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Richard Nixon: From Success to Failure to Success, 2006.
An essay following Nixon through his failures in the early 1960s to his successful election to the presidency of the United States.
2,286 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper presents a brief outline of former U.S. President Richard Nixon's political career. The paper traces Nixon's early political successes starting with his vice presidency under President Dwight D. Eisenhower through a series of setbacks over the next few years to his victory in the 1968 presidential election against President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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"The press ran with the story and Nixon was under fire. He admitted to remembering "something between $15,000 and $18,000 collected and disbursed" (Morris, P. 763). One newspaper reported Nixon received and "expense allowance from up to fifty to one hundred well-to-do southern California political angels since he entered the U.S. Senate in 1951" (Morris, P. 763). The fund was actually used to pay for extra clerical work and to answer mail from his home state. In a statement released by his attorney the facts of the money were described as "It handles postage for mail on which I do not choose to use the much-abused senatorial franking privilege. It defrays travel expenses. It pays for the cost of printing speeches and documents which otherwise might have been printed at the taxpayer's expense." (Morris, P. 767). Nixon had not done anything illegal, and had in fact saved the taxpayers money. This did not prevent his enemies from continuing their political attack. In spite of the fact, Eisenhower had already chosen Nixon as his running mate for the 1952 Presidential campaign, and all investigations failed to prove the fund was not used illegally, but rather honorably, there was even mixed emotions regarding Nixon within the Republican Party. Nixon's supporters urged Nixon to stand tall and not resign as running mate. However, Harold Stassen, a staunch Republican supporter from Philadelphia, suggested Nixon offer his resignation to Eisenhower for the good of the party (Morris PP. 800-801). Nixon did not offer his resignation and Eisenhower won the election in a landslide."
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Successes and Failures of the Ford Motor Company, 2002.
A paper which assesses the reasons for the successes and failures of the Ford Motor Company, according to Collins and Porras? text "12 Myths of Successful Businesses" in their book on the subject.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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According to the book "Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James Collins and Jerry Porras", the Ford Motor Company is one of the paradigmatic examples of successful enterprise in the American automobile industry. Like the image it has projected of its automobiles, the firm itself is a model of durability and consistency. This paper examines the reasons for the successes and some of the failures of the company according to the principles outlined in Collins and Porras? text, what they call their "12 Myths of Successful Businesses", that are outlined and exploded over the course of the book?s analysis.
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"Ford Motors company has produced products that have changed not only the automobile industry but American corporate and popular culture as a whole, including such models as the Model T of the first half of the 20th century and later the Mustang. (Collins and Porras pp. 2-4) ?Innovate, Motivate, Lead,? proclaims the corporate slogan of Ford upon its 100th anniversary as a company. The company pioneered the ?assembly line? system of automobile manufacturing. In this system, the parts and vehicles themselves moved rather the individuals doing the manufacturing. This system enabled the company to manufacture the first automobile, known as the Model T, which was affordable and accessible on a mass scale to ordinary American families."
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Success in Life, 2005.
Explores whether success in life includes one's career, personal life or both.
1,154 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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Despite different views in life regarding success in personal life and success in career, there is one thing that we must consider. That is, personal life and career are two different worlds where it is not fixed for one to negate the other. The paper argues that it is possible that we have success in both, or failure in both, or success in one and failure in the other. There are many factors why the results of success and failure occur in our lives. This paper discusses them to provide some rationales of why it is possible and why it is not possible for success in personal life and career to go together.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
Work and Life Balance and Harmony
Your Career in Meeting Your Needs and Goals
Bibliography
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"As with balance, Pucci also considers harmony in work and life to be important. It is where elements must agree with each other to achieve success. For instance, balancing work and life does not necessarily guarantee success. It may happen that 8 hours a day at work is not enough to complete one's work responsibilities, thus his success in his career may not happen. In work and life harmony, aspects such as the ability of an individual to make 8 hours a day enough for work must be in harmony with the 8 hours set in his time."
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KMS Success Model, 2007.
This paper focuses on the research article by M. Jennex and L. Olfman, "A Knowledge Management Success Model: An Extension of DeLone and McLean's IS Success Model".
1,572 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 51.95
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This well organized paper reviews a research article by Jennex and Olfman entitled "A Knowledge Management Success Model: An Extension of DeLone and McLean's IS Success Model." First, the paper defines knowledge management and it's role in the corporate world. The paper also describes existing systems that have been used. The author concludes that overall, the research article presented a comprehensive examination of a viable model for testing knowledge management systems (KMS). With future research, based on this study, the KMS success model could be shown to be one of the most effective measurements of KMS systems today.
