The Fifth Discipline

Tyrtaeus was a Spartan poet from around the middle of the seventh century BC. His identity remains unknown. In Ancient Greek stories, he was variously speculated to have been a poet sent by Athens to help the Spartans, a lame schoolmaster and composer, and a Spartan general. Some scholars even doubt his existence. Nonetheless, fragments and four of Tyrtaeus ' elegies remain. Despite this few number, Tyrtaeus is the main source of evidence for his period of Spartan history, during which Sparta…

British Petroleum William Knox founded British Petroleum in May 1908, as Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The Shah of Iran gave Mr. Knox permission to drill for Iran´s oil. In 1909 the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was incorporated and shares were sold to the public. The first chairman was Lord Stratchona, he also owned a minority shareholder. BP is a public limited company, their ownership is spread among the general public in many shares of stock, and these stocks are freely traded on a stock…

Teaching Style Teaching Style had been passed down centuries ago, the teaching styles evolves tremendously. Teacher centered learning is the old way of teaching where teachers are more in control and students’ ideas are denied. With this teaching style student cannot learn about himself, student will have low esteem and they do not have an effort to do things by their own. This style of teaching is the way Sister Aloysius teach. There is another teaching style which is effective, it is the…

Part I: Krishna’s Worldviews This paper will examine, in two parts, the worldviews of Krishna and Hinduism. The first part of the paper will examine four of the worldviews covered in class in relation to how they align with the beliefs of Krishna and Hinduism. The second part of the paper will examine a flaw in the logic of the worldviews and a way to remedy the flaw in the logic. Excerpts from the Bhagavad Gita as well as from the Upanishads will support analysis of the worldviews. Condition…

My schooling began when I was about 3-years-old in my country – Jamaica. It was called “basic school” that is the equivalent of kindergarten. There I learned letter sounds in the alphabet, writing the letters and simple mathematics. The building was one large room, with seating that resembled parks tables with the benches attached. The seating capacity for one bench was four. If, the classroom was over crowned six students was put together. My home was close to the school, so I walked to…

it would have possibly prolonged The Great Depression. Among many of the programs that The New Deal established, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) spoke to me the most. It was run by the United States Army and it was designed to impose strict discipline on jobless young men to work in national forests, federal conservation, and road construction projects. According to the video, "FDR and the Great Depression" it reported that, "In 9 years, the CCC helped the youngsters learn about…

fundamentals of math, but never anything about the history of it until I arrived in the United States. I was originally born in the United States, but my return was at the age of nine. I was then placed into the fifth grade because of my previous learning in Nigeria. My placement in the fifth grade had ranked me ahead of my peers; what my guardians later realized was that it was a bad decision. In the beginning of the school year, I began flunking in Mathematics, English, and…

on my plate. The brigade is in a precarious position while readjusting to garrison life, rotating out key personnel, struggling through equipment reset, and considering the upcoming deployment; all the while suffering with distractions related to discipline and moral issues. I have been through this before and know these issues are relatively normal, but I also recognize one critical problem. That is, the outgoing leadership is not communicating the “the big picture” within the formation.…

School Community Profile (SCP): Part II: An Introduction of the Jefferson County Schools, West Virginia Community Jefferson County Schools Philosophy: The goal of the Board is to create positive working relationships among various professional groups and organizations on the local, state and nationwide levels (Jefferson County Schools, 2015). The Jefferson County Schools Mission statement “Through excellence in teaching and learning, Jefferson County Schools will ensure that all students…

cynosure of different disciplines such as anthrophony, sociology, psychology and linguistics. Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1952) after cogitating over 300 studies failed in their attempt to propose a well-accepted definition among these studies. Despite its perceived intricacy, they identified three major characteristics of culture: its historical dimension, its interdependency…