...1. Creates false sense of beauty 2. Notion that beauty is more important than attitude 3. Those who can’t afford will be left incomplete 4. It became an obsession 5. Quality and outlook in life will be improved D. Undergoing plastic surgery must be decided properly 1. Personal reason 2. If it can help one’s condition 3. A necessity or not 4. Preparedness of one’s self Bibliographical Reference: * Siebert JW, Burd A, McCarthy JG, Weinzweig J, Ehrlich P: Fetal wound healing: a biochemical study of scarless healing. Plast Reconstr Surg 1990; 85:495. * Adato, Allison. "Obsessed with Plastic Surgery." People Weekly 15 Jan. 2007: 84. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Feb. 2010. * Garcia, Jennifer. "HEIDI MONTAG Obsessed With Being 'Perfect'." People Weekly 25 Jan. 2010: 80. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Feb. 2010. * Geronemus, Roy G. "The side effects of TV makeovers." Skin & Allergy News34.12 (2003): 13. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Feb. 2010. * Orecklin, Michele. "At what cost beauty? Plastic surgery may have lost some of its stigma, but that doesn't mean the...
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...stars and mimic their every move and their vocabulary. Heidi Montag became a complete media whore over the years, doing just about anything for attention. She has done her best at milking her fifteen minutes of fame for all that its worth. Heidi is a reality television personality who attained stardom as one of the original cast members of the MTV series The Hills. At first look, many would see her and think she is native of Southern California, with her blonde hair blue eyes and massive breasts. However, she was born in Crested Butte, Colorado. Although she has not been on television for a couple of years now, she always seems to pop up in the news with some kind of nonsense. Whether society wants to believe it or not, they become intrigued and get sucked into these types of celebrities lives. While on the show The Hills, she began dating Spencer Pratt and they both became the center of negative attention and viewers bought into it. She married her boyfriend Spencer in Mexico during a taping of the show but ended up not being legal. But then again being the media whore she is, they planned an elaborate wedding with family and friends to be aired again on a final episode of the show. Upon hearing that the MTV reality show was not picked up for another series, the couple then staged a fake break-up of their marriage. The split designed to create interest into getting a new TV deal. TV personalities such as Heidi will continue to invade TV all over because viewers cannot...
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...Contemporary American Drama This is a term paper assignment for the class “Contemporary American Drama.” In this assignment, I will firstly give a clear definition of drama producing the historical background of contemporary American Drama briefly. Then I am going to introduce the genres we have covered with the characteristics of each such as absurdist, realist and feminist drama. After introducing the genres, I will give a brief analysis of the plays and the playwrights we have studied in class. Finally, I will make a few objective points about my personal performance, the instructor’s performance and the contribution of the course to my academic career. Drama is a literary work generally performed by actors in a kind of stage which involves conflicts and action crisis in it with a plot, characters and dialogues. Setting, costuming, props, blocking, movement, gestures, pacing, intonation are main elements of the spectacle. The distinct period in all arts with drama begins in 1960s. Until 1950s, the words American Drama and Broadway have almost same meanings. In the very beginning times of American Drama, plays were not originals; they were wholly borrowed from London. But after 50s, American Drama changed radically. Actors, directors, and others from Broadway came to America, because now they did not have any job there. After they came, they established their own Off-Broadway companies here. The most popular and affection dramatists of time in America were Eugene O’Neill...
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...9-800-228 REV: APRIL 28, 2010 KATHLEEN MCGINN NICOLE TEMPEST He eidi Roi izen eidi Roizena venture capitalist at Softbank V Venture Capi ital (Softban nk) and a fo ormer He entrep preneursat back at her o oversized des in her hom office in A sk me Atherton, California, and lo ogged onto h computer It was a typ her r. pical morning for her; she had received 40 e-mails overnight. An g d nother 100 or so would co r ome in over th course of t day. Am he the mong her e-ma ails, Roizen re eceived an av verage of 10 b business plan per daya ns almost all refe errals from pe eople she knew in the high w h-tech industry y. Ro oizen had spe the first decade of her career activel building h network in order to hel the ent ly her n lp softw ware company she co-found y ded, T/Maker compete ag r, gainst better-c capitalized software develo opers. Throu her roles as CEO of T ugh T/Maker, pre esident of the Software Pu ublishers Asso ociation, and later, vice p president of worldwide developer re elations at A Apple Compu uter, Roizen had develop ped a netwo that inclu ork uded many of the most po owerful busin ness leaders i the techno in ology sector. Over the y years, Roizen had also m n mastered the skill of blen nding professional netwo orking with social netwo orking; she was well-know throughou Silicon Va w wn ut alley for hosti ing dinner pa arties at her h house that in ncluded the li ikes of Bill Ga of Micros and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsys ates soft t stems. An outgoin...
