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During the past six weeks, my team was running a virtual company within the Marketplace simulation. It was a stimulating experience, which helped me to acquire a diverse set of learning objectives. They include but are not limited to the following: the understanding and employment of individual’s strengths in team-building, defining developmental needs of the company, overcoming the challenges of virtual team decision-making, etc. Based on this information, this paper aims to evaluate the overall quality of conducted work, employing the principles of integrative thinking and reflection. Evaluation of the Team Work Team’s Efficiency First of all, it is essential to state that my virtual team, Lions Share, Inc., has shown significantly efficient work during the simulation. For example, as it was noted in the previous paper, the company’s brands, operating in three different markets, managed to be in the top-5 of every market. It is possible to state that the reason for such efficient work is the profound understanding of the principles of teamwork by each member of Lions Share, Inc., which is acquired during the seminars and workshops (Cadle, Paul, & Turner, 2014). The team has put significant efforts into building the company and running it by high standards. The Employment of Virtual Team Principles Further, it should be mentioned that our team has overcome various problems due to the adequate distribution of team roles and following them correctly. When setting a virtual unit, every member must understand his or her responsibilities because a virtual company only succeeds from coherent and harmonious work. In particular, it should be observed that using the four-step framework of developing a business model, provided by Riel and Martin (2014), significantly benefited the company’s success. Other theories, which were used to build our team, were Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, described by Trainer (2010), and the five-stage process, including “forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning” (Tuckman & Jensen, 1997, p. 420). They helped our team significantly with problem-solving. Team Development Another important aspect of any successful company is proper team development. It includes setting visible and achievable goals as well as fixing emerging problems. Employing the Career Assessment instrument, I was able to determine my role and value for the company, which helped me to realize my responsibilities and goals efficiently. However, as I identified my excessive friendliness, which was negatively interfering with the teamwork, I employed the six-step model of problem-solving to figure out meaningful conclusions for further improvement (Trainer, 2010). The other team members were also helping me. Integration of Gathered Knowled
The rising standards of living have led to too much suffering in the contemporary world. On the other hand, health standards have gradually declined and are at their lowest. This can be confirmed with a visit to any hospital across the world. While the poor suffer from diseases of deprivation, the rich are suffering from diseases brought about by excess. The poor are suffering from malnutrition, diseases brought about by unhygienic living conditions and blindness. The rich suffer from diseases like diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, obesity and its related health consequences, septicaemia, et cetera. As indicated, both social groups are affected by their poor lifestyle. It is because of such poor lifestyles that have resulted in the culture of pill-popping. The poor want to supplement themselves with dietary pills to avoid cases of malnutrition while the rich, take pills such as statins and pioglitazone to reduce the occurrence of the aforementioned degenerative diseases. It is difficult to explain why people have opted to pop pills/drugs instead of adopting healthy lifestyles that do not cost anything. The people are gobbling down painkillers, antibiotics, and antidepressants as if they were gobbling sweets. As a result, most people have died in the recent past due to this routine of taking legal drugs. Prescription can either be self-prescription or prescription by a doctor. All in all, it does not matter; a healthy lifestyle can be synonymous with the phrase, “a stitch in time saves nine.” Most individuals use lifestyle drugs as a means to alleviate symptoms, moods, and behaviors that are a result of a poor lifestyle. Drug companies have been on the forefront encouraging people to use drugs as an amicable way of addressing problems. Unfortunately according to Horvitz 2009 (cited in Edlin & Golanty 369), the probability that fear and anxiety, which triggers the voracious and profitable popping of pills/ drugs, will subside is very minimal. Therefore, adopting a healthy lifestyle compared with popping pills remains to be a huge challenge in promoting proper general health. All in all, a healthy lifestyle is responsible for all the magic associated with good health and improved quality of life. There is an array of reasons as to why people will continuously prefer to pop drugs than change lifestyle but, all these narrows down to the freedom to do whatever one wants without having to worry about the consequences. According to Maxine Frith in his article “Britain: The sick heart of Europe,” heart disease, which is easily preventable by adopting a healthy lifestyle results in very large health costs every year (approximately 29 billion pounds). As compared with choosing a healthy lifestyle, the UK population has preferred an approach characterized by intake of drugs and pills as depicted by the high financial burden of cardiovascular disease used to incur costs for drugs to meet the needs of the people (Tinsley para 10-15). It has bee
