Essays on Zeal

The quality of the relationship between the teachers and the students is an important aspect in learning, because it helps both teachers and students achieve their potential. Learning happens best in an environment that is conducive for both the teacher and the student. Forming a good and lasting relationship doesn’t absolutely ensure that the learning process is a success, but it does make it more possible. In essence, teaching has to be about more than simply providing students with information, and instead focus on building relationships and encouraging students to invest in their own learning. As such, a ...

The relationship between the teachers and the students is an important aspect in learning. As it helps both teachers and students achieve their potential. Learning happens best in an environment that is conducive for both the teacher and the student. Forming a good and lasting relationship doesn’t absolutely ensure that the learning process is a success, but it does make it more possible. It can increase the participation of the students in classes and improve the relationship they have with their fellow students. This doesn’t mean that every strong student-teacher relationship will guarantee great learning. There are ...

In his work “Gay Science”, Nietzsche examines the nihilism which was characterizing the contemporary Europe. Nietzsche believes that with the scientific inventions, people have lost their human and the virtues that describe Christians. This is why he says that “God is dead”; that we have killed God with our actions. His work was an explanation of fear due to the abandonment of religion. He believes that human beings have ceased to acknowledge the divinity of God, and as a result, God has abandoned us. For thousands of years, the western world has been guided by the rule of God. ...

Beyond doubt, D.W. Griffith is one of the stalwarts in the domain of cinema who has left an immortal mark in the minds of the film critics and the audience with his seminal works of art that have been deemed to be among the best the medium of art has ever seen. The primary importance of Griffith’s cinematic works lies in the use of innovative filmic techniques that went on to define the language of cinema in the future years. A close scrutiny of the films like The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) would enable ...

General Introduction to the church

History of the Church is seen to encounter many challenges. The early church had its roots on cemented on strict and stringently followed biblical beliefs. With time, evolution and civilization began to encroach the church values and systems. The church initially, did not believe in earthly riches, entertainment, politics, and honor. The acceptance of such in the church consequently brew divides in the church, and people started accepting and interpreting the Bible in different ways. Hence, congregation members began to cocoon in line and cohorts of what they believed was right. As declared by Jesus, “no one can serve ...

Determining What is Good

A day before his execution, Socrates is visited in prison by his friend Crito to try and convince him to escape. Crito tells Socrates that if he is executed people will think that Crito could have helped Socrates if he was willing to give money but he did not care. Crito says that people will think he values money more than a friend’s life since no one will believe he tried to convince Socrates to escape, and he refused. Socrates tells Critos that the opinions of many people do not matter. Socrates says that the only the only ...

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The nature of revolution is a fundamentally complex phenomenon, comprising a number of sociopolitical, economic and cultural factors that would inspire a group of people to rise up in significant and affecting rebellion against a ruling force. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Huntington all have somewhat differing ideas as to the kinds of people who are prone to undertake revolution, but they all largely revolve around a poverty-ridden underclass rising up against the privileged upper class to regain or achieve rights that they felt were being withheld from them. Karl Marx heavily favored the working class (the proletariat) as the ...

The Life of Saint Paul the Apostle

Saint Paul is the greatest missionary of the Christian Church and he is well – educated both in Jewish and non – Jewish studies. He is born between 5 and 10 AD at Tarsus in Cilicia with Jewish father and mother. His Jewish name is Saul and he became a persecutor of the followers of Jesus Christ of Nazarene. He studied under the great Jewish rabbi Gamaliel. In Damascus, he experienced conversion and became a faithful Christian. He is transformed into a passionate enthusiastic apostle of Christ with three missionary trips throughout Asia Minor. In Rome, as his final trip and his ...

Introduction

There are several theories that seek to explain the abilities, behaviors and skills of individuals in different stages of their life. They include the psychosocial, biosocial and the cognitive theories of growth and development. They propose the expected behavior of an individual at the different stages of their life. Naturalistic observation is one of the ways that researchers employ to support the external validity of various research findings. The researchers embark on the study of a certain behavior as it occurs in its natural behavior. To ensure the validity of the results, the researchers should neither interrupt nor manipulate the ...

