Ovid Futch’s story of the war’s prisoners, takes the reader through the journey all of the ins and outs of the lives of the captives taken by the Confederate Soldiers. Mr. Futch actually died before his book was published. He did many years of research before finally passing away, digging into books and records that had never been put out to the public. He went through all of the documents that even barely related to the book he was attempting to write and then sorted out what was actually first hand and true, from the things that had been passed down from generation to generation and been changed so many times it was hardly true anymore. He finally had his book together after many years of work, but passed away before he ever saw it published.
In chapter 16 Henry Petroski talks about the horrible present situation of today’s road building industry. Henry indicates, the essence of flocculants outside its defeat garrulous among them, that is the current situation of road building industry. First Henry gives us some typical examples of fraud and abuse within and outside government. Recently, in North Carolina, an executive road paving company guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the US Transportation department and also conspiracy to laundry money. This case involves thirty-seven federal construction contractors.
Serpico, the New York City cop who couldn’t be bought by nobody. Serpico is a book that tells a story about a cop that works in New York, that wouldn’t take any brides from anybody and who had to deal with a very corrupt police department. There was a big gambling problem going on in New York and there was nothing being done about it so Serpico being such an honest cop decided he would try to get rid of the problem. In the following book report over Serpico, by Peter Maas, I will summarize the book’s contents and give my thoughts over the book.
The book starts out with the main character Yossarian in the middle of World War II on an island off the coast of Italy called Pianosa. He is in the Air Force, but he hates the war and believes people want to kill him. He has a clear hatred for many people, especially his superior officers, Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn, who keep raising the number of missions he is required to accomplish in order to go home. The book jumps around and isn’t in chronological order, rather it is a collection of war stories from the characters. Yossarian starts the book out in the hospital with a liver problem that he fakes to get out of having to do missions.
Part Three of Pietra Rivolli’s book, titled “Trouble at the Border”, focuses on the hurdles the T-shirt faces during its return to America during a time when concerns about the adverse effects of free trade are rising. She points out that the American public remains uneasy about trade not because the people are unaware of its benefits but because they tend to view matters with a local rather than a global perspective. Subsequently, she refers to the textile and apparel industry as the most protected manufacturing industry in the US, often shielded by complicated rules made by politically driven policymakers.
I want my students to understand and comprehend the concepts and skills from the activities. For Knowledge & Understanding category of L.T. #1, I will include 1 multiple choice question so that my students will understand the importance of knowing what an illustration is, and why they are important in the text. For L.T. #2, I will give my students 2 true and false questions
x What did you think about the concepts presented in Chapter 12, in Brown, regarding the role of parents? Did you agree or disagree? Which one of the concepts presented is something you could apply to your coaching situation currently? Your posting is worth 10 points.
The last question that needs to be asked relates to what would be changing about Queequeg if he were to be reborn. As Queequeg is likened to being between a caterpillar and a butterfly, it is important to examine what Queequeg’s caterpillar and butterfly could be. An answer may be discovered in Queequeg’s arm, as Ishmael describes it, “This arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure” (Melville 37). A labyrinth, on the surface, is something to escape – though it is not Queequeg’s arm itself that is the labyrinth, but the tattoos. While tattoos are permanently etched into skin, they are ultimately an addition to the usually unblemished skin of a newborn.
In the book, DiLorenzo brings up several topics. The first one, which seems to be one of DiLorenzo’s strongest arguments, is the question of why Lincoln did not end slavery peacefully. In chapter three, DiLorenzo tells the reader “Dozens of countries, including the possessions of the British, French, and Spanish empires, ended slavery peacefully during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries” (48). Since all these other countries were able to end slavery in this way, the question is why America could not.
In chapter three, Alexander argues that the structure of the drug war is designed in such a way, that it guarantees that its victims will consist of people from the society's undercaste. To begin with, Alexander states that there are two primary ways, in which an essentially “colorblind”criminal justice system can operate in such a discriminatory manner. The first way is by giving the police immense amounts of discretion to which they can choose whom to stop, question, frisk, search, and arrest. According to Alexander, African Americans, who became the victim of the media’s “criminalblackman” portrayal were once again victimized by law enforcement personnel that targeted them on due to their bias’ in believing that all African Americans were
Coming into this analysis of chapter six was talking about starting to get the project off the ground and the parts Mr. West and the Microkids played in the project. When Mr. West was working on the project he started to learn more and something that stood out to me was that not everything worth doing is worth doing well, there is no such thing as a perfect design. When I read that part from the text it touch home to me because it’s just like in life not everything in life is worth doing or even perfect. Now the Microkids had an important part in the project, there job was to write the microcode and have it done by a certain time. Now one way they thought they could improve performance on the project was through competition.
It’s difficult to get kicked out of a land you have lived in for so long and end up having nowhere to go. In this novel, Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, shows Tom Joad’s journey with his family to a new place where they've never been. They travel from Oklahoma to California and encounter a lot of hardship. Tom Joad is the main character in the story and is portrayed in the beginning as someone who can’t control their anger. He shows development in managing his anger issues as a result of his family’s unwavering emotional support.
The purpose of group learning and development is to ensure that all learning styles are catered for and the ultimate goal of sharing knowledge is achieved. When using a group to deliver something new each individual can call on a fellow participant to confirm understanding. 1.2 Explain why delivery of learning and development must reflect group dynamics When delivering to a group it is important to consider, what is the normal behaviour within the group? Who plays what role?
Most Efficient forms of the learning process: - Acc. to Lewin, learning is best facilitated in an environment where there is dialectic tension and conflict between immediate, concrete experience and analytic detachment. By bringing together the immediate experiences of the trainees and the conceptual models of the staff in an open atmosphere where inputs from each perspective could challenge and stimulate the other, a learning environment occurred with remarkable vitality and creativity. (Kolb.) Pillars of an efficient learning mechanism in group settings:- o Feedback:-There was a concern that organizations, groups and relationships generally suffered from a lack of accurate information about what was happening around their performance. Feedback became a key ingredient of T-groups and was found to ‘be most effective when it stemmed from here-and-now observations, when it followed the generating event as closely as possible, and when the recipient checked with other group members to establish its validity and reduce perceptual distortion’ (Yalom 1995: 489). o Unfreezing:-This was taken directly from Kurt Lewin’s change theory.
Introduction To date I have completed three classes and one group facilitation exam for this semester. The aim of this assignment is to demonstrate my personal and professional learning for the duration of the module. It will discuss the definition of group work; how I planned for my group exercise; it will outline my learning as a facilitator and observer for a thirty minute exercise. I will use Bruce Tuckman 's five stage group development model to outline the stages of the group process.
