...with change itself, but rather with transitions. The change is the situation, i.e., the new boss, the move, the reorganization, etc. The transition is “psychological. It is the three-phased process people go through as they internalize and come to terms with the details of the new situation that the change brings about.” “People have to bring their hearts and minds to work,” so when change comes along, “transition management…is a way of dealing with people that makes everyone feel more comfortable.” The first phase is Letting Go—the ending of the old. People need to deal with their losses. Next is the “neutral zone,” when the old is gone and the new is not fully operational. Psychological realignments take place. And then there is the new beginning. People develop a new identity, experience new energy and purpose, and make change begin to happen. How to Get People to Let Go You start by identifying who will suffer losses and try to understand them. You sympathize publicly and permit people to grieve. Find ways to compensate (non-financial) for the losses, if possible. Of course, communication is a top priority, clearly defining details over and over is important. Ceremonies to “mark the ending” are appropriate to honor the past. Leading People Through the Neutral Zone Marilyn Ferguson, an American Futurist, has described the neutral zone as “Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There is nothing to hold on to.” Anxiety and self-doubt are up; motivation and efficiency are down. Many...
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...In the beginning God create the heavens and the earth. At the time the earth was like a void, darkness everywhere consuming the planet, and God said four words, “and let there be light.” Then there on that planet earth God separated light from dark. He blessed the light and called the light day, and he cursed the dark and called it night. The second day has arrived. God then said the waters from waters, and called to the expansion of heaven. The third day came. God wanted to fill the gap in the water, so God created dry land, and made the gathered water seas. Now he said there should be vegetation on the earth. The third day has passed. God said let there is the expansion of time telling from the seasons, and let there be light at night call it stars. The fourth day has passed. God then created every living creature to roam the earth, and blessed the bird. The fifth day has passed. God said I must make man I will make man in my own image of me, and blessed these creatures. The sixth day has passed. On the day of Creation God rested. God made a deal with man everything you see on earth is yours, for this is Eve’s garden. You may take any fruit, except the tree of knowing good and evil. If you eat the tree of knowing of good from evil you will surely die. Later the serpent temps Eve to go and eat the forbidden apple. At first she said no put in the serpents crafty ways, he convinced Eve into eating the apple. Not only was he able to trick Eve but also he made Eve convince Adam...
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...How did the earth become a form? The question has been an agreement between Atheists and the christians who believes that God created to universe. There was conversation about secular evolution theories about the earth evolved billion years, and humans evolved from lower life form by natural processes. The Bible is the only and first record primeval history that stated time and space started(in the Beginning), and in the beginning God created the (Heavens and the Earth) they were established in the Beginning. In the beginning God created man and woman, so they can maintain the Earth and be fruitful and multiply. (Genesis 1-2) The major crisis in the garden that caused chaos for Adam and Eve, and their lives was never the same again. In the book Genesis the first opening statement is “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The Hebrew verb (created) is a word associated the only God in the Bible, which He was and is the only God that could've created the Earth and put time in motion. This proved that God existence before time began, and He is the Creator of time too. He spoke the world into existence out of nothing. Scientific creationism believe in the bang theory that the earth just form from gases and wind combined created big expulsion in space caused the Earth to develop. However, God spoke the heavens and the Earth to exist, and the first three days God gave form to the earth and the body (light, water, sky, and land.) Genesis 1:2-19. On the...
