How was power and authority shown in Churchill’s speech? Winston Churchill’s speech ‘we shall fight them on the beaches’ is one of the defining speeches during the second world war. Power and authority is shown in several ways. Churchill’s speech is confident. He is trying to motivate the British people. Within the speech there are several persuasive techniques used making the speech powerful. Churchill uses repetition‚ not volume. He builds and expands on his theme of "We shall" to
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Ebanks v. New York City Transit Authority 70 N.Y.2d 621‚ 518 N.Y.S 2d 776‚ Web 1987 N.Y Lexis 17294 United States Court of Appeals of New York Facts: * Julius Ebanks’s left foot got caught in a 2-inch gap between the escalator step and the side wall of the escalator‚ which was owned and operated by the New York City Transit Authority. * He was thrown violently to the ground after reaching the top. His hip was fractured along with other serious injuries. * The standard gap of the
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) enabled the federal government to build dams to control flooding along the Tennessee River. The TVA was created with the hope of modernizing and organizing natural resources and energy in parts of Tennessee‚ Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Kentucky‚ Mississippi
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In Stanley Milgram’s‚ The Perils of Obedience‚ Milgram states "obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to."(1) Milgram then shows how submission to that authority goes back as far as Abraham. He makes us look into ourselves and see why we obey these commands against our better judgment. Milgram then goes into detail about the experiment he set up at Yale University to test how much pain a person would inflict on another person just because they were ordered
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What were the legal issues in this case? In the case of Dunlap VS Tennessee Valley Authority‚ the legal issue that was presented was discrimination‚ disparate treatment and disparate impact. According to the EEOC‚ race discrimination involves treating someone (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because he/she is of a certain race or because of personal characteristics associated with race (such as hair texture‚ skin color‚ or certain facial features). Color discrimination involves treating someone
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Executive Summary Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) maintains 3 critical issues. These issues are processing inefficiency‚ lack of communication between the departments‚ and insufficient planning. Mark Duncan has been given the task to fix these critical issues. Mark plans to use business intelligence (BI) system to help with these critical issues. Ideally a BI system should help analyze data by department‚ record important information‚ and help forecast traffic for future periods
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LEGAL AUTHORITY Rational-legal authority (also known as rational authority‚ legal authority‚ rational domination‚ legal domination‚ or bureaucratic authority) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality‚ legal legitimacy and bureaucracy. The majority of the modern states of the twentieth century are rational-legal authorities‚ according to those who use this form of classification Authority Types Traditional authority is
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This document includes PSYCH 555 Week 6 Individual Assignment Influences of Conformity and Obedience Paper Psychology - General Psychology Prepare a 1‚750 to 2‚100-word paper in which you evaluate the effect of group influence on the self using classical and contemporary literature. Be sure to address the following in your paper: Compare and contrast the concepts of conformity and obedience. Analyze a classical study concerning the effect of group influence on the self. Analyze a
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Critically examine the claim by states to be the legitimate governing authority in a territory. This essay will first define ’the State ’‚ and then look at evidence to examine the above claim. The state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules and laws that govern the people within a defined territory. Max Weber‚ cited in “Exploring Social Lives”‚ defined the state as claiming “a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”‚ (Bromley
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Explore the way in which power and authority shape spoken language‚ considering it in the light of your own classroom experience. The English language contains many aspects and tools used to gain power and authority when speaking. In a political broadcast interview gaining information and turn-taking is expected. Therefore when Jeremy Paxman‚ the interviewer‚ speaks in a blunt and outspoken way to George Galloway‚ a politician who has just won an election to become a Member of Parliament beating
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