...Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake 400 years ago. He was tied up, as they gathered wood at his feet. Some report that he was wearing a shawl with daemons emblazed on it, and others say that he was stripped. The reason he was burned was his heresy and his refusal to conform to the Vatican's will. A Pantheist, he believed that nature was god, and all other theology was fundamentally flawed. Giordano Bruno was burned alive 400 years ago by cruel, mindless men, and upon hearing what his fate would be, he said, "Perhaps you deliver my punishment with more fear than I receive it." Oh, what bravery, courage, and stamina of life! This may have been the test of humanity. The spirits of charity and courage watched -- they saw the lighting of his body, the soft glow of embers, they saw what we all now know: that humanity failed; that kindness and justice were overthrown, treated as vestiges and given no value. Giordano Bruno was burned 400 years ago, the flames engulfing his torso, blistering his skin, turning his insides molten. And as I read and learn of the glorious martyr, with his death being a sign forever of the extent of cruelty, I come to uneasy questions about myself. Would I do the same? What would the flame taste like? How long would it last? Asking questions to myself, I seem more and more like a strange. Sometimes I wish I could meet this hero of every Humanitarian. And I wish I could ask what was so precious to him, how he had lived, how he died, the loves...
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...toda clase de humillaciones durante su injusta permanencia en los campos de concentración homosexual, que surgieron en Cuba, durante la Revolución, a mediados de los años sesenta”. En Arturo la estrella más brillante se narra la historia de un homosexual cubano, que sufre toda clase de humillaciones durante su injusta permanencia en los campos de concentración homosexual, que surgieron en Cuba, durante la Revolución, a mediados de los años sesenta. Este es un texto, cuya escritura es verdaderamente impactante debido a la crudeza con la cual narrador cuenta los hechos por él vividos, durante la dura época en que tuvo que sufrir las humillaciones de la persecución bajo un gobierno opresor; cuya promesa para el pueblo era la de igualdad y libertad, supuestamente. Pero este proyecto de igualdad para el pueblo fue sólo una promesa más sin cumplir por el régimen castrista. El mismo Castro consideró que, en este caso, los homosexuales ó la conducta de estos seres humanos, considerada una desviación; no era digna de un verdadero revolucionario. Así mismo, las personas con este tipo de inclinación sexual eran víctimas de la homofobia y tampoco les era permitido obtener cargos donde la población joven se viera influenciada por ellos. De esta forma, no sólo los homosexuales, sino también aquellos disidentes quienes eran catalogados de antisociales, eran arrestados por los militares y conducidos a unos campos de trabajo, en zonas agrícolas, para que llevaran a cabo trabajos...
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...Holocausto Nazi El Holocausto fue el maltrato y asesinato de un gran grupo de personas e individuos indeseables por el movimiento organizado del régimen Nazi y sus colaboradores. “Holocausto” o Holocaust en inglés, es una palabra de origen griego que se traduce a “Sacrificio por fuego”. Todo comenzó en el año de 1933 en Alemania, cuando Hitler llego a tener un cargo político y de inmediato puso en práctica actitudes discriminatorias hacia las razas que los nazis consideraban inferiores. Aquellas razas incluían a los judíos, gitanos, discapacitados, limosneros, y hasta prostitutas, entre otros más, la misión que tenía esta actitud discriminatoria no solo era rechazarlos si no aniquilarlos. Los seguidores de Hitler firmemente creían que entre la lucha entre razas, la “raza maestra”, solamente se consideraban a las personas de cabello rubio, ojos azules, e incluso de una estatura alta. Estas personas, según la actitud de Hitler, debían combatir por la supervivencia de su raza, la cual se consideraba la raza suprema, y luchaban para no perder la pureza y que no fuera contaminada por las razas inferiores. Acaso de esta creencia, millones de asesinatos fueron cometidos, con grandes consecuencias. La mayor parte de estos asesinatos fueron hacia los judíos, una de las razones fue porque los nazis los culpaban por la crisis económica, cual fue bastantemente notable en su país, Alemania. También eran culpados por la derrota de la primera guerra mundial, según Hitler los judíos estaban...
