1.Did your supervisor meet any of the characteristics of a charismatic leader as defined and discussed in the background readings? ... Yes my supervisor under whom I have worked for 1 year got all the characteristics of a charismatic leader. ... Did your supervisor meet any of the characteristics of a transformational leader? Yes, my supervisor possessed the characteristics of a transformation leader. ... One more supervisor with whom I worked was the Project Manager in an automobile company, who was working at the plant set SMART goal for his team members. ...

• Word Count: 896
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1735, Linnaeus published a biological schema used to classify plants and animals titled Systems of Nature, which later became the foundation for modern taxonomy (Marks, 1995). ... Without any scientific pretense whatsoever, the concept of race was constructed to classify people by arbitrary physical or geographical characteristics. ... The non-sequitur arises when people (professionals included), contrary to any empirical evidence, use the term race to signify biological difference and physiological characteristics. ... It is simply a fact that "the term race helps to perpetuate the belief ...

• Word Count: 1166
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In order to understand this movement, it is important to understand the origins and the characteristics of it. ... Huge factories and plants were not what they were used to and the working conditions were terrible without safety regulations. ...

• Word Count: 2419
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to the characteristics of this society, there is little social conflict because property is communal. ... Eventually, as horticulture, or the cultivation of domestic plants using primitive hand tools (Macionis, 1997: 70) developed, these formerly nomadic tribes began to permanently settle in an area, forming a stable community based upon horticulture, agriculture, and pastoralism. ... With the increase in food production due to the domestication of plants and animals came the production of a material surplus, or the production of "more resources than necessary to sustain day-to-day ...

• Word Count: 3173
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While modern science has disproved this illogical theory of innate superiority through the use of electrophoresis and other such studies, the idea had somehow planted itself in the soil of America and taken root. ... Instead of attributing the Indians with human characteristics, the scientists totally ignored the fact that the "savages" may have created the art, so the question of who the mound builders were occupied the attention of professional archaeologists and other scholars for years. ... Basically, human nature planted the seed and human nature fertilized the idea. ...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While reading this poem, it's easy to see that this family is and has been in the farming business for generations, which is stressed in the line, "we planted corn one Spring at Acu/we planted several times/ but this time was different." This line stresses the idea that the family, and more the father and son, plant corn every Spring together as a business and tradition. ...

• Word Count: 2322
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"It is generally agreed that the rapid expansion of Japan's economy from the late 1950s through the 1960s was powered by the vigorous investment of private industry in new plant and equipment. ... These three characteristics are known as the code of ethics in a professional's life. ...

• Word Count: 2410
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. However this is not wholly true. While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. One would be hard-pressed to find any science in social Darwinist thought. After reviewing the current literature on social Darwinism it is not clear that there was a cohesive movement of social Darwinism in America at all. ...

• Word Count: 3313
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Food not Bombs is perhaps the best, single idea to come out of the Anarchist Movement in the last fifty years" (Pfeiffer, 2006: 80). It represents an independent, collective movement which focuses on giving vegan and vegetarian food to various groups of people, under two main circumstances, which w...

• Word Count: 2372
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate