...In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton there is two types of people or gangs. You have the Greasers and the Socs the Greasers are the more poor people they live in a bad neighborhood but they still all get along well together. The Socs also get together well but they are more rich and they jump the Greasers for fun. The Socs are the people that have everything and don’t need anything and the Greasers are the exact opposite. The main characters are Soda pop, Ponyboy, Darry, Johnny, Two-Bit, Dally, Bob, and Cherry the story also takes place in Tulsa Oklahoma. My theme for this book is that when you are struggling you just need to talk to someone you trust. One example of is when Johnny and Ponyboy Killed Bob they went to talk to Dally...
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...| Leading Quietly Case Study | Organizational Behavior | | Summary Traditionally, we think of great leaders as people who bring about change by their charisma, passion, and dedication to a noble cause. Thus, most of us think of leaders as courageous risk takers or in other words, heroes. Yet, in our daily life, we often find that the most effective leaders are rarely public heroes. They maintain a low profile, but do what is right for themselves and their organizations unnoticeably and without casualties. Harvard Business School professor Joseph Badaracco calls them "quiet leaders"--people who choose responsible, behind-the-scenes action over public heroism to resolve tough leadership challenges. Badaracco believes that what drive the society are the millions of small but important decisions that individuals make on a daily basis. He points out in the book that everyday leadership is not so dramatic, and daily leadership decisions are rarely being made by the top management of an organization. Thus, the book focuses the study on the middle and senior-level managers who make the ordinary decisions that ultimately determine an organization's success. The book is full of practical advice as it describes eight strategies for making effective leadership decisions in murky situations where the "right" thing is far from obvious. It also describes that good leaders are those who are honest with themselves about how well they truly understand a situation and how much control...
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...Liberty theological seminary seven practices of effective ministry A Book critique submitted to Dr. Terry Faulkenbury In PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR evan 510 Master of divinity by edmund johnson lynchburg, virginia January 30, 2015 Bibliography Stanley, Andy, et al. 7 Pratices of Effective Ministry. Colorado Springs: Multnomah Books, 2004. Summary 7 Practices of Effective Ministry is a book written by Andy Stanley, which outlines steps to be taken or practiced by ministry leaders in order to have an effective ministry. It outlines areas in the ministry and accentuates solutions to issues that most church ministries fail to grasp; as they (Church ministries) endeavor to carry out day to day operations of their ministries. Stanley utilized the concept of a baseball team in an attempt to convey his message through his work with the North Point Community Church. Moreover, he emphasizes the importance of practicing effective avenues to invigorate the ministry. Furthermore, he outlines seven steps which he calls, clarify the win, think steps not program, narrow the focus, teach less for more, listen to outsiders, replace yourself, and work on it. It (steps) is a template when implemented accordingly will energize all facets of a ministry. This book contains two parts. In the first part which is labeled Getting in the Game: Ray’s Story, contains nine (9) chapters. Chapter one thru chapter three alludes to clarifying what the goal and accomplishment...
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...S.E. Hinton wrote a book that shows many themes of teenage life in 180 pages. Here’s a little bit about the author, S.E. Hinton. S.E. Hinton starting writing the book The Outsiders at the age of 15, but did most of the work when she was 16. Also, she uses her Initials instead of her full name, Susan Eloise Hinton, because her publisher was afraid that the reviewers would think that a girl couldn’t write a book like The Outsiders. A quick summary is this book there are two main groups. The Socs and The Greasers, in which is Ponyboy the protagonist of this story. Both groups do the same things, such as beating people up and robbing stores, but the Socs are favored because of stereotypes. Life is pretty normal for ponyboy until one night Johnny Cade, another member of Ponyboy’s...
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...Trust me on this. — Julie Gray PRINTER FRIENDLY PAGE Literary analysis looks critically at a work of fiction in order to understand how the parts contribute to the whole. When analyzing a novel or short story, you’ll need to consider elements such as the context, setting, characters, plot, literary devices, and themes. Remember that a literary analysis isn’t merely a summary or review, but rather an interpretation of the work and an argument about it based on the text. Depending on your assignment, you might argue about the work’s meaning or why it causes certain reader reactions. This handout will help you analyze a short story or novel—use it to form a thesis, or argument, for your essay. Summary Begin by summarizing the basic plot: “Matilda by Roald Dahl is about a gifted little girl in small town America who learns to make things move with her mind and saves her teacher and school from the evil principal.” This will help ground you in the story. (When you write your paper, you probably won’t include a summary because your readers will already be familiar with the work. But if they aren’t, use a brief summary to orient them.) Context Research the author’s background and other work. This can give insight into the author’s perspective and bias, as well as tell the reader what he might be commenting on. For example, Tolkien’s The Lord of the Ringsis about a group of friends who embark on an epic journey and fight a...