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...Within this case, Heidi Roizen proves the importance and capabilities of creating a large, diverse, and interactive network in the professional world. She was able to achieve a lot through the connections and relationships she was able to build paired with her performance results. She was able to form an extremely large network size with individuals that she enjoyed working with and respected as well. She formed close ties within this network and established open communication paths to stay in touch. Through this network, she was able to establish a positive reputation in the Silicon Valley amongst what seemed to be hundreds of people if not thousands. She was also able to achieve a sense of status in the area as she was basically treated as a celebrity and it was a big deal to be invited to her parties and be a part of her network. One of the most important achievements her network offered was career opportunity. Having built such strong relationships with many people, Heidi had open doors to numerous careers where she could follow her true passions. Her network also achieved things for other individuals. Since she had built such a positive reputation, senior leaders of many companies trusted Heidi and her recommendations. She often times would help link people from her network to jobs that they may not have been able to get on their own but she could orchestrate through her connections. Additionally, her network helped organizations as well. She never would make recommendations...
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...careful in exploiting her network. b. Criteria To network was based on Performance and she consistently maintained that position. c. She carefully controlled the frequency of her interactions with the contacts that were more busy. d. Would follow up with connections. e. Good at evaluating people. Computing the future value of relations: Connect with f. Always reply to everyone h. Connect with people who are interesting & smart instead of powerful people 2. The challenges she faced at T/maker made her realize the importance of networking to succeed. Realizing that T-maker needed to find creative, cost effective means of generating consumer demand, Heidi began an aggressive campaign to build awareness of the company and its product. Leveraging her outgoing personality and fuel her desire to meet interesting people she began to consciously start networking. Heidi’s natural style was to maintain deep personal relationships with every person she meets. It was the paucity of time that forced her to change her natural approach and adopt a different method. She started to maintain close relationships with people who were nuclei of their own networks. This allowed her to maintain a large network of individual contacts. However, she made it a point to maintain a close relationship with a small set of people. These were people who weren’t necessarily powerful but were people she essentially liked...
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...XXXXX XXXXXX Greenhill Community Center Case Study March 28, 2013 Introduction According to The Oxford Handbook of Public Management (Ferlie, et. all, 2005) nongovernmental organizations can face complex management dilemmas when dealing with growth. There are four key challenges that are faced: assessing performance, governance, sustainability and infrastructure support, and collaboration and cooperation. At Greenhill Community Center we see an organization that is looking to bring about change (and in particular growth). The board of trustees unanimously agrees on a promising young woman, Leslie, to help move them towards their goal. What they get is someone who does in fact grow the community center, but at the expense of the staff’s job satisfaction. Overview Leslie, a recent MBA graduate, found an executive director position at Greenhill Community Center. She started the position with “great enthusiasm” but quickly found many of the employees to be upset by the change in management and resistant to any changes she tried to implement. The staff was upset because they no longer felt included in the operations of the organization and felt at a distance with the trustees, while Leslie felt the trustees preferred to work exclusively with her position in order to complete business more quickly. At Leslie’s six-month review she showed the trustees a positive performance, noting that she had already raised $41,000 in grants and subsequently requested an 8% raise...
