The Observer

the data below my perceived strengths are enabling others to act, modeling the way and encouraging the heart. Leadership Practices Inventory – Observers Evaluations The data compiled from observer one, Service Desk Analyst indicates my three strongest leadership practices are inspiring a shared vision, encouraging the heart and modeling the way. Observer two, Director of Administrative Services data indicates my three strongest traits are encouraging the heart, inspiring a shared and modeling…

mechanisms of the visual system over the recent decades focusing specifically on stimulus-driven attentional capture – an exogenous system of attentional capture by a stimulus that occurs independent of top-down control of the observer, that is, it is irrelevant to the task of the observer. The effect of capture by the stimulus is most powerful when stimulus is a sudden onset - entering the field of view of subject abruptly without priming (Yantis, 2003), (source, year). In passive attentional…

have been said to be at the fore front of the crisis, either escalating or helping to resolve the crisis. The purpose of the study was to find out whether government and privately owned newspapers in Nigeria represented by The Pointer, The Nigerian Observer, The Punch and The Guardian newspapers had given significant coverage to the Niger Delta crisis between January 2006 and December…

your presence makes them feel comfortable enough to observe and record information about their lifestyles and patterns. As an intern that does not work full-time, I am a participant observer. As a participant observer: I am an insider that observes and records some aspects of life in the office. The line between observer and performer is not always clear especially after I have work in this site for around a year. At times it can feel as I am a complete participant because I perform the same…

The Salem Witch Trials were “unfair” throughout countless eyes of villagers that lived in Salem village during this ghastly era. These trials were conducted on people that were either “seen” conducting strange activity or exhibiting strange behavior. The villagers called these people who were accused of showing abnormal behavior, witches. These witches are then brought to court and tried against the judges. The judges would then determine whether the witch would be announced innocent or would be…

Robert Marzano is known as leading educational researcher and an author of more than 40 books and 150 articles. The Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model was designed using thousands of studies conducted over the past five or more decades, and published in books that have been widely used by K–12 educators. His focused teacher evaluation model is influenced by the work of cognitive psychologist Anders Erikson. According to him, individuals can improve when they have clear goals and expert feedback.…

primary actors at the NYC 9/11 memorial were tourists who seemingly viewed the NYC 9/11 memorial like any other NYC tourist landmark. For example, numerous observers at the South Pool were taking selfies with their iPhones. Selfies are appropriate at the Statue of Liberty but taking selfies at the NYC 9/11 site seemed inappropriate behavior. The observers at the Pentagon 9/11 site were primarily visitors who showed a higher level of intimacy with the individual nature of Pentagon 9/11 memorial.…

Commentary on the interviews and focus groups (challenges, what worked well, keeping on track etc) “Qualitative interviewing appears a very significant tool with which to understand central features of our conversational world” (Brinkmann, 2013, p.4). As a former reporter of printing media, I used to do the interview as frequently as daily. I conducted the interviews with different background of people such as artists, actors and actress, writers, professors and businessmen. I have been done…

Instruction I came out of my last mock session with a feeling of not being able to express how I usually work with clients. I came across nervous and in turn I believe this would be something that the client and the observer could see. I had issues with the timing and being hyper aware of the time I had spend with the client. Knowing that I will get evaluated on the content recorded, and this created anxiety the was clear for all the parties involved in the session. Feedback from the class was…

Comparing the Artistic Works of Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso The beginning of the 20th century marked a transition from rural and agrarian based lifestyles to the urbanized and industrial based society that exists today. This rapid change in social ways of life introduced new ways of thinking about and reacting to society’s modern aesthetics. In regards to the creation of new ways of thinking for the modern era, the realm of art was not left out of this. New artistic styles such as…