... Duke Eames Mrs. Coats Language arts honors We've all gone through had time but do you think yours is as hard as the one i'm about to tell you. The tough go through tough challenges but only the tough push through and bounce back. Jack Harman is the person who stood out to me the most he. he is such a good man.At the time of his challenge he work for Land View. Jack is my uncle and i couldn't ask for a better uncle. Jack’s challenge was fall off a 25 foot fertilizer tank. He was climbing up to and slipped. He fractured his pelvis and was rushed immediately to the hospital. it was a tragedy and a nightmare happening at the same time. The hardest part was the recovery and the process and pain. He stayed in the hospital for 2 weeks and then moved to rehab for 3 weeks. The pain in his fractured pelvis was terrible and probably unbearable. He had to take many pain killers,shots to make the pain go away. And pray that it won't come back soon. The worst part for Jack ws he had to stay at home for 2 and a half months doing nothing but sitting eating and watching TV. .Day in and day out. Now this was hard because my uncle doesn't like to sit he is a go getter. He doesn't like to wait, and was working on the skill of patience during his challenge. The pain was bad,but the the pain of staying home was the worst. MAny people may be wondering what did you do to hel. I feed his horse a flake of hay every day and his dog. I also watered his flowers, he has lot of flowers.it would...
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...country who are sympathetic to their cause. (Counter Extremism Project, n.d.). Methods of operation / Supporting infrastructure / Antagonists The death of the group’s leader and founder Mohammed Yusuf, lead to a resurged and much more dangerous and destructive Boko Haram. Boko Harams new leader, Abubakar Shekau surfaced a year after Yusuf’s killing and released a statement stating, “I have the intention to retaliate” (Onapajo & Uzodike, 2012, p. 30). The violent attacks that followed terrorized the country. As Regens et al. (2016) noted, the intensity of the attacks coincided with the more radicalized approach that Shekau preached. Under Shekau’s leadership, Boko Harman’s first attack was on a Bauchi prison in 2010 in order to free other incarcerated group members (Zenn, 2010). Prior to 2011, Boko Harman’s primary method of operations was bombings and shootings (Elden, 2014). That all changed in 2011 when they utilized a suicide bomber in an attack on the Federal Police Quarters. This was the first time a suicide bomber had ever been used in Nigeria (Zenn, 2010) and this method has now become common (Elden, 2014). Additionally, the group’s methods of operations include “bank robberies, drug-trafficking, and kidnapping” (Regens et al., 2016, p. 45). The group’s attacks have become increasingly more tactical and organized. They often sent out individuals on motorcycles to initiate a first wave of attacks, make a quick escape, and then follow up with stronger, larger operation...
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...supporting this latter clause include the demotion of Janis Karpinski. GOUREVITCH and MORRIS Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris paint the picture of Abu Ghraib and particularly spotlight Sabrina Harman’s involvement in it, as a military police officer who took many of the photographs documenting the abuses/atrocities there. Noting the poor location and hellish conditions of the prison, the authors also give context to the bigger picture of what happened there, stating that relations went from happy to violent between Iraqis and Americans due to the United States’ unfulfilled promise of helping to facilitate a new, democratically elected government in Iraq. Further, from a somewhat reproachful angle, they observe that the combat units stationed to run Abu Ghraib prison were not trained in anything related to running a prison, which ironically aligned with the disdain for international and military law evident in the Bush administration and military. The Red Cross came through and reported on the violations of the Geneva Convention, yet received praise from higher-ups when MPs showed them hundreds of photographs of what was being done to the prisoners, the authors observe. The authors also mark that no upper-level military officers were ever prosecuted, or if so, charges were dropped. Describing Harman’s fascination with after-death despite her non-violent tendencies, the authors argue that Harman was used to humiliate and thus further torture the Iraqi prisoners with her female presence...
