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Ellen Glasgow's short story "Dare's Gift" deals with a lawyer and his wife Mildred, who after spending several months at Dare's Gift, a house in Virginia, suffers a nervous breakdown while her husband is away on business in Washington, D.C. The story opens with Mildred's husband, the first person narrator, asking himself what exactly it was that happened a year ago at Dare's Gift. Mildred did not just suffer a nervous breakdown but she also "betrayed" him, by sharing confidential information about one of his cases with the press. The first person narrator attributes Mildred's strange behavior to the fact that Dare's gift is haunted. Through the account of Dr. Lakeby who looks after Mildred and who has been familiar with the house and its inhabitants for ov

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color kinetics incorporated: answers to case questions 1. What Should the Decision Criteria Be in Selecting a Target market in 1999? There were four primary decision criteria that should have been considered in the determination of the selection of a future target market for Color Kinetics Incorporated in November 1999. The four criteria were (a) the appropriateness of the technology for the market, (b) the cost to the company of the development of the technology, (c) the cost of implementing the market strategy in relation to the selected target market, and (d) the near-term revenue-generating potential associated with the selected market. In actual application of these decision criteria, compromises would be required to develop an optimal combination of the outcomes associated with the four factors (Christensen, 1999; Moore, 2000). 2. Which Market Should the Company Target in 1999? The case material delineated five options that were considered by the Company

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Biography of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Summary of the Book In his award-winning 1996 biography of Mikhail Gorbachev titled The Gorbachev Factor, Archie Brown provides the context for Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 and states emphatically that no one in the USSR expected major change from Gorbachev's rule. They underestimated him. It was under his leadership that the USSR came to an end, making him its last head of state. He is also credited with ending the Cold War. Moreover, Gorbachev came to be identified with "new thinking" and suddenly found himself the darling of Western culture while being disliked in his own country (Brown 5). Brown takes the reader through the various components of Gorbachev's rule, examining his foreign policy, his political approach, and his economic leadership and highlighting Soviet events as examples of Gorbachev's handling of issues. Its main theses are that Gorbachev had a positive influence on Soviet history and

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Philosophical Basis of Existential Counselling Existential psychotherapy is based in the philosophical school of existentialism, as represented among others by Kierkegaard, Schelling, and Nietzsche (Kemp, 1971). The philosophical school of existentialism developed in the nineteenth century in Europe and was a reaction to the changing social, political, and economic landscape brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Existential philosophers rejected the notion that science alone was capable of describing reality. Existentialism can thus be seen as a countermovement to Hegel's dialectics, which implied that technological, scientific, and philosophical "progress" would eventually lead mankind to complete freedom (Kemp, 1971). Kierkegaard, for example, explicitly rejects the scientific prerogative to defining "truth" and instead emphasizes that perceptions of reality are influenced by individual experiences and observable phenomena (Kemp, 1971). Nietzsche, on the other hand,

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New Mexico Nursing Excellence Award: Education 1. This nurse shares knowledge and inspires students to pursue critical thinking, technical, relationship, and leadership skills needed to practice effectively as nurses. She makes a point of inspiring her students to think critically by asking questions such as "Have you thought about it this way?" She gives them the opportunity to find role models and mentors by taking them to the New Mexico Nursing Association kick-off for Nurses' Week, allowing them to meet and get to know nursing leaders. She also attends workshops on building strong relationships with students and faculty. She ensures her accessibility to students by setting office hours by appointment so that she can meet with them at their convenience, not her own, and she invites them to talk through their worries and concerns. As a full-time nurse going to school, she recognizes the stresses involved and does all she can to alleviate her students' stress. Her efforts ar

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The Role of Travel in "The Story of Ying Ying" "Your letter said that you will stay on in the capital and pursue your studies...Still it is hard on the person left alone in this far-off place" (Chi 143) The role of travel in I-wen Chi's "The Story of Ying Ying" is one of manipulation on the part of Chang as a means of distancing himself from Miss Ts'ui. The reasons for his travel-related manipulation are not explicitly detailed by the narrator, but they are typical of an individual unwilling to commit to the other party in a romantic and/or sexual relationship. This paper will examine Chang's history with women and his travels and analyze the ideological message implied by them, as well as identifying the types of consequences that arise from them. The first thing the reader learns about Chang in the story is that he is 23 years old and that, unlike his peers, he has never had any sexual experience with women. The narrator indicates that this st

