...In order to have a fully effective team it is very important to understand the stages of development of a team. The five stages of team development are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The forming stage is the initial entry or the meet and greet of the team members. Some may also call this the “polite stage” because members seem to be very pleasant and want to make a good first impression. Members are interested in getting to know each other and discover what is considered acceptable behavior, and what role they will play on the team. In this stage you can really see the excitement and anticipation based on the fact that everything is new. The next stage is the storming stage which I feel is the most important of all the five stages. The honeymoon is over. In this stage emotions and tensions are high among the group members. People have revealed their true colors; who they really are and their worth to the team. Disagreements occur along with the formation of cliques or partners within the team that want to impose their preferences on the entire group. Coupled with demands of premature performance expectations and the before mentioned emotions a hostile environment can be created. It is very critical that management needs to do a lot of coaching to get people to work past their differences. The team has moved into the norming stage when the members really start to come together as a coordinated unit. The experiences that they have had during...
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...Kierkegaard I. Introduction a. Attention Getter: How do we know which direction to take in life? If there formula to how we go by in our daily lives? Do we still do the same things we did a year ago? How about 5 years ago? Now make it 20 years ago. Doing something when we were younger seemed so exciting, so energetic. Now it’s just a normal routine. Wake up, eat breakfast, go to work/school, come home, study, eat dinner, shower, and sleep. What does our future hold for us? Are we going to be the same way? b. Thesis Statement: That’s why I believe Kierkegaard’s stages on life’s way is a good guide to reference too when wondering what are you doing with your life, and what may be in store for you in the years to come. c. Points: i. The Aesthetic Stage (Partying it up –Bored) ii. The Ethical Stage (Repetitive - Habitual) iii. The Religious Stage (Life of faith – Leap to GOD) II. Body d. The Aesthetic Stage: This stage consists of not really having any direction or purpose but pleasing oneself to take away the boredom in one’s life. This doesn’t just mean buying a new car or the latest clothes. It includes desires of the flesh as well as financial greed. Any type of thing that could please you in any way, from bully kids when you are young, to stealing stuff from stores. iv. Individual known: Lindsey Lohan. 1. After her child breakout movies she was constantly in the media...
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...The Country And The City It was upon arrival one’s vision first changed. The looming mountains daunting over the valley, streams darting vertically, gushing into the crowds of other droplets gathering below. A sense of calm and easy going, life's pace one of tranquility; no sense of urgency. There lay the distinct difference; our brick wall confinement was extinct, reliance and dependence upon technology destroyed, we were in the real world now. A world where solid, hard labour prevailed, outdoor strenuous labour, independent of the obstructive weather conditions. As the coach left us, we knew it had begun. The last remininsces of home lay within the confinements of our rucksacks. Tightly bound sandwiches, clothes, locked into sealing dry bags; the endeavor had began, we were looking after ourselves. It was a time without time, no rush or avail, all bound GUARDED only by light. The sun rising, a new day, the sun setting, the day over. There was no argument, no objection with nature; street lights and entertainment scarce, night was night. All presence of speed had evailed us, our busy lives left behind. Now it was just us, us and the vast expanse of the Welsh countryside. Further and further into the valleys we travelled, we were engulfed. Engulfed into the minimalist land, the sighting of a person emulating ones reaction to an extinct species, the excitement of having reached a landmark, a sign we were on the path. A person to a thousand sheep could be said. They blanketed...
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...Music can often be a get away from reality. It can generate tranquility, relaxation, and healing for both the mind, the soul and the body. Life can be extremely difficult, from losing a love one, experiences as a child, and life’s everyday struggles. Music can be used to disconnect from reality. Music has the ability to help forget about everything negative that happens in life. Music can symbolize many things. In Thomas and Beulah music symbolizes love for Thomas. For Beulah music represents healing from all the pain she feels. There is always a time where pain is introduced into life in various ways. Looking for solutions can be overwhelming and being lost in our own minds is very common. In Thomas and Beulah Thomas goes through many difficult situation. Thomas is an example of everyday struggles. In the poem “The Event” Thomas and his best friend Lem are out in the water when Thomas says “‘You’re so fine and mighty; let’s see what you can do’, said Thomas, pointing to a tree-capped island (Dove The Event...