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...TOPICS FOR THE 2ND ESSAY (Introduction to Problems of Philosophy, Weeks 6–10) REVISED DUE DATE: THUR NOV 14th * Matthews believes that Merleau-Ponty gives us better advice on how to treat demented patients than does Locke and Parfit. To what degree is Matthews right about this? * "There is a body and there is a mind. They are two radically different types of stuff. Merleau-Ponty's idea of a body-subject is incoherent." Do you agree? Why or why not? * Matthews believes that the demented patient John is the same person as the earlier non-demented John. If the earlier non-demented John wrote an advance directive, stating that in the event of incompetence he was not to be offered any life-saving treatment, what would Matthews say the doctor should do, and why? * Assess Nixon's contention that any belief that a radical sceptical scenario is possible – including Neo's belief that he was previously in the Matrix – must in fact be ‘self-defeating’. * Both Erion and Smith (22-25) and Nixon (28-30) argue that a distinction between ordinary versus philosophical conceptions of knowledge enables a successful response to the radical sceptical challenge. Do you agree? (Would Stroud agree?) * Does ‘the Matrix Possibility’ (or radical sceptical scenarios in general) even make sense? Assess Nixon's answer to this question. * Assess J. L. Austin’s criticisms of radical philosophical scepticism as discussed by Stroud. * Explain and evaluate the use to which...
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...Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. He and his brother Roy co-founded Walt Disney Productions, which became one of the best-known motion-picture production companies in the world. Disney was an innovative animator and created the cartoon character Mickey Mouse. He won 22 Academy Awards during his lifetime, and was the founder of theme parks Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Early Life Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Hermosa section of Chicago, Illinois. His father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Disney was one of five children, four boys and a girl. He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbors and family friends. In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City, where Disney developed a love for trains. His uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who worked the route between Fort Madison, Iowa, and Marceline. Later, Disney would work a summer job with the railroad, selling snacks and newspapers to travelers. Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. At night, he took courses at the Chicago Art Institute. When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the army but was rejected for being underage. Instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for...
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...Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley Tina-Marie Cole Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance LEG 500 - Lecture Course Prof. Lisa M. Morris January 20, 2015 Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley Trinity Industries, or TRN (NYSE), manufactures roadway guardrails, which are a highway public safety feature. In 2005, TRN changed its rail head design saving the company two dollars per rail head but failed to notify the Federal Highway Administration which is required by a federal ruling. The newly designed rail heads that TRN has installed on U.S. roads nationally do not propel the guardrails away from crashing vehicles in head on collisions. The lower cost railheads can send the guard rail slicing through a car potentially injuring passengers unlike there predecessors design that pushed the rail away from the wreck and oncoming traffic. The new railheads known as the ET-Plus model failed five crash tests which were also undisclosed to authorities. Joshua Harman, a competitor to TRN discovered the changed design had gone unreported and sued TRN on behalf of the federal government (Davis & Polcyn, 2014). Joshua Harman stands to make one third of a potentially billion dollars in his law suit (Ivory & Kessler, 2014). As a whistleblower, Joshua Harman is saving potential lives and injuries, fighting back at corporate greed and earning a fortune in the process. A whistleblower exposes all forms of alleged misconduct on behalf of an organization which can...
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...Citation: Rexhausen, Daniel, Richard Pibernik, and Gernot Kaiser. "Customer-Facing Supply Chain Practices -- The Impact of Demand and Distribution Management on Supply Chain Success." Journal of Operations Management 30.4 (2012): 269-81. Print. Research Classification: The authors of this research performed an empirical based study and outlined three objectives to their study: 1. …to provide empirical evidence of whether or not demand management (DeM) does indeed have such a substantial positive impact on supply chain performance; 2. …the simultaneous evaluation of the impact of customer-facing SCM practices related to both DeM and distribution management (DiM); 3. …the analysis of a potentially existing relationship between DeM and DiM, (p270 et al. 1-3). To meet the objectives of their study, the authors “identif[ied] relevant practices to DeM and DiM” through literature reviews and expert interviews, and from here, the authors created a conceptual model and utilized the partial least squares to test their hypothesis, (p269 -70). Statement of Problem: This journal article aims to examine the “relative impact of relative practices associated with demand and distribution management,” (p 269). Defined by the authors as “…the ability of a company to understand customer demand and requirements and balance them against the capabilities of the supply chain,” demand management (DeM) is becoming more and more popular in the operations management field; however, DeM has...