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Thomas Lynch is a third generation funeral director in Michigan. In a Frontline documentary The Undertaking, the Lynch family is followed as they counsel and handle various clientele and townspeople. The present discussion will examine the documentary and the various counseling tactics used by the Lynch family members as they prepare their clients for the process of dealing with death preparations. When Thomas meets with the Varrinos, he speaks softly and seems very receptive. He listens to their concerns and picks up on their uncertainty. He does not push them towards a decision, rather explains that with time they will know what the right decision is for their son. Mr. V

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E-Commerce Introduction: The term E-Commerce refers to the process of conducting business on the Internet. More specifically, e-commerce refers to selling or buying products or services online. There are a range of different types of businesses that are involved in e-commerce. Some are online retailers know as e-tailers. Some e-commerce sites conduct online auctions. Other popular online websites sell music that customers can download while online. One of the fastest growing parts of e-commerce involves the exchange of information between businesses leading to sales of goods and services between companies as buyers and sellers. Business to business e-commerce is one of the most important uses of the Internet to emerge. The vWorker website helps businesses hire and manage consultants in the cloud. For businesses looking to staff-up using independent contractors for projects for which contractors could be paid either on an hourly or a project basis, this website off

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The Importance of Towson University's Alternative Transportation Program Introduction The American Public Transportation Association (1) reported that while it may cost upwards of $2,675.29 to commute to work or school using a personal automobile, public transportation costs no more than $840 on average for a savings of over $1,800 per year. While one of the major motivations for switching from reliance on a personal vehicle for travel to schools such as Towson University is economic, it is also important to recognize that turning to alternative transportation processes and systems represents a vital contribution to the Green Initiative effort that has taken root at Towson and elsewhere in recent years. Towson's Green Initiatives include services offered under the aegis of the university's Parking and Transportation Services division. As part of the overall assortment of green initiatives offered at Towson, this program is designed to reduce the negative environmental footpri

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Synopsis The following bibliography includes academic secondary literature addressing the topic of the "Roman Empire." The bibliography represents a cross-section of most recent works in the field. Monographies, as well as scholarly articles from peer-reviewed journals are included. The bibliography also includes five references from the Encyclopedia Britannica relevant to the topic. Apart from works that cover the "Roman Empire" as one overarching topic, the bibliography also includes works that address specific aspects of the Roman Empire such as art, geography, and economy of the Roman Empire.

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Economics Questions 1. An externality is a cost or benefit that accrues to a party that is not an active participant in the specific transaction. Drinking and driving is an example of a negative consumption externality since the social cost is greater than the private cost. Technological innovation is an example of a positive production externality because the social benefit of the innovation is greater than the cost needed to produce tha

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Since the late 1990s, psychoanalysis has undergone a renaissance in family therapy (Larner, 2000). Family therapy initially rejected psychoanalytic notions, especially with regard to gender differences, and positioned itself in opposition to psychoanalytic approaches. However, as Larner (2000) has pointed out, post-modern sensibility, especially deconstruction (Derrida, 1998), have "mellowed fundamental ideologies in both disciplines, an approach as 'both/and' rather than 'either/or'" (Larner, 2000, p.62). This paradigmatic shift is grounded in therapeutic practice, which is informed by various theories and uses them eclectically, as they appear fit for a given situation. Accordingly, systemic family therapy does not have to exclude psychoanalytic notions. Systemic family therapy can integrate the "psychoanalytic story" of each family member in the overall systemic approach (Larner, 2000). Exploring the symbolic, unconscious and emotional inner life of each member within the

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Systems of racial segregation arose in both the United States and South Africa in the nineteenth century. As noted by Kevin Reilly, South Africa and North America were settled by Europeans in the seventeenth century (182). In both locations, African slaves were used to carry out manual labor. In the U.S., the slaves were imported from Africa. Slavery was abolished by the United Kingdom in 1833. This resulted in the institution being banned in South Africa, which wa

