paste your answers into the Student Submission box for Assignment #2 and submit it as a Word document. 1. What is the title of the film you picked? 2. Why did you pick this film over the others offered? 3. What is/are the central message(s) of this documentary/fictional film? Be specific. Use examples from the film to support your choice. 4. Consider the effectiveness of the film for this history class. What are its strengths and weaknesses of this film in documenting history?
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Leonard Prescott‚ vice president and general manager of Weaver-Yamazaki Pharmaceutical of Japan‚ believed that John Higgins‚ his executive assistant‚ was losing effectiveness in representing the U.S. parent company because of an extraordinary identification with the Japanese culture‚ (Japan is shown in Map 2.5.) The parent company‚ Weaver Pharmaceutical‚ had extensive international operations and was one of the largest U.S. drug firms. Its competitive position depended heavily on research and
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operations? Higgins and Prescott both have different opinions toward implementing U.S. personnel policies in the Japanese operations. I would describe Higgins’s attitude more against the U.S. personnel policies and more toward the Japanese ways of doing things‚ considering he would rather spend his time in Japan. I would describe Prescott’s attitude more for the U.S. way of implementing the personnel policies in the Japanese operations‚ since he really did not like the way Higgins handled situations
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Is there truly free will‚ or is it the combination of choices that creates one’s fate? In Mary Gaitskill’s “Tiny Smiling Daddy‚” we follow the main protagonist‚ Stew‚ through his thought process before‚ during‚ and after reading an article his daughter wrote about him. Stew and his daughter‚ Kitty‚ were estranged; they have a broken relationship. In this story‚ Stew places Kitty and those close to him into pre-defined “boxes‚” causing conflict. While it might seem that Stew placed others into rigid
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John Higgins The Central Issue: Why did Prescott think that his executive assistant‚ John Higgins‚ lost his effectiveness in representing the U.S parent company‚ while also having a strong identification with the Japanese culture? Why is Prescott having conflict dealing with Higgins about the issue? Recommended Course of Action: Prescott and Higgins should come to some kind of mutual understanding with each other as soon as possible Basis of Recommendation: Prescott and Higgins attitudes
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Prescott and Higgins are good leaders but unfortunately they have a very diverse management style. Prescott wanted to implement the American management style that they use back in the Headquarters because he thinks that the company’s real contribution to Japanese society was in introducing new ideas and innovations. Whereas‚ Higgins on the other hand is more tied up to the Japanese culture. This due to his admiration towards the Japanese culture. The symptom to this problem is that Higgins strongly
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Daddy" Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” elicits the realistic anecdote of a tattered woman’s attempt to salvage her own reality. The poem begins with a description of the conditions of which the speaker suffered throughout her maimed childhood. It also goes into detail about the relationship between the speaker and her father and how his demanding presence affected her maturation. The speaker not only explains the situation‚ but also relates it to that of World War II. She feels as if she
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Case: John Higgins 1. How would you describe Higgins’s and Prescott’s attitudes toward implementing U.S. personnel policies in the Japanese operations? Higgins and Prescott both have different opinions toward implementing U.S. personnel policies in the Japanese operations. I would describe Higgins’s attitude more against the U.S. personnel policies and more toward the Japanese ways of doing things‚ considering he would rather spend his time in Japan. I would describe Prescott’s attitude
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Advice to Little Girls By:Brenden Medders In Advice to Little Girls‚ Mark Twain satirically delves into the stereotypes society allocates with females‚ especially young ones. Although the short paragraphs make one assume this story was meant to be taken in a serious sense‚ the satire hidden in them‚ and the humor associated with Twain can corroborate that Twain was writing this story in a joking manner. In the short story‚ he humorously uses diction and satire to make the story come across the
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All about Parenting by Amy Mills Our house was off any main roads‚ we lived in the country‚ and our house was surrounded by nothing but trees. The only neighbors we had was about two blocks away‚ and they were all older people also. My grandparents lived on top of the hill from us. As a child there were no kids to play with as I was an only child. I and my mother pull up our very long driveway that looks like the trees are going to eat the car. The house gets closer and closer and my fear grows
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