Campers as potential customers consist of the sick who are tired of being labeled as ‘sick’. Mostly, they consist of kids with serious illnesses, who are exposed to care and special treatment so that they can feel as ordinary kids. Apart from the kids, campers also include teens and families. The participation in the camp is free of charge and open to the willing. Campers enjoy a variety of services including art-making, horseback riding, arrow-shooting, canoe-paddling, amongst others (Roundup River Ranch). More than 1000 campers take part in visiting the Ranch annually to feel the experience. Donors are also ...

Book Review – Uranium Frenzy (Report 1)

The uranium boom in Utah during the 1950s was a whirlwind mineral rush, fuelled by the atomic age. In the wake of the atomic bomb, uranium became an incredibly important mineral and resource that everyone was quick to cash in on, with the US government creating a tremendous amount of interest and zeal towards finding a domestic source (Ringholz ix). All number of people found themselves joining the search for uranium, from trained professionals to enthusiastic amateurs, hoping to join in on this tremendous mineral rush that beset the United States during this time. As the ups and downs of the uranium ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on 27th January, 1948 in Riga, Latvia. He is famous for dancing throughout the world. His dance is the sublime vision. Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov began his ballet studies in 1960. He studied in Vaganova School the then Leningrad with Aleksander Pushkin. He won the top prize in the junior division of the international Varna Competition. His teacher described him as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen”. He made his debut at Maryinsky theatre where he danced the ‘peasant’ pas de deux in Giselle, in the group Kirov Ballet. A new instrument unique ...

MOVEMENTS IN RELATION TO CHRISTIANITY

The account of the Crusades, which happened during the Middle Ages, is considered as a significant part of the history of Christianity and the church. It is regarded as the first great enterprise that shows “common zeal of the Christian nations of Europe.” At the same time, these religiously-driven military movements brought forth diverse social, economic, and political impacts upon the European region. History shows no similar record where so many men from different countries and social ranks were brought together having equal enthusiasm. Hundreds of thousands of lives were sacrificed during these campaigns. However, it is being contested as ...

Section I

Among the many definitions the term (jihad) is the value of the" war against the infidels in the name of principles or beliefs, which is a sort of terrorism and news media has reached to conclusion that term jihad presents radical Islamist ideology (Ford N.p). The last third of the 20th century was marked by large-scale revival of religious trends in the area of ​​the spread of Islam. In our opinion, to a large extent the activation of the Islamic movement and ideological doctrines of Islam due to the fact that many Muslim countries are often subject to military, political, economic ...

Introduction

If the current era would have been recognized as the era of technology and effectiveness then it would not be wrong, because the current era is the foremost example of productivity and efficacy level, in which the organizations are working with lots of zeal and confidence to enhance their productivity in the market (Cardy and Leonard, 2011). Employees are known as the “Life-Blood” of an organization. Like a body cannot survive with blood, no organization can survive without the effective and organized employees. Employees are the people who only have one brainchild in their strategy and mind which is ...

Introduction

The caudillos of 19th-century Latin American history played an important part in the shaping and molding of Latin America into a state led by charismatic leaders who were able to assert their own considerable will over the people and enact social and governmental change. In the 19th century, the more iconic caudillos such as Simon Bolivar and Porfirio Diaz exerted tremendous energy and willpower to ensure that they shaped their respective countries in the ways they wanted. Even so, more modern revolutionary figures, even in their zeal to overthrow the classist politics of the caudillo, exerted a tremendous and earnest desire ...

Shakespeare is remembered as a legendary play writer. Most of his works are defined as tragic plays which results in the untimely death of the main characters. The main characters in his plays meet their “tragic” death through breaking the norms of the society, “Vienna and Verona”. Fornication and adultery are sexual crimes that trigger mixed reactions in a society, some debates on the person who ought to be punished, the lady or the man or both? However, what causes a greater storm is the acceptable form of punishment for the offenders. While some societies have “friendly” punishments, others punish the sex ...

SUMMARY

In this essay what will be discussed is the leadership skills that were present in Nelson Mandela can be used to understand and analyze how he was able to run his country. There are character traits and approaches to persuading people to change and the way he viewed the world. Ultimately this added up to achieve a set goal. I will use the material presented from the video and historical background of Nelson Mandela to look closely at what made him successful and also at his weaknesses.

VIDEO STUDY

Watching the video of Nelson Mandela, one of the most interesting points is a ...

