... investigate landscape at its inner and outer limits. How do these inquiries at extreme scales move beyond a set of ideas and increasingly operate as agents of change on the ground and around the globe? We will examine three trajectories of technology that push us beyond traditional boundaries: microbial bioremediation, automated construction and cybernetics. The speakers will examine theory and history, research and practice related to each scale ... investigate landscape at its inner and outer limits. How do these inquiries at extreme scales move beyond a set of ideas and increasingly ...

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... a strong sense of acceptance and identity. Paul Keating's "Redfern Speech" reflects on the impact of the exclusion of Indigenous Australians, thus stressing the need for the acceptance and recognition of their culture. Keating promotes the need for self-reflection in the personification," Australia once reached out for us "demonstrates that one's perception of acceptance and inclusion is linked intrinsically to a strong sense of belonging. The acceptance of another culture parallels the feelings of Skrzynecki in the poem, "10 ... by questioning "can we find just solutions to...the peopl...

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... physical capacity, are both fundamentally convincing and compatible with each other. Jean Paul Sartre's thesis that humans are radically free starts of by his argument that existence precedes essence. Sartre argues that objects that like the pots crafted by an artisan have an "essence ", they are bounded by the nature of the essence, and thus are not free. Similarly, if there was a God or a creator that gave ... us our essence we would not be able to be free. Sartre synthesizes his points with by describing a duality of existence in the world which distills down to two types ... either...

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... continue to regularly use these theories and their terminology in explaining employee motivation. One of the early theories of motivation is the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory which is the best known theory of motivation. Abraham Maslow was a humanistic psychologist who proposed that within every person is a hierarchy of five needs. These five needs consist of physiological, safety, social, esteem, self-actualization needs explanation as follows: A physiological need is ... external esteem factors such as status, recognition and attention, Self-actualization needs: growth, achieving...

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... the strategy shift. In addition, we will describe the implications of Kraft's international operations on structural change. Finally, we will describe the associated modifications to strategic control system elements: culture, reward and incentives, and boundaries. Prior to management initiatives to pursue Organization for Growth (OFG) strategy, Kraft had a functional structure where major functions of the organization are grouped internally. This structure facilitated integration and tight control of major departments maximizing efficiencies by ... decreasing costs associated. It provi...

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... made their way over to his side to fight them and he did not want to take that risk because of his family and the people he had to look out for while they were there. Agamemnon had more of a chance to realize why he actually was a hero other than his daughter Cassandra because he did not really ... would be good while he was gone and he took care of his people and the way a hero if supposed to do and died not knowing when and the reason of him being killed when he has done everything for them. In The Quest for the Holy Grail King Arthur is the hero because he shows that he would do whate...

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... himself of the justifications for his manipulation of the people around him. This image is augmented by the fact that he appears to modulate between various motives each time he explains them; at the beginning he claims to Roderigo that he is acting out of revenge for a lack of military recognition, to serve my turn upon [Othello]', which presents his view of the army simply as a power structure, a ... instead attempting to conceal his deeper anxieties. Although Iago is used primarily by Shakespeare as the force of evil and malignity, so that the moral worth of the other characters can ...

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The title, of "The Storm," has connotations of a universal swell of energy and fervor of the natural world that is obvious during the encounter of Calixta and Alcee. Just as the storm matures from the first spark of energy, likewise, Calixta is a sexually mature woman, claiming her part in the natural world. Unfortunately, as a consequence of the times, society's attitude is intolerant of a woman's expression of sexuality. Furthermore, Calixta's commitment to her marriage forces her to be oppressed ... from expressing the sexual being within herself. During the rage of the storm's fury, inten...

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... has shaped the human worldview, challenging the understanding of the society, and the demands we place upon the structure that governs our lives. It encourages and provokes alterations, whether they are progressive or oppressive. A system that pervades those who adhere to it, religion has molded one the greatest agents of change in history; the political sphere and those leaders who follow it. Furthermore, religion serves to remind humanity of the value of the environment we inhabit ... the world. The organization has seized large swaths of land throughout Syria and Iraq, and threatens ...

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... so many other companies have failed, revolutionizing business approach to organizational structure and design. The company's business model has challenged traditional production strategies through changing what it means to be customer-oriented. This is most profoundly exemplified by the impact of the external community on the internal structure of eBay's organization, in turn, redefining corporate internal alignment. All facets of eBay's organizational design reflect a strict commitment to maintaining a company culture ... that has been the foundation for the websites success. The resul...

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... and bad behaviour" and how Breaking bad parlays that is the representation of the moral issues that we empathise with. The actions of the main character Walter White and its rippling effect is the main representation vehicle used. An example of this representation is in the Season 3 Finale "Full Measure" where Walter has ... A subtle, underlying vehicle to represent morality is the appearance of characters specifically in clothing attire. Breaking bad has had a reputation as a show that celebrates the nuances within a television production and the colour specific clothing that characters...

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... several years, there has been a trend in the business world - a shift of focus away from strategy and toward operational effectiveness. Companies believe that competitive advantage is created by a greater level of operational effectiveness than competitors, or what Porter describes as "performing similar activities better than rivals perform them." The competitive advantage created by greater efficiency and operational effectiveness is not sustainable, however, and is actually detrimental ... in the long-run. This is because steps taken to increase operational effectiveness are ... ...

