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A classroom is generally a structure erected to shelter students and/or teachers who are in the process of learning or teaching. A group of these structures coupled with students and teachers constitutes a school. Mapleton is such a school, whose beauty surpasses words. This school is miles ahead of the rest in terms of nurturing a class environment that appears conducive for studies. This has been realized following the pattern employed by the students in the process of tackling their assignments; the content of materials pinned on the glass walls and ceilings, and the study equipment present, among others. Mapleton High School bears an informal climate of the rooms. This is according to Mapleton Local Schools (2010), where the students share their views regarding a certain subject or topic. It has been observed that the students in this school cooperate with their teachers. This is illustrated through the English teacher, who allows the students to participate in the process of answering the question she raises. It turns out that, the students do most of the talking since they are allowed to discuss their views before they present them before their teacher. Based on these descriptions, the climate is nurturing because allowing students to participate induces an atmosphere that captures the attention of the students. However, the student’s performance in the single subject given; English, is subject to clarification. It is not clear whether the prevailing classroom climate favors all the subjects or it favors the English subject alone. Projects, discussions, lectures, among other methods, validate Mapleton High School as a center of excellence through the way they dominate in the various classes. For instance, Ms. Valko begins her class by allowing students to present their assignments before the class, which they had previously done in groups. This gives the students a chance to research their assignments so that they can understand and apply what they have been taught in class. Therefore, Mapleton High School students do not copy from each other because all of them are equipped with knowledge from their researches. Other methods can also boost the school’s performance like the method of interview, where the teacher poses questions relating to his/her previous teachings. This can be done either to an individual or a group of students. The teacher then identifies the necessary adjustments he/she need to make in boosting the understanding of the students.
Introduction Lasse Hallstrom directed the film “What’s eating Gilbert Grape” in 1993. The film revolves around the experiences of the narrator, Gilbert. In the film, Gilbert Grape tells the audience about his town and family. Gilbert has two brothers and two sisters, who live with their obese mother in a depressed town called Endora. Their father is absent since he hanged himself in the basement with no reason. The film revolves around Gilbert’s character who seeks to escape from his dull and dissatisfying routine, and his shift in attitude as the plot develops. Based on the actions of Gilbert, the audience identifies that what is “eating him” is the dilemma of how to balance his desires with the needs of his family. Character of Gilbert Gilbert is portrayed as a kind and selfless person who has no escape to the boredom of his everyday life. Although Gilbert is a young man, he has numerous burdens including his residence in an isolated and dying town, a father who killed himself, a large mother who is reliant in him, his boring job in a slow business and his annoying sisters. In addition to this, he is required to give his retarded brother consistent care, and his affair with Betty does not appear to be making any progress. Gilbert’s troubles seem to persist until he meets Becky, who opens his eyes to the outside world. Themes The film has many themes, but the main ones include responsibility, desire for freedom, caring for others and frustration with ordinary life. Gilbert exhibits the desire for freedom the most since he intends to escape Endora and all the burdens that are associated with that town. It is in his pursuit of freedom that Gilbert meets Becky; a symbol of the freedom that Gilbert desires. The theme of responsibility is evident when Gilbert assumes the role of breadwinner and caretaker of the family after the death of his father. He is faced with a great challenge between fulfilling his obligation to the family and meeting his personal needs. Relationship between Gilbert and Arnie From the beginning of the film, the audience identifies a love/hate relationship between Gilbert and his brother. Gilbert cares for his brother as is seen when he urges his brother to climb down the water tower, or the tree that is next to their house. However, he admits that things would be bett
A plasmon is defined as any decimal amount of physical entity taking part in an interaction. The process of interaction is referred to as quantum, where free electrons are in constant motion. During the quantum process, electrons are rapidly moved from one point to the other to bring about plasma oscillations. An oscillation is what leads to plasmon, which entails the unstable state of the dielectric function of any gas that is in motion. Therefore, a plasmon is a quantisation process involving all systems of oscillations. Volume plasmon is, therefore, the quantisation of the longitudinal ions inside an electron gas, usually referred to as plasma. Volume plasmon has higher energy compared to a surface plasmon. Oscillation processes take place between the interfaces of any existing material. Examples of such an interface include a metal-dielectric interface. The difference between volume and surface plasmon is the amount of energy contained in the two systems. The former has lower energy compared to the latter, and that is why it is called volume plasmon. Bibliography Chen, G, Nanoscale energy transport and conversion, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005. Muller, R, Device electronics for integrated circuits, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2003. Streeman, B, Solid state electronic devices, Upper Saddle River, NJ., Prentice Hall, 2000.
