Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Essay --

Plum Island is a fictional novel about a convalescing New York Police homicide detective named John Corey, who gets involved in a multiple murder investigation while he is supposed to be recovering from serious wounds. John is originally working as a consultant for the small township, where an old friend of his is the Chief of Police, but when he is relieved of this position, he continues the investigation on his own. Eventually the county detective assigned to solve the case, Beth Penrose, invites him to collaborate with her and the team solves the original double murder, and all of the murders committed by the same man, Frederic Tobin. John Corey is relaxing on his Uncle Harry's deck when Sylvester Maxwell, Chief of the local police, asks John to accompany him to the murder scene. Tom and Judy Gordon, biologists at the nearby Plum Island biological animal research center, and recent friends of John, have both been shot in the head on the deck of their home. John meets Detective Beth Penrose of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office, Foster of the FBI, and a man named Ted Nash who says he is from the Department of Agriculture but turns out to be a CIA agent. The initial investigation focuses on the Gordons stealing a virus from the Plum Island facility and selling it to a foreign government. To this end, the team of Nash, Foster, John, Beth and Max are taken on a lengthy tour of the facility, including the uninhabited part of the island that contains a revolutionary war era abandoned fort. While on the tour, John and the team meet the head of security, Paul Stevens. They also learn that the Gordons were involved in researching a vaccine for Ebola, were amateur archeologists, and had free reign to bring their boat to and from work ... ... John and Beth take Tobin's boat to the ferry dock and Max meets them there. John heads for Manhattan to face the wrath of his NYPD supervisor. At his home, he finds a letter from the Gordons, written before their murder, verifying everything he has now discovered. John goes to meet with his supervisors and negotiate a way out of the trouble he is in for disobeying orders. The last chapter shows John teaching homicide investigation, as a retired police officer. It is several months after the Plum Island incident, and he misses the police force, but accepts what needed to happen. He is also unattached. John is surprised to se that Beth Penrose has enrolled in his class. She catches him up on the latest from Suffolk County, and is gently offering to be in his life again. While he initially resists, he announces to the class that he is taking her for drinks that night.

