...Professional Presence and Influence Melissa A. Cummings Western Governor’s University Abstract This paper examines my personal professional presence and how my personality influences both my personal and professional life. It will examine how I can use mindfulness and self-awareness to improve my professional practice with co-workers and patients and how I can bring mindfulness into my own life. Professional Presence and Influence Professional Presence Larry Dossey discusses three eras medicine in his book, Reinventing Medicine. Era I is a time period which began in the 1860’s and focused on the physical body as the reason for illness. The body was treated with surgical procedures and drugs. Era II focused on the body also, but it was realized that emotions and feelings could influence the body’s functions. The third Era, Era III says that “the mind is not confined to the body, that the mind is boundless and unlimited” (Dossey, n.d.). Era I equates to a purely “physical body” model of health and healing. This model does not view the person as a whole, but rather the ailment independent of the person. If a person had an intestinal disorder, medications may be prescribed, but there may be no discussion as to how the disorder came to be. In this era, we would not look at the patient’s nutrition or life situations which may have precipitated their illness. Era III, the modern era of health and healing, looks at the patient as a whole person. If this patient sought...
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...decision trees to identify tourism stakeholders: The case of two Eastern North Carolina counties Erick T. Byrd* and Larry Gustke Received (in revised form): 1st May, 2006 *Department of Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality Management, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA Tel: + 1 336-334-3041; Fax: + 1 336-334-3238; E-mail: etbyrd@uncg.edu Erick T. Byrd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality Management at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His current research interests focus on community participation in tourism development. Larry Gustke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at North Carolina State University. His current research interests focus on community tourism planning. ABSTRACT KEYWORDS: decision tree analysis, stakeholder inclusion, sustainable tourism, tourism planning their support for sustainable tourism development in their community. Tourism and Hospitality Research (2007) 7, 176–193. doi:10.1057/palgrave.thr.6050049 This paper explores stakeholder involvement in tourism planning, development, and management. For tourism planners to include stakeholders in the tourism planning process those stakeholders and their interests need to be identified. The research reported in this paper describes and applies an analytical technique that is not traditionally used to identify stakeholders. A questionnaire...
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...Motivation of Success Research Paper By: Reinaldo Cabrera University of Phoenix Comp and Communication II Motivation for Success Determination, motivation and having goals are all different emotions and feelings that we all use to achieve more than the other. No matter the person you are or the family you have we are all different and use certain effects that takes place in our lives as positives or negative. NBA players are no different. They have goals, are determined to achieve them and use life challenges as motivation. Neither is better than each other but they use their life styles from their childhood as motivation to do better, to be better. Isn't that our goal in life, try to find a way to do better for you, your friends and family? We are born to want more, to live more and to be more than the last. NBA players all have different reason and paths to where they are now but they are no different than the next. Some players lived difficult lives and some have them planned out, but both paths have a major impact on how they will play in the NBA. Motivation has a way of pushing people to do more than they are capable of. For example Lebron James, a very talented NBA player, uses his difficult childhood as the foundation for his motivation. He never lived an easy life, whether...
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...power to the presidency. Bush was not fighting just the democrats. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters. 2. DBAEC 3. CEADB 4. ECDBA 1. CAEDB 3. A. B. C. D. E. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome. In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World War Two appeared hopeless. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic. 2. BEDAC 3. BDECA 4. CEDAB 1. EDACB 4. A. B. C. D. E. Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a full hearted leap will allow the world to cope with the mass motorisation that will one...
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...Assignment The Sherman and Clayton Acts Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/assignment-sherman-clayton-acts/ 1. The Sherman and Clayton Acts The Clayton Act of 1914 classifies several business practices as illegal, including price discrimination and tying contracts, if they "substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly." The Clayton Act of 1914 is an example of which of the following? Antitrust laws Price regulations 2. The Clayton and Celler-Kefauver Acts Which of the following activities are prohibited by the Clayton Act when they lead to less competition? A buyer is forced to buy multiple products from a producer in order to get a desired product. Each of these answers is correct. A director from one business sits on the board of a competing firm. A firm acquires a major percentage of the stocks of a competing firm. 3. The Herfindahl index Suppose that three firms make up the entire wig manufacturing industry. One has a 40% market share, and the other two have a 30% market share each. The Herfindahl index of this industry is _________ (a.10,000 b.6,000 c.3,400 d.4,000 e.3,000). A new firm, Mane Attraction, enters the wig manufacturing industry and immediately captures a 15% share of the market. This would cause the Herfindahl index for the industry to ___________ (a.fall b.rise c.remain the same). The largest possible value of the Herfindahl index is 10,000 because: An industry with an index higher than 10...
