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Russell Baker's "Growing Up", 2005.
This paper relates the story of journalist Russell Baker's memoir "Growing Up".
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This paper explains that Russell Baker's memoir "Growing Up" begins with his mother's deteriorating health in old age and then flashes back to the times when he was growing up with a widowed, strong-willed mother and a little sister, all struggling to survive during the Great Depression. The author points out that Baker details the strong familial love he grew up with as everyone in the country scrambled to make ends meet and how his family first lived in a rural area in Virginia, then Bellville, New Jersey and later in Baltimore, Maryland. The paper reveals that not until his mother remarried was he able to return to the happiness that large rooms and green vistas seemed to grant him.
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"Luckily, Baker's uncle moved all of them out to Belleville, New Jersey, and out of the urban grit that so characterized Newark. Belleville was a town of "big grassy lawns and streets canopied with trees" (90). Here, his mother focused her considerable energies on giving her son the best education possibly, making him ahead in school and giving him straight A's. It was also here that he met a group of friends, learned roller-skating and took banjo lessons. But, sadly, his time in Belleville came to an end when his mother moved them all to Baltimore to fund his uncle's lumber company, the lumber company that quickly went out of business."
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"Growing Up" by Russell Baker, 1996.
Critical review of work by journalist about his life, family, the great depression, hardship & hope.
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"Russell Baker's Growing Up should be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for both content and style. Baker has written a work which humanely and vividly portrays the coming-of-age of a young man at in an era crucial to the development of the United States as a modern nation---the era of the Great Depression and the Second World War. Baker's book is valuable for its entertainment value, its humor, its humanity, its poignancy, and for its masterful and seemingly effortless blending of the personal and the historical. We come to know not only this young man and his family, but also the spirit of the nation in this turbulent time.
Baker is a well-respected journalist who in this book looks back over his childhood and young manhood in order to honor that childhood, his family, and the courage and steadfastness of America between the two world wars. It covers not only the urban..."
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Bill Russell's "Russell Rules", 2005.
This paper reviews "Russell Rules" by Bill Russell (2001) about leadership.
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This paper explains that Bill Russell was a sports figure who offers his eleven lessons on leadership based on his time as a basketball player. The author points out that, in "Russell Rules", Russel adapted sport leadership to other arenas such as business and politics. The paper relates how Russell's ideas are in keeping with the ideas of other business leaders who have written advice books for future leaders.
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"Bill Russell is a sports figure who sets forth eleven lessons on leadership. Clearly, these lessons were developed in a sporting context and can be applied to team efforts, suggesting ways of being a leader and of empowering others to do their best. These lessons are applicable in many other contexts, of course, including business, political situations, and similar areas where leadership is needed and where the individual can follow these rules to achieve his or her best. The leadership lessons Russell offers are comparable to those offered by other business leaders who similarly want to empower others to achieve the most they can achieve. Russell's approach shows clearly that there is a link between all forms of leadership and efforts at achieving personal excellence so that business leaders and sports leaders can learn from and teach one another lessons that apply in both realms and that lead to success."
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Following ?Russell Rules?, 2006.
A review of the book "Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership" by Bill Russell and David Falkner.
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This paper reviews and critiques the book "Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership" by Bill Russell and David Falkner. The paper explains that the core of the book's focus is on how to communicate successfully. According to its so-called Russell's Rules, not only do effectual leaders need to become adept at identifying change, but also in dealing with it and making a commitment to use it to their best advantage. The paper reviews each of the book's 11 rules about change, commitment and communication. The author of this paper concludes that he agrees with most of Russell's suggestions, except for in one area. Unlike Russell, the author of this paper does not support change merely for the sake of change. He argues that this is what caused the "New Coke" fiasco, the widespread censure of Windows '98 and a host of other business-related disasters.
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"Russell also points out that "good questions are more important than easy answers" (Rule #1 of commitment and curiosity) and that "curiosity is a process" (Rule #2). Yet later in the book, the author admits that changing a negative situation into a positive one is not always an easy task. Russell suggests that people can resist change for a number of reasons. These include self-interest, such as instances in which an individual has achieved status, privilege or self-esteem through the effective use of a traditional system. In these cases, the individuals will usually perceive certain changes such as an increase in employee empowerment to be an ominous threat because their ego overshadows their common sense. The author also points out that fear of the unknown is another factor that can facilitate the creation of imaginary barriers to success."
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Assessment of Bertrand Russell's "Value of Philosophy", 2007.
An examination of Bertrand Russell's dissertation "The Problems of Philosophy", focusing on the fifteenth chapter entitled "The Value of Philosophy".
