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Written by Susan Glaspell, Trifles is a play, based on a true occurrence in Iowa. The author focuses on the development of the both the minor and major characters. Through the development of the characters, Glaspell vividly describes their stereotypes. In Glaspell’s play, Minnie Wright exhibits the role of a round character. During her youth days, she is always a happy, cheerful, and social songstress. Additionally, her wardrobe consists of bright colored clothes that made her outstanding among other girls. Unfortunately, after Mr. Wright married her, she drastically changed her behavior. Mrs. Hale describes her as “sweet, pretty, timid and fluttery but all the characters disappeared after marriage” (Glaspell Para. 5). On the other hand, Minnie’s husband is tyrannical, abrasive, domineering and aweless, a fact that Minnie respects during her thirty years of marriage. However, from the blues, Mr. Wright dies or killed at night depending on one’s perspective. Surprisingly, Minnie confesses that someone strangled her husband without her noticing. Unfortunately, the Sheriff and the attorney disapprove her claims and choose to imprison her as the prime suspect. After critical investigations, the law convicts her of murder. Minnie has a dynamic character that makes her to adapt to the prevailing situation. Although she is submissive to her husband, she turns a murderer after tolerating her husband’s unbecoming behavior. One moment of rage and bitterness from her husband is enough to kill him and this ability o change depending on the prevailing situation underscores roundness in character development. John Wright is a powerful, rough and crude husband; he turns his cheerful wife to a sad and antisocial woman. However, one day his wife strangles him with a rope killing him instantly. The roundness in Mr. Wright’s character comes out clearly given the fact that at one point he is strong, abrasive and ‘masculine’ but she dies in the hands of one considered weak. Therefore, in essence, Mr. Wright changes from a strong character to a weak one and this defines the roundness of his character. On the other hand, George Henderson; the county attorney, represents one of the flat characters; characters who remain rigid throughout a story; no change of thought or persona. During the murder of Mr. Wright, he comes to the scene to carry out an investigation. He is a tough and bully but dismisses the kitchen as a source of evidence of the murder. Ironically, he concentrates in the bedroom and barn places which belong to men. Although he convicts Mrs. Wright as the murder, he is unable to discover solid evidences apparentl
The case of Publix Greenwise vividly portrays that an alliance with New Balance will benefit the company and its consumers and will help to increase the number of customers and income. Publix Greenwise’s consumers are willing to discard products to satisfy psychological and sociological needs before the item has been totally consumed. Similar to Publix Greenwise’s consumers, new Balance consumers want items that are currently attractive but styled and designed to go out of fashion while the functional utility is still embodied in the product. American consumers are confronted with a taste dilemma. Both of these groups have a host of alternative methods for satisfying different tastes. They are faced continuously with the need to choose from among a wide variety of new products, services, books, movies, and television programs. Some alternatives meet the most discriminating standards; most do not. The proposed strategy will help Publix Greenwise to increase its target market and attract new buyers. New Balance consumers seem to feel that there is a right and a wrong with regard to taste, and if they try hard enough, they can cultivate and achieve “the taste” (New Balance Home Page 2009). They are concerned about expressing their personalities through their taste but want to do so within the boundaries of good taste. Since the problem of comprehension of personality is difficult enough without trying to determine what good taste is, consumers often turn to taste experts such as decorators and architects for help. New Balance consumers are not merely blind conformists, followers, and emulators with homogenized tastes. Besides being willing to emulate, they are also anxious to differentiate. They are discriminating in the kinds and types of purchase they make. They tend to express themselves and to emphasize their own individuality (Publix Greenwise Home Page 2009). As disposable income increases and discretionary buying power is available to a broader consumer base, the opportunity for self-expression and individual differentiation will increase. This will be directly reflected in the design and manufacture of products. As income increases and leisure, mobility, and related cultural activities become even more important pursuits, differentiation through consumption will be even more associated with status (Drejer, 2002). The sports footwear is popular among different types of customers so Publix Greenwise will be able to attract customers of different ages and social groups. Some warranted attacks have been made by critics on our mass homogenized culture and our marketing and manufacturing systems that focus on common consumer wants and needs. Yet it should be noted that our society has realized a high level of cultural, aesthetic, and materialistic attainment. Undoubtedly there are many aspects of our mass. In reality Publix Greenwise’s consumers
