Executive Summary We investigate the effect of transactional and transformational leadership on followers and how each motivate individuals to commit to the enterprise goals and objectives. This report gives insight into the difference between transformational and transactional leadership drawing from case study evidence. The report concludes that although their core concepts are different, they share similar aspects and are most effective when used the right circumstances and context.…
In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck is Oberon’s confidant throughout the play. He is also known as Robin Goodfellow, an elf with supernatural abilities. He can transform others, shapeshift, and imitate voices. Based on the in-class discussion, he is not necessarily evil, if one assumes. In fact, he loves to play tricks on others at the expense of the consequences, which result in a commotion. One example is mistaking Lysander for Demetrius as he applies the love potion on Lysander’s…
Throughout A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens uses symbolism to create meaning in the story and to establish a point. One of the most prominent and important symbols that is woven throughout the novel is the motif of the “echoes of footsteps coming and going” (103). However, these footsteps signify different ideas dependent upon where Lucie and the family are. In London, England, the footsteps are merely echoes of people who could someday enter the family’s lives, while in Paris, France, the family…
American Identity Through the West Two things come to mind when I think of the West; vast open spaces that seem to go on and on and also Clint Eastwood’s movie, “A Fist Full of Dollars” theme music. Whatever vision comes to mind for people, the west has been a part of American identity for decades. Westerns in film have been a huge portion of this identity. First, it began with documentation of Daniel Boone explorations, then on to the dime store novel. Western film would be the biggest…
DeGroat depicts that sometimes it makes difficult to love certain people because these people are complex and difficult. Some people have personality disorders, some people have addictions, and some are just fools. Also, our own selves make us difficult to love these people. (DeGroat, 12) We are living in a broken world and each of us has an invisible bag behind us. DeGroat argues that by understanding the complexity of people and ourselves, we, as leaders and care-givers, can start caring for…
Beautiful Leaves and Even More Beautiful Bark Amber Jubilee is a relative newcomer in the ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius) family. Are you familiar with the ninebark family? If not, let Nature Hills introduce you to this great group of shrubs. Few shrubs are easier to grow than Ninebark. This North American native can handle just about anything you can throw at it. Unless you’re planting in beach sand, it will grow in your soil. It can handle droughts and torrential rains, even wet feet by…
The instructional setting being discussed throughout will be a little, charter school in a rural area with a majority of the student-body being on free or reduced lunch, seventy-five percent of the classroom being Caucasian and the remainder being from the Hispanic culture. Students attend this school to obtain an education in a non-conventional way. They want to have more freedom to explore, create and experience learning than your typical public school education provides. Social…
In my opinion, this story doesn’t belong in the genre of mystery, but as the human drama. This character lives the opposite life of age, differ from us. It seems to think for readers how the human relationship are built in each life, and how it transforms, with getting older. In this story, Benjamin Button was married, needless to say, marriage means the promise to continue the relationship as a couple, but he can’t continue it, because he gets younger. As…
In the writing of our book, The Mindful Diet, we set out to help people change or "transform their relationship with food" No small task given that most of us don't realize there is anything wrong with our food relationship. However, if our goal is to live a long and healthful life, and to age to the best of our ability, we need to take a closer look at this relationship that has evolved between our food supply and us. The relationship between humans and their food marks 2.5 million years and…
as a professional dancer. Teaching is a part of my passion for dance, and I just want to give my knowledge to other people, and to have a valuable legacy left, behind me. My thinking is that this is a stupendous idea. I have seen dance teachers transform people into the workforce of Broadway, Vegas, major dance companies, and cruises. Useful life skills are learned from dancing, its passion, determination, respect, and appreciation. Steps that are taken to start a dance company, is starting…