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This paper explores Bertrand Russell's fifteenth chapter of "The Problems of Philosophy" entitled "The Value of Philosophy", as a means of assessing the rationale of the study of philosophy and its value within the lives of human beings. The paper explains how the Russell describes his concepts of philosophy as a mental endeavor and as a worthwhile subject of study. The paper demonstrates that the value of philosophy for Bertrand Russell consists of the enlargement of human capacity. The paper also discusses how Russell believed that the human being is confined by the rigors of life and often allows these to affect his decision-making processes. The paper also looks at how Russell suggests that philosophy is unique in that it reduces the human's influence and ability to control, thus transforming all efforts to participate in philosophical discovery to a state of pure spiritual achievement.
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"Russell made a distinction between efforts that enriched the self materially and those that enriched the self mentally and spiritually. This theme is seen not only in his attitude towards government and the treatment of citizens by their governments, but also can be seen in his perception of philosophy as a worthwhile endeavor for study. He identifies that "practical" men are those whom merely frame the world in terms of "material needs," where each decision made is used to advance a personal agenda that increases his wealth, resources, or stature (Russell, 114)."
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Russell & The Inductive Principle, 2002.
Analysis of the arguments presented on inductive reasoning in
Russell's work, "The Problems of Philosophy".
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The following is an essay and analysis on the problem of inferences. Specifically, this paper will analyze what Russell argues concerning inductive reasoning in his work titled "The Problems of Philosophy". The focus of this analysis will be toward the problem of induction in terms of the problems of 'knowledge' according to Russell. It will be argued that with respect to the problem of knowledge, Russell's position can generally be regarded as a 'skeptic', and that there is unquestionably a principle of uncertainty involved with inductive reasoning.
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Russell Simmons and the Hip Hop Scene, 2002.
This paper discusses black music entrepreneur Russell Simmons who is moving the black hip hop scene into the American mainstream.
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This paper explains that Russell saw the reality of black, urban hip hop music as a style with a message and unique delivery that would reach beyond the inner city and built an empire to reach that worldwide marketplace. The paper discusses the early history of the minstrel shows. The author believes that, at the time the music business had stagnated, Simmons' vision was to take everything that was inner city black culture and identity and present it to the mass market as acceptable, unique and valuable on its own merits.
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What is American Culture?
What is Black American Culture?
Definition of Success
Russell Simmons Success
Conclusion
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"Others, such as Bakari Kitwana, former editor of the hip-hop magazine the Source, give a sobering read on his generation and its cultural byproduct. Acting as tour guide and, in some instances, spokesperson, Kitwana examines the crisis facing African-American culture, especially involving those "African Americans born between 1965 and 1984." Kitwana presents the socio-political dilemmas of his generation as they relate to the achievements -- and failures -- of their parents' struggles.
Although a slightly dry read, with text weighed down by statistics and preachiness, The Hip Hop Generation is most engaging when discussing the extraneous variables that shape the lives of young African Americans. "More and more Black youth are turning to rap music, music videos . . . popular black films, and television programs for values and identity," Kitwana writes before demonstrating how the global corporate structure, which provided the financial and mass media platform for hip-hop's growth, has been "the driving force" behind his generation's plight. Kitwana passionately presents his case on how globalization has contributed to such critical problems as the lack of employment opportunity, unequal policing and imprisonment, the growing, hostile divide between the sexes, and the loss of leverage within the political mainstream."
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Lisa Russell's Ethnographic Fieldwork, 2007.
An analysis of the research methods used by Lisa Russell in her ethnographic fieldwork.
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This paper analyzes Lisa Russell's ethnographic fieldwork. The paper describes her work as both descriptive and interpretive because of her emphasis on detail and the way that she determines the significance of what she observes without gathering broad, statistical information. The paper also explores processes central to doing research and to developing as a researcher, as shown by Russell in her research.
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Reflexivity of Research
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"Kulik (1995) argued that "an erotic subjective does things." Kulik believed that "desire (age/sex) experienced in the field seems often to provoke questions that otherwise easily remain unasked, or that only get asked in a rarefied manner" (p. 5). Lisa used age/sex to take advantage of opportunities of common experiences (p. 194) .Age shapes perceptions of the body and its transitions, and informs the language that individuals deploy to speak. Due to her age the students felt, that she would have a fair stance of understanding them. Lisa uses her age to mirror her memories as a teenager and would engulf in participative conversation relating to common issues .She uses her sex as a tool to deploy their underlying emotions."
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Black Elk and Russell Means, 2004.
This paper contrasts issues confronting Black Elk and Russell Means.
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This paper offers a comparison and contrast of issues confronting Black Elk and Russell Means. The writer examines the rhetoric of both Native American leaders. The writer also discusses Oglala Sioux, the Wounded Knee massacre of 19th Century and the A.I.M. takeover of the site in 20th Century.
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?The Democratic Corporation? by Russell L. Ackoff, 2002.
