...Alex Ferguson’s leadership style Case study Introduction Alexander Chapman Ferguson, known as Alex Ferguson, was born in 1941, in Govan Glasgow Scotland. As a teenager he was working as a tool’s apprentice in his father shipyard then in his 19, he became a labor union activist and an active member of the “Labor Party”. As far as Ferguson’s “the football player” career is concerned, actually, he did not achieve a successful career. In fact, as a player Ferguson started with a small local football team the “Queens Park and St Johnston” club. Afterward, he got the chance to join the “Glasgow Ranger” club, yet this union did not last since he resigned after being responsible for the defeat of his team against its fierce rival the “Glasgow Celtic” club. So determined, Alex Ferguson joined the “East Stirling” football club but this time as a manager rather than as a player. His first management period lasted for three seasons and then was recruited by the Scottish football team “Aberdeen”. With limited resources, Ferguson achieved the unthinkable, he won with his club the “European Winners’ Cup” during the 1982-3 season. This achievement with “Aberdeen” was a milestone in his career and made him “THE” coach that many big names in the European football scene like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Arsenal, and Tottenham, wanted to engage him. Ultimately, Ferguson chose to join Manchester United (MU). During his reign, Manchester United advanced from an ordinary local team to a top-class national...
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...In the book "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X ,and Alex Haley, the authors inform us about Malcolm's life. The authors structure and style Malcolm's life revolved around many things that caused Malcolm to do everything that he did. The structure was organized from his early to his adult life. The things that influenced Malcolm's life the most were his education,his family,and religion. Malcolm was considered to be an intelligent person, However many doubted him. In the book it says " It was surprising thing that I had never thought of it that way before, but I realized that what ever I wasn't, I was smarter than nearly all of white kids. But apparently I was still not intelligent enough, in their...
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...As strange as it may be, it is a fact that people are drawn into the feeling of psychological fear so it is no surprise that this film will keep you hooked right from the start. Audience members are enticed to feel a sense of bitterness and rage towards Alexs’ character and the lack of empathy is continued on throughout the film, even when his violent fits are put to a stop. Although you would not assume that the government would play a major role in a movie such as A Clockwork Orange, the officials of the London dystopia prove themselves as pure evil and some of their actions even leave you feeling a bit of sympathy for the young boy, Alex. As the crimes that Alex had been committing grew more severe, he had truly drew the line when a home invasion quickly turned into an act of homicide. Confined in a prison for fourteen years, it is not long before Alex finds himself as the target of police brutality as a result of his evil doings. The cruelty and punishment soon becomes too much and Alex begins pleading officers to become the subject of a new experiment called The Ludovico Technique. The Ludovico...
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...good of society. The first and last chapters place Alex in more or less the same physical situation but his ability to exercise free will leads him to diametrically opposite choicesgood versus evil. The phrase, "what's it going to be then, eh?," echoes throughout the book; only at the end of the novel is the moral metamorphosis complete and Alex is finally able to answer the question, and by doing so affirms his freedom of choice. The capacity to choose freely is the attribute that distinguishes humans from robots; thus the possibility of true and heartfelt redemption remains open even to the most hardened criminal. A Clockwork Orange is a parable that reflects the Christian concept of sin followed by redemption. Alex's final and free choice of the good, by leaving behind the violence he had embraced in his youth, brings him to a higher moral level than the forced docility of his conditioning, which severed his ability to choose and grow up. The question, "what's it going to be then, eh," is asked at the beginning of each section of the novel. In the first and third part it is asked by Alex, but in the second part it is asked by the prison chaplain. The answer does not come until the end of the novel when Alex grows up and exercises his ability to choose. He progresses to become a responsible and discriminating individual, escaping the clockwork that binds the rest of society. A Clockwork Orange opens with Alex and his buddies outside the Korova Milkbar deciding...
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...the first impression of the main character, Alex, in A Clockwork Orange. Alex is the leader of a gang of terrorists. The four men in the group seem to get off on a good time raping women, stealing, and beating on innocent people. They all seem to work together in collaboration to portray chaos, but Alex is the worst of them all. Alex treats his other three members as if they are below him and he is the tyrant of them all. Alex seemed to have one weakness: classical music. Classical music is the powerful back ground to most of the movie, and the actions seem to sync with the music dramatically. This gang was used to routine. Their routine was to go to the milk bar and scope out who they plan to assault next. They would go door to door begging for help as if one of them got hurt, and then force their entry. A writer and his wife were the first victim of the gang and were completely helpless to Alex’s mastermind. They raped his wife as the husband was forced to watch helplessly. They were able to get away on were just looking forward to the next occurrence. The woman of their next plot was a lot cleverer and did not fall for the boy’s begging at the door act. She implied that she was not comfortable letting a stranger in, but the determination of evil that ran in the boy’s mind did not let them give up. Alex simply broke into the home and got into a fight with the woman when she tried to resist. This brawl led to Alex murdering the woman. The other three members...
