POWERPLAY: What Really Happened at Bendix. Ballantine Books, New York: 371 pages.
A story she has to tell and an experience she has to share, Mary Cunningham, with her co-writer Fran Schumer, candidly delivers her account of "what really happened at Bendix" through a tasteful blend of recollections and assessments. It depicts and lays bare the first-hand experience of the author with the precarious and cutthroat character of corporate politics, overly hyped sexual scandals and persistent media intrusions as the book unfolds her version of the story.
POWERPLAY pilots off as a narrative of the brief but intriguing career of Mary Cunningham with Bendix Corporation. The intricate details of her Catholic family background, exemplary educational performance and extensive intellectual prowess and skills coupled with the events, personalities and circumstances surrounding her entire stay at the billion-dollar corporation, greatly transforms the personal issues of this Executive Assistant turned Vice-President for Strategic Planning of Bendix into a dynamic, yet common, political struggle of being a woman inside the corporate elite circle. Her saga also includes an expository view of the media and its frivolous tactics and methods of getting the scoop, and, how they forcibly extract information and transform it to a marketable front-page material in utter disregard of ethics and truth. It then ventures into setting a backdrop for Cunningham's beliefs and values system and her early dealings with the clash of her "missionary" ideals against existing condescending stereotypes and prejudice of society. Her previous "successes" in gliding over and reconciling these differences through hard work, sheer optimism and blinded idealism proved to be insufficient in her battle against Bendix when intrigues hit her hardest where she expected it least and cared for most: her values and moral standards.
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In "Julius Caesar," words as a tool of verbal and emotional powerplay are a persuasive force, capable of altering the actions of individuals. In Act 1 of the play, Cassius, a shrewd and manipulative character, utilises verbal and emotional powerplay in his attempt to draw Brutus into the conspiracy. ... By pointing out Caesar's weaknesses and emphasising the fact that Caesar is no better than Brutus "What should be in that name, Caesar? ... However, his impressive oratory skills, his use of powerful, emotive poetry "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," and use of rhetoric reveal ...
Washing clothes by hand is a very tedious task. For instance, many sea voyagers would place their dirty clothes in strong cloth bags, tie them to the ship, and toss them overboard. They would let the ship drag the bags for hours, thus washing their soiled clothes with the help of the force of water....
Washing clothes by hand is a very tedious task. For centuries human beings have tried to invent different types of machines to make this chore easier. For ages, people have known that forcing water through clothes will remove dirt from them. For instance, many sea voyagers would place their dirty...
Sociology and the holocaust WHAT SHOULD SOCIOLOGY LEARN FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF FACISM AND THE HOLOCAUST? ... But what drove the German people to do such a brutal act? ... What exactly have these acts of fascism taught us? ... Socially, we can try to argue that even deprivation on the scale felt by the German people is not enough to force a society to become something they are not, unless really they already are. ... (Bendix R, 1959) In the above statement we can see how Bendix believed these social actions affected Webbers understanding of society. ...
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND INDUSTIALISATION? PERRENNIALISM One of the original theories on the emergence of nationalism is perrennialism, which concentrates heavily on the history of nations, which are seen as stretching back for centuries. A.D. Smith states that the pe...
I knew that the transfer of credits was really common among students across the nation, but I couldn't quite figure out any proposals that could solve this universal problem. ... It took a lot of time to map out what I was going to write, but I feel that, in the end, I constructed a decent structured essay. To be quite frank, of all the times we have done peer review, I would say that the anonymous review sessions were the absolute, most effective. ... While we were sure to meet with our peers about our essays for Writing Project 3, we didn't really stress that as much for Writing P...
As someone grows older they tend to wonder what they truly have in life. ... According to Ken Ryan, in his review of Joseph Gabriel, he pointed out what the attempted suicide meant, "Y.W. "What about, O.W. ... The younger waiter could be thinking that this man is ready to die and just passing the time until that happens. ... When compared to the old man, the older waiter could inadvertently be thinking that he is coming close to the end of his life, and he is feeling a bit of depression from the upcoming alienation that could take place, like what happened to the old man. ...
This is what Diamond calls a natural experiment in history. ... I really enjoyed reading the epilogue, and I thought he did a great job at summarizing his theory. ... I believe that Diamond did just what Bain claims a comparison is supposed to do. ... Reinhard Bendix, author ofThe Comparative Analysis of Historical Change,? ... If Bendix were critiquing Diamond, he?...
