Abstract This paper reviews 'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf. The paper analyzes how Woolf wove a series of dramatic monologues and interludes together in order to examine mortality, loneliness, transcendence and the meaning of friendship. In the process, she produced such a fascinating, explosive and soulful lexicon of the human condition that critics have struggled to adequately describe and convey the literary power of this magnificent book. The paper further discusses how the interludes enhance the impressionistic discourse in the book and serve to expand the consciousness of the reader, which is Woolf's primary intention.
Abstract The paper shows how the Big Wave Cruise organization must make some significant changes to their human resources strategies in order to become more competitive in an increasingly competitive industry. The paper discusses how the organization does not have the level of employee commitment to the organization that is so critical to its success. The paper contends that Big Wave Cruise must address the training issue currently plaguing the company, the perception and/or reality of an excessive workload on employees and the unacceptable compensation plan.
Outline:
Introduction
Division of Labor at Big Wave Cruise
The Perception of Lack of Skills by Big Wave Employees
The Perception of Excessive Workload by Big Wave Employees
Inadequate Compensation Received by Big Wave Cruise Employees
Conclusion
From the Paper "The cruise industry is a hyper-competitive industry, as the Big Wave Cruise organization has discovered. Even with the phenomenal growth rate of the industry, Big Wave has felt the increased competition as competitors enter the market with newer ships, better technology, and more exotic destinations. Add to this challenge the increased demand from customers for higher levels of customer service, including 24-hour entertainment options and catering, and it becomes clear that even a well positioned cruise line is bound to feel the strains from increased threats in the industry. For Big Wave Cruise, these threats are compounded by internal weaknesses specifically within their human resource strategies."
Tags: employee, compensation, competition, training
Abstract The paper first defines and categorizes waves, looking at the different media that can carry waves, such as liquid with waves in the ocean, solid with sound carried through a wall, or gaseous with light traveling through the atmosphere. The writer then gives the mathematical formulae for defining and understanding the way in which waves are formed and travel through space.
From the Paper "There are a number of ways to categorize waves. One method is to categorize them according to the direction of the movement of the individual particles of the medium relative to the direction in which the waves travel. Three categories result: longitudinal waves, transverse waves, and surface waves. A longitudinal wave is a wave in which the particles of the medium move in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave moves. Sound waves are an example of longitudinal waves. In a transverse wave, the particles of the medium move in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the wave moves. Transverse waves require a relatively rigid medium in order to transmit energy due to the interaction of the particles that creates the perpendicular movement. As a result, only longitudinal waves flow through gas and the majority of liquids, even waves in the ocean."
Abstract This paper examines how Marlo Thomas's children's book, "Free To Be?You and Me", published in 1974, is a prime example of second-wave feminist activism. It looks at how, unlike first-wave feminism, typified by the suffrage movement and personified by women like Susan B. Anthony, second-wave feminism had two primary agendas, which can be seen in Thomas's novel. It attempts to show how second-wave feminism, with such slogans as ?the personal is the political,? and the ideology of consciousness raising, are implicitly, as well as explicitly, exemplified in "Free to Be You and Me".
From the Paper "Millett's highly influential text led women to see patriarchy as ever-present and ever-expansive. Women's oppression was not only played out in the traditional political structures that first wave feminists had identified (legal, economic, educational), but it was also played out in women's minds and bodies. Hence, rejecting gender conditioning and fighting for reproductive choice became key second wave issues. The short skits and catchy songs of Thomas's storybook were meant to stop gender conditioning at the core; the most influential period, childhood. Titles like "Housework," "Ladies First," and "Grandma," identify and attempt to dismantle many commonly held gender stereotypes of the 1970s, and contradict most other books and programming available for children at that time."
Abstract This paper discusses the first wave, which began at the end of the Civil War and included many moral reform movements, such as the abolition of alcohol and public restraint. The second wave of protests took place between 1890 and 1920 and attempted to reform the amount of political corruption and the economic power of corporations. The paper then moves to discuss the third wave of protests, which included the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s with the "Brown vs. Board" case in 1954 and continued up until the 1980s and 1990s.
From the Paper "The Civil Rights movement set the tone and style for what the sixties progeny was to consist of. Not only did the Civil Rights movement challenge the basic American values but it also targeted a distinct enemy in segregation. The timing could not have been more perfect. The post world war two generation was fast to associate the ways of segregation with that of hated Hitler's Germany, and the Civil Rights movement captured the attention and imagination of a public that was fed up with conformity."
Abstract This paper examines the wave theory in feminism. The paper points out that some scholars and activists argue that this metaphor aptly describes the historical progression of feminist theory, while others explain it as a historical progression through the use of waves. This paper argues that the wave theory, because it is essentially a generational paradigm, deceptively suggests that the challenges and struggles of an earlier generation do not apply to those that succeed it. The paper then analyzes a seminal issue, from each of the three waves, that continues to reverberate today: black women and poverty, negative feminist stereotypes, and the continued demotion of a black woman's status and word.
