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- 1361: Experimental Training Program: Wilderness/Adventure Learning
- ... In order to go beyond a cognitive understanding, participants must begin to experience these behaviors as they might occur at work, hence the name experiential education. They will begin see that leaders have a strong interest in the people working for them, for when a team works well together they all help get an excellent job done. The first four behaviors focus on building high functioning teams: developing people; being able to influence others, encouraging teamwork, and empowering others. Developing People and Influencing Others Good leaders have a strong interest in the personal and professional development of their people. They encourage their staff to push beyond their limitations and give their personal best. One of the best ways to get this notion of encouragement and ...
- 1362: Gender Issue
- ... a girl divided the commonality from the day babies came into the world, when the babies were separated and classified by pink and blue. Later on in life before they develop a sense of personal interest, girls are given Barbie's and kitchenware to play with, while boys toy with plastic tank and G.I. Joe. The hidden message are secretly sent out to the young kids, and they carry ... seat by the same species. It was true that girls and boys were from different planets. Maybe we are not that alien after all. Later years in elementary schools girls and boys started to show interest to each other. The forbidden topic of the other species found its way through conversations. There was an acceptance of the other gender and these feelings were mutual. Girls are still the same creatures ...
- 1363: Nikola Tesla
- ... began work for the newly founded telephone company in Budapest, and in late 1882 he joined the Continental Edison Company in Paris. Tesla went to the United States in 1884 because he was unable to interest European engineers in a new alternating-current motor he had invented. For nearly a year he redesigned dynamos for Thomas Edison in New York City. He began an impressive career of research and invention when ... diathermy, and radio. One of his discoveries was that alternating current at tremendously high voltage could be harmless if the frequency were high enough. Tesla's lectures in America and Europe (1891 1893) aroused widespread interest in currents of high frequency and potential. They became known as "Tesla currents," and by 1900 probably every university laboratory in the world had acquired a Tesla coil to demonstrate them. Tesla predicted wireless communication ...
- 1364: How to Study
- ... short term to long term memory is to reherse often and out loud. 3.Have good Attitude! When you like what you learn, remembering will be easier. If you can turn course material into personal interest, the information will be kept longer in your memory. 4.Find Patterns. Remembering items or lists is difficult unless you find patterns. . . .ie. The number 123456 can be split into: odd-1,3,5 and ... to invent them. . . .ie.The Great Lakes - HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Micigan, Erie, Superior) 7.Have good Attitude! When you like what you learn, remembering will be easier. If you can turn course material into personal interest, the information will be kept longer in your memory.
- 1365: The Rise of Capitalism and its Opposition
- ... just the interests of the individual, but also those of society as a whole. Society's interests are met by maximum production of the things that people want. Smith said that the combination of self-interest, private property, and competition among sellers in markets will lead producers as "by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention," namely, to the well being of society.(Smith ... secondly, the duty of protecting ... every member of society from injustice or oppression.... and thirdly, the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual." (Smith pp.48) Thus, Adam Smith greatly contributed to the belief that the economic powers of government should be limited and that there existed a natural order of liberty applicable to the ...
- 1366: Internet The Advantages And Disadvantages
- ... information, and more and more, it is traveling by wires. The Internet allows children to get hands on experience, and helps them develop intellectual skills and problem solving. It allows children to research information that interest them. For example, a child interested in baseball can find information on the latest statistics and read about the history of the sport. By educating themselves it opens their minds to technology. ( Why Minnesota Students ... as far as to allow people to make new friends without any physical contact. One way to meet new people is to join an Internet discussion group. In such a group people with a common interest ask and receive advice and exchange information. Another opportunity to meet new people is in Internet chat rooms. In such rooms one can speak freely to anyone as if they were at a party. America ...
- 1367: The Real Rules of Retirement for Women (and Men too!)
- ... POVERTY Contrary to the almost universal perception that the elderly as a group are doing better than any other group overall, pockets of severe poverty still exist. Elderly women in particular continue to experience poverty rates well above not just those for the elderly but those for the population as a whole. Older women are twice as likely as elderly men to be living near or below the federal poverty threshold ... plan provided by their former employers, compared to 43 percent of men. The Effects of Caregiving Caregiving responsibilities continue to fall disproportionately on women. As a result, a significant gender gap in labor force participation rates still exists in spite of the dramatic increases in the number of working women. In 1992, for women ages 35-44, the labor force participation rate was 77 percent, compared to 96 percent for men ...
- 1368: Carl Gustav Jung
- ... has to surface. For example, if a child devoted a lot of energy to reading comics, it might be redirected into a different persona, som ething like being Mr. Cool Dude! He then will loose interest in reading comics. Energy also has an inclination to carry tendencies of its source to its destination. 2. Principle of Entropy. Energy usually flows from high to low. If you have a highly developed structure ... This type is also more commonly found among women. Unlike their extraverted sisters, introverted feeling persons keep their feelings hidden from the world. 5. Extraverted Sensation Type. People of this type, mainly men, take an interest in accumulating facts about the external world. They are realistic, practical, and hardheaded, but they are not particularly concerned about what things mean. 6. Introverted Sensation Type. Like all introverts, the introverted sensation type stands ...
- 1369: DuPont: An Investment Analysis
- ... safety, the concern for people, the feeling of community, the emphasis on personal and corporate integrity, the future focus, and indeed the willingness to change. DuPont is a company not only out for their own interest, but also for the best interest of the world. What has always set DuPont apart is the quality of the people, people committed to making life easier and better for everybody, proud to be a part of an enterprise making "better ...
- 1370: The Advancement of Technology
- ... been the preferred media. Because it captures the minds of most Americans, it is the preferred method of persuasion by political figures, multinational corporate advertising, and the upper 2% of the elite, who have an interest in controlling public opinion. Newspapers and radio experienced this same history, but are now somewhat obsolete in the science of changing public opinion. Though I do not suspect television to become completely obsolete within the ... and no need for millions of dollars of equipment. But, in reviewing our history, we find that newspaper, radio and television were once unregulated too. It is easy to see why government has such an interest in regulating the Internet these days. Though public opinion supports regulating sexual material on the Internet, it is just the first step in total regulation, as experienced by every other popular mass media in our ...
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