...AFRICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY TOWN CAMPUS NAME: NJIHIA MARK ADM NO: 12S03ABT003 DEPARTMENT: UNIVERSITY COMMON COURSES COURSE: UCC 105 OLD TESTAMENT LECTURER: Dr. THUO TASK: DESCRIBE THE HISTORY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT DUE DATE: 28th January, 2013 Introduction The Old Testament was written over a wide historical period, it describes the relationship of God and the people of Israel before the coming of Jesus. To make it easy to explain the history in the Old Testament, I have seen it best to look at it under the following periods: 1. Primeval History Primeval history refers to the earliest history in the Bible. Genesis chapters 1 to 11 are considered the primeval history portion of the Bible. This is the Biblical time period from creation to the flood. The final section of the primeval history of the Bible tells the story of the flood or deluge. Noah and his family were righteous and followed God's instructions, and were therefore spared from death during the deluge. 2. Patriarchal Period (1900BC-1800BC) Though the beginning of Israel’s history as a nation is usually placed at the time of her departure from Egypt, an account of her history must start with Abraham and the patriarchs. Only after Israel had moved across Egypt’s border did she have size and identity with which other nations would have to reckon with, but she already had a history that stretched back through the years to her fathers, Jacob and Abraham. To Jacob the twelve heads of the respective...
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...Organizational agility is the capability of a company to rapidly change or adapt in response to changes in the market. A high degree of organizational agility can help a company to react successfully to the emergence of new competitors, the development of new industry-changing technologies, or sudden shifts in overall market conditions. Change puts pressure on organizations, putting a premium on adapting; the faster the pace of change, the greater the premium. Without change, there is no reason to adapt. If you are working in an environment in which things are routine and nothing changes, every day is the same and every project is just like the last. There are no surprises and everything is nice and predictable. That is not the case in the reality of today’s market conditions. Enterprises that do not adapt are in for a lot of trouble. To quote Darwin, “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” The organization that doesn’t adapt and evolve is in danger of going the way of the Dodo bird. Managers of agile organizations need to be champions of their teams. They need to build trusting relationships with all of their team members. These managers need to remove obstacles in the organization, as well as be able to coach their team members, providing appropriate levels of feedback. If they are able to do these things they will be ideally placed to see how to grow strategically. They will see when more people...
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...The Real Deal on GM Food Labeling The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began food labeling in the United States in 1938. It was an initial effort to protect public health through the transparency in food ingredients and their nutritional value. Today, with the emergence of genetically modified organisms (GMO) as food, another issue regarding labeling to champion consumer choice between GM and non-GM foods has been raised. But experiences of countries that adopted mandatory GMO labeling proved that it doesn’t provide the consumer with a wider array of choice. This brings us to the more compelling issues on nutrition and food safety that will affect the research and commercialization of other GM foods in the future. Countries in the European Union (EU), Japan, Australia and New Zealand have adapted mandatory GMO labeling. But after the 90’s GM products seemed to have vanished in the EU. It was also difficult to find GMO labeling in products in Japan while in Australia and New Zealand, there is not much choice at the retail level. What happened is that producers changed the formulation of their products in order to avoid GM foods thus, labeling provides processors’ choice— not necessarily consumer choice. Also, under mandatory labeling, the costs of segregation and testing will be paid partly by taxpayers and partly by GM producers and so, experimental studies have shown that consumers perceive GM labels as a negative signal, and therefore there will be...
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...to limitations in the length and scope of the assignment. Table of Contents No Title Page i Cover Page 1 ii Executive Summary 2 iii Table of Contents 3 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 The Evolutionary Cycle of Human Resources 5 3.0 The Effects of Devolution towards Strategic Human Resources Management 11 4.0 Conclusion 14 5.0 References 15 1.0 Introduction In the last few decades, there have been extensive changes and transformations in the perspective of organizational behaviour as a whole. To quote Smilansky (1997), “organizational change has become a permanent state of affairs”. The rapid changes in the technology available, the emergence of new competitive markets and the disbanding of protective boundaries have all contributed to these massive changes (Smilansky, 1997). As a result of these changes, the Human Resources Management function also had to reinvent itself to avoid becoming obsolete and redundant. There has been a clear “change in focus from a more administrative, service delivery...
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...The Nazi Political Party The NAZI party also known as the National Socialist German Workers Party was founded in 1919 and ended after German surrender in 1945. The emergence of Nazi party set the world on a quick path to another war was created as a direct result of the post-World-War-One war treaty created without German involvement. For the German people The Versailles Treaty was just a continuation of hostilities with great financial consequences, loss of land and a forced reduction in their armed forces. The Germans had agreed to an armistice based on United States’ President Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” However, when the “Big Four” Prime Ministers David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and President Woodrow Wilson attended the Paris conference they seemed to have created The Versailles Treaty strictly on their own terms, and established blatant...
