worry about the values and principles which society upholds which may be in jeopardy. He describes its characteristics as "a condition, episode, person or group of...
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...Tesco plc. * Tesco plc. Is a multinational business, it was found in 1919 and was found by Jack Cohen. * Tesco plc. Is the third largest retailer business in the whole world measured by revenues and the second largest business measured in profits? * Tesco Plc. has headquarters located in Cheshunt, Broxbourne and in Hertfordshire. * Tesco has been improving their revenue hugely every year which shows that they are very successful. * The chairman of Tesco Plc. is currently Sir Richard Broadbent; he has been doing a great job coping the business to survive in the market. * Tesco Plc. has two executive directors and eight non-executive directors. * Tesco is owned mainly by the shareholders because Tesco is a public limited company. For every function in Tesco, has a team which is controlled by a financial director. Its controlled by the financial director so then the business can make much profit as well as it helps tout because a financial directors mainly are the ones which help out to make profit. Tesco has many functions to keep the business on the market. Tesco has a product group which only concentrates on making the products nothing else will be done by them. Tesco care a lot about their consumer type, they are very interested in what the customers want. They call their method “Customer Lifestyles”. The customer lifestyle is “you are what you buy”, it’s a way of them offering on range of things needed. Tesco thinks that this is the best...
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...RivCoh troylambertwrites.com Interview River Cohen is the CEO of River Cohen Giving, Datainsure and the Cofounder of PCIHIPAA. Cohen’s remarkable entrepreneurial and philanthropic career spans over 20 years. Cohen established the River Cohen Giving in 1995 to fulfill his passion for philanthropic giving and long term desire to forge lifelong partnership with grass root leaders and advocates along with non-profit organizations that aim to enhance and benefit the local communities. Through the organization, Cohen has managed to support and promote several community centered organizations. Datainsure, on the other hand, is focused on creating solutions for enhancing and reducing cost and guaranteeing secure payments for merchants. Cohen began servicing as the CEO of Datainsure in 2007. Interview: When and where were you born? I am a native of Mendocino a small town overlooking the Pacific in California. Today, my family continues to reside in Northern California, but in the more cosmopolitan Bay Area of San Francisco. I chose to...
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...Justin Sunwoong Choi BUSM 431 Brother Huff 10/18/2012 Ben & Jerry’s - Japan 1. Overview of the case * Perry Odak had meeting with Masahiko Iida who is the president of Seven-Eleven Japan to resolve conundrum of whether to introduce Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to the Japan market and, if so, how. Ben & Jerry’s was established by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who were school mates before, when they were in mid 20s. They were growing between 1982 and 1990 but they had suffered with their net income from 1993 to 1994 when their sales exceeded $150 million. Haagen-Dazs was the only major competitor in the super-premium ice cream market where Ben & Jerry’s was in. Ben & Jerry’s was very slow with embracing foreign market. The company only had foreign sales of $6 million, with total sales of $174 million. In the super-premium ice cream sales, Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s were still the leading brands, but Haagen-Dazs was above Ben & Jerry’s. Now Ben & Jerry’s is trying to focus on market opportunities in Japan where Haagen-Dazs already had managed to capture nearly half the super-premium market in. Ben & Jerry’s is facing some difficulties with requests or changing their strategies by getting into the market in Japan. 2. Identification and Analysis of the Key Issues of the Case. * The reason for the decision of Ben & Jerry’s getting into Japan’s market is because Japan is the second biggest ice cream market with a big...
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...WEEK ONE- ASSSIGNMENT ( EBM 520) CHAPTER ONE 1-23 Five human resources problems Carter cleaning company will have to grapple with. 1.) No plan for training of staff that will match the dream of bringing in modern management concept and techniques. Unskilled staff that lacks retraining will no doubt make mess of whatever modern management technique introduced in the future. 2.) While having good plan to acquire modern management concept and technique, no mention was made of plans to improve working condition for staff such as health insurance and housing scheme. This may generate dissatisfaction in the minds of the staff that are expected to braze up to the new techniques in the face of poor working condition. Some staff may eventually resign. 3.) The graduation from one outfit to six is an indication of growth and success in business. A feat that may have resulted from dedicated and hardworking staff with good performances as ascertain by Carter. While increasing the number of stores nothing was done to increase the staff wages and benefits. Some staff may get offended with such development and resign in the future. 4.) Employing Jennifer, a fresh graduate with little or no experience as a consultant and trouble shooter could smell doom in the future. Experience matters a lot; you cannot give what you don’t have. 5.) Finally, placing Jennifer above older staff with over a decade experience could engender strife and rebellion, none of these...
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