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Niagara Fall: The Difference in Male and Female Consideration of Aesthetic Ideal of Sublime Ecofeminism as a movement which is considered to be rather popular is going to be highlighted in this work along with the modern understanding of sublime and its relation to ecofeminists. The main idea of this research is to show the connection between two notions ‘ecofeminism’ and ‘sublime’. Furthermore, the Niagara Fall is going to be considered from these points of view of the basis of two writings, Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller and My Visit to Niagara by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Male and female perception of beauty is different, this is going to be underlined by means of the literary works mentioned above. Margaret Fuller’s Perception of Sublime via Niagara Fall Margaret Fuller perceives the nature as it is. She envies those who were the first who saw the Niagara Falls as at that time the nature was absolutely new and the scene was virginal (Fuller 13). Fuller was sure that empire-building is violent and ugly if to compare it with the American utopian culture, the nature, where everything is on its place (Egan 51). She understands the entire nature as sublime. Dwelling upon her impressions from what she saw, she states that when she saw the fall for the first time, she noticed “everything looked as I thought it would” (Fuller 4). So, thinking about the nature, the author thought about its entire look and this is the sublime in her opinion. The Relation of Fuller’s Ideas to Contemporary Cultural Ideals of the Sublime Adams conducted a research devoted to Fuller’s experience of the Niagara Fall and states that the contemporary world with its buildings and changes prevents her from considering the falls with the “fresh vision or surprise” (251). Fuller is a women and ecofeminist statements are close to her. Even though she has never been oppressed too much, even though she was satisfied with the life she led, her perception of the sublime nature is closely related to that by ecofeminists. Sublime for may people in the modern world is connected with religion, for others it is the beauty expressed in the technological terms (Coffey 137), and for the rest, and Fuller is one of those, sublime is the nature and its entire look. Nathaniel Hawthorne Perception of Sublime and Neagara Fall Male perception of Niagara Fall may be explained by the development of the opinion about sublime. The technological sublime is what exactly Hawthorne feels while looking at the fall. The beauty is seen into its magnificence form the technological and architectural point of view (McKinsey 65). Looking at the nature, Hawthorne notices the structure of the whole scene. Analyzing the “My Visit to Niagara” by Hawthorne Levy sta
Corporations operating in the 21 st century complex and globally interconnected economy are required by US Federal and State laws to develop and effect compliance programs which comply with the laid down laws and regulations in addition to ensuring that directors, employees, suppliers and other interested stakeholders are acting in a lawful manner to avoid any appearance of impropriety (Cross & Miller, 2009; Ernst & Young, 2008). The compliance programs are indeed an essential component of interstate and multinational corporations by virtue of the fact that they shield the businesses from the high legal costs and loss of reputation involved in the event that a prohibited business conduct is unearthed. By critically evaluating the corporate compliance programs of Coca Cola, Nike, McDonalds, Abercrombie & Fitch, Dell, and Southwest Airlines, this paper purposes to identify some of the salient areas that modern organizations are focusing on with regard to corporate compliance. According to Kral (20
Introduction Site History Port Kembla is a blend of urban and coastal settings with extensive industrial land use forming a central hub with several historical buildings and heritage sites (Wollongong City Council 2008). Because of the historical changes in the road patterns, limited and declining job opportunities, and competition from the neighboring Warrawong, Port Kembla had experienced a significant decline as a commercial and industrial center until the government decided to reinvigorate the Port. The Port, created in 1883 had its growth initiated by a rail connection to the state rail network to enhance the transportation of coal from the area. In 1898, Port Kembla Habour act was passed aimed at creating the outer Habour. Construction work which resumed in 1900 covering 500 acres of Habour with the inner Habour dredging, which commenced1950 and commissioned in 1960 (Wollongong City Council 2008). The Port is situated in the Illawarra region. In the construction process, different materials were used with different health and environmental implications. In the historical context, the land was reclaimed with a significant presence of land pollutants in the soil transported by ship to Port Kembla aimed for use in the outer Habour construction work. Asbestos was one such material used extensively for construction work in different construction products in the 1980s (Lowry 2002). Studies initiated because of the implementation of the Contaminated Sites Act 2003 (CS Act) demonstrated a significant health impact on the people from asbestos poisoning. To address the resulting environmental and health implications, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Lend Lease, Port Minister and Kembla Port Corporation assured Kembla residents that the movement