...focuses on continuous improvement. Based on the “House of Toyota”, Autoliv Ogden, Utah, air bag plants put the concepts embodied in the house to work every day. The only difference between the Toyota house and the one at Autoliv is that the company has added a third pillar to its house to represent employee involvement while the norm in Japan not always found in the United States Autoliv started its journey back in 1995 at the time the ogden plant was manufacturing capacity with 22work cells company managers acknowledge that back then Autoliv was “broken” and in need of significant and immediate change if it was to survive. This meant that everyone from senior management to employees and suppliers needed to be on board with rebuilding the company. It was not that the company could not fulfill the needs of its automaker customers however with increasing demand for both reliable and cost effective component supplies pressure to change become obvious. Recognizing the value of Toyotas approach senior management made the commitment to embark on its own journey to bring the transformative culture of lean manufacturing to Autoliv In 1998 sensei Takashi Harada arrived from Japan to spend three years leaching top company managers the principles techniques and cultyre of the lean system. This helped managers create an environment in which continuous improvement could be fostered and...
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...To what extent has studying the concept of physical journeys expanded your understanding of yourself, of individual, and of the world? Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle, Gail Tsukiyama’s Night of Many Dreams and the website www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au broaden the understanding of individuals and of the world through exploring the notion of time, experience and change in differing perspectives. This is evident through the way language techniques and visual features are manipulated to create meanings. The presentation of time as a fundamental component of a physical journey has greatly extended the perception of individuals and the world. In Immigrants at Central Station, 1951, time predetermines an individual’s fate and future. “While time ran ahead along glistening tracks of steel” supports this idea. “Tracks of steel” is a metaphor for the journey that the immigrants are about to undertake. Time is personified and because it is ahead of the immigrants, they have no control over their future journey, and are forced to follow the tracks. In Crossing the Red Sea, Skrzynecki uses different time periods of the day to contrast the monotonous reality of the immigrants’ dreams. “The day break took away the magic of dreams” depicts this idea through different language techniques. “The magic of dreams” implies their wonderful hopes which appear in their unreal visions at night. “Daybreak” is a metonymy for reality and it is personified to create an imagery of the immigrants’...
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...Chapter 8 Designing Lean Systems Video Case: Lean Systems at Autoliv Q1. Why is a visual management approach such an integral part of Autoliv’s lean system? Visual management is when a visual aid/device promotes more efficient and less wasteful processes. As mentioned in the text, a visual aid methodology that is commonly used is the Five S (5S). This method helps to organize, clean, develop, sustain, and sustaining a productive work environment (Krajewski, Ritzman, Malhotra, 2013). The 5S’s are: sort, straighten, shine, standardize, and sustain (Krajewski, Ritzman, Malhotra, 2013). The 5S practices enable workers to be able to see what they need to get done in a different manner, and can even provide a greater focus. Visual management is a big part of Autoliv’s system because they depend on each employee recognizing when there is a problem and correcting it as soon as possible, which helps eliminate waste. In a lean system, a business has to reorganize any process that creates waste or even eliminate it. So, each employee has different responsibilities, which has to be done in a certain time and also relies on the quality of the product. The visual communication method is to use a “rail” for the management of the heijunka cards in each cell. The rail has color-coded sections. These sections provide instant identification of cell status and can trigger escalation of that condition to management where appropriate. As each card is delivered, it slides down...
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...The Influence of Ancient Greece on Western Civilization Of all the cultures that have come and gone throughout human history, it was the achievements of ancient Greece that have left the most indelible imprint on Western civilization. In particular, it was greek achievements in the realms of art, democracy, medicine, philosophy and literature that has influenced the modern world the most. It is interesting to note that the loss of Greek thought after Roman civilization inducted a period popularly characterized as the Dark Ages. During this time human life was, in words popularized by Thomas Hobbes, “nasty, brutish and short.” Superstition, disease and a short life span were the hallmark of the age. It is crucial to understand that the middle “dark” ages finally ended with the re-discovery of greek texts to usher in the re-birth of civilization, ie: the Renaissance. It was the Catholic theologian St. Thomas Aquinas that set Western civilization on its current track by reintroducing Greek thinkers to European intellectuals. The popularizing of Greek philosophers renewed Western interest in Greek achievements, specifically within the realms of art, democracy, medicine, literature, and philosophy. While some of these subjects remained underdeveloped in Greek times, such as the discipline of medicine and democracy, others were so advanced as to set a standard to this day in the realm of art, philosophy, and literature. Discussed herein is a brief exploration of those Greek achievements...