Introduction The learning organisation concept refers to an organization’s ability to promote learning and development (Nzuve & Omolo 2012 p. 46). The concept gained momentum after the publishing of “The Fifth Relationship” by Peter Senge in 1990. Therefore, to address poor organizational performance, organizations must introduce a systemic approach to change. A systemic approach establishes links between various elements in an organization (Nzuve & Omolo 2012, p. 46). A systematic approach, on the other hand, only provides a simple cause and effect perspective. The learning organisation, therefore, facilitates learning of all stakeholders in the organisation and thus ensures that the organisation experience continuous transformation. Continuous transformation is critical to an organisation’s success where the organisation adapts to emerging technological trends and also addresses all stakeholders’ needs. A supply chain, on the other hand, consists of all parties involved either directly or indirectly in fulfilling a customer’s request (Sunil & Meindl 2004, p.1). A supply chain consists of raw material suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and customers. All the above stakeholders are critical to the success of an organisation. Successful organizations incorporate knowledge management geared t
Gordon Ramsay is familiar to the general public, not interested in the world of haute cuisine, as an eccentric chef hosting various culinary TV shows. He is also one of the highest-paid and most popular cooks today, due in part to his media activities. Nevertheless, Gordon Ramsay is my favorite chef, as, on closer inspection, he appears to be a high-class professional and a brilliant mentor. The chief plays an important role both in modern culinary art and in the cultural development of a wider audience. First of all, Gordon Ramsay is a master of culinary art in the field of European cuisine. Not only has he earned more than ten Michelin stars as one of the top ten chefs in the world, but he also successfully owns several prestigious restaurants. He especially focuses on training his staff and improving their skills. For Gordon Ramsay, the quality of cuisine comes first, and he strives not only to make money using his knowledge but also to contribute to the development of the world’s culinary culture. By observing his mentoring behavior, one can notice that he is an excellent teacher. He is quite strict with the quality of cooking of his mentees and is known for choosing rather harsh words. However, he always scrupulously explains all the details and gives advice in difficult moments. These qualities represent the perfect balance that characterizes a successful and high-class chef. In his restaurants, Gordon Ramsay provides guests with exceptional quality dishes due to his skills as a cook and leader. Most importantly, the chief was one of the first to help popularize haute cuisine among the public. In this regard, it should also be noted that he often focuses on simpler dishes prepared with special attention, so that less experienced people can repeat the recipes at home. Gordon Ramsay often shares his knowledge on social media and television, which makes his work significant not only in the culinary arts but also in the socio-cultural development of society.
Introduction The issue of immigration has been very crucial in the United States. Immigration in United States has got both the advantages and disadvantages. This research paper will closely compare the “city on the edge” and “friends or strangers” books concerning the immigration. There are two major types of immigrants in the United States; the first set of people is of those who earn less amount of money than those who are already in America. The second sets of people are immigrants whose earnings are higher than those already in America. These are the people with high skills with high level of education than an average American. The analysis of the available policies in the United States government would also be discussed. Background Information Cuban immigrants are among the discussed group in the city on the edge book. This group has its effect in the economy, socially and politically. Cuba was first discovered in the United States in early 1880s. Its economic activity that made them outstand was production of cigars. Up to date Cubans are recognized as a minority group of people in US, as most of them entered in this nation between 1959 and 1962. This group consisted of educated and people with professions as they were trying much to break the chains of oppression by Fidel Castro (Portes & Stepick 102). The biggest group of Cuba immigrated in 1980, though they did not receive a welcoming atmosphere, as some were suspected to have criminal backgrounds. The largest percentage of this group had settled in Dade County. Both legal and illegal immigration in America has increased since the end of world war 11. Most of people have a negative conception regarding immigration, but that is not necessarily the case. It’s proven that, the immigrant who gets into United States before they attain the age of 25 years, they are recognized as net taxpayers. However, the average immigrant pays relatively smaller taxes than an average native citizen. These immigrants as well receive relatively higher in terms of social services than the average Native Americans. This is done on the basis that the immigrant possesses a low level of education and earns little money compared to Native Americans. In addition, the families of the immigrants are found to have more children than those of Native Americans. This favors the immigrants so that they can be in
