...In the article, “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way”, Anna Harrington talks about the importance of resilience. Resilience is an attitude the enables someone to examine, and in other words a “setback” (Harrington, 2012). No one knows the struggles that many Americans face in their work and personal lives. I agree that the pressure from the workforce, can be very emotional and stressful. In fact, that is what causes companies to have a high turnover rate. In most situations that occur, it is simply mind over matter. Having a positive mind set, will help you overcome most obstacles that may come your way. Melissa, I agree that having the right mindset is key. Everyone faces obstacles that challenge them at some point. Unfortunately, things...
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...On My Way to Learning Where the Comma Goes I have always dabbled in writing but never seemed to finish a project. I love to write journals and express myself on paper because it somehow feels more real than talking to someone. As if my thoughts on paper make them more concrete and mine. There have been countless poems, and a couple very short stories. I did at one point attempt to write a novel, but the punctuation is what I would always get frustrated with and quit. I am here to attempt to stop quitting. My goals are achievable; confidence is an easy thing to come by. You just have to put in the work and learn what it is that you are missing. When it comes to writing, I tend to be a perfectionist. It has to be right, but I am not even sure what right is. My goal as a writer is to be more confident on what I have put to paper. I just really want to be a better writer, and to know that the comma I put in that spot is there for a reason. I also want to be a better communicator because there are times when I get that look from people that says “I know you are trying to say something, but I don’t know exactly what.” Communication is also extremely important in my career as an executive assistant. There are constantly letters and emails that my boss has me write, and he trusts me to sound and look competent. Our writing style and the mistakes that we make can have a negative effect on people’s impressions of us. I will admit that going back to school is scary, and at first was intimidating...
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...Obstacles are a part of life. Even for the well prepared, plans can be altered, and the attainment of goals can be threatened when obstacles occur. For some, obstacles present an opportunity to learn, overcome, and grow. For others, they may seem insurmountable. Resilient individuals allow obstacles to be opportunities and make decisions that drive the outcome. In her article, Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, Anna Harrington discusses resilience, and how qualities like emotional self-control and a stable support system are common among resilient individuals (Harrington, 2012). Several years ago, I was faced with an obstacle that provided me the chance to turn a negative experience into an opportunity. I had worked for about ten years for a large photographic retailer and was in a leadership position within the organization. Unfortunately, my company underwent a change of ownership, and I returned from a vacation to find a letter in the mail stating that the new owners were restructuring, and my...
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...Do you make decisions? Are you aware of how much your culture influences your decision making? Your culture influences everyday decisions through its logic, past experiences, and the effect family has on your culture. In this unit we have seen many cases on all three examples. “Such as Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee, “Where Worlds Collide” by Pico Iyer, and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. All of these give great context on how and when we make decisions using our culture. Sometimes it is very big decisions and a lot of times it’s the most basic of problems we solve using what our culture has taught us. Your culture influences your decision making through past experiences. In the story “Where Worlds Collide” by Pico Iyer. In the restroom someone has written “Yes on proposition 187. Mexicans go home,” (lyer 51) this person may have had a bad experience with a person who was Mexican. They also may have gotten the idea from media sources in the story it states of the “images they’ve brought over from Cops and Terminator 2” (Iyer 50). So those people got all their ideas of America from movies they have shown. This may have been the reason for them deciding to come to America....
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...Video provides a powerful way to help you prove your point. When you click Online Video, you can paste in the embed code for the video you want to add. You can also type a keyword to search online for the video that best fits your document. To make your document look professionally produced, Word provides header, footer, cover page, and text box designs that complement each other. For example, you can add a matching cover page, header, and sidebar. Click Insert and then choose the elements you want from the different galleries. Themes and styles also help keep your document coordinated. When you click Design and choose a new Theme, the pictures, charts, and SmartArt graphics change to match your new theme. When you apply styles, your headings change to match the new theme. Save time in Word with new buttons that show up where you need them. To change the way a picture fits in your document, click it and a button for layout options appears next to it. When you work on a table, click where you want to add a row or a column, and then click the plus sign. Reading is easier, too, in the new Reading view. You can collapse parts of the document and focus on the text you want. If you need to stop reading before you reach the end, Word remembers where you left off - even on another device. Video provides a powerful way to help you prove your point. When you click Online Video, you can paste in the embed code for the video you want to add. You can also type a keyword to search online for...
