...Ford Fairlane Dr. Professor Teacher MBA555 29 November 2014 Social Loafing: Laziness or Something Else? A frequent observation whenever groups of people gather together in team settings is that certain team members underperform relative to the performance of their teammates. The first reported observation of this was by Ringelmann in 1913 who demonstrated that men collectively pulling on a rope do not pull as hard as when pulling alone (Ringelmann). This phenomenon, termed Social Loafing (Latané, Williams, and Harkins 822), characterizes a multitude of settings and situations where the sum of output from a team is less than what the sum of work would be if that same work was performed by the same number on an individual basis. It is assumed that a team member designated as a social loafer is intrinsically a poor performer, has a general disposition to perform poorly, and that individual would manifest these character traits regardless of the goal or situation for which he is putting forth effort. Rather than a willful act of unwilling participation or laziness, it can be argued instead that Social Loafing is predominantly a result of multiple factors of team dynamics and work parameters which evoke a disincentive to put forth one’s best effort. Additionally, given the proper group framework and structure, Social Loafing is largely avoidable. Common belief and intuition holds that groups of people pooling their resources and effort together will yield results greater...
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...The Wife of Bath: Professional Wife or Something Else? The Wife of Bath is a character described by the narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, in a way that makes her appear as though she is only after pleasure. In the prologue the Wife of Bath is described as “having a gap in her teeth” and she is said to be wearing “red stockings.” Through the use of these descriptions the Wife of Bath becomes a character that is interested in one thing only which she later confesses in her tale. The narrator also describes her as someone who gets angry at women who get to the altar before her, which could mean she wants people to see how faithful she is, or she wants to make sure she is always the first one people see and remember.Through this description the reader...
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...A day late and a dollar short If something is a day late and a dollar short, it is too little, too late. All bets are off If all bets are off, then agreements that have been made no longer apply. All hat, no cattle When someone talks big, but cannot back it up, they are all hat, no cattle.('Big hat, no cattle' is also used.) All over Hell's half acre If you have been all over Hell's half acre, you have been traveling and visiting many more places than originally intended, usually because you were unsuccessful in finding what you were looking for. It can also be used to mean everywhere. All over the map If something like a discussion is all over the map, it doesn't stick to the main topic and goes off on tangents. Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades Used in response to someone saying "almost" in a win/lose situation. The full expression is "Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades." An alternate form puts "and flinging shit from a shovel" at the end. Armchair quarterback An armchair quarterback is someone who offers advice, especially about football, but never shows that they could actually do any better. As mad as a wrongly shot hog If someone is as mad as a wrongly shot hog, they are very angry. (Same as, Angry as a bear or Angry as a bull). As rare as hen's teeth Something that is rare as hen's teeth is very rare or non-existent. At a drop of a dime If someone will do something at the drop of a dime, they will do it instantly, without...
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...Building Your Brand and Image There are several key areas to concentrate on when developing your brand and image. These aspects include but are not limited to; your look, your stage presence, your online presence, presentation to fans, and presentation to industry leaders and other people in your line of work. The 3 p’s of branding are: preparing your brand, packaging your brand, and presenting your brand. It is important to find what makes an artist unique and create an opportunity where there is none. As you prepare your brand you have to ask yourself several questions. What do you want to be known for? Do you reflect this in your personal life, and what are goals at the end of all of this? These questions are important to ask because you don’t want to get 5 years into your career and realize that what you are trying to sell isn’t really you, because if you don’t believe it how can your fans believe it. The truth always comes out. Instead of focusing on accomplishments, focus more so on one’s characteristics and traits. One of the most important aspects to remember when developing an artist is one’s online presence. Make sure you’re taking full advantage of all of the various social media networks, securing your name, and making your page look like you’re spending time on it. Interacting with fans will be an effective way of turning listeners into avid fans as you attempt to build your fan base. Put yourself into the shoes of listeners ask yourself where they will find...
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...Character Sketch: Tobias Eaton In Veronica Roth’s Insurgent, Tobias Eaton or “Four”, as he is otherwise referred to, is intelligent, loving and strong. He is intelligent both in love and in warfare. Tobias proves his intelligence when he gives Tris, his girlfriend, an ultimatum. She continuously throws herself into situations where she acts recklessly by risking her life and Tobias will have none of it. He grows so tired of her behaviour that he says to her, “You are a sixteen-year-old girl who doesn’t understand that the value of a sacrifice lies in its necessity, not in throwing your life away! And if you do that again, you and I are done” (260). Tobias is able to identify the signs of someone who can potentially hurt him. He knows that if something awful happens to Tris, he will be affected as well, so in order to prevent himself from possible heartbreak, he warns his girlfriend. The fact that he sees value in life shows his intelligence. Tobias’ actions toward his partner also exhibit that he has an affectionate side. He cares enough about her that he is willing to subtly threaten her if she does not stop trying to destroy herself. Tobias constantly tells Tris how much she means to him and performs a series of romantic gestures. As the two of them get ready for combat, Tris tells Tobias that she is unable to fire a weapon, but all he says back to her is, “Hey. You have done more for this faction than any other person. You...you’re the bravest person I’ve ever met. Stay here. Let...