of soil to Port Kembla could be safe (Langford & Paver 2012, pp. 2). It was necessary to conduct tests for asbestos because prior tests to the shipment of soil by Lend Lease had indicated the absence of asbestos, with the assurance the soil could not present any problem from Barangaroo to Port Kembla. EPA used tests information by Lend Lease to approve the movement of soil. The discrepancy associated with the test procedure on soil samples for asbestos conducted by Lend Lease raised questions because of the discovery of asbestos in soils samples at Port Kembla (New South Wales Council 2011). The need to conduct further tests were contained in an article by the Illawara Mercury report which reported a halt to the shipment of soil from the Sydney Barangaroo site to Port Kembla because of the discovery of asbestos in the soils, despite the previous assurance that no asbestos could be contained in the soil ( Health Asbestos Regulations 1992 ). The studies and suspicion based on physical observation of the materials and being moved in the sight at the Port Kembla reinforced the need to conduct an in-depth analysis of the samples to confirm the fears of the presence of asbestos. The typical step included an ident
Every organisation has a destiny, which it can reach by using the right direction and values. Organisations have value statements, which are used to show what an organisation stands for; that is, the values that guide it towards its goals and objectives. Exelon Corporation; the largest nuclear power generator in the US, is also guided by the value statement in its provision of energy to the public. These values include diversity, integrity and safety, environmentalism, leadership, accountability and volunteerism. These values define the guiding principle that the corporation uses in relation to its customers and employees. According to Slack, Orife and Anderson (2010), the satisfaction of the employees depends on how the company is committed to its corporate vision (p.421). Other companies’ value statements include Microsoft Company “As a company we value integrity, openness, honesty, personal excellence, constructive self criticism, continues self improvement and mutual respect” (Verma, 2009. p.155). Another example is Starbucks Corporation, which stands for the following: “Embracing diversity, provide great work environment, roasting and fresh delivery of coffee, develop satisfied customer and contribute positively to the environment and community at large” (Verma, 2009, p.155). One of the main strengths of a value statement is that it shows the employees and customers of the company its commitment towards realisations of goals and objectives for their benefit. For instance, Exelon Corporation being an energy generating company will like to show its commitment to environmental preservation and safety of its employees to the public and its customers. However, many companies have set values and standards, which they have not managed to achieve, thus compromising their value statements. For instance, many companies have been caught up in corporate scandals in the recent past, which shows a compromise of what they stand for. In a recap, value statement shows the principles that will guide the company in pursuance of its mission and vision. Thus, they are very important in the strategic planning process. As Gilbert (2010, p.6) postulates, it is the role of the company’s manager to ensure that its values are followed.
In every organisation, there must be conflict. Therefore, we must accept conflict as a part of an organisation. Aspects of conflict reflect such notions of antagonism and undesirability. However, we must acknowledge that not all conflicts are dysfunctional. Depending on how an organisation manages its conflict, there are constructive aspects of conflict that can introduce new solution to a problem, define power relationships within groups, bring non-rational emotional dimensions into the open, and provide a room for the release of catharsis by identifying long-established conflict. If an organisation engages in destructive conflict, then the results can lead to a loss of the main objectives in the pursuit of sub-group interests, induce people to be defensive, and may results into disintegration of the organisation (Thomson, 2002). According to Condliffe, “conflict has three vital components, which include interests, emotions and values. Conflict processes go through stages of perception, realisation, avoidance, flashpoint, intervention, strategy and evaluation” (Condliffe, 2002). Conflict models serve people with simple ways of thinking what conflicts are and their root causes. We must acknowledge the fact that conflict models cannot offer all the solutions to conflicts. Instead, they provide us with better ways of understanding conflicts. We shall use the Deutsch model in an attempt to understand the conflict among John (employee and a subordinate to Bob at the Bank), Bob (the Human Resource Manager), the female Student (a potential recruit), and Melanie Roberts, the Bank CEO. Deutsch looks at conflict in terms of underlying overt or manifest features. This way of looking at conflict is open and express. Deutsch model represents safe expression of hidden aspects of conflicts. Manifest conflict may reveal some aspects of conflict in interactions such as a power struggle, gender issue, and authority, among others. Therefore, Deutsch model is useful because it will help us think clearly about separating underlying issues and overt disputing behaviour in conflict assessment. In order to understand conflicts, we must distinguish between these two elements. Unless we address these two aspects of conflicts, outcomes will not offer the long-term solution. Deutsch focuses on conflicting interests and incompatible behaviour as separate
