Essays on Keating

Health care settings function in a well collaborative manner where multidisciplinary work environment exists. In a complex care situation, such as transition care of patients, the role of nurse care professionals was believed to be vital in coordinating the care. For instance, in geriatric settings, it is these professionals who can take up the complex tasks to enable the elderly individuals in transition from the care center to their residence seek suitable care and therapy (Cortes, Wexler & Fitzpatrick, 2004). So, there is a growing research interest on how these nurses utilize their potential in administering the care quality for ...

Autonomous cars

The emergent technology chosen by me is ‘Autonomous cars.” Description: Autonomous cars are driverless or self-driven cars which are an innovative and relatively newer form of technology. A few of them have been tested on roads and highways as a means of experiments for validating their success and safety (Fehrenbacher, 2016). While generally the roads are a place of immense traffic, there is great risk associated with a car driving without human intelligence behind the wheel which may cause an accident and loss of life. However, technology is planning to change this conception and move artificial intelligence to another ...

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Introduction/ Thesis Cowlishaw may have a point, but it is understandable that the country would focus on the Stolen Generation rather than the generation before. This is because the children of the Stolen Generation were taken from their families from 1905-1970’s. Many of these individuals are still alive and can give first-hand accounts of their experiences. The ability to hear a person describe something that personally happened to them tends to resonate more than a story that has been passed down. This paper will discuss Gillian Cowlishaw’s fear that the memories of the older Aboriginal people regarding ...

National Bank of Canada

National Bank of Canada is among the largest commercial banks in Canada, with its headquarters located in Montreal, Canada. The bank’s history dates back in 1859 when francophone businesspersons founded it (Cheffins, 1998). The bank has approximately 452 branches located in most of the Canadian provinces and approximately 2.4 million clients. The bank also has partnerships, subsidiaries and representative offices in other countries through which it serves both Canadian and non-Canadian customers. The bank has a public company ownership structure and its shares trade in Toronto stock market. This paper discusses in details the organizational structure, managerial practices, ...

A Closer Glimpse on the Key Terms

As previously observed, it is possible to draw parallels between the following essays and movies and play “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire and Dead Poets Society, “The Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez and Six Degrees of Separation, and “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger and The Matrix. All three works raise a number of important issues, manifestations of which may be found on the example of the characters of these films and plays. Thus, there are such key terms notions as critical thinking, education, class conflict, racial divide, and power of perspective, which can be ...

Dead Poets Society

In the movie, Mr. Gale Nolan was using “Coercive Leadership Style” to gain control over students. In this leadership style, employees are enforced by manager to follow orders and threatened if non-compliance is demonstrated against order (Grimsley, 2016). In the clip, students were trying to defend position of John Keating since he supported students to live according to their own consent. On contrary, Mr. Keating was following relations-oriented leadership to influence his students and gain their respect (CineGraf, 2014). This leadership style is people-oriented, which was appropriate according to the situation.

Office Space – Working Tomorrow

In this clip, Peter is an employee that ...

Education as a Practice of Liberation

Introduction Paulo Freire is the ideologue who formulated and offered his vision and approach to modern education. In the essay, "The Concept of Banking Education”, Freire states that in the modern education system mechanical approach dominates, so he offers his own problem-posing educational method, which allows studying freely. Those, who truly seek after the liberation, should completely reject the "banking" concept of education, and instead embrace the concept of humans as thinking beings and consciousness, which is oriented to the world. This definition of Freire’s approach is "explicit". Such people should stop to consider the purpose of education " ...

Comparing the Anglo and Asian Confucian

The Unites States is part of the Anglo culture cluster while China is the main player in the Confucian Asia cluster, according to the GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness). As expected, the two countries differ in many ways due to such factors like political inclination (where the United States is inclined towards democratic legitimacy while China lies on the end of performance legitimacy), community settings and religious beliefs. This part of the paper will concentrate on the differences between the Anglo and Asian Confucian clusters to create a backdrop of what a manager is moving from America ...

»WHILE THE ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS OF PUBLICLY LISTED COMPANIES RESEMBLE THOSE OF DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENTS, IN PRACTICE, THESE MECHANISMS ARE OFTEN LARGELY INEFFECTIVE.«

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The Concept of Accountability 4 Governance and its Relationship to Accountability 5 Publicly listed companies and accountability 6 Accountability with regards to various participants 9 The Challenges of Technology 11 Conclusion 12

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Introduction The governance and accountability of the corporate world has been a significant focus for many since the economy fell apart during the 2007 financial crisis. Prior to this event, there was a lot of public trust in corporate structures; however, after the financial crisis, ...