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...Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine: Summary & Analysis Dandelion wine was a story about a twelve-year old boy named, Douglas Spaulding. Douglas was just a typical twelve year old boy, who lived to play, run around and do what any other twelve year old would do. Not a very physically fit person, but it didn’t really seem to matter. He was a person who got what he wanted, not by whining for it, but by keeping his mind on whatever he wanted and setting out a goal for it. He was a happy boy and not many problems, till now, and he had a younger brother named Tom. Tom Spaulding, age ten, did what other little brothers like to do, tag along with his older brother. He was never in the way of his older brother; in fact they liked being together. Tom took every day slowly, writing most everything down, the first day of summer, the first this, his first that. Dandelion wine took place in a small town called Green Town, Illinois. In Green Town the Spauldings owned a patch of land that they grew dandelions on. Every summer, Douglas, Tom, and their grandfather would pick the dandelions and bottle it for wine. Summers in Green Town were very hot and winters cold. It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big family. In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because...
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...The Giver by Lois Lowry 1 It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. No. Wrong word, Jonas thought. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice. He had seen it both times. Squinting toward the sky, he had seen the sleek jet, almost a blur at its high speed, go past, and a second later heard the blast of sound that followed. Then one more time, a moment later, from the opposite direction, the same plane. At first, he had been only fascinated. He had never seen aircraft so close, for it was against the rules for Pilots to fly over the community. Occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bicycles to the riverbank and watched, intrigued, the unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away from the community. 第 1 页 共 102 页 http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原版英语阅读网 But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet. Jonas, looking around anxiously, had seen others- adults as well as children- stop what they were doing and wait, confused, for an explanation of the frightening event. Then all of the citizens had been ordered to go into the nearest building and stay there. IMMEDIATELY, the rasping voice through the speakers had said. LEAVE YOUR BICYCLES...
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...“Papa John’s Pizza – Better Ingredients. Better Pizza.” This is the brand promise of Papa John’s International and the foundation of a careful mix of business strategies used to stand out from, and remain ahead of the competition. Papa John’s was established by a young entrepreneur that had the idea of creating a “better pizza” and with his passion and creativity, created “the third largest pizza company, with more than 2,800 pizza chain restaurants.” Papa John’s International, Reference for Business Encyclopedia of Business, 2nd edition, Oe-Pa. To achieve the goal of better pizza Papa John's has focused on the pizza eschewing pasta and sandwich items. In one article the author points out that everyone involved in the pizza business pretty much shares the techniques and activities needed to be competitive at the operations level: "Since there is no real secret to getting into and being in the pizza business all players basically have shared knowledge of what the competitive advantages are that each could hold". "The Associated Press (2009) Papa John’s successful strategies position themselves in the pizza market by offering reasonable prices, great quality, great service, and a selected menu, which aids in helping in becoming better than the competition. According to CEO Niegel Travis, Papa John’s focused on product quality and service which ensure profits. The trade-off is to avoid discounts, but by focusing on the quality of their ingredients, Papa John’s has successfully...
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...* ago | * a certain time in the past | * 2 years ago | * before | * earlier than a certain point of time | * before 2004 | * to | * telling the time | * ten to six (5:50) | * past | * telling the time | * ten past six (6:10) | * to / till / until | * marking the beginning and end of a period of time | * from Monday to/till Friday | * till / until | * in the sense of how long something is going to last | * He is on holiday until Friday. | * by | * in the sense of at the latest * up to a certain time | * I will be back by 6 o’clock. * By 11 o'clock, I had read five pages. | Prepositions – Place (Position and Direction) English | Usage | Example | * in | * room, building, street, town, country * book, paper etc. * car, taxi * picture, world | * in the kitchen, in London * in the book * in the car, in a taxi * in the picture, in the world | * at | * meaning next to, by an object * for table * for events * place where you are to do something typical (watch a film, study, work) | * at the door, at the station * at the table * at a concert, at the party * at the cinema, at school, at work | * on | * attached * for a place with a river * being on a surface...
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... I was in the Marines and with the guys I was with who knows if they were or were not gay already. They have their own life and choices as well as anybody else that wants to be in the military. Everybody deserves a chance to do something that they would like to do in their life. They are people like you and me. There are people out there that will not do anything for the military but then you have people that want to do it but cant because of what they believe in. That would be like telling someone that they can’t do it because of their race. Everyone has their own point of view when it comes to something like this but I think when they started to allow gays in the military it has really changed more people than it was made out to be. Not only for the gays life but also people that have nothing against them are happy for them to be able to do something that others won’t ever think about doing. When I first heard that they were aloud I was too happy about it because you never know how they will react to certain things, but when it came to me thinking about it, it’s a good thing for them. They want to do something with their lives and if they are willing to do something to help out than let them. It’s good to let other people do something that they want to do instead of let people just sit back and act like they did something. They have a right just like when they gave women the right to vote, this is pretty much the same thing. You are...
