...In 1982, forty-nine historians and political scientists were asked by the Chicago Tribune to rate all the Presidents through Jimmy Carter in five categories: leadership qualities, accomplishments/crisis management, political skills, appointments, and character/integrity. At the top of the list stood Abraham Lincoln. He was followed by Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and Harry Truman. None of these other Presidents exceeded Lincoln in any category according to the rate scale. Roosevelt fell into second place because he did not measure up to Lincoln in character. Washington, close behind, ranked third because of his lesser political skills. It is the general opinion of pollsters, moreover, that the average American would probably put Lincoln at the top as well. In other words, the judgment of historians and the public tells us that Abraham Lincoln was the nation's greatest President by every measure applied. Interestingly, had the average Union citizen been asked the same question in the spring of 1863, there can be no doubt but that Lincoln would have fared poorly. Not much more could have been said for him even a year later, when Lincoln thought that he would lose his bid for reelection. It would take Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse and his own death a week later to propel Lincoln into the pantheon of presidential greatness. And Lincoln's canonization began almost immediately. Within...
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...There is a great difference in opinion on who was the strongest American president. Three canidates up for debate as some of the strongest are Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. While these men all had some less then shining spots on their ledgers, they were all men of great metaphorical stature, (Lincoln however, could be considered both metaphorical and literal,) and had achievements that, had they not happened, the United States may not be the same place it is today. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. He is best known for his leadership during the American civil war and his actions against slavery ( source #1). Had he not been as bold and steadfast in his opinion for abolition...
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...today to tell you that America need to change. It needs to change for the better. Too many issues have increased and the American dream is far from how we know it. I grew up thinking America was the country where all dreams come true. I still believe it is. We just need to take a seriously look in the mirror, and ask ourselves, whether we can live with the system we are living in, or not. The American Dream should be possible for anyone. Black, white, female, male, hetero or gay - everyone should have the possibility to persuade the American dream. But the reality wants different things. As it is today, young children, sometimes infants, are brought to this country by their parents. They grow up with an American feeling in their heart and mind. They play in the streets. They go to our school. They are Americans, like everyone else, in every single way, but one: on paper. Through their entire life, they live in fear of deportation. Even though they worked hard, studied hard, and achieve great success, they still face a risk of going home to a country they might not even know. Deporting these young Americans are deporting the possibility of the next great genius. Everyone can become something big, if they have the will and the strength to do it. These are future soldiers, scientists or highly successful politicians. I want everyone to be able to persuade the American Dream and achieve great success, and that is why I will make sure every minor immigrant have the possibility of earning...
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...An American President A Life in Brief Theodore Roosevelt, who came into office in 1901 and served until 1909, is considered the first modern President because he significantly expanded the influence and power of the executive office. From the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth century, the seat of power in the national government resided in the U.S. Congress. Beginning in the 1880s, the executive branch gradually increased its power. Roosevelt seized on this trend, believing that the President had the right to use all powers except those that were specifically denied him to accomplish his goals. As a result, the President, rather than Congress or the political parties, became the center of the American political arena. As President, Roosevelt challenged the ideas of limited government and individualism. In their stead, he advocated government regulation to achieve social and economic justice. He used executive orders to accomplish his goals, especially in conservation, and waged an aggressive foreign policy. He was also an extremely popular President and the first to use the media to appeal directly to the people, bypassing the political parties and career politicians. Early Life Frail and sickly as a boy, "Teedie" Roosevelt developed a rugged physique as a teenager and became a lifelong advocate of exercise and the "strenuous life." After graduating from Harvard, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee and studied law at Columbia University. He dropped out after a year to...
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...An American President: Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, near Lancaster, South Carolina. His parents were Andrew and Elizabeth. He was the 7th president of the United States and he served from March 4, 1829 until March 4, 1837. Andrew did not attend college because in 1784 he enlisted into the Continental Army. In 1787 he decided that he wanted to become a lawyer. Andrew was a representative, then senator of Tennesee, governor of Florida, senator again and then became president 4 years later. Events and such that shaped Andrew Jacksons political views were that he was orphan growing up, he married Rachel Stockley Donelson, him and his brother fighting in the army, and his mom falling ill and dieing. Jackson’s popularity led to suggestions that he run for president. At first he professed no interest in the office, but by 1824 his boosters had rallied enough support to get him a nomination as well as a seat in the U.S. Senate. In a five-way race, Jackson won the popular vote, but for the first time in history no candidate received a majority of electoral votes. Andrew Jackson won redemption four years later in an election that was characterized to an unusual degree by negative personal attacks. Jackson and...
