...nowadays companies are starting to realise that talent management is not a meaningless theory, as it was subjected to in the past, and that it is pivotal to company success. A new direction to talent management is developing incorporating the ambiguity that enterprises face today. Modern businesses deal with this uncertainty by implementing a supply chain management model to predict and satisfy demand. (Cappelli, 2008) In this project I will be examining the new venture of Cedar Park Furniture, a UK furniture retail chain that is preparing to enter the Irish market in 2017. My job is to produce a talent management strategy for the company and express the critical practices required to ensure its management team and employees commit considerably to the success of the firm. Firstly I will present a claim to the senior management on why it is essential that sufficient attention is acknowledged of its talent management strategies and practices. Secondly I will conduct a talent management policy for Cedar Park Furniture’s Irish operation with particular concentration in the following areas: incorporating recruitment, selection, retention, human...
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...temple of blessed Eanna for the god of the firmament Anu, and for Ishtar the goddess of love. Look at it still today: the outer wall where the cornice runs, it shines with the brilliance of copper; and the inner wall, it has no equal. Touch the threshold, it is ancient. Approach Eanna the dwelling of Ishtar, our lady of love and war, the like of which no latter-day king, no man alive can equal. Climb upon the wall of Uruk; walk along it, I say; regard the foundation terrace and examine the. masonry: is it not burnt brick and good? The seven sages laid the foundations THE COMING OF ENKIDU GILGAMESH went abroad in the world, but he met with none who could withstand his arms till be came to Uruk. But the men of Uruk muttered in their houses, ‘Gilgamesh sounds the tocsin for his amusement, his arrogance has no bounds by day or night. No son is left with his father, for Gilgamesh takes them all, even the children; yet the king should be a shepherd to his people. His lust leaves no virgin to her lover, neither the warrior's daughter nor the wife of the noble; yet this is the shepherd of the city,...
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...Gilgamesh Passages Tablet I The tablet I passage from line 1 to 28 are significant because it talks about how he (Gilgamesh) was granted powers and with these powers such as knowledge, Anu granted him the totality of knowledge of all (line 4) describes how Anu the father of the gods gave Gilgamesh the power of knowledge. He built the city and raised its walls in all it magnificent splendors. He carved on a stone stela all of his toils, and built the walls of Uruk-Haven (Line 9-10). Also look at the wall which gleams like copper (?), inspect its inner wall, the like of which no one can equal (lines 11-12). These text describe the walls and how the city Uruk was built by a mighty being like Gilgamesh. This at the end describing the city and certain thing built by Gilgamesh such as the Temples, Gardens, and the league (probably referring to the ocean or body of water). Another passage from I is the 3rd passge from which the people of Uruk prayer to he gods. This passage shows how the people of Uruk don’t enjoy Gelgamesh as a king due to how he treats his people for ex. Gilgamesh does not leave a girl to her mother (?) The Daughters of the warrior, the bride of the young man (line 5-6). Gilgamesh is all powerful so no one can challenge him and he deemed as a bad King as how he treats his people like wild ox. The people get fed up with the treatment and they pray for the gods to make him his match (a zikru). All this so explaned in line 7 of the next passage. (Let them be a match...
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...Summary The Isaac Bell House, also known as Edna Villa, is a shingle-style mansion built in Newport, Rhode Island. It is one of the first and most notorious examples of the Shingle style. The house-turned-museum has a complex roofline with gables and proejcting porches. The ground floor is sheathed in brick, while the upper stories are of intricately patterned cedar shingles. The building is 2-1/2 tall with an additional attic story. The house is also one of the earliest of the gilded age Newport mansions. The house is in overall good condition for its age and retains much of its original intergrity and intent due to proper restoration and building campaigns. History The house was completed in 1883 for Isaac Bell, a cotton broker and investor. The house was designed by the renowned firm, McKim, Mead, and White of New York City, who would later become one of the most prolific architecture firms of the era. Bell, was only 35 years old when the building of the house began. He was only able to live in the house until his death in 1889. Bell was married Jeanette Gordon Bennett, the sister of the founder of the Newport Casino, James Gordon Bennett, Jr. The casino, built one year before the Bell House is also built by McKim, Mead and White and shares many details and design elements....
