Abstract The paper explores why the Tony Awards were named after Antoinette Perry and who exactly Antoinette Perry was. The paper discusses how these questions are often not mentioned when people talk about the Tony Awards, but there are many reasons that the Tony Awards were named after Antoinette Perry. The paper examines how the life and works of Tony Antoinette Perry affected Broadway, the lives of many GIs, actresses and actors and many others. The paper relates that the way to show the appreciation for all that Tony Antoinette had done for Broadway was to name the Tony Awards after her.
Abstract This paper presents an argument against capping medical malpractice awards. The paper discusses several reasons why capping awards should not be adopted as public policy, contending that capping limits injured patients' access to justice.
From the Paper "Capping medical-malpractice awards should not be adopted as public policy. It would be grossly inappropriate for several reasons. The much-discussed crisis in medical care that doctors and insurers attribute to malpractice litigation is misdirected and can be traced to other causes. The idea that malpractice awards are out of control and are increasing all the time is simply wrong and cannot be sustained by the facts which suggests that attempts to cap award amounts for punitive damages are being made in bad
Abstract This paper discusses how looking at the recipients for the major film and television awards for 2006 reveals distinct trends. It looks at how history has clarified many of the trends that help determine which actors and which films winawards and how nominated movies are almost always big budget, large scale productions. It also examines how critics and motion picture academies tend to like films about overcoming obstacles: including war, racism, and physical or mental disabilities and how audiences and critics alike are fascinated with unique and exceptional individuals, whether disabled or celebrity.
From the Paper "Film awards may serve as cultural barometers and as reflections of current consciousness and cultural ideals. Helen Mirren's portrayal of Queen Elizabeth humanizes one of the most emotionally distant public leaders. Audiences want to see their heroes and nemeses humanized. Superhero movies are fun but their impact on human consciousness is minimal. We want to watch strong characters grapple with tough decisions and survive against the odds. Films depicting legal battles against major corporations denote the victory of the little man: a favorite American theme. We want to see intense suffering turned into personal triumph, which is integral to the mythos of our culture."
Tags: productions, motion, picture, oscar, academy
Abstract This paper presents a detailed examination of the voting procedures for the Tony Awards. The writer explores the history and the current procedure and provides the winning entries from a recent award ceremony.
From the Paper "For almost every genre in the entertainment field there is an award available. The rock industry has the MTV awards, the country field as the CMT awards, and the actors on film have their Emmy awards. The theater also has an award that its participants can be nominated for. The Tony Award is considered to be a prestigious honor for anyone involved in the world of theater. The Tony Awards are decided through a voting process that has a long history behind it."
Abstract This paper explains how the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has embraced a commitment to superior quality service as means of maintaining a competitive edge. The paper explains the hotel company's efforts at quality customer service, improved productivity among employees, and the fostering of product loyalty among its customers. Also discussed is the company's history, awards it has received, its Total Quality Management approach to change, and the improvement of customer service.
Introduction
Company
History
Awards Gold Standards
Empowering Employees to Implement an AwardWinning Approach
Using TQM to Drive Change and Improve Customer Service
Challenges and Benefits
From the Paper "In today's society, consumers are often seen more as numbers than actual people. Customer service is talked about frequently, but rarely delivered upon. Customer's requests or needs that go beyond what employees typically experience often fall upon the deaf ears of apathetic employees. Complaints are often handled equally as careless. One company, however, has a reputation for being different ? Ritz-Carlton Hotels."
Abstract This paper explains that Alan Schneider, who was an awardwinning director, innovator, teacher and mentor, was a major influence in academic commercial, local, regional and amateur theater. The author points out Schneider joined the Arena Stage in Washington D. C. during its formative years in the late 1940s, directed such works as "The Glass Menagerie" in 1951, which propelled the playwright Tennessee Williams into international prominence; the two men became close life-long friends. The paper states that the greatest insight into how Alan Schneider's style of directing can be found in the University of California, San Diego, collection of his papers entitled "Series 3, Production Materials"; the paper lists briefly some of its contents, which give an indication into his directing style for plays fro 1941 to 1979.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Biographical and Background Information
The Balancing of a Career
Correspondence Series of Insights
Alan Schneider Style of Directing and Teaching
From Directing to Teaching - An Easy Transition
Conclusions
From the Paper "In 1963 Alan Schneider received the Antoinette Perry (Better known as the "Tony") Award for his excellence of direction of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Likewise he's won the Village Voice Off-Broadway (OBIE) Award for his direction of "The Dumbwaiter" and "The Collection." Plus in Washington D. C., the Board of Trade Award "for outstanding contribution to professional Community Theater in the nation's capital and production director of Arena Stage." However Alan Schneider, always a restless and busy person, was never one to rest much, or even dwell long on his laurels. His delight came in helping others attain their goals and aspirations particularly the youth of not only the United States but throughout Europe and England."