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...and running along a fence, making a rat-at-ty-tat sound. “I think I need a little sea air,” Billy said aloud to himself, as he headed for the beach. Scruff, the town’s care-free stray dog, walked alongside of Billy. “Hey, what do you want Scruff? You’re not coming with me you little mutt. Go on back home. Go on. Come to think of it, where’s your home? Mmmm!!! Oh, okay, you don’t have one, come along then. As the saying goes, ‘Life’s not a tea party, it’s a wild adventure!!!’” A short time later Billy and Scruff were running along the beach having a grand time. They were jumping on large piles of seaweed. Chasing seagulls. Looking under seashells and rocks for crabs. Jumping like frogs in and out of the shallow water. With the warm sun on his face, Billy laid down on the sand gazing up to the brilliant blue sky. Scruff was off digging into the sand nearby. This was the life. Not a person around. And a gentle breeze swept off the glistening ocean with a beautiful sea air scent, as seagulls squawked with each other in small groups along the seashore. After a little while Billy noticed Scruff still busily digging. It was now a deep hole. Actually it was so deep that Billy could only hear Scruff panting and madly...
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...1. "Good to the last drop." - Maxwell House coffee 2. “The most trusted name in news" – CNN 3. “All the news that's fit to print. - The New York Times 4. "Fair and balanced" - FOX News 5. "Keeps going and going and going." - Energizer Batteries 6. "No battery is stronger longer." - Duracell Batteries 7. "Think different" - Apple Computer 8. "Where do you want to go today?" - Microsoft 9. "Between love and madness lies Obsession." - Calvin Klein 10. "Betcha can't eat just one" - Lay's 11. "They're grrreat!" - Kellogg's Frosted Flakes 12. "I'm lovin' it" - McDonald's 13. "Because you're worth it" - L'Oreal 14. "The happiest place on Earth" - Disneyland 15. "The ultimate driving machine" - BMW 16. We move the world. – DHL 17. Time to make the doughnuts. - Dunkin Donuts 18. The best a man can get. – Gillette 19. The power of dreams. – Honda 20. Solutions for a small planet. – IBM 21. Share moments. Share life. KODAK 22. Finger-lickin’ good! – KFC 23. Melts in your mouth, not in your hands. - M&Ms 24. Your potential. Our passion. Microsoft 25. Do the Dew. - Mountain Dew 26. Just do it. – Nike 27. At the heart of the image.- Nikon 28. Enjoy the ride. – Nissan 29. Connecting people. – Nokia 30. The mark of a man. – Old Spice 31. "Ideas for Life" – Panasonic 32. For those who think young. – Pepsi 33. The taste of a new generation. – Pepsi 34. Eat...
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...Better Barbie By Jesse K., Grand Ledge, MI I don’t have any alumni ties to Brown, though it’s possible I could be the long-lost granddaughter of James S. Miller. Never have I sailed the Pacific Ocean on the back of a humpback whale, nor can I wrap sushi with the skill of former Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. I haven’t done much research regarding podiatry, and chances are I will never win the Michigan Mega-Millions lottery. I am, however, the proud owner of a Little Mermaid Edition Barbie. At some point in almost every little girl’s life, she becomes engrossed in the Pepto-Bismol-pink world of Barbies, a place I entered at the age of seven. My sister, Hannah, and I decided to take our collection of 11-inch plastic friends for a dip in the pool one sweltering summer day. Hours of giggling resulted from tossing the Barbies as high as we could into the air and watching them dive gracefully into the waves. Three … two … one, I launched my Little Mermaid doll in the same fashion as Apollo 11. We watched her rocket into the sky. I glanced at my sister, who was scrambling through her scorecards to make sure she had the well-deserved “10” ready. My eyes returned upward, anticipating the gymnastic stunts Barbie would undoubtedly deliver to her enraptured audience. Where was she? The crowd was growing restless. Had she landed on the moon? Utterly bewildered, we combed through the freshly mown grass and woods, but unfortunately, our search bore no fruit. After a moment of sorrow...
