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- 761: Intergrating Technology And Le
- ... of Trustees can have a video conference when they are 6,000 miles apart from each other. However, with the benefits of technology, has fundamentals such as leadership been overlooked? Leadership used to focus around personal interaction when meetings would be held in a conference room and tasks would be accomplished by people standing side by side to each other. Leadership is a necessary component to the success of any business or organization. Leadership says, “I care about you” to the customer. Used correctly, technology can enhance the practice of leadership in today’s businesses and organizations. It is necessary, though, that some personal interaction remain to show people that the business is still customer oriented. Leadership can be divided into three categories: mentoring, risk-taking, and facilitating. Although there are many attributes and characteristics of a leader, these ... someone online than when that same person is standing in front of them. Clearly, mentors do not hold this same principle and orderly conduct on the Internet is just as necessary as it is for personal interaction. Following the above-named guidelines when writing email or using other forms of grammar-based technology will aid in the mentoring aspect of leadership. Risk-taking Risk-taking is the second category for ...
- 762: Their Eyes Are Watching God
- ... dreams they had shared in their youth. Zora Hurston’’s second marriage to Albert Price III was also short lived. They were married in 1939 and divorced in 1943. By the mid-1940s Hurston’’s writing career had began to falter. While living in New York, Hurston was arrested and charged with committing an immoral act with a ten-year-old boy. The charges were later dropped when Hurston proved that ... submitted to her publisher, but the combined effects of the arrest and the ensuing journalistic attack on her image doomed the majority of her literary career. She wrote to a friend: "I care nothing for writing anything any more. My race has seen fit to destroy me without reason, and with the vilest tools conceived by man so far". In approximately 1950 Hurston returned to Florida, where she worked as a cleaning woman in Rivo Alto. She later moved to Belle Glade, Florida, in hopes of reviving her writing career. She failed and worked as many jobs including: newspaper journalist, librarian, and substitute teacher. Hurston suffered a stroke in 1959 which demanded her admittance in the Saint Lucie County Florida Welfare Home. She ...
- 763: Native Son
- ... Dalton attempt to correct their wrongs by donating to various black charities. They create a boy’s club, donating ping pong tables and various other impractical items. In doing so, they do not make any personal sacrifices and basically give only minimal personal involvement to the cause. They have not developed a genuine understanding of the economic and social conditions of the black people. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton are naive about their lack of impact on the social ... Bigger’s mother appears trapped on a one way street going nowhere. Conflicts An interesting aspect of Native Son develops from the many levels of conflict occurring simultaneously in the book. On a superficial level personal conflicts arise, but deeper conflicts about race, social status, and political view points drive these superficial conflicts. When the book opens Bigger has an argument with his mother, and then his sister, about getting ...
- 764: Robert Hunter
- Robert Hunter had his poetic beginnings in the Palo Alto, CA coffeehouse scene in the mid-sixties. It was there that he began writing poetry and found his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia. Although Hunter had been writing poetry for several years, his career did not begin in earnest until 1967, when he mailed the lyrics to "St. Stephen", "Alligator", and "China Cat Sunflower" to his friend Garcia and the Grateful Dead. ...
- 765: Henry David Thoreau
- ... raised with his older sister Helen, older brother John, and younger sister Sophia (Derleth 1) in genteel poverty (The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1). It quickly became evident that Thoreau was interested in literature and writing. At a young age he began to show interest writing, and he wrote his first essay, "The Seasons," at the tender age of ten, while attending Concord Academy (Derleth 4). In 1833, at the age of sixteen, Henry David was accepted to Harvard University, but ... died of tuberculosis. Thoreau was buried in Sleep Hollow Cemetery in Concord near his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Bronson Alcott (The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 2). Thoreau never earned a livelihood by writing, but his works fill twenty volumes. His first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, was a huge failure selling only 219 of the original 1,000 copies ("Thoreau" 697), but his ...