Abstract This paper provides a comparative analysis of the Academy Awards and MTV-MA as award-giving bodies. The paper posits that both award-giving bodies have similarities and differences that arise from the culture, audience, commercial value and socio-political relevance of the movies and processes that each award-giving body undergoes. The paper in general attributes specific segments of American culture as the primary driver that distinguishes the Oscars from the MTV-MA.
From the Paper "These award-giving programs have their own niche and place at the spectrum of American entertainment. The Academy Awards' image differs radically from the MTV Movie Awards, though both programs enjoy popularity and renown not only in the entertainment business, but more specifically because of their influence in American culture. The Academy Awards' (referred to from now on as the Oscars) and MTV-MA's (MTV Movie Awards) importance is based, then, on their relevance to the entertainment business and the general public (as the audience and patrons of the entertainment business)."
Abstract This paper explains that, for more than a decade, scholars and judges of the legal world of international arbitration have been debating if a national court must enforce a foreign arbitral award that has been set aside by the authorities of the country where the award was made. The core issue, the author points out, relates to the identification of the legal order to which the arbitral award, which is being rendered in a given country, is said to belong. The paper presents cases that support showing deference to the judge of the seat and cases that support treating the arbitral award as an international decision. The sources are listed as footnotes instead of in a bibliography.
Table of Contents:
The Case for Showing Deference to the Judge of the Seat
The Case for Treating the Arbitral Award as an International Judicial Decision
From the Paper "This is brightly illustrated by a 1999 decision Baker Marine where the Second Circuit declined to enforce two awards made in Lagos, which had been set aside by the Nigerian Federal High Court for various reasons including excess of jurisdiction of the arbitrators and improper award of punitive damages . The US Court of Appeals considered that the parties had chosen Nigerian law to govern both their arbitral proceedings and their substantive rights and that therefore the US public policy on arbitration directed the judges to give effect to the intent of the parties by respecting the outcome of the dispute as decided under Nigerian law."
Tags: identification, punitive damages, baker marine, norsolor, french case law
Abstract This paper in APA style describes the implementation of TQM and manufacturing awards within the organization and suggests its benefits and drawbacks as a necessity to improvement and productivity. 20 pgs.
Abstract This paper examines the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which is administered through a complex set of processes under the management of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It looks at how it was set up as an opportunity to examine an organization critically and identify strengths and opportunities in order to improve the company's overall quality. In particular, it discusses how serving on the Baldrige Award committee can be a rewarding experience in someone's career. Through the experience, people will be able to strengthen their ability to assess an organization, receive valuable training, and develop analytical and consensus building skills that can be applied to their own organization, as well as many others.
Outline
Introduction: How Did It Start
Criteria for Performance
Administration of the MBNQA
Board of Overseers
Board of Examiners
Judges
Senior Examiner
Examiner
The Selection Criteria
Criteria Expertise
Depth of Experience
Specialized Expertise
Examiner Skills
Final Selection of Members
Conclusion
References
From the Paper "This is the first of the three distinct groups. There are only a total of nine judges that oversee the entire process of administering the award. They must also help with the selecting examiners, review the scored applications, selecting the organizations to visit, and reviewing the results of the visit (Wadworth, p.109). Once that process is completed, they can select the organization to recommend for the Malcolm Baldrige Award. The judges are involved in the oversight of the entire process, but they do not actually get involved with the process until the many hours of work by the examiners are completed. Then it is left up to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to make the final decision for the award after further background evaluations of the recommended organizations have been completed."
Abstract This paper examines approaches to communication between parents and teenagers according to what is referred to as "Win-Win Negotiation", a term that connects to several bodies of research which gained great prevalence in various fields of the Applied social sciences through the 1980s. As a set of methods to be promoted within the family, the model represents a departure from past ideals of parent-teenager interaction, in a break from both the authoritarian approaches of old and their more lenient counterparts. The former has insisted that the teenager is a person negotiating the difficult years of adolescence and who therefore requires strong and externally-exerted direction from his or her parents; such movements as Tough-Love may be associated with the approach's general trend.
