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- 9051: Coping With Stress In An Organization
- ... their job entails. It makes it hard for a person to decide on what their priorities are and how to manage their time. Ambiguity can come from a number of different things. A transfer, promotion, new boss, or new co-workers can all cause an individual to experience some type of role ambiguity and added stress. Both role conflict and role ambiguity relate to job dissatisfaction, lower level of self-confidence, and sometimes elevated ... look for were discussed. After that some of the ways organizations can help it employees manage stress were looked at. Finally, it was shown how the military is handling stress among its members. As the world gets more diverse stress in the work force will continue to grow. It is imperative for managers and leaders to be able to recognize stress, understand its causes, and know how to alleviate it ...
- 9052: Women In Combat
- ... ended the Israeli military conducted a survey which determined that the men were adversely affected by seeing women killed or maimed in combat (Editorial Research Reports, 1989, p. 579). In 1948, women all over the world accounted for a very small percentage of the military. This led to a traditionalist view of the role of women in the military and many Israeli men shared this view. PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF COMBAT FACTS ... military community determines that women in combat would not lower effectiveness, only then should women be given the chance to serve in combat units. Bibliography WORKS CITED Campell, D. (1993). Women in combat: The great world war II experience in the united states, great britian, germany, and the soviet union. The Journal of Military History, 57(2), 310-325. Decaw, J. W. (1995). The combat exclusion and the role of women ... allowed into combat? Editorial Research Reports, 570-582. Peach, L.J. (1991). Women at war: The ethics of women in combat. Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, 15, 199-238. Stencel, S. (Ed.). (1996). New military culture. The Congressional Quarterly Researcher, 6(16), 363-382. Stencel, S. (Ed.). (1992). Women in the military. The Congressional Quarterly Researcher, 2(36), 835-853. Word Count: 2706
- 9053: Self-Reliance
- ... he is misunderstood. These people, more often than not, turn out to be correct, and later generations benefit from their genius. The "outcast" has become great, and his name will live forever, or until somebody new comes along to defy his teachings. I was drawn to this statement because it is so true. It has been proven time and time again that those who elect to be different are banished from ... that I can relate with; others were completely out of the ballpark. I was surprised, and a little excited to read many of the philosophies that Emerson held to be the great truths of this world. Emerson had many ideas that can benefit the world today; they can help societies evolve into better places for people to live. They also provide a call for humans to evolve from conforming automatons to individuals who do and say what they feel. ...
- 9054: Comparative Essay between Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
- ... corruption, greed, and exploitative ways of the white men. The natives lived by the code of nature in a sort of "darkness," in that they had not been exposed to the corruption of the civilized world. Some of the natives were "enlightened" to conform to live by the rules of the white men. One such native is described as a, "product of the new forces at work." (p.24 Conrad) This new "enlightened" class of armed natives worked to help the white men enslave their fellow tribesmen by escorting the captive men on work details at gunpoint. In the movie Apocalypse Now light and darkness are ...
- 9055: Economic Theories of Harsanyi, Nash, Selten, Fogel, and North
- ... the father of modern econometric history. He's especially noted for using careful empirical work to overturn conventional wisdom. North, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, was honored as a pioneer in the "new" institutional history. In the Nobel announcement, they specifically mention North's research in 1968 that showed how organizational changes played a greater role in increasing productivity than did technical change. "The Cambridge native has also written a series of books, including "The Rise of the Western World" in 1971 and "Structure and Change in Economic History," which set out with clarity how the role of institutional change, and property rights, could be expected to play in a rigorous theory of economic development ... Harvard University professor John Meyer. It was Meyer, with a seminal paper on the economics of slavery written with Alf Conrad in 1967, who started the excitement over using the econometric methods that emerged from World War II to the study history. Deeply embedded in North's theories about economic history is the belief that technical innovations alone are not enough to affect economic development; institutions, such as laws, constitutions, ...