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...teen as he grows older and his life changes. Part one, Alex is a troubled teen causing ciaos in his town with his goons, known as “Droogs”. They are a menace to society and satisfaction is brought to them by fighting, using drugs, and violating women. Part two differs from part one because one saw Alex incarcerated which causing a violent change to him because he is the first to be tested in a new treatment to change his lawless behaviors. Lastly, in part three a new side of Alex presents itself. He shows emotion unlike anything seen before in the novel. These three parts of the book show this progression in Alex be goes through the stages of...
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...Genre: Novel Author: Anthony Burgess Setting: Alex home/room. Time: Futuristic Language: His language reveals his age, there is no doubt that he is a teenager. He has made up a lot of words himself. Narrator/Main charachter: Alex, fifteen-year old boy, First person narrator. This way we get to read what Alex feels and thinks. He ditches school. Fallible or infallible?: Betyder: Fejbarlig og infejlbarlig. Is he trustworthy/reliable or not? Most of the short stories we read, has a infallible narrator. (usually a 1st person narrator). His parents?: His mother works in the supermarket, low paid job. His farther is a manufactorer. Working class. What happens?: On page 149 P.R Deltoid visits Alex, P.R Deltoid is his Post-Corrective Adviser. Alex needs to behave well, or else he will be sent to prison. Alex has been in a fight, and it turns out that someone was hurt. Think about it this way - If an adult is involved, it must have been serious. On page 151, P.R Deltoid says “Did i make myself clear?” “clear as a unmuddied lake, sir”. What is "bad self" according to Alex?: People are good because they choose to be good. Alex says that he likes to be bad tho. But he also says "God either made you good, or he made you bad" There is nothing in between. How is modern youth?: Lack of parental discipline, wild. The Society: A Clockwork Orange takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive, totalitarian super-State. In this society, ordinary...
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...To what extent does the reading of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘Lolita’ force the reader to question their own moral values? Both ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘Lolita’ are written in 1st person from the perspective of the protagonists, Humbert Humbert and Alex, who are both despicable characters in different ways. The novels are settings of the novels are completely different, ‘A Clockwork Orange’ set in a dreary futuristic world and ‘Lolita’ set (mainly) in 1940s-50s America and revolve around two completely opposite, yet disgraceful people. That said both of the books somehow make the reader question the characters wrong doing. In both of the novels the reader is shielded, through manipulation of language, from the true horror of what is happening in the narrative. In ‘A Clockwork Orange’ it is (especially when first reading the novel) sometimes quite hard to fully grasp what Alex is saying in the unusual ‘Nadsat’ slang he uses. When he is wanting ‘A lashing of ultraviolence’ and describes his ‘plunging’ and ‘creeching’ the reader grasps enough to know what it going on as (including the example shown) many of the slang words used, derive from or are the similar to the words which we would use in our society. What is happening therefore, because it isn’t explicitly written, is easier for the reader to not be as shocked or offended by what they’re reading. In ‘Lolita’ Humbert uses such a beautiful language and style to express his story of (in his words) ‘Lolita, light of my life...
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...adult man, Alex DeLarge. Alex leads a gang of other young adult men in London. The gang goes around the city and commits terrible acts of violence and sexual crimes with no remorse. Alex and his gang of droogs attack an old homeless man, drive dangerously through the country side, and attack an old man and his wife at their home. One night, Alex and his gang break into a woman’s house and he attacks her with a statue. He tries to flee the scene once he hears the police, but his gang turns on him and knocks him unconscious. Alex is convicted of murdering the old lady and is sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment. While imprisoned, Alex says he doesn’t want to be evil anymore and wants to be changed into a good person. He is selected to be a participant in a new experiment to treat him of his bad behavior. Alex is strapped into a chair and forced to watch movies that depict violence and sexual assault. While he is watching the movies he is given a drug to make him nauseous and sick. Once the doctors prove that the treatment has worked on Alex, he is released to be a free man. Alex is beaten by police officers who use to be a part of his old gang. He manages to escape and finds his way to the house of the old man and woman he assaulted from before. The old man finally realizes Alex was the one who raped his wife so he locked him in a room and played a song that made Alex extremely sick. Alex tried to kill himself by jumping out of a window but was unsuccessful. When Alex wakes up...
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...A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, written in 1962, is a shocking view of dystopian life featuring a subculture of extreme youth violence. Set in a near future English society, the novel may is often seen in part as an attack on communism (a prevalent issue of the time), given the novel’s extremely negative portrayal of a government that seeks to solve social problems by removing freedom of choice. The novel is comprised of the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent named Alex who, in place of jail-time, voluntarily undergoes state-supported psychological rehabilitation for his evil behavior that will brainwash him into being physically sick if he even thinks about committing a crime. “You are to be made into a good boy, 6655321. Never again will you have the desire to...