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...radi An analysis of storytelling and Joseph Campbell’s universal themes and their role in animated films. Theodore Hicks Word count: 1,711 Feedback: quite broad terms. Where there is some analysis it is very short and this needs developing further. Much of this is down to Analysis, Argument There is some analysis here but it is very limited. ON the whole you are describing events and stories in animation in quite broad terms. Where there is some analysis it is very short and this needs developing further. Much of this is down to your choice of question. If you had picked a couple of Disney/Pixar films and analysed them in more detail in relation to Campbell, your essay would have been more focused. Outlining this narrowing in the question will help with this, as reading the essay, this is where the topic really lies. You need to be able to show Campbell’s theories working across more than one film for it to be a successful piece of analysis at this stage, and in doing so, it will help you reach a central argument about the use of Campbell’s theories in discussing these films – at the moment this doesn’t happen. This is the section you need to work on the most, to increase your word count and extend the overall discussion. Structure, communication, referencing/bibliography The structure is generally ok, with an introduction, and a conclusion. You need to work on some of the in between sections as the essay jumps between ideas of outlining theories, linking some...
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...The Matrix, Plato, and Descartes For centuries, man has embarked on a relentless, philosophical journey to unearth a necessary answer to the question—what is real? The megahit film, The Matrix, ingeniously created by the Wachowski brothers, brings the world’s most celebrated, philosophical theories to light as they attempt to postulate a binding remedy. The first of these theories dates past 380 BC, when Plato crafted his allegorical masterpiece, “The Cave,” which denotes a metaphor contrasting the manner in which man perceives reality. The second involves French philosopher Rene Descartes and his recognized dissertation, “Meditation,” which also proposes a distinctive perspective on the issue. A comprehensive study of the philosophical concepts of “The Cave” and “Meditations” and their manner of manifestation in The Matrix allows one to broaden and enhance his understanding of reality. First of all, one can find several analogous elements when comparing the three works. Each of these revolves around the concept that the illusions man accepts as truth drastically differ from reality. This reality is then unveiled in distinct, but related journeys, which involve a source of deception and a series of logical, enlightening experiences and steps. These steps include a progressive doubt, a means of escape to find truth, a common agony in facing truth, and a growing acceptance of reality and the altered life it comes with. In The Matrix, an average computer programmer, Neo, is led...
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...creative skill and creativity, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be loved primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Beauty is mixture of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, which please the senses, especially the sight. Creating something painting magnificent to draw the viewer’s eye. Art and beauty to me are very important. Art is all around: art is in music, photography, painting, singing, poetry, dancing, drawing, or even building something creative. Art is an amazing gift that everyone has within himself or herself. Music is a learning therapy and teaching tool. Music adjusts to our moods and used throughout our lives. Music leads to a healthy life. If you like it or not music is a huge part of our lives. Terry Guetta who owns a local clothing store in Los Angeles, and has this unusual obsession with videotaping. This obsession of recording everything happening in his life began after he started his family as a result of his missing childhood. What began as a hobby soon turned into Terry made-up leading him miles away from his family to board on a journey that would forever change his life. Terry began to explore the world of street art, a cultural experience where artists carved their mark on streets of major cities all over the world. Terry began to film every minute of his searching while meeting many of the noticeable street artists along the way. His journey first began by meeting the artist space foe...
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...increases chances of a promotion, and helps you connect and communicate with many people. However, these benefits tend to be realized after the early stages of one’s education journey. Moreover, a student’s overall interest in learning; in general dwindles over time. By the time a student reaches high school they tend to do the bare minimum to graduate, and that includes taking a foreign language. A student’s interest and attitude toward education greatly effects their success in school and/or life. “We need to get kids interest in learning, to show how it relates to life in the real world...they don’t see the significance …” (Wilson, R. 1988) even though Wilson’s statement is in regards to employment after graduating high school. The same can be applied to, learning a foreign language. Form experience, while in a conversation about learning languages; I often hear “Why are you learning that? You don’t need it right now. Everybody’s learning English.” However, I can see overall benefits beyond the, obtaining a career in the path of your choosing, increases chances of a promotion, and helps you connect and communicate with many people. Studies show that “there are separate mental representations for visual and auditory information, and new information simultaneously presented in both visual and auditory modalities forms more sophisticated memory traces, thus facilitating retrieval” ( Yeu-ting, L., & Andrew Graeme, T....
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...personal prospective. In other words, Berger does not want us to be told what to see within a work of art, but he wants us to discover ourselves within that masterpiece. In a way, Berger gives us the definition of beauty in art. Not by standard definition but by exposing us to the fact that beauty is not defined by what we are told but it is defined by what we perceive. As Berger continued, I deduced that he believes, the ruling class deliberately exploits art as a repressive tactic and tool, in order to create a culture of isolation. He also introduces statistical data proving that many people identify museums with the church. So here we have a house of worship and a secular institution dedicated to art. A house of worship is a specifically designed edifice or consecrated space where groups of people congregate in order to engage in the sacraments of devotion, veneration and/or religious tutelage. I have also observed that many houses of worship within western culture resemble apostolic or rather orthodox churches. For example, The Myogyoji Temple in Silver Springs that my group had the pleasure of visiting. At this temple the faithful assemble daily to pray or what they call,...