From the Paper "Most historians delimit the years of the first wave as those between the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls and the ratification of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. The women that formed this generation of feminists (even though they never used that rather modern word) were concerned, above all else, with de jure political inequalities like the withholding of suffrage. However, these same women were integrally involved in the anti-slavery movement, and much of their activism aimed to alleviate the situation of African-American women in the southern states. Slavery, of course, ended after the Union's victory in the civil war, but that sad chapter in American history still reverberates loudly today, and it would not be an exaggeration to write that the trauma of that experience trickled down through the generations and is directly responsible for the social and economic predicaments that so many African-Americans find themselves facing today."
Abstract This paper deals with the two competing theories of light. The first part of the paper details the evidence supporting the theory of light as a particle, including both the most prominent scientists and the most conclusive mathematical data (Photoelectric effect, Compton Effect, etc.); the second part lists the evidence in favor of the wave theory of light, including prominent supporters and the most concrete scientific evidence (Young's double-slit experiment, Clark Maxwell's mathematical equations). The paper concludes by detailing the newest theory to encompass both the particle and wave theories.
Particle Theory
Einstein
Isaac Newton
Scientific Evidence
Photoelectric Effect
Compton Effect
Wave Theory
Huygens
Scientific Evidence
Young's Double-slit Experiment
Maxwell Clark's Mathematical Equations
The Dual Nature of Light
From the Paper "If it is part of the material world, it is certainly, by dint of its surpassing subtlety, the part that is closest to the spirit, said Johannes Kepler in his description of light (Holt, 1). As elusive and mystical as the Almighty, light has been a companion, rivaled only by oxygen, to mankind since men first trod upon the earth, an eternal, comforting friend. It terrified and was deified by the men and women of religion; it fascinated and frustrated the theorists, the scientists, and countless cracks; and yet for both it offered an enigma to be solved, a question worthy of an answer. Thus, from the foothills of Classical Greece to the stone castles of Italy and Germany, humanity found itself hounded by a question seemingly so basic: What is light? This question remains only marginally answered at the end of this century, three millennia after the Greeks first hypothesized about the subject. Although centuries upon centuries of labor and experiments have led to millions of dusty binders and folders, only two camps ever gained the blessings of science in a quest for a solution: those who believed light to be a particle and those who believed it to be a wave. "
This paper examines the Czech film industry as well as the emergence of the "Czech New Wave Movement," aptly named as it represented a break from the dominant film styles that preceded it.
Abstract This paper analyzes the history and political impact of the Czech film industry while focusing on the emergence of the Czech new wave movement, so called because it represented a break from the dominant film styles that preceded it. This paper details the differences and similarities between Czech new wave films and other films from the same region which yielded much insight into the characteristics and virtues of this particular movement. In order to better understand the Czech new way movement, this paper contains a brief yet concise account of the Czech film industry in the first half of the 20th century as it is related to Czech history as well as samplings from the social, political and economic realms. This paper also details the characteristics of the Czech new wave movement as well as relevant information regarding how the movement contrasted with what came before it.
From the Paper "Under pressure from Hitler, Czechoslovakia collapsed in 1939 and was divided into a number of separate regions with different ultimate fates. The film studios that had been built in Czechoslovakia were taken over by the German film industry, which used them mainly to produce artful yet propagandistic films to garner Nazi support throughout the 1940s. This continued until 1944, when the area was liberated by Soviet troops. A new Republic of Czechoslovakia was formed, but it was not artistically fruitful. In 1947, a communistic government was established after a coup in Czechoslovakia."
Tags: czech, film, industry, political, communism, history
Abstract Of Virginia Woolf's eight major novels, "The Waves" is by far the most intricate, structurally and thematically. Virginia Woolf wanted to create a new form of fiction, a new breed of expression. The paper explains how "The Waves" accomplishes this feat on many levels, in several different ways. The paper shows how Woolf's unconventional use of characterization, symbolism, narrative form and structure, all contribute to the development of a new and innovative style which achieves the author's desired results effectively.
From the Paper "In The Waves, Woolf uses her characters for structure; each is a thread, carefully intertwined to bind the novel together although not so much through their actions as through their reactions to their own perceptions of what surrounds and affects them. While Jinny, Susan, Rhoda, Bernard, Louis, and Neville provide a definite form, or structure, each searches for his / her individual structure, his / her own version or perception of "truth", of "fact", of "reality". This search in itself is the structure of The Waves - we follow the six from their first experiences in the search of self and the search for reality, and follow them as they develop, find their individuality, create their own form of reality based on their individual traits, and then realize their unity in a multifaceted reality."