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...Every United States president that has led our country has had an impact on our nation. Each of the forty-four influential men had an interesting or surprising background before running for office. Through the years, our presidents have had no formal education, served as war generals, or were related to previous leaders. The man that had the most interesting and shocking life before presidency was Ronald Reagan. The public already knew our 40th president before he ran for governor and commander in chief. He was a household name due to his Hollywood acting career. Reagan became a part of the Warner Brothers Studio in 1937 for seven years. This led him to be starred in more than 50 movies even after his contract and became president of SAG Awards. This early fame was a boost into the right direction towards popularity. One could have never guessed that the next president was an actor. Decades later with experience in the spotlight, he became our oldest president sworn into office. In U.S history, Ronald Reagan was one of eight presidents who survived an assassination attempt....
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...2012: Good Guy, Bad Guy and the American President Md. Mahmudul Hoque1 Figure 1: 2012 by Ronald Emmerich (2009) The media has substituted them for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do it only by an intensive study of the ways in which the media have swallowed it. -Marshall McLuhan (Sontag, 1977) Introduction ‘2012’- a film by Ronald Emmerich Hollywood's reigning king of catastrophe (Kois, November 13, 2009), came into public on 13th November 2009 with a view to making the audience experience the end of the world. While 2012 enthusiasts point to Nostradamus’ Lost Book, Bible codes, the WebBot computer project, the Hopi and Cherokee Indians, the I Ching (Chinese Book of Changes) and Mother Shipton to 1 Md. Mahmudul Hoque is an alumnus (Batch-54) of the Department of International Relations at the University of Dhaka. He is currently working as an Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate to the Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He can be reached at mhmoni24@yahoo.com Page 1 of 8 support their theory, it all ultimately goes back to the Mayans. The theory suggests that the world shall come to an end on December 21, 2012 through a mega natural disaster (Hitchcock, 2009). Ronald utilized this fashionable chronicle as the plot of the movie, and came out immensely successful to draw the interest of the audiences across the world. The character of the American President played by Danny Glover interested...
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...Introduction This paper will describe the Joe Salationo the President of Great Northern American, and his employees and how the employees need to understand how to importance how that people perform their perceptions and make attributions. Joe Salatino also believe that his employees that they have established sold relationship with their customer, and the different technique’s that the employees use. We will also discuss the different learning theory that will fit Joe Salatino situation, and how Joe Salatino will apply some of the learning theory by using the operant conditioning, social learning theory. How people form perceptions and make attributions How we need to make Joe Salatino employees to understand that people form perceptions and make attributions because perception is the process by which the individual selects, organizes, interprets, and responds to information. Employees are constantly exposed to a variety of information. They know when leaders are being phony. This information is processed in a person’s, mind and organized to form concepts pertaining to what is sensed or experienced. Different people often perceive a situation differently, both in terms of what they selectively perceive and how they organize and interpret what is perceived, by the employee and their manger (Hellriegel and Slocum, 2011. Pp. 104). The attributions that employees and managers make concerning the causes of behavior are important for understanding behavior. For...
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...Shipping Process | American President Lines | International Business 1 | Fauziyah Kurniawati (01420110)/ Furqoni Agustina (014201100062)/ Icha’mar (01420110)/ Mazaya Ulfa (01420110)/ Mega Dewanti (014201100155)/ Saroha M.Manalu (014201100218)/ Sekar Pratiwi (01420110)/ Sofi Oktavia (014201100190)/ Velencia (01420110) I. Introduction On this report, we provide information about Shipping Process that we get from APL (American President Lines). As for, the data we got such as the requirement, documents that needed in shipping process, and also the overall shipping process that already told by our resources in the interview. We conduct an interview with Captain Nugroho Subroto as the Chief of Operation Advisor of APL (American President Lines) to gather the data below. * APL’s Company Profile APL (American President Lines) is the seventh world largest ocean carrier which offers more than 140 ports destination in worldwide. APL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, a global transportation and logistics company. APL provides customers around the world with container transportation services through a network combining high-quality intermodal operations with state-of-the-art information technology. With more than 150 years’ experiences, APL has the knowledge and the expertise to help the customer negotiates the increasingly complex and ever-changing global marketplace. In Indonesia, APL was established in 2001. There are several...
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...Should you require the Ninety day rule of your man? Yes. Of course, I believe a woman should require certain rules for a possible relationship. Just to define respect –is to hold one in esteem. Respect denotes both positive feeling of esteem for person. A woman should have certain standards from the beginning because she has no knowledge or history of this particular man. First and foremost my man would have to prove that hardworking, able to keep a job and is a breadwinner in order to be in a worthy relationship with me. This would be the beginning stage before we could move any further. If he proves that he is capable of meeting the requirements, then we can start a relationship. My man would have to have benefits because it doesn’t do a woman any good to get someone in the same state that she’s in. It would only lead to disaster depending on how ambitious that man is toward the relationship and what he desire for the future. My man would definitely have to meet the challenge in order to prove or show me that he is serious. Another aspect is if my man is faithful and on time for his job to receive the promised benefits. Then I know he would definitely prove that he is up for the challenge and will not stop until he has attained the reward which is “me”. Speaking from a woman’s perspective, you have to demand respect. You can’t lower your standards because it would make a man challenge easier and he wouldn’t put up the effort because he know that the benefits with you are...
