... Throughout one’s lifetime changes in a person’s views toward life are inevitable. Those changes can be seen as either positive or negative based on the experiences a person goes through. Some changes are seen as internal while others are seen as external. For instance, in Monkey by Wu Cheng-en and Candide by Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire, both authors are using their characters to portray self-discovery by having them go through a series of obstacles. As a result the characters changed their attitude toward life through the many obstacles that they had to undergo. Self-discovery is an essential part of a person’s life which can be seen internally or externally through a person’s characteristics and actions. The novel Candide is centered around the character of Candide who sets out on a journey to self-discovery in which he has “his eyes opened up to the true ways of the world” (www.associatedcontent.com). However, in this novel changes in Candide’s character can only be seen externally. Even though his opinions of the world change, he seems to hold on to the same essence throughout the entire story. At the beginning of the novel we see that Candide is very naïve and we also see that he only believes whatever he hears. Candide believes everything that Pangloss teaches him. Candide’s ignorance is shown when he sits with the Bulgars and says “You are quite right, it is just as Dr. Pangloss always told me, and I see clearly that everything is for the best”...
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...teaches that we need to see people for their humanity not as objects or as I like to say obstacles. When we are able to view others as people it gives us the ability not only to approach then in an emotionally supportive way but also to understand that the only person that we can change is ourselves. Change Pyramid/Peacemaking Pyramid The pyramid is a way to approach and interact with people. We have to look for solutions to problems at a deeper level. Once we move past trying to correct people we can get to a place where we can learn about them and the problem. When we learn about the other person and their view of the problem it almost forces us to build a relationship. When our relationships are on the line we are willing to find more constructive ways so solve problems or to “think outside the box.” Way of Being Diagram Our way of being is below the surface and influences our behavior. Whether our heart is at peace or at war will change our view and our behavior in the same circumstances. There are two ways that we can see a person as an object or as a person. We have complete control over this; it is a choice that we make. We cannot change the choice that others make however our choices will influence what they see. We find ourselves at a critical crossroads, do we choose to be right or do we choose to be at peace? Choice Diagram The author believes that we naturally see others as people not objects however because we have a choice sometimes we choose not...
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...Reaction Paper: “The Power to See Ourselves” Not everyone has a positive and optimistic perception of themselves. People are so in tuned to their own insecurities, emotions, and thoughts this perception can be placed on others in the world and in the work place. In Paul Brouwer’s “The Power to See Ourselves,” this negative focus of perception is explained and solutions to change the perception are discussed. In every social interactions that we have with someone we are given a set of instructions. They can be good, bad, or indifferent. Until we can come to terms with who we are, we are always going to be a reflection of the opinions and thoughts of others. Brouwer (1964) states that “…there is a crucial matter of disparity between “how I see myself” and “how others see me.” I agree with this statement. There is always going to be that difference. Someone might think that they a hardworking, open, beautiful person. Someone else might look at that person and see none of the things. This is true in the workplace. Thinking that you are a good leader and being a good leader are two different thoughts and things. We must learn to take these perceptions and analyze our self-perception and make changes. I also agree with Brouwer (1964) when he talks about self-perception and its relation to effectiveness on the job. I find this to be a true thought. If we were to have a better self-view then we would in turn increase our productiveness and become a more valuable asset to our companies...
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...Business Economics GM545 Summer Session A July 2011 One Question One: Everyone’s Gasoline Problem Gas prices are constantly fluctuating with reviewing the text we see where the United States has depended on the Middle East to purchase the crude oil to manufacture the gas needed to fuel our cars. (Stone, 2007) It was evident that there were issues during the years of 2006 and 2007 when we seen the biggest rise in gas at that time there was not much we could do we needed to purchase the gas to use for everyday functionality throughout the United States we seen here in the state of Florida (Jacksonville) particularly that the prices went from $2.10per gallon to an all time high of $3.06 this increase was not gradual it was almost overnight when this increase was a period just about a month. This tended to come from some events that occurred in the following countries Mexico, Iran, Iraq, Israel, India, and North Korea that have energy markets on edge and the crude oil prices were heavily elevated at that time. (Jacksonville Bussiness Jornal, 2006). When looking at recent information that has been collected on gasoline prices we tend to look at earlier month May 2011, Jacksonville Florida was getting near the $4.00 per gallon with that we then seen a drop in prices from $4.00 down to $3.85. Typically this is when the summer driving season is starting and the elasticity for fuel starts to rise and continues to do so along with that need for gas the prices rise along with it. This...
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...white people are more appreciated than Hispanics are. It made me ashamed to be a Hispanic when I was little. I told my mom one day that I didn’t want to be identified as a Mexican. I remembered her angry face when I said that. She yelled at me saying you can’t change who you are. Today, I realized that was wrong to say that to myself. How can a little girl like myself say that or even think it? Society is affecting the way we are thinking about ourselves and how we view others. Society makes Hispanics seem like they are low income, uneducated and criminals. In reality, we are just like everyone...