Summary The article The Effects of ISO Certification on Organization Workmanship Performance by Joseph Iwaro and Abrahams Mwasha is devoted to the problem of quality management in the organization. The authors of the article use the construction industry as the object of their research. The introductory part presents the previous research on the topic emphasizing the importance of the issue and the findings of other scholars. The main body of the article deals with the statement of the hypothesis tested, the methodology used, data analysis, discussion of the results, and the implications of the findings to organizations. The final part of the article presents the conclusions made by the authors. Although the effects of ISO certification have been broadly studied, the article represents a scientific value as the authors concentrated their attention on the determination of the factors of poor performance and the correlation of these factors with the ISO certification. Key Learning Points Quality management and control are the vital aspects of the organization high performance Nowadays, the success of the organization is determined by the variety of factors among which the factor of the goods and services quality plays an important role. Although during the long period, the price has been remaining the predominant factor, the factor of quality also matters today. As the quality becomes more and more important for customers and, by implication, the organization itself, the quality management and control should be in place to ensure the quality of the products and their correspondence to the quality standards. The ISO certification, its role, and relevance to quality control The ISO certification was established by the ISO organization to provide an effective framework of quality control and increase the quality of goods and services in the world market. The QMS (Quality Management Systems) as the tools of quality management To establish effective management and control over the quality of the products, the system should be developed. QMS is an example of such a system. Its primary aim is to organize the process of quality management, make it a coherent whole, and provide the links between the various elements of the organization work which affect the products quality. The factors contributing to poor performance in the construction industry The authors of the article determined the following factors contributing to the poor performance: poor communication, the lack of supervision, poor documentation, system/methodology problems, poor performance of workers, poor management, and poor performance planning. These factors were determined based on the responses to the questionnaires sent to the representatives of the various professions in the construction industry. The statistical and mathematical approaches used The authors analyzed the collected data using hypothesis testing.
Aspects of Moral Theology Human beings are bound to follow their judgment of conscience. The moral command to “do good and avoid evil” ensures every Christian leads a better life (Keenan, 2010, p. 48). Every human being should follow the judgment of his or her conscience. Sometimes conscience might be erroneous. The Catholic Tradition protects our consciences from every error (Keenan, 2010). The first rule is to always do the right thing. The second principle is to avoid every evil action. We should always acknowledge that evil is a reality of our lives. We should always understand every aspect of moral theology in order to deal with our actions. Our consciences might be erroneous depending on a number of ethical principles. Meta-ethics offers three options for defining what is wrong or right. Human beings might formulate erroneous consciences. The three levels of ethics include “meta-ethics, personal ethics, and normative ethics” (Keenan, 2010, p. 74). The teaching authority of the Catholic Church plays a significant role in defining levels of ethics. Catholic Moral Theology offers some discernible norms to guide the best human behavior. The teachings explain how “the knowledge of wrong and right informs our consciences” (Keenan, 2010, p. 84). The church also explains how human conscience can be erroneous. The right approach is to follow the above discernible norms for the best behavior. The Principle of Just War The principle of just war explains why a combat should be the last option ( Principles of the Just War, 2014). This explains why the state should consider every non-violent decision before using force. Every just war should also safeguard the life of every civilian. This principle is applicable to the Vietnam War in which the United States were involved. The Viet
The transfer of private property from one person to another even if one has been duly compensated has for decades been a thorny issue. This is compounded by the fact that the state may transfer ownership of property from one private party to another by the application of the controversial term “use by the public”. In the first case in this case study, “the Supreme Court granted a permanent restraining order by prohibiting the taking of part of the property and denying the plaintiffs relief to the part of property” (Legal environment of business, 1999). The strong arguments put forward by the plaintiffs are that they had lived in their properties for more than two decades and had made expansive changes to the properties. The Supreme Court of California reversed the case thereby giving the state all the powers to take all the condemned land. According to Associate Justice John Stevens, there appear two propositions that are clear in this case. First, the state has no constitutional powers to transfer the ownership of property from one private party to another while in the same argument; the state may transfer property from one private party to public