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...still feels the pain of institutional racism and the limits placed upon his opportunity. Conversely, Sonny has never tried to assimilate and must find an outlet for the deep pain and suffering that his status as permanent outsider confers upon him. Sonny channels his suffering into music, especially bebop jazz and the blues, forms developed by African-American musicians. "Sonny's Blues" was first published in 1957 and was collected in Baldwin's 1965 book, Going to Meet the Man. The story also has biblical implications. Baldwin became a street preacher early in his life, and religious themes appear throughout his writings. In "Sonny's Blues," Baldwin uses the image from the book of Isaiah of the "cup of trembling" to symbolize the suffering and trouble that Sonny has experienced in his life. At the end of the story, while Sonny is playing the piano, Sonny's brother watches a barmaid bring a glass of Scotch and milk to the piano, which "glowed and shook above my brother's head like the very cup of trembling." As Sonny plays, the cup reminds his brother of all of the suffering that both he and Sonny have endured. His brother finally understands that it is through music that Sonny is able to turn his suffering into something worthwhile. Sonny’s Blues Summary "Sonny's Blues" opens as the narrator learns from a newspaper that his younger brother, Sonny, has been arrested for dealing heroin. The narrator is taking the subway to his high-school teaching job....
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...Introduction A reality, a lesson that can be used when we have this syndrome.the concrete resolution that will guide us at the same time giving a knowledge to those who are affected on this. The point of view is emphasizing the safetiness of a child that is very important and needed for his/her development. Summary: Chapter 1: The major types of alcoholic families.Type1- Active Alcoholism (children, parents, grandparents, great grandparents). Type2- The actively drinking member of the nuclear family has stopped drinking. Type3- Active drinking has been removed from the family for one generation to more generations. Type4- The non-alcoholic family becomes alcoholic. Chapter2– THE RULE OF RIGIDTY- having the alcoholic syndrome is unpredictable behaviour because it is the root of your family. THE RULE OF SILENCEbe- open to...
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...STANDARDS III EVIDENCES A- External audit B- Bankruptcy IV MOTIVATIONS OF FRAUD A- Personal initiatives B- Market expectations C- Special circumstances D- Cover-up fraud V METHODS TO REDRESS THE FRAUD A- Court case B- Provisory administration VI CONCLUSION Summary In the book Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals, by Michael J. Jones, the author provides several important topics with regard to identifying and also correcting fraud. Some of the areas that the author describes is understanding the fraud environment. He also advise creative accounting methods and procedures to redress the fraud. Finally, once those methods are used, the author suggest to identify the evidences to ensure that the accounting method actually fix the fraud issue. “Many scandals occurred because accountants and auditors existing professions standards. Others reveals deficiencies in the standards at that time.” CALLED TO ACCOUNT: fourteen financials fraud shaped the American accounting profession Accounting scandals are characterized by a rapid growth, with high earning smoothing, few outsider on the audit committee, and outsider director that seems to overcommitted. The economic environment of the company, or the personal circumstances of an individual, are important. Accounting frauds are more likely when a company is facing financial difficulties. Creative accounting and fraud do not occur in a vacuum. There are number of...
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...PRACTICAL ACCOUNTING 2 1. Katy Perry developed an interesting idea for marketing sailboats in Death Valley. She interested Lady Gaga in joining her in a partnership. Following the information you have collected relative to their original contribution. Lady Gaga contributed P 30,000 cash, a track of land, and delivery equipment. Katy Perry contributed P 60,000 cash. After giving special consideration to the tax bases of the assets contributed, the relative usefulness of the assets to the partnership versus the problems of finding buyers for the assets and contributing cash, and other such factors, the partners agreed that Katy Perry’s contribution was equal to 40 percent of the partnership’s tangible assets, measured in terms of the fair value of the assets to the partnership. However, since marketing idea originated with Katy Perry, it was agreed that she should receive credit for 50 percent of the recorded capital. Recent sales of land similar to that contributed by Lady Gaga suggest a market value of P 40,000. Likewise, recent sales of delivery equipment similar to that contributed by Lady Gaga suggest P 40,000 as the market value of the equipment. These sales, of course, were not entirely representative of the particular assets contributed by Lady Gaga and therefore may be a better indicator of their relative values than their absolute values. In reflecting on their venture, the partners agree that it is a rather risky affair in respect to anticipated profits...
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...compensate the shortcomings of their essay with the improvements – in my view – made in Rimmon-Kenan’s essay. Also, since Rimmon-Kenan’s essay ‘Narration: speech representation’ does not include an account of thought representation, I will convert his distinctions of speech representation. Thus “diegetic summary” (DS) will be “diegetic thought summary” (DTS); “Summary, less ‘purely’ diegetic” will be “Thought Summary, purely diegetic” (TS); “Indirect content paraphrase”(ICP) will be “Indirect thought content paraphrase” (ITC); “Indirect discourse, mimetic to some degree”(ID) will be “ Indirect thought, mimetic to some degree” (IT): “Free indirect discourse” (FID) will be “Free indirect thought” (FIT); “Direct discourse” (DD) will Be “Direct thought” (DT) and “Free direct discourse”(FDD) will be “Free Direct thought” (FDT). ITC, FIT, DT and FDT correspond with Leech and Short’s distinctions (in definition and symbol, except for ITC which correspond with their IT). I will give examples of DTS, TS and ITS: DTS: The bare report of a thought, without any specification of how the thinker felt or the language the thinker used to think. E.g., ‘He wondered about her love for him’ TS: Summary which represents thought in that it names in greater detail the thought act: E.g., ‘He wondered if she had another lover or if she was capable of love’ IT: Indirect thought which gives the illusion of perceiving aspects of the style of the thought act. E.g., ’He thought she had another bloody lover...