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...There is a reason in the last 20 years there have been 8 Champions who have one previously. It is a very elite group and it takes more than spending extra on recruiting due to a breakthrough in technology to get to that level. My advice for programs that have not won a National Championship within the last 20 years is set realistic goals. It is okay to spend money on recruiting if you keep it proportional to your expected win total. When you start spending more money and do not win as many games that is when the program will begin operating in the red. With this paper, I wanted to show how the growth of technology has changed the dynamic of my field of work. Technology has completely changed the landscape college football recruiting. From the number of staffers now handling recruiting, to the more frequent...
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...A researcher interviewed more than 150 individuals and singled out 25 of these as champions. They summarized four relationships between their personality characteristics and the resulting leadership behaviors: i) self-confidence (expresses captivating vision); ii) persistence (pursues unconventional action plans); iii) energetic (develops other’s potential), and iv) risk-prone (gives recognition). The challenge put forth for identifying champions is to effectively manage and nurture them so they can actively contribute to innovation success. Zalenik’s contribution to the field of leadership has been unique in that he argues that leaders are made and not born. He summarizes their qualities in what he calls the three C’s of leadership: a) competence - building on a base of talent; b) character - adhering to the code of ethics, and c) compassion - committed to benefiting others. The new view of leadership in learning organizations centers on subtler and more important tasks. In a learning organization...
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...Black and Decker This case exemplifies the challenges, decisions, and intricacies involved when a company dives into mergers and acquisitions operations. The emergence of a global economy is no secret to anyone. Globalization offers outstanding opportunities for those companies that take advantage. Of course, globalization offers many challenges for companies to compete both domestically and globally. Black & Decker’s (B&D) global endeavor exemplifies this statement completely. The purchase of Emhart could provide for lucrative product diversification opportunism. For Power Tools, Black and Decker has become an international linchpin. This acquisition provides opportune to achieve a similar status with door locking products. If successful, this integration could be used as a standard model for future global endeavors. Emhart is spread out widely, independently among many countries. The case focuses on the high level strategy and restructuring devoted to integrating and consolidating these separate companies’ operations under B&D’s global marketing umbrella. B&D is a global company, but this acquisition of Emhart Corporation seems to have perhaps morphed the company into the transnational type with a set of loosely bound, mostly inwardly focused hardware companies. This isn’t necessarily where the company wants to go. Grunewald’s initiatives seem to be building a strategy to collapse these transnational, distinct companies into a tighter marketing umbrella. Integrating...
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...College Football Kyle Sheaffer Throughout the last century, football has emerged as the most popular sport in the United States. The sport has become the favorite of 38.8% of Americans. The super bowl and the BCS National Championship combined for a total of 66.38 million viewers last year. That’s not to mention the other bowl games, playoffs, and regular season games at each level. The following paragraphs will provide in-depth explanations of college football’s history, awards and achievements, and how the NCAA spends its money with information gathered from a variety of sources. The first intercollegiate football game was played between Princeton and Rutgers on November 6, 1869 on College Field, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The ground on which the game was played is now covered by Rutgers’ current basketball arena the Louis Brown Athletic Center. Rutgers won the game with a final score of 6-4. The second game was played on November 13th, Princeton won the rematch 8-0. This game concluded the first official college football season. After this season however, the game took on more of a rugby like rules system. It stayed that way until 1880, the year that Walter Camp proposed new rules such as the play from scrimmage, the first down, and the 11 man team. Camp has been called the “Father of American Football”. Throughout the remainder of the 19th century, football became increasingly popular yet violent at the same time...
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...Aktobe Regional State University by K.Zhubanov A project work Theme: Anglicisms in modern language Student: Ayzharykova L. Group: ED – 208 Tutor: Suleimenova Z. E. Aktobe 2014 The relevance of this study is that the consideration of issues related to the theory and practice of borrowing, especially important in today's conditions, because today expressed serious concerns about the strong influx of borrowing, which may lead to a depreciation of the Russian word. But the language - it is a self-developing mechanism that is able to self-clean, get rid of excessive, unnecessary. This happens with foreign words, borrowing which was presented during the trial. The novelty of this study lies in the interpretation of the theme, hence its relevance, which is determined by the importance of the English language in the life of Russian society. The subject of the work is to study the borrowing of Anglicisms in modern Russian decades. Abstract. Damage to the culture of the language - clogging his jargon, the trend towards illiterate use of language structures and units in spoken language - is an obvious problem of youth culture of speech. Our everyday speech - is not only an indicator of the level of literacy, aesthetic...
