Abstract This paper is a detailed review and analysis of "A Future Perfect" by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (2000). This essay critiques the book and updates the issues of globalization with relation to more contemporary literature. The author of this essay concludes that the book provides useful and accurate information about the effects of globalization.
Discusses how Microsoft keeps ahead of its competition, using Adrian J. Slywotsky's book "Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition" as a reference.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, 2002, $ 44.95
Abstract This paper shall examine the book, "Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition" by Adrian J. Slywotsky in respect to the business Microsoft. The strategies describes by Slywotsky in his book are demonstrated by Microsoft in 1996, which can be considered the beginning of true corporate power for Microsoft.
A paper which compares and discusses setting as a reflection of character in "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe, and "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare.
Abstract The author of this paper shows how the setting and atmosphere of the two works "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Edgar Allen Poe) and "The Tempest" (Shakespeare), are a reflection of the characters. Each work is analyzed individually.
From the Paper "Again, the setting is defining the characters and their moods. "Extensive decay" could just as well describe Roderick and Madeline after she returns from the tomb. It could also describe the family itself, who, through intermarriage and interbreeding, weakened its bloodlines until only the sickly Roderick and Madeline are left to carry on the name."
From the Paper "Films make a number of assumptions about gender based on audience beliefs and expectations, and these are derived from the social structure prevalent at the time the film is made. A given film may present different images of gender roles through different characters. In both Fatal Attraction (1987) and the 1992 version of Cape Fear, there are gender roles based on the nuclear family that are held up as preferred or "normal" roles, and these are countered either by the actual behavior of some family member or by an outside force representing a different sexual energy, a different gender role. The films deliberately contrast what the filmmakers see as "normal" gender roles and deviant gender roles, and in both cases the deviant sexual energy threatens the family unit to such a degree that the outside force has to be killed to restore order to the family."
Abstract This paper explains that the purpose behind "Everybody's Business" is to introduce the new business ethic of the twenty-first century. The book revolves around explaining how issues such as human rights and the environment, which were once regarded as being of little consequence in business decision-making, are now mainstream and present serious risks for today's companies if they choose to ignore these issues.
From the Paper "Books on business management, it seems, are as numerous as the grains of sand on a beach. Everyone seems to have an opinion on the best management style and the best way to make a company succeed. Yet most of these books and the theories associated with them are practically carbon copies of each other; none of them have anything truly original to say. Your average, garden-style management book will most likely be nothing more than a re-hash of thousands, even tens of thousands, management books that have come before it. That is why it is so refreshing when a management book with something new and different to say comes along. Everybody's Business, by David Grayson and Adrian Hodges, is such a book."
Abstract This paper shows how Kogawa uses a finely balanced set of techniques in the journal/diary form to write "Obasan". The writer is a big fan of the writer and her writing style and points out a number of reasons why she used these techniques to deliver the dramatic effect. The paper includes a few comparisons to other diary-style literary pieces including "The Diary of Adrian Mole" and others.
From the Paper "Perhaps the most obvious structural aspect of Kogawa's use of the journal/diary form in Obasan is her manipulation of time. In a method similar to that employed by Michael Ondaatje in The English Patient, Kogawa tells the story from the point of view of a tortured adult in the present viewing defining moments in his or her past through vivid flashbacks. In contrast to Ondaatje, Kogawa's flashbacks extend right through to early childhood and are expressed both innocently (from the child's point of view) as well as analytically (from the adult Naomi's point of view)."
Tags: canadian, discrimination, internment, japanese, war, world, wwii
Abstract The psychoanalytic approach to aesthetics enables us to understand the artists' aesthetic experiences as he or she conjures up his perception and response thereof, interpretation and meaning and his or her thoughts and feelings. The paper explains that, primarily divided into applied psychoanalysis and clinical psychoanalysis, the discipline of psychoanalytic aesthetics has been studied and commented upon by many famous psychoanalysts and clinicians over the years. This paper focuses on the comments of clinician Hanna Segal's psychoanalytic approach to aesthetics in general and particularly her quotes on creation and recreation. It examines her comment: ?The essence of the aesthetic creation is a resolution of the central depressive situation and that the main factor in the aesthetic experience is the identification with this process." (H. Segal, 1981).
From the Paper "According to Segal, one of the main aims of the artists is to create a world of his own, as Winnicott (1971) also held that the need to create something out of nothing is the main impulse. Segal says that though the artist believes that he is engaged in reproducing the external world, the fact is that the artist is using the external world to rebuild his own inner self. One of the themes used by Segal is of recovering the past and the defragmentation of the pieces."
Tags:Adrian, Strokes, Sigmund, Freud, symptom, building
Abstract This research paper examines and analyzes the history of painting in the twentieth century in the British Isles. The work of English artists such as Roger Hilton, Terry Frost, Adrian Ryan, Stanley Spencer, Victor Pasmore, and Laurence Stephen Lowry are assessed.