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... Japan, usually offered to kami or bodhisattvas. The notion of the sacred as a transcendental reality is at the basis for ritualized devotion. Religions are viewed as expressions of the nature of the sacred realm in which rituals become the established behavior of the individual in a society expressing a relation to the realm of the kami. The function of ritual, charm, festival, and cult in the community is that of providing the methods of action in order to express awe, respect, fascination ... it is so drawing of other culture's rites and rituals, and therefore diverse in itself, provi...

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... blatant resistance to comply with the rules of high society exemplifies her repudiation of the typical Victorian women, asserting her independence from the suppressive life that limited her to certain prescribed actions, allegedly bestowed by the generosity of men. The archetype feminist rebel, Edna Pontellier, even defies the traditional definition of a Victorian woman within the context of a romantic relationship. Rebuffing the usual feminine Victorian qualities of being coy in the presence of a male, Edna is more open ... , it is evident that Edna rejects being coy and defies the Vict...

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... is characterized by the absence of the referent. Ironically, the fixity of the signifier/signified relationship, supposed to ground language in the immobility of the speaker's intentions and thereby rein in free play, actually reopens the semantic field to the play of substitutions by making every utterance iterable at any moment, regardless of intention or context. Thus, the central presence stabilizing the structure of language is not a central presence after all, but an absent center. For even if we would ... wish to verify that language represents its speaker's intentions, we woul...

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... is a first person account from the eyes of the narrator we hardly get to know about the narrator the poem focuses more on the effect of the music on various things observable by the narrator. The visitor who is also the piano tuner is significant in repairing the musical atmosphere in the household such that even the cat evokes a musical response. The poet makes beautiful use of audio-visual imagery to convey a sensation of music and melody which is ... impact as we can imagine the ripples of water following the "single lucid drop of water that stars the speaker's dream." While analysin...

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... led to secession. Folk Culture mixed with Southern Exceptionalism were two one of the most social contributing factors towards the secession of the south. This gemeinschaft society, with its emphasis on traditional, rural life, close kinship ties, a hierarchical social structure, ascribed status, patterns of defense, and masculine codes of honor and chivalry, persisted in the South long after the North began moving toward a gesellschaft society with its impersonal, bureaucratic meritocratic ... , urbanizing commercial, industrializing, mobile and rootless characteristics. Above all, the ...

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... ' potential political biases can shape public opinion and the public's voting behaviors. Political advertising encompasses every advertisement, political event, canvassing effort or political campaign sign that a politician or political group using during an election cycle to influence the formation of political opinions and the public's subsequent voting behavior. Engagement explores how empowered and represented an individual feels by the political system, how much a person stays informed ... and whether or not a citizen feels apathetic about the current political system. Access consid...

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... how we assess the current state of modernity. He posits that we are moving beyond the paradigm of modernity, both epistemologically and socially. Therefore, there is a need to move beyond the antiquated thinking in terms of the Euro-centric development and modernity. Jan Pieterse offers his criticism of post- ... the realm of critique, which does nothing to actually change the current status quo of development. Moreover, by focusing on the local and community level and putting this ideal on a pedestal, post-development can result in the unintended consequence of reification of the local ...

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... nature. We must be careful to avoid the construction of a monolithic experience of women in the civil rights movement, for clearly women's experiences within the movement were as differentiated as the number and types of organizations that participated in the movement. Nonetheless, when we hear the stories of women who encountered male chauvinism within the movement we should not be too surprised considering the history, constituency, and structure of some of the major organizations of the movement. When we examine the SCLC we see ... and extremely bureaucratic organization. But there i...

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... home by socialists, pacifists, Jews and democratic politicians who became recognised as the November Criminals. This idea provided fertile propaganda for the anti-democratic right wing political parties. Historian John Wheeler-Bennet suggests the democracy was undermined at the start because of the stab in the back legend. The Dolchstosselegende was a key reason for the doubtfulness in democracy and thus the failure of the Weimar Republic. Another key reason for the eventual downfall of the democratic ... republic was its failure to bring about fundamental socio-economic-judicial change...

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... has fallen short in practice. While examples of anarchism in action have existed, these failures raise questions on the validity of the organization of the system and what characteristics are needed for the success of an existing anarchist society. Experts argue that the political practice of anarchism promotes human welfare by inducing popular control of society through an emphasis on the values of liberty, solidarity and egalitarianism in the structure of society itself. For example, French Anarcho ... -communist author Daniel Guerin outlines the manner in which anarchism would organiz...

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... firm depends on mastering these three steps. The finance function is charged with managing the firms operating cash flows as efficiently and profitably as possible. A key element of this management process is the capital structure decision, or structuring the financial claims on the firm between debt and equity securities in order to maximize the market value of the firm. A second dimension to the financial management function is ensuring that firms have ... manager is to maximize the wealth of the stockholders, as measured by the market price of the firm's stock. A firm's stock price r...

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... barred from forming any organizations or groups and people who are not a part of the Central Committee which is almost the whole of China, cannot take part in decision making, which means approximately half of the world's population that does not democratically elect its leaders live in China. And by applying Dahl's concept of broadened participation and political contestation, we can say that it is due to this lack ... known as the State council. The premier of the State Council is nominated by the president, reviewed by the NPC, and appointed and removed by the president. Other member...

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In the book "The Body Project", Joan Jacobs Brumberg examines how the social changes of the last century have affected the ways in which teenage girls regard their bodies and themselves. By the use of various historical documents, including the many diaries of adolescent women, the author looks at the developing attitudes towards such issues as physical occurrences like that of menarche which we know as "menstruation" and skin conditions such as acne. Brumberg also focuses ... on the shift in emphasis from "good works" to "good looks", and the changing relationships between teenagers and pare...

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