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...There are many different reasons for the development of the Cold War’s in 1945 – 48. This period could be argued as being the transitional period from the USSR and USA being allied powers creating a peaceful post-war Europe to two powers fighting for control over post-war Europe. The development throughout these years, on the one hand, could be seen as being a result of Soviet expansionism, as suggested clearly in sources 7 and 9. On the other hand, in line with evidence from sources 8 and 9, USA’s economic interests could have been seen as having the most impact on the development of the Cold War. A further argument could be to suggest that it was in fact due to ideological differences, which is backed by evidence from all three sources. Overall, the development of the Cold War from 1945 – 48 owed more to the USA’s economic interests than any other factor. There is evidence in all three sources of ideology coming in to play during the development of the Cold War. “Russia wanted friendly governments on its western borders” is a clear statement that Soviet ideology of creating “buffer” states to protect them from “future attacks from the west” had a part to play in the development of the Cold War. Source 8 supports this by contributing the capitalist ideology of the US which was to use Marshall Aid (1948) to “bring economic recovery to western Europe”. The relevance of this to development of the Cold War is clarified in source 9, which explains that Stalin did not accept Marshall...
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...A brief discussion of the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development as well as the role of sustainability in the relationship Introduction: The origin and development on theory As early as the 17th century, the French term "entreprendre "appeared in economics, which evolved into "entrepreneur" as commonly used (Dees,1998). The concept of entrepreneur keeps on developing and varies with the development of socio-economics. Richard Cantillon published his in 1775 “Essay on the Nature of Trade in General" (Murphy,1986). Since then, entrepreneurship was given a definition in the perspective of behavior, including decision-making, sound judgment, supervision of production, innovation, and resource reallocation (Herron, 1993). The new definition of the "entrepreneur" credited by French economists was put by Jean Baptiste in the 19th century "the entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield". In this time, entrepreneurship was given the meaning of "creating values"(Dees, 1998). In 1911, “entrepreneur as innovator” was put forward by Schumpeter. In his theory, entrepreneurship nearly the same as innovation is thought to be a critical factor in the promotion of economic development. This theory was unceasingly completed by Schumpeter. Through the process of “disruptive innovation” (Schumpeter, 1942), entrepreneurs create economic opportunities and obtain economic benefits by causing...
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...The Cold War marked a period of hostility between superpowers: that of the USA (and by extension, the West) and the USSR and the East. This hostility began after the Second World War, despite the supposed camaraderie between the two superpowers during the war as allies against Hitler and Fascism. Whether the schism between the superpowers was caused by their differing ideologies (the capitalist West and the communist East) or a clash between national interests and strong personalities is a matter for debate. Winston Churchill could be said to have helped cause the Cold War because of his ideological differences with Stalin. His 1946 ‘Iron Curtain’ speech certainly caused tension: it unveiled to the world Stalin’s increasing “Soviet sphere” and “increasing measure of control from Moscow”, strongly showing his disapproval of Stalin’s swooping over Eastern Europe and inferring his strongly anti-communist stance. However, this speech was given in 1946, and Churchill was no longer the Prime Minister; that role had passed to Clement Attlee, inferring that he felt he was only able to make such a blunt statement of his views once he was out of power. Conversely, when he was in high office, Churchill was able to work well with Stalin – he called him “Uncle Joe”, inferring they were more than just cordial allies working purely against Stalin. In fact, the Iron Curtain speech could be seen as hypocritical as Churchill made an agreement with Stalin which allowed him to have 75% of influence...
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...ENTREPRENEURSHIP Anne Onyambu Ms Lorrinda Khan October 29, 2011 A Successful Business Is Created before There is a Business Entrepreneur can be defined in two ways: a) an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. b) One who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods. Are people born entrepreneurs or are they trained to be entrepreneurs? Asking such a question if people are born or trained to be entrepreneurs is a question that makes no sense. It would be like asking if people are born employees or trained to become employees. People are trainable. They can be trained to be either employees or entrepreneurs. The reason there are more employees than entrepreneurs is simply that our schools train young people to become employees. That is why so many parents urge their children to go to school in order to get good jobs. I have yet to come across a parent who says, “Go to school to become an entrepreneur.” The difference between an employee and an entrepreneur is that employees look for jobs after the business is built. An entrepreneur’s work begins before there is a business. Therefore, a successful business is created before there is a business. An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. Entrepreneurs become leaders because they perceive opportunities available and are well-positioned...