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Strategic Quality Management & Customer Satisfaction at McDonald's Vision / Mission Statements / Guiding Principles A mission statement expresses an organization's purpose and defines how success will be identified and measured. A company's mission statement is intended to provide guidance to the organization's leadership team and stakeholders, particularly stockholders. A vision statement conveys similar information, but frames that information in terms of values rather than objective metrics. A vision statement provides information as to why external stakeholders should do business with the company, including suppliers and customers (Mission Statements and Vision Statements, 2011). The proposed mission statement

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Apple Computer, Inc.: Maintaining the Music Business while Introducing iPhone and Apple TV 1. Describe the key strategic challenges facing Apple Computer. Apple Computer's key strategic challenges are its need to keep innovating, finding ways to convey the Apple experience, changing its U.S.-centric strategy to a global one, and preparing a successor for Steve Jobs (Sorman-Nilsson, 2008; Steinbock, 2010; Meyer, 2011). Innovation is Apple's calling card and the primary reason it has managed to stay ahead of its competitors in the marketplace. Apple's constant press to innovate is what drives consumers that already own an iPod Touch or an iPhone to keep buying the latest versions as they are released; each one has new features that make it irresistible. As Sorman-Nilsson (2008) points out, while innovation is everywhere in an Apple store, from the store front to the display windows, product shelves, elevators, and training theater. However, most Apple products are no

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Religion Introduction All religions promote spiritual and moral development and all religions strive to foster good deeds and conduct in adherents. However, different religions focus on spiritual and moral development and good deeds and behavior to different degrees. In Buddhism, there is no absolute deity or moral values. Good deeds and behavior are the route to spiritual enlightenment. In Christianity, there is an absolute God and moral values, with spiritual and moral development thought to promote good deeds and conduct. In this sense, both religions promote spiritual and moral development and good deeds and conduct, but Christianity is more focused on the former while Buddhism concerns itself with the latter. This analysis will provide a discussion of the views of spiritual and moral development and right actions and behavior in both these religions. A conclusion will address the main difference between Buddhism and Christianity with respect to these

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Chemical Labour Grouping Case Analysis Brief SWOT Analysis Chemical Labour Grouping, EEIG as described by Renart and Pares (736) is a company with a well established presence in France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom with synergistic business units involved in the production of paints and other similar coatings supplying automobile and other manufacturers. Among the strengths of the company include a strong export presence in other European Union countries, Middle Eastern countries, the United States, and a number of Latin American countries. Strengths enjoyed by the firm also include its well established reputation, a strong if not dominant position among EC suppliers of automobile paints, and very significant synergies between the four strategic partners. Weaknesses include a lack of established centralized administration linking the four paint manufacturers as well as a partnership agreement that does not provide for centralized decisionmaking or revenue and cost s

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Case Study Analysis: Leadership At Mountain Railway Introduction As the new leader of the western region of the Mountain Railways western operations, Jack Karl has come into the organization as an outsider and been startled by what he found. He has seen employees making recommendations to management and management making accommodations for employees in difficult circumstances. Everything he has seen alarms him. He fears a loss of management control that he believes will be the end of the organization. A holistic analysis of the situation reflects four leadership concepts that Karl is not aware are actually benefiting the organization: leveraging and meshing with organizational culture, treating employees with emotional intelligence, promoting employee empowerment, and replacing a hierarchical environment with a collaborative one. Recommendations for achieving these improvements will be provided. Situation Analysis Karl's concerns are due to his

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Building a Leadership Plan for Addressing Student Drinking Student drinking is a serious but longstanding problem in colleges and universities. According to SAMHSA, college students drink a larger volume of alcohol each time they drink than peers that do not attend college, and 43% of undergraduates report binge drinking of five or more drinks at a time within the previous two weeks (Carey, Scott-Sheldon, Carey, & DeMartini 2469). In addition, of the 14 million undergraduate students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, many are under the legal drinking age of 21, and the institutions are not only required to uphold state and local laws on drinking but also to ensure that their campuses are safe and promote learning (Carey, Scott-Sheldon, Carey, & DeMartini 2469). These responsibilities demand that they institute policies and solutions that can address the issue of student drinking. There are four frames that can be used for analyzing a scenario such as