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...Air Surveillance Radar Abstract This paper briefly explores the history and origins of air surveillance Radio Detection And Ranging (RADAR) radar systems and how they were developed in three major countries involved in World War II. These countries are the United States, Britain and Germany. Also discussed are the basic components of an air surveillance radar systems and what parts they play. The health concerns of Radio Frequency (RF) radiation such as cancer, reproductive malfunctions and cataracts will be discussed along with environmental and economic impacts. There are multiple political influences and implications associated with air surveillance radar. Wind energy sites and national security and military readiness are two that will be discussed. Also the degradation of the National Air Space (NAS) and military radar systems in the United States and how it has led to the search for new systems to better serve commercial and military aviation. This paper explores and discusses the many markets that use air surveillance radar and the companies that have invested in the development. Also discussed is the proof of concept Multi-Mission Radar that has been developed for use by the United States Army. Air surveillance radars are designed to detect, locate, track and classify a wide range of targets (SRC, Inc., 2016). Radar uses electromagnetic energy that is transmitted toward objects and observes the echoes returned from those targets (Skolnik, M. I., 2015). The information...
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...Citation Guide for Business (Required for COMM 1E03 and COMM 2MA3) December 2006 Innis Library McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Contents ii Part One: Introduction Citation Style ...................................................................................................................................1 Order of Elements in Paper..............................................................................................................1 Page Numbers ..................................................................................................................................1 Title Page ........................................................................................................................................2 Contents ...........................................................................................................................................2 Text / Body ......................................................................................................................................2 Appendixes ......................................................................................................................................3 Tables and Graphs in the Body........................................................................................................3 Endnotes...........................................................................................................................................4 Formatting...
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...Assignment The Sherman and Clayton Acts Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/assignment-sherman-clayton-acts/ 1. The Sherman and Clayton Acts The Clayton Act of 1914 classifies several business practices as illegal, including price discrimination and tying contracts, if they "substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly." The Clayton Act of 1914 is an example of which of the following? Antitrust laws Price regulations 2. The Clayton and Celler-Kefauver Acts Which of the following activities are prohibited by the Clayton Act when they lead to less competition? A buyer is forced to buy multiple products from a producer in order to get a desired product. Each of these answers is correct. A director from one business sits on the board of a competing firm. A firm acquires a major percentage of the stocks of a competing firm. 3. The Herfindahl index Suppose that three firms make up the entire wig manufacturing industry. One has a 40% market share, and the other two have a 30% market share each. The Herfindahl index of this industry is _________ (a.10,000 b.6,000 c.3,400 d.4,000 e.3,000). A new firm, Mane Attraction, enters the wig manufacturing industry and immediately captures a 15% share of the market. This would cause the Herfindahl index for the industry to ___________ (a.fall b.rise c.remain the same). The largest possible value of the Herfindahl index is 10,000 because: An industry with an index higher than 10...
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...he episode opens with Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), the deputy director of the Department of Parks and Recreation with six years of experience in the town of Pawnee, Indiana, discussing with a documentary crew her strong belief in the power of government to help other people. Later, Leslie hosts a community outreach public forum at an elementary school along with her jaded colleague Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari). Leslie is enthusiastic despite the low turnout and angry complaints, which she describes as "people caring loudly at me". Local nurse Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) complains about a giant pit near her house, which was dug out by a condominium developer that went bankrupt in the middle of the construction project. Ann says that her boyfriend Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) broke both his legs after falling into the pit, and she demands something be done about it. Leslie is inspired by the challenge and makes a "pinky promise" that she will fill in the pit and build a park on the land.[1][2] Leslie seeks advice from city planner Mark Brendanawicz (Paul Schneider), who feels the project would prove practically impossible due to the logistics and bureaucratic red tape, but Leslie is undeterred.[3][4] Leslie later fondly tells the documentary crew that she and Mark made love five years ago, but Mark only vaguely recalls the encounter.[5][6] Leslie, Tom and uninterested intern April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza) visit Ann and meet Andy, a lazy and demanding musician whom she is forced to wait...
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...University of North Carolina at Pembroke English and Theatre DEPARTMENT COURSE: ENG 2100: African American Literature Fall 2014 INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Charles Tita OFFICE: West Building, Office of Distance Education OFFICE HOURS: Monday 4-6 and Tuesday/Thursday 10:30-12 OFFICE PHONE: 521 6352 FAX: 910 521 6762 EMAIL ADDRESS: charles.tita@uncp.edu LECTURE TIME: Tuesday/Thursday 2-3:15pm LOCATION: DIAL 147 REQUIRED TEXT Gates Jr., Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004. OPTIONAL REFERENCES Locke, Alain, ed. The New Negro. New York: Atheneum, 1968. hooks, bell. Teaching to Trangress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994. Harrold, Stanley. American Abolitionists. New York: Pearson Education, 2001. Youngs, J. William T. American Realities: Historical Episodes-From First Settlements to the Civil War. New York: Longman, 2000. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963. COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of African American literature, introducing students to genres, trends, and major periods of African American literature, ranging from the 17th-, 18th- and 19th- century autobiographies and narratives to 20tth –century works. Authors include: Jupiter Hammon, Briton Hammon, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison...