This paper is a review of the systems philosophy book ?The Democratic Corporation? by the Management Science guru, Russell L. Ackoff.
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The paper presents a detailed summary of Ackoff?s background. The author states the book is a very simple sketch of the implementation of systems approach. The author summarizes that there is a pressing need to revamp the kinds of systems found in America, from our business schools to our boardrooms. The chapters of the book are abstracted. The paper closes with a detailed discussion of Ackoff?s systems analysis.
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"We are all aware that American corporations need fixing, and there is no dearth of recommendations: copy the Japanese, pursue the pattern of thriving firms, or perform restructuring. However, these tactics do not work very well, states Russell Ackoff, since they only tackle the dilemma gradually, and it is the whole system of American business that is blemished."
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Russell Chandler, "Understanding The New Age", 1999.
Critiques this work on New Age religions, compared to traditional Bible-based religions.
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Russell Chandler's Understanding the New Age is a breezy, generally good-hearted overview of the spiritual smorgasbord of the late 20th century. For the most part, Chandler treats the often eccentric religious manifestations of this era with respect and with the lightest of touches.
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"Russell Chandler's Understanding the New Age is a breezy, generally good-hearted overview of the spiritual smorgasbord of the late 20th century. For the most part, Chandler treats the often eccentric religious manifestations of this era with respect and with the lightest of touches. Having to cover such a great deal of territory and material has hampered Chandler's ability to delve deeper into the content and concepts of these groups. However, he explores with greater focus and intensity, if not greater depth, the more mainstream-oriented of these and related entities, such as the humanistic psychology of thinkers like Maslow and Rogers, and the theories of Einstein and Heisenberg. The reader can be forgiven for concluding that Chandler, the religion writer for the Los Angeles Times for almost two decades, takes the New Age religions with a grain of salt, believing..."
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"The Second Shift" by Arlie Russell, 2000.
A review of the work on how women continue domestic duties despite working outside the home.
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"In her extensive semi-formal study of marriages and the sharing of household and childcare duties, The Second Shift, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild found that women continued to assume the primary responsibility for these tasks even when their outside working hours, earning power, and theoretical commitments to altered gender roles had increased. Hochschild concluded from the limited degree of change she discovered between the 1980s and earlier decades that, while society was changing as more women worked, couples were usually caught in a "stalled revolution" as women made the greater part of the change and absorbed the greater part of the extra work the changes generated. Despite the poor state of sharing in marriages in general, however, the arrangements between couples, and the ways in which people truly think about them, are gradually changing--..."
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"The Managed Heart" by Arlie Russell Hochschild, 1993.
A look at how service-oriented society has commercialized human feeling.
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"The Managed Heart by Arlie Russell Hochschild is subtitled "Commercialization of Human Feeling," and the book offers interesting insights into the consequences of a shift into a service economy and precisely what sort of commodity is sold in a service-oriented economic structure. This shift also has consequences for the relationship between the individual and his or her work, and Hochschild sees in this the danger of a new sort of alienation of labor, the alienation of the worker from an aspect of self, that aspect that is used to do the work: "If we can become alienated from goods in a goods-producing society, we can become alienated from service in a service-producing society" (7). In this book, Hochschild examines how the service-oriented society has commercialized human feeling and made it into a commodity, bought and sold the same as if it were a physical..."
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Bertrand Russell's Philosophy, 1991.
An examination of the argument that we do not know that the sun will rise tomorrow.
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"This study will show how Bertrand Russell's argument which purports to show that we do not know that the sun will rise tomorrow is similar to the argument which purports to show that we don't know that there is a sun, or, indeed, that there is any other physical object at all.
The purpose of Russell's argument, as presented in Chapter 6 ("On Induction") of his book The Problems of Philosophy, is to see if we can rationally extend the realm of knowledge to matters beyond our "private experience." The basis of the inquiry is the argument that "It must be known to us that the existence of some one sort of thing, A, is a sign of the existence of some other sort of thing, B, either at the same time as A or at some earlier or later time, as, for example, thunder is a sign of the earlier existence of lightning" (p. 60)."
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The Baker Act, 2006.
This paper traces how the Baker Act, also known as the Florida Mental Health Act, was enacted into law in 1971.
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The paper explains how the Baker Act was enacted into law after Maxine Baker shifted her concerns in the Florida legislature toward the mentally ill. The paper describes how Baker was aware that there were thousands of cases in Florida in which law enforcement officers came in contact with mentally ill individuals. These confrontations were often violent and resulted in the death of either officers of the patient. Baker believed that people who were repeatedly involved in situations involving law enforcement it was generally because they had not taken prescribed medications that would have prevented them from being a crisis situation to begin with. Therefore, the Baker Act was used by the Florida legal system to allow judges to order mentally ill patients into mandatory treatment programs that would require them to take their medications.
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