Nikki Slesin Ms. Marshall-Fleenor History 9-1 November 17‚ 2007 Islamic Achievements made by the Muslims during the Golden Age In less than a century after Muhammad created the Islamic faith and state‚ Muslims and the new cultural power of Islam controlled half of the civilized world. Expansion that started with the rule of the Rightly Guided Caliphs continued under the Umayyad Dynasty‚ which ruled from A.D 661 to 750. Islam gained political control and influence from Spain to the borders
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Peter de Vooged`s article on “Dubliners” Peter de Voogd concentrates in his article on the possibilities of visualisation in a reading of the text of “Dubliners”. Different visualizations of reading can be observed‚ when film directors cast the actors for a character who can be imagined totally different by another reader of the script. De Voogd mentions the James Joyce was aware of these visual aspects and manipulated his readers` visualisations. On reason for this is his interest in the scenic
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gain a higher status of living. Well‚ again‚ society dictates that the idea of living is always going up and achieving more. And so‚ as I was growing old‚ I was taught to compete and be the best of whatever there is. Indeed‚ I have earned many achievements during my schooling years. As I was growing in age and much more in height (I was almost 6 feet before college)‚ my idea of choosing a course is neither on what I feel like doing nor on what my heart tells me (Nah! What a thought) but on how I
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Heiens / Market Orientation Market Orientation: Toward an Integrated Framework Richard A. Heiens University of South Carolina Aiken Dr. Richard Heiens is Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of South Carolina Aiken‚ School of Business Administration‚ 471 University Parkway‚ Aiken‚ SC 29801. (803) 641-3238. RichardH@Aiken.SC.edu EXECUTIVE SUMMARY "Market orientation‚" may actually encompass several different approaches to the strategic alignment of the organization with the external
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instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjmm20 From market orientation to brand orientation in the public sector a Johan Gromark & Frans Melin a b Lund University‚ Sweden b Lund University‚ Sweden Published online: 02 Sep 2013. To cite this article: Johan Gromark & Frans Melin (2013) From market orientation to brand orientation in the public sector‚ Journal of Marketing Management‚ 29:9-10‚ 1099-1123‚ DOI: 10.1080/0267257X.2013.812134
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Overview: Florence Kluckhohn Value Orientations R.S. Zaharna‚ Ed.D. American University In her seminal paper "Dominant and Variant Value Orientations‚" Florence Kluckhohn outlined five basic human problems that were common to all peoples at all times and all places (1953‚ p. 346). The value orientations Kluckhohn identified speak to the assumptions that we make about ourselves and our relationship to the world‚ which in turn‚ guide our actions. Table 1 (found at the END of this piece) provides
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marketing orientations. The production orientation focuses on internal efficiency to achieve lower prices for consumers. It assumes that price is the critical variable in the purchase decision. A sales orientation assumes that buyers resist purchasing items that are not essential and that consumers must be persuaded to buy. The marketing orientation is based on an understanding that a sale predominantly depends on the customer ’s decision to purchase a product and on the customer ’s perception
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The roles of women in modern day society have undergone tremendous change since the emergence of the Women ’s Liberation Movement in the 1960 ’s. After decades of gradual progression‚ the assemblage of Australian women to unite under a common cause has led to liberation. Their resorts to often desperate measures has ensured unparalleled achievements. The Women ’s Liberation Movement was a direct result of Feminism.(1) Sparked by various feminist organisations at the time‚ the movement aimed to create
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sexual orientation‚ alongside bisexual and heterosexual. The longstanding consensus of the behavioral and social sciences and the health and mental health professions is that homosexuality is an example of normal and positive variation in human sexual orientation. Currently the most common adjectives in use are lesbian for women and gay for men‚ though gay can refer to either men or women. The American Psychology Association defines sexual orientation in the following way: “Sexual orientation is an
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The Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriguez In Richard Rodriguez The Achievement of desire‚ he had grown up in a minority group / family being a Mexican-American ‚ who on entering school was barely able to speak English ‚ but then mastered the art of speaking English that one day his teacher had remarked that he was losing all traces of a Spanish accent. He considered himself to be success even to become known as a “scholar boy” and additionally prized student‚ his earlier teachers the nuns
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