Introduction Renaissance unleashed a flood of creativity in the form of art, philosophy, mathematics, architecture, alchemy, and other visual forms of expression. The period saw a blending of different art forms and each inspired the other. This was mainly due to the fact that many artists were mathematicians, alchemists, philosophers, etc. Renaissance art in particular had many instances where geometrical representations and perspectives were used. This paper analyses the works of some great masters who have used geometrical visual perspective in Renaissance art (Dunning, 1991). The Beginning of the Visual Perspective Murray (Murray, 1963) has suggested that the concept of using perspective in art forms such as drawing and painting first started in the early 14 th century when an architect from Florence, Filippo di ser Brunelleschi sketched the famous landmark building of San Giovanni Baptistery. What Filippo had done was create an illusion by scaling the objects in the drawing so that objects nearer to an observer appeared larger while objects further away were drawn smaller. This created a visual perspective and the sketch appeared as it would appear to the naked eye. Murray has argued that perspective allowed the illiterate and the literate to visualize a picture and created a pictorial space that unified the beholder with the image. The use of perspective allows a three-dimensional image to be made on a two-dimensional surface. Visual perspective allowed the artist to use basic geometry and unify distant forests and buildings, cityscapes, and tidal waves with human, animate, and inanimate forms. It was perspective that allows the artist to blend different worlds and environments into a single surface. Many artists such as Piero Della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, Leone Battista Alberti, Albrecht Dürer, Galileo Galilei, and others have used geometry and perspective to create the fine art of illusion and
Man 1 is a born sinner, there is a fundamental evil in man that makes him stand up to God, and try to mimic Him and His omnipresence. It is this desire to rise and reach the heights that man sins. To sin is to do something forbidden, something evil and unjust which needs salvation, in Christian text there is a very clear black and white fight between good and evil, good being God and man being the essential sinner. This is an enduring war and Luther asks the question unequivocally in his book Bondage of will: Since [God and the world] are at war with each other, how can there be anything else throughout the whole world but uproar. (94) He cites Jesus who said: I am come not to send peace but a sword” (cited in Luther, 94 (Matthew 10:34)) To Luther salvation of mankind was the most important issue and to him Jesus did not come in peace but to wage a war, to save the mankind from their own collective moral degradation, corruptness and ignoble presence. Luther believed that no one had appreciated Jesus’ words and instead were interested in peace rather than waging war against forces of evil embodied in man himself. Luther’s belief in the original evilness of mankind is a fact rather than a conjecture, to him it stands out as something so evident that sacrificing lives of individuals is insignificant compared to eternal salvation—the ultimate aim of any Christian. Much before Luther set forth to reform the Catholic Church, St. Augustine is one of the most important individuals who created the framework of Western Christian Church in the early middle ages. He is the person who defined man as the original sinner and separated the material world of man from the spiritual house of God. His confessions – an autobiography describes his own evilness: Our only pleasure in doing it was that it was forbidden..The malice of the act was base and I loved it-that is to say I loved my own undoing, I loved the evil in me-not the thing for which I did the evil..What was it that attracted me in that theft?….The sin sweetened it..[It was] the delight a prisoner might have in making some small gesture of liberty-getting a deceptive sense of omnipotence from doing something forbidden without immediate punishment..[Finding] pleasure only in what was forbidden, and only because it was forbidden.(1119-20) Luther’s observations were very broad and not as explicit as St. Augustine, in whose view from the time of infancy evil intentions are clear as his own demands were such that his parents had to submit to them. St. Augustine is extremely critical of mankind’s struggle to deal with inbuilt shortcomings and at the same time the idea of man to show a false omnipotence. To him it is the notion of deriving pleasure from forbidden just because of the fact that it is forbidden is what makes people act immorally. To him this is a reflection of the sinful soul of man which indulges in different immoral and wicked thoughts and actions from the time of infancy. The ingrained and deeply visceral desire