Sailing to Byzantium is one of the most famous poems of the stalwart literary artist, William Butler Yeats. The poem is one of the quintessential pieces in the history of English literature, and it lives on in the hearts of the avid readers transcending the effect of time. The poet utilizes his aesthetic excellence to reach out to the gazillion readers across the globe through this immortal work of literature. There are vivid imagery and other literary devices in the poem that bring out the central idea with clarity and quintessence. The poem is a vehement statement of the ...

As far back as I can remember, I have always been a female who always did the right thing when I was told to and sometimes even when I was not told to. When there was work to be done then I put everything on hold until that work was done, and it gave me a sense of accomplishment after the job was done. I have always been a huge believer in work first and play later, I never ever did it the other way around because I always knew that the consequences of play before work was severe. The thing is, ...

RESEARCH PAPER ON EXERCIES ADHERENCE

Introduction Exercise adherence among various individuals is always different depending on the commitment and the zeal to maintain a healthy exercise program for a prolonged period of time. The need to maintain an exercise program for a longer period of time varies from one individual to another as revealed by a group of different people at different age groups in the world today. Issues of sedentary diseases have increased the need to maintain a proper exercise program which is coupled with a healthy eating habit among different individuals. This research paper seeks to find out the level of exercise adherence among different people and ...

Braveheart is one of the most inspiring war films of all times. The chronicle starts with a personal tragedy in the life of the rebel William Wallace, whose story of suffering starts with the death of his father. After this loss, he has to leave his clan to live in another place with his uncle until adulthood. After his return to the clan after many years, his sorrow culminates with the brutal death of his childhood beloved, enacted by the royal guard. Wallace united and le his clan to conquer strongholds of the English, which had been responsible for ...

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Toxic Leadership 4 Introduction 4 Research Purpose and Questions 5 Research purpose 5 Research questions 6 Literature Review 7 Characteristic and behavior of toxic leaders 8 Effects of toxic leadership 9 Can toxic leaders change? 10 Findings 10 Conclusions 11

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Abstract Toxic leadership in the society has been influential in setting bad precedent for organizations and groups of people. Toxic leaders are led by personal vendetta which seeks to enrich themselves at the expense of their followers. This has led to conflicts among employees as the behavior of ...

The world has documented in its history gazillion years of oppression and disregard toward certain social groups across cultures. The chronology of oppression was institutionalized in the course of time and had unfortunately become the normative. Even the innumerable people who were being shackled by the brutal forces of inequality could not assemble and raise their voice against the ill forces of the society. It was in the second half of the 20th century when the social groups exuded the valor and zeal to realize their journey of emancipation in United States of America. Voices of protest echoed across ...

Book Review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey was a stalwart American author whose novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, remains as one of the most noted literary works of the past century. The author was deeply influenced by the time he spent with the patients at the Menlo Park Veteran’s Hospital whom he saw as misfits into the conventional structure of the society. These individuals were hence ostracized and left in the dungeon of the asylum from where they could pose no hindrance to the normative functions of the society. The author portrays the hospital as the microcosm of the society and ...

Ken Kesey was a stalwart American author whose novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, remains as one of the most noted literary works of the past century. The author was deeply influenced by the time he spent with the patients at the Menlo Park Veteran’s Hospital. The author strongly believed that the patients were not insane. They were actually misfits into the conventional structure of the society. These individuals were hence ostracized and left in the dungeon of the asylum from where they could pose no hindrance to the normative functions of the society. The author uses ...

Georges Méliès was the one of the first directors in the history of world cinema to leave the audience in awe. The stalwart’s works have continued to impress gazillion film lovers across the globe in the past century. What made him stand apart was the fact that his films were not documents of prosaic events. Rather, the man portrayed scenes that could only exist in the vivid imagination of the audience before this. The eminent film theorist, Tom Gunning, tags his films with the phrase ‘cinema of attractions’ which describes his works as a perfect mesh of spectatorship, ...

I first developed an interest in public health at a tender age because of my passion to serve and help other people I society. I was motivated in different ways to believe that a public health career would enable me to help humanity and make the world a good place. My interaction with different kinds of people during the early stages of my education, and the motivational influence I gained from reading people’s views and experiences were instrumental in shaping my career choice. I believe in serving other people in whatever situation they are going through. Helping people is one of ...