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...has came a long way from what these pictures show. Times where tough bk then and they got on with it. I can't imagine what the parents went through.And I bet these kids weren't unhappy like some kids can be these days of they can't get playing the Xbox. Money didn't mean anything as a kid back then. To their parents yes, and of course now a days poverty has came a long way from what these pictures show. Times where tough bk then and they got on with it. I can't imagine what the parents went through.And I bet these kids weren't unhappy like some kids can be these days of they can't get playing the Xbox. Money didn't mean anything as a kid back then. To their parents yes, and of course now a days poverty has came a long way from what these pictures show. Times where tough bk then and they got on with it. I can't imagine what the parents went through.And I bet these kids weren't unhappy like some kids can be these days of they can't get playing the Xbox. Money didn't mean anything as a kid back then. To their parents yes, and of course now a days poverty has came a long way from what these pictures show. Times where tough bk then and they got on with it. I can't imagine what the parents went through.And I bet these kids weren't unhappy like some kids can be these days of they can't get playing the Xbox. Money didn't mean anything as a kid back then. To their parents yes, and of course now a days poverty has came a long way from what these pictures show. Times where tough bk then and...
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...Connie from “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is odd from the people around her. She is the beautiful and pretty one in her family and she believes that she is atop her mother and her sister because of her beauty. In the book, she is so overflowing with some awkward teenage habits that are commonly seen in teenage girls and she does this when she is around her friends and boys. These habits involve nervous giggling and always constantly looking in the mirror. She also wants to live in her dream world where she listens to music all day and lives with her prince charming. Connie’s confrontation with death comes in the form of the stranger, Arnold Friend. He symbolizes death in that he comes to take Connie away from her home and the world that she once knew. Although she didn’t actually die, she dies in spirit and would never be the same person again. Connie’s longing for independence has a bad result when Arnold Friend comes along and takes her out forcefully of her...
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...In the Romantic Works, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edgar Allen Poe explore the nature of violence through Gothic Elements. In Joyce Carol Oates works such as “Where is Here?”, and “Where Are You Going,Where Have You’ve Been”, and Edgar Allen Poe’s works such as “The Raven”, “A Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Black Cat”, both of the author's give a form of imagery to create the feeling of violence. Such as Oates creates indirect violence, hidden within the lines, where Poe, has more explicit and direct violence not hidden between the lines. In Oates's works such as ,” Where is Here?”, violence is not told to be happening within the context of the writing, but one has to look more closely to actually see it. For example, in Oates work “Where is Her?” in his writing it says,” This was one of my happy places!-at least when my father was not home. “. When Oates writes about it being peaceful when the father was not home. It suggests that the father in a way was abusive, or in any form violent because in the tex . “The father violently jerked his arm and thrust her away”.In quote to this shows one of the rare direct violence in Oates writing where the father directly jerks the mother's hand away, and where the mother walks away, KNOWING that a bruise the size of a pear would appear on her arm in the morning. In oates other story “Where Are You...