Monday, January 13, 2020

Mentor

Instead of cursing the dark we have to light a candle; instead of looking down at the gutter at the roadside on a moonless night why not look up and appreciate the stars   in the sky? We should put passion in every undertaking. And instead saying â€Å" It’s cloudy outside but it’s a Sunday,† why not make it as an opportunity and say   â€Å"It’s a   great Sunday!† Meaning you’re optimistic that the day   would turn out right  Ã‚   because you are free from your office work—of your responsibility here–  Ã‚   despite the clouds hovering at the horizon. Right? In short we, all of you (managers, supervisors, section heads) should try to inspire others through your thoughts, words and deeds. First you should think and act as mentors and not mere managers or slave drivers of employees.   A mentor says â€Å"we have to do this way,† rather than ordering a subordinate â€Å"to do that way.† Make yourself  Ã‚   part of the solution – a member of the team. As a mentor you take every problem as a new challenge. As proactive mentor you have to be ahead of the situation or you have to put up measures to prevent potential problems   to crop up. To be an effective mentor you have to have the unlimited capacity to understand. How? Review your college psychology, about human nature or behavior, about motivation and aspirations of individuals. Make your subordinates feel that their aspirations and ambitions would be addressed by playing   their roles in the company. Make their individual ambitions and the company’s objective   one. Make them proud to belong to the company since they are being taken care of including their loved ones. To be a competent mentor every manager should have an open line of communication. You have to remove the partitions and cubicles. Let every worker approach you any time of the day – or night — and help him solve even his personal problem. As a mentor your responsibility does not end after office hours. The communications line should be open 24 hours a day. Mentoring is like coaching a football or basketball team. A coach is a mentor-leader —not a manager– because he inspires people. Your effectiveness as a coach could be measured on how the athletes play the game and not on the number of games won. The objective of the manager is to win all the games. As for the coach? His foremost consideration is the welfare of the individual players including their future and direction. Winning is secondary. Winning is not the objective. Winning a game or the championship should be the result of mentoring. No amount of shouting, cursing or suspension could make a player give a 100-percent contribution to a game if he is not inspired to play. He only gives his best because of the motivations from his coach. An example is Carter of the popular movie Coach Carter. He made men out of the spoiled and undisciplined youngsters. He transformed their lives—and their future. He considered every game lost an opportunity for each of his players to improve and do better. Carter   provided them reasons to live a beautiful and fruitful life. Another organization where you can find a mentor-leader is the Army. It is not the platoon leader but it’s usually the platoon sergeant who motivates the infantrymen during battles. One factor that inspires the soldiers could be the courage of the sergeant. And he leads in front of his platoon every skirmish. Because he has the extensive knowledge and experiences acquired from previous battles his men have confidence of his leadership. They know that what the sergeant is doing is  Ã‚   for their welfare and to reduce casualties.   In short extensive knowledge and courage play an important role in motivating people. And you can have more knowledge by attending managerial and motivational workshops on your initiative and on your own time. In short self-improvement. Another role you should play as leader is that of a facilitator. You should group your subordinates into teams not as work-related groups, like budget, accounting,   or disbursing section .Each team has an objective to accomplish—just like every squad in the army. Each team member has a defined role to play or a specialization.The men in a squad don’t carry the same type of weapon. One carries a bar or a special weapon which is effective for long range shooting. Another carries a machine gun for close combat. Others carry assault   rifles for the final push. Others carry sniper’s rifle with night vision for evening assault, and so forth. And in the absence of the point -man, the next in rank can take over to accomplish the objective of the team since every member’s role is clearly defined. So you have a logistical team rather than a dispatching section. Each team leader is empowered to make decisions. In case of misunderstanding or conflict in the implementation of an office policy, as manager or supervisor you act as collaborator but not as compromiser. As team member you consider everyone in the group as your   colleague or peer not as your immediate supervisor or your direct subordinate. Each role should be defined not by the ranking of the position but by specialization or skills. Thus, the secretary   becomes communications specialist and the telephone operator the   solutions provider—   for she gives answers to queries, Right? With these changes each can assert his role in the organization and he could measure his overall contribution. Even the janitor must have a position fitted to his contribution — as sanitation specialist. Try to imagine a single day without a janitor. You will find that the following day everything is in chaos or the office smelly. In case of conflict, as facilitator you initiate collaborative work, you initiave   comprehensive cooperation from all the members of the team. For an example in the advertising department, you yave to facilitate the production of the best creative idea for a promotional campaign. In this case you don’t have to criticize ideas presented. You have to facilitate the frution of the ideas into a useful concept. As facilitator you have to be highly assertive so it would be faster for a collegial decision to crop up from the team. Another role you should play as supervisor is that of a monitor. In short you have to record and take note of the progress of each team in your group. You don’t have to record their attendance nor whether they come on time or leave the office earlier. That’s not the point. As monitor you record as to how far they are from the goal. You have to be goal-oriented. You manage by objective. To be an effective monitor you have to be competent about   information