Mining Industry

Mining has played a very significant role in human life from prehistoric times to the present. Furthermore, various cultural eras were identified based on specific mineral extracts or their derivatives e.g. the Iron Age (1500 B.C.E. to 1780 C.E.). Mining, particularly, can be described as the process involved in the extraction of minerals from the earth including surface waters and wells. Mining industry is used to define various functions such as exploration, mineral separation, electrolytic reduction, smelting and refining processes. Various methods are used to describe mining process, these include; opencast, underground and fluid mining (Figge and Hahn, 2004).

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Leadership Theory and Practices Introduction

Leadership is important for any group of people that has come together for a common purpose. Clark (2004) defines leadership as a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs an organisation or institution in a way that makes it more coherent and cohesive. Thus, a leader steers and stimulates a group of people towards achieving a shared goal. While this is the basic role of a leader, people’s approach to leadership varies widely. The objective of the paper is to analyse the leadership approach of a chosen leader based on key leadership theories that provide ...

Elusive Objectivity: Historical Interpretation and the Reality of Sino-Tibetan Relations

Many of the various histories written about the tumultuous relationship between China and Tibet offer polarized accounts of an international controversy that has come to define the struggle for ethnic identity and political autonomy. Indeed, it is a conflict fought as much in the media and the international consciousness of the global community as it has been contested on the battlefield and behind closed doors between charismatic political leaders like the Dalai Lama and Mao Zedong. The historians and authors who have chronicled a struggle that spanned the 20th century have, in general, seen the matter in terms of Tibetan sovereignty ...

Comparison between the cultural impact of Quantum physics to the reaction to the Theory of Natural Selection

This thesis shall be limited to the cultural impacts of Darwin’s theory of evolution especially in Europe and the United States of America. Initially, the western world believed that the world was created in six days by a supernatural being. Therefore, advancement of the theory of natural selection was widely accepted by the scientific community but vehemently rejected by the religious leaders. In addition to this, the theory had political implications in the essence that it advanced for socialism as a remedy for the challenges posed by capitalism. The theory highlighted the human wellbeing under the perspective of capitalism and ...

The management theories that can be used to analyze the VDOT case study include Henry Fayol’s theory on Principles of management. It contains 14 principles which explain the working of a well managed organization. The other theory used is the BCG Matrix which illustrates the product life cycle of a project and which priorities should be used in a business unit. Max Weber theory on bureaucracy can also be used to describe the state entities and the communication practices which are used.

BCG Matrix theory has two dimensions on market share and growth. For a long term project there should be high-growth ...

Motivation is broadly defined as the pulling together of efforts towards the achievement of a given goal. As such, it goes without saying that motivation is a deliberate effort aimed at achieving a given goal. As much as there are goals to be achieved, motivation is the grease that lubricates the wheels of success.

According to Anon. (n.d), there are various factors that affect motivation. These factors include the personal, environmental as well as situational factors. All these factors come in to create the motivation that an individual needs to go on with the issues of life. It is also important to ...

Western Civilization II

It is during the period between the 15th and 18th Century that religion experienced very fundamental changes. During this period Christianity was the most popular religion and the period was characterized by a number of stages: Early 1500 there was a discovery stage that was characterized by movement of the Spanish and Portuguese westwards over the ocean in search of gold and other fortunes. Trade is on e of the factors that contributed to the spread of religion in Europe as Missionaries tagged along the European conquerors, traders, and colonists.

Reformation and counter-reformation also known as the age of religious wars ...

LEADERSHIP

A new concept that I have learned in this course is that on efficacy and optimism. Efficacy is the ability of a leader to make people within a group or working individually to believe that they can achieve difficult tasks (Yukl, 2009, p. 483). On its part, optimism is positive mindedness which the leader is supposed to cultivate in the followers. From this course I have come to learn that the two principles help a leader achieve the team’s objectives with much ease.

People like to work on what they believe in and in such a situation they will show a lot of ...

William Vernon Harris wrote the book titled ‘War & Imperialism in Republican Rome’. Oxford University Press published the book in the 1985. The author of this book attempts to review the grounds for wars and imperialism in Rome in 327 to 70 BC. It was the time when the Romans outstretched their empire to the Mediterranean. The book attempted to reviews the feelings of the Romans in their mission to get power and their actions. The urge for Romans to have power over all their neighbours was clearly reviewed. The Romans zeal for power gave them an attitude towards ...