Abstract Unlike human beings, society does not merely evolve. The evolution of society often occurs of the human beings who live within it. It is often a violent process of revolution and deconstruction followed by a laborious period of reconstruction. The paper examines the views of theorists Karl Marx, Adrian Oldfield, T. H. Marshall Rawls, and Bridges who all describe the process by which society changes. These changes, painfully wrought or not, have formed the basis of our modern society.
Abstract The paper looks at the status of management theory through Eileen Shapiro's article "Managing in the Age of Gurus". There is a discussion of the ideas in "The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus" by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge and the paper examines the conflicting views of Shapiro.
From the Paper "In these times of ever-increasing struggles with management and as management, as well as an uncertain economic atmosphere, it is necessary to get to the bottom of corporate and accounting problems that deal with this mainstay in the business world. In a 1997 article for the Harvard Business Review, writer Eileen Shapiro attempts to do just that. She begins by mentioning a recently published volume on management gurus, The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. Shapiro notes that in their haste to come up with a book on the status of management theory, the authors argue that it "is an immature discipline, one that lacks 'canonical texts and defining methodologies' and is 'bedeviled by contradictions that would not be allowed in more rigorous disciplines'" (Shapiro 4)."
Abstract The paper examines "Caesar: Life of a Colossus", the biography of the greatest of Rome's generals. The paper describes how Goldsworthy provides a biography that is comprehensive on the many different facets of leadership and personality traits that Caesar had in his long and successful career as a general and a public servant. The paper relates that Goldsworthy provides primary and secondary sources as well as historically authentic documents written by Caesar. The paper concludes that although Goldsworthy might have delved deeper into the ethical aspects of Caesar's megalomania and ruthless actions, he still provides an important and scholarly account of the famous Roman general and emperor.
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From the Paper "Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy examines the life of one of the greatest of the Rome's generals and reveals a biography from his earliest years, to his final downfall as a dictator of Rome. The basis of Caesar's military and educational training are essential parts of the biography, which Goldsworthy covers from childhood and early adulthood to his adult life as a general. The story then revolves around Caesar's military conquests, which result in his latter life being centered on his leadership as an emperor and finally, a dictator that is eventually put to death."
Abstract The paper examines the book "Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx" that describes the problems facing two young women as they mature in the Bronx. The paper focuses on three main problems facing these girls that are drugs, poverty and lack of education. The paper discusses how almost all the residents face these problems and they deal with them in similar self-destructive and defeating ways that do not lead to successful lives. The writer concludes with a personal reflection on this story.
From the Paper "The problem areas are pervasive in the Bronx and in just about every other inner city poverty-stricken area in the country. Low-income people struggle just to survive and have little hope of ever escaping the hopelessness of their lives. The first major problem is drugs. They are everywhere in the Bronx, especially in the area where Jessica lives. About the only way to prosper in this area is to deal drugs, and the rest of the people know it. The drug dealers flaunt their wealth and status, and other residents are drawn to them because of their success and opulence."
Abstract This paper examines the definitions of the meaning of the word theology according to three theological dictionaries: "The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought," edited by Adrian Hastings, "A New Dictionary of Christian Theology," edited by A. Richardson and J. Bowden, and "Evangelical Dictionary of Theology," edited by Walter A. Elwell. The writer presents an analysis through providing summaries for the definition given by each of the three dictionaries, and explains where the three definitions overlap, as well as their major differences. The paper concludes with the writer's personal definition of the word "theology," based on the three examined definitions.
From the Paper "This particular dictionary makes a distinction between theology and religious studies. Theology as opposed to religious studies is all embracing of the secular and the sacred including disparate disciplines such as geology, psychology and biology. Another key feature of this dictionary's definition is the five principle types of theology including: liturgical and pastoral, scriptural commentary, thematic, experiential, and allegorical all of which have their own distinguishable language, methodology and purpose."
Abstract This paper discusses the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem that says that countries with more resources will export these resources and counties with more labor will export the intensive-intensive goods. The writer explains the assumptions on which this theorem is built, and discusses Adrian Wood's arguments that it is a feasible one as long as production is not mobile internationally. Using China and India for examples, the writer shows why this theory is now outdated, and Wood's arguments are flawed. The theory does not take into account the rapid changes that globalization and technology are making to the international landscape, or how many variables there are when attempting to predict and interpret international trade. The paper concludes that it is much more feasible to create an ideology that includes all of these new variables when discussing international trade.
From the Paper "International trade is something that will always be debated because it is interesting to see who has the advantages and why. The most common manner by which to explain the advantages that certain countries have over others in trade in by using a comparative advantage model. There will always be different scales because of the various differences between countries' finances, education levels, population, demographics, resources, and other factors. The Heckscher-Ohlin theorem does go a long way in showing why certain countries have an advantage in producing good that come from natural resources, it is still uncertain if this theorem can hold up when dealing with both skilled labour and the production of luxury goods because the climate is changing so rapidly in the world."
Tags: commodities, supply, demand, luxury, recession, welfare, manufacturer, offshore, income
