Abstract
The analysis focuses on the extent of the extreme range of profitable vs. unprofitable airlines. The paper posits that jet fuel volatility in price and other measurements of financial risk must be a factor within an overall analysis, but notes that it must include more that this, because there are but a few airlines that are consistently profitable, and they are subject to the same factors as all the other airlines.

From the Paper
"The airline industry plays an important role in a country's economy. In fact according to "The National Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline Industry;" a Report to the President and Congress, dated August 1993; the air transportation system has become essential to the economic progress for the citizens and businesses of [the United States]." (Baliles, 1993). Clearly the same could be said of any country of the world. Air travel facilitates economic growth, world trade, international..."

Tags:airline, risk, health

Abstract
This paper discusses Harold Garfinkel's theory of ethnomethodology, a sociological perspective that studies the ways that people make sense of the chaotic social world. The author provides a short introduction of Garfinkel and describes the changes in the basics of, and analysis methods that ethnomethodology has undergone since its conception by Garfinkel and explains how these changes enabled more progress in the field. The paper further explains the application of ethnomethodology in fields such as education, communications and healthcare.

Outline:
Introduction
Garfinkel and Development of Ethnomethodology
Overview of Ethnomethodology
Applications of Ethnomethodology
Conclusion
References Cited

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"The social science of sociology is continually changing, due to the ongoing evolution of the society that it is studying. Although different methodologies, such as functionalisms, Marxism and symbolic interactionism have significant differences, they all are based on the premise that the social world is essentially orderly and that patterns of societal behavior and interaction are regular and systematic rather instead of haphazard and chaotic. A recent sociological perspective called ethnomethodology, theorized by Harold Garfinkel in the 1967 Studies in Ethnomethodology studies the ways in which people make sense of their potentially chaotic social world."

Tags:sociology, theory, application, interactions

Abstract
The paper analyzes Margaret J. Wheatley's "Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World", which is a call to organizational leaders and managers to address the needs of their individual employees. The paper looks at the author's background, provides a summary of the book and relates the author's viewpoint and purpose. The paper also examines the author's use of evidence and counter-evidence and discusses how convincing the arguments are. The paper compares this book with other books and articles on this topic and concludes with a final, positive, evaluation of the book.

Outline:
Author's Background
Summary of Book
The Author's Viewpoint and Purpose
Evidence the Author Presents to Support Her Thesis
Author's Use of Evidence and Counter Evidence
The Book's Argument---Convincing or Not
This Book Compared With Other Books and Articles on the Same Subject
Final Evaluation of the Book

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"The book, Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, demonstrates how the "new Science" discoveries in fields such as biology, quantum physics, and chaos theory are changing society's antiquated views of the universe. As a result, this new science provides model insights into management, design, and leadership of today's organizations (Wheatley, 2001, p. 4). Throughout her book, Wheatley explains how leaders can change the way they lead to create a competitive business that is able to competently compete in an ever changing world. She writes that good leaders can connect individuals to the identity of the corporation so these individuals can then accept responsibility for changing themselves rather than feeling as though change has been imposed from those at the top (Wheatley, 2001, p. 24)."

Tags:management, identity, employees, change

Abstract
The paper looks at the author, Margaret J. Wheatley, who is a well-known writer, speaker and teacher who professes new ideas for business organizations in what she proclaims are difficult times. The paper relates that since 1973, she has been a researcher and organizational consultant, as well as a professor of management in several graduate programs. The paper lists her qualifications and experiences.

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"The author, Margaret J. Wheatley, is a well-known writer, speaker and teacher who professes new ideas for business organizations in what she..."

Tags:leadership, book, review

Abstract
This paper explains that Vassily Kandinsky's work is often chaotic and formless; however, they are somehow pleasing to the eye as seen in paintings such as "Landscape Near Murnau with Locomotive" (1909), "Black Lines No. 189" (1913) and "Little Pleasures" (1913). The author points out that Kandinsky believed the purpose of painting was to prepare people to think and see in terms of immaterial form rather than perceived objects like apples and nudes. The paper concludes that Vassily Kandinsky, the founder of abstract expressionism, was unique in his successful endeavors to juxtapose color, light, landscape, music, spirituality, nature and other essences of life into his artistic works.

Table of Contents
Introduction and Thesis Statement
Personal Feelings about Kandinsky's work
Biography of Kandinsky
Kandinsky's German Expressionism
The Blau Reiter (Blue Rider) Movement
The Influence of Theosophy on Kandinsky
Kandinsky's Color Theory
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Typically, German Expressionists depicted aspects of real life as they saw it, not just abstraction and spirituality. Also, they painted not so much within a vacuum of pure art but rather to artistically express diverse influences on art and life of nature, spirituality, music, architecture and sculpture. Within that spirit, Kandinsky and Franz Marc co-founded the Blue Rider (Blaue Reiter) movement (1911-14), and along with it, their Blaue Reiter Almanac (1911) and a Blaue Reiter Exhibition (1912), all so-named because of Kandinsky's fondness for two canvases he painted years earlier."