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...The Book of the Courtier and The Prince were books that explained how to be a Prince, a Courtier, or a well-rounded man. Castiglione and Machiavelli were Florentine and grew up in the same time but they ended up on different sides of the spectrum. They both wrote their books during the same time during the Renaissance. Both were well educated for their time and they were the beginning of the emergence of the middle class. Growing up both their families had money and freedom that allowed them to become educated and enabled them to achieve their own success. Machiavelli and Castiglione believed in your own arms, meaning they will do what they have to do with their military to stay strong as a country. Castiglione and Machiavelli had some similarities but most things were very different. Machiavelli and Castiglione believe that the Prince and Courtier should appear good but Machiavelli believed that doing evil to achieve goals was perfectly fine. Castiglione believed in human potential and the ability of a man to improve himself. Machiavelli believed that the end result is all that mattered and how you got there...
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...generation of very high speed trains: the AGV (Automotrice Grande Vitesse). In 2007, Alstom et a new world rail speed record of 574.8 km/h. High speed : With its tilting train technology, the Pendolino can travel at speeds of up to 250 km/h, without requiring specific changes to the infrastructure. Alstom has developed a range of regional trains that are reliable, efficient and comfortable. http://www.alstom.com/home/activities/rail_transport/from_the_tramway_to_the_agv/ 2010 I COUNTRY PRESENTATION: SPAIN A peaceful transition to democracy following the death of dictator Francisco FRANCO in 1975, and rapid economic modernization (Spain joined the EU in 1986) gave Spain a dynamic and rapidly growing economy and made it a global champion of freedom and human rights. www.cia.gov (extracted from Country Introduction feb. 2010) http://www.voyage-net.com/bons-plans/espagne.php Political regime: constitutional monarchy: * Head of State: King Juan Carlos I, since 22 November 1975 * Head of Government: President of the Government: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, elected 14 March 2004. https://www.cia.gov/ from World Factbook (2010) Capital: Madrid (and largest city- population 2009 = 6 321 398) http://www.populationdata.net/index2.php?option=pays&pid=62&nom=espagne from Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (2009) Total Area: 504 782 km² Population: 45, 8 millions Currency: Euro (€) http://europa.eu/abc/european_countries/eu_members/spain/index_fr...
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...transnational capitalism are producing a new global historical configuration of post- Fordism, or postmodernism as an emergent cultural logic of capitalism (Harvey 1989; Soja 1989; Jameson 1991; and Gottdiener 1995). Others define the emergent global economy and culture as a "network society" grounded in new communications and information technology (Castells 1996, 1997, and 1998). For its defenders, globalization marks the triumph of capitalism and its market economy (see apologists such as Fukuyama 1992 and Friedman 1999 who perceive this process as positive), while its critics portray globalization as negative (see, for example, Mander and Goldsmith 1996; Eisenstein 1998; and Robins and Webster 1999). Some theorists see the emergence of a new transnational ruling elite and the universalization of consumerism (Sklair 2001), while others stress global fragmentation of “the clash of...
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...Participatory Development The theory of Participatory development represents an evolutionary process from the global, aspatial, top-down strategies that dominated early development initiatives to more locally sensitive methodologies.The idea of participation is heavily influenced by theories of development and is therefore highly varied and complex due to different theoretical positions.This paper tries to engage with various approaches to the participatory development theory based on the analysis of historical, ideological and practical record.It deals with the scholarly articles written by Sam Hickey, Giles Mohan, Kristian Stokke and Frances Cleaver. The dominance of the top-down approaches to development was largely a result of modernization theory which was dominant in the 1960s.Modernization theory tells that for developing countries to develop they need economic growth along the path already travelled by western countries.This has been heavily criticized and other development theories have highlighted disparities.From the modernization point of view participation meant involvement of the community in the delivery of the welfare programmes with the purpose of increasing the acceptance and efficiency.This conceptualisation of participation and empowerment is based on a harmony model of power.This implies that the empowerment of the powerless could be achieved within the existing social order without any significant negative effects upon the power of...
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...AI robot: how machine intelligence is evolving No computer can yet pass the 'Turing test' and be taken as human. But the hunt for artificial intelligence is moving in a different, exciting direction that involves creativity, language – and even jazz • Comments (109) • Marcus du Sautoy • The Observer, Saturday 31 March 2012 • Article history [pic] Marcus du Sautoy with one of Luc Steels's language-making robots. Photograph: Jodie Adams/BBC 'I propose to consider the question "Can machines think?"' Not my question but the opening of Alan Turing's seminal 1950 paper which is generally regarded as the catalyst for the modern quest to create artificial intelligence. His question was inspired by a book he had been given at the age of 10: Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know by Edwin Tenney Brewster. The book was packed with nuggets that fired the young Turing's imagination including the following provocative statement: "Of course the body is a machine. It is vastly complex, many times more complicated than any machine ever made with hands; but still after all a machine. It has been likened to a steam machine. But that was before we knew as much about the way it works as we know now. It really is a gas engine; like the engine of an automobile, a motor boat or a flying machine." If the body were a machine, Turing wondered: is it possible to artificially create such a contraption that could think like he did? This year is Turing's centenary so would he...
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