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...nightmare. She divided the two years of the IB program, into 4 parts and called each of the 4 units by a different genre. The funny thing was I just knew two types of genres at that time: fiction and non-fiction. The first one of the four genres she described was Classics. There were two big books I had to read for this, “The Scarlet Letter” and “The Assault” and study both the literary works intensively and at last present a detailed study of one of the book. This was another nightmare for me because throughout my life the only books I had read were a bunch of Famous Five and all in my fifth grade. I felt like it was the worst time of my life. All I did before my 11th grade was read summaries on the Internet and all of a sudden that proved as a waste of time in IB. It was not helpful at all. I knew the reading was extremely important and I still kept on procrastinating and read the books without understanding. The program was called a pre-university course and so it was extremely important for me to learn all the things from the course. I knew I had to learn everything from the course by hook or by crook. But then, the semester started, the reading started, and well it was a nightmare, reading books for hours and not understanding them was the worst. At that time, Ms. Klein realized I was falling behind and was not able to cope up with the class and thus started...
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...com ARAVIND – 09901366442 – 09902787224 FINANCIAL & COST ACCOUNTING Q1) ABC Ltd. Produces room coolers. The company is considering whether it should continue to manufacture air circulating fans itself or purchase them from outside. Its annual requirement is 25000 units. An outsider vendor is prepared to supply fans for Rs 285 each. In addition, ABC Ltd will have to incur costs of Rs 1.50 per unit for freight and Rs 10,000 per year for quality inspection, storing etc of the product. In the most recent year ABC Ltd. Produced 25000 fans at the following total cost : Material Rs. 50,00,000 Labour Rs. 20,00,000 Supervision & other indirect labour Rs. 2,00,000 Power and Light Rs. 50,000 Depreciation Rs. 20,000 Factory Rent Rs. 5,000 Supplies Rs. 75,000 Power and light includes Rs 20,000 for general heating and lighting, which is an allocation based on the light points. Indirect labour is attributed mainly to the manufacturing of fans. About 75% of it can be dispensed with along with direct labour if manufacturing is discontinued. However, the supervisor who receives annual salary of Rs 75,000 will have to be retained. The machines used for manufacturing fans which have a book value of Rs 3,00,000 can be sold for Rs 1,25,000 and the amount realized can be invested at 15% return. Factory rent is allocated on the basis of area, and the company is not able to see an alternative use for the space which would be released. Should ABC Ltd. Manufacture the fans or buy...
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...associated with distrust of and unwillingness to cooperate with outgroups” (Triandis, 1990:55); collectivist cultures are more prone to ingroup bias (Heine and Lehman, 1997; Triandis and Trafimow, 2001). Like social identity processes, tendencies toward collectivism are exacerbated in times of external threat, again suggesting that the tendency toward collectivism is a facultative response that evolved as a mechanism of between-group conflict. Groups: Process & Practice was built on a rich base of knowledge and years of professional experience on the part of the two authors in leading groups themselves. It is filled with an invaluable summary of the stages that groups go through, the role of the leader through each of these stages and a detailed description of the member's roles and challenges at the different stages. In reading this book, I was most interested...
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...considerably across countries and firms, but all organizations have to decide how to identify their own major accounts and how to organize for effective relationship building with them. The purpose of this article is to assist organizations to determine the positioning of their major customer relationships so as to formulate key account relationship marketing strategies and implement them effectively in China and other Asian countries. This article describes a key account relationship model with an empirical survey on the measurement components of the model. The findings of the study are to test the practical value of the model. Then, conclusions about the research questions are given in the form of various perspectives and perceptions. Finally, a summary of both theoretical and practical implications for business practice and...
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...PART II: – THE CHANGE ANALYSIS – IMAGES OF CHANGE This part of the project is presenting to readers an analysis of the images of change found in the two companies – Royal Philips Electrical and BMW. A review of the said companies is made and comparison based on their change stories. The image of change possessed by any manager is determined by how best he/she is able to plan, direct and control the organization's resources (human, finances, materials/equipment and time) in the best possible way. Rodger Dean Duncan (2013), maintained that managers of change should be gardeners as he presented it in a sub-heading “ Be a Gardener, Go for Growth; A first tendency of many business people is to fix things. But successful leaders invest energy in growing rather than fixing. They know the organization is a living organism with many interrelated elements capable of extinction or growth. Successful leaders are gardeners, they create a nurturing environment and they cultivate with care.'' The above quotation has given us a clear picture of how managers of change should look like and what they need to do in order to keep the organizations in continuous growth. Therefore, it is necessary to present a critical analysis of change images in organizations which may apply to any situation of management and not limited to any specific organization. 2.1 Review of the changes in each of the case study organizations: 2.1.1 Royal Philips Electronics Company: ...
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