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...College Comp 2 Research Paper Simply Masterful “Most of us would prefer to look at cartoons in a magazine than read a poem," says Kooser. Poetry reflects life in a way that even big movies, cannot do. Kooser’s poems invite the reader to reflect on everyday items and to notice the small details and beauties of the world. He has a talent to express emotions in a way that the readers themselves will experience. He has been referred to as the master of the short metaphorical poem (Gioia). Kooser has lived in Iowa and Nebraska all of his life. His decision to remain in the Midwest has resulted in a limited audience for his work, but Gioia concludes by observing that Kooser “has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation” (Gioia). “Kooser wants a poetry anyone can read without shame and understand without labor, because he thinks poetry has too long been in the hands of poets who go out of their way to make their poems difficult if not downright discouraging” (Logan). Although many authors poetry is extremely hard to understand, Ted Kooser’s well-constructed poetic language and simple eloquent style, conveys a heartfelt message toward subjects like loved ones, everyday items, and rural America that are effortless to comprehend throughout his poetry as a result of his tone, imagery, personification, and the uncomplicated metaphors. Kooser has always been identified primarily as a poet. “While I was at work, I did everything that was required of me and kept getting...
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...Mayans engaged in many different forms of trade, as trade was a very large part of their economy. The Mayans produced products for their own homes, engaged in trade within their village, as well as participating in long-range trade. Sheets wrote that “Household(s) obtained distant exotic items” these included items such as jade axes, obsidian tools, and polychrome ceramics (2000: 217). I would compare this to the trade of the ancient Egyptians. In the old world, the Egyptians were well known for being a trade hub—mainly due to the Nile River. Egyptians traded for ebony, ivory, lapis, cedar, metals, and oils. The Egyptians mainly traded up and down the Nile to Africa, Afghanistan, Nubia and Lebanon. Archaeologists detect this trade through...
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...James Cameron’s movie Avatar was a major discussion amongst my friends when it came out. All of them had seen it at midnight opening, while I was stuck home doing errands and work. For weeks they would talk about how amazing the scenery was and how epic the fights were between the Na’vi and humans. I was completely lost during each discussion we had when we hung out at Starbucks or each other’s houses. I hated not knowing what the movie was about and finally I decided to watch it online. Now I know the reason why people thought it was awesome. I was just like every other viewer who thought the scenery was breathtaking and the story was amazing. Although I have seen Avatar about a hundred times now, I never once thought there were hidden messages occurring behind the movie. I had to watch it again so I could see why people seemed to view Avatar as being an environmental or political issue. The movie seems able to predict how our future will turn out, a type of religion being practiced, and show us acts of imperialism being displayed throughout the story. I was so distracted by the technology used to create Avatar’s scenery; and how amazing the creatures and characters looked that I never once noticed how it could be possibly be allegory of our own world. The movie seems to predict that our future will become miserable. That we will gradually fall short of supplies and that Earth will end up dying. So far this seems to be true because the earth is already fighting back for...
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...Henry Livermore Abbott was a Union General during the Civil War. Henry was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on January 21, 1842 to Josiah G. Abbott and Caroline Abbott Livermore along with 10 other siblings. His father was a lawyer and a member of the United States House of Representatives and a loyal Republican. When he was just 14 he was admitted into Harvard, he struggled but in 1860 he graduated. He didn’t completely agree with Lincoln’s decision to invade southern states. He described himself as “Constitutionally Timid”. His brothers and others around him were eager to join the army, he wasn’t really wanting to join. Despite his hesitation he volunteered so he wasn’t left behind when they all went off to war. He served for a short while...