management—the ins and outs of the system.In short you have your own system to grade your members. In the military there is such thing as demerits. For example you wear a complete uniform you would be given 100 merits. Any stain or dirt in the uniform, or improper wearing of a single insignia   the officer would give you the corresponding demerits. In this way your team members know their goal if they could make   you objective and make it   perfectly.. The military for example, has its own counterintelligence group. This way the military plays it safe by moving ahead of its enemies. This means you monitor the contribution of each member of the team and advice them from time to time as the necessary adjustments needed in their activities. Another function you should do as manager is that of a coordinator. In this situation you act not only as the coach of the team. You act at   the same time  Ã‚   the team captain or   the playing coach. You coordinate the maneuvers on the court as team captain. All the members of the team observe you from a distance as to what signals you are transmitting to them. As coordinator you know the specialized skill of each member. Like basketball, you know   how the guard or the forwards functions during set plays. You know the capacity   of your center or you know who would be the slotman or pointmaker during crucial time of the game. In short each man has a specialization—just like in your department or section. In basketball, the team captain sometimes decide  Ã‚   as to when they   need   to rest – and not necessarily the coach–   and transmit this need to the coach or the bench officials for the team to take a rest or take a time out to   change plan of  Ã‚   maneuvers . Compared to our company, as facilitator you must have the hands-on knowledge of the operation of your division or section.You cannot play as team captain if you don’t know the limit of your teammates, right? To summarize the following table show you the roles and the competencies needed: ROLES   COMPETENCIES NEEDED MENTOR       Big understanding; open-mindedness, effective verbal and oral Communications; ;extensive understanding of human Motivations; example that of a coach; can   emphatize FACILITATOR  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   team-building skills; delegation of authority; assume Responsibility; will not compromise solution; example That of a college instructor;example:   basketball team captain MONITOR     Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Proactive and goal-orientation; ability to detect Weaknesses; extensive analytical ability; example: a high school teacher; another example is the Army’s demerit system. COORDINATOR  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Proactive; ability to measure capacity and limits; ex: team captain;   he gets the opinion of the members of the team to arrive at a good decision; ability to get the attention of every member of the team; ability to get respect from the team. Case 1 Shaheen Matombo, staff member The case of Shaheen is not an isolated one. It is always the problem of single mother who doubles as head of the family. Shaheen is not a hopeless case. In fact Shaheen has offered an alternative schedule of 8:30 a.m. in exchange for a 30-minute lunch break. As CEO I would suggest to Andre Tate, Shaheen’s manager, to adopt the staff member’s offer of arriving at 8:30 with 30-minute lunch break, with off at 5 p.m., just like everybody in the office. As manager   it is the foremost to maintain manpower, especially that   Shaheen is a product of a computer college. It is the goal of Shaheen’s immediate supervisor to give the newcomer—three months at work—a chance to develop herself in her workplace. In this age of computers,   and flexible time, the offer of Shaheen is laudable.   Morale of her co-workers would not be affected if the change of Shaheen’s schedule would be known by everybody in the office.And   the same flexible time schedule would be offered to anybody who have the same reasons that of Shaheen. As manager, Andre should also provide a counteroffer. Meaning, Shaheen would follow her suggested schedule religiously.And a single late or failure to follow the schedule may mean she has to revert to the 8 a.m. regular time. During contingency, Shaneen would be given the chance to work online at home, so by the time she will be at the office she would not miss any important call. A system would be installed that calls made at 8 a.m. to the office would be coursed through the home telephone or computer of Shaheen at home. Another counteroffer would be for Shaheen to observe her suggested schedule but without coffee breaks of 15 minutes in the morning and another coffee break of 15 minutes in the afternoon. In short let Shaheen eat at his work station in exchange for her coming at 8:30 p.m. Since Shaheen is a computer graduate, sooner she would learn the ropes and could be effective in her work. As manager, Andre’s work is to maintain cohesion, morale and develop through training all the employees, not only Shaheen. As manager, Andre’s responsibility is to develop human resources in the company, particularly at this time when it would be hard to hire competent employees who are readily knowledgeable with office work. One of the   four approaches to effective values (HM 2022, frame 17 of lecture 2) is emphasis on human relations where the goal of the manager is maintaining human relations. Shaheen stay in the office can be considered probationary for it   takes   from three to six months before an employee becomes regular. Assuming Shaheen is already a regular staffer, the more that she should be retained and given the chance to improve herself.   In this case, Andre may assign a veteran worker or her supervisor as her office mentor. Shaneen needs the guidance of a facilitator and coordinator who understands her first and second willing to help her until she may be six months in office. In this way, if she would not improve, Andre have the reason to look for her replacement or put her in a job that does not require her to be at 8 a.m.. Of she may be given flexible time schedule to suit her work at home. The manager should understand the situation of Shaneen from the poiont of view of a parent. The manager should try to wear the shoes of Shaheen to undertanding extensively the situation Shaheen is in. As mentor, Andre should inspire Shaheen to work better and improve in her work. Andre should have the capacity and the patience to work with a worker like Shaneen For sooner, Shaheen may improve for she has the potential to be an effective worker.               