The Hunters and the Hunted: A Non-Linear Solution for Reengineering the Workplace has been written in a very special way through which it communicates to business managers. The reading of this book aims to develop a manager who knows how to ensure a change of strategies which will ensure that the leader remains in an influential position of control. The chapters of this book are that each chapter conveys specific instructions to those who want to stay ahead in business, the chapters respond to the concerns of those who want to reclaim lost glory in the very dynamic business world. This can be done through various business strategies discussed by James Swartz. In his book, James Swartz expresses a different view concerning strategies such as decentralization, benchmarking, and reorganization as very important strategies, however; they fail the yardstick for combating actual problems in the real business world. He warns against reliance on these practices. Through the use of anecdotes, James exposes success stories though the most notable is the interaction between Marcus, a business mogul and two recruits Laura and Lou who are entire of different schools of thought in the business world: Lou, is old school in terms of methodology while Laura is Harvard trained, though without experience. Marcus introduces the two to the business world while showing them the danger of poor corporate mindset and poor strategies. This is the main gist of the first second and third chapters of this business novel. The message that is embedded in this thirty-five chapter book is an instructional means of achieving success and being a leader, not the follower. James emphasizes the concept of continuous improvement. He argues that: in business, the only most efficient way of ensuring dominance is by registering continuous improvement. As a result, it is difficult for competitors to keep up and in turn, they will opt out which limits competition for the manager. James continues to teach the top leaders, he encourages that every successful comeback has to be based on the patience and tenacity of the hunter and he posits that “faint hearts never shall win the bride.” (1928) In chapters 9, 10, and 11, he admonishes against quick shortcuts to success which he compares to quicksand which dissipates very fast without any benefits related to the business. He further talks about response to the customers as he says that the customer is to be considered a king by the managers who should develop a response model and a process model through which customer’s concerns are met. The response should be extended to work-in-progress where the manager ought to identify strategies that account for all activities undertaken by the organization. In chapters 15 to 17, James largely encourages the managers who aspire to become hunters to be able to realize the limits to which they can go while at the same time, there should be means of measuring the continuous improvement. Every manager
The study of human personality development constitutes one of the primary areas of interest in psychology. Different theories have been proposed to explain human personality and its formation throughout an individual’s lifespan. These theories offer varying perspectives on differences in character among people. This essay adopts Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development and Bandura’s social learning theory to explain the development of Harry Potter’s resilient personality. Harry Potter, the fictional protagonist in Joanne K. Rowling’s bestseller Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone , demonstrates marked resilience throughout his adventures in the wizarding world. A resilient person is cognitively flexible and can face challenges and ambiguous situations without fear (Roth & Herzberg, 2017). Resilient people do not allow adversity to define them or see every hardship as a threat; instead, they perceive themselves as capable and consider difficult times as a temporary state of affairs. As a master of resilience, Potter tends to be skilled in preparing for and handling emotional emergencies and remains adept at accepting whatever he faces with flexibility rather than rigidity. Potter had a traumatic childhood after the untimely demise of his parents. This tragic event resulted in him being sent to his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, where he was subjected to constant physical, psychological, and emotional abuse and neglect. For example, Potter faced physical violence daily as he was even referred to as “Dudley’s favorite punching bag” (Rowling, 1997, p. 20). When living with the Dursleys, Potter stayed in a cupboard under the stairs. Whenever the Dursleys went out, they often left the young boy with a physically incapacitated neighbor who could not provide him with adequate and safe care. He also experienced different kinds of severe punishments, including being locked in his cupboard room for a week, receiving inadequate food, and being denied meals (Rowling, 1997, p.29). His uncle ill-treated him on suspicion that he had practiced magic. Vernon chased him away despite the fact that he had saved the life of his cousin (Dudley) from dementors while his own life was in clear danger. The abuse and neglect persisted throughout his childhood as he continued being mistreated by his cousin and other people at school. For instance, Dudley and his friends had their favorite sport, which they referred to as “Harry Hunting” (Rowling, 1997, p.31). Despite agonizing throughout his early years, Potter managed to navigate through his childhood successfully and become a tough character. Eriksson’s eight-stage model of personality development offers useful insights into Potter becoming resilient. Most importantly, his secure attachment to his parent during infancy contributed significantly to his ability to withstand the severe maltreatment he faced in the foster home. According to this theory, early childhood experiences play an integra