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...What is the relationship between rebranding and regeneration? Though the two concepts are often confused or used synonymously, rebranding and regeneration refer to two very different (but intrinsically linked) aspects of creating a new identity or “fresh start” for something, or somewhere. Regeneration typically refers to encouraging growth and restoration in an area that has previously displayed symptoms of decline, primarily the economy but also relating to other social, economic and environmental aspects of an area. Nonetheless, it is an essential aspect of creating a new beginning for an area because without a stable economic foundation, an area can struggle to grow and strive as it lacks the financial capability to continue expanding. Regeneration is seen as a long and continuous process that transforms a depleting area (in terms of economy and physical features) into a growing, stable area. Rebranding, however, refers to a much more varied and inclusive type of change – instead focussing on developing a place to change or improve its image and public opinion. This usually consists of two different actions: regeneration and reimaging. Rebranding as a concept usually includes regeneration as one of the two fundamental steps to positively transform or rebrand an area. Unlike regeneration, rebranding focuses on improving the actual physical infrastructure and environment of an area – the “inside” – as well as improving the public opinion towards the area and making...
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...Enrolling in a college course was a new beginning for me because I haven’t been very good when it comes down to writing essays. But with the hard work and dedication that I put in this course I surprisingly became a much better one. I came into this class prepared, and knowing that it would be difficult and a new change compared to any other class I have taken before. This course has exposed me to many different writing technique and different writing skills that helped improve my writing in everyway possible. Throughout this English 1301 class I have learned self discipline, and how to handle stress. English is not quite my favorite subject, but during this course I discovered my weaknesses and strongest areas. As the days progressed during the course so did the challenges I had to overcome. One of my personal challenges I faced was the word count I had to meet in order to complete the assignment. By having a certain limit I had to reach not only made me use more details but challenged me in elaborating the topic I was talking about. In any college class you are expected to meet these high standards which I found very difficult but progressed within time and became better at writing more sufficient. Another obstacle I faced during the course was the four letter word time. Time played a crucial role in this course because it kept me from slacking off, and taught me to put school before anything else. At the beginning of the course we were given a syllabus of assignments...
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...Why is it that when left with a blank sheet of paper, people sometimes can’t help but quiver? A sudden rush of fear and anxiety hangs over them. For a student or scholar in particular, it is not simply the beginning to reach the end of the test or the ‘be all end all’ in achieving something worthwhile in life. It provides the user with a key to delve into the realm of imagination with the purpose of gaining happiness or life’s true meaning. Imagination is something which is unique to ever individual on earth past or present, because like the world we live in, imagination is in constant change, adaption and always learning. When unlocked and encompassed with the power of the mind, imagination can achieve endless means in theory. For an artist this may be a chance to create something new, something colourful or perhaps even dark. For a scholar it creates a chance of expression through words. Right to expression however, is key to any successful contemporary or classical work most importantly. Whether for good or bad intentions it creates the basis for which to explore and perhaps even indulge. A blank canvas creates a new beginning. Like a second chance in life, an empty sheet can give an individual a new beginning and allows him/her to forget the past, it is no longer relevant, unless the artist depicts it that way. If it were not for blank canvases nothing new would ever be imagined just simply copied, tweaked and regurgitated in another...
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...situation provides a huge amount of evidence to the theme of building relationships or serving others. This type of behavior is what police officers are wanted to do, to build a relationship with the community. Not only was the theme used to portray the author’s purpose, but also symbolism in the poem. Symbolism is another issue depicted in Old’s poem. Symbolism is used throughout the poem to describe the setting and to describe a new beginning. Olds states, “. . .while the man’s leg hung over the lip of the next world. . .” (74). This symbolizes how close the man was to falling to his death. The author writes, “. . .and the hairy net with its implacable grid was unfolded near the curb and spread out and stretched as the sheet is prepared to receive birth” (74). This represents his new chance of life, similar to a newborn out of its mother’s womb. Another form of symbolism is when the author states, “. . .and the red, glowing ends burned like the tiny campfires we lit at night back at the beginning of the world” (75). This is a representation of the new beginning this man acquired after he changed his mind. Symbolism is used to tie in the author’s purpose. The author’s purpose of the poem is to show awareness or inform us about the realities of suicide. Although Olds does not state it directly, we can draw inferences from her poem. Throughout her poem, she uses descriptive language to show the reader that even in hard times, positive outcomes are possible. Olds writes, “. . .and the...