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"Knowledge management, according to Jennex and Olfman, can be thought of as the process by which members of an organization pass knowledge to one another (2003). This "knowledge" is tacit and explicit, which, according to Polanyi (1967) and Nonaka (1994), is understood to mean the cognitive and technical knowledge an individual possesses and understands, and the technical components of that knowledge that can be expressed through knowledge representation. These cognitive components are those mental models used by the individual that cannot necessarily be expressed in terms of data, while the technical components can be expressed (Jennex and Olfman, 2003). So, when discussing knowledge management, one can think of the process as the way in which individuals within a group pass concrete and non-concrete information amongst themselves."
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Success of Minority Students, 2007.
An analysis of the reasons for success that some minorities manage to achieve, as discussed in "The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth" by Gilberto Conchas.
1,973 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper reviews the book "The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth," written by Gilberto Conchas. The paper discusses the issues raised in the book, such as the academic success that some minorities manage to achieve, despite the fact that the opportunities many of them have are not strong. It particularly discusses the importance of teaching.
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"Studies have also shown that disparities between Caucasians and minorities are growing. This is believed to be the result of tracking, since tracking puts someone in a specific category or class and does not allow them to take classes that are more difficult. Effectively, the school is saying that they do not believe a particular student is smart enough to grasp a higher concept. This often puts them at a disadvantage, not only in their academic life but in their social life, as there is often a stigma attached to remedial or "retarded" classes (Chaddock, 2000). While not all of the minority students that Conchas (2006) spoke with were in these types of classes, it is sadly too often the case that they will be found there. However, the success stories that Conchas (2006) discusses also offer a lot of hope for urban and/or minority students that are struggling with the idea that they will never be able to succeed in life or get out of the poverty that they were born into. With the proper encouragement and opportunities, however, this can easily be changed for the better for many of these students."
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Ecosystem Succession, 2006.
An examination of primary ecosystem succession and secondary ecosystem succession.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper examines two instances of ecosystem development--one instance being primary succession, the other instance being secondary succession--and explores how abiotic and biotic factors can create and/or perpetuate a ecological system. The paper concludes briefly by looking at the various mechanisms which hinder or help an ecosystem recover after a catastrophic event.
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"In our course textbook there are two especially interesting illustrations. The first of these depicts primary succession on a glacial moraine in Glacier Bay, Alaska. In this instance, the barren, rocky landscape is colonized by lichens and mosses and shrubs. Afterwards, dwarf trees and more mature shrubs emerge and then spruces come to predominate. In the second illustration, we are confronted with secondary succession in North Carolina wherein, after one year after cultivation, there is the emergence of crabgrass and then the subsequent emergence of annual and perennial weeds. A few years later, pine seedlings and saplings develop and these are followed by young pine forest and by the developing "under-story" of hardwoods. Finally, 150 years after the field was first abandoned, there is a mature hardwood forest present."
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Successful Counseling, 2002.
A review of the article ?Person-Centered Counseling: The Culture? by Ann Shanks Glauser and Jerold Bozarth about successful counseling.
773 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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The paper analyzes the article ?Person-Centered Counseling: The Culture? by Ann Shanks Glauser and Jerold Bozarth which explores the conditions that are necessary for successful counseling and focuses especially on the specialty of multicultural counseling. It discusses the argument that person-centered counselling is at the very heart of success in counseling and that the relationship between the client and counselor and the client?s situational and personal resources are the essential variables that determine its success. It provides statistical evidence for the relative unimportance of counseling technique noting that only 15% of the success variance of the counseling relationship comes from technique whereas 30% of the success variance comes from the client-counsellor relationship and an impressive 40% comes from extratherapeutic variables or chance occurrences. It explores the variables of the client-therapist relationship and the extratherapeutic variables of the client and concludes that the article is well-researched and internally consistent.
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"The authors then go on to explore the variables of the client-therapist relationship and the extratherapeutic variables of the client. They note that ?most theories consider the (client-therapist) relationship as critical?. A successful relationship is defined by the counselor?s empathy for the client, seen in his or her genuineness with the client, and the counselor?s true respect and value for the client. Glauser and Bazarth note, ?Making judgments about people\'s humanity and its quality due to established criteria is to rely on tired but extremely powerful discourses steeped in oppression.?"
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Successful Movies, 2007.
A discussion on what constitutes a "successful" movie, comparing and contrasting the movies "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer".
1,402 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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The author of this paper discusses Tim Dirks' criteria for movie success, and suggests that "Scream" (1996) is a more successful movie, financially and artistically, than "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997). The paper analyzes how "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is a financially successful film, in terms of box office draw and in terms of having a sequel, which is one sign of financial success. The paper further analyzes how "Scream", on the other hand, is a successful movie in more than just financial ways, including artistic innovation and outstanding acting.