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Question 1. To remain neutral while teaching an ethics course, I would first create a comprehensive handout identifying the most prominent ethical systems and their approaches, providing students with this as a background to the course. I would, during the course, refrain from taking ethical positions on controversial issues related to business practices. Third, when students engage in discussions about ethical business controversies advance right or wrong positions, I would direct discussions to be inclusive of both postures. The primary approach that I would take is removing myself from such discussions as anything more than a moderator. I would, for example, frame my responses to such situations in terms of different ethical strategies or theories rather than my own ideas or positions. Question 2. I regard ethics as those moral principles and values applied to social behavior. In the context of business, ethics refers to a consensus of what constitutes right or wrong busi

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Case Analysis: GrandMet Internal and External Environmental Analyses As described by David Sadtler and Andrew Campbell (52-54), the situation at Grand Metropolitan at the time the case was written offered an interesting combination of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. On the side of strengths, the firm had endured two different periods of retrenchment, coming back each time (in the 1970s and 1980s) stronger than before by reliance upon horizontal integration and the financial process known as trading property asset purchases. Strengths include a well balanced horizontally integrated portfolio with a presence in the United States, the United Kingdom (the company headquarters), France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Canada, Portugal, Greece, and the Netherlands. Other products are distributed and created in different markets worldwide and an additional strength is the firm's skilled management team which brings to the organization a wealth of experience and success in m

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corporate bankruptcy, turnaround, and liquidation: a research proposal Introduction Financial insolvency is a devastating phenomenon for individuals, families, single proprietor businesses, partnerships, and corporations. The phenomenon can be especially crippling when it occurs within a market-based economy. In the United States, some degree of relief for those experiencing financial insolvency may be afforded in many instances through the application of bankruptcy law (El Gazzar, Finn, & Tang, 2004). A declaration of bankruptcy, however, is only one of the options that is associated with financial insolvency if the oncoming train can be spotted ahead of time. In such scenarios, individuals, families, and businesses may be able to restructure their situations to an extent that a complete financial meltdown can be avoided. The two options involved in such a scenario are (a) finding ways to reverse existing trends and (b) liquidating one's assets and settling one's

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Introduction Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been recognized as a central mental health issue in veterans who were involved in combat. Some researchers have suggested that PTSD is characterized by a person's inability to integrate a traumatic memory into one's identity or self-narrative (Brewin, Dalgleish, & Joseph, 1996), while others have suggested that traumatic experiences and PTSD become central to a sufferer's self-constructed identity (Brown, Antonius, Kramer, Root, & Hirst, 2010). Symptoms of PTSD include flashbacks, nightmares, insomnia, dissociation, alcohol and drug abuse, depression, and somatization, i.e. expressing emotional distress through physical complaints (Thomas et al., 2010). PTSD is one of the most common mental health issues experienced by veterans of the recent Afghanistan and Iraq Wars (Brown, et al., 2010). More significantly, while lifetime prevalence of PTSD in the general population is highest among blacks (8.7%), African American men

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Trifles and Twelve Angry Men Susan Glaspell's play Trifles and Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men make a compelling statement about justice in the American legal system: justice is completely dependent upon human beings, and human beings are fallible. The central conflict in each play is the determination of guilt in a murder among people that do not agree on what happened or how it happened, and this is the most compelling dramatic convention in both. In Trifles, the determination of guilt is carried on by two separate groups-the men, who think they are far superior to the women in terms of their analytical ability-and the women, who with their attention to detail actually figure out what happened and who committed the crime. The central conflict surrounding who killed Mr. Wright hinges on the fact that the usual evidence that the men are looking at does not tell the story of what occurred. There is a conflict between assumption and evidence, and the men do not find the evidence. The women, looking through Mrs. Wright's sewing things, find an empty cage with the cage door ripped off by violent force and a dead bird with a broken neck

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Presidential Selection Founding Fathers The Founding Fathers strove to construct an election process that would "create a majority that would appear as natural as possible" (Ceaser 34). However, instead of a system of electors, each having two votes, dissenting Founders constructed a more complex "auxiliary plan" of election by the House (Ceaser 34). The electoral system constructed by the Founders was non-partisan and made no plan for nomination of candidates. The system constructed by the Founders to elect a president also made no provision for full popular participation, the "very hallmark" of our current electoral system (Ceaser 41). The ideal candidate to men like James Madison, James Wilson and others was a "strong and independent executive" (Ceaser 43). Any interference from the Congress or States was anathema to these men. Despite such views, those who favored a "strong" executive all advocated some form of popular election when they began to craft the Cons

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