Through this case analysis‚ our group evaluates the organizational culture of Zappos.com in relation to its formation‚ artifacts‚ and strategic advantage fit. Zappos.com possesses a culture created from the ten established core values and the emphasis on happiness both within and outside of the workplace. In order to achieve the goal of outstanding customer service‚ CEO Tony Hsieh states that the company must possess a strong‚ and continuously evolving‚ culture. Outside of the existence of
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was from the Andy Griffith Show‚ called “Citizen’s Arrest.” Some interpersonal communications techniques that are used include kinesics (Wood‚ 126)‚ paralanguage (Wood‚ 133)‚ listening for information (Wood‚ 157)‚ loaded language (Wood‚ 99) and artifacts (Wood‚ 129). The most used is paralanguage and kinesics. In this episode of The Andy Griffith Show‚ Barney is sitting in his police car and sees Gomer Pyle get in his truck after leaving the post office and do an illegal U-turn. Barney proceeds
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The importance of an artifact—historically‚ culturally‚ or as a symbol of a nation’s power—and who should own it is central to the debate of returning artifacts to their countries of origin. The argument predominantly revolves around the marbles removed from the Parthenon by the British Lord Elgin. While the Greek government does not recognize the British Museum as the owner of the Parthenon Marbles‚ it can be said that they did acquire them by the proper means of the time. Other countries have asked
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King Tut By:Owen King Tut’s real name is Tutankhamen. King Tut created change because he has people questioning him about Egyptians today‚ he also left behind artifacts and he was a leader. King Tut is questioned about and we didn’t know a lot about him until Howard Carter found his corpse. He was born 1305 B.C. but died at the early age of 19 which was in 1324 B.C. He got married when he was 12 to his sister‚ Queen Ankhesenamun. We don’t know why he got married at an early
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The artifact that I picked from Metropolitan Museum of Art is called Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara of the Lion’s Roar. It is a large wood statue of an Avalokiteshvara‚ the basic idol of Buddhism‚ completed around the 12th century in China during the Ming Dynasty. The Buddha Statue is a representation of the philosophical belief system of Buddhism. Different Buddha Statues have different meanings. Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara symbolizes "the compassion in the world and the willingness to bear the pain
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Schliemann was an individual who was corrupted by fame and power‚ which would lead to the destruction and complete disregard of historical items from antiquity. Schliemann’s crusade to achieve self-gratification and fame led to the discovery of artifacts from antiquity‚ but ultimately
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context which is necessary for them to be understood (Barringer 199812). Despite their claims‚ rather than the truth‚ they present their own narrative of western supremacy (Hall 1992225) which simply emphasizes prior wrongdoing. Returning notable artifacts to their places of origin would be a symbolic step in recognizing these injustices. Rather than an opportunity to redress the abuses of history‚ the case of the Parthenon Marbles reinforces the political notions of colonialism and ethnocentrism.
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Ultimately‚ in terms of provenance‚ there is nothing that puts the Parthenon sculptures into a special category.” There are other museums that have other arts that originally belonged to a different culture and those countries are not wanting their artifacts back from those museums. Over all Dominic Selwood and I believe that the
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there are 19 other museums and several other buildings in relation to The Smithsonian Institution. By the end of the 21st century‚ over 1.3 million artifacts compiled to create the Institution’s vast collections (“Smithsonian Institution”). There is no written rubric to getting an artifact into the Institution‚ but there is an extensive process to an artifact getting
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Psychological Development Development of thinking I. How do developmental changes occur? The Great Debate II. Cognitive development Cognitive Development: The development of thinking I. How do developmental changes occur? II. Cognitive development I. Describe: General sequence II. Explanations: Natural biases‚ innate expectations‚ socio-cultural input‚ language Describe: General Sequence 1. Infants have primary concepts. -Object concepts -Number
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