Effective listening involves more than just hearing what other people are saying. Listening errors occur and usually result in misunderstandings, missed business opportunities, premature judgments, and wasted time and money. To get the full meaning of what someone says requires energy and discipline, both of which contribute to what is known as active listening. In the article "Learn to listen, and you'll learn to sell," David Connolly explains that, "the best agents in the insurance industry talk only 20% of the time during an interview with a new prospect, and that 20% is in the form of questions." David Connolly is an independent agent, owner of Splinter Group Consulting, and executive vice president of the Cabinetmaker's Association. David…
Title : Bronze sculpture in the renaissance THESIS : Preston Smith the thinker, bronze sculpture portrait of the idea of accomplishment through education, its gesture and stance by sculptor Glenna Goodarce 1985. Governor of Texas 1968-1972 Lt. Governor of Texas 1962-1968 State senator 1956-1962 House of representative 1944-1950 Graduate of Texas Tech University 1934. Honored with distinguished alumnus award 1969 This bronze sculpture, portrays the idea of accomplishment through education.…
is the bestselling memoir of James McBride, a biracial journalist, jazz saxophonist, and composer whose Jewish mother gave birth to twelve children, all of whom she raised in a housing project in Brooklyn. His mother witnessed the premature death of her first husband, a reverend, and through sheer force of will saw each of her children graduate from college. Her basic household tenets rested on the importance of academic success and the church, and many of her children moved on to earn graduate and professional degrees.…
This is letter was written on the 11th of August, in 1863 in helena arkansas by a soldier. The man who wrote this letter was Scott Newman a soldier who was currently in helena arkansas on his way to Little rock. Newman was a private in company A of the 36th infantry, and had a high amount of collected letters documented over his three year period of serving from 1862-1865. These letters not only go deep into what life was like as a Iowa soldier but also life in the union camps. Newman mentions the “boys of monroe county”. The first time any of this evidence and documents were posted publicly was in August of 1994.…
The short story "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien takes place in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In this story we are introduced to First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his platoon. They all differ in age and ethnicity, and have different views on the Vietnam War. One thing that they all have in common is that they bear the weight of their country on their back, but they also have different emotions weighing on their hearts at the same time. We see three different sides to Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the soldier, the love stricken man and the leader that has learned a valuable lesson. Each of his characters carries something different.…
Tim Hawkinson conveys the passage of recorded time. This art piece shows how history repeats itself and overlaps. Despite changing times, we still face war, natural disasters, famines. Some things never change.…
Belonging in some instances cannot be beneficial for ones wellbeing. Negative consequences may arise from the way in which one develops belonging. Barriers to belonging can be imposed or voluntarily constructed, and allowing one to distort the barriers can affect the way one belongs to people, places, groups or the larger world.…
Just as a sculptor chisels away amorphous parts of marble, revealing a distinguishable form, so does David Reynolds sculpt the transformation of America to those unfamiliar with the events leading up to World War II. He whittles away an apparent formless generic history and makes sense of the events by exhuming certain concepts. For instance how President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped change the perspective of a reluctant United States to enter a war until the attack on Pearl Harbor. In addition, Reynolds examines the policies between 1938-1941 that were important for U.S. foreign relations and defense. He shapes a comprehensive history and narrates into a concise story from the Munich Conference in 1938 to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December…
Discussing the outcome of a Roundtable discussion of federalism in Australia, John Wanna reported that "...all three levels of government - Commonwealth, state/territory and local - tended to see federalism as a malaise, not as a source of effective government" (Wanna 2007: 276).…
David Alexander Robertson is a Canadian writer who works alongside Scott B. Henderson, an illustrator, to create graphic novels about Residential Schools and Aboriginal history and culture. He comes from a mix of European and Cree heritage, and he has worked as an advocate for Aboriginal youth (Robertson, n.d.). Robertson and his works are respected and valued by prestigious members of the Aboriginal community. In Robertson’s biography, Justice Murray Sinclair is quoted saying, “Dave Robertson’s graphic novels take advantage of an important means of communicating that history to Canada’s youth, especially Aboriginal youth, who have gravitated to this genre [graphic novels]” (David Alexander Robertson, n.d.). As a person, Robertson’s heritage…
Victor Papanek was presumably a standout amongst the most disputable and powerful figure ever. He was a fashioner and teacher who unequivocally supported outlines with social and natural duties. He opposed plans that are ostentatious, perilous, and unless. He brought up that "plan has turned into the most capable device with which man shapes his devices and conditions (and, by augmentation, society and himself)". Activated by social agitation, ecological harm, large amounts of contamination, and potential consumption of the world's assets in the 1960s, Papanek started to challenge the outline foundation, scrutinize present day and unsustainable advancement, and propose choices. He soon turned into the disagreeable individual among creators…
This article was very interesting to me because I did not know that Neal Sabin, created the TV station Me-TV. The reason why this is interesting is because I watched a lot of shows with my grandparents on this very same TV station. The shows we watched were famous re-run shows such as Leave it to Beaver, The Brady Bunch, and Mash. Watching these re-runs is important because no one has or shows these shows anymore and that to me is television history. So, enough about how I became interested in the TV station Me-TV lets discuss more about how Neal Sabin created this popular station.…
This story all began about six years ago when a young boy began to see some very unexplainable things, but before I get ahead of myself let me introduce you to this young boy. His name is Michael he is 16 now and the type of person that doesn't normally like to share about what he sees because he is afraid of being judged. He is very fond of the outdoors and most activities that include being outside, and he really enjoys hunting. For Michael hunting has been a passion from when he was young around the age of two when his dad first took him squirrel hunting. As Far back as Michael can remember he had always loved to hunt and the silence of the woods. Well now that you know about Michael let's get to the real story shall we.…
In my life, I have been very fortunate. I have been given many opportunities to succeed, especially in academics. However, I have suffered through a physical adversity. When I was in the third grade, I was diagnosed with Sever’s disease, which sounds a lot scarier than it is. In basic terms, Sever’s is a bone disorder that results from swelling in the growth plate in the heel. It occurs with the onset of puberty, and usually disappears when the growth plate fuses together with other bones in the heel when puberty is over. Sever’s usually affects patients for two years. I was not so lucky. From third grade to my sophomore year in high school, I suffered from symptoms of Sever’s. I endured years of aching feet and throbbing heels. The pain eventually…
A time and motion study (or time-motion study) is a business efficiency technique combining the Time Study work of Frederick Winslow Taylor with the Motion Study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (the same couple as is best known through the biographical 1950 film and book Cheaper by the Dozen). It is a major part of scientific management (Taylorism). time study developed in the direction of establishing standard times, while motion study evolved into a technique for improving work methods. The two techniques became integrated and refined into a widely accepted method applicable to the improvement and upgrading of work systems. This integrated approach to work system improvement is known as methods engineering and it is applied today to industrial as well as service organizations, including banks, schools and hospitals.…