Essays on Miscellaneous Issues

... still have people follow. Leaders must have values. They must have dedication to do what is right. The values of an organization are manifested on what a leader does. · Creative Ability. Leaders must be positive. Always looking for possibilities, not perfection. This means that they must be open to different ways of doing things. · Communication. A good leader is in constant communication with his or her people. He or she makes the rounds and knows what’s going on. Telling his people everything he can about what he knows and doesn’t know. · Risk Taking. It is essential to be open to possibilities, and to question assumptions. Always allow people to ...

... it’s own communications system. The Iowa Telephone association, however, objected to this motion and eventually took the case all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court. When the case was reviewed in October of 1998, state judges ruled in favor of the association ruling that municipal communications companies defied federal regulation of communications companies. In a rare case, though, state judges reversed their view on this issue when Hawarden citizens asked for a rehearing. After reviewing the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 (which deregulated federal control of communications companies), the judges decided that federal law allowed for the creation o ...

... speakers would form an elite. The fact that the Interlingua enthusiasts normally excel in the very constructed language they advocate does not seem to strike them as unfair at all. Not that the people of this planet have ever managed to fully agree on anything, but let us just suppose that the world was to reform and decide to teach its citizens an all new language. The nations that would learn it the quickest would of course be the industrialized countries with the resources for good public education, incidentally the very nations that know and are learning, the international business language-English An inevitable fact is that the English language is alr ...

... game" was being played with the labeling process, with dependent children, relabeled as "disturbed" or "hard to place" being shuttled off to private, often profit-making institutions in ever greater numbers. As a result: Instead of orphanages, we now have so-called "treatment centers"--a "growth industry" which feeds on unwanted children just as the nursing home business depends for its existence on large numbers of the unwanted elderly. And, as is the case with the elderly, the systematic neglect and maltreatment of children in these facilities is being subsidized by the federal government. In Virginia, former Governor Douglas Wilder discovered the same labeling ...

... a Socialist one then they would be able to keep their people in line. The Canadians also have a very high immigration rate to the U.S., this is attributed to the fact that the people are unhappy living with each other thus causing hatreds and enemies within the country thus destroying the very idea of unity within the Canadian borders. Canadians also have a huge problem with falling in line with other countries. They resent international harmony and that is why they must little differences in their country, that way they can not join the rest of the world in one total earth government. Many countries nowadays are becoming democracies. Why? These countries ...

... Plus it will allow me to better understand a people whose ways have been removed and in instances put to an end. I will be showing, to the best of my ability, an objective view of this history. But some of the information I used was not as objective, so in using their info I tamed down the language, but some of the information is still seemingly biased, but in my points and opinions I will be more objective. Lacrosse is the oldest team sport played in North America by anyone. But beyond that it was an influential part of a society now mostly defunct. The is rich in many ways, in its traditions, rituals, and ceremonies. The game of lacrosse had many styles of ...

... was broken up into 4 phases (the fourth phase “. . .was completed with only 1 participant in only one condition because of time limitations on the participants’ hospital admission.”) Phase 1: Functional Analyses and Descriptive Assessments. Alternating treatment with no baseline design. “During this analysis, a test condition . . .and a control condition were compared using a multi-element design.” Phase 2: Communication and Discrimination Training. Phase 3: Treatment Evaluation of FCT with Discriminative Stimuli. Between series, alternating treatment (ABAB) design was used to compare FCT + EXT vs. ACT + EXT in two conditions for on ...

... might recognize. Her chest thrust itself out of her tank top, wanting to burst out of the thin fabric of her small tank top. Her skin was soft and delicate, obviously pampered by lotions and cremes, most likely bought at “Bed, Bath, and Beyond.” The lower edge of her denim shorts stopped barely below her buttocks, which also seemed to want to burst out of the constricting garment confining it. A pair of shapely, tanned by days bathing in the sun, extended from her denim shorts, seeming to stretch forever before meeting the ground. Her feet were encased in socks and a pair of white sneakers, so clean they seemed new. This girl was extremely attrac ...

... on the patterns that shape an entire society. Functionalists believe that society is maintained through the thought of trust and consensus on moral values for ideal behavior. Working together will result in a stable social environment that will create equality. Conflicts or dysfunctions will be view as a disease in the social system. Social conflict paradigm believes that society is divided into many groups that have their own goals, and that certain parts of the world have the luck of benefiting economic dominance. Societies are maintained and controlled through order and dictations by authority. Social conflict paradigm distinguishes society by social inequality a ...

... a way for one to work on himself, which would let one “invent a way of being that is still improbable”. Foucault did not address himself to a broad audience; rather, he used his project of the are of the self as a model for oppressed minorities who had no voice of their own. Foucault was fascinated by what one or a group has to suppress and reject to form a positive conception of itself. He believed that our conception of ourselves as subjects depends on controlling or excluding whole classes of people who do not fit our Enlightened category of “normal”. The same devices we use to understand and control these marginalized groups are also essential to unde ...