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...Learning is considered taking in something that we did not already know. Behavior changes are related to learning. When we learn our behavior tends to change so that we may take in the materials that we are learning. Not all learning is done through conditioning. Learning can be observational, listening to instructions, or imitating a behavior. Cognitive learning is considered an influential method that provides us with the information that we need to have to learn new data. This essay will take a look at all the aspects related to cognition and learning and how behavior is affected. Definition of Learning According to Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009, learning is a significant topic within this present day by psychologists. Learning is an exceptionally difficult idea to define. Learning can be defined as gaining the knowledge, mastery, or the comprehension of experience or information. Some psychologist do not particularly care for this definition and see learning as referring to changes in observable behaviors (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009). A popular definition of learning was suggested by Gregory A. Kimble as learning being a permanent change in behavior that would occur as a result of reinforced practice (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009). Learning allows for individuals to do something that they could not do before learning took place. Role Behavior Plays Learning As individuals we can learn just by observing other individual’s. We learn the behaviors of others and watch the outcome...
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...Planning/Understanding Change in the Workplace & Achieving Objectives Through Time Management (M3.02/ M3.03/ M3.04) Contents Page Page 2 - Contents Page 3 - Executive Summary Page 4 - Introduction Page 5 - Background Page 6 - Identify a change Page 7 & 8 - Plan & Monitor a change Page 9 & 10 - Implications of Change Page 11 - Communicate & Implement the Change Page 12 - Conclusion Page 13 - Appendix 1: Door Quality Standard Page 14 - Appendix 2: P.E.S.T.L.E. Analysis Page 15 - Appendix 3: S.W.O.T. Analysis Page 16 - Appendix 4: Eight Step Change Model (John P. Kotter) Page 17 - Appendix 5: Gantt Chart / Covey’s Quadrant Page 18 - Appendix 6: The Deming Cycle / 5 S’s Page 19 - Appendix 7: Decision Power, Level of Interaction (DPLI) Page 20 - Appendix 8: Eight Basic Principles (T.Peters & R.H. Waterman) Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to firstly, identify the most cost effective change that we could make to the day to day running of the business and secondly, how we could...
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...for everyone to see and understand easily. All assessment results will be evaluated to see if we are showing signs of progress, regression, or constant, non-changing (Evaluating the Initiative, n.d.). By evaluating the results it allows for us to make changes to the program to help ensure we are consistently progressing. Each year when we hit another anniversary as a program we will throw a celebration to revel our success as an organization and to reward our hard working staff. The celebration will be open to all community members and will be free for anyone to attend. At the celebration we will announce our success rates, reward staff, and inform everyone on how we will continue to grow and be successful. By throwing the celebration it allows for the program to get the name out more and to show our community that we are making a difference. To continue to be successful each year, we will have to be ready to make changes and continue to...
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...structure What we see beneath is how the parts that is coloured in the movie is played. The dots are where the scenes start and stop, and the green numbers above the arrows is scenes. We start at the end of the movie at dot number 2 and then we see scene number 1 which ends at dot number 1. Afterwards we see the first black/white part of the movie. The black/white parts are played in chronological order. After we have seen the first black/white part we jump to dot number three and watch scene number 2 which ends at dot number two. After seeing scene number two we watch the second black/white part. Then we jump to dot number 4 and so on. The real chronological order would be to first see all the black/white scenes in the movie in the order we see in the movie. Afterwards we would see scene 7, then scene 6 and so on until we have seen the last scene, the scene the movie started with. Because of this structure of the movie you need to follow closely or you need to know before you watch the movie how it works or else it can be very confusing. It also demands from the viewer that he/she notices the little things that happens for example when we see Sammy Jenkins at the institution and when someone walks by and suddenly it is Lenny sitting in the chair. As a viewer you also need to know when we deal with flashbacks and when we just jumped one scene back. Through the story we kind of experience how it feels to suffer from short-term memory loss like Lenny. Because we don’t know what...
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...Income Expansion Paths 1 Introduction In Figure, we see an individual consuming two goods X1 and X2 with P1=$1, P2=$1 and total income is $20. We also see that his/her tastes are described by three indifference curves marked I1, I2 and I3. Since he/she can at most spend $20, his/her budget constraint can be described by the budget line BB’. Suppose now that his/her income level increases from $20 to $40. How could we derive the new budget line? Note that prices of X1 and X2 are still $1. If you spend all amount of this $40 to X1, he can now buy 40 units of this good (depicted by Point C’ in Figure 2.2). Likewise, allocating all $40 to X2 allows him/her to buy 40 units of X2 (depicted by Point C). If an individual’s income level increases but relative prices don’t change, the budget line will shift outward and the gradient of the budget line unchanges. With this new budget line CC’ or new budget constraint (income ( to $40), the individual will choose the bundle at which the MRS of X2 for good X1 is equal to the gradient of CC’. Using the above analysis, when the income level increases to $60, the updated budget line becomes DD’ in Figure 2.2. If we connect all these optimal points (e, r, s), we can determine the income expansion path or income consumption curve for the individual. This path shows how a consumer changes his quantity demand of specific goods as his income changes. 2 Applications of Income Expansion Path Superior...