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...POWER AND INFLUENCEThe course examines the bases of power in organizations and the ways in which power can be built and used effectively. It also explores the positive and negative effects that power-oriented behavior can have on organizations. The ethics of power will be a recurrent concern throughout the course. Class sessions will be devoted to discussing “case” materials in light of theoretical arguments advanced in “readings.” Case materials include standard Harvard Business School cases, book chapters about individuals (Robert Moses and Henry Kissinger), corporations (e.g., Lehman Brothers and Time Warner), and industries (e.g., the auto industry), and in-class videos (e.g., a “Bill Moyer’s Journal” segment on David Rockefeller). COURSE REQUIREMENTS Final course grades will be based on student performance on three written assignments and on student participation in class discussions. Written Assignments. Each student will be expected to submit two individual case analyses that indicate what the student learned from reading and discussing the case in question. The case analyses should be one single spaced typewritten page long and should be submitted the week after the case that they address is discussed in class. Individual case analyses will be graded on a scale from 1-3 and together will comprise 10% of a student’s final grade. Each student should also form a group with three to four other students to complete a case study of a real organization. The...
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...OC College of Business Administration MGMT 5603.93: Ethics, Decision Making, and Communications Fall 2015, Term 2 Online _______________________________________________________________________________________ Professor: Dr. Phil Lewis, Professor of Management Phone (Work): (405) 425-5561 or 425-5560; (Home): (405) 475-7070 Email: phil.lewis@oc.edu Virtual Office Hours: Email responses normally within 24 hours. Mission of Oklahoma Christian University Oklahoma Christian University is a higher learning community that transforms lives for Christian faith, scholarship, and service. MISSION OF THE OC SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Within a framework of excellence in contemporary business education, the School of Business Administration will build a community of lifelong relationships upon a foundation of enduring Christian values. CONTRIBUTION OF COURSE TO CHRISTIAN SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP For I have walked in my integrity … I will walk in my integrity … Joyful are people of integrity, who follow the instructions of the Lord. Psalm 26:1, 26:11, 119:1 (NKJV). THE OC COVENANT The Covenant for Oklahoma Christian University is posted under Course Information. REQUIRED TEXT Phillip V. Lewis, Ethics in the World of Business, Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co., 2014 (ISBN: 978-1-4652-3979-2). COURSE DESCRIPTION This course examines the basic ethical issues involved in the conduct of business from a biblical perspective. Critical thinking of organizations as...
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...|[pic] |MAN 383.20: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS | | |SPRING, 2009 | Professor John W. Burrows, Ph.D. Office ATT L084 Phone 232-5655 (office) 740-2839 (cell – emergencies only before 9pm) E-Mail John.Burrows@mccombs.utexas.edu Course Web Page via Blackboard Teaching Assistant Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan (sowmiya@mail.utexas.edu) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Course Objectives Technical competencies are not enough to ensure continued success in your career if you cannot leverage efforts. How do you motivate employees to go over and above the call of duty to get the job done? How can you ensure that decisions are not biased? What influence tactics can you use even if you do not have the formal authority to tell someone what to do? This course attempts to add to your understanding of life in complex organizations by covering topics including, leveraging culture to reach strategic objectives, motivating and rewarding desired behavior, designing organizations to fit with strategic objectives, selecting the appropriate leadership style to motivate others to perform, and using power and influence effectively. My approach will be managerial, focusing...
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...Organizational Behavior: 1/10/13 * Real life decision making is not rational * “Sunk cost bias” – violates economic assumption of reality * ex: $20 auction * Escalation * Influences of Escalation * Project features encourage it * Psychological factors encourage it * Social factors encourage it * Structural factors encourage it * ex: Vietnam war – committed large number of troops to combat * Reduce escalation of commitment * Separate initial decision-makers from decision evaluators * banks making problem loans * get a fresh set of eyes to evaluate * Shift focus of attention * think about others, pro-social view * hopes and aspirations, growth * Hold people accountable for decision processes, not only outcomes * Maximizers vs. Satisficers * Maximizers – 20% higher salary * Maximizers less successful * less satisfied with outcomes * more negative emotions during search * Maximizers tend to do better but feel worse than satisficers * ex: Silver medal in Olympics * Maximizers at greater risk of escalating commitment * Irrationality * Often can not articulate why we make decisions * ex: Predicting double faults * when asked to justify, they do not really know but may give an answer * Irrationality is unconscious * people’s decisions are also shaped...
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