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Definition of Orientalism and How it is Problematic Orientalism is a way of comparing the differences of European, American and Arab cultures through exaggerating, emphasizing and distorting. According to Said, Orientalism considers Arab and African ways of life as uncivilized, precarious and out of the ordinary. Said describes Orientalism as problematic as it is ironical to be perfectly implicit. Understanding how the so-called “cultural domination” has operated over the years has proved to be problematic.

Globalization

Globalization is used to describe broadly the course of escalating intellectual, social, economic and political relations while at the same time integrating people’s ...

Our country has managed to make it to the top of the list when we count nations with the greatest rates of incarceration amongst its population and of course, because of the same trend, the taxpayers are paying colossal sums of money to keep the crooks off the streets. We have finally realized that we should be working towards reducing the cost that the country incurs for the maintenance of its prison population, and we have already tried and tested the option of reducing the spending of the food, and the recreation of the prisoners and the option has ...

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Zara business model provides incentives for success to the workers. The model provides for commissions on salaries which provides for up to 70% of the salaries. As a result, the managers and workers are motivated towards achieving success. Additionally, the staff members of Zara are able to determine the customer preferences and testes by counter checking at the sold and unsold items thus determining which ones are more preferred. It also provides for a point of sale system that helps customers acquire information on purchases that ranks sales of the products. The point of sale systems are all linked ...

It was in Dead Poets Society that I have first encountered the words Carpe diem. In the movie, the main protagonist (Keating) explains the phrase Carpe diem with this sentence: “Because we are food for worms, lads. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold and die.” (“Dead Poets Society” 14:40－14:53) That is why Keating encouraged his students to “seize the day.” But the real question is what does it take in order for an individual to seize the day? For Robert Herrick, ...

Background- Six Blind Men and the Elephant is the story of six blind men who view an elephant differently. As described in the video (Kanika24fps), they touch the different parts of an elephant and form their own opinion about the same. They all have different views about the elephant and argue that their views are more correct than others. The story has a strong link with a religion. Like an elephant, there are different viewpoints on religion. This leads to arguments and fights. Instead of arguing, if all sit together, realise their limited knowledge and try to make it ...

called and held to account

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Traditional models of accountability, primarily those of elections and legislative scrutiny, are no longer sufficient in holding governments accountable. While Emy and Hughes (1988) argue that accountability dilemmas have been long standing within ministerial government, they see accountability failures as an indication of mechanisms corrupted by political interest. The rise of new social movements is a strong indication of the collective desire of citizens to interrupt the “chain of accountability”. The desire to influence political decision makers is a reflection of a growing assumption that the democratic deficit facing most western governments requires experiments ...

America has a great diversity in terms of culture; this is due to different ethnic and racial communities living in the United States. The same also applies to Washington Dc, a city that is made up of diverse racial communities. For every research or an assessment, the demographics of the target population or certain geographical area play a very vital role in determining the data collection and assessment methods. For this cultural mental health assessment, we shall therefore first analyze the demographics of Washington DC, northwest area. According to the U.S Census which was carried out in the year ...

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The O’Hub is a conceptual, up-and-coming hostel that will be located in the heart of Dublin. Dublin has long been a center of tourism for people around the world, and it seems likely that Europeans and international guests will continue to flock to the city (Failte Ireland, 2016; Bacon, 2009). Indeed, there have been suggestions that the hotel and hostel industries in Dublin are over capacity; this indicates that there is a need in the market. The overarching vision for this particular project is to create such a unique design and atmosphere that the O’Hub is able ...

“The Breakfast Club” is a movie directed by John Hughes. It is a film that was produced in the year 1985, featuring five teenagers. The film is set to portray certain themes, in particular on the issues that concern the youth. The video shows the various challenges that most teenagers go through, where they face the challenge of being understood by the society, their families, as well as themselves. The movie presents the theme of perpetual skirmish of most American teenagers to be followed. The teens face the challenge of societal rejection, as well as being misunderstood. This problem ...

It was in Dead Poets Society that I have first encountered the words “Carpe diem.” In the movie, the main protagonist (Keating) explained that phrase Carpe Diem with this sentence: “Because we are food for works, lads. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold and die (Dead Poet Society, 14:40- 14:53), that is why Keating further added, “Why I seize the day.” But the real question is what does it take in order for an individual to seize the day? In order to ...