Organisational culture and structure allow a company to function in a way that is congruent with its core beliefs and goals, making up both the official and informal face of the organisation respectively. However, despite the undeniable benefits of maintaining a meticulous organisational structure, there may also exist a variety of drawbacks (Naqshbandi, Kaur, & Ma, 2015). Thus, through studying a real-life example of a successful multi-national company, it is possible to assess the effect of a productive organisational structure and culture, while dissecting the value of internally existing national cultures. Companies that maintain their employees’ professional integrity and upkeep an atmosphere of constant growth may be identified as achieving better results than those, which constrict their employees. In this aspect, Google is the best example of excellent organisational design and culture, being an adhocracy that achieves customer satisfaction primarily through the formation of teams, employee coordination, and motivation (Smithson, 2018). Achieving positive attitudes towards work among staff and supporting employees in their jobs links to a more productive atmosphere, thus creating an overall better working ethic (Naqshbandi et al., 2015). However, the achieved corporate culture is both the subject and the object of such interactions, as Alvesson (2016) states that its national aspect is “(re-) produced at workplace levels” (p. 18). Therefore, the culture that Google emulates may be the result of underlying societal pressure to pursue an open and innovative practical approach that aims to produce the best results through inter-employee communication (Smithson, 2018). This idea makes tracing the origins of Google’s culture pivotal to understanding its achieved success. If culture is an omnipresent aspect of people’s everyday lives, then national and organisational structures should mimic each other, reflecting those ideas, which the nation deems as positive when applied to business. A foreign culture imparted from above may result in a vacuum between employee and employer, when “members understand what top management values but attach no strong approval or disapproval to these beliefs” (Chatmana & O’Reilly, 2016, p. 216). Thus, transforming culture into a mechanism of control, as well as a productive tool, requires substantial input from competent managers, who recognise the actual differences between cultures, nationalities, and even business spheres (Lee, Kozlenkova, & Palmatier, 2015). Functioning as a multinational business, Google successfully implements its employees’ skills to solve a variety of multicultural problems, which arise in its worldwide market (Smithson, 2018). These findings help identify Google’s organisational culture as the result of its achieved structure, which the national values of the company’s managers and founders influence consecutively, signifying the indubitable value of strong cross-cultural competencies. Google may be presented as an example of
Teaching profession as it has been described by some people is a noble career. I sometimes believe that it is more of a calling than a profession because it really involves transforming the lives of people. This is not an easy task but rather a feat that calls for commitment and willingness to offer the best so that the learners succeed. Often teachers are faced with many challenges that compel them to employ and portray a high degree of professionalism in handling. A successful handling of a problem that arises within the education system proves the capacity of a teacher handle situations effectively. This essay will describe a challenging experience that I had with students and how I dealt with it. The most challenging experience that I had with students is when the students in a school I was teaching went on rampage. They vandalized school property and many attempts from teachers who tried to implore them to restrain from the damage they were causing did not succeed. The students eventually gave a condition that I was the only teacher they would listen to for them to air their grievances. This experience was one of the most challenging experiences in my teacher career since calm and normalcy of the school was squarely lying on my hands. The students were gathered outside in a field so I had to apply all my wit and appropriate strategies in talking to them. The strategy I used to handle the situation was first to calm the students down because they were ready to talk to me because of my affable nature. Once they were calm, I first started by explaining to them that there are better ways of solving problems rather than engaging in violence. The strategy I used was to pick a few students who seemed very outspoken and who definitely looked very disappointed with whatever they were complaining about to air the grievances on behalf of the rest. The selected students raised their concerns and aired their grievances as I carefully noted them down in a notebook. The argued that these were issues they wanted to bring to the attention of the administration because they had been complaining for long with no appropriate action being taken. The irate students informed me that they wanted to be sure that their concerns should be addressed once and for all. Consequently they said that they would only go back to class after I took their concerns to the administration. I convincingly talked to the students and promised them that everything would be fine as I was committed towards ensuring that their concerns were addressed. The outcome of my efforts was that the students agreed to go back to class and calm returned