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...1 Film Essay: “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” as an Illustration of ADHESIVE PSEUDO-OBJECT-RELATIONS Like the novel by Patrick Süskind, Tom Tykwer’s film adaptation of Perfume: the story of a murderer (1986) is a gripping horror tale of a fictional eighteenth-century French serial killer. I believe it is also a grotesque version of those cases of trauma and consequence that analysts observe in the privacy of their consulting rooms. Perhaps if, as Freud (1933) suggests, extraordinary pathology can draw our attention to normal neurotic conditions, it may also be true that extraordinary fantasy may provide insight into those more ordinary pathological states. It may also be that certain artists, having “turned away from external reality... know more about internal, psychical reality and can reveal a number of things to us that would otherwise be inaccessible to us” (Freud 1933,p. 58-59). Tykwer’s visually sumptuous film version of Süskind’s story is a masterpiece, to be sure. However, as one intimately acquainted with the book, I cannot help but regret the necessary abbreviation of the details of each character’s experience, the reduction in the number of events in the life of the protagonist and the condensation of the passage of years leading to the development of the murderer that the translation of Süskind’s story into a commercially viable film unfortunately demands. However, I believe that, in spite of Tykwer’s considerable abridgement, Perfume (the...
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...Santiago’s home is rather modest as described in the text, “one room…made of tough budshields of the royal palm…in it there was a bed, a table, one chair, and a place on the dirt floor to cook with charcoal” (15). This shows that the old man does not care about having an extravagant place to live or possessing many items. He is satisfied with living with only life’s basic utilities. 5. Santiago is an outsider due to his age and his infamous misfortune. While some pity him for this, others in the village insult his continuous failure to catch fish each...
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...“Reading a story, a poem, or a play introduces you to an imaginary world. You are pulled away from a living, breathing world into one that was created in the mind of the author. Its situations and experiences may resemble ones you are familiar with; many of them may even be based in part on real situations, but they are imaginary–shaped by the imagination of the person who created the story, poem, or play you are reading (R. Wayne Clugston, 2010)”. This first week in my literature class has been amazing. I never knew that literature is understanding other people’s points of view. In understanding the concept of different readings I have learned that there are many different ways to analyze a story or poem. As I begin to write this paper I will chose Kate Chopin’s, The Story of an hour. I believe there are several basic literary terms such as: symbolism, metaphors, irony, similies and personification. I will focus this paper on the symbolism that I see. The Story of an hour captured my interest because of the way the Mrs. Mallard was handling the news of the death of her husband. She was very saddened by the news, but yet I felt as though she was somewhat relieved. As a divorced mother of two children, I believe I could relate with Mrs. Mallard in the sense of being devastated at the loss of my marriage but also I felt relief that I could be my own person again and I could control what I did and how I lived my life. Mrs. Mallard went through the grieving process...
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...PANGANDOY Ang bukid ni Aya, Puno ang kusina, Dunay kahamugaway, Komunidad magmaya sa kanunay. Ang talaran ni Samy, Adunay kabulakan, Kasili nga libre, Busog permaninte. Kabaw, baboy ug mga kamanokan, Gipanag-iyahan kini ni Cora, Apan iyaha kining gibiyaan, Aron kinabuhi mapanalipdan. Damgo ni Anlagi, Malinawong makapauli, Makapangahoy nga libre, Sa iyang yutang kabilin. Pangandoy ni Allen, Mga anak makauban, Mga anak makakaon, Ug mga lami nga utan. Paghandom ni Tinoy, Makalingkawas kang PNoy, Dis-armahan ang ALAMARA, Aron sa ingon niana, makapauli na sila! Si Aya, Samy, Cora, Anlagi, Allen ug Tinoy Pipila lamang sa mga nagsugilon, Sakaharuhay sa kinabuhi Sa Kapalong, Talaingod ug Bukidnon. Kinabuhi nga lingaw ug dunay kalinaw, Mao ang ilang bugtong nga ginahinamhinam, Kinabuhing way gyera ug way ALAMARA, Maong panawagan, ALAMARA DIS-ARMAHAN, KARON NA! copyright 09102015 by bgca STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART NI JONG AVILA I was in Nueva Ecija for my field work that time when I and my boyfriend were having a "Straight from the Heart" sms exchanges and I quote: AKO: Dah, nag-unsa ka? JONG: Nagahimo ug report. AKO: Miss you dah. JONG: Miss you too Momi. Maya na ta txtx ha.. AKO: Ok. After 15 minutes... AKO: Dah, OA kaayo ang gift ni Bon2x sa iyang uyab ba, hehe. JONG: Unsa di gift. AKO: Stuff toy + Pillow hug + Letter = OA. JONG: Haha... gus2 ka mag-ing-ana pud ko? AKO: Naa ra na nimo gud, if...
