Authority

Due to the declining ridership and a growing need for service improvements, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) seeks to create a superior customer experience and value. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the measures undertaken my WMATA and also to examine its relationship with measures of organizational performance, and offer implications for management. This paper seeks to understand and explore the strategic changes of WMATA in the aftermath of its lowest ridership…

This essay will discuss Voltaire’s main arguments against church authority and dogma. To do this, two of Voltaire’s significant philosophical texts including arguments against the church will be studied: Candide and Treatise on Tolerance. From this, it will be distinguished whether or not these arguments can be applied to our modern society. Voltaire was a French Enlightenment thinker who lived through the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment was a European movement of the late seventeenth…

After the creation of the State of Israel and the displacement of thousands of people who lost their homes, the Palestinian nationalist movement began to regroup in the West Bank and Gaza, controlled by Jordan and Egypt, respectively, and in the refugee camps set up in other Arab countries. Shortly before the 1967 war, Palestinian organizations such as Fatah, led by Yasser Arafat formed the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and launched operations against Israel, first from Jordan and then…

Another similarity between the two protagonists is their attitude towards authority. They both resent conformity and rebel; they do not want to live a submissive life. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nurse Ratched is a strict authoritarian woman who passive-aggressively employs subtle humiliation, unpleasant medical treatments and a mind-numbing daily routine to suppress the patients and keep them submissive. She mentions the patients’ personal problems in front of all of the other patients…

Analysis of Cypress Regional Health Authority Analyzing a complex health system is necessary to understand the various leadership roles and how that can affect the dynamic system. In this paper, the Cypress Regional Health Authority will be analyzed with a focus on the health care system in Leader Saskatchewan. A critique of the system and its strengths and areas for improvement will follow. Finally, a discussion into how that system relates to the LEADS self framework will occur. System…

The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) is a government agency that was developed to manage Southern Nevada’s water needs. The SNWA has worked persistently to manage and diversify their water resources in order to be one step further along in the process of ensuring water in their regions for many years to come. The pipeline is about partnering with other states and regions to ensure communities are protected for guaranteeing future water sources when needed. SNWA would like to move forward…

US Navy jets intercepted the plane that was moving the terrorists to safety in Tunisia and diverted it to Italy (“Palestine Liberation…,” 2004). Although the coconspirators involved in the hijacking were quickly convicted and imprisoned, Italian authorities freed Abbas arguing that they lacked adequate evidence to confine him. Nonetheless, Abbas was eventually “convicted in absentia of masterminding the hijacking” (“Palestine Liberation…,” 2004). During Operation Iraqi Freedom, US marines…

Although they both believe in “animalism” and the seven commandments which they created for the animals to follow, the two authority figures centralize different things during the rebellion. Snowball concentrates his time to learning from books, so that he can fabricate quick plans, devise beneficial constructions, and help the other animals become literate. When the animal farm…

woman who gets in trouble and Montag can not help her. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the old woman who died in the fire, was the catalyst for Montag to begin to question his job, which highlights the overarching theme of power of authority. Guy Montag follows specific rules,…

the piece of paper with the black dot is hit with stones until she dies. This story was written by a woman at a time where female had very little power. In the text, you can see that women were not taken seriously and that men were seen as the authority figure. Only a men can draw from the black…