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...According to Greg Johnson Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is a feminist allegory. I do not know if I agree or disagree with this perspective. I do not think Oates intended for the story to be a feminist allegory in any sense, but I do see why Johnson thinks that way. Connie definitely surrenders her autonomous self to Arnold’s desire and domination in the end, but that does not mean that during the whole story Connie was kissing the ground Arnold walked on. I strongly disagree that part of growing up requires sexual bondage at the hands of a male “friend,” that may be the way Connie ends up but that is definitely not the way most teenage girls mature. I do not think the story is entirely about Connie’s initiation into sexual bondage. It is simply a story about a creepy man that tries to lure in a typical young girl and ultimately interact sexually. According to Larry Rubin Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is all one big dream about her fear of the adult world. I definitely see why this interpretation is possible. Connie has an overall feeling of not having control over the situation she is in which happens in most bad dreams. Rubin explains the similarities of Arnold to that of which Connie already knows before meeting Arnold, such as his voice is the same as some disc jockey on the radio. This is very common in dreams, things from your real life somehow show up differently in dreams. The fact that Connie could not even dial the phone number when she felt...
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...unwritten rules that everyone follows, such as not to steal or not to murder. Education has the goal of teaching that we need to act as one and to be homogeneous by having essential similarities and in doing this becoming successful in understanding the teaching of wrong and right within society. Durkheim also believes that school prepares for division of labour, as schools teach the students the skills that are needed for the work force. With regards to the specialised division of labour, students begin to be put into different and complicated jobs, division of labour is important for society as it keeps social order and holds society together, also jobs that builds a stronger economy. Parson says that education is the focal socializing agent, where it acts as a bridge between the family and society regarding norms and values. As the family teaches...
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...have. You see, I was never one of those skinny girls who could wear “brand named” clothes. I have been fighting my way through life, emotionally and physically. There were many times that I blame myself for the way I am. There was many times where I just wanted to give up and shut myself out and forget about the world. I felt like I didn’t have what it takes to fit in with society. I sometimes ask myself, “Why does society want us to look a specific way?” People of all different sex/age are influence by print ads, fashion, and the media. It gives people the need to be someone they aren’t. People have dramatically changed their bodies and the way they look due to the media. They go from a normal body to something that looks totally impossible. Some people over exercise and some starve themselves. This includes girls being overly obsessed with how their bodies look like; having the idea that the right body is supposed to be skinny, boys having the need to build muscles, and how others look down upon those who looks different. Today, girls have the urge to be skinny because of the models being used to sell specific items from brand name clothing companies, such as Victoria Secret, Hollister, Areopostale, and more. The only way to get customers is to use attractive girls with big breast and “sexy” bodies to sell their items. For example, Victoria’s Secret is a place where people can purchase bras, panties, sleepwear, and cosmetics. These VS models are known as “Angels”. It makes society...
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...9) a. False, the reflexive property states that x=x and that is true for all x. The example given would be closer to antisymmetric. Reflexive example: A=(1,2) and b. reflexive=true symmetric=false: antisymmetric and transitive=false: c. true d. true 14) Let A = {a1,a2,…an} If R is a relation on A , R AxA and if R is antisymmetric also: If (ai,aj)R and (aj,ai)R then a i = a j Then if (ai,aj)R with i j then (aj,ai) R So we can construct R where Ris maximum taking: R = {(ai,ai) , 1 i n} U {(ai,aj) , 1 i < j n} R= n + n2 = n+n(n-1)/2 = n[1+(n-1)/2] = n(n+1)/2 Maximum value for R= n(n+1)/2 and it´s only 1 antisymmetric relation with this property (the one constructed above) 2) We know that (a,a)R for all aA Since (a,a) R and (a,a) R if we apply definition of R2 (a,a) R2 for all aA then R2 is a reflexive relation on the set A 9) Each entry is 0 or 1 and we must count how many matrices 6x6 satisfy A = A tr The number of matrices that A = Atr is equal to the number of matrices that i construct selecting the entries in the diagonal and above. 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21 1) (1,2,3,4) (1,2,3) (1,2,4) (1,3,4) (2,3,4) (1,2) (1,3) (1,4) (2,3) (2,4) (3,4) (1) (2) (3) (4) (0) 6) a) Relation matrix is 1 1 1 1 10 1 0 1 10 0 1 1 10 0 0 1 10 0 0 0 1 b) (e) (d) (b) (c) (a) c) For k = 1 e is the only vertex that has no edges starting at it Then we remove e Result: e For k = 2...