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"Some other successful movies "provide hidden meanings, new psychological truths, great visual moments, mythic resonance, philosophical insight, lyrical beauty, fresh insights into how to view the world, or enlightened understanding", e.g., The Big Sleep (1946) or Chinatown (1974). Others (e.g., Steven Spielberg's break-out movie Jaws (1975) are simply huge financial blockbusters.
In terms of the relative success of two other movies, Scream (1996) with its $100+ million box office gross (Berardinelli) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), which had a cumulative domestic box office of $69 million("The Movie Business in 1997") are both successful in terms of one of Dirks' criteria for movie success: box office draw."
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Female Executives: Attractiveness And Peer Perception Of Success, 1986.
Study to determine if perception of success is a function of attractiveness. This paper includes methodology, definitions, review of literature, questionnaire, results & conclusions linking attractiveness & success.
5,175 words (approx. 20.7 pages), 16 sources, $ 135.95
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" Nature of the Study
The Problem and its Setting
This was a real-world study in which the peers of female executives at varying levels of attractiveness were asked to rate the executive in terms of how much success she had achieved with respect to four aspects of her job. The job aspects rated were: (1) quality of work; (2) quantity of work; (3) knowledge of the job; and (4) ability to work effectively with others."
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Successful Disadvantaged Students, 2000.
A proposed research to determine why some at-risk students (poor, parental divorce, etc.) achieve educational success, focusing on the "resilient" students' perceptions about themselves and their success.
8,325 words (approx. 33.3 pages), 24 sources, $ 135.95
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In the last two decades, there has been a good deal of research that has focused on "resilient students." This research has defined these students as those who academically succeed despite their experiencing various strong stressors (e.g., poverty, parental divorce, etc.) that place them at risk of school failure (Christiansen, Christiansen & Howard, 1997)
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"Chapter I
Introduction
Background of the Study
In the last two decades, there has been a good deal of research that has focused on "resilient students." This research has defined these students as those who academically succeed despite their experiencing various strong stressors (e.g., poverty, parental divorce, etc.) that place them at risk of school failure (Christiansen, Christiansen & Howard, 1997). In each of these studies, researchers have found some characteristics which they identify as contributive to the success of these disadvantaged students.
For example, Dutrow and Houston (1981) observed that resilient students are: self-accepting, responsible, tolerant,..."
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A Perfect Success, 2007.
This paper is an essay exploring the writer's concept of what it means to be a perfect success.
1,670 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper explains that a perfect success is based on appreciating the full meaning of education. The author points out that, although nowadays people define education simply as academic success, that's not all there is about education. The paper suggests that persons being themselves, valuing their own cultures and remaining in their own families are the most significant issues, especially for immigrant families, in being a perfect success. The author stresses that being a success doesn't mean that a person has to leave who he or she is behind. The paper explores the ideas of two writers Richard Rodriguez and Jimmy Santiago Baca, who---like the author of this paper---are children of immigrants, and compares their beliefs to that of the author.
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"Despite the fact that education socially and politically improves people and helps them succeed, it does make us question our cultural values. While education is very important to everybody, the ways people educate themselves have enormous effects on their cultural lives. Once you educate yourself academically, cultural values and your background don't seem that important to you as you consider yourself in high society. Let's take a close look at the immigrant kids who came from other countries. They learn new things from school as well as outside environment."
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Kaiser Management Decision Success, 2007.
An analysis of a successful management decision by Kaiser Permanente.
1,249 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper presents an examination of Kaiser Permanente, one of the United States' first and largest health maintenance organizations. The paper explores a particular management decision of the company's that was successful and explains why it was successful. The paper describes how it was a solid management move that boosted the public image of the organization, while at the same time provided a valuable community service.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
What is Kaiser?
What Was It?
Why was it a Smart Management Move?
Conclusion
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"The second benefit to Kaiser through this management decision is the ripple effect it had. During the campaign, recruitment and outreach to sign children to the plan there was a lot of publicity in the schools, the streets and other areas of common societal interest. This meant that people who had not been exposed to Kaiser or had only heard negative things about the HMO were given the opportunity through assisting in the outreach efforts to become familiar with the program and its offerings to its patients. In the long run the program most likely created a new base of paying customers as well because those who helped with the outreach or were impressed with the efforts made by Kaiser checked the program out from a paying standpoint and Kaiser signed on more paying customers during that time as well."
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Success of the Involuntary Minority Student, 2003.