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...and a train. Now this does not sit well with someone when it is in the middle of winter and you feel like the city is just eating you up. It was at that point where I figured college life was not for me. Transitioning from a place where I knew plenty of people to an environment that was completely made of strangers also contributed to my decision on leaving college. Now here I am attending college, it feels like things have come full circle; I am now laying the foundation for my children setting the example that I did not have while I was growing up. As for my future, I am looking forward to gaining more experience through more watershed moments and hopefully I have the awareness to enjoy the transition from the ending to the new beginnings. Situation Analysis When I was 18 years old going to college living with my parents, I have made up my mind to drop out of college and join the military. I did not know...
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...viewpoint to Will’s, and in the movie it changes when we as viewer follows Marcus’s actions to Will’s. We know what Marcus and Will thinks, which gives us a perspective from several different angles and in this case keeps the story fresh and exciting. The author has done an incredibly good job, as he has managed not to lose the viewer/reader through the multiple viewpoints, and that is because the transitions are well done. The narrator is a 3rd person narrator and it is character-bounded to Marcus and Will. In the movie and the book, there are two main characters – Marcus and Will, who both are round characters because they develop much though the story. Marcus is a special 12-year old boy and seems very grown-up for his age. In the beginning of the story he is very influenced by his mother, Fiona, but as the story...
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...Sahebi, Sherwin Conrad vs. Achebe 1. From the tone of Conrad’s view of Africa, he gives it a dark and mysterious view of the forests is never ending and nothing is silent. 2. The detail he gives shows how African life never rests among the winding paths that rivers lead you and how he is always on his feet ready for the worst to happen. He talks about the air being thick and dense with the tall tress surrounding the area where sunshine was blocked from the forest bring a view of darkness and fear. 3. Achebe views Africa as a marvelous place where he thrives and people are happy living according to their belief. 4. The details given from her shows the happiness of the clan dancing to the ekwe, and corrects to a celebration of a man taking the title of his clan. 5. The reaction Achebe has to Conrad’s choices are anti-parallel to each other. In Achebe’s paragraph’s, differences of tone, syntax, and detail are shown. Achebe’s tone is very unique in the way she writes her paragraphs. In the first and second paragraph, she talks about the clans performing peaceful dances. “Then from the distance came the faint beating of the ekwe…” a peaceful dance from a distant clan. “It is an ozo dance,” the man said from themselves. Achebe uses the Ibo language to show a difference of tone to indicate how the clans would talk among themselves. Conrad’s style of tone is much more different from Achebe. He uses more of a suspenseful tone than anything. Conrad says “we penetrated deeper and deeper...
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...Microsoft Microsoft started from humble beginnings in 1975, and soon rose to become one of the biggest companies in modern history. Today, Microsoft is having record revenues, making a total of $18.06 billion dollars last quarter (Forbes). Microsoft affects almost everyone’s life in the US daily, whether it is kids on their Xbox, to desk workers using Windows Office each day to accomplish their work, people use Windows every day. From Microsoft’s early beginnings to its multibillion-dollar company today, Windows has had success from the start, and will continue to for the coming decades. Two men in 1975; Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft. (History of Windows) They started out with MS-DOS, their first operating system. The companies’ first headquarters was in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but after signing some pivotal contracts with IBM, they moved to their headquarters in Bellevue, Washington in 1979.(History of Windows) Working side by side with IBM to develop OS/2, Microsoft released their new product, Microsoft Windows. It was a graphical extension of MS-DOS. On March 13th, 1986, Microsoft went public, which would result in 4 billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires being created from the ensuing rise in stock. (Forbes) Along with its partnership with IBM came allegations that they were trying to monopolize the computer industry. The Federal Trade Commission set its sights on Microsoft and began almost a decade of legal battles between Microsoft and the...
