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Introduction Every character in a play, poem, or a film has a strategic role to play allocated to him/her by the playwright or the filmmaker. Therefore, it is upon the novelists or poets to feature a variety of traits to the characters to ensure the manifestation of the intended roles, which on the other hand, make the vivid work appearing like a real-life situation. On many occasions, readers have identified characters as Heroes, Kings, and pessimists, among others, based on the way they stand out in the different works. Sometimes, poets feature more than one trait in the characters, a case that has often made it difficult for readers to identify either or both of the characteristics. Is Beowulf an ideal hero and king? The essay aims at answering this question. Beowulf is such a character in the poem ‘Beowulf ,’ whom the reader might fail to determine whether he passes for an ideal king, hero, or probably both or none. Such a case may result depending on the reader’s interpretation of the terms hero and king. According to Arnold, the term hero refers to “…a person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life” (Para.1). In addition, any leader will pass for an ideal king based on how well he/she handles the people he/she leads. As the paper unfolds, Beowulf depicts all the aforementioned qualifications of both an ideal king and a hero. Heroic Ideal in “Beowulf” The fact that Beowulf values the welfare of his people more than his own passes him for an ideal epic hero. The opening of the poem confirms this when Beowulf has to travel all the way to Denmark to set the Danes free of the monster. He sacrifices, not only his time, energy, and money, but also his own self only to ensure the safety of the Danes whom he views as his own people. In addition, after having served for fifty years as the Geats’ king, the retired old Beowulf realizes that there is a dragon upsetting his people. Disregarding his age, Beowulf decides to fight the dragon for the sake of his people’s security, a job that he successfully does. Further, Beowulf has his people at heart. For instance, despite living in his final days in the deathbed, the man longs for seeing the Geats enjoy the safety and hence providing the reason behind the erection of the tall lighthouse that purposely assists the group in locating its way back from the sea. The achievement of personal magnificence is a sign of ideal heroism. Many instances feature Beowulf striving to seek for such an achievement. For example, the noise that comes from the drinking spree erected by Hrothgar, the king of Denmark, becomes a tragic disaster to the Danes following the interference
Introduction At the beginning of the play, we meet Celie as a 14-year-old girl living in Georgia in the early years of the 20th century and she is pregnant by the man she thinks is her father. Compelled to give up her second baby by him, she is ultimately married off to Mister, an abusive tyrant who would rather take her younger and allegedly prettier sister, Nettie. Celie’s new role as the caretaker of Mister and his house and children is one of hard work enclosed by misery. And it worsens after Mister fruitlessly tries to force himself on Nettie and ends up throwing her off his property, where she has requested refuge from her rapist father. The rest of the drama turns around Celie’s intensifying sense of free womanhood. Sofia is a woman who is determined not to be oppressed by men any longer. When Sofia lustily walks onstage, Celie has never seen anything this big and bold and unbowed before. Main text Shug’s entry stirs Celie to her own sensuality, and she realizes the potential of her own beauty. And sooner than before she receives the news that her sister and two babies are alive and are living in Africa, to which the musical finally project the hokey “Lion King”. The musical contains magnificent occurrence and pop-religious perspective including the screeches and wails which resemble the initial early age melodrama, and director Gary Griffin allows the story to unfold melodiously. ‘The Color Purple is not just a story; it is a modern legend that lends a source of hope, healing and renewal and is quite a moving and entertaining show, although it’s still not a great musical. Jeanette Bayardelle as Celie unleashes her dazzling vocal power as Celie blossoms from meek and depressed girl to a fully empowered woman. The vigorous score, by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray is overwhelming. And the musical is not excessively unforgettable as there are no tunes one departs humming, on the contrary it serves as a rouser which provides the show with immense power. Of the nineteen songs in the initial act and ten in the following Act which is composed in the typical soul style, with some sounding like a gospel, which makes them difficult to remember, I recollect the song “I’m Here” received a thunderous ovation from the audience with its powerful and moving melody and the strength with which it was sung by the performer. Sofia and Harpo as a couple, induce a lot of laughter and there are numerous songs that help in making the musical funny including Sofia and Harpo’s songs which are extremely hilarious and make the audiences laugh, but their songs sometimes tend to spring from the plot. Su