Introduction The Letter is a 1940 film by William Wyler. Its production contains several themes that describe racial relations between white people and the local inhabitants of Malaya (tropical Asians). In line with this observation, this paper shows that the movie promotes white supremacy as its main theme. It uses aesthetical differences, production differences, and a skewed justice system to support this theme. Therefore, this study shows how The Letter portrays the white race as a superior racial group. Skewed Justice System Most films of the colonial period often highlighted racial relations through unbalanced representations of the relationship between white people and other races. The Letter was not different because it used a skewed justice system to advance the same agenda. As seen throughout the film, Leslie often oozes an uneasy superior attitude over her workers on the farm. She orders them around and calls them “boy” (a derogatory term that infers negative racial sentiments). This biased relationship emerges when Leslie orders Komai to get the workers from the plantation. After killing a worker (lover), she does not show remorse. Almost implicitly, she knows that she would get away with murder. Similarly, it is easy to deduce the ease that informs her judgment because she knows that most people would believe her story above any other. Her sentiments turn out to be true because white people saw her as a “hero” for killing a “rapist.” Consequently, the court acquitted her. Her strange calm and surety that the authorities would free her underscore the powers and superiority wielded by white people in the film. The situation would probably not be the same if a female Asian shot a white man, based on the same allegations (rape). Indeed, such a suspect would be more suspicious because of the inferred racial superiority that white people exercised over other races. Sawyer and Agrawal (72) say this racial discrimination stems from a peculiar cultural logic advanced by western societies, which presupposes that white people should manage non-western cultures because the constituents of such cultures are unable to manage themselves. How do the Makeup, Dressing, Speech, Facial and Physical Features Highlight Racial Differences between Mrs. Hammond and Leslie Crosbie The racial superiority that was characteristic of white people in The Letter also spread to class and social differences. This was apparent at the courthouse parking lot when Leslie’s English lawyer drove away in a sleek automobile, while his assistant (the Malayan assistant) drove off in an old and tiny vehicle. Th
Introduction This research is aimed at interpreting the landscape of downtown Toronto in relation to how it has evolved over the years and where it is headed in the future. This is a landscape that has attracted a lot of research as a result of its rate of growth and development and the special features that have been coming up over the years. From this observation, it has aroused curiosity in many people who would like to know how it will be in future hence attempting to do a research in this. This area also has a high level of historical significance owing to the fact that it was a land that was reclaimed before being developed, a process that proved very successful. In order to develop this case study, we will consider a number of factors and methodologies by considering the opinions of historians, traditional culturalists, urban developers, anthropologists, landscape engineers and archeologists. This will give us an overview of how this landscape was in the past, the changes it has undergone to what it is in the present as well as what is expected of it in future. Study methodology This study will mostly depend on secondary evidence owing to its nature in the sense that it relies on the information that has already been dug out by the respective professionals. The study of a landscape is mostly based on perception and different people perceive things differently depending on their objective. There is therefore no specific methodology that can be followed in this study hence the need to adopt the different ones available. The most viable sources of information in this case includes but is not limited to cultural study materials, geographers’ reports, theories developed by political analysts and information obtained from archeologists, historians and anthropologists (Delafons 1997, 25). From this, we will be in a position to develop a concept on landscape examination as per the requirements of this paper. Landscape analysis is mostly based on conceptual examination but there are some physical objects which can be used in this description. These include infrastructure such as roads, railways, golf courses, buildings and so on. These are the objects which are used to describe development in the urban centers and hence cannot be left out in the interpretation of the landscape. Others include the natural features such as mountains and hills, rivers and lakes among others. Besides the examination of the natural and manmade features, this study also involves an analysis of the weather patterns and the factors that have contributed to any changes experienced in this. This is important since it has a direct impact on the existence of natural resources and the movement from natural to man made. A good illustration of this is where owing to the climatic, natural lakes dry up and geographers in the bid to preserve the environment resort to the development of manmade lakes. The other method of study that will be applied in this analysis is that of mapping the area to determine the intensity of buildings in relation to the land surface area and the activity that has the highest percentage of land use. This will be associated with the political and s