use. The controversy, in this case, is whether the city’s plan fits the definition of “public use”. Comparing this case to Berman v. Parker (1954), there is no way in which only part of a condemned land may be put into public use. Legal environment of business (1999) reveals that the “defendants in this case study contend that using eminent domain for economic development impermissibly blurs the boundary between public and private takings”. According to this case, while the state at in most instances may intend to make use of a property public, it is very complex to understand the possibility of private interests in the whole process. The complexity, of this case, is often further complicated by the ambiguous use of the term “public use” or in instances where only a fraction of the acquired property is put to public use. This means that the remaining fraction of this property is again diverted back to private ownership. The term “public use” must therefore be properly defined and ascertained. The plaintiffs lost the case to the city of San Francisco. According to the free dictionary (2009), “a petitioner refers to the party that presents a formal and written application to court of law in request to action on a dispute or civil matter”. “A defendant is the part
Introduction Do you like arts? Painting and literature, probably Monet is your best impressionism representative or “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy is ones reference book. But besides that, architecture is the most admirable art or music is the most and best listenable. These are far from the total list of the means by which the authors of the latter are interesting for. And through the centuries on, the ways to express the view spring up the points they touch upon are the mostly like to appear, and they do. The 21 th century is the era of new technologies, high technologies, good technologies and effective ways of obtaining of corporate interests by any means. So back to the beginning of the essay, there is a re-query: do you like arts? For example music, and, through the prism of the modern legislation system and modern music, is there any source to take pleasure of it? Is Music Piracy Stealing? On the basis of the given article “Is Music Piracy Stealing” by Charles W. Moore, lets try to examine the problem and find whether the authors rhetoric is effectively supported or it is just a damage to the primary claim. We live in the 21 th century; computer and internet technologies make much of our life, the means and opportunities they suggest are unquestionably benefits for the user or the internet surfer. The cloud of the article by Charles Moore is whether downloading music, software or some other kind of information as the intellectual property from internet resources is a benefit and the way to learn more or to take pleasure in some masterpiece or, violation of the law. The article begins with the slogan “copying is stealing”. The slogan of the MPAA campaign is originally a statement of the Association that digital copying is the violation of the law equaled with the stealing crime. The rhetoric the author uses at the beginning of the article is quite strong and is a real status quo in the industry or better, in internet day life. Moore exemplifies the Pew survey on the real matter of fact of the problem being treated as the illegal infringement. It is obvious from the Pews survey as Moore cites it, that about 75% of the interviewer are unconcerned of the file they share copyright. As the majority of the interviewers groups express their slight awareness of the copyright, 65% of them show much carelessness about the copyright. The ethos the author here use is out effectiveness query: “I don’t think very many folks are unaware that music is copy-10 righted, or that unauthorized copying is illegal. It’s just that, as the Pew survey indicates, they don’t care, just as most people in my experience
The company chosen for the analysis, DreamWorks Animation has been considered a cheap Disney knockoff for quite long, yet somehow managed to change its reputation not only among the target audience, but also among its rivals. DreamWorks Animation managed to beat Disney’s long-lasting monopoly for animated movies production, though failing to be the first company to break new grounds in the use of CGI animation in 1998 (Loughlin, 2012, October 3), which are the key reasons for it to be analyzed in the given paper. DreamWorks Animation employs a number of people, and it is practically impossible to distinguish three particular types of employees that make the bulk of the studio. However, when taking a closer look at the way in which the company operates, one will find out that there are animators, i.e., the people who actually work on the product, including Tech Rendering Animators, Designers, etc., the IT Department (Systems Engineering Manager, Software Manager, etc.) and the people involved in promotion design and implementation (Public Relations TV Director, Senior Manager in Publishing, etc.) (DreamWorks Animation, 2014). Each of the people listed above uses appropriate sources of information in order to make the inside company processes run smooth. For example, the department of animators and the people involved into the animation process need the information concerning the latest techniques in computer animation. The IT Department requires the data on the latest computing and programming related issues. In their turn, the Public Relations Department must have the information regarding the demands of the target audience, the statistics on the rivals and their performance, the success of the company’s production, the box office for the company’s movies, etc.