Abstract This essay covers the ?who,? ?what,? ?when,? ?where,? ?why,? ?how,? and other details about the award.
From the Paper "Congress named the Malcolm Baldrige award after the most honored Secretary of Commerce in January 22, 1981. Malcolm Baldrige is known for his strong support for quality management, and for having a hand in the drafting and passing of the Quality Improvement Act. Malcolm was considered to be the most lively, loved, and finest Secretary of Commerce. Even though he died in a rodeo accident in July1987, the memory of him lives on in the prestigious award."
Abstract This is a nursing proposal suggesting what nurses can do to reduce risk while strongly advocating caps on malpractice awards. The current legislature on malpractice caps and the level of reduced care to patients is discussed. The patients' own inability to afford service, the affordability to practice by physicians and their need to increase patients' costs for services by ordering many more than medically necessary are all covered.
From the Paper "There is a vicious cycle taking place in the world of healthcare that involves patients, attorneys, physicians and healthcare professionals and facilities and insurance companies. Medical malpractice premium rates are forcing doctors and nurse practitioners to order medically unnecessary tests and pad bills or fold their practices. According to the Center for Legal Policy (as cited by Stableford, 2005) "unnecessary medical tests and constant referrals to specialists for second and third opinions costs an unnecessary $60 billion to $100 billion." Law suits continue to climb at an alarming rate with unconscionable awards that are not consistent with something that can be measured tangibly. Attorneys play on the sympathy of juries for neurological deformities of infants that could have naturally occurred genetically, not necessarily as a result of medical error, yet huge awards for punitive damages are awarded."
Abstract In this article, the writer explains that appropriate technology used properly wins wars. The writer uses different examples to show that, whether taken battle by battle or over the course of a campaign or an entire war, winners employed appropriate technology properly, and that made the difference. The writer points out that examples from World War II and the Vietnam War clearly show that the effective use of appropriate technology does win wars, while the reverse has the opposite effect. The writer also shows over all that the strategic use of superior technology is ultimately the deciding factor in winning wars. However, in the case of Vietnam, the wrong technology was used improperly and resulted in a mess from which the U.S. still bears the scars.
From the Paper "World War II covered a huge geographical area, from Great Britain to the South Pacific, including Europe, Asia, parts of the Middle East, Africa and small portions of North America. Over the course of the war advances in military technology were employed as fast as they could be developed. Adolph Hitler had planned this war for a long time and, for some time, the German U-boats rules the seas and their fighters and bombers devastated their enemies from the air. This easily explains why the Germans started off a step ahead. America tried steadfastly to stay out of the conflict, having adopted an isolationist view, but were drawn in when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. This devastated the U.S. Navy, nearly destroying the Seventh Fleet, but the citizens pitched in and rebuilt faster than anyone imagined could be done."
This paper looks at John Maxwell's book "Winning with people: Discover the People Principles that Work for You Everytime" and discusses the discovery of successful people principles.
Abstract In this article, the writer notes that the ability to work with people is the single most important element for success in any leadership position. The writer points out that John Maxwell discusses the principles of interacting with people in his book "Winning with people: Discover the People Principles that Work for You Everytime". The writer notes that the nurse must work with people in various capacities throughout the day and continually interacts with patients, staff, supervisors, and other members of the healthcare organization. Nurses must demonstrate leadership skill, regardless of they position that they hold. The writer explores how these principles can be applied to nurses to make them more effective in dealing with the people that they encounter on a daily basis.
Outline:
Readiness: Are We Prepared For Relationships?
Connection: Are We Willing to Focus on Others?
Trust: Can We Build Mutual Trust?
Investment: Are We Willing to Invest in Others?
Synergy: Can We Create a Win-Win Relationship?
From the Paper "The first principle examines whether a person is truly ready to have a relationship. We must understand ourselves before we can even attempt to understand others. Many people go through life with a confrontational attitude. As we grow up, we see conflict all around us and we learn from an early age that we must protect ourselves from harm. This principle is closely tied to the Lens Principle. We can learn volumes about ourselves by examining how we see others. According to Maxwell, how we see others is a reflection of how we see ourselves. For instance, if one is a trusting person they will see others as trustworthy. If one is critical of others, they will see others as critical."