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...In his first major production, Fukunaga continued his interest in the topic of immigration, and came up with the creation of Sin Nombre. The film follows both a young gangster of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, Casper, and young girl from Honduras, Sayra, on their difficult journey to America. Fukunaga’s overall reason for the film was to express the hardships Central American people face on their journey to America, in hopes that people could see immigration from a different light. The film is directed mainly towards citizens of America, Central America, and Mexico although it can spread to any area with controversial opinions of immigration. The constraints of the film include time, as the film lasted just 96 minutes, rating, the limited budget of an independent film, the dangerous filming locations in Central America and Mexico, and language— the film is spoken completely in spanish with english subtitles. These constraints were overcome, and the film went on to be nominated for 22 awards, winning 12 of those including multiple awards at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, perhaps the most prestigious awards in the independent film world. Fukunaga bravely delivers the powerful and eye-opening story of the journey experienced by Central Americans immigrating to America: One that has previously been pushed behind...
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...Our National frameworks for early childcare, Aistear (2009) and Síolta (2006) highlight the importance of diversity through many of their standards and learning goals. However, before this research I had very little understanding of cultural diversity and viewed cultural diversity as something that was celebrated as an add-on to our curriculum. Through reflective practice I have realised that cultural diversity is not just about those who we perceived to be different or those who come from minority backgrounds, but it includes all backgrounds and culture of all children in our playschool. Share et al (2012),? describes culture as a set of practices that take place in the texture of everyday life within households, families and...
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...Sexual violence against women has remained to be a pertinent issue for decades and has yet to obtain deserved justice. According to RAINN, Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, sexual violence is an all-encompassing term referring to violent crimes involving sexual abuse, rape, and sexual assault. Sexual assault can come in different forms such as physical, verbal, and/or visual acts each compels an individual to engage in a sexual act against their will or without affirmative consent. Since 1998, over 17,700, 000 women have reported a sexual assault. 1 out of every 6 American women have been a victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. With that, only 26% of victims will report to law enforcement agents. Furthermore, specifically,...
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...The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview about my experience attending the Philadelphia Art Museum on March 15, 2013. The museum is Located in Philadelphia, PA and the exhibition that caught my attention was Journeys to New Worlds it explores the artistic exchanges between Spain and Portugal and their colonies in the Americas and Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (The Philadelphia Museum of Art, p. Philadelphia Art Museum). A journey to New Worlds originates The exhibition is magnificent and two pieces that I enjoyed were Our Lady of Mount Carmel with Bishop Saints, and Our Lady of Pomata, a coquera. It is extremely quite as people stop in different areas to look around at so much art. I personally found some place to sit and absorb as much information as I could. My fiancé came along with me only because it is a long drive from where I live and I do not like driving far by myself. He enjoyed it as much as I did; we both sat there and studied different pieces for quite a while. Although Our Lady of Mount Carmel with Bishop Saints interested me you seem to understand the comparison while looking at it after being there, I feel that this picture focuses on the child because he is the center of this image, and the mother's love and caring that is expressed in her face and in the way that she is holding the kid. Looking for some reference about the painting I found that it is Roberta and Richard Huber’s collection reflects the arts at continuing...
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...On her autobiography, she recalls that she "used to climb to the top of one of the huge chinaberry trees which guarded our front gate and look out over the world. The most interesting thing that I saw was the horizon". (Hurston 44) This parallels when Janie is sixteen and "searched as much of the world as she could from the top of the front steps". This instinctive curiosity is deceptive in both Hurston and Janie from an early stage and begins looking for that “horizon” throughout her life’s journey. In the novel, it ends when Janie pulls "in her horizon like a great fish-net"(Hurston 193). The horizon is not in front of her instead but around her. This novel also “signifies” upon feminine images in nineteenth-century narratives written by African American women. (woolflm 4) Consequently, it delivers a significant connection between those earlier narratives and novels written by African American women in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Contrasting literary forebear such as “W. Harper, Frances E, and Pauline Hopkins, Hurston rejected to stereotype her protagonist or to imitate to earlier...
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...KRAFT FOODS ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS Nowadays companies need to have a paradigm shift, they need to have a new way of thinking of the nature of the businesses (Laudon, 2012). Many large organizations have implemented information system technologies into their organizations and started on their path to an organizational change. One of those companies is Kraft Foods. Kraft Foods has annual revenues of $48 billion. They specialize in snacks, confectionary and quick meals and is the second largest food company in the world in more than 160 countries. Kraft Foods’ main concern was trying to get their employees to understand the changes taking place in the company. They wanted to be certain that employees were moving in the right direction. Debra Pekin, Change Management Specialist at Kraft Foods mentioned “every employee has a part to play in the outcome, and everyone can and should contribute to value creation in whatever project, process or initiative they’re working on” (Paradigm Learning). Change is becoming such a norm for many organizations that they realize the importance and also the necessity for employees to understand these changes. According to Kurt Lewin, if you wanted to change a large cube of ice into a cone of ice, you should first unfreeze, then change and then freeze again. He goes on to discuss the practical steps to each process as follows: Unfreeze: What has to be changed? Create an analysis of the current organization...
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