Introduction Freeganism refers to an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group of people who promote the need for restricted involvement in the conformist financial system. Additionally, they advocate for minimal utilization of resources through strategies such as recycling (Barnard 9). As a portmanteau of “free” and “vegan,” the word freegan is a combination of the two words’ meanings. Vegans are known to avoid eating animal or dairy products as a way of expressing their feelings about animal exploitation. Theoretically, freegans completely avoid spending on foodstuff as their way of protesting against the structure, composition, and implementation of the conventional economic system (Brinkmann 204). Some of the common ideologies that have been associated with the freegan movement over the years include anti-consumerists, anti-capitalists, as well as alternative living schemes such as voluntary unemployment and urban foraging (Barnard 14). The practice by freegans of picking food items thrown away by others and finding consumers for them so that they are not wasted has been gaining momentum across the world at an escalating pace. Discussion Although the majority of the groups across the world that initially identified with the freegan movement have since gone inactive or are operating under different labels, its ideologies have received unwavering support due to the associated benefits. Research has identified economic reasons as one of the biggest motivations for the people who subscribe to the ideologies promoted by the movement (Barnard 35). Freegans are enthusiastic about recovering waste and use any possible strategy to achieve this objective even if it requires them to avoid consumption. Apart from the economic reasons, subscribers of this ideology also cite factors such as religious conviction, delight at being entertained, and the possibility of acquiring free items as the other motivations behind their involvement with the movement (Neuwirth 116). Studies have also shown that freegan diets are entirely dependent on practices that generate saleable food waste, which is still edible even when disposed of (Brinkmann 211). Such practices include disposing of foodstuffs with conformist sell-by dates and intentional overstocking of perishable goods. One of the interesting practices associated with this movement is squatting. Apart from the notion that food waste should be collected and redistributed, participants in this movement also argue that buildings that remain unoccupied for a long classify as waste that needs to
Mary Barra is the CEO of General Motors and the most powerful woman leader in the automotive industry. She has worked at GM for the past 38 years, and in that period, held different managerial positions that have shaped her leadership style. She attributes her success to seven key principles: seeking feedback from staff, simplifying her message, conducting inclusive discussions, effecting change, gaining knowledge of the business, aligning on values, and leading culture with behaviors. Her leadership accomplishments have been made possible by various leadership traits and practices that include respect, decisiveness, team orientation, innovation, collaboration, and openness to input. One of her major accomplishments is increased productivity and efficiency at GM. This goal has been achieved through her focus on promoting collaboration and teamwork (Chen, 2018). She believes that a strong leadership is based on effective teams. She has been quoted as saying that the production of efficient vehicles is a team sport. In that regard, she holds regular meetings to gather ideas and opinions from employees (Chen, 2018). In addition, she is known to seek feedback from the staff. The reception of diverse input from the employees aids in decision-making. This leadership approach is feasible because Barra has exceptional listening skills and she is approachable (Colby, 2015). Her inclusive leadership style values the input of each employee and it has led to the creation of highly effective work teams that have propelled GM to the top of the automotive industry. Her leadership has modernized GM as the company aims to grow into a leading manufacturer of electric and self-driving cars (Chen, 2018). Decisiveness is one of the reasons for Barra’s accomplishments. She allows employees to offer their opinions and ideas. However, she always has the final say in the managerial matters that affect the company. Successful leaders are kind, empathetic, and good communicators. Barra uses these traits to solicit the views of her staff on the best direction to take regarding projects. She follows a consensus approach when making decisions (Colby, 2015). However, when it fails to work, she steps in confidently and makes the final decision. She is effective at making the final decision whenever team members fail to agree on certain issues. This approach mobilizes employees to increase engagement, generate more innovative ideas, and feel as an integral part of the organization (Colby, 2015). Another key accomplishment is improved sales after embracing innovation. The 2012 Chevrolet Malibu was one of GM’s flops because of low sales. However, Barra led a team that made enhancements to the model, and as a result, improved sales. This was a monumental achievement because no other CEO had done it before in the history of the company. She mitigated the auto crisis by embracing innovation in order to improve efficiency (Colby, 2015). For instance, the company began manufacturing vehicles that used similar parts. Moreover, she streamlined the company’s product development and purchasing departments and had them collaborate. Barr