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...AF 603/2010 Fall Term Paper <THE IMPACT OF THE BOSTON CELTICS ON THE LOCAL ECONOMY> Xujing Liu THE IMPACT OF THE BOSTON CELTICS ON LOCAL ECONOMY Background The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The team is founded in 1946, and is currently under the ownership of Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The arena of Boston Celtics is TD Banknorth Garden, where they play their home games. The Boston Celtics has a long and rich history. It was initially formed in 1946, and was at that time owned by Walter A. Brown as a team in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), and became part of the National Basketball Association (NBA) after the merger of the BAA and the National Basketball League in the fall of 1949. (1) In 1950, the Celtics became the first franchise to draft an African American player, signing Chuck Cooper. (2) It has been quite a struggle for the Celtics in their early years, until Red Auerbach (3) was hired to be the coach of the team, who had coached in the military during WW II. In 1964, Auerbach made the Celtics the first team to have an all African American starting lineup. The Boston Celtics of the mid-1950s-60’s are widely considered one of the most dominant teams of all time. According to the official statistics on Basketball Reference website, the Celtics have won 17 NBA Championships, more than any other franchise in the league.(4) When it comes to hanging Championship Banners, the Celtics...
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...financial plan as well as make proper changes when necessary. Thus, in order for the plan to remain of use for the person and not a fortune for financial advisors, one has to make it user-friendly and elaborate. For example an article How to manage your money, noted that one is not able to compete well without the resources and thus has to read a lot about the market (Macklem, Katherine, 2004). One should weigh all the pros and cons of mutual funds namely, criteria for selecting stocks, the fund managers, and track record. Katherine Maclem (2004) states that one should do the homework to assure profitability of one’s investment (abstract Para 1). One should understand that professional investors also get wrong, as it was the case with Larry O’Brien who advised his clients to sell tech stocks while he was buying and holding them. As result of such unfortunate trick he lost over $2million. One should understand that over a long period of...
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...Introduction-Alisia Ngo Throughout the 20th and 21st century, fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas have been essential to our way of life. In the past several decades scientists have warned that coal and oil have been diminishing and that it could take thousands of years for the earth to replenish what we have already used. With that being said finding other resources of energy is crucial to the conservation of our way of life as we know it. Evidence has shown that the U.S. relies heavily on oil, coal, and natural gas for its energy. So finding new ways to substitute these sources of energy through renewable energy like wind, and sunlight needs to be a high priority for local and state governments nationwide. In this paper I will explain why the need for renewable energy is so important to the environment and our way of life. I will speak specifically on the many types of renewable energy sources like solar power and wind power, and how using these resources directly and indirectly can help to wean the U.S. off of the non-renewable energy that we so greatly depend on. The conservation of non-renewable energy can be achieved by using wind, sunlight, and water and also finding new ways in which to use them that help us sustain some if not all of the conveniences that we...
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...Para Jumbles (CAT Questions) DIRECTIONS for Questions 1 to 7: Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. A. By reasoning we mean the mental process of drawing an inference from two or more statements or going from the inference to the statements, which yield that inference. B. So logical reasoning covers those types of questions, which imply drawing an inference from the problems. C. Logic means, if we take its original meaning, the science of valid reasoning. D. Clearly, for understanding arguments and for drawing the inference correctly, it is necessary that we should understand the statements first. (a) ACBD (b) CABD (c) ABCD (d) DBCA CAT - 1998 A. In rejecting the functionalism in positivist organization theory, either wholly or partially, there is often a move towards a political model of organization theory. B. Thus, the analysis would shift to the power resources possessed by different groups in the organization and the way they use these resources in actual power plays to shape the organizational structure. C. At the extreme, in one set of writings, the growth of administrators in the organization is held to be completely unrelated to the work to be done and to be caused totally by the political pursuit of self-interest. D. The political model holds that individual interests...
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...It’s far more than the cliché “getting close to the customer” What the Hell Is ‘Market Oriented'? by Benson P Shapiro The air hung heavy in French Lick, Indiana. A tornado watch was in effect that morning, and the sky was black. In a meeting room in one of the local resort hotels, where top management of the Wolverine Controller Company had gathered, the atmosphere matched the weather. Recent results had been poor for the Indianapolis- based producer of flow controllers for process industries like chemicals, paper, and food. Sales were off, but earnings were off even more. Market share was down in all product lines. As the president called the meeting to order he had fire in his eyes. "The situation can't get much more serious," he proclaimed. "As you all know, over the past couple of years everything has gone to hell in a hand basket. We're in deep trouble, with both domestic and foreign competition preempting us at every turn. The only way to get out of this mess is for us to become customer driven or market oriented. I'm not even sure what that means, but I'm damn sure that we want to be there. I don't even know whether there's a difference between being market driven and customer oriented or customer driven and market oriented or whatever. We've just got to do a hell of a lot better." "I couldn't agree with you more, Frank," the marketing vice president put in. "I've been saying all along what we've got to be more marketing oriented. The marketing department has to be...
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