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...No One By: Derek Andritsis Personal responsibility is the taking of responsibility of one’s own actions no matter the outcome. I think that everyone should have responsibility over something in their life. Everyone I know has done something and worried about it later. People should not rely on someone else to take care of what they should be doing. Those people have made these decisions due to having something to be responsibility about. I believe that everyone should have something to be responsibility over something in their life. Whether it is something really minor like an animal or something very major like a family. No matter what the responsibility is it teaches people how to care for themselves or others. I have been trying to start teaching this early in my children’s life and I believe it will help them in the long run. I think they will not have so many issues with this later on in life. They would not have as much trouble to try and make decisions about how something would affect them later in life. My children will think about personal responsibility in everything they do. If they were to start a small business now they will learn how to handle money and begin thinking about how to make more the next time they do it. Since they have pets, then they learning how to care for something and keep it alive and in some cases make money form that animal. People shouldn’t rely on others to help them get through things. If they can’t pay the bills, go make some money...
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...parents, siblings, and anyone else who is involved. Routine is the most important part of a person with autism’s life. They rely on their routine to get through the day and if that routine is ever disrupted for any reason it could turn their world upside down because they are so used to that routine and count on it. That also means that all their family members have to follow this routine, and it can be extremely stressful for everyone if something does not go as planned. When someone with autism has to enter the world on their own, whether it be school or work, it can be very hard for them because people can be cruel and judge them, but most of the time people can get past it and accept them for who they are. Someone with autism can live a normal life just like anyone else, but they need to try a little harder and having a routine in place can make things so much easier for them. Autism is a disability that can affect many aspects of a person’s life, including their home, school, work, and social lives, in many different ways. Having autism does not only affect the person who has it but it also affects their home life involving their parents, siblings, and other family members. Having to raise a child can become very stressful for a parent because they have to spend more time with their child then a parent with a child who does not have autism. Parents have to come up with a routine not only for their autistic child to follow but also for everyone else to follow to make sure things...
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...Have you ever been in a relationship where your partner pressures you into doing something you weren’t comfortable with, if you feel like you want to make them happy and do it, don’t. Doing something that makes you uncomfortable, like sexting, sexting is sending or forwarding nude, sexually suggestive, or explicit pics on your cell or online. For some people, it's no big deal. But real problems can emerge when the parties involved are under 18, when people get pressured into sexting, and when sexts go viral. If you are pressured to send a sext, know that you don’t have to send it, you have to do what you feel is best for your safety. Don’t feel alone when you are pressured into sending something you are uneasy with sending, just know...
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...the world were caused to exist by something. The universe exists, so there must be something that caused the universe. He believed the first cause to be God. He said that God is the only thing that was not caused by something else. The argument seeks to prove the existence of God from looking at the world we live in and the universe as a whole. The whole theory is based on cause and effect (when one event causes another to happen, the cause is why it happens and the effect is what happens.) Aristotle believed that all movement depends on there being a mover, and there has to be something that originates this. The universe follows this principle so needs a mover – this is the prime mover. The mover caused everything to come into existence, however, needs nothing to cause it and so must be exempt from the laws of nature. Thomas Aquinas created five ways to prove the existence of God, the first proof is based on motion, It can be noted that some things in the universe are in motion and it follows that whatever is in the state of motion must have been placed in motion by another such act, and things achieve their potential through an external force. In order for something to change it requires actuality and this cannot go on for infinity so there must be a starting point – this is God. The second way is based on a series of cause and effects in the universe, this proof rejected the theory of infinite causes, saying there has to be something that started everything off. There...
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...Together We Stand Alone Outline Introduction: There are many people in my community whom are getting sick. What is causing them to be ill and what can we do to prevent this from happening to others. 1) What is going on in my community which is making people feel ill? a) Could there be something else wrong in the community besides chemical disposal causing this illness that has happened i) Could something be in the air which is causing people to get ill? ii) Could something in the soil have anything to do with the sickness? iii) Could something in the family’s genetics be the problem in which they are sick? b) What can be done as a temporary solution until a resolution is found? iv) Relocating the families v) Changing your water source vi) Use a air purifier in your home 2) Strategies which we would apply to help foster Critical thinking. c) Criticize vii) Curiosity viii) Redefine Solution to Problems ix) Avoiding assuming things d) Assumptions we need to be aware of x) Is everyone sick in the community xi) This sickness is caused by the improper disposal...
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