April 17‚ 2017 Lynda Extra Credit 1.Understanding Leadership What is leadership? Leadership skills can be learned and improved. There’s a range of key leadership skills and practices but they fall mainly into four clusters of competencies. Self-awareness‚ building relationships‚ business acumen and organizational strategy. In leadership‚ reputation really is everything. These leadership skills are relevant to every organization‚ and every leadership role‚ whether you’re new to leading‚ or the CEO
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The novel Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ revolves around the life of Guy Montag‚ who is living in a time when society not only bans books‚ but burns them. People in this society spend their life in front of a screen‚ disconnected from their true feelings and emotions. Clarisse‚ however‚ is a seventeen year old girl who is different from others in her society. Unlike teenagers her age‚ Clarisse spends most of the time observing the people and places around her‚ as she sometimes rides“…the subway
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Dictionary (2000) defines leadership in the following manor: “1. The position or office of a leader; 2. Capacity or ability to lead; 3. A group of leaders; [and‚] 4. Guidance‚ direction.” At best‚ the descriptors are convoluted and do not provide any meaningful insight into the nature of leadership. Definitions for lead‚ although a bit more descriptive‚ still do not facilitate an understanding of leadership as a theory. Many have offered constructs and models to define leadership. Primarily these
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In the article “Anti-Intellectualism and the ‘Dumbing Down’ of America‚” Ray Williams draws attention to a very pressing and controversial idea‚ the anti-intellectual ignorance of modern American culture. Williams claims that Americans have developed a caustic standard of entitlement without representation. This political and social issue has only been worsened by the age of modern technology and social media. While less than 40% of Americans under the age of 44 have not read a book on their own
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Lily and T. Ray’s relationship In the beginning of the book "The secret Life of Bees"‚ the protagonist‚ Lily‚ had a very tough life with her father‚ T. Ray‚ and Lily didn’t have a mother. What I mean by this‚ is that when Lily was four years old‚ her mother dies by a gunshot and she blamed herself for what had happened; while her father‚ T.Ray‚ has always treated her bad and didn’t acknowledge her. One day‚ Lily went with her nanny‚ Rosaleen‚ to town after they had signed the civil rights
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As we all know‚ Ray Bradbury‚ Author of Fahrenheit 451‚ made many predictions as to what this day and age would be like. He was right in many cases including speed‚ entertainment‚ and the mindlessness of people. He predicted that nobody would speak more than a couple of words at a time to a certain person. That makes the people seem mindless because they don’t talk or ask questions. Ray also predicted that people would drive by places so fast that the y don’t even know what they passed. That has
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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Bridge of San Luis Rey‚ by Thornton Wilder‚ presents the ancient dilemma of whether tragedy is the result of chance or a manifestation of divine intervention. It explores the lives of five people and reveals their internal struggles for survival. The sadness that is created by the undying love of the Marquesa de Montemayor for her daughter‚ Esteban for his twin brother‚ Manual and Uncle Pio for the vain actress‚ Camilla
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Although death is a completely natural part of life‚ accepting death may not be so natural. Imagine if all the people in a community had the exact same dream that the world was going to end overnight. In "The Last Night of the World" written by Ray Bradbury the adults in the story are forced to accept that death is coming over night. Typically‚ when people find out that they are going to die‚ they are not able to accept it. However‚ in this story the characters encounter death and accept the fact
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well. Ray Lewis is one of the most talented players that I know. He inspires me to do the things that I wouldn’t be able to do if I didn’t believe. He is 6’1‚ 250 lbs of linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens. He tries his best in everything he does. Did you know that in 1996 he was the top-rated inside linebacker in the NFL draft? He was also a wrestler at “Lakeland High School.” A hero to me means somebody who shows or possesses the characteristics of leadership and determination. Leadership to me
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Envision‚ a world where violence is prevalent‚ critical thinking is less important and the ability to make rational decisions is demolished. This vision of a destructive world is conveyed through Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451. The novel revolves around Guy Montag who has to deal with his destructive government position and inner self-conscious‚ his government position being a fireman who rather than putting out fires‚ starts them by burning books. The dystopia Montag is surrounded by and the
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