How to Enhance the Performance It is possible to note that UPS Logistics and Schneider Logistics focus on the provision of shipping services but they also provide services associated with supply chain management (SCM). The companies’ websites are used as the platform for the SCM solutions including the use of specialised software and some mobile applications. However, the performance of the companies can be enhanced through the integration of various IT capabilities. One of the companies provides cloud-based software, which is an effective and up-to-date solution. It has been acknowledged that cloud computing significantly enhances the performance of companies in the sphere of the supply chain management (Tiwari and Jain 152). Cloud computing enables companies to manage various processes in different locations without the need to maintain any servers. The benefits of the cloud-based software solutions are as follows. On demand service enables companies to manages their processes with no human interaction, which results in reduced time and increased efficiency. Resource pooling enables the provider to assign and reassign the necessary resources (Tiwari and Jain 154). Elasticity and scalability refer the provider’s ability to add the necessary resources on demand. The companies can also provide such services as “collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR)” (Poirier, Quinn and Swink 76). These solutions can be enhanced by the use of the radio frequency identification (RFID) software. These tools enable companies to match the demand with their delivery networks effectively. These platforms can significantly improve companies’ performance in such spheres as tracking and product distribution as well as documentation processing (Poirier, Quinn and Swink 80). BI software can also be used to enhance reporting. The system enables to develop efficient and informative spreadsheets, diagrams and other types of visual presentation of data (Hugos 121). Finally, real-time message alert can significantly help in SCM as various emergencies occur and consumers should be able to respond to them timely (Poirier, Quinn and Swink 203). The use of the tools mentioned above will enable the companies in question to enhance their performance associated with the provision of SCM solutions. Using the Websites for SCM The companies in question have certain information on their SCM services. As for Schneider, the company’s website includes some data on particular SCM services. Contact details are provided, and customers can address the company’s professionals on a variety of issues. The company provides consultations that can expand to complete restructuring of the business’ operations associated with SCM. The company can help locating particular suppliers for different businesses. The website is quite an effective platform for eliciting and sharing information. The cust
Introduction In the manufacturing as well as business processes, the need to minimize or even avoid constant errors as well as defects is significant towards enhancing efficiency, and striving for perfecting the product or service for better customer satisfaction, thus maximizing profits. Customers have high expectations of the quality of products as well as services. It is because of this that companies have adopted Six Sigma. Boosting quality to new standards through the Six Sigma Black Belts The implication of this initiative is a strategy applied in business management with the aims, objectives as well as goals to overcome defects as well as errors. In the organization, a target of individuals forms a special infrastructure known as “Black Belts”, having special skills in this regard. They follow some special steps in a bid to achieve a set of financial targets mainly oriented to reducing production costs and at the same time increasing production profits (Burrill, 1999). A defect in the term of Six Sigma is an abnormality likely to dissatisfy the customer. Six Sigma is an original formulation of Bill Smith working for the Motorola Company (Burrill, 1999). Emphasis is put on achievements of results that are stable as well as predictable. Likewise, the processes that are involved in the manufacturing industry, as well as the business setting, should have measurable characteristics which are likewise controllable, improvable, and subject to analysis. For the success of Six Sigma, much commitment in the workplace is expected of the employees, more specifically the top-level executive officers (Burrill, 1999). Six Sigma is more potential than any other initiative of quality management. Returns from Six Sigma are measurable as well as quantifiable. The leadership, as well as the support from the management, are administered with strength as well as passion. The initiative brings about champions known as “Master Black Belts”, who help to mold “Black Belts”, who in turn performs the roles of implementation of the approaches of Six Sigma. The decisions made with the initiative of Six Sigma, are based on some data that can be verified but not just queued or assumed. There are laid down levels of defects for processes to qualify for Six Sigma; which stands at 3.4 DPMO (Burrill, 1999). Black Belts from the academies of Six Sigma have been proved to be potential resources to companies for saving billions of dollars for the companies. The methodologies involved in the initiative are in categories; one being through the steps of definition, measurement, analysis, improvement, and finally, control. The other procedure follows definition measurement, analysis, design, and lastly verification. Through Six Sigma the functions of the management are made more professional. Most organizations, however, operate at the Three Sigma initiative that holds to a number of defects at 66 000 in every million. This carries a lot of waste due to defects and errors as compared to Six Sigma (Burrill, 1999). To implement Six Sigma, high-level training is required giving the ranks of Master Black Belt, Black Belts, and Green Bel