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...I awoke, my feet cold under the sheets. My room was strangely quiet as I slipped out of bed and looked out the window. I saw the world covered in a sea of white snow. I hurried to get dressed and started for the back door. Hesitantly, I walked out of my warm cozy comfort zone towards a freezing cold, snow blurry. I stopped at the door, silently watching the snow fall. The tiny ice crystals drifted peacefully down from the sky, layering all the standing structures. The door creaked open after I nudged it with a lot of strength and effort, and I prudently stepped onto the back porch so that I don’t slip and fall, now I had a full view of my backyard, a wintry paradise enclosed in snow. As I walked down the steps and headed for the sidewalk, the squeaking of the wooden steps combined with the crunch of the snow under my feet felt like two instruments from the orchestra, performing in sweet silence all around me. The white, cottony powder covered the branches of the trees. As I walked down the sidewalk, I saw my car parked under a thick layer of snow .My mischievous dogs ran to meet me, leaving trails of paw prints in the snow. I continued to the driveway and scraped some snow off of the car window, and looked inside. The powder chilled my hand, so I put my hand inside my pocket to warm it, the snow began to fall harder. I wandered around the car, and crunched the snow beneath my feet. I hear birds chirping, and stride to the bird feeder, where several small birds hopped around on...
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...Alyssa LaFace ARTE 220 3/9/16 Totems of the Pacific Northwest Totems are carved Redwood Cedar trees and used in the Potlatch ceremonies of families of the Pacific Northwest. Paint for the totems comes from pigments in nature, and like the carved animals, colors are symbolic as well. The natural ingredients mixed with oil from salmon eggs created easy application. Totems were carved to represent the emblem of the family as a reminder of its history. A totem is carved and placed to honor its ancestors, the clan’s standings, rights and accomplishments, to record as memorable ceremony or record a spiritual experience. A totem pole is a symbol of the qualities, experiences, and exploits of the clan. The red Earth Museum states, “The totem carvings tells a story, revealed only if one knows the meaning assigned to various animals, fish, birds and designs. There were a number of reasons why a particular figure or design was chosen by a chan. The connection between the clan and the various figured carved into the pole may have been as a result a special gift from the animal, fish, or bird spirits.” Northwest Symbol states, “Understanding the symbolism and stories hidden within the totem pole is more than a simple exercise in learning the attributed meanings of the figures. Each crest or symbol has its own story and is carefully arranged beginning at the bottom. The viewer will recognize the design of each animal depicted, but in order to tell the story, you need to know the story or...
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...Tablet I Summary The story begins with a prologue introducing us to the main character, Gilgamesh, the Priest-King of Uruk. Gilgamesh’s mother is Ninsun, sometimes referred to as the Lady Wildcow Ninsun. She was a goddess, endowing Gilgamesh with a semi-divine nature. Lugulbanda, a priest, was his father. Gilgamesh constructed the great city of Uruk along the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia, and surrounded it intricately decorated walls. He also built a temple for the goddess Ishtar, the goddess of love, and her fatherAnu, the father of the gods. Gilgamesh is credited with opening passages through the mountains. He traveled to the Nether World and beyond it, where he met Utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood that almost ended the world, the one who had been given immortality. When he returned to Uruk, he wrote everything down on a tablet of lapis lazuli and locked it in a copper chest. As the story begins, Gilgamesh is a tyrannical leader who shows little regard for his people. He takes what he wants from them and works them to death constructing the walls of Uruk. He sleeps with brides on their wedding night, before their husbands. It is said that no one can resist his power. The old men of Uruk complain and appeal to the gods for help. The gods hear their cries and instruct Aruru, the goddess of creation, to make someone strong enough to act as a counterforce to Gilgamesh. Aruru takes some clay, moistens it with her spit, and forms another man, namedEnkidu. Enkidu...