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...LESSON 28 - The Great Society Objectives: Identify how President Kennedy impacted American foreign policy Identify how President Kennedy brought about social change Identify how President Johnson and the Supreme Court enacted policy A New President, a New Direction As Eisenhower's second term ended, many Americans were restless. Soviet advances made many Americans feel as if the United States was losing the Cold War. Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy defeated Republican Richard Nixon, the serving Vice President, in an extremely close election. Kennedy won in 1960 because he had a well-organized campaign organization. He benefited from the first televised presidential election debates in the nation's history, in which he...
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...Joe Salatino, President of Great Northern American Case Study Trina Casto Strayer University BUS 520 Dr. Russell Joe Salatino, President of Great Northern American Case Study 1. Discuss why Joe’s employees need to understand the importance of how people form perceptions and make attributions. Understanding of how individuals form their perceptions and make attributions can be the difference between making a sale and losing a sale for Joe’s employees. When a sales professional understands how others form their perceptions and make attributions, they can utilize that information to control how a potential customer perceives not only them but also the product in which they are attempting to sell. Forming a perception with the customer that the sales professional is competent and trustworthy will heighted the possibility of making a sale to that customer. This is considered impression management (Hellriegel and Slocum. 2011. pp.117). Aiding the customer in perceiving that the deal being offered is a great value, that the customer needs the product, and that the product is worth the money spent is also important in the sales process and is a form of impression management. Perception is said to be the “process by which the individual selects, organizes, interprets, and responds to information” (pp.104). Attribution is how individuals understand and explain causes of behavior and events including the behavior of themselves and of others (pp. 119). To be successful...
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...Joe Salatino, President of Great Northern American Case Study BUS 520 Dr. Powers July 21, 2012 Joe Salatino, President of Great Northern American Case Study 1. Discuss why Joe’s employees need to understand the importance of how people form perception and make attributions. Joe Salatino is the President of the 35-year old company, the Great Northern American. Salatino gauges his success by the amount he pays his employees, and so far he has been successful. His sales team is a self-motivated and highly energetic. Their tactic is simple they motivate their 30 person sales staff with commission and bonuses. The quality and dedication of their employees is what has made this company the success it has become. Joe’s employees attribute their personal success to four main factors, ability, effort, task-difficulty, and luck. By this it can be assumed that they will succeed because they were capable of doing the job, that it their ability attribute. The effort attribute is because they logged the time, and worked hard at reaching their client base. Task-difficulty is easily overcome when the necessary effort is being made. This is how their success was achieved, because they overcame the difficulties. Finally consider luck. Even with ability, effort, task-difficulty they have to attribute a certain amount to luck. Consider time and mood of the individual to coincide with the luck of the employee. Joe’s employees...
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...Joe Salatino, President of Great Northern American Case Study The Great Northern American is a Dallas-based telemarketing company. The salespeople sell more than 20 million dollars in office, promotional, arts and crafts, and computer supplies to 60,000 businesses around the country, which includes particularly packaging tape, paper clips, pens, and pencils. Many of his salespeople earn more than $60,000 a year, and top producers earn more than $ 100,000. Mr. Salatino, the president of the company, believes that employees who have established solid relationships with their customers earn significantly more money than those who have not been able to foster good relationships with customers (Hellriegel & Slocum Jr., 2011). Employee rewards, bonuses, commissions or any incentive pay are powerful employee motivators to improve productivity and to build a strong customer relationship. Leaders must constantly review and evaluate both the sales people and the company’s selling strategy to see if there is a need for improvement. The most common improvement needy areas would be employee morale, encouragement, training programs, and the learning theories. The objective of this paper is to discuss the importance of how Mr. Salatino’s employees form perceptions and make attributions, and the learning theory that is most appropriate for his employees. It will also suggest how Mr. Salatino could apply the learning theory to improve employee performance and leverage an understanding of the...
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...Bus 520 Joe Salatino, President of Great Northern American Case Study [Name of the writer] [Name of the institution] Joe Salatino, President of Great Northern American Case Study 1. Discuss why Joe’s employees need to understand the importance of how people form perceptions and make attributions. In the case study about Great Northern American, it is plain that Joe Salatino has worked hard in order to ensure his workforce remains motivated and works hard to face their competitors. It is important to realize that making a sale or losing a sale for Joe’s employees may be dependent upon their understanding of how individuals, who may or may not be their consumers, form their perceptions about the organization. A sales professional would be the first individual to ensure they understand the basis behind other people’s perceptions about their organization and the attributions. This is to they can utilize this information and thus create an environment which can be controlled in helping the consumer form a perception about them and the product they are selling. This form of controlling the consumer’s perception is called “impression management”, (Hellriegel and Slocum. 2011. pp.117), and is used as a support in solidifying the claim that the deal being made is one of great value to the consumer, that they have need for this product and it is definitely worthy of their money if they plan to buy it. Impression management is a tricky process...
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