Introduction Some fundamentals on the picture The picture I would like to analyze is called The Battle . It belongs to an abstract art. The most interesting point, however, which may surprise many people, is that The Battle was created not by a well-known artist as most of people think, but by a psychotherapist from New York. Tracy Morgan is the author of the work of art. Body The Battle and its technical characteristics The colors and their significance While discussing the importance of the picture, some technical details must be analyzed. First of all, it is necessary to point out that The Battle is considered to be a two-dimensional picture. The basic colors of the production are pink and black. Taking into account the fact that colors have specific meanings, one can probably conclude that the author is aware of symbolism. As far as pink has an individual significance, one can state that the author chose it to evoke strong mental images. On the other hand, one is to keep in mind the relationship between certain colors, as color schemes determine the author’s general purpose. The composition of the painting The composition of the picture seems to be of a particular importance, as numerous elements of the painting, including texture, forms, lines, etc. show the depth or perspective of the author’s work. It must be noted that lines in the picture lead into the painting, what is extremely important to keep viewers’ attention on the production, but not off the painting. Pink and black are combined in such a way, to show they appear more distinct. It is difficult to say for sure whether there are large light areas are combined with small dark ones, or large dark areas balanced with small light ones. Visually, it seems that the area of black is smaller; so, the chroma seems to be stronger. In other words, one can probably state that the author relied on one of the basic principles of the joint effects of chroma, as “for colors of different value, subjects preferred a narrow band of either the light or the dark color, avoiding equally sized areas of different values” (“Visual Preferences,” n. d., para. 16). Furthermore, while pink can be regarded as a dominant color, the picture seems to cause positive feelings. Black, in its turn, determines the symbolical meaning of Morgan’s work. Thus, in my opinion, the picture reflects the fight between good and evil ; the theme is considered to be not new, but topical at all times. Tracy Morgan’s main aim The focal points of the piece of art reflect black inscribed circles. This aspect should be carefully analyzed, as through the inscribed elements the author depicted the vortex of events. Taking into account the fact that color consistency of Tracy Morgan’s painting is heterogeneou
Purchasing Sustainability Food processing and agronomy combined with supply are possibly the foundation stone of any economy. Food is a rudimentary human necessity. People’s health is also known to depend largely on food. A careful assessment of the food industry and agronomy will expose an intricate array of interconnected problems if we take into consideration the phenomenon of sustainability (Lang & Barling, 2012). With every other year, more and more companies concentrate their efforts on the attempts to offer sustainable food to the market. Nonetheless, in today’s food industry environment, very few companies are able to comply with the purchasing sustainability policy. On a bigger scale, this has an adverse impact on the companies because of the limitations it imposes on their practice. The current trend in the food industry hints at the fact that customers prefer buying local food that is eco-friendly and harmless. The ability of a company to adopt a policy that is based on the sustainability of food purchasing majorly helps food companies (Lawrence, Lyons, & Wallington, 2013). As a result, the companies would step away from their isolated food preparation process. They would use every option to involve their customers into purchasing healthy and environmentally friendly food. A responsible approach to motivating customers to buy sustainable products shows that the company is making a change towards a more sustainable food organization. In order to be successful, a reasonable policy on the food industry sustainability should be fully in compliance with the overall goals and objectives of the institution (Lang & Barling, 2012). A proper approach to the sustainability of purchase in the food industry is based on social and ecological targets and is designed to find new winning tactics and to provide resources necessary to those tactics. Waste Control Sustainability There are three main sources of impact when we talk about the waste control sustainability – direct, upstream, and downstream. The upstream effect consists in the amount of ecological and human resources that were utilized throughout the production process and the subsequent distribution of goods procured for the company (Grunert, Hieke, & Wills, 2014). After consumption of the product, the company will have to deal with a direct impact if the customer trashes the waste. If the customers take the goods with them, the company will be influenced by the downstream impact. The goods that are made available by the company and the services it provides may be important to the environment and the contentment level of its customers (Grunert et al., 2014)
According to World Health Organization (WHO) 2005, health promotion program is the process of enabling people to increase control over their health. The program under review will enter the PRECEDE model at phase one (social diagnosis phase) as it involves determination of the social problems, the needs, and thus the quality of life of the individuals in need of developing or adopting healthy lifestyles. Then it will go into phase 2 (epidemiological diagnosis), which involves identifying the health or other issues (e.g. prevalence of obesity, incidences of unhealthy lifestyles, etc) that most clearly influence the outcome the community seeks. In phase 3 involving behavioral and environmental diagnosis, the behaviors and lifestyles and/or environmental factors will be identified and changed to affect the health or other issues identified in phase 2, and determine which of them are most likely to be changeable. In the PRECEDE model, behavioral factors play a crucial role in some of the leading causes of death in the modern lifestyles such as, chronic diseases, heart disease, cancer, and stroke (Mc Ginnis & Foege, 1993). The behaviors associated with health problem include: use of tobacco, firearms, reckless driving without safety belts, irresponsible sexual behavior, illicit use of