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...Exercises 7.1: Work: Let A = {a1,a2,…an} If R is a relation on A , R AxA and if R is antisymmetric also: If (ai,aj)R and (aj,ai)R then a i = a j Then if (ai,aj)R with i j then (aj,ai) R So we can construct R where Ris maximum taking: R = {(ai,ai) , 1 i n} U {(ai,aj) , 1 i < j n} R= n + n2 = n+n(n-1)/2 = n[1+(n-1)/2] = n(n+1)/2 Answer: Maximum value for R= n(n+1)/2 and it´s only 1 antisymmetric relation with this property (the one constructed above) Exercises 7.2: Work: We know that (a,a)R for all aA Since (a,a) R and (a,a) R if we apply definition of R2 (a,a) R2 for all aA then R2 is a reflexive relation on the set A Work: Each entry is 0 or 1 and we must count how many matrices 6x6 satisfy A = A tr The number of matrices that A = Atr is equal to the number of matrices that i construct selecting the entries in the diagonal and above. 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21 Answer: 21 Exercise 7.3: a) Relation matrix is M=1 1 1 1 10 1 0 1 10 0 1 1 10 0 0 1 10 0 0 0 1 b) I will do it by hand c) Work: Using the Fig 7.23 For k = 1 e is the only vertex that has no edges starting at it Then we remove e Result: e For k = 2 d is the only vertex that has no edges starting at it Then we remove d Result: d < e For k = 3 b and c are the only vertices that has no edges starting at it we select c (it can be b too) Then we remove c Result: c<d<e For k = 4 b is the only vertex that has no edges starting at it Then...
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...Where Growing Minds Go Global… What is Cultural Awareness, anyway? How do I build it? “A fish only discovers its need for water when it is no longer in it. Our own culture is like water for the fish. It sustains us. We live and breathe through it.” Becoming aware of our cultural dynamics is a difficult task because culture is not conscious to us. Since we are born we have learned to see and do things at an unconscious level. Our experiences, our values and our cultural background lead us to see and do things in a certain way. Sometimes we have to step outside of our cultural boundaries in order to realize the impact that our culture has on our behavior. It is very helpful to gather feedback from foreign colleagues on our behavior to get more clarity on our cultural traits. by Stephanie Quappe and Giovanna Cantatore Cultural Awareness is the foundation of communication and it involves the ability of standing back from ourselves and becoming aware of our cultural values, beliefs and perceptions. Why do we do things in that way? How do we see the world? Why do we react in that particular way? Cultural awareness becomes central when we have to interact with people from other cultures. People see, interpret and evaluate things in a different ways. What is considered an appropriate behavior in one culture is frequently inappropriate in another one. Misunderstandings arise when I use my meanings to make sense of your reality. Projected similarities...
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...1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. The two founders are great leaders and have contributed to great ideas within the company where they have built an empire worth $60 billion. With the headquarters based in Tokyo Japan, Sony is based amongst the top 5 most successful and largest companies to date. As one of the top leading electrical manufactures of products, Sony is famous for products such as, The Walkman, television sets, Sony Ericsson mobile phones, dvd/blu ray players, digital cameras and the very popular games consoles PS1, PS2 and PS3. Sony Corporation is well known all over the globe and it is successful as it is in Japan in America and Europe alone, in 2011 it was reported that Sony’s revenue was a good $86billion with a net income of $2.64billion. Sony Corporation is divided into 4 departments, Sony music entertainment, Sony pictures entertainment, Sony computer entertainment and Sony financial. Each department makes sure that they produce the best services and products for the consumers with unique marketing Ideas. Sony is very good at what it does today. Identify and describe the key practices in their business management Japanese economy is very popular in the world today the free market is ranked very high in the largest economies in the world today. Since the declining of the economy, Japan has broken out of its bad economical state where now every year the economy gets bigger and more profitable which is a bonus for the corporations that are based within the economy...
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