- 766: Frankenstein: Reflects of Mary Shelley's Life
- ... Shelley wrote the work Frankenstein at a very young age. Despite her youthfulness, she had experienced many trials and tribulations by the tender age of nineteen. These experiences show in the work Frankenstein. Shelley's personal feelings, experiences and friends appear throughout the novel. In the novel Frankenstein, reflections of Mary Shelley's life show up throughout the book. The characters in the novel reflect Shelley's own feelings and experiences ... novel. Since she grew up under the influence of a feminist mother and a philosophical father, she writes with a distict style. "The motif of the Doppelganger was certainly in Mary's mind during the writing..." (Levine 15). Explain Doppelganger (lit. ex.) "...as it was a part of the Gothic tradition in which she wrote..." (Levine 15). Throughout the novel, one sees many examples of Gothic scenes and characters. Shelley states ... to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daomon to whom I had given life (50). The style in which she wrote was heavily influenced by her parents and her childhood. Personal fears Shelley had can be seen throughout Frankenstein. "Her fears of the creation of life by mere mechanisms..." (Levine 16). While the thought of the creation of a creature in that manner now seems ...
- 767: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- The rise of Ludwig van Beethoven into the ranks of history's greatest composers was parallelled by and in some ways a consequence of his own personal tragedy and despair. Beginning in the late 1790's, the increasing buzzing and humming in his ears sent Beethoven into a panic, searching for a cure from doctor to doctor. By October 1802 he had written the Heiligenstadt Testament confessing the certainty of his growing deafness, his consequent despair, and suicidal considerations. Yet, despite the personal tragedy caused by the "infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in [him] than in others, a sense which [he] once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few ... the sonata duo repertory. His experimentation with additions to the standard forms likewise made it apparent that he had reached the limits of the high-Classic style. Having displayed the extended range of his piano writing he was also begining to forge a new voice for the violin. In 1800, Beethoven was additionally combining the sonata form with a full orchestra in his First Symphony, op. 2. In the arena ...
- 768: Robert Hunter
- Robert Hunter had his poetic beginnings in the Palo Alto, CA coffeehouse scene in the mid-sixties. It was there that he began writing poetry and found his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia. Although Hunter had been writing poetry for several years, his career did not begin in earnest until 1967, when he mailed the lyrics to "St. Stephen", "Alligator", and "China Cat Sunflower" to his friend Garcia and the Grateful Dead. ...
- 769: Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal of William Randolph Hearst?
- Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal of William Randolph Hearst? Many have called Citizen Kane the greatest cinematic achievement of all time. It is indeed a true masterpiece of acting, screen writing, and directing. Orson Welles, its young genius director, lead actor, and a co- writer, used the best talents and techniques of the day (Bordwell 103) to tell the story of a newspaper giant, Charles Kane ... was most clearly seen with his statement, "We're (italics added) going to be a great opera star." (Citizen Kane) The movie then shifted easily to Susan Alexander's portrayal of Kane as her own personal ambition factory. Whatever she was lacking, he supplied it for her and threw his papers heart and soul into backing her, even though she was a terrible opera singer. Hearst did the same for Davies ... his newspapers were a source of infinite power, that he could manipulate the people to get what he wanted, Hearst changed. His goals changed. His fight went from one for larger circulation to one for personal power, as much as he could get. He stopped being physically involved in his papers, as mentioned before, instead directing from his throne at San Simeon. He entered the political arena, where the ultimate ...
- 770: Greek Literature
- ... adventurer who led a very turbulent life. The two major poets were Sappho and Pindar. Sappho, who lived in the period from 610 to 580 BC, has always been admired for the beauty of her writing. Her themes were personal. They dealt with her friendships with and dislikes of other women, though her brother Charaxus was the subject of several poems. Unfortunately, only fragments of her poems remain. With Pindar the transition has been made ... as an interpretation of tragedy for more than 2,000 years. With the death of Aristotle in 322 BC, the classical era of Greek literature drew to a close. In the successive centuries of Greek writing there was never again such a brilliant flowering of genius as appeared in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. For today's readers there are excellent modern translations of classical Greek literature. Most are ...
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