drugs, lack of physical exercises and dietary behavior. Maintaining an unhealthy diet for instance is a behavior that may expose one to cardiovascular disease, (O’Connor-Fleming & Parker, 2003). The PRECEDE health promotion model’s interventions seek to turn people away from risky behaviors and direct them toward healthful behaviors, such as following a rich diet (Issel, 2008). Environmental factors are also associated with the health problems for modern lifestyles as outlined in the PRECEDE model within the context of the program under review. A change in one’s behavior may be easier if certain aspects of the environment around him/her are supportive of that change, (Bunton et al. 2005). The environmental factors include: availability of referral services and health centers that provide public health initiatives, policy initiatives, existence and enforcement of legislation or laws such as a ban on smoking in public places, increasing levies on alcohol and cigarettes, making nicotine replacement therapy and other smoking cessation aids available and relatively low cost, availability of healthful products and alternatives to unhealthful behaviors. For example, availability of facilities like swimming pools, gymnasiums, parks and recreational centers in addition to security in their neighborhoods will encourage people to go out regularly for exercises in modern lifestyles. Environmental factors that may not be supportive of health problems include such things as lack of gyms and sports facilities, living and working with those who smoke, lack of health care providers and user fees for recreation centers and other sports facilities. All these are PRECEDE model strategies of manipulating the environment so as to achieve the desired results of bett
True feelings and experience are offered in Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston. The author admits that Janie Crawford has the life that is divided in accordance with the men, who enter her life. Though the central message of the story is all about the independence of the main character, it still seems to be doubtful whether Janie’s life could not be as colorful without all her husbands, different in nature and attitude to her. There are three men in Janie’s life: her first husband, Logan Killicks, offered by Nanny, her second husband, Joe Starks, who is cruel and confident, and her third husband, Tea Cake, whom she loves a lot and finds as the only true love in her life. The role of Tea Cake remains to be crucial in the story as well as in the whole life of Janie as his passion, creativity, and desire to create the best living conditions promote safety and comfort that is so necessary for the story. Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story that touches human lives. Emotions while reading Zora Neale Hurston help to understand the role of Tea Cake. Unfortunately, those readers, who are not able to make use of their feelings while reading, they fail to comprehend the importance of Tea Cake in Janie’s life as well as his abilities to change the development of the events. The story with several purposes is not only an exciting but educative piece of writing. Zora Neale Hurston does not want to focus on one particular item and its development under the conditions set b
Part 1: Self-Direct Both the Self Directed Search and O*Net profiler provide information on how people choose careers. In fact, the O*Net profiler is the most used inventory in the world. The personality types below forms the Holland hexagon that is used to show the similarities and differences among the personality types. It also shows the relationship amongst the six personality types to help in determining where one belongs and the type of career that one is able to excel. Figure 1: The Holland Hexagon (Huttchinson, 2001)  According to the Holland hexagon above, each personality type provides the variations among career choices. At the same time, it provides the relationship between one personality type and the other. For example, investigative and realistic personality types tend to have the same interests. However, social and realistic dispositions never work together. Conventional people usually work well with either realistic or enterprising persons. However, they cannot work well with the social or investigative personality types (Huttchinson, 2001). Using the interest profiler, an individual can come up with a career choice. The profiler contains a set of 60 questions whereby one responds by choosing among five answers that include ‘Strongly Dislike’, ‘Dislike’, ‘Unsure’, ‘Strongly Like’, and ‘Like’. These answers are represented in abbreviation as SD, D, U, SL, and L. At the outset, the scorecard takes the individuals through several interests to determine where they fir best (My Next Move, 2015). According to the O*Net profiler report my interests scored as follows. Part 2: Case Study Abstract This essay aims at comparing the results obtained from the self-directed search and O*Net profiler tools with a view of investigating various career options and personal interests. The self-directed search is based on the theory that people are usually classified in six different types of personalities that include realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. It enables an individual come up with a better career choice depending on one’s personality types. The participant had not been involved in any other career counseling in the institution. The following details show the client’s case history that reflects various career choice issues and interventions suggested by the counselor with regard to the current labor market. For purposes of confidentiality the individual was referred to as client X. As a part of this report, a student in a need of career guidance was used in the case study interview. The case indicates that the client was particularly interested in her elder brother’s career choice. This situation triggered inevitable thoughts that convinced her to change her first career. This client