Introduction The social media has experienced a massive growth in the recent past. According to Ryan (2011, p. 78), when it started out through social sites like MySpace, many people dismissed it as a platform for gossips that had no serious future in the world of communication. However, this is no longer the case. The social media has completely transformed the world of communication. It is one of the fundamental pillars that have helped in transforming the world into a global village. The entry of Facebook, Tweeter, Second Life, and Habbo among others changed the way people viewed the social media. Currently, over one billion people share information through the social media. They get the news and entertainment through these social sites. In this essay, the researcher will look at the path taken by MySpace as one of the leading social media in the present-day world. Discussion According to Mandiberg (2012, p. 30), there are quite a number of social media that are in active use today. It will be necessary to look at some of them because users around the world, and specifically in the United States, rely on when it comes to sharing information. Twitter Tweeter is one of the leading online social networks in the global society. It allows users to share short text messages (tweets) of about 140 characters. Both the registered and non-registered users can use this social network. Started in the year 2006, Tweeter has experienced a massive growth over the past eight years. According to Panko and Panko (2014, p. 45), the network has currently about 300 million active users spread around the world. MySpace users posted an average of 341 million tweets a day in 2012, surpassing all the previous records. Second Life Second Life is three-dimensional software that enables the users, also known as the Residents, to interact in an online virtual world. The social network enables the users to develop their own virtual representations, interact with other users, visit places or handle objects in a virtual world. This site enables users to participate in some group or individual activities. Through this network, an individual can visit a virtual shop, view the needed products in a virtual world, and make payments before the product can be delivered physically. Unlike other social networks, Second Life has age restriction for its users. The social network has software that restricts children, especially those below 16 years, from accessing materials meant for adult consumption (Mandiberg, 2012). This was meant to fight the temptation among the teenagers to access adult materials. Habbo Habbo is a Finish online social network that largely targets the teenagers (Lüst
Introduction The age at which language can be learnt is an area that has been given attention by different researchers. Researchers have tested syntax, lexical, phonological and grammatical differences of different people and of different ages in which they acquired the first and the second language. Different results have led to the explanation of the language acquisition patterns that are revealed by children and adults of the first and second language. This is a critical review of literature on the critical age for language acquisition. It will analyze studies of first language and second language acquisition. Discussing whether there is a critical age for language acquisition First language acquisition Mayberry and Eichen (1991, p. 486) argue that the age has a significant impact on acquisition of language. Learning a language is easier for an individual when they are young than when they are of age. Those who learn a language when young tend to have positive outcomes than those who learnt in adulthood. When a language is learnt in childhood, the outcomes are superior to those of those who learnt later. Mahoney (2008, p. 1) argues that there is a specific age at which a child is at prime age to learn language while interacting with the environment. Biologically, a child is capable of acquiring the language they are exposed to in their infancy and childhood. The brain mechanism in the early years of life allows the child to internalize any language that they are introduced to. It is possible for a child to gain fluency in more than one language if they are introduced during the prime age of language acquisition. Children learn language better than adults in a natural setting. The adults are able to increase their competence if they take more time in practice and learning the language in an academic setting. Wagner (2001, p. 1) notes that there is a biological explanation. After adolescence the capacity of the brain is unable to accommodate learning functions. The brain is assigned different functions and the child can no longer learn any language as before. Consequently brain damage after puberty implies that permanent damage in language acquisition occurs. Patients whose brain is damaged before puberty can recover and acquire language as before. The argument is that the left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for language acquisition. If language skills are transferred to the right hemisphere before adolescence, the child would retain their language competence. The research was conducted on the acquisition of the first language and second language acquisition was not investigated, hence the argument applies for first language use. Children have the ability to differentiate words from a sentence. Adults are unable to differentiate a word in a sentence when the words are spoken. The ability to pick words demonstrates the ability of children to learn. Adults require more time and assistance to study a new language. Moreover, children are capable of understanding expressions shown on the face (Brown, 2000). Kasper (200