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...Over our country’s young existence, the democracy that America is so proud of has often had flaws, hypocrisy being one of them, that can be illustrated in many ways. The hypocrisy that can be inexplicable at times, is illustrated in some of the realities depicted in the following articles and film clips described. W.E.B. DuBois describes the phenomenon where after the Civil War, there was still a great divide. It was even physical where different demographics of the white population and the black population in the south would live based on “social grades common to all communities” (DuBois Ch. 9). Though one difference is that the “best of the whites and the best of the Negroes almost never live in anything like close proximity” (DuBois Ch. 9). In the South after the Civil War, the African-Americans were often taken advantage of. The Crop-Lien system, which was a credit system for farmers to obtain supplies and food from local store keepers, took advantage of the black farmers. DuBois describes how if they weren’t able to pay their debt, then the storekeeper would just take what they feel is owed to them without any warrant or law to back them up. This would leave many black farmers in debt and stuck at the bottom of the economic ladder. When it came to politics, many black people felt that why should they bother. If “reputable men leave politics alone”, then “politics becomes disreputable” (DuBois Ch. 9). They felt that the laws were created by people who had no...
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...In their fight with Humbaba they won. However, during the battle against the Bull of Heaven, they win the fight but it causes Enkidu’s to be condemned to death. ““I dreamed we had offended the gods, they met in council and Anu said, ‘They have slaughtered the Bull of Heaven and Humbaba, watchman of the Cedar Forest. Therefore, one of the two must die.’ Then Enlil said to him, ‘Enkidu, not Gilgamesh, is the one who must die’””(141). The death is so grave to Gilgamesh that it might as well have been a loss. The victory over Humbaba mirrors the loss caused by the Bull of Heaven. Since the situations reflect each other it demonstrates duality, when Gilgamesh wins it makes him glorious and immortal in some sense but, losing makes him think of his own mortality. This conveys how two different outcomes of the same situation can cause two extremely...
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...Simon Gittany to be guilty and sentenced him to a minimum of 18 years imprisonment. The court charged Gittany with premeditated murder. Why?: McCallum made this judgement in court as sufficient evidence found that Gittany planned on killing Harnum on several occasions yet committed the act then. Mental health issues were not found in Gittany hence why he was sentenced to imprisonment. In court Gittany claimed Harnum had jumped to her death, yet forensic scientists found a lack of fingerprints on the glass barrier making his version of events implausible. Contract Case: Case: Gordon v Macgregor Facts: Following oral negations, Gordon and Macgregor had agreed into a written agreement which specified Gordon must source dark red cedar logs to Macgregor. The document also specified the sizing of the logs stating that each log should be from 10-15 feet, averaging 12 feet 6 inches in length with and average girth of 10 ft. 6 and a minimum quantity needed to be delivered every three months. Gordon discovered that he was unable to meet the specific requirements; therefore, Macgregor claimed damages. Although, Gordon claimed that his contract did not obey with the Statue of Frauds (which made it obligatory that this contract needed to be logged in writing) because it did not meet two essential terms agreed by both the parties: That distribution was to begin three months after the contract date That the minimum girth was to be 6 feet. Judgements: Trial: At the commencement of...
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...than three years beyond its expiration date. That isn’t for a complete lack of trying. The past year saw increasing clarity from the Obama administration about its education reform priorities. The March release of A Blueprint for Reform (PDF) outlined the president’s vision for Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization, from ensuring that all students are college and career ready to providing great teachers and leaders in every school. Congress responded by scheduling hearings on ESEA reauthorization, including a Senate hearing that focused on how to support the whole child. Clare Struck, a guidance counselor from Malcolm Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls, Iowa (the 2010 Whole Child Vision in Action winner), testified at this hearing on ASCD's behalf. Late in the summer, the House and Senate education committees began developing draft reauthorization language. Such efforts, however, fell prey to a contentious election cycle and, ultimately, neither chamber introduced a reauthorization bill. The Never-Ending FY11 Budget Situation In early February the Obama administration submitted its FY11 budget request to Congress, which called for a $3.5 billion increase in discretionary...
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