The Cover Letter The purpose of this essay is to explore the farewell speech of George Washington. After serving the nation for 17 years, George Washington felt that he would not serve the country for another term. Washington was a successful leader because he promoted democracy, led the country through the revolutionary war, and achieved most of the goals which he had promised the people. Therefore, from the farewell speech, we learn that leaders should promote democracy, and they should not be selfish. It should be learned that leaders should deliver the promises they give to their people. I have achieved a new understanding of the topic that George Washington was a great leader who promoted religion. I have changed my perspective after completing the research. In this case, I have considered Washington as one of the great leaders that the Americans have ever had in history. I experienced difficulties during the research in that the topic has a lot of materials, and I had to condense all the facts in a small piece of writing. Also, the speech was long and had many issues. Therefore, writing a few pages of the analysis of the speech was hard. In this assignment, I have enjoyed the section which suggests that Washington supports religion. Leaders who support religion promote good ideas because they believe that all powers come from God. Washington supported the idea that democracy can be achieved when the ideologies of religion are supported. I decided to write on this topic because Washington was a remarkable leader. His speech indicates that he had achieved his goals. The speech also indicates that Washington was selfless, and promoted religion and democracy. It is important to note that Washington’s speech has been criticized to get the strengths and weaknesses of the speech. Also, some of the facts have been analyzed. The overall essay indicates
Inventory management is a key part of operations in service or goods producing business. Many businesses today run out of stock and the businessmen ask themselves why we are always out of stock? Such are questions asked by many businessmen faced with frustrations and dilemma of attempting to simultaneously provide customers with adequate service maintain stable productions and keep investment in equipment and stocks at reasonable levels. There are many other problems faced by retailers while dealing with production planning, keeping inventories in hand, scheduling and expenditure. The type of inventory policy in effect in a business determines the size of safety stock in place. Inventory consists of services and goods that a business has on hand and these can be raw materials to be processed into finished goods, supplies that are used to provide services that is offered in the business or finished goods themselves. Inventory planning is very important to a business and if not properly formulated, the business could experience great costs in terms of money, time and potential loss of clients too. In this paper a local retail business is going to be considered and analysis of its inventory policy discussed. There are several inventory policies that are applied in businesses. Taking a look at anticipation stocks, which is a key factor in any retail business. Anticipation stocks are required materials and goods consumed on a conventional but shifting pattern through a certain given period. It also comes in handy in a scenario where it is advantageous to absorb the changes experienced by building and diminishing inventories as opposed to changing production rates with attendant variations in additional capital capacity requirements and employment. Inventories in this case may be built up in expectation of fill needs when the business is not running or a special sale. There is need of seasonal stocks too. Examples of these materials are agricultural products which are produced at seasonally unpredictable rates but their consumption is reasonably uniform (Magee, 2009). Fluctuation stocks are also common in a retail business and are held to help mitigate the shocks that arise from unpredictable variations in the part of customers demand. A retail outlet would maintain stocks so as to enable the business to supply customers demand even in a situation when the rate of customer demand may show quite an irregular and unpredictable variation (Magee, 2009). Factories come in handy by maintaining their stocks so as to be in a position to restock retail and warehouses to meet customers demand. All fluctuations cannot be anticipated and it is uneconomical to do so. However, a business cannot run smoothly without some fluctuation stocks because a good retail outlet would not want its customers to wait for supplies until they are restocked conveniently or their orders are scheduled into production. A businessman therefore has to make sacrifices in terms of costs in fluctuating stocks in order to meet his or her business philosophy of serving the customers want rather than forcing them to take what they can get on the shelves (Heizer & Render, 2011)