- 9056: George Orwell - 1984
- ... diary Reaction Major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the earth has changed, into 3 main contenients. we are also introduced to the main character and how he fits into the new world. Also we are shown how the computer age has taken over peoples minds. The language is easy to understand, it has not really changed much over time. Seems like nothing left after nuclear war, just ... sleepy any longer" 1984 -George Orwell MONDAY, NOV 22, 1993 Summary Chapter 5 and 6 The torture room is brightly lit, room 101. O'Brien says that the room contains the worst thing in the world. It turns out to be rats in a cage which can be strapped over his face. Winston yells and screems and is overcome by the horror and the terror. He screams that this punnishment ...
- 9057: Abortion
- ... proposed the following criteria for "person-hood": 1) consciousness (of objects and events external and or internal to the being), and in particular the capacity to feel pain. 2) reasoning (the developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex problems) 3) self-motivated activity (activity which is relatively independent of either genetic or direct external control) 4) the capacity to communicate, by whatever means, messages of an indefinite variety of possible ... or single, to be free from unwanted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision to bear or beget a child." Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. Everyone has their own individual opinion. A woman's body is hers and hers alone. Nobody has the right to make her do something that she does not want to. The Supreme Court has ... if she so chooses, according to Roe v. Wade. In later cases however, the Court has upheld Roe in Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992). In the same ruling, though, the Court gave states new powers to restrict access to abortions. (Hardy, pg. 189). Abortion deals with one's private life and should have nothing to do with the government. However, abortion should not be used as a means ...
- 9058: Anabolic Steroids
- ... have not been determined, the short term side effects can be harmful, even fatal. Athletes who choose to use steroids or other hormones must take into consideration the delicate balance of the body. When a new hormone is flooded into the body, a series of events will occur as the body tries to regain its natural balance. By altering the balance of the endocrine system users may be taking a big risk. Work Cited Schrof, Joannie M. "Pumped Up." US News and World Report, June 1, 1992, Volume 12 Issue 21, p54. Schwarzenegger, Arnold. "Anabolic Steroids and Ergogenic Aids." The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding. New York: Simon and Schuster. Pgs. 721-730. "Health Report." Time, June 14, 1993, Vol. 141 Issue 24, p16.
- 9059: AIDS
- ... shared needles. Current practices of screening blood donors and testing all donated blood and plasma for HIV antibodies have reduced the number of cumulative cases due to transfusion to about 1 percent. The number of new cases of AIDS in women of reproductive age is increasing at an alarming rate. AIDS has become the leading cause of death for women between the ages of 20 and 40 in the major cities ... within a given individual's body the virus can undergo mutations rapidly and easily. A number of candidate vaccines were in the early phases of testing in human volunteers by the early 1990s around the world. Dramatic strides are also being made in the treatment of HIV infection and its complications. Efforts are being focused on two major areas: antiviral drugs with a direct effect against the causative agent, and immunomodulators ... infections can be treated with ganciclovir or foscarnet, which also helps patients live longer, while aerosolized pentamidine fights Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and protects the patient from AIDS dementia. The slow process of FDA approval of new AIDS drugs has developed into a political issue. AIDS activists are demanding that the government speed up authorization by postponing certain tests comparing efficacy and ability to prolong life until after the drug is ...
- 9060: How Do We Know If God Exists
- ... of the argument, but holes in everyone analyzation of this question has left us at a stalemate of sorts. Therefore, we have reached the point of trying more to disprove an argument rather than finding new proof of our own. While disproving an argument is a good thing, it has gotten us nowhere and we have been left without a positive answer to the question. In a sense, all someone does ... also exist simply because they can be defined even though no positive evidence supports the existence of unicorns. Surely this can be true, can it? As a result God does not exist in the actual world. Thomas Aquinas offers more proof for the existence of God. Aquinas is generally regarded as the greatest scholastic philosopher and also the greatest Christian theologian. His most famous work, Five Ways, offers more than a ... tell which God is the correct God? What happens to all the people that worshiped the wrong God? Is God good or evil? If God is considered good, why is there still evil in the world? Does God directly interact with our lives? These are questions that I do not want to know the answers to or should know the answers to. I believe this for the rest of society. ...
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