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...Three Great Life Quotes September 01, 2011 by admin | No comments 1. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough 2. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all 3. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Our Favorite Life Quotes September 01, 2011 by admin | No comments 1. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. 2. You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Top 5 Life Quotes August 26, 2011 by admin | No comments This is our top 5 rated Life Quotes 1. Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. 2. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. 3. Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. 4. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. 5. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Top Inspiring Quotes October 19, 2011 by admin | No comments “Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.” “As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more...
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...Jose Luis Herrera Castillo. Foun 101. Aly Covington. Personal Narrative. 22nd October 2015. “Every day we are one step closer to filmmaking being as easy as taking out the brush and oils for a painting” (Veneruso, 1998). I was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela on June 21, 1994. I grew up believing in self-expression, showing yourself and never hiding who you really are from others, part of my envelopment as a child and a teenager has been surrounded by political issues, involving my country into sad and hard situations, destroying our culture, education and economy, forcing and scaring the people who decided to trust into a different opinion against the government, those ones will be recognized as “Traitors” and “Enemies of the nation” at least that was the way they used to call them. The visual arts means to me as a way to escape from reality and open our minds to others, to make them understand that there’s a another world outside complete different as the one who we live in now. At the age of seven, my father took me into a Father-son trip to the beach, where he gave me my first camera, an Instant water proof Kodak, one of the most beautiful gifts that i’m still appreciating from hem. Since then I have been feeling a passion for the Films and Photography a passion who becomes an intuitive path that guides me through life. For me films are about romance, adventures, tears, laughs and smiles, more than recording with a video camera, doing a film involves...
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...The Beginning to Jazz Jazz History MUS 205 Three styles of music that contributed to what Jazz is today would be Work Songs, Country Blues, and City Blues. They have similar aspects that have built on one another making them familiar yet has enhanced them. They also have many differences that give them their unique sound. These styles have inspired artist to contribute to Jazz with their own flair. Their culture and back ground is what makes the music have the sole to reach the audience in ways they can relate. They have seen and felt the same tribulations the artist portrays. Work songs through their hypnotic rhythms were effectively used to have the workers keep pace. These work songs helped to coordinate single thrusts or pulls, yet the vocals were kept simple as to allow the laborers to concentrate on the work. The singer would use heavy rhythmic accents and the workers would join in with shouts at regular intervals throughout the song. This technique was called the call-response, the shouts or grunts signaled the moment of coordinated effort in their work. The structure of a work song was simpler than the 12 measure blues progression. When accompanied by instruments, it was usually a guitar accompaniment that was deceptively complex. The work song usually told a simple yet familiar story. The blues is single-handedly the root of jazz. Without the blues there would be no jazz as we know it today. About the same time the work song was in use, country blues was gaining significance...
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...Understanding and Coping with Change Stephanie Anderson BUS610 Organizational Behavior Instructor: Shawna Wentlandt August 19, 2013 We live in exhilarating times. Western civilization is witnessing the greatest changes everywhere since the Industrial Revolution. If we want a deeper understanding of the prospect of change, we are forced to pay heed to our own powerful inclinations to avoid change. Most people have a low tolerance for change because we are individuals of habit that follow mindless daily routines. In nature, growth involves periodic accelerations and transformations. Initially, things appear to progress slowly. Nothing seems to occur when suddenly, an egg shell cracks, a blossom blooms, or a butterfly emerges. In fact, when it comes to forces of nature, the most widely addressed and studied topic is what physicists call entropy – the process by which dynamic systems that include (a) people, (b) organizations, (c) automobiles, and (d) solar systems, gradually fall apart. It is hard to make significant changes in any human group without changing an individual’s behavior and the underlying meaning that gives rise to their behavior (Kegan & Lahey, 2001). Once change does occur, it is inevitably disruptive. The fact is Americans in general have always been in some state of transition with Old World families that can be traced back to the home of their ancestors. New destinations and new career opportunities keep people moving driven by faith...
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