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...Kantians generally think that intrinsically good means a good will. Humanists think self-realization is the key. Overall, there are many different viewpoints and all are correct because the relationship of value to fact is of equal importance. Philosophers would ask whether something is of value because that the object in particular is desired and subjectivists would ask whether something holds value because it's desired. Both values have a cognitive status and the difference is whether its valuable because it exists as a property or because humans have an interest or desire in it. Robert S. Hartman's research and mathematics is the foundation of Axiology. His concept of value mathematics made it possible to measure value accurately. Harman's vision was to organize "good" as efficiently as "evil". There are many examples of how efficiently organized "evil" is in terms of the Nazis. Hartman created a mathematical system which organizes our values of our everyday experiences. The mathematics in which Hartman proposed, assumed that the principles...
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...ENTREPRENEUR FINAL PROJECT Submitted To Submitted By Ms. Shipra Goel Divyansh Sharma Pg20121799 EARLY LIFE Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Hermosa section of Chicago, Illinois. His father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Disney was one of five children, four boys and a girl. He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbors and family friends. In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City, where Disney developed a love for trains. His uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who worked the route between Fort Madison, Iowa, and Marceline. Later, Disney would work a summer job with the railroad, selling snacks and newspapers to travelers. Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. At night, he took courses at the Chicago Art Institute. When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the army but was rejected for being underage. Instead, he joined the...
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...Wladislaw Rivkin, Stefan Diestel, Klaus-Helmut Schmidt* The positive relationship between servant leadership and employees’ psychological health: A multi-method approach** Servant leadership is thought to encourage socially responsible and moral behaviors. In the present article, we test the positive relationship between servant leadership and employees’ psychological health. We argue that servant leadership is positively related to employees’ health because servant leaders shape employees’ needs and create work environments that fulfill these needs. We examine the proposed relationship of servant leadership (a) competing for variance with different well-known stressors, (b) in multiple samples, (c) at the within- and between-person level, and (d) in relation to long- and short-term indicators of strain. On the basis of this multi-method approach we seek to demonstrate that our results are invariant across different methodological conditions. In Study 1 (N=443), we simultaneously tested the between-person level relationships of servant leadership and job ambiguity to emotional exhaustion and depersonalization as the core symptoms of burnout. In Study 2 (N=75), we simultaneously tested the relationships of person-level servant leadership and day-level emotional dissonance to day-level ego depletion and need for recovery as outcomes. The results of both studies demonstrate that servant leadership is negatively related to strain and accounts for unique variance in short- and long-term...
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...Topic Page no. 1. Letter of Transmittal 03 2. Acknowledgement 04 3. Abstract 05 4. Introduction 06 5. Description 07 6. Advantages and Disadvantages 14 7. Suggestions 16 8. Present and Beyond 17 9. Reference 18 Leadership: Leadership is the process by which a manager directs guides and influences the work of others in attaining specified goal. Leadership involves 1) Exerting influence over other members of a group 2) Helping a group achieve its goals. Leadership and management are two terms that are often confused. John Kotter of the Harvard Business School argues that “Management is about coping with complexity. Good management brings about order and consistency by drawing up formal plans, designing rigid organization structures, and monitoring results against the plans. Leadership, in contrast, is about coping with change. Leaders establish direction by developing...