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...Back then I never imagined life would come down this hard on us so soon. At the fire department we have this proverb that says “Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it”. Marriage is like that, and I guess ours is just being tested right now. On many occasions to encourage me through life’s difficulties my father would say “Gold is refined by fire”. I think Dad is right once again. Jake is my treasure and the marriage we share the unrefined gold. I’ve never really been afraid of fire so I guess I can gather up my courage and say “come what may”. So deeply lost in thought, I wasn’t paying attention as to where my feet were taking me. Now I realized I was standing in the park, about a stone’s throw away from my favorite oak tree. As I glance up at the sky I catch a glimpse of a shooting star. Funny how we associate stars with eternity and yet even they have an end. The very things we consider symbols of perpetuity and endlessness have magnificent yet nonetheless very definite ends. Theoretically speaking even our starship has...
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...2014 Trends Report Top 10 Global Spa and Wellness Trends Forecast 2014 Trends Report Top 10 Global Spa and Wellness Trends Forecast This is our 11th annual Trends Forecast, and I have never been more excited about the spa and wellness industry. So many of the trends we predicted over the past decade are now coming to fruition…helping businesses thrive and helping people live more healthfully every day. At the same time, we are seeing new, provocative ideas that will have a dramatic impact around the globe. The 2014 trends reflect an industry that is reimagining core elements of spa and wellness and exploring brave, new directions. It is gratifying to see a healthy dose of healthy travel in several of the trends; bold new ideas in mainstays like aromatherapy and hot springs take hold; and the development of new models for classic destination spas. It is also rewarding to watch trends in technology, beauty and fitness shape how we will live (and look)—and even take note of how the industry will help people address dying, illness and major life changes. And finally, there is a trend we forecasted in 2013 that continues to capture our imagination: mindfulness. We feel strongly that it is important to watch how this is evolving, and you’ll see a short synopsis of this “über trend” in the report. Spafinder Wellness 365™’s Trends Forecast reports on what is happening in our industry, but we also strive to present a true forecast of what lies ahead. Some ideas are still on...
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...humour in the novel “The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai. Irony and humour in the novel “The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai. Introduction The Inheritance of Loss, written by Kiran Desai is a grand narrative which encompose the socio- cultural milieu of India and Nepal. The novel discusses various numbers of themes from love to insurgency of youth. Through this novel, Kiran Desai tries to portray the inherent contradictions of desires of individuals and the society in which they live. This novel excels due to the Desai's endeavor to depict the harsh realities in its true colors with a touch of irony and humor. Dealing with all levels of society and many different cultures, Desai shows life’s humor and brutality, its whimsy and harshness, and its delicate emotions and passionate commitments in a novel that is both beautiful and wise Irony in the novel The Inheritance of Loss: Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. In simple words, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality. Irony In the title of the novel The title of the book is so intriguing. When one hears of an inheritance, it is usually something so precious, so cherished that the next generation anticipates it to be bequeathed with pride and honor...
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...The Broken Wings Kahlil Gibran The Broken Wings Table of Contents The Broken Wings..............................................................................................................................................1 Kahlil Gibran...........................................................................................................................................1 FOREWORD...........................................................................................................................................1 SILENT SORROW ..................................................................................................................................2 THE HAND OF DESTINY.....................................................................................................................3 ENTRANCE TO THE SHRINE ..............................................................................................................4 THE WHITE TORCH.............................................................................................................................6 THE TEMPEST.......................................................................................................................................7 THE LAKE OF FIRE............................................................................................................................11 BEFORE THE THRONE OF DEATH ......................................................................................
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