Sunday, January 5, 2020

Personal Narrative I Am Balder - 911 Words

I am Balder. I live in Norrvegr. I am a Norseman. I am the eldest of four children. I dress in typical Scandinavian clothing, I typically wear linen or wool shirt and trousers, spun and woven by my mother and sisters in our home. The women wear dress like garment called shift made of same material. Over that they wear a dress open at the sides held with shoulder straps. In colder weather they wear cloaks or shawls. Clothing is held in place by brooches. Our shoes and boots are made of calfskin or goatskin. And of course animal skins to keep warm. My parents’ marriage, like most marriages, was prearranged by their families. We live in a modest house built of wood and stone. It has three rooms with walls made of wooden sticks covered with mud keep the wind and rain out. Our floor is dug below ground level, and our roof is made of sod. We have a hearth to provide warmth and serve as a place to cook. When sitting my father used a chair called the â€Å"high seat† while the rest of the family sat on benches. We slept on raise platforms on either side of a hearth. My daily life consists mostly of farming, although the growing season is very short here in Scandinavia. I mostly grow a variety of fruits and vegetables: onions, beats, and cabbage. Also barley, wheat and oats, which we use for making flour, porridge and ale. I also raise livestock which sometimes consists of goats, sheep, cattle, geese, chickens and pigs. We ate mostly what we could produce our farm, but also had the

Saturday, December 28, 2019

God s Holiness And Love Essay - 971 Words

When I think of holiness and love, I think of Jesus. He truly shows the meaning of love and holiness. He loved us enough to die for our sins when He was sinless. Everything that is done should be out of love. All throughout the Bible, we can see what love really is. God’s holiness shows us love. The holiness you give is devoted love to God. You have to have holiness and love. The one who claims to be God would have to demonstrate God-like moral attributes of holiness, love and goodness, or those qualities that are associated with deity. (Robert Peterson, The Deity of Christ. Wheaton: Crossway, 2011). Holiness is the quality of perfection, sinlessness, and inability to sin that is possessed by God alone. As Christians, we are called to be holy (1 Pet. 1:16). We have to be holy in obedience (1 Pet. 1:15). God has made us holy through His son Jesus Christ (Eph. 1:4; 1 Pet. 2:9) Matt Slick. Retrieved from https://carm.org/dictionary-holy . 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Friday, December 20, 2019

A Midsummer Nights Dream- Love - 1141 Words

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Determinants and Barriers of Mobile Shopping - MyAssignmenthelp.com

Question: Discuss about the Determinants and Barriers of Mobile Shopping. Answer: Introduction: Internet is the most important thing which is used by todays generation. It shall be known that there is no work left which can get completed without the aid of internet of things. Further all people can agree that it is very important to make fullest use of internet to download music and videos. Otherwise, it can get too costly for the people to obtain such files. So, it is the need of the era to abolish the downloading of videos and music (Gupta, and Arora 2017). Further there are a few benefits of the same, which are discussed below: It is a good source for people to earn income through internet, many companies uses this technology to gain maximum benefits. iTunes, Netflix etc. are some of the application through which people download their files. People get famous through the use of internet; apart from that physical touch in holding any transaction is not mandatory. People do not need to share the file by meeting people; instead they can easily pass important documents and file in few seconds only. Many business tractions are held on social media through video conferencing and files are shared with the means of internet. So if legal restrictions are taken against downloading file from internet then the whole communities will collective face loss and it will hinder their growth as well (Lucchi 2016). Although the fact shall also be taken into account that with baring the process of sharing file can save society from many attacks and problems. But, by looking at the advantage it shall be said that downloading files from internet is a mandatory aspect which shall be not be abolished. Talking about use of internet for studying, now days many institutions conducted their training programs online due which student access the online library and download study material form them. Thus, with the barring internet to such things, then the efficiency of the interest would as decrease as people wont be able to make fuller utilization of such resources (Nolasco 2016). Back then there was a time, when people were unable to use internet efficiently, so it can be said that if such restrictions are being imposed on people, then they will come back to that era only. Future will get enhanced with such process, also people can read books, listen music without actually paying. Also a country with efficient information communication system is a country which can be regarded as a developed country (Sani, Ahmad, and Wahid 2016). Apart from, it shall also be known that a restriction on the use of internet for downloading is also necessity of the environment but to some extent. As people without internet feels that their hand tied because without internet they are unable to optimize their actions. Thus, restriction shall be imposed so that people adequately make use of internet but do not harass them. Reference Gupta, A. and Arora, N., 2017. Understanding determinants and barriers of mobile shopping adoption using behavioral reasoning theory.Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services,36, pp.1-7. Lucchi, N., 2016. Legal Controversies in Digital Media. In The Impact of Science and Technology on the Rights of the Individual (pp. 57-96). Springer International Publishing. Nolasco, G., 2016. Freedom of Expression on the Internet and the Law in Tanzania. JL Pol'y Globalization, 46, p.29. Sani, M.A.M., Ahmad, M.Z. and Wahid, R., 2016. Freedom of the Internet in Malaysia. The Social Sciences, 11(7), pp.1343-1349.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Christina Rossettis Goblin Market is often described as a subversive poem Essay Example For Students