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...INTRODUCTION KFC (the name was originally an initialize for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the world's second largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with 18,875 outlets in 118 countries and territories as of December 2013. The company is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains. KFC was founded by Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Sanders identified the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened in Utah in 1952. KFC popularized chicken in the fast food industry, diversifying the market by challenging the established dominance of the hamburger. By branding himself as "Colonel Sanders," Harland became a prominent figure of American cultural history, and his image remains widely used in KFC advertising. However, the company's rapid expansion saw it overwhelm the ageing Sanders, and in 1964 he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown, Jr.and Jack C. Massey. KFC was one of the first fast food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, KFC experienced mixed fortunes domestically...
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...Drivers of Brand Commitment: A Cross-National Investigation Name Institution Drivers of Brand Commitment: A Cross-National Investigation Introduction Brand commitment is the degree of psychological links between consumers and service or products they purchase. In fact, commitment towards a brand is the loyalty of consumers towards certain services and products produced by distinct businesses. Brands are a vital component of businesses, this is because they develop customer relationships which eventually results in performance of the business (Eisingerich & Rubera, 2010). Customer brand loyalty is repetitive purchasing of the particular service or product with biasness over other commodities attributed to the psychological evaluation by the consumer. Businesses are thus tasked with cultivating high brand commitment by using brand drivers to enhance performance. Brand drivers are attributes which generate strong impacts on the customer purchasing behaviors (Perrey, Spillecke & Armstrong, 2011). Brand commitment can be further elaborated as a consumer’s psychological pledge to have a long term attachment in terms of relationship towards a service or product they purchase into future times (MacInnis, Park, & Priester, 2014). Brand commitment is the supportive longevity behavior that a consumer exudes intentionally for a service or product. Initially, brand commitment starts with a consumer wanting to possess the particular service or goods which later...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0268-3946.htm JMP 21,5 RESEARCH NOTE Income, the love of money, pay comparison, and pay satisfaction 476 Received June 2005 Revised February 2006 Accepted February 2006 Race and gender as moderators Thomas Li-Ping Tang Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA Theresa Li-Na Tang Affinion Group, Brentwood, Tennessee, USA, and Beeta Yazmeen Homaifar Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA Abstract Purpose – This study aims to test a model of pay satisfaction and argue that the income-pay satisfaction relationship depends on one’s love of money and how one compares. Design/methodology/approach – The paper investigates: a direct path (income ! total pay satisfaction); an indirect path (income ! the love of money ! pay equity comparison ! total pay satisfaction) using a structural equation model (SEM) based on 210 full-time employees; and the model across race and gender in multi-group analyses. Findings – The paper finds that for the whole sample, there was one significant path (pay equity comparison ! total pay satisfaction). Since African-Americans ($32,073.15) and women ($32,400.58) tended to have lower income than Caucasians ($37,180.73) and men ($38,287.97), respectively, income significantly increased the importance of the love of money for African-Americans and females, but not for Caucasians...
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...Academy of Management Journal 2006, Vol. 49, No. 5, 894–917. WHEN DOES TRUST MATTER TO ALLIANCE PERFORMANCE? REKHA KRISHNAN Simon Fraser University XAVIER MARTIN NIELS G. NOORDERHAVEN Tilburg University We examine how uncertainty moderates the trust-performance relationship in alliances, building on the distinction between behavioral uncertainty, which relates to anticipating and understanding partners’ actions, and externally caused environmental uncertainty. We argue that trust matters more to performance under behavioral uncertainty and less under environmental uncertainty. In data from 126 international alliances, the positive relationship between trust and performance is stronger under high behavioral uncertainty and weaker under high environmental uncertainty. We conclude that partners should concentrate on developing interorganizational trust where potential improvement in alliance performance justifies this effort, which in turn depends on the type of uncertainty faced. Strategic alliances blur firm boundaries and create mutual dependence between previously independent firms (McEvily, Perrone, & Zaheer, 2003). A distinctive characteristic of strategic alliances is that partners have to deal not only with the uncertainty in their environment but also with the uncertainty arising from each other’s behavior (Harrigan, 1985). Because of partners’ dependence on each other, previous research has emphasized the importance of relational factors for the smooth functioning...
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