Abstract
This paper looks at the management style known as Management By Walking Around (MBWA). The paper explains that this involves managers getting out of their offices for a good part of their day and walking around, visiting all their employees, engaging them in discussions, helping them solve problems and generally making sure everyone is working well and that things are running smoothly. They provide a means of two-way communication to make the employees happy and let the management know what is going on and how the employees are feeling in regard to the organization and its goals.

From the Paper
"As a worker I would be quite comfortable with the leader using the Managing By Walking Around (MBWA) style. I believe if workers are honest and conscientious, they have nothing to fear from their leaders and everything to gain. Leaders can provide guidance, answer questions, suggest ways of resolving problems and give employees encouragement and motivation."

Tags:Managing, By, Walking, Around, (MBWA)

Abstract
This paper discusses the classic novel "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne. It portrays the colorful characters involved in the story and describes the effect of the older writing style, which succeeds in convincing the reader that he has traveled back through time, as well as around the world.

From the Paper
"The setting for this book is nearly the entire world. As the main character, Phileas Fogg, attempts his feat, he takes the readers to many locales that were quite exotic when the book was written, including Cairo, Egypt; Bombay and Calcutta in India; Hong Kong; Yokohama, Japan; and the wild west of the United States. Each place is described in great detail and gives the reader a better understanding of the place Fogg and his companion have traveled to."

Tags:phileas, fogg, passepartout, fix, aouda, travels

Abstract
The ensuing paper will look at wedding traditions and customs around the globe. Given its modest size, this paper cannot discuss all of the various traditions and customs that are present in the world; thus, the focus will fall upon those cultural wedding traditions and customs that are fairly conspicuous - Lithuanian, Japanese, Chinese and Jewish - and well-addressed within the literature.

From the Paper
Geography: Wedding traditions and customs around the globe The ensuing paper will look at wedding traditions and customs around the globe. Given its modest size, this paper cannot discuss all of the various traditions and customs that are present in the world; thus, the focus will fall upon those cultural wedding traditions and customs that are fairly conspicuous - Lithuanian, Japanese, Chinese and Jewish - and well-addressed within the literature. Overall, it does appear as though there is a multiplicity of traditions and customs out there -and westernizing features certainly appear to be creeping into at least a few of those non-western traditions and customs (the Japanese wedding

Tags:wedding, traditions, customs

Abstract
This paper reviews and analyzes several chapters from Thomas Butler's book, "Experiencing Art Around Us" with an emphasis on art and the society that creates it. According to the text, the purpose of art is defined differently in Western versus non-Western cultures. The paper also explores the ideal of beauty. Other concepts relating to art are discussed, such as realism as opposed to art correcting the imperfections of nature. The paper concludes by noting that art can make the ordinary extraordinary.

From the Paper
"Even the idea of beauty as the artistic ideal, that art is a 'correction' of natural imperfection, has come under scrutiny by Western art critics. After all, van Gogh's sunflowers are wild, torn and ragged, much like the man's mind itself. Advocates of psychological theories of art note that this is what makes them so memorable. Of course, not every 'person on the street' would agree--some people still prefer representational art, and use realism as the guide for what constitutes art. However, there is not an unbroken line from realism to impressionism to modernism today. Realism has fallen in and out of favor in high art but traditional art is often highly representational and symbolic. In line with Aristotle, the Romans strove for more accurate mimesis but Italian Renaissance paintings strove to create a more perfect ideal, falling in line with the common Platonic trope that nature was an inferior copy of the heavens. Theories of the purpose of art are almost as varied as individual artist's intentions themselves."

Tags:Van Gogh, impressionism, realism, Mary Cassatt

Abstract
The paper argues that human rights should be practiced and protected around the world because they are the inherent right of every human being, but it is much easier to proclaim human rights than it is to grant and preserve them. The paper believes that it is critically important to extend human rights to everyone, for humanity can never truly consider itself civilized if human rights are being violated anywhere in the world. The paper asserts that tragically, the powerful have always exploited the weak, and as long as human nature remains flawed, human rights will be violated.

From the Paper
"Human rights should be practiced and protected around the world because they are the inherent right of every human being, but it is much easier to proclaim human rights than it is to grant and preserve them. It is critically important to extend human rights to everyone, for humanity can never truly consider itself civilized if human rights are being violated anywhere in the world. Tragically, the powerful have always exploited the weak, and as long as human nature remains flawed, human rights will be..."

Tags:human, rights, practice

Abstract
This paper explains that, in Rick Moody's "The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven", the characters are believed to be marginal; however, the reader must find his place either in the center or in the margins. Next, the author analyzes how Moody builds a world in which the reader wonders about his Manichean tendencies through the recurrent motif
of the Ring in the various stories that ensnares both the characters and the reader into categories so that the characters go beyond the margins between life, death, dream and reality. The paper concludes that Moody's characters have no limits, no rules and no premeditations, and thus he builds persona whose emotions are all distant from their physical experiences.