A look at why involuntary minorities have experienced far less academic success than voluntary minorities.
9,625 words (approx. 38.5 pages), 46 sources, APA, $ 196.95
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In this paper the author provides a brief overview of the past and present explanations of involuntary minority academic success and failure and then argues that the presently accepted sociolinguistic and cultural-ecological theories do not adequately explain the variability in involuntary minority academic success. Subsequently, the author proposes an alternative explanation of involuntary minority academic success and failure based on the ability of the local school to institute measures which develop a sense of trust -- or at least an abeyance of distrust--in the school and school authority held by involuntary minority students, parents, and community. Using the posited explanation as a basis for discussion, the authorl then proceeds to describe how current educational practices at the local school site contribute to involuntary minority academic failure through the development of involuntary minority distrust of the school. Within this discussion, the author also proposes some strategies, which schools can employ to increase achievement of involuntary minority students by justifying the development of a sense of trust in the school within the involuntary minority community.
Outline
Explanations of Involuntary Minority Low Achievement
Trust as a Critical Variable in Involuntary Minority Academic Success
Parent Participation
Teacher Self-Efficacy and Expectations
Multicultural Curriculum and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Meaningful Curriculum
Conclusion
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"Since the early years of the twentieth century, significant concerns have existed about the academic and social problems encountered by minority students in the schooling process (Ogbu, 1991; Tyack, 1974). These concerns have, once again, become a prominent issue among educators and politicians as the result of a multitude of demographic studies indicating students of color will comprise a majority of our school-aged population in the foreseeable future. In studying the ubiquitous disparity in academic achievement between minority and non-minority students over the past decades, however, anthropologists and educators have identified a distinct variability in the academic success between two discrete subgroups within the minority school population: the first subpopulation consists of those minority groups which have voluntarily emigrated from their original society to a different society, while the second subpopulation consists of those minority groups which, because of slavery, conquest, or colonization, did not voluntarily choose to become members of a particular society (Ogbu, 1991). Within the United States, the first subpopulation, described as voluntary minorities, would consist of groups such as Europeans, Central and South Americans, and Asians. The second subpopulation, described as involuntary minorities, would include primarily African Americans, Native Americans, and many Hispanic Americans.1 A large and growing body of research has documented that voluntary minority students tend to academically outperform their involuntary minority counterparts in a number of different settings, including in the United States (Ogbu, 1991)."
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Successful Leadership, 2003.
An analysis of successful leadership in the 21st century.
2,118 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper provides an examination of the characteristics and traits typically shared by successful leaders in order to determine what makes a successful leader in today's corporate world. It compares recent great leaders with those from the past. A summary of the research and salient findings are provided in the conclusion.
Review and Discussion
Typical Characteristics and Traits Shared by Successful Leaders
Examples of Recent Successful Leadership
Conclusion
Works Cited
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"In addition, the fairly nebulous but invaluable characteristic of charisma is repeatedly cited in the scholarly literature as being shared by many successful corporate leaders today (Chaganti & Sherman 59). In their essay, "Charismatic Leadership: The Hidden Controversy," Blackwell, Gibson and Hannon report that charisma is "Charisma, that 'you'll know it when you see it' dynamic personality often defined as magnetic and inspirational has received a lot of attention in the last two decades of leadership research"; charisma, they add, is "a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure" (11). Likewise, Bristol (2001) points out that, "Charisma is easy to recognize but hard to explain. Some people just have it -- the rest don't" (203). "
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Successful Presidency of John F. Kennedy, 2004.
This paper discusses why John F. Kennedy was such a successful President.
1,187 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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In this article, the writer maintains that John F. Kennedy was by all means a successful President. The writer points out that with the Cold War overshadowing his presidency, John F. Kennedy successfully prevented the outbreak of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, while at the same time domestically fighting for civil rights and bringing attention to the need for foreign aid to underdeveloped countries. To evaluate his success the writer notes that one must not look at his predecessors, but at the state of affairs of the United States when Kennedy came to power. The writer concludes that John F. Kennedy was successful in his presidency because of the significant contributions he made to the American people and to the people of the world.
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"The Ghettos were generally populated by blacks, but there were also known to be other ethnic races coinciding. The ghettos residents were largely impoverished which led to problems with crime, housing, employment, and lack of sanitation, education and health care. This segregation imposed upon them by the more affluent white middle class began to stir up a civil rights movement.
"In his pre-election campaign, Kennedy had chosen to ignore Civil Rights, preferring to show no view, as he feared antagonising the white southern vote. But, ten days before the election an event which would help shape the destiny of Kennedy's presidency occurred."
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