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...Climate Change Two of the main human causes of climate change are greenhouse gases and land use changes. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere and can remain there for thousands of years. Certain of these gases will block heat from leaving the atmosphere. These gases make the planet warmer and create a thick blanket on the earth. Approximately 35% of all greenhouse gases are generated from electricity production. This is the larges source of these gases. Seventy percent of our electricity is derived from burning fossil fuels, comprised mostly of natural gases and coal. Land use is another human cause of climate change. Non-human factors, such as volcanic eruptions and solar output also play a big factor in our climate and it changes. During a volcanic eruption, volcanic gases, aerosol drops, and ashes are sent into the atmosphere. These types of impurities are usually gone within days to weeks and will have very little impact on the climate. However, there are other types of gases, such as sulfur dioxide, that may cause global cooling, while carbon dioxide may promote global warming. Energy plays a big role in so many aspects of our lives. We depend on electricity for our lights and cooling needs. Fuel is used for many modes of transportation, our heating, and cooking. The production of energy and the way we use energy accounts for more than 80% of our greenhouse gas emissions. As temperatures begin to increase, we will likely see a change in the amount...
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...people are more peaceful than others, everyone is different in a way, but there are times when human behavior can be change drastically from good to bad, when someone is influenced by another person, they tend to change the way they see or think about certain things, and as a result people change their personalities and behaviors. In Othello we can clearly see a change in personality and behavior from the main character who is Othello. He was transformed from a peaceful and well-spoken person, to a savage who end up killing his wife. In the play of Othello is easy to identify that “jealousy” is the main theme. Othello who is a general from the Venetian state is one of the most respected and well-spoken person in the play, In the first acts we can see that Othello is a faithful and powerful general who is married with Desdemona, she is the daughter of Brabantio, Brabantio is against the marriage of her daughter and Othello because of his skin color. Iago is the villain in the play who hates Othello because he was not promoted, and instead Othello decided to promote a young and inexperienced men named Cassio. Iago decide to seek revenge by manipulating everyone in the play. Iago devise a plan that will cause a tremendous amount of chaos. His plan is to lead Othello to believe that his wife, Desdemona has been cheating on him with another man. In Act Three we can see the drastic change of Othello personality from an upstanding military general in the beginning of the play...
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...Code, we are shown the main character, Captain Colter Stevens played by Jake Gyllenhaal. The shot shown is an extreme close up of his face as he is waking up (see fig.1). The view from the window is blurred so all focus is on him. The shot then changes suddenly as a close up shot as he quickly sits upright (see fig.2). The quick shots reflect what is happening as he wakes up as he’s trying to get a sense of where he is, this also helps the audience get a sense of what is happening around on the train, it also raises questions as to why he is so suddenly alert and why he is acting so strangely. As this shot changes, a train horn is heard throughout the change, which signifies that he is coming back into reality. Again in this second shot, everything else in the background is blurred so that your focus is on the main character. As he is trying to work out where he is, he looks around him. As he does this, the camera follows his movements, moving to the left when he looks to his left and moving to the right, when he looks to his right. This is called a tracking shot, this is used so that we can see from his point of view and get a better understanding of what he’s looking at and why he is looking at them. The next shot is an over the shoulder shot. The camera in this shot is placed just behind him looking over his shoulder, so we can see things from his perspective. In this case, the shot has him staring at a woman sat directly opposite him staring back and smiling (see fig.3)...
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...points of view, the Van Rooyens and the Komoeties points of view, thus causing readers to see of how a boy adapted to changes and how he reacted when taken out of his first home. Taking a child of a home is hard but is way harder when being taken to a new family he has never met and has never been aware of. Mathee is able to write a well written novel by utilizing two important literary elements in order to display the the theme. In Mathees novel, fielas...
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...Justin Wilkins Essay #2 Heracles to Hercules: From Greek God to Disney Hero As children many of us grow up watching Disney movies such as Hercules. As children however, we do not always completely understand where these stories are coming from, and we simply watch them for the entertainment. With Greek mythology not being as viewer friendly for young children, Disney had to change some details from the original myth of Heracles. With changes in stories comes changes in outcome. So how did these changes in the Disney version of Hercules impact our view of Heracles? While both the Greek and Disney version present Heracles in different ways, we see that it is the changes that Disney has made makes the character of Heracles to be more relatable. The biggest change in the story may be Heracles birth parents. In the film Hercules we see that Hera is Hercules’ mother. Anyone who has read the myth would be able to tell you that this was not the case. In fact, Hera hated Heracles for Zeus cheated on Hera with a mortal women named Alcmene who birthed Heracles. In the myth Zeus gives Heracles his name to honor Hera because of its meaning, Glory of Hera. The significance of Hera despising Heracles shows in Greek mythology the nature of the Gods. It shows us how Hera reacted when she was jealous or enraged with Zeus for having a child with another women. In Disney though, the significance of changing was to show that Zeus was not promiscuous and remained loyal to his wife which...
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