Abstract This paper takes a look at Wave Hill, a nineteenth century mansion set invitingly among trees and flowers in the northwest Bronx, looking out over the sparkling Hudson River and beyond, toward the towering cliffs of the Palisades. According to the paper, Wave Hill is among the last survivors of the great houses that once lined the banks of the Hudson from the Island of Manhattan to far upstate.
From the Paper "Others, including one of Wave Hill's most famous guests/residents, Theodore Roosevelt, took away a different, and more wide-reaching, message from the Hudson River School's attempts to capture nature in her glory and decline. The Roosevelt Family rented Wave Hill for a number of summers in the 1870s. Thus, the house was familiar to Theodore Roosevelt as a young man. Clearly, its beautiful setting helped to shape his adult views in regard to the natural world. Theodore Roosevelt would later travel widely in the United States, and around the globe, visiting many remote places hardly touched by the hands of human beings. On his journeys, Roosevelt witnessed nature in all her purity, in places that most residents of gigantic cities, like New York, would never visit. Though these locations were far from the ever-expanding realm of industries, and hundreds or even thousands of miles away from the dark and crowded tenements of Manhattan and Brooklyn, Roosevelt realized that they represented an aspect of the Earth that needed to be preserved. Roosevelt, schooled literally in the lessons of Wave Hill, and growing up in the shadow of the Hudson River School, would become a leading advocate of the Conservation Movement. "
This paper discusses "To Ride the Third Wave" by Clyde Prestowitz, who suggests policies to help the United States succeed in the third wave of globalization.
Abstract The paper discusses how, in "To Ride the Third Wave," the author claims that America's top priority should be to address its inadequacies in order to maintain competitiveness in the global market. The paper examines the suggested policies that include reducing the role of the US dollar, altering the U.S. energy policy and practice and revamping the savings, loan and taxation systems. The paper discusses the need for the U.S. to reevaluate top expenditures in health care, social security and national defense and to change labor and educational policies. Finally, the author shows the importance of actively deepening relationships with key global players.
From the Paper "The turn of the last century saw tremendous global change including the manifestation of a global market. Although many of the promises of globalization have been fulfilled, its pitfalls and potential problems have only recently surfaced. The United States, which rose to international dominion both financially and politically, faces the greatest challenges in maintaining its edge in the third wave of globalization. Its position of global hegemony is diminishing rapidly. America will no longer be a world superpower unless its policy makers are willing to acknowledge and address the nation's inadequacies. These inadequacies include low educational attainment within the population, inequitable distribution of wealth, insufficient workforce skills upgrades, inadequate critical infrastructure, poor savings, taxation, and expenditure policies, and more."
Abstract This essay will examine the historical development of human knowledge of the wave and particle nature of light in order to understand the crucial changes and reevaluations made in scientific thought.
Abstract This paper will discuss the "French New Wave" of the film industry. It will describe the many aspects of its technology and political developments that contributed to this innovative style. An example will be given of how this is so by the movie "400Blows".
Abstract This paper examines the French New Wave, one of the most significant movements in cinema's history, which occurred during the period of around 1958 to 1964 and contained a whole new interpretation of cinema and narrative techniques. In particular, it analyzes Jean-Luc Godard's films "A Bout de Souffle" and "Le Mepris" and comments on the way these films show Godard's relationship with the classical Hollywood period through the visual style and techniques he uses.
From the Paper "European cinema is felt to have gained its greatest strength in producing smaller-budget films as a reaction to the big budget genre films produced by the Hollywood studios. These are called "art-house" films, or "art cinema". Instead of the escapism and spectacle that Hollywood narratives offered, art cinema focussed on realism (nouvelle vague), ambiguity and innovative styles. A Bout de Souffle (Breathless), Godard's first feature length film, set the tone for the French New Wave as it was one of the first successes to come out of the period. It is still very much discussed today as it offers a good example of the period's conventions. The film also uses many conventions of Hollywood genre narratives, but whilst it can be seen as pastiche, it could also be said that placing conventions from different cinemas also creates distance between them to allow for intellectual criticism. The film is based on a Hollywood type script by Truffaut, with a 1930's film noir style narrative."
Abstract This paper explains how French New Wave filmmakers of the early 1960s were influenced by genre movies from Hollywood. The paper looks at how these filmmakers not only learned from the Hollywood movies and imitated what they liked about the films, but also diverged from the Hollywood genre style movies in order to reflect their own styles and expression.
From the Paper "The filmmakers of the French New Wave of the early 1960s had educated themselves in film at the Cinematheque in Paris, watching American genre films and learning the language of film and then translating the experience into a unique film form of their own. Many of the major films produced by these young filmmakers emulated American genre films, though the way the American films of classic Hollywood were made and the appeal they had differed from that of the New Wave films of the 1960s. Often, the French filmmakers would take a genre and some of its elements and then turn them to a different use, exploring the deeper social and philosophical meaning inherent in the American genres. Even though the sources for many of the French films were readily apparent to the discerning viewer, the differences were also apparent."
