One of the greatest challenges of higher education administration systems today is meeting the needs of non-traditional students. Our global economic recession has created a competitive job market‚ compelling people back to school from all walks of life. Today’s student bodies comprise young parents‚ professionals seeking a career change‚ non-English speakers‚ international students‚ and traditional‚ collegiate 18-22 year-old American students. While such variegated student bodies add great depth
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The son of Scottish migrants to Manitoba in the early 1900’s‚ Tommy Douglas grew up with a strong Christian underpinning of the ‘Protestant Work Ethic’ and the Christian ‘social gospel’ – a ‘belief that Christianity was above all a social religion‚ concerned as much with improving this world as with the life hereafter’. (Lovick and Marshall) These foundations initially led him to becoming a Baptist Minister in the small country town of Weyburn in Saskatchewan in 1930. However not quite 26 years
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advocacy of civil liberties‚ including freedom of religion‚ freedom of expression‚ free trade and separation of church and state. He was a French Enlightenment writer‚ historian and philosopher‚ and his Book ’_Candide or Optimism’_ is a satirical philosophical tale which I will also discuss in detail later. The first text to be analysed is found on page 11 of ’_Oroonoko_’. The text depicts the "Indian" natives of Surinam‚ how they appear to the narrator‚ how they show love to each other and how they
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I will also discuss how Judith Butler’s postmodern theories in Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism” correlate positively with bell hooks’ ideologies in her ‘radical agenda’. I will discuss that Martha Nussbaum’s philosophical presentation of feminist movement differs from hooks’ but does contain some of the same underlying visions of how to aid in the liberation of women all over the world. Lastly I will discuss that I agree with hooks’ claim that there cannot be an
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Mintzberg’s Strategy Continuum: Philosophic and Theoretical Underpinnings Naveed Yazdani Chair Department of Business Administration School of Business & Economics University of Management & Technology Yazdani@umt.edu.pk & naveedyazdani@hotmail.co.uk Abstract This theoretical paper views Henry Mintzberg’s ‘Strategy Safari’ as representing a strategy continuum along which different styles/modes of strategy making and implementing are spread‚ with Prescriptive/Planning style of strategizing at
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Postgraduate Research Methodology for HRM A - 7BSP1034 Research Proposal Front Sheet *My Family Name: Sarna *My Given Name: Sharmin Gias *My Student Number: 09242177 *Supervisors Name: Natalia Rocha-Lawton *Second Markers Name: Sue Anderson Word Counts: 2750 Submission Date: 7th January 2013 . . For school
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political opposition‚ including the event known as the burning of books and the burying of scholars. The Han dynasty followed after only 12 years‚ and was the first dynasty to embrace the philosophy of Confucianism‚ which became the ideological underpinning of all regimes until the end of imperial China. Under the Han Dynasty‚ China made great advances in many areas of the arts and sciences. Emperor Wu consolidated and extended the Chinese empire by pushing back the Xiongnu‚ enabling the first opening
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This article was downloaded by: [82.222.118.44] On: 18 October 2012‚ At: 11:45 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House‚ 37-41 Mortimer Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cbjm20 Islamic Democracy and its Limits: The Iranian Experience since 1979 Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
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The HRM Models ← There are a good number of models that have been postulated by various scholars to describe the HRM concept. ← However‚ as shall be seen these various models either fall under the soft or the hard approach of HRM. The Harvard Model ← The Harvard Model was postulated by Beer et al (1984) at Harvard University. ← The authors of the model also coined it the map of HRM territory. ← The Harvard model acknowledges the existence
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argument for greater inclusion‚ even full inclusion‚ comes from its philosophical/moral/ethical base. This country was founded upon the ideals of freedom and equality of opportunity. Though they have not been fully achieved‚ movement towards their fuller realization continues. Integration activists point to these ideals as valid for those with disabilities‚ too. Even opponents agree that the philosophical and moral/ethical underpinnings for full inclusion are powerful. (SEDL‚ 1995) Many agree that
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