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- 1271: Business
- Improving personal communications is very important to today in the fast moving world. The communication process is very important, it is estmated that 80 percent of messages get deport” For better results replace “You statements” with “I ... up with and you are not giving them eye contact, a dirty facial expression, and uncomfotable gestures. The person will feel that you could careless. When in a work enviroment everyone needs some kind of personal space. When provided personal space people work better and easier and more relaxed. When talking to someone send clear messages try to keep out all the filters. So people won’t be misunderstood. Use words carefully, example use ...
- 1272: Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
- ... poems in this book formally precise, well written…show clearly the dedication with which Plath had served her apprenticeship; yet they give only glimpses of what was to come in the poems she would begin writing early in 1961. She and Hughes settled for awhile in an English country village in Devon, but less than two years after the birth of their first child the marriage broke apart. Plath's journals were a way for her to explore some of the internal and external restrictions in meeting her goals. Sometimes she focuses on the fact of being female as a handicap to her writing career. The dilemma facing Plath in 1950 are the some dilemmas we are having facing forty-seven years later. "… all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger ... Plath also assumes that there is a strictly "feminine" way of perceiving a situation. "Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing and am often overweighed with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes." (32) With this statement she automatically associates her faculty writing with being a woman, that her writing is "overweighed" because as ...
- 1273: Computer Mediated Evnvironment
- ... changed dramatically with the rapid diffusion of computer and information technologies throughout businesses and homes. The two most notable changes that have increased potential of linking buyers and sellers are the number of households owning personal computers (over 33% in the U.S.) and the exponential growth of applications of the Internet, most notably the World Wide Web (WWW). With increased penetration of computers, particularly multi-media computers equipped with CD ... these processes which should be useful to marketing decision makers. There are undoubtedly individual differences in how people use CMEs. Researchers should begin to examine these differences which range from very light usage to strong personal relationships with Web pages, discussion groups, etc. Researchers should develop a better understanding of these relationships and integrate them into their of the underlying choice process. This area of research could be linked to the ... in the category to those in the household’s consideration set. Using Peapod or Shopper’s Advantage, it is easier to construct consideration sets by noting for which brand attributes were examined. The use of “personal lists” in Peapod allows consumers to construct and customize shopping lists that only contain products and brands of interest (interestingly, brands which are purchased but not added to the “personal list” can also be ...
- 1274: The Forgotten Process
- The Forgotten Process In the years past I have learned all about the writing process. The problem with it though was that it was never informed. Since it was never informed I took bits and pieces or what I had learned to make up my own process that has ... figure out what kind of essay it is. Then I just sit down and think in the silence. It is nice quiet and I can relax. I make up a graphic organizer weather that be writing down notes on a blank piece of paper or I just make a web organizer. Then I write my first draft, I read it to myself and make my necessary changes. Then I have a ... I agree then I go and make my changes. Then I go and type up the final copy. It seems like a short process but it is actually quite time consuming. The “ by the book” writing process is also quite simple. There is an easy to follow eight step plan. First you consider the assignment, this means to identify the type of essay that you are planning to write. The ...
- 1275: Animal Farm: The Corruption in Humans and The Character Napoleon
- ... technique to show his readers and society in general mans humanity to man. Napoleon, the main character, proved the possibility of corruption by his relentless efforts to take advantage of the uneducated majority. Napoleon's personal characteristics not only corrupted others but himself as well. His devious personality, manipulative nature, and personal drive all lead to the disintegration of society in Animal Farm. From the start Napoleon was thought to be a very devious character. He is a cold hearted individual and the effect he had on ... other farm animals the illusion that Napoleon is striving for the best interests of all but in reality he's only looking after his own. The most effective tactic that Napoleon used to further his personal maxim was in making manipulation seem like an art form. At every opportunity for advancement in his own self interest he manipulated the other animals. By training the dogs to instill fear and silent ...
- 1276: Miracles, Dreams, and Empowerment: A Brief Therapy Practice Note
- ... client discover the solutions to their problem within themselves. Those who feel empowered are those who have an internal locus of control, in other words, having resources and power. This is where the theory of personal agency comes in. People who believe they can accomplish their goals with the skills they possess have a high personal agency. Therefore, those with a low personal agency believe that something external, like a miracle, has more to do with accomplishing their goals. In an empowerment-based therapy, the clinician must relate to the client in a certain way. He/She ...
- 1277: T.S. Elliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and Alain Locke's "The New Negro
- ... instead be something entirely new to be good. This misconception was especially destructive because it caused people to ignore the influence of great writers of the past upon contemporary ones. Elliot states that "…in critical writing we tend to look for what is original in a piece of work if we like it, so therefore do not pay attention to what elements are traditional" (ibid.). Further, he states that "One of ... employed the use of discordant melodies. Today however we recognize it is as part of a logical progression in music. Elliot also gives instructions on how a poet should go about using tradition in his writing. He says that the poet should not "take the past as a lump", nor "form himself wholly on one or two private admirations", nor "form himself upon one preferred period" (ibid.). To explain himself he ... and the third is "a pleasant highly desirable supplement" (ibid.). He means to say that the artist can not be limited by any of these views. It is impossible to consider every single piece of writing in history when constructing a new one; writing like your favorite poet is something that an immature poet does as he attempts to divine his own voice; and the study of a period of ...
- 1278: Linux 2
- ... UNIX; UNIX is a sort of subset of a much larger and more complex operating system called MULTICS. Both UNIX and MULTICS were developed decades ago for very large computers; only now, decades later are personal computers finally powerful enough to tackle these multitasking, multi-user systems with advanced features. Getting back to the crux of our first fact, LINUX looks like UNIX. LINUX is not officially UNIX simply because it ... one true operating system . Hence, the development of LINUX by an expanding group of UNIX hackers who want to get their hands dirty with their own system. Versions of UNIX exist for many systems, from personal computers to supercomputers like the Cray Y-MP. Most versions of UNIX for personal computers are expensive and cumbersome. A one-machine version of UNIX System V for the 386 costs about $1500. LINUX is a free version of a UNIX-type system, developed primarily by Linus Torvalds ...
- 1279: Bill Gates
- ... to Seattle, due to the growth of the company. Microsoft made a deal with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1980, regarding a computer language and disk operating system for IBM's new range of personal computers. So, Microsoft signed a deal to have the rights to Q-DOS, an operating system from Seattle Computer Products. They adapted Q-DOS to work with IBM's new personal computer. A year later, Microsoft came out with MS- DOS. In 1981, Gates decided that Microsoft should be in the market for application software for personal computers users. Two years later, Microsoft launched their first application program, WORD 1. Gates then announced that Microsoft was going to be launching a new way to use a computer with a Graphical User ...
- 1280: Moby Dick
- ... from the literary time period he lived in, as well as from other influences. He lived in and wrote in a period that focussed a lot on individualism and looking into one’s self when writing. Therefore, Melville must have drew from what he felt inside, and what he felt inside was surely determined from the many events that occurred around him throughout his life. Melville’s strict religious upbringing would definitely be one major influential factor in his writing. His mother was a very faithful woman and would raise all her children to be the same. However, Allan Melville, Herman’s father, was more of a Unitarian. This conflict of beliefs would never grow ... of America would have a deep effect in his works. C. Herman Melville authored many profound novels in his time other than just Moby-Dick. Some of his other notable publications include Fragments from a Writing Desk, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Clarel, John Marr and Other Sailors, and Billy Budd. Though most of these were published during Melville’s lifetime, a few ...
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