As an observer of other cultures, one can easily draw conclusions regarding practices and distinguish what they consider to be ‘natural’ and acquired behavior. But truth can only be known if one is part of that culture or community. A close examination of the book elicits reactions on how women have been abused. The author discusses about stereotypical conducts against women who are not white. It is painful to see some cases where women are considered as objects that can be raped which is a behavior that cannot be condoned. Issues concerning the way men perceive gender issues and violence towards women who are non whites is scrutinized by the author. How we analyze issues regarding sexual violence differ. Sexual violence was used as a tool of colonization and discrimination on the basis of race. The biggest victims of sexual violence in this case, are communities who are not white. The author himself argues that, “colonial relationships were gendered and sexualized.” Though sexual violence affects both native and foreign women, the magnitude with which they are addressed is different. In this case, when Indian men and women are abused, the manner in which the act is perceived is different from when a native woman is abused. In the event that a native woman is sexually abused, it is considered an attack on her as a woman and as a native woman. This is a clear indication that issues to do with colonization, racism and gender segregation cannot be separated because they all interrelate in some ways. A ruling by the court in a case among the Aboriginal people of Australia demonstrates the justification of injustices of sexual violence towards women. In this case, a fifty year old Aboriginal man had raped a fifteen year old girl. The ruling by the judge was lenient on the offender due to his statement that the rape case was not a serious crime but an act of ‘traditional culture.’ Among the basis of his ruling is the fact that the girl knew what to do and that protection was unnecessary because she was aware that the man who raped her had also killed his former wife. According to the testimony of the anthropologist, “rape was a traditional act and morally correct.” In my opinion, this is misleading and is likely to escalate activities of sexual violence against women. It is disgusting to observe the expert say that this act is a ‘cultural behavior’ and that it is ‘morally correct.’ The author does a good analysis by relating the origin of sexual violence and genocide to racist discrimination and colonization to women in a broad context. Colonialist used sexual violence as a means of getting rid of native people while slave masters used it to bore children who were intended for labor use. Immigrant women have not been spared by discrimination. They have also experienced sexual harassment and widespread bias in employment policies which sideline them. A good example is the Chinese women. As a result, these women are forced to engage in immoral behaviors in order to earn a living, that is prostitution. Nothing beneficial can
The open economy and positive social values that are adopted by the UAE have been important in promoting freedoms in the Middle East. However, the 2009 report asserts that some problems have stagnated the rates of economic and political gains. Previously, few controls were aimed at regulating the number of exports from the UAE. In addition, the number of terrorists who train in the region is a great worry for the US with regard to eliminating terrorism across the world. In fact, the threat has been closely associated with human trafficking, which is a great human crime in America. Further, the 2009 report notes that leaders in the nation have not adopted effective approaches that would be aimed at preventing proliferation of weapons, which are developed because of technological advancement. In fact, the UAE and the larger Middle East have been at the forefront in the technically advanced programs such as nuclear power strategies that are aimed at developing superior weapons. It is worth noting that the weapons, if not handled well, can result in mass destruction of life and property. The US has always made its stance very clear with regard to technically advanced developments. It has stated that countries should not produce nuclear weapons that would be misused and threaten other nations. The 2009 statement notes that social tolerance and freedoms with regard to the economy are very good features of the Middle East nation. However, the government is quite authoritarian, which implies that there is little participation of citizens who would be critical in consensus building. The nation was being ruled by leaders who were not elected by the people until 2006 when elections were held. Constitutionally elected leaders were important in directing the country in the recent global recession, which did not have many negative impacts on the economy. The 2014 report asserts that the UAE has been a strategic partner of the US in the Middle East. This can be viewed from the 1994 agreement between the two nations, which allowed the use of UAE facilities by American troops while advancing an offensive response to increasing cases of human suffering in the Gulf region due to human trafficking and terrorism. To further illustrate the trust that America has in the UAE, it is worth noting that Americans have been at the forefront in equipping the UAE in order to weaken Iran. This has always been handled tactically because the two countries are trade neighbors whose economies largely depend on their close relations. The 2014 report asserts that the UAE has become aggressive in the recent years with regard to the US foreign policy. For example, it has taken initiatives to deploy more than 250 troops to the war-burdened Afghanistan. In fact, it has promised not to withdraw its forces after the mission ends later in 2014. The 2014 statement shows that some of the problems that the US encountered in the UAE are now resolved.