From the Paper
"Moody seems to explore the limits of writing as well. The
characters seem to dictate the forms of his writing. He makes labyrinth
out of sentences. Its goes everywhere at anytime. I had the feeling that
his writing was like a continuous stroke with loops, moving forward and
then going backward in time and space. It is very much the case in
"Treatment ".
"This short story is quite surprising, almost unreadable
because of the lack of punctuations. It is like a never ending stream of
thoughts, narrated both from an external point of view, as if a camera was
filming...."

Tags:counter-culture, characters, drugs, cinematographic, typographic

Abstract
This paper examines the discussion of the complex relationships the Ottoman Turkish Empire had with her European and Middle Eastern neighbors, as presented in Suraiya Faroqhi's book "The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It". In particular, the paper examines the writing style and expertise of author Suraiya Faroqhi. The paper discusses how the book examines the time period when the Turks were the foremost power in the Muslim world, taking the title from the Arabs before them.

From the Paper
"One of the most controversial and most generalized peoples that ever entered the European continent are the Turks. Beginning with the Seljuks, this ethnicity originally from near Mongolia has stayed in the European mindset, even to this day. The actions of Turkish ancestors still might be affecting modern Turkey's inadmission to the European Union."

Tags:Turkey, Ottoman, Empire, Suraiya, Faroqhi, Istanbul, Ottomans, Turks, Hapsburgs

Abstract
This paper conducts a semiotic analysis of the two movies, "You've Got Mail" and "Shop Around the Corner." The author finds that the main plots movies are similar, but there are important differences wit in the cinematography, themes and characterization. The paper highlights the differences and then proves why the older version was far more appealing than the newer one.

From the Paper
"You've Got Mail" is the remake of 1940 classic "Shop Around the Corner." While the main plot is the same there are certain semiotic differences, which should be studied closely in order to see which version is the better one. I have seen both movies and liked the original version better not only because of it being a classic but also because there are certain important features which puts the older version a lot more above the 1990s remake."

Tags:movies, plot, cinematography, 1940, classic, film, remake, 1990, characterization

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This paper discusses how the novel, "All Around the Town" by Mary Higgins Clark, deals with the mental illness of multiple personalities. It examines how the main character, Laurie Kenyon, and her family deal with this illness as well as predisposing factors, in order to provide appropriate nursing care. It looks at how trauma at a young age can result in this illness and what some triggers were and shows how the book stresses the importance of the support of family members and friends in the treatment and possible recovery of the patient.

Outline
Introduction
Laurie Kenyon and Lived Experiences
Family Reactions
Predisposing Factors
Theories of Causation
Incongruent Ideas
Living With This Illness
Conclusion

From the Paper
"When their parents were killed, Sarah encouraged Laurie to see a psychiatrist, after first visiting him to assure herself of his competence. After Dr. Carpenter examined Laurie, he became concerned about her mental state and saw that she exhibited signs of having multiple personalities. He then contacted a prominent psychiatrist, Dr. Donnelley, who had done extensive studies in the mental illness of multiple personalities. When Dr. Donnelley read Laurie's case history, he felt there was a strong chance that she was suicidal and requested to see Sarah immediately. Sarah was completely surprised and terrified to hear that Laurie could pose a threat to herself. She knew her sister needed help to deal with her parents death, but until that point, did not realize the extent of her illness."

Tags:mental, illness, psychiatrist, kenyon, care, child, abuse

Abstract
This paper discusses the narratives of African-American women and their struggle to realize the American Dream. It presents these narratives from the articles in "Let Nobody Turn Us Around," edited by Marable Manning and Leith Mullings. The paper discusses how, through the struggles of African-American women, we can learn much about the goals of the Black Freedom Movement.

From the Paper
"The African American movement of the later half of the 20th century profoundly shifted from the Civil Rights movement towards the much murkier field of providing freedom and liberation for subclasses of the subjugated. In section five of "Let Nobody Turn Us Around", the reader is presented with the narratives of African American women and their struggle to realize the American Dream. The conflict embodied within these articles provides a telling struggle of a two front war. Not only were African American women victimized for their black heritage, and thus racialized and castigated by society, they also fought an internal war against the pervasive sexism of the times. Through their struggles to gain recognition not only as African Americans, but as African American women, we can learn much about the goals of the Black Freedom Movement. The cry for equality that these women iterate through their narratives is matched by the historical feminist stances of past generations. The struggle for freedom and equality voiced through the experiences of contemporary African American feminists mirrors a historical and cultural struggle for gender equality that paralleled the movement for racial equality. The crystallization of African American women's struggle for independence is emblematic of the greater struggle for independence from racial divides."

Tags:feminism, egalitarian, society, Civil, Rights