Christina Rossettis Goblin Market is often described as a subversive poem Essay Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me: Lines 467-473 This sounds very similar to what Jesus said Take, eat, this is my Body which is given for you. Drink ye all of this; for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you are Christs words in the Prayer of Consecration in the Communion liturgy. I think also Rossetti is been subversive towards her brother and the brotherhood, I think she is making sly comments on how they treat women and prostitutes and also his wife. Rossetti describes the Goblins Brother with queer brother, and brother with sly brother lines 94 and 96. By using fruit to tempt the fall of the women it is automatically linked to Eve. Yet what we have to remember is that Eve ate an apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. I think that also Rossetti is trying to say that women in this era was not educated enough, not because of their own choice but because it was a patriarchal society, and if females did try and want to better themselves they were seen as wrong and unfeminine. I think that is also the reason why at first this poem was seen as a mere fairy tale for children. It was easier for women to make the men believe that there literature was aimed at children then it was for adults. The education that women were supposed to have was not of academic education available to men, but moral education. (Victorian Web Website 2009). By lines 563-568 I think Rossetti is trying to put across as though females dont need males to survive, you only need your sisters love, not just your biological sister but sisters as in all females. Once Lizzie had sacrificed herself to the Goblins and went home to Laura and let Laura feast upon the Goblins juices that was on her body she became better, her hair came back to its natural colour and she became well again 538-543. It makes you believe that it is the fruits juice that remedies her, but it could well be seen as though it is her sisters love and affection that makes her well. There is no mention about males after the Lizzie and the Goblins inclining that you dont need males to make you whole and to save you. Christina Rossetti shows by a number of ways which I have illustrated in ways in which this poem can be seen as subversive. I think that she did not believe that fallen women should be scorned if they redeem themselves, as god himself still accepts sinners. For Rossetti to even write a poem like this and for it to be popular would be subversive as women writers were not in the literary canon, but by this influential poem and many others she eventually made it into the literary canon under Christina Rossetti, and not Ellen Alleyne. Bibliography Grass, Sean C 1996. Natures Perilios Variety in Rossettis Goblin Market. Nineteenth-century literature, vol 51, no. 3, pp 356-376. Mendoza, Victor Roman 2006. Come Buy The crossing of sexual and consumer desire in Christina Rossettis Goblin Market. ELH Baltimore: Winter, vol 73, iss 4, pp 913-948. Rossetti, Christina (ed. ) 1994. Goblin Market and other poems, Dover Publications. Stern, Rebecca F 2003. Adulterations dectected : Food and Fraud in Christina Rossettis Goblin Market. Nineteenth-century literature, vol 57, no 4, pp 477-511. Tucker, Herbert F 2003. Rossettis Goblin Marketing: Sweet to Tongue and Sound to Eye. Representations, No 82, pp 117-133. www. answers. com http://www. victorianweb. org/authors/crossetti/scholl. html http://www. helium. com/items/1118490-goblin-market-sexuality-in-the-goblin-market- femine-roles-in-the-goblin-market? page=3 http://www. victorianweb. org/authors/crossetti/christensen1. html