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...mastor UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/13 MARCH 2013-JULY 2013 SEMESTER PRICIPLES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP (ENT 530) Course Details Course : BBA IN MARKETING (BM220) Tutorial Group : JBM2204D Lecturer’s Name : MADAM SHAHERAH BINTI ABDUL MALIK Title : `TEROMPAH MASTOR TUAH’- A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR Assignment Details Due Date : 17th MAY 2013 Important Note : Submission of assignments is the responsibility of the students. Student’s Details Name | Student ID No. | NURUL`AIN BINTI BASIR | 2012200112 | IMAN BINTI MOHD FAWZI | 2012664482 | NUR AIYSHA BINTI RAZALI | 2012694292 | AHMAD SYAZANI BIN KASMUN | 2012216956 | MUHD FAIZ BIN SHAHRU ALZAMAN | 2012299472 | MUHAMMAD MOHSEIN B. MOHD ZAINAL | 2012853236 | Assignment Overall Marks : ________________ Marks ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, we would like to say Alhamdulillah, for giving us the strength and health to do this assignment until it done. Not forgotten to our family for providing everything, such as money, to buy anything that are related to this assignment and their advice, which is the most needed for this assignment. Internet and all that as our source to complete this assignment. They also supported and encouraged us to complete this task, so that we will not procrastinate in doing it. Then, we would like to thank to our lecturer, Madam ShaheerahBinti Abdul Malik for guiding us throughout this assignment...
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...Brandon Alford Prof. Cameron ENG 1001-12 November 19, 2012 Hard Work Deserves Pay The screaming, the brutal running, the early mornings and late nights followed by the fear to sleep because you doubt you’ll wake up the next morning. Day in and day out college athletes do all the things the average college student does and more. Waking up, going to school. Then having to go out and perform for hours for whatever the sport that college athlete is playing. Over the course of their college career the athlete has worked up numerous days and hours worth of practices and games, leaving their bodies famished and dehydrated from all the hard work put in on top of homework and class schedules. It’s asking a lot. Playing a college sport is indeed a privilege and a choice, but to ask someone to do extra and live the same as everyone else is extremely difficult, especially as a college athlete. College athletes should receive some type of money or endowment, because they need more things to live comfortably than the average college student who just goes to school. The conditioning for a college athlete is one thing that shouldn’t be taken lightly. The amount of running that it takes to be apart of a college team is something that causes the body to become dehydrated and/or broken down if not being taken care of the right way twenty-four seven. Many college students only have a certain amount of money to hold them over until they receive more. Without money to buy waters and...
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...Entrepreneurs are born and not made An entrepreneur is ‘a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome.’ So are entrepreneurs born? Or made? There have been many debates from businessmen to academics alike on whether entrepreneurs are born or made, but is it as straight forward as that? In this essay I will evaluate arguments both for and against this statement and conclude it with my own personal observation. The argument for this statement that entrepreneurs are born is a scientific one, with the questions being are there specific entrepreneurial genes and/or chromosomes. Some of the characteristics credited to entrepreneurs include extroversion, risk taker, persistence, independent, innovative, opportunistic and the need for achievement. These skills are the reason many believe they are from nature as they go above and beyond those of an ordinary office manager. Many believe that these are skills are innate in a person, that they are born with them and they are skills and characteristics that cannot be taught. (Scott Shane, wall street journal) ‘40 percent of the variation in the tendency to be an entrepreneur is inherited.’ Some people say that not anyone can become an entrepreneur; they have to have the right innate qualities from birth alongside the external influences for their talents to be recognized in business. “If the environment is not conducive then entrepreneurial talent...
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...essay: Chapter 9 : Sound- There’s always two parts to a movie: vision and hearing. The sound operates on both physical and psychological levels. For most films sound provides cues that help us form expectations about meaning. In some cases, sound actually shapes our analyses and interpretations. Sound calls attention not only to itself but also to silence, to the various roles that each plays in our world and in the world of a film. Bordwell, D. & Thompson, K. (1993) Film Art: an introduction, McGraw-Hill Inc. USA Herrmann, Bernard. Score for a film in Gottesman, R.(ed) Focus on Citizen Kane, Prentice-Hall Inc, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Used in finding definitions of sound. Citizen Kane. Dir. Orson Welles. Perf. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten. Warner Bros., 1941. DVD. Ebert, Roger. “Citizen Kane”. 24 May, 1998. Web. Date of access 25 May 2012. Ebert’s article focuses on what defined the landmark 1941 film as the innovational piece of artwork it was and continues to be. Ebert himself describes Welles as a prodigy of his profession and follows the fictional Kane through channeling the real-life Hearst here and there during certain parts of the film. A psychological turn takes place at the end of the article as Ebert weaves the publicly scrutinized tycoon into a secluded and deluded old man towards the end of his life and how an unfulfilled childhood turned him into the powerhungry figure he was. Christley, Jaime. “Orson Welles”. 24 January, 2003. Web. Date of access...