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...perfect, but it was 100% effective in terms of giving me the creeps. It's such a thrilling, suspenseful page turner that left me with a few goosebumps along the way. Gillian Flynn has a knack for creating messed up characters, and she does it so well that I believe every word! I did see the movie adaptation, and I thought it was so good! The actress that played one of the characters here was great, and I highly, highly recommend everybody to watch it, even if you're not interested in reading the book. But the book... always read the book first ;) Next up is a classic disturbing book! A Clockwork Orange has Alex, who is one of the most memorable characters ever. He will forever be stuck in my mind. Such a well-structured and engaging story! I do have to admit though that there's something extra special and extra disturbing about the movie adaptation. The actor that plays Alex just truly captures everything about the character, and I love everything about the movie. Such a classic film, and something I wish everyone would watch at least once. Such memorable characters in here. And some of the most memorable scenes as well. If you're looking for a Stephen King book to read, check this out. It's very different from his other novels, and it's what made me appreciate King as an imaginative author. I do have to mention the movie, as Kathy Bates was incredible in it. This list can not exist without this book. Some of the events that are told in this book have been some of the most agonizing...
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...• Level 2: Conventional Reasoning; Stage 4: Social System Morality o Alex is in this level of moral development because he says it wasn’t okay to steal the drugs for the man’s dying wife. He believes it is not okay to disobey the law under any circumstances. Even though the wife was very sick and needed the medicine to survive, it was still not okay. o Alex answers the question by saying no it was not okay for the man to steal the drugs and that he should’ve found another alternative way by raising money or asking an organization for money help. Even Older Gentleman (White Hair/beard) • Level 3: Post-Conventional Reasoning; Stages 4/5: Community Rights vs Individual Rights/ Universal Ethical Principles o He is in this stage of moral development because he states how that if everyone lived by their own rules/rights then we would live in a very hectic society. o...
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...Alexander the Great was considered one of the greatest conquerors and kings that ever lived. He managed to conquer the entire Mediterranean. His empire stretched from Macedonia to most of Asia. He was a great leader and accomplished a lot while he was living and in while in rule. His legacy was impeccable and he is arguably the greatest conqueror that ever reigned. According to Vaughn (1999), “He founded more than 70 cities, became leader of the Greeks, pharaoh of Egypt and king of Asia” (p. A08). Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty two and he came into power at the age of twenty. Basically during a 12 year reign he was able to accomplish a lot. No one can name another conqueror that was able to do what he did. The likes of Julius Caesar, Hernan Cortes and Genghis Khan can’t even be compared to Alexander. Even though Alexander was a conqueror he wasn’t as ruthless as the others. The places that he ruled over he let them keep their own customs and run their territories they way they like. He did set a few ground rules for them to obey though so there would be balance and peace. He also spread his Greek culture and teachings to every country that he had conquered. According to Dugdale-Pinton (2005), “He had a huge impact on world history spreading the seeds of western culture and philosophy across the world and has legends about him in over 80 languages” ( Alexander the Great, para. 1). He is considered the most influential in his line of work and will forever have a great...
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...While watching the film Eight Days, produced by Jaco Booyens, my perspective on life forever changed. Eight Days is a documentary about Amber, a teenage girl who sneaks out to attend a party with her friends, she is given alcohol and is kidnapped, raped and is forced into the world of human sex trafficking. Amber finds herself in the middle of a human sex trafficking business for eight perplexing days. Jaco Booyens film brings to light the many horrific unknown parts to the human sex trafficking operation that go unnoticed every day. Booyens does an extraordinary job introducing the characters very quickly so that there is an immediate connection with the girls. The film left me in astonishment that this could happen to someone of my same...
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...Setting budgets Budgeting is the process of setting targets, covering all aspects of costs and revenues. It is a method for turning a firm’s strategy into reality. Budgets tell individual managers how much they can spend to achieve their objectives. A budgeting system shows how much can be spent, and gives managers a way to check whether they are on track. Most firms use a system of budgetary control as a means of supervision. The process is as follows: * Make a judgement of the likely sales revenues for the coming year. * Set a cost ceiling that allows for an acceptable level of profit. * This budget for the whole company’s costs is then broken down by division, department or by cost centre. * The budget may then be broken down further so that each manager has a budget and therefore spending power What is budgeting for? Budgeting is used: * To ensure that no department or individual spends more than the company expects, thereby preventing unpleasant surprises. * To provide a yardstick against a manager’s success or failure can be measured and rewarded. For example a store manager may have to meet a monthly sales budget of £25,000 at a maximum operating cost of £18,000. As long as the budget holder believes this target is possible the attempt to achieve it will be motivating. * To enable spending power to be delegated to local managers who are in a better position to know how best to use the firms money. This should improve and speed up decision...
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