Tags:chaotic, immaterial, founder, movement, juxtapose

Abstract
The following paper looks at the combined elements of chaotic transition and developmental diversification that have traditionally hovered over the Dominican Republic . The author explores the continuing influence and effect that have resulted from the merging of these divergent factors.

From the Paper
"The same white beaches and blue waters that drew Columbus to discover the shores of the Dominican Republic some five hundred years ago continue to draw the interest and attention of modern researchers and writers. In recent years, a wealth of information has been studied and published regarding the various factors that have historically shaped the political, societal and economic cultures of this Caribbean country as well as the forces and influences that continue to affect it today."

Tags:chaotic, transition, developmental, diversification, Dominican, Republic, research, anthology, Countries, of, the, World, Rita, de, Caminero

Abstract
This paper explains that James Gleick in his book "Chaos: Making a New Science" reports the work of meteorologist and pioneer of the chaos theory, Edward Lorenz, to computerize the forecasting of weather based on physical laws. The author points out that Gleick explains, even though the straight-forward mathematical attempt by Lorenz to find weather averages was a "failure", Lorenz discovered that the phenomenon of climate instability was related to the chaos theory. The paper relates that Lorenz' two non-linear discoveries are (1) that models of chaotic systems have an exquisitely sensitive dependence on initial dependence called the butterfly effect and (2) that even simple systems can show complex, chaotic behavior proving that the "clockwork" universe doesn't exist.

Table of Contents
Gleick's Belief of the Possibility to Forecast Weather
The Butterfly Effect
Nonlinear and Linear Systems
Similar to Predicting the Motions of Planets
Link between Aperiodic Behavior and Unpredictable Behavior
Thermal Convection

From the Paper
"The very act of predicting weather is "fragile" when it comes to computer modeling, even though the data may be "reasonable trustworthy" and the laws of science are "purely physical" (20). But the computer modeling of weather patterns and air movement and temperatures and all the other ingredients that go into the stew, are only good for a day or two; "beyond two or three days the world's best forecasts" are / were speculative, and "beyond six or seven," Gleick writes, "they were worthless." Why were they worthless? "The Butterfly Effect was the reason.""

Tags:butterfly, modeling, universe, nonlinear, thermals

Abstract
Two epic heroes of vastly different cultures search for identity, representing all human kind. In the similarly chaotic worlds Arjuna, hero of "The Bhagavad-Gita", and Odysseus, hero of "The Odyssey", learn about themselves in depth and come to terms with death, war and the afterlife, revealing that heroism in these two worlds is quite similar. This paper examines the major differences in their responses to the challenges of their respective quests, their relationship to their gods.

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"Two ancient epic poems, The Bhagavad-Gita and The Odyssey, from vastly different cultures, reveal the ongoing search of the human race to understand the significance of the self and humanity's role in a world it cannot comprehend. In both these epics the quest for the individual human's sense of self is presented in the form of the hero metaphor in which a larger than life figure takes on the symbolic search for identity. Arjuna and Odysseus, the heroes of the two epics, both strive to bring order to the everyday chaos of the human world. In many ways the quests are similar. Central to both epics is the way their heroes struggle to discover what their relationship to the gods has to do with their identity. The major difference between Odysseus and Arjuna in the quest for identity, arises from their contrasting cultural conceptions of the gods, those superhuman forces, and how they influence, control, or guide mortal men."

Tags:bhagavad, gita, odyssey, Arjuna, Odysseus, Bhagavad-Gita, Odyssey

Abstract
The following paper shows how the works of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson all have an unreal quality about them as they are removed from real life and are emotional rather than intellectual.

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"The subjects of Walt Whitman are wider ranging than Poe and Dickinson. They are also often on less emotional and more concrete subjects. Some of these subjects include the futility of war, love and separation, first love as well as more spiritual topics. What Whitman shares with Poe and Dickinson is the emotion levels of his work. In form, Whitman's poems are long. They are also more structured than Poe's, whose sentences tend to be short and stanzas tend to be irregular. Rhyme is used by Whitman though rhyme is sometimes unstructured and chaotic".

Tags:rhyme, themes

Abstract
This paper looks at the many similarities in Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", and Charlotte Bronte's novel, "Jane Eyre". The author discusses the gothic elements present in both books: the dark, the hidden, the secrets, and the brooding characters like Heathcliff and Mr. Rochester. The paper examines the element of the occult in both novels: ghosts, visions, the dead Catharine, and insane Bertha Mason Rochester.

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Traditionally, Gothic elements were constituted by the ambiguous, the chaotic, the unenlightened, the supposedly irrational, the dark, the hidden, and the secret. According to literary handbooks, Gothic is a matter of d?cor and mood, of an obscurely pleasurable terror, of the nostalgic melancholy of ruins and of remote times and places. Conventions familiar in Gothic narratives include a vulnerable/curious heroine, a wealthy/enigmatic hero/villain, and a grand, mysterious dwelling concealing violent secrets."

Tags:bronte, genre, ghost, moors, yorkshire, heathcliff, bertha, rochester, catharine, lockwood