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...1. INTRODUCTION The main aim of this paper is to investigate the success behind the companies which who succeed in entrepreneurship by new innovation and creation. This paper has two parts, first part explains about entrepreneurship by quoting some famous definition. Second part illustrates a short discussion about the examples that I choose to define the entrepreneurship the best. The examples that I select for doing this research is Nike and Apple the famous American multinational companies. The second part explains about the principles of entrepreneurship in relation to these companies. Last part illustrates the recommendation and conclusion that I reached at the end of this research. 2. WHAT IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP? According to < Coulter, M., (2003), 2nd Edition > Entrepreneurship involves creating change to adjusting, adapting and modifying one’s personal repertoire, approaches and skills to meet different opportunities available in the environment. The definitions of entrepreneurship help to obtain a clearer understanding of what is involved. According to < Morris 1998 > Entrepreneurship is concerned with unique combinations of resources that make existing methods or products obsolete which led to new innovation. Entrepreneurship is the skill and risk taking ability of an individual person or a group of people to combine the factors of production to produce a good or service < Kuratkao, D. F. and Hodgetts, R. M., (2007), Book -Entrepreneurship: Theory...
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...In the early 1980’s the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) and A. Soriano corporation (ANSCOR) group of companies, under the leadership of Andres Soriano, Jr. Addressed a long felt need for an effective formal planning system for the two companies. According to Soriano, the companies had developed their budgeting and long-range planning systems several years earlier but, despite the many advantages these gave them, they still were not satisfied with their ability to respond to the rapid changes in the environment around them. They, therefore, searched for a process that would enable them to upgrade their planning ability. SMC and the ANSCOR group, thus, sought professional advice from a team of experts on strategic planning. The team was headed by Dr. Peter Lorange, then professor at the Wharton school and consultant on strategic planning to the two companies. Soriano expressed this great satisfaction with the approach to strategic planning developed by Dr. Lorange and his team. In November 1982, Dr. Lorange addressed a joint dinner – meeting of SMC and the ANSCOR group and shared his insights on the implementation of strategic planning of the two companies. Following are excerpts from an article prepared by Lorange based on his address during the meeting as well on as the major issues raised during the lively open - forum discussion. TO QUOTE SORIANO: He endeavor has been quite formidable in terms of time and energy invested by our people during the critical first year of implementation...
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...Synopsis of Review The Great Gatsby is such a well shaped book, every point is balanced perfectly to have a highly unified ending. It doesn’t get old, always grabbing your attention. If fits every generation, making it a classic. The theme has had no real answer, having the possibility to be anything that you make it. It also ties up the American dream: being wealthy, having perfect love, and fulfillment in life. Some see the book as a spiritual failure. The background to Gatsby’s life isn’t certain even though there are many theories. The book’s narrator is compared to Joseph Conrad Marlow’s narrator in Heart of Darkness, they both dominate the novel. Marlow isn’t as involved in the storyline as much as Carraway is, but they are both used as “devices [to distance] the novelist from his fictive narrator.” Carraway differs from the other characters, one of his “ultimate strengths,” drawing us to Gatsby emphasizing the hero of the American experience. We picture Gatsby as rich, having the opportunity to experience so much more and be able to fall in love easier. Gatsby has a “Platonic conception of himself,” causing him to think he can go back to the past and get Daisy back. Gatsby works hard to fulfill his dream; he doesn’t want to face reality. “Edith Wharton told Fitzgerald that ‘to make Gatsby really great, you ought to have given us his early career.’” But having little background gives Gatsby that mysterious feel. Fitzgerald wrote a short story...
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...out of your shell and flourish. The journey that we are going to embark on together as a team called the “Hero’s Journey”. I can compare it to the Fireproof (Catt & Kendrick, 2008) journey for couples. Remember going to see that movie together? Remember how Kirk Cameron got his wife back in the end with hard work? Your “Hero’s Journey” is not going to be easy by any means, but with hard work, diligence and perseverance, together we are going to turn you into the beautiful woman, both inside and out, that you always wanted to be! As your new life coach, I hope to give you the focus, clarity, and self-confidence that many life coaches have given to others (Personal Coaching, 2003). The program that my company uses is taken from Joseph Campbell’s (2008) The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Your journey will be one of a kind and specifically geared for your needs and goals. No one has taken your journey before you... During your journey you will undertake steps that are designed to take you on a mythological quest of self-discovery to unlock a new “you”. While we won’t be doing all twelve of the steps that Campbell laid out in his journey, I have picked the ones that I feel are the best suited for your...
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